All about water
Animated water in Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
This must be one of the most extraordinary film sequences of animated water ever created. It’s by special effects animators at Disney and its all hand painted.
Adam’s ale
Adam’s ale is an old fashioned name for water. The photo is of a pint glass of water in a pub garden in Kent, the county known as ‘the garden of England’.
Earth life 'from watery asteroid'
“Scientist have uncovered further evidence that there is water on Earth because our waterless planet was hit by a watery asteroid.
The asteroid is believed to have then given us the oceans, the rivers and lakes and all life that followed.”
A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is – a place to have a daily wash, and to enjoy the companionship of friends, just as it was for the Romans who built it.
Moby Dick and the watery part of the world
In Herman Melville’s opening chapter of Moby Dick, the seaman Ishmael talks of the magnetic attraction of water. You can hear it read by Tilda Swinton as part of The Big Read project.
Excerpt:
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?- Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?
Water on a molecular level
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg looks at the fascinating water molecule.
Water on In Our Time BBC website>>
” It is a rare example of a substance that can be found on Earth in gaseous, liquid and solid forms, and thanks to its unique chemical behaviour is the basis of all known life. Scientists are still discovering new things about it, such as the fact that there are at least fifteen different forms of ice.”
A watery installation at The Hayward Gallery, London
OLAFUR ELIASSON
B. 1967, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK LIVES AND WORKS IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, AND BERLIN, GERMANY
Museum of Water
A museum of bottled water by artist Amy Shurrock
“Museum of Water is a collection of publicly donated water and accompanying stories. Accumulating over the course of a week in lit cabinets along the street, Museum of Water is an invitation to ponder our precious liquid and how we use it.”
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