A leaf. Yeah but i gave me the idea to cut my own designs into leaves. Over time i learned more and more and developed my own technique meeting. Depending on the design it can take lorenzo did on several days to finish the cutting into the almost meditative work. Thirteen years ago to run still worked in construction when he lost his job its hit him hard but then he discovered his artistic bent. He started out painting in oils and later began his leaf carvings. For him his has been a journey of self explore ration. Of thinking. Theres a scene one side of a leaf is turned to the light. The other stays in shade you know the theres
i want to express is that human beings original bond with nature. Today weve lost this sense of connection. Only if we humans manage to see ourselves as a part of nature that we can learn to respect our environment again. If they carefully preserved. Ten years or more. Like nature itself they to answer tree fortunately neurons of man were did on keeps turning o
March 9, 2021
March 9, 2021
The Grand Rapids Public Museum collected plywood boards that were used to cover broken windows after the riots that followed George Floyd s death.
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a single genre to deal with people are more than that. good. intense and absorbing music explores the texture. and now it s time again to get creative idea wise series we create a lot of things to brighten up your home in just a few steps and today our expert savvy hands and shows us how dominos can be used for more than just a game. today our so you have to make a lot of. plywood boards this one is forty centimeters by fours you tend to means here. around objects that are useful and sheet metal. twelve dominos in the color of your choice. clock movement sorry ordered one on the international
there are neighborhoods completely underwater. rescues underway and days after irma struck, alex is out front in bonita springs, florida. you were on your way to naples. you came across the b neighborhood in now, it is still under water. naples was one of the cities hardest hit by hurricane irma. we are just north of there. on our way there when we saw the incredible flooding here in this neighborhood. this neighborhood completely flooded as well as many neighborhoods around. you can see the flood waters stretching back there as far as the eye can see. this is a low lying area. so this was a mandatory evacuation zone. most of the residents we re told did get out of here. if you look here at this house, you can see that they have boarded it up with those big plywood boards. that will work against winds during a hurricane like irma. that is not going to do anything against flood waters, if you look over here, ifls just in this house with some of the residents coming back in for the fir
product with a 9-pound, 2x4 shot at 50 feet a second. i bet that would hurt. it does. reporter: first the old advice, when a storm is coming, tape up your windows. i have covered dozens of hurricanes and people always have their windows taped up. does this help? no, not at all. reporter: just watch. the tape on the window. did not work. as you can see the impact went completely through. you have larger pieces that can do real damage if it hit someone in the face. reporter: how about those plywood boards? back at the lab, as you can see the result s better but experts tell us wood provides inconsistent protection and could allow the window to break. and those special metal storm shutters. they hold out better than wood, but the safest of all? there are windows that you can buy that withstand winds of 200 miles an hour. this one they are testing at 150. lack at it. it will bow but not break. so we test it. this is called high-impact