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WATER
water from different aspects
Swimming and Famous Swimmers:
Swimming wasn’t included in the
ancient Olympic Games but Greeks
practiced the sport with high
regard. Plato considered a man
who didn’t swim uneducated. Julius
Caesar was a great swimmer.
Captain Matthew Webb was the
first man to swim the English
Channel in 1875.(this was the challenge of those days)
Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926.
Johnny Weissmuller was another
famous champion
swimmer of those times who later
became the first “Tarzan” of
Hollywood.
Benoit Lecomte is the first to swim across the Atlantic in
1998.
Esther Williams
On the coasts of Crotia, you can see the world’s largest organ. It’s
played by air moved through finely-tuned pipes by the sea itself.There are 35 concrete pipes that create a
variety of sounds.
• The Spiral Jetty is a project by Robert Smithson that was constructed in the 1970s in America. Excluding the spiral,it has a length of 1500feet(approx. 457m) and is wide enough for two vehicles to pass along it.
• Just after it was created, it was entirely submerged due to rising water levels and remained underwater for decades. Only in 2004, it resurfaced during drought conditions.
Mexican artist Jason de Caires creates many
underwater sculptures and now his 65 pieces are
at Grenada.
This place is known to be the wolrd’s largest and
first underwater sculpture park.
The works are close enough to the
surface that you can see them by
snorkels.
All works are left to decay and
deform.
This photo is by Arnaud Cohen and was a part of an art exposition called “L’art ... En Eaux Troubles’ (Art in Troubled Waters) in Paris in
2008. This exposition took place at the School Gallery. All the idea started with the
arguements in India about Coca Cola using 9litres of water to produce one litre of Coke.
The most expensive bottled
water is “Bling h2O” . It is $40-60
for a 750ml bottle. The water
is bottled in Tennessee,
probably the least notable quality of
the most expensive bottled
water. On the bottle, you can
see hand-applied Swarovski crystals.
The world’s most expensive bottle of water
is truly unique. It’s designed by Fernando
Altamirano. It’s 24K gold-coated and based on the works of Italian painter
and sculptor Modigliani. It holds water from
France, The Fiji Islands and some glasier water from Iceland. I t went up for auction in March,2010 and sold for $60.000 for a
1.25ml bottle.
Some Famous Movies about/in Water and the
Ocean:
*Sphere *Jaws
*The Abyss *Finding Nemo (animated)
*Waterworld *The Little Mermaid
(animated)
*Titanic *Atlantis (Luc Besson’s)
*Deep Blue
Leonardo da Vinci and Water:Leonardo described
water as “the vehicle of nature”, believing water to be to the world what blood is to our bodies but he also developed a huge fear of water in time maybe because he witnessed great storms, floods and Arno river’s bursting its banks twice.Perhaps as a result of these events, he studied
water just to learn how to control it. He devoted a lot of energy to develop ways or devices to control and move water around land.
Study of water passing obstacles 1508-9
Study of water falling into still water 1508-9
• For him, water was full of paradox:• "Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid
and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still; is the cause at times of life or death, or increase or privation, nourishes at times and at others does the contrary; at times has a tang, at times is without savor, sometimes submerging the valleys with great floods. In time and with water, everything changes"
