Art of Avner Sher

Found in a sukkah around the neighborhood today.

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Avner Sher (born 1951) is an Israeli architect and artist.

The Hebrew word sukkōt is the plural of sukkah, "booth" or "tabernacle", which is a walled structure covered with s'chach (plant material such as overgrowth or palm leaves).

Avner Sher was born in the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa, and raised in Kiryat Eliezer and Kiryat Eliyahu. His parents were Holocaust survivors.

Art of Avner Sher

13. Jerusalem 950 sqm (quarter acre) No. 20

This artwork is based on an ancient map of Jerusalem where the city is depicted as the center of the Universe - a perfect example of the significance of the city. - 2007 Avner Sher.

The Peace Fountain

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The Peace Fountain is a 1985 sculpture and fountain by Greg Wyatt located next to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in New York City.

A plaque at the base contains the following inscription:

Peace Fountain celebrates the triumph of Good over Evil, and sets before us the world's opposing forces—violence and harmony, light and darkness, life and death—which God reconciles in his peace.When the fountain operates, four courses of water cascade down the freedom pedestal into a maelstrom evoking the primordial chaos of Earth. Foursquare around the base, flames of freedom rise in witness to the future.

Ascending from the pool, the freedom pedestal is shaped like the double helix of DNA, the key molecule of life. Atop the pedestal a giant crab reminds us of life's origins in sea and struggle. Facing West, a somnolent Moon reflects tranquility from a joyous Sun smiling to the East. The swirls encircling the heavenly bodies bespeak the larger movements of the cosmos with which earthly life is continuous.

Nine giraffes—among the most peaceable of animals—nestle and prance about the center. One rests its head on the bosom of the winged Archangel Michael, described in the bible as the leader of the heavenly host against the forces of Evil.

St. Michael's sword is vanquishing his chief opponent, Satan, whose decapitated figure plunges into the depths, his head dangling beneath the crab's claw. Tucked away next to the Sun, a lion and lamb relax together in the peace of God's kingdom, as foretold by the prophet Isaiah.

The Peace Fountain

West Side Community Garden

Around the neighborhood this afternoon. West Side Community Garden’s Annual Tulip Festival. #ny1pic

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The West Side Community Garden is a privately owned park in Manhattan, New York City. It is located between West 89th Street and West 90th Street in the middle of the block between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues.

West Side Community Garden

Palm Sunday

Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jerusalem, 1941. Palm Sunday. In front of Holy Sepulchre. Reading of saced passion

Matson Photo Service, photographer
Created / Published 1941. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

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Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday procession near Gethsemane. American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer. Created / Published
[between 1934 and 1939].

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Palm Sunday procession at Bethphage.

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Tree Sweaters

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Yup, tree sweaters, they're a thing on Christopher Street. Looking east near Hudson last week. photo by sookietex.

Tree Sweaters

Frederick Douglass Cedar Hill

Frederick Douglass in his Cedar Hill library. FREDERICK DOUGLASS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, FRDO3886. c.1890, photographer unknown.

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Douglass wrote his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass and many of his speeches in his Cedar Hill library. He was an avid reader and drew heavily from contemporary newspapers, pamphlets, the Bible, and Shakespeare for the content and style of his speeches.

The library bookshelves have over 2000 volumes. Topics cover government, literature, biography, religion, history, and science. In 1892, a reporter for the Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, Gazette, interviewed Mr. Douglass. "the Sage of Anacostia," as he was known.

While at his residence, the reporter asked him who his favorite authors and poets were. Douglass responded with these poets; William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His favorite writers were Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Alexandre Dumas, and Theoldore D. Weld.

Seneca Village

As the campaign to create Central Park moved forward park advocates and the media began to describe Seneca Village and other communities in this area as "shantytowns" and the residents there as "squatters" and "vagabonds and soundrels"

All of the inhabitants of the village were evicted by 1857, and the village was razed. Residents were offered $2,335 for their property.

Members of the community fought to retain their land. For two years, residents resisted the police as they petitioned the courts to save their homes, churches, and schools. Some Villagers were violently evicted in 1855. However, in the summer of 1856, Mayor Fernando Wood(D) prevailed, and residents of Seneca Village were given final notice.

In 1857, the city government acquired all private property within Seneca Village through eminent domain. On October 1, 1857, city officials in New York reported that the last holdouts living on land that was to become Central Park had been removed.

A map of Seneca Village fomerly located in today's Central Park in Manhattan. Date: 1857. Source: http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/frame.html Author: Egbert Viele.

Eighth Avenue is on the top and Seventh Avenue and the Receiving Reservoir are on the bottom; 82nd Street is on the left and 86th Street is on the right.

"If the weather is nice, you might want to cross Central Park West when you leave the society. You can walk north eight blocks and enter Central Park at 85th Street. You will see a playground with benches on your right.

At the ginkgo tree, cross the road and go up the hill. Spector Playground is on your left. Walk farther and look down. You can see what appears to be a stone outcropping. It appears to be the corner of a foundation. This is believed to be what is left of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church." - The New York Times By Douglas Martin. January 31, 1997.

All Angel's Church, which was founded in the 1830s, also served as a community center in Seneca Village. When the community was razed, the Church relocated to the corner of 81st Street and Eleventh Avenue (West End Avenue).

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External links: Unearthing Traces of African-American Village Displaced by Central Park

A Village Dies, A Park Is Born - The New York Times

Seneca Village. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seneca Village: The Community that Died so Central Park Could Live

Valentine's Day 2018

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Hey photo fans, from around the neighborhood this Valentine's season.

#HappyValentinesDay fbers ❌❌❌⭕️⭕️⭕️
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Valentine's Day window full of love!

I'm wild about you Valentine :)

Be my Valentine :)

Valentine's Day 2018

St. Patrick's Cathedral

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The following texts are the Voight-Kampff test questions from Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, with screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The appropriate copyright and licences apply.

For some reason the combination spoke to me, are you a replicant? Let's find out! :)

Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you can.

It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?

St. Patrick's Cathedral

You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?

You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm. How would you react?

Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.

You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much, he hangs it on your bedroom wall. What do yoy do?

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

They're just questions. They're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.

Tesla Broadcast Tower

Tesla Broadcast Tower. Previously published in Arthur B. Reeve, "Tesla and his Wireless Age" in Popular Electricity magazine, Popular Electricity Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1911, p. 97

Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe wireless station, located in Shoreham, New York, seen in 1904. The 187 foot (57 m) transmitting tower appears to rise from the building but actually stands on the ground behind it. Built by Tesla from 1901 to 1904 with backing from Wall Street banker J. P. Morgan.

The experimental facility was intended to be a transatlantic radiotelegraphy station and wireless power transmitter, but was never completed. The tower was torn down in 1916 but the lab building, designed by noted New York architect Stanford White remains.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923.

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Tesla Broadcast Tower image by Popular Electricity magazine, Popular Electricity Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1911, p. 97. Background image, editing, photoshop by sookietex.