Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars 2012 at Disney's Star Wars Weekends – YouTube.
On March 31, 2012, Disneyland Paris debuted its new nighttime spectacular called Disney Dreams, featuring projections on Sleeping Beauty Castle, colorful water fountains, mist screens, fireworks and other pyrotechnics, combined into one extravagant show. Disney Dreams features elements from World of Color, Fantasmic, and The Magic, the Memories, and You! perfectly joined together for an unforgettable experience.
Video and content by Disney, via TF1.
via HD Full “Disney Dreams!” nighttime show debut at Disneyland Paris – YouTube.
Photograph by Maurizio Biancarelli / www.wild-wonders.com
Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest national park in Croatia. The park was founded in 1949 and is situated in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The protected area extends over 296.85 square kilometres (73,350 acres). In 1979, Plitvice Lakes National Park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage register and was among the first natural sites worldwide. Each year, more than 1,200,000 people visit the national park.
The national park is world famous for its lakes arranged in cascades. Currently, 16 lakes can be seen from the surface. These lakes are a result of the confluence of several small rivers and subterranean karst rivers. The lakes are all interconnected and follow the water flow. They are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae, and bacteria.
The sixteen lakes are separated into an upper and lower cluster formed by runoff from the mountains, descending from an altitude of 636 to 503 m (2,087 to 1,650 ft) over a distance of some eight kilometers. The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colors, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colors change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight. [Source: Wikipedia]
Views of the moon as the Earth blocked it from the direct path of the sun’s rays for a few minutes on December 10, 2011. The first photo of the lunar eclipse shown below was taken at Turret Arch at Arches National Park located near Moab, Utah. via Hungeree.
via Total Lunar Eclipse on December 10, 2011 » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!.
Russell Township, Ohio may not sound like much of an architectural destination. But this semi-rural town 25 miles east of Cleveland is actually home to architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller’s largest geodesic dome. The vast dome, allegedly one of Bucky’s favorites, was built in 1959 to surmount a low, crescent-shaped modernist office pavilion designed by architect John Terence Kelly. The hexagonal steel latticework also hovers weightlessly over a lush, circular garden in the center.
As Metropolis Magazine reports, this strikingly futuristic headquarters for the materials research clearinghouse ASM International rocked Ohio for generations, landing along Route 87 like “a cross between a spaceship and an exhibition pavilion that could have been airlifted from a world’s fair.” But the complex makes headlines today as a victory for the historic preservation of mid-century modern buildings.
via Architizer Blog » A New Life for Buckminster Fuller and John Kelly’s Modernist Office Park.
Photograph by MICHAEL MELFORD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photographer’s Description: Sunlight dapples the shoulders of Algonquin and Wright, two of the more than 40 so-called High Peaks that rise above 4,000 feet. Once blighted by logging and industry, the region has undergone a renaissance of woods and waters.
For more incredible pictures of the Adirondacks, be sure to check out this National Geographic photo gallery from the September 2011 feature story ‘Forever Wild’.
The Adirondack Park is a publicly protected area in northeast New York. It is the largest park and the largest state-level protected area in the contiguous United States, and the largest National Historic Landmark.
The park covers some 6,100,000 acres (25,000 km2), a land area greater than Vermont, or than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks combined.
About 43% of the land is owned by the state, with 57% private inholdings, heavily regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency. The Adirondack Park contains thousands of streams, brooks and lakes, most famously Lake Placid, adjacent to the village of Lake Placid, two-time site of the Winter Olympic Games. [Source]
For our latest mission we turned a carousel into a horse race. A single jockey was joined by two announcers, a roaring crowd, and a trumpeter. The children on the carousel had no idea what was going on. The mission took place at Le Carousel in New York’s Bryant Park.
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