Iran is the fifth most important stone producing country

 

„Iran‘s natural stone industry is seeking new partners“ according to a press release by Fair Organizers Veronafiere. „Investments are planned coming to 200 million dollars in the technology sector alone in order to modernize 5,000 processing centres in the country (and) more than 500 active quarries.“ The 87,000 employees in the branch also need to update their know-how.
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/11/04/irans-natural-stone-branch-millions-to-invest-in-technology-and-qualification/
 

Its a city, its Beer Sheva

 

The city of Beer Sheva, in south Israel, expresses the modernist object and the modern mortal perception. This city’s thesis, located in the desert – Arab – Mediterranean area, creates an imbalanced gap between the local native conceptual spirit and the eastern European modernist urban planning; allowing inserting “external” thesis  spatial – Mediterranean, to create a sustainable urban space, that will expresses the conceptual native properly and the complexity of the mortal appearance phenomenon. The project relates to questions regarding the dwelling space perception and the ex-territorial city space.
Source: http://www.evolo.us/architecture/terra-nova-urban-planning/
 

Houston, we are made of Marble...

NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. The asteroid named „Great Pumpkin“ will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the moon’s orbit on Oct. 31 at 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT). Scientists are treating the flyby of the estimated 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity, allowing instruments on the earth to scan it during the close pass.
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/10/28/houston-we-have-a-pumpkin-halloween-asteroid-a-treat-for-radar-astronomers/

full of Marble Blocks

Bursa Marble Block Fair 2015 Marble Block and Construction Machinery Fair
DATE	November 25-28, 2015
COOPERATION	MADSİAD (Mining Marble Manufacturers and Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association)   www.blokmermerfuari.com

without dimension or limit

 

We are surrounded by refuse all the time. Refuse is the objects that we have literally refused, whether physically, by sending them to a different place, or mentally, by putting out of mind. The mental and physical aspects tend to be conflated. The minute an object goes into the bin, we forget it, and it ceases to exist for us. The bin is a dark hole in our map of the world, an infinite container without dimension or limit.

http://blog.sculpture.org/2015/10/28/sculpture-reanimated-and-suspended/