The 21 ladies (from around the globe) that collectively share their thoughts and ideas through Vision & Verb wanted to give something to the wider world in which they live.
An idea was born and embraced (by the 21 ladies) to use their artwork to create gift cards which would enable disadvantaged people around the world [...]
Archive for April, 2012
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Empowering People
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2012
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Architecture 100 :: 18 – The Iron Bridge
The world’s first cast iron bridge was built over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in 1779.
From Wiki:
In the early eighteenth century, the only way to cross the Severn Gorge was by ferry. However, the industries that were growing in the area of Coalbrookdale and Broseley needed a more reliable crossing.
In 1773, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard[1] wrote [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2012
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Logic will get you from A-B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2012
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Architecture 100 :: 17 – Cooling Towers
This photograph depicts the cooling towers of Ironbrige B power station, which was designed to blend in with it’s surroundings:
Project architect Alan Clark worked closely with landscape architect Kenneth Booth, in order to ensure that the station merged as seamlessly as possible into its natural surroundings.[1] In this respect, the power station is [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2012
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Did Someone Say Drought?
These photographs were taken in Dale End today…
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2012
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PhotoHunt – Texture
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out Whistlestop PhotoHunt.
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 27th 2012
