Recojo una muestra de los trabajos de este artista chileno "Héctor González", si te gustan y quieres ver más pásate por su blog.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
A swanky refuge for the apocalypse that will cost millions
Radhicka S Saxena:
Judgment day isn't going to be easy for anyone. A house will not be enough to subsist through this warfare, you will need a whole ecosystem at your disposal. Well, this swanky pad with all amenities and luxuries under the sun, will help you survive when the environment gets hostile. In fact, this extravagant pad will be a great a shelter for millionaires, who will not have to give up their lavish lifestyle while they are hiding away in here.
Doomsday shelter
The houses with circular contours are built inside an abandoned missile silo. Each floor encased with a steel and concrete wall will have a condo. The houses are outfitted with all basic facilities like toilets, double sinks, fireplace, open kitchen, breakfast bar, etc. You need not worry about rations as the indoor farms will supply fish as well vegetables to feed around 70 inhabitants. Also, the stockpile of dry goods will last for five years. Windmills, generators and other conventional sources of power will be provided. Humongous underground tanks will store and filter water.
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'Doomsday shelter' being built below Kansas prairie where millionaires will be able to sit out the Apocalypse in style
Of course a structure like this should be capable of withstanding war and so the safety features of this one will leave you astounded. The solid concrete walls are nine feet thick and go 53 meters deep under the ground! There will be security outside and on the top floor while cameras will be mounted near a barbed wire fence. In fact, the edifice can even survive atomic blasts and earthquakes. But you won't be worrying about security all the time as the place has recreation spots like pool, library and a movie theater. There will also be a medical center and school inside.
And why just the Armageddon, you can use this house as an asylum during other catastrophes also. This will be a safe retreat if plagues, wars, solar flares, terrorist attacks, riots or an economic meltdown comes about. Moreover, if everything remains hunky dory, then you can use this swell abode as your vacation home. Developer Larry Hall has built the structure in the Kansas prairie region. Some of the condos have already been sold out, so if you are thinking of booking one, you should hurry up.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Salt Miners of Lake Katwe in Uganda
Salt extraction has been a major source of economy and prosperity for decades in Uganda, but today's miners work in appalling conditions. In the good times, salt miners at Lake Katwe in western Uganda made a reasonable living. They earn $30 a week for their labors, a decent wage by Ugandan standards. But salt production has rapidly turned from boom to bust with the seasons, leaving the workers struggling to make ends meet, and climate change is starting to load the dice against them.
Workers extract three main products from the lake: blocks of rock salt; high-quality salt crystals that can be sold as table salt; and salty mud that is used as salt licks for cattle. The work condition is terrible. Extraction of the salt from Lake Katwe is done by hand by both men and women and involves standing waist or chest deep in water for hours at a time. The air is thick with the bad-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide mixed with ammonia. The equatorial sun beats down on his naked back, leaving a salty sheen. The hypersaline water sucks moisture from their bodies and infuses them with toxic chemicals.
The workers knows it is affecting their health but often they cannot afford to buy protective clothing. Many workers improvise as best they can. Men tie plastic bags around their genitals or wear condoms in an effort to avoid the extreme desiccating effects of the brine, while some women put flour inside their vaginas as a barrier to the toxic water. These improvised strategies have little effect and sexual health problems are rife among the Katwe workers.
Katwe, a volcanic crater fed by several streams, has no outlet, meaning that intense evaporation during the dry seasons concentrates minerals in the hypersaline water. To extract salt, the miners have constructed large semi-permanent pools around the edges of the lake to intensify the evaporation. These pools, or saltpans, are held together by sticks and mud.
The salt yield from Katwe, however, has dwindled in recent years and become more unpredictable because of Uganda's increasingly uncertain climate. Climate scientists predict that weather patterns in Uganda will shift as a result of global warming. This will result in too much rain and not enough evaporation to produce salt.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Domestic life in 1950s Britain captured
Domestic life in 1950s Britain captured in the perfectly preserved home of Liverpool's most celebrated photographer
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