Tumblr (3.0; @k4ht)http://k4ht.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/71edba6c8a27cd9696012d5dd3c6879a/tumblr_mgsizcsIKl1qz51zro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/48569073792http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/48569073792Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:54:32 +1000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb1bwwjPvF1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h3 class="storytitle"><a href="http://travelwritersdiary.com/?p=158" rel="bookmark">Don’t stay overnight in Taishan mountain, China, during winter!</a> - Ken@travelwritersdiary</h3> <blockquote> <p><span>Here is a photo of some stone pillars when I got up there, completely iced over, at temperatures at -10 degrees Celcius, without factoring in the windchill. And good gosh, windchill there was!    </span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/32428540359http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/32428540359Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:55:41 +1000Taishan mountainChinakentravelwritersdiary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r80xp95D1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>A customer is seated on a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot at the newly opened Robot Restaurant in Tokyo. YURIKO NAKAO/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30798629577http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30798629577Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:30:16 +1000Robot RestaurantTokyoYuriko NakaoReuterstotally cool pix<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r8nwMmjW1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>The sun sets during the Burning Man 2012 Fertility 2.0 arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. JIM URQUHART/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775561603http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775561603Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:35:54 +1000Burning Man 2012 Fertility 2.0 arts and music festivalBlack Rock DesertNevadaJim UrquhartReutersTotally Cool Pix<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r8ntd8hn1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>An aerial view shows the Burning Man 2012 Fertility 2.0 arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. JIM URQUHART/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775560301http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775560301Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:35:52 +1000Burning Man 2012 Fertility 2.0 arts and music festivalBlack Rock DesertNevadaJim UrquhartReutersTotally Cool Pix<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r8nqgBr11qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>A view shows the Three Gorges Hotel and the passenger terminal of Chongqing Port (R) collapsing after demolition by explosives in Chongqing. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775556926http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775556926Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:35:49 +1000Three Gorges HotelChongqing PortChina DailyReutersTotally Cool Pix<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r8fnyKi51qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>Handout of people standing on large hexagonal columns of volcanic rock on Ninepin Group southeast of Hong Kong. HANDOUT/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775253234http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30775253234Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:30:57 +1000Ninepin GroupHong KongHandoutReutersTotally Cool Pix<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r86pl0xy1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>A Nepalese man carries a mattress on his head in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30774919620http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30774919620Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:25:36 +1000NepalPashupatinath TempleKathmanduNavesh ChitrakaReutersTotally Cool Pix<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r7r2cNLM1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>An ethnic Uighur girl poses for photo in front of a red curtain at her home in Hetian. STRINGER/CHINA/REUTERS</span></p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30774330973http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/30774330973Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:16:12 +1000UighurHetianStringerChinaReuters<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5uz4iRgBy1qa8vdgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sandman-kk.tumblr.com/post/26750016969">sandman-kk</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dhubai paradise.</p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/26758278307http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/26758278307Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:54:45 +1000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m67pao04Cw1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>In Training</p> </blockquote> <p>Ph: Sen Mitsuji</p>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25913614193http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25913614193Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:42:23 +1000Sen MitsujiJapan<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5h1o2YKXJ1qkvrpzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25493632171http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25493632171Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:36:27 +1000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qid4P5tV1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>A labourer rests on piles of plastic bottles at a recycling centre in Jiaxing. Stringer China / Reuters</p> </div>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25493596261http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25493596261Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:35:13 +1000JiaxingStringerChinaReuters<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qicngsdI1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>A labourer naps inside a coil of steel wire at a residential construction site in Hefei. Jianan Yu / Reuters</p> </div>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25434094191http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25434094191Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:30:15 +1000HefeiJianan YuReutersChina<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qic3NDZv1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>A child sleeps on a couch on a flooded street in Chongqing municipality. Stringer Shanghai / Reuters</span></p>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25363297526http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25363297526Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:20:31 +1000ChongqingStringerShanghaiReutersChina<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qibfYrNq1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>Parents of freshmen sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium inside a university campus in Wuhan. Stringer Shanghai / Reuters</p> </div>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25292360916http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25292360916Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:27:05 +1000WuhanStringerShanghaiReutersChina<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qiaeuWKd1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>A labourer takes a nap on reinforcement bars at a construction site in Qingdao. Stringer Shanghai / Reuters</span></p>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25256236914http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/25256236914Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:51:48 +1000StringerReutersShanghaiQingdaoChina<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4i0b2TNHN1qzrjtuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sandman-kk.tumblr.com/post/23915049693">sandman-kk</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raoviju/6997230588/in/photostream">Rao, Viju</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/23917598395http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/23917598395Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:53 +1000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2rwluJMvb1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Snow falls on top of graves at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS</span></p>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/21497002405http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/21497002405Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:30:43 +1000Mount of Olives CemeteryJerusalemAmir Cohen<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ruef0ZIQ1qauw0so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>“Once the buildings collapsed, the meaning that used to organize urban space instantly vanished, and the elements of both structure and symbol were reduced to sheer materiality. Signs disappeared and all became substance. The composition of buildings, whose substance had been carefully hidden in order to smooth the flow of urban activities, was now revealed in its bare materiality. As objects fell from the hierarchy of significance they occupied in the construction, debris formed everywhere, amorphously battleground, devoid of meaning. Forced out of the loop of urban signification, the buildings faced us, stripped naked.”</em></p> <p>(Arata Isozaki)</p> <p>In 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake caused the collapse of 200,000 buildings in Kobe. Never one for knee-jerk optimism, Arata Isozaki, as commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale the following year, decided to represent the state of contemporary Japanese architecture by showing ruins:</p>http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/21471429933http://k4ht.tumblr.com/post/21471429933Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:27:06 +1000PhotographyBig In JapanAmelia GroomArata IsozakiGreat Hanshin EarthquakeKobeJapan