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Chinese adapt ancient ritual to remember deceased pets

Nowadays some Chinese people remember their beloved dead pets by observing an ancient ritual.

April 4 marks the Chinese Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-sweeping Festival. It is the day when people across the country visit graveyards to commemorate deceased relatives and loved ones.

But recently more people are choosing not just to remember their dead human loved ones but also deceased animals. A pet cemetery in suburban Beijing has witnessed a flock of people commemorating their beloved pets.

Founded in 2005, Beijing Baifu Pet Cemetery is the first of its kind in China and meets the demands of China’s increasing number of pet lovers who want to remember their family pets after they have died.

Just like a human tomb, the pet tombstones have their deceased pet’s photo, name and birth and death dates on it. A memorial inscription is also engraved on the tombstone. According to the inscriptions, many of these pet owners view their pets as “one of the family”.

The bereaved owners wipe down dust on tombstones and place fresh flowers and pet food in front of the tombs in memory of their beloved pets.

China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum Kengo Kuma & Associates

From the architect:

The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and China Academy of Art in Hangzhou serve a central role in the field of art education in China. This museum which was planned for the China Academy of Art in the outskirts of Hangzhou was designed with the objectives of being in harmony with the environment and proposing a new relationship between people and art by creating seamless and highly diverse display spaces. The structures were designed with cross-sections that blend in with the mountain slope to instead of grading it, with the respective display spaces seamlessly being revealed as you go through the museum.

Roof tiles used to cover old homes in the area were gathered, and these and various other locally available materials with rich textures such as cedar were used inside. The group of small roofs that were made using these tiles give the museum the appearance of a village. The tiles are held in place with stainless steel wire to create a screen which controls the light and view, and a façade that has a rich variation of shadows. This methodology proposes the idea that rather than the gardens being in contrast with the architecture, the soil from the tea gardens is gradually transformed into the man-made architecture.

Close Range Peacock Feather Photography Reveals a World Of Luminescent Colors Under The Microscope

Photographer Waldo Nell resorts to using an Olympus BX 53 microscope to document the extraordinary details of radiant pigments of peacock feathers. Hundreds of shots were merged together of one of the most loveliest natural feathers on the planet, to conjure the single stunning image in a method called photo stacking.

Xu Zhen - Eternity, 2013-2014, glass-fibre-reinforced concrete, artificial stone, steel, mineral pigments

Process for some a hw piece I turned in last week. Did some reworking up to the last image.

A dog dwarfs students at Wuhan University

Meet Huanhuan, a resident dog at Wuhan University campus that likes to “study.”

In photos that have been circulating extensively online, Huanhuan is spotted sitting in classes, trying to study – it attends economics, medicine and computer science classes.

According to a pharmacology professor who has “taught” the canine student, Huanhuan was so studious that it wouldn’t leave until he declared “class dismissed.”

Apart from attending classes, it seems Huanhuan also likes to take part in extracurricular activities, as the dog was seen taking part in sporting events as well as musical rehearsals.

But some people were quick to point that the dog couldn’t have attended all those classes as they are in different campuses across the city. But according to Wuhan University student union’s official Weibo account, Huanhuan actually takes the school bus to get to classes.

Wuhan University students are now saying that they feel dwarfed by the dog.

“I should study harder now or I’ll have to be embarrassed by a dog,” @Xiwangluoawu commented on Weibo.

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