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Marceli Klimek
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Zamierzałem kontynuować temat haftowania miast i krajobrazów miejskich, dlatego mój pobyt w Berlinie obejmował pracę nad małym tamborkiem, przedstawiającym ogólny obszar, w którym przebywałem, New Tempelhof. Tworzenie rodzaju pamiętnika opartego na miejscu i czasie może być bardzo zabawne. Mała pamiątka.
Continue reading “Haft w Berlinie / Embroidery in Berlin”
Marek Hlasko – writer, rebel, carouser – was described by the press as the Polish James Dean due to his striking resemblance to the famous actor, and as the Polish Boris Pasternak for the stunning quality of his prose and an experience of forced immigration. Escaping the tumultuous political climate in Poland, he arrives in Israel in the late 1950s. The land and its people become his inspiration, but also a curse and a trap of sorts.
Marceli Klimek
Forming a heart with your hands tends to produce a diamond-like shape in the middle stages of the action, just after intention and before completion. Embroidery is likewise an art focused on the process, and certain parallels like the transience and unimportance of the process can be applied to this gesture. Embroidery and various other types of media, like cinema, music, usually don’t disclose their working process to the consumer. Not that they’re not important, sometimes it’s to protect specific techniques or ideas from competitors. When designing motifs for my graduate piece, I wanted to effectively distil themes relating to relationships, familial, romantic, and friendly into shapes that could permeate my piece without being noticed outright. Hidden in the final result, whilst being evident in the process. To achieve this, I mimicked the way smear frames capture the feeling of motion in between key frames in movies with multiple distorted brush strokes, glitched effects.
Continue reading “Forming a heart with your hands…”przysłane przez siostrę, która znalazła je na Instagramie. Koniecznie przeczytajcie tekst i obejrzyjcie wszystkie ilustracje, bo wszystkie są piękne, ale ostatnia jest nieziemska. Zobaczcie jak pięknie może być, nawet jeśli zagapiliśmy się, zgubliliśmy drogę, pobłądziliśmy. Piękno jest w nas,
Kliknijcie na słowo Instagram pod zdjęciem.
Warsaw, February 19, 2025
On the Mechanism for Strengthening Europe’s Defence Identity
The decision of Donald Trump to initiate direct negotiations with Vladimir Putin regarding the end of the war in Ukraine—excluding the European Union and, de facto, Ukraine itself—as well as the anti-European speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, has shocked the vast majority of EU member states. This has triggered an urgent search for effective measures to reinforce Europe’s defence identity. The proposal presented below focuses on a mechanism (through a separate international agreement outside the EU’s founding Treaties) that would enable the establishment of a European Defence Union, bringing together states committed to strengthening Europe’s defence identity. This initiative would remain open to Ukraine and ensure its maximum security against the Russian aggressor.
Continue reading “Treaty on the European Defence Union”𝟭𝟴 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀:
1. The Paris Metro has several “ghost stations” that are no longer in use. One of the most famous is Arsenal, which was closed in 1939.
2. Gustave Eiffel’s apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower still exists. It’s now a museum, showcasing how it looked when he lived there.
3. Montmartre, known for its artistic history, has a hidden vineyard called Clos Montmartre, which still produces wine.
4. The Palais Garnier Opera House has a hidden apartment designed for the building’s architect, Charles Garnier.
5. The oldest house in Paris is located at 51 Rue de Montmorency and dates back to 1407. It belonged to the alchemist Nicolas Flamel.
6. The shortest street in Paris, Rue des Degrés, is just 5.75 meters long and consists solely of a staircase.
7. The Opera Garnier has an underground lake, originally a natural water source that became part of its infrastructure.
8. During the liberation of Paris in 1944, the secret password was “Tante Sally.”
9. Rue des Morts in the 5th arrondissement was once a street where people with disfigured faces due to World War I injuries lived and received treatment.
10. La Campagne à Paris in the 20th arrondissement is a small, hidden village within the city, complete with quaint houses and gardens.
