Pupils have a series of
pictures of places around the world that have colours in the name, such as the White House, Black Sea, Golden Gate Bridge etc as clues, with a blank for the correct colour.
Not exact matches
She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a
picture of Niagara Falls or some alien
world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts
of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off
places, but will allow them to scroll
around the
world at will.»
Others were simply photojournalistic
pictures of industrial sites and bombed - out buildings, or
of politicians and everyday people from various
places around the
world, that reflected how I imagined the movie would look.
Ostensibly a hybrid
of an Adam Sandler lovable schlub vehicle with a kids»
picture nostalgia piece, «Pixels» imagines that an alien invasion takes
place in the form
of vintage video game characters attacking major metropolises
around the
world.
His artworks brings together photography and painting on the same canvas, stimulating the eyes
of the viewer and inviting to virtually «dive» into the
pictures, going
places around the
world.
Guston's main point at Boston University was that the state
of things in 1966 was very different from the original experience
of the Abstract Expressionists
around 1950 when, in his words, you felt as if you were driven into a corner against the wall with no
place to stand, just the
place you occupied, as if the act
of painting itself was not making a
picture, there are plenty
of pictures in the
world — why clutter up the
world with
pictures?
While not perfect, this approach has the potential to paint a much more precise and useful
picture of air quality across the area (and in cities
around the
world, where the same approach could also be used — for example, there's a similar project in operation in Pittsburgh called GASP, or Group Against Smog and Pollution,
pictured above), rather than having just a few stationary air monitoring stations, as is currently the case in most
places.