#flooded city

[grinbrothers]

Nier Automata: Power Of Silly String! - Grin Brothers

The Grin Brothers play Nier: Automata at 9PM BST on 26/7/2024! Souldin is buried under bullets, Raphaham is astounded by the mortars size and lack of textures.

Nier Opening and Ending Art by WhiteNamikaze: https://www.deviantart.com/whitenamikaze/art/COMMISSION-Nanka-and-2B-1036832538 Age Warning Artwork by STARteam2017: https://www.deviantart.com/starteam2017/art/Full-color-Com-R18-Warning-Sign-for-Sould1n-722348987 Hat Avatar by Sakka-Sama: https://www.deviantart.com/sakka-sama/art/COM-Hat-925055875 Nanka Avatar by LittlePancake94:  https://www.deviantart.com/littlepancake94/art/Commission-Nanka-s-new-look-926259845 Nanka With Sign Arts by ShySamArt:  https://www.deviantart.com/shysamart/art/Commission-Nanka-966702081 Endslate Nanka Artwork by Locke3k:  https://www.youtube.com/@UC8Nz6G8d3MJMq7A3dvRE-3A Opening music is Bolo's Theme from Shantae series. Nier: Automata is available on Playstation 4, Xbox One, Windows and Nintendo Switch.

Date Made: 12/5/2024 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCFgLZmjBeMCt-QbSoDhVA Tumblr: http://grinbrothers.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrinBrothers

[oldion]

An abandoned city flooded and invaded by tropical plants. I really like the subject of Nature reclaiming urban area. So many example explore this subject : Horizon Zero Dawn, The Last of Us, Chernobyl, The Walking Dead.

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Random Art AI Issue 10

Issue 10 of Random Art AI, each issue will have four randomly created pieces of AI art with a collection issue at the end of each month containing all issues for that month. These early issues probably won't be very good as i was still learning how to properly prompt for them. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Dried African River 00:10 

3. Flooded City 00:30 

4. Anime Art Style Field, Forest & Mountains 00:50 

5. Battle 01:10 

6. Outro 01:30 

Twitter (Gaming & AI Art)  

https://twitter.com/zero2zedGaming 

Instagram (AI Art)

https://www.instagram.com/random_art_ai/

YouTube (Gaming & AI Art)

https://www.youtube.com/@Zero2Zed/featured

[reasonsforhope]

"Amsterdam’s roofs have just been converted into a giant sponge that will make the city more climate resilient.

The Dutch have always been famous for their ability to control water, born out of the necessity of their homeland, much of which is below sea level.

Now, their expert water management skills are transforming the city skyline in the capital city of Amsterdam from one of terracotta tile, concrete, and shingles into green grass and brown earth.

It’s part of a new climate-resiliency trend in architecture and civic planning known as the ‘sponge city concept,’ in which a garden of water-loving plants, mosses, and soil absorbs excess rainwater before feeding it into the building for use in flushing toilets or watering plants on the ground.

If heavy rains are predicted, a smart valve system empties the stored rainwater into the municipal storm drains and sewers in advance of the weather, allowing the roof to soak up water and reduce flooding in the city.

In this way, the rooftops of buildings can be wrung out and filled up just like a sponge.

In Amsterdam, 45,000 square meters, or 11 acres of flat metropolitan rooftops have already been fitted with these systems, and the contracting firms behind the technology say they make sense in dry climates like Spain just as much as in wet climates like Amsterdam...

A 4-year project of different firms and organizations called Resilio, the resilient network for smart climate adaptive rooftops, rolled out thousands of square meters of sponge city technology into new buildings. As with many climate technologies, the costs are high upfront but tend to result in savings from several expenditures like water utilities and water damage, over a long-enough time horizon...

All together, Amsterdam’s sponge capacity is over 120,000 gallons.

“We think the concept is applicable to many urban areas around the world,” Kasper Spaan from Waternet, Amsterdam’s public water management organization, told Wired Magazine. “In the south of Europe–Italy and Spain–where there are really drought-stressed areas, there’s new attention for rainwater catchment.”

Indeed the sponge city concept comes into a different shade when installed in drought-prone regions. Waters absorbed by rooftops during heavy rains can be used for municipal purposes to reduce pressure on underground aquifers or rivers, or be sweated out under the Sun’s rays which cools the interior of the building naturally.

Additionally, if solar panels were added on top of the rooftop garden, the evaporation would keep the panels cooler, which has been shown in other projects to improve their energy generation.

“Our philosophy in the end is not that on every roof, everything is possible,” says Spaan, “but that on every roof, something is possible.”

Matt Simon, reporting on the Resilio project for Wired, said succinctly that perhaps science fiction authors have missed the mark when it came to envisioning the city of the future, and that rather than being a glittering metropolis of glass, metal, and marble as smooth as a pannacotta, it will look an awful lot more like an enormous sculpture garden."

