The Imagine Peace Tower, a memorial to John Lennon, designed by Japanese-American artist and musician Yoko Ono (born Feb 18, 1933)
The memorial, installed in 2007, took 3 years to develop alongside her engineers and was her largest work of art to date.
It is located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland and consists of a tall tower of light projected from a white stone monument that has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages - a reference to Lennon's campaign for peace, and his song "Imagine".
It consists of 15 search lights with prisms that act as mirrors, reflecting the light vertically into the sky. On a clear night, the tower appears to reach an altitude of at least 4000 meters and it is powered by eco-friendly geothermal energy. All in all, the tower uses about 75 kW of power.
From FaceBook.
I wonder if any local folks can name this Black Mountain restaurant.
Update on the volunteer position, the man who's designed their web site and had done all this blog/newsletter/mailing list work, is willing to walk me slowly through it, and just start with the blog. Whew. That sounds better. It's a Wordpress site, so I have to learn that program. He's at least got a templet already.
Today's quote:
Richard Ford, author of novels featuring the character of Frank Bascombe, says: “I like the part of being a writer in which you don’t feel the sides of anything. You don’t see the beginning, and you don’t see the end, you’re just in it.”
