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Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park
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Located in southwestern Ohio, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is a 265-acre park and outdoor museum combining the nature with art.
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Hamilton attorney Harry Wilks started to build his dream house in the country, and ended up creating a nationally acclaimed sculpture park.
At 80, Harry Wilks lives alone in an underground house atop a hill surrounded by woods, meadows and huge sculptures. When he drinks his morning coffee under his glass pyramid roof, he can enjoy his collection of antiquities: . . . When he climbs his two-story tower, he looks out on his 265-acres "yard" and surveys a landscape unlike any other. On a hill to the west stands "Abracadabra," a giant crimson swirl of steel set in a field of green. . . . At every turn, sculpture — in steel, bronze, stone, and wood — creates a thrilling medley of nature and art.
This is Pyramid Hill, the retired Hamilton attorney’s home . . . It’s also the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, one of only five in the nation. There are 55 works in the park so far, some by internationally known artists including Alexander Liberman, Clement Meadmore, George Sugarman and Tony Rosenthal, as well as emerging and regional artists. . . . More than 100,000 people each year visit the 10-year-old park, some to enjoy art and nature, others for conferences, concerts, weddings and festivals.
It all started, Wilks says, with a chain saw. "I wanted to move out of town when I retired, so I bought 40 acres out here. Then I bought a chain saw and a machete and started to clear the brush. Then I needed to hire a bulldozer to put in the roads and lakes and the bulldozer driver was a golfer, so he suggested a golf course. I built eight and a half holes of golf and I stopped." As adjacent land became available, Wilks bought as much as he could, until he had 265 acres of hilly woodland on the Great Miami River, a mile southwest of Hamilton in Butler County. "I think it was one day when we were cutting down trees that I saw a dogwood in bloom, and it was so beautiful and I thought, ‘By God, I have to save this.’ I began to love nature. After I built my house out here I put in the eight lakes and I already had the tennis court and the hiking trails. My friends would come to visit, and they started to offer me money for some of my land. They were offering 0,000 and 5,000 an acre. These were wealthy men. I had eight offers in four months and they totaled almost a million dollars. And I thought, ‘What the heck’s going to happen to all this when I die?’ My two daughters have places of their own. They would have to sell it. And I thought of all the work I had put into this, building roads, acquiring more land. I had done it all myself, with no master plan, no engineers, no architects. So I stopped, in the middle of the ninth hole. I thought, ‘How can I prevent this land from being sold?’"
Wilks decided to create a public foundation with a board of trustees to oversee the property. He had to decide what the purpose of the land would be. .
. . . Reporters from area newspapers and television stations were eager to do stories about Wilks’ unusual underground house. One of them, Jackie Demaline from The Cincinnati Enquirer, told him something that set the spark. "I was driving her around in a golf cart and I was indulging in a fantasy," Wilks says. "I pointed to a spot and said ‘There is my Rodin. At another place I said, ‘See my Henry Moore,’ pretending that I had sculpture by all these great artists in my park. She said, ‘Have you ever heard of Storm King?’ She said it’s this sculpture park in the East, in New York. "I never knew there was such a thing. There are sculpture gardens, but whoever heard of a sculpture park? So I went to see Storm King and the other parks and I talked to some artists and some galleries in New York. I said, ‘I can do this.’" He also knew that his landscape was far more dramatic than the flat, grassy fields of other sculpture parks.
"We have natural galleries," he says. "This is an ideal place for sculpture."
Most of the sculpture in the park is abstract and monumental, in the style that began to appear in cities in the late 1960s, when every major building, first in New York and then across the country, required a signature work of sculpture. . . . He started with three works by Alexander Liberman, whose brilliant, red "Abracadabra," two and a half stories tall and three and a half stories wide, has the prime position in the park, atop the highest hill. . . . Although Wilks bought the first works for the park, he no longer buys modern sculpture out of his own pocket. "All I buy are the antiquities. We get a flood of mail from artists wanting me to buy their work, but that’s not the way it’s set up. The foundation has to raise the money, from corporations, individuals and foundations, to pay for the art. We own about 60 percent of the work here. The rest is on loan. We will pay installation costs and give the artist a small stipend for keeping the work here, and we hold first option to buy if we decide to keep it."
"I see myself as the caretaker of the land while I am here," he says, "and I want this to be here for hundreds of years."
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This Used to be a Record Shop
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The Albertinapassage is a pedestrian underpass right next to Vienna’s opera house. It was built in the early 1960s. Back then it was planned to move pedestrian traffic underground on all major squares, thus freeing the ground for vehicle traffic. However, that plan didn’t really work out: Roads were still congested, and pedestrians didn’t want to put up with taking the detour through the underpass. In 2005, overground pedestrian crossings were reintroduced. Half of the Passage’s stairways had to be closed to make way, but surprisingly it’s refused to die.
