Friday, October 10, 2008
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About Me
- Yoomie
- Birth: Song Be, Vietnam; Hometown: Sioux City, IA; Attended School: Montezuma, NM & Washington, DC; Age: Late-20’s; Childhood Dream: To be US Ambassador to Vietnam
Riding Horses on the Beach in the Presence of an Active Volcano
Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua, 4/29/2007.
Cathédrale-Basilique Marie-Reine-du-Monde
Montreal, Canada. Montréal's "Mary Queen of the World" Cathedral; a scaled-down homage St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Taken 4/2006.
Basilica Menor, built in 1521-1540
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Basilica Menor is the oldest cathedral in the New World. During the battles for new territories the building was used by pirates led by Sir Francis Drake as a barracks. The cathedral was built in a Spanish Renaissance style, but the interior is a three-aisled Late-Gothic structure. Taken 10/2004.
Museum of Anthropology, built in 1976
Vancouver, Canada. Many of these large sculptures once formed parts of the cedar plank houses in which First Nations families lived. Some of the carvings functioned as posts supporting roof beams, while others stood decoratively against interior or exterior walls. Taken 3/2004.
Habitat '67, Moshe Safdie, built in 1967
Montreal, Canada. This extraordinary housing development comprising 158 units of from one to four bedrooms was planned as a prototype for a system that would streamline the building process and cut costs. It was assembled from 354 reinforced-concrete building modules, ingeniously stacked so as to give privacy and views to each unit. These prefabricated individual containers are stacked in a confused order and connected by steel cables. Taken 4/2006.
Map of Southeast Asia