-via Good News Network, May 15, 2024

[sknow-and-ink]

2022

Day 6 - Flooded

Y'know, just chillin' while everybody drowns probably. It's fine.

[lonehuna]

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 47

Hear me out. Amity Park gets shifted in universes slightly- maybe it’s from Pariah, maybe it was a wish, maybe they did so on purpose to escape something- and they end up in the DC-verse. The thing is, thanks to the media blackout and the shields, no one in the new universe notices. The Amityville Paekers know about outside, can go on the internet and leave whenever they want, but they’ve all become more than a little liminal. More than a little off. Movements too graceful, eyes too sharp, ears too pointed and teeth more akin to predatory fangs. Skin with a soft glow, hair moving as though underwater or being tussled by the wind- bodies seemingly unaging after a certain point. They’re so ecto-contaminated that they’re unsure they can even be counted as human anymore, and it wasn’t like the city wasn’t already practically self sufficient. Add in a portal or two through the Infinite Realms to get supplies to start a few fields or some fish farms and well, they’re pretty good. Sure it’s resulted in them using a mixture of modern and older money and having several extinct plants and animals running around but that’s fine. There’s magic in this world! Actual magic, that they can learn! And use? Oh this makes rebuilding after a sparring incident go so much faster! 

This results in the hero who stumbles across this place to believe they’ve stumbled across some sort of city of fae or elves. 

[thenewgirl76]

It's In My Blood

Okay, random idea centered around halfas that I just had to share.

What if besides death followed by resurrection via a source of ectoplasm, a human-ghost hybrid could also be created She Hulk style. And by that I mean the old school comics. Not that spiteful heap of garbage masquerading as a tv adaptation made by that toxically bitter hack Jessica Gao.

This can be applied to whatever hero/villain you choose, I'm going with Batman. Mostly because I haven't seen many half ghost Bruce Wayne posts.

Anyway, the scenario starts off with Alfred finding Danny roaming the streets in search of food due to running away from foster care. (Jack and Maddy left him there in the hopes of keeping him safe from the GIW after Wes finally succeeded in outing him to all of Amity) And through lots of gentle coaxing convinces him to let Alfred take him home.

Eventually Danny gets so attached he readily agrees to being adopted into the Wayne family by Alfred. Once enough trust has been built overtime to share identities Gotham automatically gains a new protector.

Then the further establishment of new relationships is suddenly interrupted by a full-scale alien invasion, requiring all hands on deck. Though all the heroes manage to hold their own for the most part it quickly becomes clear they may not win this battle if they don't find something to turn the tide in their favor.

They get that something in the form of Phantom rallying all his ghost allies/frenemies to join the fight. With their added power the entirety of the alien army is thoroughly beaten back. But not before Batman takes a hit hard enough to cause him to bleed out at an alarming rate.

The already dire situation worsens all the more when it's discovered that Batman is a rare blood type and no one in the batclan or even the other human heroes matches. All save for Phantom. Problem is, with all that ecto mixed with his blood a transfusion could possibly poison or worse kill his big brother. Everyone is aware of this. But any other option would take too long and Batman doesn't have much time left.

So with bated breath and reluctance Phantom gives his blood. For a few scary minutes it looks like Batman might be showing signs of rejection. But then he slowly begins to stabilize, giving the medical team much needed breathing room to get him properly tended to.

While Bats may be on the mend no one's relaxing just yet. And not for a lack of trying. It's just a little hard to be chill when Mr. Dark and Broody has started randomly going invisible or intangible, speaking with an echo, levitating over his bed, and overall become creepily unsettling to look at. Especially with that unnatural glow in his eyes.

[sanyastraightfrombrain]

This panel BROKE ME

The contrast between "Henderson calmly and happily writing a letter to Martha like he usually does" cut to "Barely holding it together from intense fear and regret" its soooo good.

I love how we can't see his face on the second frame. He probably looks calm. But the raw EMOTION of sketchy strokes on his hands and subtle splashes of ink from the pen, the repeated "come back". I love it so much!!!!!

It's such an intense emotion and it shown with just a part of a hand and a pen. Genius.

[fog-clan]

May we have some Fallowpatch facts??? I love her sm

Im so glad you like her!! Here is a 1/2 month old Fallowkit!

Here are a couple facts! - She was named after a Fallow Deer. - She has no siblings, and was born in Fogclan. - She was apprenticed to Littlewillow, whom she considered a second mother and was lost to The Flood. - Was named Fallowpatch at her warrior's ceremony, and became QPPs with Graylight (eventually Graystar) shortly after. Graystar was also lost to The Flood. - She rejected Graystar's deputy proposal, not wanting to become a leader. (Later forced due to lacking members after The Flood). - Helped mentor Basilpaw (eventually Basilstar). But has never had an apprentice of her own. - She has a fear of growing old. - She is an excellent hunter, and enjoys bringing food home to the three other members of Fogclan.

