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Francois Robert has created a series of powerful artworks made out of real human bones to remind people about the consequences of violence.

Human skeleton is a strong visual symbol that represents what is left after life has ended, after the flesh and mind cease to function. [more info]

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box

The Louvre Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoleon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989,^[1] it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.

Design

Commissioned by the President of France François Mitterrand in 1984, it was designed by the architect I. M. Pei, who is responsible for the design of the Miho Museum in Japanamong others. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 metres (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 metres (115 ft). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.^[2]

The pyramid structure was engineered by Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Ltd. of Montreal (Pyramid structure / Design Consultant) and Rice Francis Ritchie (also known as RFR) of Paris (Pyramid Structure / Construction Phase)^[3].

The pyramid and the underground lobby beneath it were created because of a series of problems with the Louvre’s original main entrance, which could no longer handle an enormous number of visitors on an everyday basis. Visitors entering through the pyramid descend into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings. Several other museums have duplicated this concept, most notably the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The construction work on the pyramid base and underground lobby was carried out by the Vinci construction company.^[4]

La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid) is a skylight constructed in an underground shopping mall in front of the Louvre Museum inFrance. It may be thought of as a smaller sibling of the more famous Louvre Pyramid proper, yet turned upside down: its upturned base is easily overlooked from outside.

The pyramid marks the intersection of two main walkways and orients visitors towards the museum entrance. Tensioned against a 30-ton, 13.3-meter square steel caisson frame, the inverted pyramidal shape in laminated glass points downward towards the floor. The tip of the pyramid is suspended 1.4 meters (a little more than 4.5 feet) above floor level. Individual glass panes in the pyramid, 30 mm thick, are connected by stainless-steel crosses 381 mm in length. After dark, the structure is illuminated by a frieze of spotlights.

Directly below the tip of the downwards-pointing glass pyramid, a small stone pyramid (about one meter/three feet high) is stationed on the floor, as if mirroring the larger structure above: The tips of the two pyramids almost touch.

La Pyramide Inversée was designed by architects Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners, and installed as part of the Phase II government renovation of the Louvre Museum. It was completed in 1993. In 1995, it was a finalist in the Benedictus Awards, described by the jury as “a remarkable anti-structure … a symbolic use of technology … a piece of sculpture. It was meant as an object but it is an object to transmit light.”

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Stephen Marley-Mind Control

Yeah, Yeah Yeah
Now Tell You What, Its Mind Control
Mind Control,
Corruption Of Your Thoughts (Yeah), Destruction Of Your Soul
Mind Control, Its Mind Control, Corruption Of Your Thoughts
Destruction Of Your Soul
Don’t Let Them Mold Your Mind, They Want To Control Mankind
Seems Like Their Only Intention Is To Exploit The Earth,
And You Trust In Their Deceit, Your Mind Causes Your Defeat,
And So You Become An Invention To Distort This Earth
Propoganda And Lies, Is A Plague In Our Lives
How Much More Victimized, Before We Realize (Hey)
Its Mind Control, Mind Control
Corruption Of Your Thoughts (Yeah), Destruction Of Your Soul
Mind Control, Its Mind Control, Corruption Of Your Thoughts
Destruction Of Your Soul
Ooh Grand Master, Let The People Go,
You Put Them In Total Confusion, To Downs-Troy* Their Soul
For They Practise What You Preach, So They’re Always In Your Reach Hi-Tech Slavery In These Days, Its Mind Control
They’ll Make It Attractive, To Get Man Destracted,
Corrupting Your (Soul)
Polluting Your (Soul)
Destroying (Your Soul, Mind Control)
Mind Control,
Corruption Of Your Thoughts, Destruction Of Your Soul
Mind Control, Its Mind Control, Corruption Of Your Thoughts
Destruction Of Your Soul
Yeah, Yeah Yeah
Come On And, Get It Together Brother Man
What You Say?
Its Mind Control, Mind Control
Corruption Of Your Thoughts, Destruction Of Your Soul
Mind Control, Its Mind Control, Corruption Of Your Thoughts
Destruction Of Your Soul
(The Truth Is There For Us To See)
Its Mind Control,
Corruption Of Your Thoughts, Destruction Of Your Soul
(The Truth Is There For Us To See)
Its Mind Control, Corruption Of Your Thoughts
Destruction Of Your Soul
(The Truth Is There For Us To See)
(The Truth Is There For Us To See)

Lena Horne passes at 92

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 — May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer.

Horne joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky andStormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs as well as television, and releasing well received albums. Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway, and earned her numerous awards and accolades, and she would continue recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s.