Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice work, Nathan. The closeup of the Rainbow Panorama is really nice! Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:52 AM Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 2/11/2012: Lars and Inger and ART >I am on my usual early November visit to Denmark, spending part of it in my >hometown Aarhus, visiting my best friend Lars. For yesterday, I give you a >massive 4-image PAD from the ARoS art museum (Aros was the original, >Viking-era name of Aarhus). We went there around 5 p.m. to see the massive >Edvard Munch exhibition there. At this time of year, it starts getting dark >in Aarhus around 4-4:30. > > Approaching the museum. I passed this spot every day on my way to school > between 1972 and 1976, but there was a much smaller building at the time. > The coloured thing on the roof is called Your Rainbow Panorama, by the > Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, opened in 2011: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2191908222&k=FsH9gGg&lb=1&s=O > > Close-up of the Rainbow Panorama: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2191908315&k=78wfPhj&lb=1&s=O > > View of Aarhus City Hall from the roof terrace of ARoS. The city hall was > finished in 1941 and is the town's most emblematic building, designed by > Arne Jacobsen: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2191908359&k=NVtcLhQ&lb=1&s=O > > Finally, inside the Munch exhibition, Lars is looking at one of Munch's > most famous paintings, Inger ved stranden (Inger at the beach): > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2191908449&k=bCJtmRS&lb=1&s=O > > ARoS is a magnificent place. It is a modern art museum in the absolute top > global league, and this in a Danish town of 300.000 inhabitants. It is > justifiably a source of pride for the people of Aarhus--and for me. > > More about ARoS: http://en.aros.dk/ > More about Eliasson: http://www.olafureliasson.net/works.html > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >