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Find Your Stolen Camera with Stolen Camera Finder

What can you do if your camera's been stolen?

Not much, to be honest. Apple's iPhones and iPads might have built-in locate-me technology, but the same cannot be said of most cameras, even the expensive DSLR ones.

A website called Stolen Camera Finder might be able to help, though.

It makes use of the data that your camera saves inside every photo it takes.

Technically speaking it's known as EXIF data, and it's all the stuff your computer needs to know about how the image was taken. It's an essential component of digital photography.

The EXIF data includes basic stuff like the date and time (so your computer can display images in chronological order), and more complicated stuff like technical specifics about the camera's settings when you pressed the shutter release button.

And sometimes (but not always), EXIF data includes a unique serial number that precisely matches that image to that camera.

To use Stolen Camera Finder, you drag in an image you've taken with the camera. It looks at the EXIF data, extracts that unique camera identity, then looks for other photos on the internet that have the same number.

If you're lucky, it finds matches, and might give you the lead you need to get your camera back - either in person, or by passing the information you've found on to the police.

The site is very clever but it can't work miracles. Your camera needs to be on the supported cameras list, and the image you give it needs to be an unaltered original jpg file - which is a problem if you prefer to shoot in RAW format.

Also, EXIF data is a troublesome beast to handle. Different cameras handle it in different ways, and so do different photo editing applications, and different websites. Every time software touches a photo it may or may not amend, or sometimes completely remove, the EXIF data that came with it.

But with some luck and a favourable wind, Stolen Camera Finder might just be able to locate the needle of your missing camera from the haystack that is the entire internet. Which is quite a feat when you think about it.

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AU Icet 2011 Exam Hall tickets Download from 10th May

ICET - 2011 stands for Integrated Common Entrance Test which gives proper path to take admission into M.B.A & M.C.A courses. ICET-2011 will give entrance to the courses in various Universities all over the Andhra pradesh state for the acdemic year 2011 - 2012. This Entracnce examination will be going to held under Andhra Univerisity.

The Main objective to conduct ICET 2011 was to check the ability of the candidates with verbal and with their mathematical skills as well as with his aptitude. This was purely and Objective test and the ICET Hall tickets 2011 will going to issue from 10-05-2011 from the ICET Official website 2011. Candidates who applied for this entrance exam can simply download their hallticket from the links provided below after 10th May. Already issuing of Hall tickets started at regional test centers.

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BeBook Live Android 2.2 Powered Tablet

Everybody’s jumping onto the Android tablet bandwagon these days, and the latest company to make the leap is Endless Ideas. The company has officially announced that they will launch theBeBook Live, an Android tablet running version 2.2 (Froyo). It is powered by a 1 Ghz Samsung Cortex A8 CPU and 512MB of SDRAM, and 4GB of internal flash storage, expandable via SDHC cards up to 32GB in capacity. There’s also 7-inch LCD screen, mini HDMI port, 2MP camera front facing camera, and you can watch Adobe Flash videos. The BeBook Live will be available starting from June 2011 at an MSRP of $279.

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How To Update Facebook Without Using Facebook

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VITEEE results 2011-Vit university, Vellore announce Engineering Entrance Examination results

6 out of top 10 ranks bagged by Andhra Pradesh students...

Students from Andhra Pradesh get 6 out of the top ten ranks in VITEEE, results announced on 5th May. K. Harsha Vardhan of Sri Chaitanya, Vijayawada scored the top rank this year. Second and third ranks to B. Sai Kiran Narayana, Hyderabad and M. Ashok Vardhan BIIT Junior College, Guntur.
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The results are being hosted on the following websites:
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Counseling for the top 16,000 ranks will start from June 1 to 6 at the VIT campus. More number of students (2662) from Andhra Pradesh, 2448 from UP, 1220 belonging to Bihar will sit for counseling and only 543 from Tamil Nadu will take up the counseling.

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Protection of Transmission Line Using GPS

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This is a new technique for the protection of transmission systems by using the global positioning system (GPS) and fault generated transients.  In this scheme the relay contains a fault transient detection system together with a communication unit, which is connected to the power line through the high voltage coupling capacitors of the CVT. Relays are installed at each bus bar in a transmission network. These detect the fault generated high frequency voltage transient signals and record the time instant corresponding to when the initial traveling wave generated by the fault arrives at the bus bar.

            The decision to trip is based on the components as they propagate through the system. Extensi

ve simulation studies of the technique were carried out to examine the response to different power system and fault condition. The communication unit is used to transmit and receive coded digital signals of the local information to and from associated relays in the system.At each substation relay determine the location of the fault by comparing the GPS time stay measured locally with those received from the adjacent substations, extensive simulation studies presented here demonstrate feasibility of the scheme.

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Controlling Your Asthma

Asthma control is about more than just treating symptoms. It's about managing your asthma so you have few or no symptoms in the first place. When you have asthma, you always have inflammation or swelling in the airways of your lungs. You may not feel this inflammation, but your lungs do. Uncontrolled inflammation (swelling) makes your airways more sensitive to asthma triggers like pollen, dust, and smoke. Exposure to these triggers can cause constriction (tightening) of the muscles around your airways, leading to symptoms like shortness of breath, wheezing, tightness of the chest, and coughing. Is your asthma under control? Do you experience asthma symptoms more than twice a week? Do you use asthma rescue medication more than twice a week? Do your asthma symptoms limit your activities? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may not be in control of your asthma and it is important that you talk to your doctor to determine if an asthma-controller medicine, like SYMBICORT, is right for you. When your asthma is under control, you can do more of the things you like to do with fewer interruptions due to your asthma. You should have fewer asthma symptoms throughout the day and night. And you shouldnt need to rely on your rescue medicine as much. Its important to remember, though, that because they arent rescue medicines, controller medicines should not be used to treat sudden symptoms.see videos

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REPUBLIC DAY..JAI HIND INDIA...

Republic Day (India)

In India, Republic Day  commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India  came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. The 26th of January was chosen to honour the declaration of independence of 1930. It is one of the three national
holidays in India. While the main parade takes place in the national capital, New Delhi, at the Rajpath before the

president, the anniversary is also celebrated with varying degrees of formality in state capitals and other centres... MORE HISTORY.....

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A Big Test for New Internet Addresses...

Why Google, Facebook, and others are taking part in World IPv6 Day this week.

What is World IPv6 Day?

At 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, more than 300 organizations, including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, will test a new way of routing information around the Internet: Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Though the test run will only last 24 hours, participants may learn valuable lessons about how transitioning to IPv6 could affect their sites and their users. Spearheaded by the Internet society (ISOC), World IPv6 Day is an international, coordinated effort to test this transition. ISOC hopes the effort will also encourage other organizations to adopt IPv6.

What is IPv6?

Each URL has its own Internet Protocol (IP) address. When you type a URL into a browser, a domain name server provides the corresponding IP address. (The IP address for www.mailkavali.com.co.in is 209.85.227.132.) IP addresses are assigned to devices such as Web servers, PCs, cell phones, and printers so that these devices can be located and contacted. IPv6 enables many more devices to connect over the Internet.Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox browsers support IPv6 and have done so for several years, but some devices, including many popular home routers, aren't yet IPv6-enabled. Devices released as recently as February lack IPv6 support, and some devices need firmware updates to access IPv6-enabled sites.

Why is IPv6 needed?

The Internet has simply outgrown IPv4—the last few addresses were allotted this past February. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, which allow about 4.3 billion unique addresses. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, which make possible around 340 trillion trillion trillion unique addresses.

Some unused IPv4 addresses still exist, but they have been claimed by large companies and organizations. Other IPv4 addresses have been pooled by five regional Internet registries (RIRs) worldwide. While these can be reassigned, the process is expensive and akin to treading water as the IPv6 transition approaches.

How will participants enable IPv6?

Participants will run IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, by "stacking" two types of address records—"A" records and "AAAA" (or Quad-A) records. The A records pair an IPv4 address with a domain name so that, for instance, a user who types Facebook.com into a browser is taken to the correct IP address. Quad-A records do the same, but with IPv6 addresses.

Google has been running IPv6 for several years, but on different URLs (http://ipv6.google.com/ and http://google.com). By stacking A and Quad-A records, the URL http://google.com will access both IPv6 and IPv4 versions of the home page. Users who can't connect to the IPv6 site will be redirected to the IPv4 site.

One potential technical challenge is "IPv6 brokenness": problems in IPv6 connectivity that prevent users from accessing websites using the newer protocol. When a website such as Google runs two versions of its site for IPv4 and IPv6, it can't properly monitor for brokenness, because users must specifically type in the IPv6 URL to access it. On World IPv6 Day, traffic will be automatically directed to the IPv6 version, which will highlight brokenness and help organizations fix problems.

Global network: A map of the 2005 Internet shows IPv4 addresses connected by colored lines. The different colors represent domain types such as .com, .net, .gov, and .jp.
Credit: The Opte Project

How will this affect you?

You probably won't notice any difference. ISOC estimates that only 0.05 percent of users will have difficulty accessing websites such as Facebook, Google, or Yahoo on World IPv6 Day. For those unlucky few, the problem may lie with incompatible browsers, routers, or operating systems. Home networks, says ISOC, are likely to cause most connectivity problems. Internet service providers (ISPs) generally have not provided IPv6-capable routers, partly because demand simply hasn't surfaced.

ISOC recommends that users prepare for World IPv6 Day by testing their connectivity via this link.The test tells users whether their browsers are capable of accessing the IPv6 Internet and whether they should anticipate trouble during World IPv6 Day. To further minimize problems, ISOC also urges users to keep current with browser, operating system, and firmware updates, especially for routers and other network equipment

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GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar

The hybrid plant could be the cheapest and easiest way to add renewable energy to the grid.

Nimble power: GE’s new gas turbine, shown here in a cutaway rendering, is both highly efficient and able to change power output quickly to compensate for the variable output of solar plants and wind farms.
Credit: GE

GE has announced the first power plant to integrate wind and solar power with natural gas—a 530-megawatt plant that will start operating in Turkey in 2015. The power plant is made practical by a flexible, high-efficiency natural-gas system the company announced two weeks ago and a solar thermal power system created by esolar, a Burbank, California-based startup that GE recently invested in.

Such hybrid plants may become the dominant type of new power plant in some parts of the world, GE says. The new technology is aimed at countries that use 50 hertz electricity (the United States uses 60 hertz). In particular, it could make it easier for China and the European Union to meet their renewable energy targets.

Adding solar power to natural gas plants isn't a new idea, but it hasn't been economical without government subsidies. GE says that because of its new turbines and related equipment, these hybrid plants can, for utilities with the right combination of sunlight and natural gas prices, be competitive even without government support.

While combining solar thermal power and natural-gas turbines is not new, adding wind power to such a system is, GE says. Pairing wind with the natural gas plant helps shave some of the cost of the wind power—the wind farm can share some of the natural gas plant's control systems and its connection to the grid. The natural gas plant also smooths out variations from the wind turbines.

Solar thermal power involves the use of an array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight and the resulting heat to produce steam. That steam can be fed into the steam turbine at a natural gas combined cycle plant to boost its power output.

The solar concentrator array from eSolar helps lower costs in two ways—its modular concentrator system is easy to install and easy to modify for the needs of specific plants. It also produces higher temperature steam than some previous solar thermal systems, increasing power output. GE has also developed a natural gas power plant that is highly efficient, and whose power output can easily be adjusted to make up for variations in power output from solar power.

Connecting a solar thermal system to a natural gas power plant, and thus eliminating the need to buy a separate steam turbine and related equipment, can cut the cost of a solar thermal system by up to 50 percent, says Jon Van Scoter, CEO and president of eSolar. Paul Browning, vice president of thermal products at GE, calls it "the most cost-effective form of solar energy available today."

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Pixel Trickery Helps Create a Brighter Screen

Tablets could be lighter and last longer thanks to a new screen technology.

Color quest: This 10.1-inch prototype tablet, which uses the PenTile display technology, was demonstrated last month at the Society of Information Display conference in Los Angeles.

