Monday 5 March 2018

What are some of the weirdest/strangest museums in the world?

Patrick Crosset, Take a look at my Blog: http://youarts.quora.com/

MUSA (Museo Subacuatico de Arte), Cancun Underwater Museum, by Jason deCaires Taylor

Born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, Taylor grew up in Europe and Asia, where he spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs of Malaysia. Educated in the South East of England, Taylor graduated from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture and went on to become a fully qualified diving instructor and underwater naturalist.

In 2006, Taylor founded and created the world’s first underwater sculpture park. Situated off the coast of Grenada in the West Indies it is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic. His latest creation is MUSA (Museo Subacuatico de Arte), a monumental museum with a collection of over 500 of his sculptural works, submerged off the coast of Cancun, Mexico

As soon as these sculptures are put in place, they begin to become colonized by algae, coral, sponges, and other organisms, eventually attracting fish and larger species. For his sculptures, Taylor uses environmentally friendly, pH-neutral materials, working with marine biologists to support specific forms of marine life

Taylor’s studio is currently based in Lanzarote part of the Canary Islands.

Website : home - Underwater Sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor

Source: Extraordinary Underwater Sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor by Patrick Crosset on You Arts

Other museums:

The Musée Fragonard, the “walking dead” place? by Patrick Crosset on The French Touch

The MuCEM in Marseille by Patrick Crosset on The French Touch

Zaha Hadid designs a museum perched in the Alps by Patrick Crosset on SPECTACULAR Design

The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum by Werner Tscholl (Austria) by Patrick Crosset on SPECTACULAR Design

A New Art Museum in Paris: Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation by Patrick Crosset on The French Touch

What does it feel like to arrive in the USA for the first time?

Ashish Kedia, lived in San Francisco Bay Area

Answered Fri

You are greeted with a huge immigration clearance queue and the whole process sounds “too intimidating” for the first time.
If you are not acquainted with Hollywood movies, you will have trouble with the accent.
Accessibility of public infrastructure is a huge deal unlike many other countries. You start to realize this at the airport itself. May be this is something about the “developed” nations.
The cab drivers in USA really like to talk. They will try to engage in small predictable but sweet conversation.
Pizza by slices ? Totally American. On my first day in America I learned about things like “gluten-free” pizza,
“O” is instead “zero”. Too confusing. Your room number is “2-O-3”. Americans do not like decimals too. “Sir, that would be 573” instead of “5 dollars 73 cents”.
You can actually talk on phone while taking a walk down the road in USA. No one honks. At first I thought it was only America. Later I realized it was only India.
Americans like guns. It was for the first time I saw guns in hands of civilians :O. I would be scared to talk to someone if I knew they had a gun. I guess that is a cultural thing.
USA is very expensive. A middle class Indian like me would always convert dollars into rupee in my mind before purchasing anything. It took a few weeks to get rid of that habit. Human labor is particularly expensive.
Was surprised to see how restaurants like “Madras Cafe”, “Lahore Karachi” and “Udupi Palace” thrive in the same street opposite to each other. Indians and Pakistanis in USA do not hate each other as much as they do at their home turf. It’s really sad how we are so united in foreign land and so divided at home.
If you would believe, there is actually a button on most traffic crossings in USA (and other developed nations) used by pedestrians to indicate that they want to cross the road. Woah. That was like a super power.
There are always so many choices available for everything. In India, there was just coffee and tea. In USA there is decaf, espresso, double espresso, latte, mocha, cappuccino, etc. Ordering anything to eat is a nightmare. Americans love customizing food.
The advertisements in USA are very boring. In India, I sometimes find advertisement funnier than the actual content.

What is the most badass animal?

Sean Kernan, Son of Quora

Answered Sun

I’ll cast my vote for Killer Whales, their “badass-ness” is rooted in their intelligence.

Example 1: Beaching

Sea Lions might think they are safe in shallows or on the beach - not so.

Example 2: Herding.

They will tactically circle and condense the fish into a tight ball and then take turns charging it with open mouths.

Example 3: Their most impressive tactic.

There are often seals resting on blocks of ice. Typically, it is too difficult or big for them to flip over.

They will size up the situation, and demonstrate strategic thinking on how to solve the problem.

They will emerge at the same time, figuring out the dimensions of the ice. And identify the prospective seal. They can distinguish types of seals, some are easier for them to kill.

They’ll then see if they can break the ice into smaller pieces.

If not, they will circle back and form a line and swim forward quickly to create a wave.

On the below image, you’ll see the iceberg tips up at this point as the water caves in before the wave hits.

(Images: NatGeo)

Which then knocks the seal off and into the water.

That’s some next level sh-t right there.

Friday 2 March 2018

What is something you don't want to hear the captain say on an airplane?

Lukas Schwekendiek, Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc.com & Huffington Post

Answered Feb 24

Pilot: Hello ladies and gentlemen. Erm… thank you for choosing to fly with us. We are currently headed to …Los Angeles. …Err…Please enjoy your trip… Oh, and as this is my first flight as a pilot I would welcome any and all advice you have as I am entirely self-taught. Thank you!

Passengers: *Gulp*

Pilot: Hello and welcome to the flight to…. awww F*ck it…. You’re on a plane. It better the right one. If you are too stupid to figure it out don’t blame me, I am not turning around. Buckle up if you want to. Bother the stewardesses for anything else. I don’t care. I hate this f*cking job.

Pilot: Hello Ladies and Gentlemen! I am so happy to be your Captain here today! I love flying! My mother always said I should follow my dreams and I did! When I was younger I used to love playing with my airplanes and actually built paper ones myself! You could never see me without one… I was the cutest kid! Anyway! We are on the flight to Rome, Italy today! Oh that reminds me of how beautiful it was there… You see we flew there when I was 10 years old. Ah! It was magnificent! We flew in this beautiful plane. Not the one you are flying in today. That was a different airline back then. But they are striking now. Isn’t it just awful how many airlines are striking? Well not us! We are an amazing airline and you can be glad you are here today! I just love flying. Did I mention that already? Anyway! On this trip to Rome we…

And on… and on… and on…

Pilot: Hello and welcome to flight B267 to Athens. We are preparing for departure now. Please put on your seatbelts and we will be good to go… Hey Frank, hand me the manual please, I haven’t been in this plane before… Thanks… What does this button do again? Ah! Right… Also, why is the intercom light still on? Didn’t I turn that off?

Pilot: OH GOD!! Dude all the systems are going nuts! This is the biggest f*cking storm we’ve been in! SH*T!! I don’t think we’ll make it! Just push the buttons! F*ck I have to make an announcement! … Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. We are encountering some minor turbulences. Please buckle your seatbelts. We should be out shortly… Alright, what do you have for me? WHAT?!?! WE LOST THE RIGHT ENGINE?!?! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Come on baby! Make it! Sh*t the intercom is still on… Oh well, guess it’s too late now! Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain calm. But… you better strap in tight, we are in for a rough ride!

Pilot: Dear… Ladies and… *Hick* Gentleladies. Today we are flying to… *Hick*P…P… Paris! … Please put on your *hick* sitwraps-belty-thingies……… Oh f*ck I had too much to drink… No… No… I’m okay to fly, just hand me my Margarita…

As the pilot boards the plane.

Pilot mumbling to himself: Fire me… I’ll show them! Firing me!! Oh I am going to make sure they never get another passenger on another plane… How dare they fire me after everything I’ve done!… I’ll show them! I swear!