#Endless Tower

[vestaignis]

Бесконечная башня из книг Idiom от Матея Крена (Matej Kren).

В современное время люди все меньше времени уделяют чтению, - это общемировая проблема. Многие века именно книги были главным источников знаний и мудрости в мире. Сейчас эта функция все больше отходит к Интернету, но все равно лишь малая часть печатной продукции, созданной за сотни лет, имеет свой оцифрованный вариант. Впрочем, последнее не очень волнует массовое сознание – все больше людей пользуется Всемирной Сетью и все меньше библиотекой.

Обеспокоены этой тенденцией и в городской библиотеке Праги (Чехия),одном из крупнейших книгохранилищ Центральной Европы. чтобы популяризовать этот процесс, в Пражской городской библиотеке и была создана инсталляция из книг с названием Idiom. Автором ее стал словацкий художник Матей Крен (Matej Kren).

Инсталляция эта представляет собой башню, сделанную из (примерно) восьми тысяч книг на разных языках. При этом, они не приклеены, а просто стоят друг на друге. В боку этого сооружения есть специальное «окно», куда может заглянуть любой желающий. Если человек заглянет внутрь башни, куда бы он ни посмотрел, вверх или вниз, увидит бесконечный столб книг. Дело в том, что в основание и в потолок инсталляции Idiom встроены круглые зеркала. Они и создают такой эффект.

Смысл этого послания понять легко – книги дают нам бесконечное количество знаний. А посетители этой инсталляции говорят, что появляется ощущение, как у входа в другую вселенную.

The endless tower of books Idiom by Matej Kren.

Nowadays, people spend less and less time reading - this is a global problem. For many centuries, books were the main source of knowledge and wisdom in the world. Now this function is increasingly moving to the Internet, but still only a small part of the printed products created over hundreds of years has its own digitized version. However, the latter does not really worry the mass consciousness - more and more people use the World Wide Web and less and less the library.

The city library of Prague (Czech Republic), one of the largest book depositories in Central Europe, is also concerned about this trend. To popularize this process, an installation of books called Idiom was created in the Prague City Library. Its author was the Slovak artist Matej Kren.

This installation is a tower made of (approximately) eight thousand books in different languages. Moreover, they are not glued, but simply stand on top of each other. There is a special “window” on the side of this structure, where anyone can look. If a person looks inside the tower, no matter where he looks, up or down, he will see an endless column of books. The thing is that round mirrors are built into the base and ceiling of the Idiom installation. They create this effect.

The meaning of this message is easy to understand – books give us an infinite amount of knowledge. And visitors to this installation say that they feel like they are at the entrance to another universe.

Источник://kulturologia.ru/blogs/281211/15931/, /pikabu.ru/story knizhnyiy_stolb_v_prage_1442853,//vk.com/wall-935223_50287, /prohodimcy.livejournal.com/3190726.html,//www.tripadvisor.ru/Attraction_Review-g274707-d10522920-Reviews-Municipal_ Library_ Of _ Prague-Prague_Bohemia.html.

[daigfe]

Hey, it's my original Cristal artwork from 2021, the year Endless Tower released. You know, Endless Tower, my game, the one she's the main character of and the one you can download right now for free on Windows PCs clicking this link

[hoyotunes]

多进制 from Hyper Commission Song Peiyan, Sān-Z, HOYO-MiX

[crowley-anthony]

laura’s endless list of favourites ● movies ➼ lord of the rings: the two towers "What are we holding onto, Sam?" "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it's worth fighting for."

[staying-elive]

I'm not really that looped in to DC films/characters, but I'm very curious as the the plot of Superman 2025 and the audience reception that it will receive.

Not talking about Snyder bros having meltdowns or anything like that. I expect them to be ridiculous. But general audiences and critics.

And my reasons are, that from what I can tell from the trailers and early promotional talk is that this Superman will show a hero "who is guided by human kindness, in a world that sees kindness as old-fashioned".

See why I'm curious? (Hint: hello, Sam Wilson parallels!)

Furthermore, the other superheroes? anti-heroes? antagonists? (not sure) seem to have somewhat matching uniforms. Not sure if this is the JSA, but I've seen commentators suggest they might be working for Lex Luthor - so ... and villainous billionaire, with a tech company, privately employing a team of ""heroes"".

I guess we'll see. I'm just speculating at the moment.

Also of interest is these lines from the trailer and the themes they suggest:

"I stopped a war." "Maybe. In effect, you illegally entered a country... Did you consult with the President? ... You seemingly acting as a representative of the United States?" "I wasn't representing anyone. Just myself. Just doing good! People would have died!

I can see a lot of potential parallels between Sam Wilson as Captain America (and the nonsense of the Thunderbolts/Val) with the themes these trailers seem to be setting up.