Credit: Nouvoyance

The iPad's bright and beautiful screen comes with a cost: a battery that makes up most of the tablet's weight. A new display technology designed for tablets uses a quarter of the power consumed by most screens while improving the range of colors and the resolution.

The technology, developed by Samsung and its affiliate, Nouvoyance, uses a novel pixel design that lets more of the backlight shine through. It combines this with algorithmic tricks that dynamically dim the backlight based on the image on the screen.

"People want at least 10 hours of battery life on their tablet," as well as screens that have more color and higher resolution, says Joel Pollack, executive vice president of Nouvoyance.

A standard LCD display uses a pixel architecture called RBG stripe, in which each pixel is made of red, blue, and green subpixels that filter color from a white backlight. The process is extremely inefficient—more than 90 percent of the backlight luminescence is wasted.

Normally, to increase the resolution, the number of pixels needs to increase, as does the number of transistors used to control those pixels. The problem is that the transistors block part of the pixel. Some smaller displays are built with a new process that lets transistors shrink and still supply the amount of current needed to drive a display, but it's difficult to scale this up to larger displays like those in tablets and TVs. Normally, as the resolution goes up, says Pollack, "the amount of area that light comes through shrinks."

Nouvoyance's pixel design, called PenTile, lets more light through in a couple of ways. First, the red, blue, and green subpixels are larger than those in traditional displays. Second, one out of every four subpixels is clear. This means the backlight can use less power and shine brighter.

"Almost no light is absorbed [by the clear pixels], which gives you tremendous advantages for any content that has some component of white," says Pollack. "And if you start looking at things, almost everything has white to it."

Fewer subpixels would usually mean a lower resolution. But the PenTile display uses individual sub-pixels to trick the eye into perceiving the same resolution while using about one-third as many subpixels as an RGB stripe panel.

There are already 75 different products on the market using PenTile displays, mostly active-maxtrix organic light-emitting diode (Amoled) displays for phones and cameras. "Current manufacturing technology for depositing the organic materials limits the actual pixel density," explains Paul Semenza, senior analyst at research firm Display Search. "So by using PenTile, some of the Amoled displays for smart phones have been able to achieve a higher 'effective' resolution."

The PenTile display also uses image processing algorithms to determine the brightness of a scene, automatically dimming the backlight for darker images. A prototype was shown off at the Society for Information Display conference last month in Los Angeles.

"The combination of lower power/higher resolution could be important for tablets," says Semenza, "given the fact that they are battery powered with large displays, and given the expected shift to higher resolutions."

But he says manufacturers may yet find ways to use high-resolution transistor arrays, such as those found in smaller screens like the iPhone 4's Retina display, which "has set a high bar for performance on mobile devices," Semenza says.

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Fascinating Living, Growing Architecture

Still-living plants can themselves be shaped into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, sculptures - even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and arbortecture, the craft is, essentially, construction with living plants.

Includes pictures from the root bridges of India to living islands!

1. Root Bridges of India

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built -- they're grown.

(images credit: Vanlal Tochhawng)

Grown from the roots of a rubber tree, the Khasis people of Cherapunjee use betel-tree trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create "root-guidance systems." When they reach the other side of the river, they're allowed to take root in the soil. Given enough time a sturdy, living bridge is produced.



The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong. Some can support the weight of 50 or more people at once.

One of the most unique root structures of Cherrapunjee is known as the "Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge." It consists of two bridges stacked one over the other!


(images credit: Marcus Fornell, Jim Ratcliffe)



Because the bridges are alive and still growing, they actually gain strength over time, and some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunjee may be well over 500 years old.

(image credit: Marcus Fornell)

But these are not the only bridges built from growing plants. Japan too, has its own form of living bridges.


2. The Vine Bridges of Iya Valley



One of Japan's three "hidden" valleys, West Iya is home to the kind of misty gorges, clear rivers, and thatched roofs one imagines in the Japan of centuries ago. To get across the Iya River that runs through the rough valley terrain, bandits, warriors and refugees created a very special - if slightly unsteady - bridge made of vines.



This is a picture from the 1880s of one of the original vine bridges.



First, two Wisteria vines -- one of the strongest vines known -- were grown to extraordinary lengths from either side of the river. Once the vines had reached a sufficient length they were woven together with planking to create a pliable, durable and, most importantly, living piece of botanical engineering.