11. The Tour Jean-sans-Peur, a medieval tower built in the early 15th century, is tucked away in the 2nd arrondissement.
12. Candelaria, a speakeasy-style bar, is hidden behind a taco shop in Le Marais.
13. Le Procope, founded in 1686, is the oldest café in Paris and was frequented by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin.
14. The Canal Saint-Martin was partly covered in the mid-19th century, and today, parts of it run underground.
15. At the Arc de Triomphe, there’s an elevator hidden within one of the pillars for those who can’t or don’t want to climb the stairs.
16. The Pont des Arts was once used as a toll bridge, where artists would set up their easels and paint the river views.
17. Place de la Concorde, now a famous square, was once the site of many public executions during the French Revolution.
18. The Bièvre River, once a prominent waterway in Paris, now flows entirely underground through the city.
Piotr Nazaruk
2024 has been the most amazing year for our Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin library project! As many of you already know, we have uncovered documents and press reports from the 1940s proving that the library of the Lublin Yeshiva–once the largest religious Jewish library in Poland–was not burned during the Second World War, as claimed by many sources, but rather looted and scattered around the world.
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Photo: Bernard Spragg, NZ, Christchurch, Wikimedia Commons
sciencemagazine (via Instagram)
Those unassuming fungi underfoot might be chatting with one another using pulses of electricity.
Researchers inserted tiny electrodes into patches of growing fungi and recorded the electrical activity exchanged between the organisms by nutrient-absorbing structures called hyphae, The Guardian reported in 2022. The electrical pulses passed between mushrooms clustered in patterns that resembled up to 50 words, the team wrote in Royal Society Open Science.
Although the researchers posit the “language” could be used to share info about injury or food availability with distant parts of themselves, they also tell The Guardian the pulses could be meaningless.
2. They grow!
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Mushrooms had leggy stalks due to lack of fresh air indoors and had it contained to retain moisture.The oyster mushrooms in this video were not eaten as we don’t know the chemicals used to print this old phone book (old inks contain heavy metals). This video demonstrates how oyster mushrooms grow on various kinds of substrates including paper. This phone book is made from recycled paper and sawdust.
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) are saprophytic, meaning they feed on decaying organic matter like wood and other plant debris which are made of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. The mycelium or vegetative part of the mushroom secretes enzymes and acids to decompose these substances releasing nutrients it can absorb. There are a few parasitic oyster mushrooms and some eat bacteria and nematodes. Oyster mushrooms are used in mycoremediation and are known to remove contaminants in soil, water, and wastewater.
* The holes on the lid of the container were covered with micropore tape.
To prevent/minimize contamination, make sure your working area and tools are clean and sanitized. We sprayed and wiped the counter, container, lid, and tongs with 70% isopropyl alcohol and wore gloves and disposable face masks.
3. They make fashion
Drodzy Czytelnic/zki, jesteśmy potwornie zapóźnieni. Cały świat mówi o tym od ponad pół roku, a my ani mru mru… No ale nareszcie, dzięki Konradowi nadrabiamy
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Kim jest “Hawk Tuah Girl”?
Dwa słowa. A właściwie nawet nie słowa, a dźwięki wystarczyły, aby cały świat zaczął o niej mówić. To istny fenomen. Hailey Welch do tej pory była nieznaną 21-latką. Pracowała w fabryce… sprężyn w swoim rodzinnym mieście. Wszystko zmieniło się jednego wieczoru, gdy pojawiła się na krótkim filmiku i powiedziała słynne już “hawk tuah”, które można przetłumaczyć jako “ha tfu”, czyli odgłos… plucia. To dało jej gigantyczną sławę w zastraszająco szybkim tempie. Podpisuje kontrakty, ma mnóstwo fanów, a ostatnio spotkała się z legendą NBA Shaquillem O’Nealem. Kim w ogóle jest “Hawk Tuah Girl”?
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Ewa Maria and Friends 