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Esploso a Berlino Sea Life, il più grande acquario cilindrico del mondo: conteneva 1.500 pesci

Esploso a Berlino Sea Life, il più grande acquario cilindrico del mondo: conteneva 1.500 pesci

Fanpage.it Sea life, l’enorme acquario di un hotel di Berlino non lontano da Alexanderplatz, è esploso questa mattina causando il ferimento di due persone e la morte di 1.500 pesci tropicali. Berlino, esploso Sea life il più grande acquario cilindrico del mondo: conteneva 1.500 pesci:… Leggi di più

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Imagine being one of the few dozen fish (out of 1.500) who are reported to have survived this shit

This blows any apocalypse ever imagined by humans out of the water, pardon the pun

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lesbian culture has yet to recover from the berlin aquarium explosion of 2022

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A Gigantic Aquarium Exploded in Berlin and Germans Are Worried It’s a Metaphor

A Gigantic Aquarium Exploded in Berlin and Germans Are Worried It’s a Metaphor

Der Spiegel ran a column describing the explosion as “the perfect symbol for 2022.” Source: A Gigantic Aquarium Exploded in Berlin and Germans Are Worried It’s a Metaphor

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Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin police say a tweet asking for help in tracking down suspects linked to the incident is fake. #Berlin #AquaDom #aquarium #Police #seeking #suspects #explosion

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Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin police say a tweet asking for help in tracking down suspects linked to the incident is fake. #Berlin #AquaDom #aquarium #Police #seeking #suspects #explosion

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Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin police say a tweet asking for help in tracking down suspects linked to the incident is fake.

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Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion

Berlin police say a tweet asking for help in tracking down suspects linked to the incident is fake. #Berlin #AquaDom #aquarium #Police #seeking #suspects #explosion

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The largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, which contained 1,500 tropical fish, bursts in Berlin

The largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, which contained 1,500 tropical fish, bursts in Berlin

The AquaDom, the largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, located inside the Radisson Blue hotel in Berlin, burst this morning for unknown reasons, spilling out a million liters of water and the 1,500 tropical fish it housed. The torrent of water has caused two minor injuries due to glass cuts and still unquantified damage to the hotel. The explosion at the aquarium—a massive 16-meter-tall…

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 Aquarium berlin video | Aquarium Explosion Unleashes 1,500 Fish Into Lodge, Video Reveals.16m excessive fish tank with over 1,000,000 liter water and 1500 fish simply exploded in a Berlin resort.In Berlin, a 16-meter aquarium within the Dom Aquaree resort burst. About 1 million liters of water poured out, during which 1.5 thousand fish swam. 2 folks had been injured.Learn Additionally: Who Is Mkuttu8 Video, and Why Is It Trending on Twitter | Mkuttu8 video (function(d, s, id)var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));

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THE 6 HOTTEST NEW ART BOOKS FOR AUGUST Miss Rosen for Crave Online

As August hits highs across the land, there’s no greater feeling than to grab a drink and read picture books. Sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than the silence of the still image, as we gaze upon paintings and photographs that speak a thousand words in every language at the same time.

Liberated from the relentless onslaught of content that the digital realm creates, art books allow us to enjoy a moment of peace and quiet where we are the captains of our fate. We can stare endlessly at a single image, read or disregard text, flip backwards and forwards following or altering the chronology of the book. Kick back and enjoy Crave’s selection of the hottest new art books releasing this month, showcasing everything from the life on earth when dinosaurs roamed free to the glorious movie posters of classic science fiction films.

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Artwork: Pteranodon. Heinrich Harder, reconstructed by Hans Jochen Ihle, 1982. Explosives blasted the Berlin Aquarium in November 1943, destroying Harder’s dazzling mosaics on the facade. In 1982, the Aquarium reconstructed the mosaics, using photographs, tile fragments, and Harder's original plans. The book features all-new photography of these historic recreations. From Paleoart. Visions of the Prehistoric Past (Taschen).

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Hyperallergic: The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist’s Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs

Charles R. Knight, “Laelaps” (1897), the predators may represent paleontologists Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, whose intense competition defined early American paleontology (courtesy American Museum of Natural History)

Earlier this summer, I visited a quiet park in south London, where families pushed strollers around a small lake, and solitary people read books on benches in the sun. Nestled in the foliage by the water is a curious relic from the Crystal Palace Exhibition which gives the Crystal Palace Park its name: a herd of concrete dinosaurs, lazing with gaping jaws, and standing scaly and proud by the trees. The prehistoric creatures were made by artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the 1850s, and are recognized as the world’s first dinosaur sculptures. Yet they don’t look quite how we envision dinosaurs today; the Iguanodons appear like rotund iguanas, the Dicynodons like overgrown turtles, although contemporary knowledge suggests they never had shells.

Cover of Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (courtesy Taschen)

While their accuracy may vary (and is closer than many give him credit for), Hawkins was working with the most cutting edge 19th-century knowledge on dinosaurs to create sculptures both scientific and compellingly artistic. Paleoart has rarely been considered as part of the visual movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nevertheless, as writer Zoë Lescaze explores in Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980, out in September from Taschen, it has been vibrantly present, whether in the dynamic Art Nouveau mosaics by Heinrich Harder at the Berlin Aquarium (reconstructed in the 1980s by Hans Jochen Ihle following their destruction in WWII), or the foreboding postwar depictions of mammoths and early humanity by Czech artist Zdeněk Burian.

