Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.
Tags: transportation, Judaism, religion, seasonal.
Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com
Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.
Tags: transportation, Judaism, religion, seasonal.
Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com
Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.
Tags: transportation, Judaism, religion, seasonal.
Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com
Can you guess where we are taking you today? Here’s a clue: This city’s name translates to “where the river narrows.”
Source: video.nationalgeographic.com
There is a delightfully simple premise to National Geographic video’s newest series: after seeing scenes from the cultural and physical landscapes of a place can you guess where in the world it is? You can find more resources about this unnamed country (no cheating) here.
https://www.youtube.com/v/0fSiiAunc2A?fs=1&hl=fr_FR
“Despite global inequalities, most of the world is better off than you think – and better off than it has ever been before. Watch Hans Rosling explain why.”
Tags: media, models, gapminder, development, perspective.
Source: www.youtube.com
Photographer Vincent Laforet spent the early stages of 2015 photographing the likes of New York, Las Vegas, London, Sydney and Barcelona from a helicopter.
Tags: urban, megacities, unit 7 cities, images.
Source: www.cnn.com
“We are Dangerdust. We love chalk. We started this project at the beginning of our senior year in college. It all began because we wanted to share a quote that had inspired us, in the hope that it would inspire others. We sneaked into school that weekend to illustrate the quote on an abandoned chalkboard. After that one time we were hooked, and Dangerdust was created.”
Source: www.behance.net
We are sometimes so obsessively focused on the self in our society, that we discount the communal and the spatial impacts in describing who we are. So much of our ‘selves’ that we prize as so highly individualized and unique are a beautiful product of all the places and people who have influenced and shaped our lives.
The mythical holiday beast is once again on the prowl, but beware, he’s making his way across the Atlantic
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Questions to Ponder: So what kind of cultural diffusion is this? Expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion or hierarchical diffusion? Why so?
Is this more as a pop culture phenomenon or a revitalization of a folk cultural tradition? How come?
Tags: religion, Europe, culture, historical.
The mythical holiday beast is once again on the prowl, but beware, he’s making his way across the Atlantic
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Questions to Ponder: So what kind of cultural diffusion is this? Expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion or hierarchical diffusion? Why so?
Is this more as a pop culture phenomenon or a revitalization of a folk cultural tradition? How come?
Tags: religion, Europe, culture, historical.
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