Like the umbrella frames, their original function is less evident as one moves farther away.
The brainchild of the husband-and-wife firm SLO Architecture, Harvest Dome 2.0 is a floating orb made out of 450 cast-off umbrella frames, suspended over a ring of soda bottles.
"Spider's Parlor," a collection of umbrella frames wired together into a menacing, weblike curtain, hangs to the floor from a ceiling beam and nearly fills the space from wall to wall.
Behind me is another family: mom, an aunt, a daughter and cousin holding umbrella frames, open like Parisian parasols, decorated with photographs, and tied with strips of cloth bearing names of deceased family.
And in the past I've found umbrellas, frames, games, shelves, money, chairs, a bookshelf, cups, and plenty of other knickknacks.
And in the past I've found umbrellas, frames, games, shelves, money, chairs, a bookshelf, cups, and plenty of other knick-knacks.
Special relativistic, gravitational, and cosmological redshifts can be understood under the umbrella of frame transformation laws.
My favorite photograph in the book is of a man squatting in a bathtub, up to his chest in water, wearing a suit, and holding an umbrella; it's framed with an engraved wooden oval, like a family portrait.
Some other attributes, such as "food security", represent wider "umbrella" concepts (or frames, see also Mooney and Scott, 2009) that cover a wide range of other (sub) attributes, such as "technological innovation", "safety" or "waste", as well as "nutrition" and "biodiversity".