Laocoon by Alexander Liberman at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Liberman
Located in southwestern Ohio, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is a 265-acre park and outdoor museum combining the nature with art.
ohiomag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=586CA122EB394032BD4AA3B686…
Hamilton attorney Harry Wilks started to build his dream house in the country, and ended up creating a nationally acclaimed sculpture park. At 80, Harry Wilks lives alone in an underground house atop a hill surrounded by woods, meadows and huge sculptures. When he drinks his morning coffee under his glass pyramid roof, he can enjoy his collection of antiquities: . . . When he climbs his two-story tower, he looks out on his 265-acres "yard" and surveys a landscape unlike any other. On a hill to the west stands "Abracadabra," a giant crimson swirl of steel set in a field of green. . . . At every turn, sculpture — in steel, bronze, stone, and wood — creates a thrilling medley of nature and art.
This is Pyramid Hill, the retired Hamilton attorney’s home . . . It’s also the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, one of only five in the nation. …It all started, Wilks says, with a chain saw. "I wanted to move out of town when I retired, so I bought 40 acres out here. Then I bought a chain saw and a machete and started to clear the brush. Then I needed to hire a bulldozer to put in the roads and lakes and the bulldozer driver was a golfer, so he suggested a golf course. I built eight and a half holes of golf and I stopped." As adjacent land became available, Wilks bought as much as he could, until he had 265 acres of hilly woodland on the Great Miami River, a mile southwest of Hamilton in Butler County. "I think it was one day when we were cutting down trees that I saw a dogwood in bloom, and it was so beautiful and I thought, ‘By God, I have to save this.’ I began to love nature. After I built my house out here I put in the eight lakes and I already had the tennis court and the hiking trails. My friends would come to visit, and they started to offer me money for some of my land. They were offering 0,000 and 5,000 an acre. These were wealthy men. I had eight offers in four months and they totaled almost a million dollars. And I thought, ‘What the heck’s going to happen to all this when I die?’ My two daughters have places of their own. They would have to sell it. And I thought of all the work I had put into this, building roads, acquiring more land. I had done it all myself, with no master plan, no engineers, no architects. So I stopped, in the middle of the ninth hole. I thought, ‘How can I prevent this land from being sold?’"
"I see myself as the caretaker of the land while I am here," he says, "and I want this to be here for hundreds of years."
Underground safe houses for the rich and powerful wen the shit hits the fan!!!!
its like wen your in a bar and a guy is trying to start a big fight with allot of people, then a huge free for all breaks out, and where do we find the little prick that started it all? hiding under the pool table waiting for it all to die down, you know the type, the one who pretends to be your friend but in the back of his mind he really hates you and wishes you were dead so he can have your girl or take your job, the guy thats always trying to fuck you up in some way shape or form coz he always wants what you got and will do any thing to take it, and while all hell is breaking loose in the bar this little fucker is sitting under the pool table laughing at what he started while you and your real friends are carted off to jail, but if your smart enough and can see through this guys plans then you can stop the fucker in his tracks before he starts any trouble so you can go home to your nice house and your loving girl and get up the next morning for work, but thats just a scenario on a small scale, bigger scale scenario is the guy is the government / elite and you are the people and the bars the world and the pool table is the underground military base, and well i guess jail would have to be the fema camps… so don’t let them start the fight wen its them you should be fighting, terrorism’s is a lie told to you by a pretend friend ie the government to strip you of your freedom to take away your rights and your liberty’s and keep you in your box, to divide and concur, to …
MEET TOYBOX Jonathan Bronner.. (AKA).. Toybox was born in Pomona, California in 1986. He was introduced to raves and underground house music parties at the age of 17. Toybox was inspired by the dancers at these events and fell in love with the music and house dance right away. After a year of practicing only house, Toybox then decided to try something new, choreography. Joining teams such as Groove57(GRV), Common Ground, Mavyn, Chill Factor and Team Millennia, heexpanded his knowledge not only in house dance but in staging, performance, teaching and Hip-Hop. From that point on Toybox knew he wanted to take things to another level. After graduating High School, Toybox then spent two years training(developing his style) and choreographing for several teams in the dance community. Toybox’s choreography began to stand out at numerous dance shows and could be described as something new/different and refreshing! He now currently dances on Team Millennia as a freshmen and plans to further his dancing skills. Toybox’s house-influenced choreography has opened many teaching opportunities for him to pursue his dancing career. TB is eager to help better others as well as himself to become a stronger person as well as a stronger dancer. DISCLAIMER: For Inspirational purposes only. Please respect the creative work of this choreographer. Duplicating or recycling these moves in any shape or form for your own use (without permission) is prohibited and “shameful.”
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The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect’s Sketchbook (Real Goods Solar Living Book)
The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect’s Sketchbook (Real Goods Solar Living Book)
The striking common sense of the author’s perspective on design and the building process is based on millennia of use of earth-sheltered homes by animals and humans, using the earth to warm in winter and cool in summer. A cartoon on the book jacket summarizes Wells’s perspective. One panel is called “20th Century,” and has four steps of traditional building: love nature, kill it, build building, plant grass. The second panel, called “21st Century,” says: love nature, leave it alone, find
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How to Build a Concrete Dome House: How to Build the Strongest, Most Fireproof, Tornado and Earthquake-resistant Concrete Dome House
HOW TO BUILD THE STRONGEST FIREPROOF, TORNADO AND EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT CONCRETE DOME HOUSE. I think the title says it all. If you wanted to build a house in which you can feel safe no matter what nature throws at it, now you can. This book will tell you how.
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