So, normally I wouldn't be interested in DC stuff, I don't have the bandwidth to get invested in another superhero connected universe at this point, but I'm actually curious about this one - and, more importantly, how people respond to it.

I mean... cards on the table, I'm expecting a VERY difference reception, because well... fandom.

[marclef]

Wait, so the frog is capable of gaining weight? (Asking for scientific purposes, not to hurt our Fakie's feelings!)

ah, some more learning about Fake Biology today! ✨✨

in a sense, yes, Fakey is able to gain weight! the way he works is different though: everything that gets eaten/absorbed is directly converted into more of the Goop that makes up his body. so say, a 5 pound chicken, that amounts to 5 pounds worth of Goop added to him. (minus potential things that can't be absorbed, such as bones.)

but here's where it gets interesting; since everything's getting absorbed in the "stomach" area, it leads to all new Goop being formed there, and it only moves to the rest of his body if he allows it to. this can lead to problems, though... if for instance, Fakey were to go out on a day of binge-eating, he'd end up quite bloated unless he's got the strength to properly distribute his new mass. and considering most of the time when he's eaten a lot he ends up sluggish and tired... he usually ends up staying like that for a bit.

... but hey! at least after a bit he'll be able to turn back to normal, once his body burns all that excess new weight off.

however...... on the off-chance that he DOES have the strength to shift that weight properly throughout his body, well, that's a different story. either because he wants to eat more and not feel bloated, or just doesn't want to lie around all day... it's a lot rarer than the former case, but if it DOES happen...

it's a slightly, erm... big problem.

[knockknockitsnickels]

Thinking about parallels between Ms. Beast and Tower. They're both the result of choosing to fight the princess and losing (no-knife and knife routes respectively), both have similarly boastful personalities and see you as beneath them (prey and a pet).

Something about how one becomes an animal and the other becomes a god, yet both transformations are equally dehumanizing.

[webcrawler2k]

She is leading the way

[luckydicekirby]

simon rematch in the new patch you know what that means, i can engage in my most unemployed behavior yet (actually learning the phase 2 and 3 parry timings instead of just managing to survive long enough for Maelle to send him to hell)

[writing-for-life]

Dream and Death (The Tower)—J Paul Schiek

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[shentheauthor]

Ploo’d my iterator ocs LMAO

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

"14 months is such a weirdly specific time skip" guys it was obviously so that everyone canonically had the opportunity to celebrate their birthday while living in the tower

[aquatark]

Spiral Tower - Valka Castle

Endless Ocean: Blue World, Nintendo Wii

now how is it this castle was never discovered when its tower is literally poking out of the water

[emagios]

That's one way of telling me to git gud ig 😔

[anghraine]

One of the more peculiar things about my current academic existence is that it's like—

me (to my best friend): It feels kind of strange that I've always had so many ties to people who are much more literary than me. There are all these people I know who keep ending up at "I discovered True Art and now I'm too good for Star Wars" and I'm just thinking, "damn, couldn't be me."

best friend: ...you have a PhD in literature.

me: True, but not their kind of literature!

best friend: It's still a PhD in literature. Do these people have that?

me: Well, hmm, maybe not, technically. But I've never been all that interested in major experiments with form and style—doing that stuff myself or reading the kind of literature that focuses on pushing those boundaries. I've always cared more about popular literature that prioritizes immersion and world building and just getting people to care a lot about characters and plot and such, not the really prestigious stuff.

best friend: You literally teach Shakespeare.

me: Well, I decided not to study the things I love most so they didn't get tainted by academia. And anyway, I still focused on popular literature from my eras. The seventeenth-century stuff I was writing about made a lot of the late Victorians very angry because they thought it was crude and cravenly appealing to unrefined common tastes instead of True Art. The novel in Austen's lifetime was even more of a low-prestige popular form at the time, especially the female-dominated genres, which were most of them, and she took care to identify herself as a woman.

best friend: I know you did get into academia through Tolkien and then didn't study anything close to that.

me: I couldn't let them ruin him for me! And besides, I know that Shakespeare and Austen are about as prestigious as it gets now, but for me they've still got that pop culture media energy, you know? Though sometimes when people make sweeping pronouncements about artistry and literature that don't make sense for anything in English published before 1700, I have to fight the temptation to be ... that person.

best friend, laughing: You mean pulling a well akshually? At least you have the credentials. You could even do it like "well actually, *obnoxious cough* as someone with a PhD in this subject..." now. You spent years earning this! Tell a few people Well Actually as a treat and then go watch Star Wars.

[worlds-of-imaginations]

Endless Journey (1)

(Eng) The beginning of a great journey somewhere in alternative reality…

(PL) Początek wielkiej podróży gdzieś daleko w rzeczywistości równoległej…