“I wanted to write this book precisely because paleoart is not a widely recognized genre, even though images of dinosaurs and their world are everywhere,” Lescaze told Hyperallergic. “It’s a fairly new branch of natural history illustration — the first painting of prehistoric reptiles only appeared in 1830 — and I’m interested in how artists and scientists collectively formed our current ideas of prehistory through these images.”

Heinrich Harder, reconstructed by Hans Jochen Ihle, “Pteranodon” (1982), the original was destroyed when explosives blasted the Berlin Aquarium in November 1943, destroying Harder’s mosaics on the facade. In 1982, the Aquarium reconstructed the mosaics, using photographs, tile fragments, and Harder’s original plans (courtesy TASCHEN)

Paleoart is a monstrous book in size, visuals, and design; take off its dust jacket, adorned with Alexei Petrovich Bystrow’s 1933 painting of an Inostrancevia with crimson Pareiasaurus flesh dripping from its teeth, and a scaly cover embedded with a dinosaur footprint is revealed. Tracking down this art was not easy and Lescaze had to delve into a diverse array of institutional and private archives, with some of the pieces published for the first time in the book. For instance, she describes in Paleoart how much of Burian’s “finest works languish out of sight, locked in museum storage” in the Czech Republic. Similarly, Hawkins’s London dinosaurs were abandoned for decades after the Crystal Palace burned in 1936, only later saved from the overgrowth and restored.

“Because fresh fossil discoveries tend to render older works of paleoart scientifically obsolete, many outdated images are neglected, lost, or destroyed,” Lescaze explained. “Some pieces in this book are still on public display, but finding the others involved visiting natural history museums, libraries, archives, universities, and private collections around the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Russia.”

Philip Henry Delamotte, “Model-Room at the Crystal Palace” (1853), showing concrete dinosaurs being built in a workshop on the grounds of the Crystal Palace, London (courtesy TASCHEN)

Paleoart is arranged chronologically, and flipping through its pages, some which fold out into panoramas of idyllic tableaux of the “Age of Reptiles” or bloody battles of dinosaur chaos, you can see how our idea of what a dinosaur looks like evolved. In one delightfully anachronistic mash-up from 1889, dinosaurs and mammoths mingle together, with one wooly mammoth grabbing a unicorn with its trunk. An incredibly detailed 1984 terracotta installation by Alexander Mikhailovich Belashov at the Moscow Paleontological Museum shows more familiarly lithe and reptilian dinosaurs, but the whole scene of Earth evolution is crowned by the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

Ely Kish, “Tyrannosaurus and Edmontosaurus” (1976) (courtesy Eleanor Kish, © Canadian Museum of Nature)

Adolphe-François Pannemaker in the 19th century also added a biblical tone to his illustrations, with volcanoes bursting and lightning striking in one rather apocalyptic piece, while other artists in those early paleoart days favored the battling ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, their ocean confrontations referencing Victorian naval conflicts. Later in the 1970s to 1990s, Ely Kish painted the mass extinction of dinosaurs and extreme weather environments, her dramatic scenes echoing the contemporary anxiety about climate change and environmental catastrophe. And sometimes the double meanings of paleoart could only be glimpsed by those in the field. An 1897 painting by Charles R. Knight shows two Laelaps (Dryptosauruses) in a fight with claws and teeth bared. Some have interpreted it as a jab at paleontologists and specifically the vicious rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, two renowned figures who were not above dynamiting each other’s dig sites.

Dinosaur bones have long been a blank slate for projecting the artistic sensibilities, popular media, and anxieties of the day onto their forms. With each reconstruction of the past, a bit of the present is reflected. As Lescaze said, “Paleoart is interesting to me because I think it often reveals as much about modern humans as it does about dinosaurs.”

Alexei Petrovich Bystrow, “Inostrancevia, devouring a Pareiasaurus” (1933); both species regularly appeared in Soviet-era paleoart (courtesy Borrissiak Paleontological Institute RAS)

Pages from Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (photo of the book for Hyperallergic)

Adolphe François Pannemaker, “The Primitive World” (1857), the image was the frontispiece for W. F. A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la création de l’homme (1857) (courtesy TASCHEN)

Pages from Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (photo of the book for Hyperallergic)

Edouard Riou; engraved by Laurent Hotelin and Alexandre Hurel, “The Ichthyosaur and the Plesiosaur (Lias Period)” (1863); from the beginning, artists and scientists portrayed ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs as enemies. The reptiles, battling above the waves, became the most prevalent motif in 19th-century paleoart (courtesy TASCHEN)

Pages from Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (photo of the book for Hyperallergic)

Zdenek Burian, “Mammoth (Elephas primigenius)” (1941) (courtesy TASCHEN)

Pages from Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (photo of the book for Hyperallergic)

Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov, “Tarbosaurus and Armored Dinosaur” (1955), oil on canvas (courtesy Borrissiak Paleontological Institute RAS)

Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 was released September 11 by Taschen.

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