Friday, August 7, 2009

Between Voyeurism or Exhibitionism.

Yours for the peeping.

Read an interesting article in The New York Times about a see-through glass walled condominium to be built in Manhattan's financial district; designed by Jeremy Fletcher and Alejandra Lillo, designers at Graft; as a working dialogue between voyeurism and exhibitionism.

"Not only will the building’s glass walls allow W residents to see, and be seen by, passers-by on the street below, but Mr. Fletcher and Ms. Lillo have created peekaboo features within each apartment, like a window between the kitchen and the bedroom, and a bathroom that’s a glass cube, allowing residents to expose themselves to their roommates and family members, too. The idea, Mr. Fletcher said, was to frame and exhibit the intimate details of life, or at least ones that would be aesthetically pleasing, “like your silhouette in the shower.”

“We are creating stages for people to perform on in some way, but it’s a very scripted and considered display,” he said. “Cooking could be a display, for example, with your partner watching you from the bedroom.”

He talked about tuning the privacy of each room, using shades or scrims to have larger or smaller openings, as you would change the aperture of a camera. “So if you don’t want your partner to see you shaving your legs in the shower,” he said, “you can pull the shade.”

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Modern papaya cultivation.

The fruit is tropical in its requirements, it can be grown in regions where light frosts are experienced. It prefers a warm climate and rich, loamy, well-drained soil. It grows best on hammock soils, but it is successful on "high pine" lands if properly fertilized. In some regions the plant has become thoroughly naturalized and springs up wherever a clearing is made, the seeds being scattered by birds and other agencies. While commercial papaya-culture probably should not be attempted in cooler regions, good fruits are occasionally produced when a mild winter allows the plants to reach fruiting age without injury.

Upon ripening, the fruit is apt to drop off the tree. Modern practices of horticulture has come up with a practical solution to save the fruit from damage or injury when it falls to the ground. The solution is simple requiring nothing more than use of discarded household items and are cost effective to say the least.






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This is how papayas are prevented from injury when it falls! LOL!


Due to our overwhelming success with saving papayas from fall injury we are now taking the King of Fruits to task! The Durian. But it's going to take a while before we release a working paper! Ouch! ouch!



P.S 1st para i lifted off somewhere, 2nd my own. Papaya pic was from random email. Durian fruit lifted from somewhere too!

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