The bridges had no sides, and a Japanese historical source relates that the original vine bridges were so unstable, those attempting to cross them for the first time would often freeze in place, unable to go any farther.

Three of those vine bridges remain in Iya Valley. While some (though apparently not all) of the bridges have been reinforced with wire and side rails, they are still harrowing to cross. More than 140 feet long, with planks set six to eight inches apart and a drop of four-and-a-half stories down to the water, they are not for acrophobes.



Some people believe the existing vine bridges were first grown in the 12th century, which would make them some of the oldest known examples of living architecture in the world. But there is one ancient group of peoples who took the concept to an entirely new level.




3. The Living Islands of the Uros People

The Uros peoples' lives revolve around reeds. They make reed houses, reed boats, reed flower tea, and use reeds as medicine.


(image credit: Benjamin)

But most amazingly, the Uros build entire islands out of those very same reeds. It is the fact that these islands are alive that makes them work. The dense root structures of the living reed masses keeps the whole island together and floating on the lake.


(images via 1, 2 )

As reeds disintegrate from the bottom of the islands, which are four to eight feet thick, residents must add more to the surface. The entire island moves slightly with the water, similar to the feeling of laying on a waterbed. The Uros, however, have gotten quite used to it, as have the cats, fowl and other animals that live on these floating islands.



The Uros have been living on these floating islands since the 1500s when they were forced to take up residence on Lake Titicaca after the Incas expanded into their territory. While many of the islands are moored to the lakebed, they can be moved if necessary. One of the main advantages to living on a floating island is that when the enemy comes too close, you can just float the other way.



Even tiny outhouse islands have been created, in which the living roots help absorb the waste.



Today, in the shadow of the Andes, on the world’s highest navigable lake, hundreds of Uros (or descendants of the Uros, depending on how you define them) live on these floating islands and make their living from fishing and selling their reed handicrafts to tourists.




4. "Espalier" Art Form

Another more common form of tree shaping is known as espalier - the process of creating three-dimensional forms out of trees. A popular practice in Medieval times, the craft likely dates back to ancient Egypt. Espalier can be used to make ornamental trees, increase the yield of a fruit tree, or build a sturdy fence or wall from growing trees.

On Pacific Street in Pacific Heights, San Francisco:

(image credit: David Pham, ShapeShift.net)

One of the more famous examples of espalier can be seen at the Cloisters in Manhattan, New York:

(A Living Menorah in Illinois, Allerton Park - image via)

Of course, not all living architecture is about building or shaping things out of trees. Sometimes it makes sense to build things inside of them...


5. The Chapel Oak

Like something out of a fairy tale (or Keebler Elves commercial) the hollowed trunk of this ancient oak tree is home to two small chapels, reached by a spiral staircase winding up the trunk.



In the early 1660s, a 470-year-old oak tree in Allouville-Bellefosse, France, was struck and hollowed by a lighting strike. Not only did the tree survive this attack, but it came to the attention of Abbot Du Détroit and Father Du Cerceau. In 1669 they began building a shrine to the Virgin Mary directly inside the tree itself. Later, a staircase climbing the outside of the tree was built and another chapel was added on a "second floor" of the tree.

(image via)

Things almost took a very bad turn for the tree during the French Revolution when a mob stormed the tree and threatened to burn down this symbol of the abhorred Church. A quick-thinking local renamed the oak the "Temple of Reason," sparing it a fiery fate.



Here we enter what could be called the modern period of botanical architecture. It begins in Wisconsin, with a banker named John Krubsack.


6. The Chair That Grew

One day in 1903, a friend of Krubsack’s openly admired a beechwood chair he had crafted. A man who perhaps didn't know how to take a compliment, Krubsack announced, "Dammit, one of these days I am going to grow a piece of furniture that will be better and stronger than any human hands can build." Fifteen years later, he had done just that, with every joint in his chair "cemented by nature".



