No, not farming, but plants filling the balconies of an apartment building in China.
They’re trees, bushes and decorative plants, that were pre-planted by the developers before any tenants moved in, to give the feeling of an urban forest
No food, unless a particular family later added something edible to their garden area.
…
I remember reading that at first, the tenants, who had already bought the apartments before they were finished, didn’t want to move in because mosquitos had proliferated before the buildings were occupied.
I think, but I’m not sure, that the problem was solved.
I hope the calculations were done properly for the extra weight. Then there is the corrosion factor for the constant exposure to wet soil. And accounting for the possibility of lack of proper maintenance.
Actually I read that it’s fairly common practice in China and some other parts of Asia to have many plants on balconies, so I’m sure such calculations are fairly common.
In this case the building was purposely designed to accommodate the gardens, and advertised as such….
with extra space, built-in watering systems, and support as part of the plans.
A groundbreaking and influential film in the history of basset, in fact, all canine, movie making.
A classic science fiction masterpiece, from the silent era, when such ideas were new, and thoughtful, not yet churned out by the dozens to fill a niche.
…
A young, well bred basset, just out of puppy hood, discovers the hardworking underworld of not so fortunately born, mostly mixed breed dogs, held in kennels below the surface, that keep his elite society functioning.
They do the digging and the hunting, and all the menial tasks that he has never questioned… until he meets a female basset mix who is a rebel leader in that world.
….
The whole thing set in the Art Deco splendor that filmmakers of 1927 projected we’d be living in 100 years later.
In fact, I believe it’s set in 2027…. three years from now!
….
I can’t show you what it looks like in the original basset version, due to restrictions on linking to BassetTube from human sites.
But humans, of course, did copy it, and called it Metropolis.
I was looking for a clip, but I accidently got the URL of the whole film… If you’d like to watch it… here you go:
First time I ever watched Metropolis; it’s rather intense. Since I’m used to ‘talkies’, the acting seems atrocious. Of course the depiction of a woman’s place is horrible. Still, it sucked me in.
Thought I’d try and post a video using a different system, but it still looks like is isn’t formatting correctly. I didn’t add the coding to the video URL :-/
I got it to play simply by copying the U.R.L. from between the “……………” and pasting it into a new window’s address bar.
That poor pup does not look at all happy.
Unless I’m misunderstanding, you say you didn’t add the coding, but it looks like you’re trying to put in the src tag, when WordPress does it for you.
Just as we post raw URLs for images, we do the same for videos, and we use the buttons on the formatting bar instead of tags for Italic, bold, etc.
…
If you add image or video source, or some other HTML tags, they probably just get doubled up in the programming and fail.
You can put them in yourself if you want to click the curved brackets on the formatting bar to get an “insert code” field, or when you use the “click to edit” button on a posted comment…
“Unless I’m misunderstanding, you say you didn’t add the coding, but it looks like you’re trying to put in the src tag, when WordPress does it for you.”
I added nothing to the URL, no tags, coding, or text. All I did was copy the URL from the browser and paste it in the dialogue box. WordPress added everything surrounding the URL.
As I said to P51 Strega up there, I feel asleep last night at the time I’m usually posting here.
Not apologizing cos I wish it were my normal schedule instead of insomnia
But I meant to say to those who were upset about the ad for the child beating apparatus…
Don’t worry… it’s a known spoof. I’ve seen it before.
….
We’ve had other work posted here from the same artist, who finds vintage ads and modifies them, posting them on his site as humor. Can’t find his name at the moment.
His signature tends to get removed and the ads posted by others for their horrifying effect.
I think his most famous one is an ad for giving babies 7-Up, which you can find all over the internet described as real.
He’s also done some well known racy rewrites of vintage ads that feature Disney characters.
The vitamin doughnut ad is a spoof as well… Not sure if it’s his or somebody else’s.
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This is a dog with a very dignified bearing.
I don’t know why, but somehow, from this picture I get more of a sense than I do from some others of what big dogs basset hounds really are.
They may not stand very tall, but there’s nothing small about them…
They’re powerful hounds that walk on on short legs.
Welcome back Susan, I missed you yesterday.
Gosh…. Thanks!
Actually, I didn’t go anywhere.
As often happens, I fell asleep… And as rarely happens, I stayed asleep.
NOSE!
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Is it a temple to Ganesh?
NOSE!
Similar to Margate, NJ
there’s a remarkably large number of dwellings with similar cartoony exteriors sprinkled around….(.but I’d guess none of them were in a HOA 🙂 )
,,
2 NOSES!
,.
It’s a new concept in urban, vertical farming.
No, not farming, but plants filling the balconies of an apartment building in China.
They’re trees, bushes and decorative plants, that were pre-planted by the developers before any tenants moved in, to give the feeling of an urban forest
No food, unless a particular family later added something edible to their garden area.
…
I remember reading that at first, the tenants, who had already bought the apartments before they were finished, didn’t want to move in because mosquitos had proliferated before the buildings were occupied.
