Art with colored sand

This picture is all drawn with colored sand. It is the holy chariot in which the idols of gods will be taken around in a procession.This is drawn with colored sand and no other tools used.

The picture was taken during a Rangoli competition in which me and my friend participated as a team. There were 25 teams we were up against. We were given 90 minutes to finish the art. As ours was the most complicated with all the twists and the loops we had to start and hurry like it was the last few minutes.I was a little bit more than nervous and the sand wasn't flowing through my fingers in a clean and steady fashion.Felt like I was scattering sand all over the canvas.I had to calm myself and if only i could say it was a piece of cake.Well eventually i got the steadiness in the flow and i could turn and twist and loop.Finally we made it through with just 3min to the deadline.Now the next part is that the judges were to judge and score each and everyone of the pieces.As we stood watching each one of the judges glared at our pieces.It was wild to imagine how each scored us. Finally we made into the top three.Now all our friends were getting anxious. As the board announced the third place we were so proud that it was not us.Now----------after a long pause which lasted like forever the runners up was announced and we were overjoyed and you might have guessed why.

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WE WERE THE BEST

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Technology and advancements

The other day I was watching Discovery channel and the focus was on Dubai.

The program was how Dubai is trying to build what they say the universe by creating these man made islands, several of them like the stars in the sky. I was struck with the use of technology when they showed all these skyscrapers built in different shapes and different patters.

The architects are planning to build a sky scraper in whick each floor rotates at different velocity and completes a rotation in a day and the inhabitants can change the velocity too.I found it so amazing. The most beautiful part is the Palm Island.Dubai in order to increase its beach area is building 3 palm islands which are palm tree shaped.The islands are the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira. One ot the palms is complete and two others are still in construction. To build this island the ample resource(sand) that Dubai has is not got enough as the sand is too fine, so they had to scrape the Persian Gulf bed for the courser sand and this sand has to be pumped up and deposited to make the island.Surface area of Palm Deira is larger than that of Paris.Began development in 2003 and the construction will be completed over the next 10-15 years.

WOW artificial islands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!