Though many handsome offers were made for the famous chair, Krubsack refused to sell, eventually leaving it to his nephew to be displayed in his furniture store. The "Chair That Grew" was last seen at the entrance of Noritage Furniture, owned by Krubsack’s descendants. The store recently closed and the fate of the chair is unknown, but it likely still resides somewhere in the tiny town of Embarrass, WI, not far from where it grew nearly 100 years ago.




7. The Circus Trees of Axel Erlandson

Where Krubsack was a pioneer, Axel Erlandson was a visionary -- though he didn't know it at the time. Axel Erlandson never intended to create a new genre of sculpture or become the father of an art movement. He just wanted to entertain his family.



A farmer in California, Erlandson had noticed the curious ability of trees to naturally graft themselves together. So, in 1925 Erlandson began planning a series of trees that were deliberately grafted together for artistic effect. His first creation was the "Four Legged Giant," four trees which he merged into a single truck, creating a kind of tree-gazebo.

In 1945, twenty years after Erlandson had begun his hobby, his daughter suggested to her father that he might open some kind of "Tree Circus" to showcase his unusual arbor creations. Erlandson did just that, creating over 70 unique arborsculptures in his Tree Circus. Among his creations were a tree that split into a cube, an arch tree and a six-tree woven basket.


(images credit: Arborsmith.com)

The Tree Circus was a not much of a financial success, and in 1963 Erlandson sold the property, trees and all, and died shortly thereafter. It wasn't long before all 70 trees were forgotten and by 1977 only forty of the unique specimens remained. These were all scheduled to be bulldozed to create a mall.

Luckily for the trees, and for the world, they were saved from this fate by Michael Bonfante, owner of Nob Hill Foods. Bonfante, a horticultural connoisseur, opened a theme park and in 1985 relocated the trees to what is now known as Gilroy Gardens.



Today, 25 of Axel Erlandson's arborsculptural creations are on display at Gilroy Gardens, and his first creation, the Four Legged Giant remains alive and well some 80 years after Erlandson’s idea first took root.


8. The Auerworld Palace

Many of these marvels are the works of one dedicated person, but the mysterious Auerworld Palace took some 300 volunteers to create. Architect Marcel Kalberer and his group, Sanfte Strukturen, are re-envisioning the way living building materials and techniques can be used to design modern spaces - with willows.

(images credit: SanfteStrukturen, via)

Constructed in 1998, the Auerworld Palace in Aeurstedt, Germany may be the first modern "willow palace," but the techniques Kalberer uses are ancient. Sumerian reed houses were famous for their construction of tightly bound reeds.

(other structures by Sanfte Strukturen)

But where Kalberer and his team create buildings out of trees, Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser has created a building inspired by, and incorporating, trees.


9. Waldspirale, or Forest Spiral

Hundertwasser wasn’t much fond of straight lines, dubbing them "the devil's tools." In fact, his famous apartment building, Waldspirale, does away with them entirely and is instead a celebration of nature’s sinuous loops and arcs. Located in Darmstadt, Germany, Waldspirale translates to "wooded spiral," and that is exactly what it is. It hosts as many trees as human occupants.


(images via 1, 2)


10. Modern Organic Forms

Today a growing number of tree grafters, arborsculptors and botanical architects are working to create new organic forms. Among them is Richard Reames who coined the terms arborsculpture and arbortecture (he also has a book on the subject, order it here).

Richard grows and shapes tree trunks using the ancient arts of grafting, framing, bending and pruning. He believes that his living arborsculptures could one day replace many of the things that trees are typically killed to make.


(images credit: Richard Reames)

Another absolutely wonderful tree grafter who has been working since before the form even had a name is Dan Ladd. Ladd crafts trees into whimsical shapes, and incorporates other objects into the trees.

(images credit: Dan Ladd)

Ladd also practices the ancient art of gourd shaping. These are all gourds that were growing inside of forms. They have not been carved or altered after they were harvested.


(images credit: Dan Ladd)

Tree grafters Peter Cook and his wife Becky Northey have developed a range of their own special tree-shaping techniques, which they call pooktre.

(image credit: Peter Cook)

Among the many other artists working in the form are Konstantin Kirsch, Laura Spector, and Aharon Naveh.

(images credit: Aharon Naveh)

(staircases by Laura Spector)

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