Thursday, April 3, 2008

A few Photos of town...





Just wanted to share some photos of town as the sun begins to set and night slowly creeps into town. I must admit that although it's going to be dark soon, on clear days the sky is really colorful and the sunsets are beautiful

16 comments:

Polka Dot said...

Wow, Antarctica looks very pretty. Wats it like there?

DC said...

Very nice pictures. It must be a very different life to live in such an isolated area. Do you get long periods of total daylight, and vice versa?

Anonymous said...

Woahh, a good friend of mine just got back from McMurdo.. Last week
That's awesome =]

Jaybird said...

Well to answer some questions.
What's it like here? sometime cold, not it's getting darker and darker because soon it will be 24 hours of darkness until the sun returns in late august.
As far as long periods of daylight and darkness--from around ocotber to late february there is 24 hours of sunlight.

Anonymous said...

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Kalyan Karmakar said...

'town'! hee hee. Quite different from Mumbai where I live where there are ten of us packed in in one square foot in the scorching sun. Seems like an awesome expreince at your end

Prerana said...

great photographs...it must be really tough and different ...surviving over there.!!! keep it up !!!

Anonymous said...

Great Pix!!! It reminds me of the movie entitled " Eight Below " by Frank Marshall.

Unknown said...

wow, that looks brilliant, great photos.
amazing to think how different places are!

Rohit Soans said...

Would really like to visit. When is the best time?? Considering taking a cruise from patagonia, but am unsure when. Great pictures, looks beautiful.

Anonymous said...

So beautiful ... cool

bim_prasad said...

Outstanding pics...

M.s Dona said...

Zimmerman. I look at these photos and think Zimmerman, do you know them?

Bhuvan said...

Wow this place is mind blowing...Wud luv yo be there sometime..:-)

Annie said...

I really like the photos. Thanks for sharing. It is interesting to see what life is like there.

hironii said...

Dear Reader,

Shower qualities in a rhetorical pop-lecture can be without the comforts that a gym would realize from a plumbing standpoint. In times, London seemed to be without the luxuries of better pressure, and Tokyo has seen their days when the off status wasn’t abnormal. A population growth is a political play on wordings to inform us of a gentrification and culture is another mistake on export failures. We live in times of economic stress. Factory churns and waste dumping in the river can be cost effective and as we populate our community, a texture of smoke and bite of chemical air becomes a breathing atmosphere. It is a concern in our lives.

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A Hardware of our prospectus is the infrastructure Skeleton and does establish a structural value: in today’s house market, a foundation of X value must be with each building or structure; in a terra-polis : or unsprawled structured land…….. each building or structure is on top of the Skeleton structural value and would thus use, in an example, a Y value ‘foundation’.

A Software of our prospectus is the ‘elements’ or ‘Site Features’ of our infrastructure; a cubicle box unit Tree Plant for our landscaping on the terrace land floor is an example; also, a ‘house’ would also be a software item. These Site Features in a plan, can be manufactured in a non-linear process and may increase per unit temporal value output: so, in 10 days, a standard construction method may complete Z amount of work and a new manufactured house kit factory system may output K amount of work or more work than Z.

With political issues confronting our surface communication habitat that in pop-history have yet to resolve senior assisted living, and generation relations, we may rethink our future forecasts. A Kit home that is volume based and will reach our constituent seniors that gives each tenant real tools to assist their daily routine; a 2 generation house kit home that can make available your parents to live with you and your own life all-in-one are software topics that outputs: cost effective space; reachable to many people space; and usable USE space: or - - - a Balance of Ideological Output; A Price we can realize Volume; and that it bridges us to Reality from Ideology. How about a storefront space that is within more entrepreneurs’ budget? Or a: let’s increase square footage later when we can afford it House?
Our Kit Software Items may be the next logistical team player and afford better site timelines and new sub-contract assembly tasks; with point load and load or van-ing applications, a convoy of new volume standards may be realized. The remodeling or renewal of a city or Renovation may politically be worthwhile and yet its concerns in population increase (a plumbing concern), new pollution occurrences (the summer can be in another shower with all those air conditioners and humidity’s), and bank loan approvals (.......a real estate political climate) may arrive at less constituent fervor.

Restaurant Truck civil engineering easements is a road workers crew operation task and allows each restaurantor a cost effective option to realize a grand opening. A Push cart store easement may make better volume on the street and easier foot traffic frontline point of sale conveniences for our YATAI (Japanese) and possibly a hot-dog cart, or a pretzel-man, or a frutas-stand. As we revisit some alarm in our people’s lives: A-sleep-in-your-car permit stall may allow a car buyer who can’t afford a house to have a better risk status to turn his life around; a car trunk store strip may make new imports and exports a contributor to our trade deficit; and a zero appointment zone sales connect with town to town to town to town travel by car may add to traveler numbers to change what is the minimum standard: or what is by Jet (which is a premium vehicle) (and is a nice system but may be unaffordable to many). Our motorcycle and use of MAILBOXES ETC may also be another less costly launch travel exercise vehicle. With sleep bench permits and pay showers as other additions; a Greyhound Bus or Amtrak may exponentially increase our foot traffic datum. These in cooperation with Airlines and Travel Agents may allow new additions to our travel agent offerings and begin to want: fax centers per page, a pay telephone booth, a vending machine row wall, a postcard point presentation (or a power point presentation without the notebook), a radio communications increase with exterior speakers, a new USPS insurance volume, and sales pitch lunches at KFC or El Polo Loco with your: just met him and we didn’t need three $50 lunches before we can say one word about our business. A pencil and a $5 calculator and a note pad may be essential in addition to our palm pilot and cellular phone web and notebook. Our Renewal may seek new commercial driven vehicles with multi-use spatial features at an affordable price: power windows ‘yes’ on a class of vehicles, - - - - can I have some insulation walls instead of the leather and wood?….. on another class of cars…….. that both benefit our society and our economy. Where are the Rolls Royce sales? In Car Wars? It’s trans-continental and is a vehicle of dependability. And where is the Dodge Ram Van with new FEMA themes vs. Vacation themes? $30,000.00 is a lot of money and maybe many can afford it, but then to add another $500,000.00 for a house and then $x for a restaurant space may be well impossible for a lot of SBA all stars.

With inclusions of greater numbers and a climate that will account for your allocation even if you don’t have Five Hundred Thirty Thousand Dollars and More, our belief in civil engineering and spatial contributions to our commercial success may output a new community grass roots voice in our planning and development research and grant findings.

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Japan’s Dr. Kiyonori Kikutake, honorary AIA and Dr. Shizuo Harada, Architect of ESCO, Tokyo Japan have been pioneers in the research of Autonomous Cities, Metabolic Architecture, and Green Belt Theories (Mumford). With the ongoing support of MITI, a Japanese municipal office, their extensive study of Urban Planning and Architectural Space in Eco-polis and Aqua-polis to reference two compositions, has been in focus for over 30 years.

We welcome your comments and I thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Hirotomo Nii
Nii Architects, Inc.