I think, but I’m not sure, that the problem was solved.
Urban jungle… in a good way.
I hope the calculations were done properly for the extra weight. Then there is the corrosion factor for the constant exposure to wet soil. And accounting for the possibility of lack of proper maintenance.
Actually I read that it’s fairly common practice in China and some other parts of Asia to have many plants on balconies, so I’m sure such calculations are fairly common.
In this case the building was purposely designed to accommodate the gardens, and advertised as such….
with extra space, built-in watering systems, and support as part of the plans.
Franklin Booth
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2 tissue napkin / napkin tissue (both are correct)
3 note book
4 tablespoon
5 bathroom
6 charger
7 wash basin
8 mobile phone
9 handsoap
10 newspaper
I get:
1 Wallet
2
3 Notebook
4
5
6 Charger
7 Wash Basin
8 Mobile phone
9 Hand Soap
10 Newspaper
I got them all last night, except for #2.
I was sleepy, and not writing it down, so it just seemed too tedious to type out a solution… Sorry.
I’m surprised you got #2, Alexi, as I never hear those words used as a phrase..
Where I live…
And “handsoap” is not a word… In fact my autocorrect doesn’t want to leave it in here…
We say “hand soap”. But the puzzle doesn’t specify that you can’t write two words.
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It’s MY bed!
“I told you I was surprisingly strong. Also I don’t like to be bored.”
NOSE!
Mom’s holding the camera, and she has the doggie treats.
2 NOSES!
for a little context, that is one of two official team mascots for the Butler University Bulldogs,
I always thought this was one of Stel’s best. She so captured the mechanized Cleveland of their future, of our today.
hi, stel! hope you’re doing well
A groundbreaking and influential film in the history of basset, in fact, all canine, movie making.
A classic science fiction masterpiece, from the silent era, when such ideas were new, and thoughtful, not yet churned out by the dozens to fill a niche.
…
A young, well bred basset, just out of puppy hood, discovers the hardworking underworld of not so fortunately born, mostly mixed breed dogs, held in kennels below the surface, that keep his elite society functioning.
They do the digging and the hunting, and all the menial tasks that he has never questioned… until he meets a female basset mix who is a rebel leader in that world.
….
The whole thing set in the Art Deco splendor that filmmakers of 1927 projected we’d be living in 100 years later.
In fact, I believe it’s set in 2027…. three years from now!
….
I can’t show you what it looks like in the original basset version, due to restrictions on linking to BassetTube from human sites.
But humans, of course, did copy it, and called it Metropolis.
I was looking for a clip, but I accidently got the URL of the whole film… If you’d like to watch it… here you go:
First time I ever watched Metropolis; it’s rather intense. Since I’m used to ‘talkies’, the acting seems atrocious. Of course the depiction of a woman’s place is horrible. Still, it sucked me in.
Thought I’d try and post a video using a different system, but it still looks like is isn’t formatting correctly. I didn’t add the coding to the video URL :-/
[video src="https://i.imgur.com/NIZQFVw.mp4" /]
I got it to play simply by copying the U.R.L. from between the “……………” and pasting it into a new window’s address bar.
That poor pup does not look at all happy.
It does. No clutter.
Unless I’m misunderstanding, you say you didn’t add the coding, but it looks like you’re trying to put in the src tag, when WordPress does it for you.
Just as we post raw URLs for images, we do the same for videos, and we use the buttons on the formatting bar instead of tags for Italic, bold, etc.
…
If you add image or video source, or some other HTML tags, they probably just get doubled up in the programming and fail.
You can put them in yourself if you want to click the curved brackets on the formatting bar to get an “insert code” field, or when you use the “click to edit” button on a posted comment…
But otherwise I just let them do it.
“Unless I’m misunderstanding, you say you didn’t add the coding, but it looks like you’re trying to put in the src tag, when WordPress does it for you.”
I added nothing to the URL, no tags, coding, or text. All I did was copy the URL from the browser and paste it in the dialogue box. WordPress added everything surrounding the URL.
humans
Left is by photographer Bruce Gilden (you’ll have to change it from Russian to English if you don’t read Russian; it’s easy look up and right).
LINK
Middle is by photographer Alessandra Meniconzi
LINK
I cannot find anything reliable to credit the right-side picture, but she is an albino.
As I said to P51 Strega up there, I feel asleep last night at the time I’m usually posting here.
Not apologizing cos I wish it were my normal schedule instead of insomnia
But I meant to say to those who were upset about the ad for the child beating apparatus…
Don’t worry… it’s a known spoof. I’ve seen it before.
….
We’ve had other work posted here from the same artist, who finds vintage ads and modifies them, posting them on his site as humor. Can’t find his name at the moment.
His signature tends to get removed and the ads posted by others for their horrifying effect.
I think his most famous one is an ad for giving babies 7-Up, which you can find all over the internet described as real.
He’s also done some well known racy rewrites of vintage ads that feature Disney characters.
The vitamin doughnut ad is a spoof as well… Not sure if it’s his or somebody else’s.