[heybiji]

double life

[micamicster]

We're going out where the sand's turning to gold / So put on your stockings, baby, 'cause the night's getting cold

Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen / Black Sails (2014-2017)

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[bestworstcase]

an aside. it’s very [clenches fist] vindicating to see stuff like the hard-light doors protecting shade’s library from the elements and like boba shops around vacuo because my god am i over the fandoms typical treatment of vacuo as this like backwards hellscape where technology doesn’t exist. as if there isn’t explicitly a ccts tower and at least one smaller regional support tower there, as if all the vacuan characters other than the anti-tech extremists don’t have scrolls.

(“watts would have been of no use to salem in vacuo” fanon in particular is so obnoxious. YOU THINK THERE ARENT COMPUTERS IN VACUO??)

like… it’s a resource-poor kingdom in a harsh desert environment where food/water are both scarce and the outskirts of the city are constantly shifting due to sinkholes opening up and there isn’t a functioning government to coordinate the resources + labor necessary to excavate abandoned buildings buried by sand storms. That’s It.

none of that precludes vacuo having the same level of technology as like mistral or vale. (which. it. explicitly. does. CCTS tower and all.) none of it precludes vacuo having… like… an economy that exists at all… bfrgdc

[reasonsforhope]

"In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept.

Through his architecture firm Turenscape, Yu has created hundreds of projects in dozens of cities using native plants, dirt, and clever planning to absorb excess rainwater and channel it away from densely populated areas.

Flooding, especially in the two Chinese heartlands of the commercial south and the agricultural north, is becoming increasingly common, but Yu says that concrete and pipe solutions can only go so far. They’re inflexible, expensive, and require constant maintenance. According to a 2021 World Bank report, 641 of China’s 654 largest cities face regular flooding.

“There’s a misconception that if we can build a flood wall higher and higher, or if we build the dams higher and stronger, we can protect a city from flooding,” Yu told CNN in a video call. “(We think) we can control the water… that is a mistake.”

Pictured: The Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok

Yu has been called the “Chinese Olmstead” referring to Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of NYC’s Central Park. He grew up in a little farming village of 500 people in Zhejiang Province, where 36 weirs channel the waters of a creek across terraced rice paddies.

Once a year, carp would migrate upstream and Yu always looked forward to seeing them leap over the weirs.

This synthesis of man and nature is something that Turenscape projects encapsulate. These include The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China’s Jiangxi province, Red Ribbon Park in Qinghuandao, Hebei province, the Sanya Mangrove Park in China’s island province of Hainan, and almost a thousand others. In all cases, Yu utilizes native plants that don’t need any care to develop extremely spongey ground that absorbs excess rainfall.

Pictured: The Dong’an Wetland Park, another Turescape project in Sanya.

He often builds sponge projects on top of polluted or abandoned areas, giving his work an aspect of reclamation. The Nanchang Fish Tail Park for example was built across a 124-acre polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site. Small islands with dawn redwoods and two types of cypress attract local wildlife to the metropolis of 6 million people.

Sanya Mangrove Park was built over an old concrete sea wall, a barren fish farm, and a nearby brownfield site to create a ‘living’ sea wall.

One hectare (2.47 acres) of Turenscape sponge land can naturally clean 800 tons of polluted water to the point that it is safe enough to swim in, and as a result, many of the sponge projects have become extremely popular with locals.

One of the reasons Yu likes these ideas over grand infrastructure projects is that they are flexible and can be deployed as needed to specific areas, creating a web of rain sponges. If a large drainage, dam, seawall, or canal is built in the wrong place, it represents a huge waste of time and money.

Pictured: A walkway leads visitors through the Nanchang Fish Tail Park.

The sponge city projects in Wuhan created by Turenscape and others cost in total around half a billion dollars less than proposed concrete ideas. Now there are over 300 sponge projects in Wuhan, including urban gardens, parks, and green spaces, all of which divert water into artificial lakes and ponds or capture it in soil which is then released more slowly into the sewer system.

Last year, The Cultural Landscape Foundation awarded Yu the $100,000 Oberlander Prize for elevating the role of design in the process of creating nature-based solutions for the public’s enjoyment and benefit."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[semioticapocalypse]

Achille Darnis. La Berge Inondée (The Flooded Bank). 1897

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[herbalnature]

Strolling through a flooded St. Mark's Square feels surreal, with Venetians wading through the water like it's just another day. The historic architecture stands unfazed, a testament to Venice's timeless charm amid nature's whims.