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Should goodfountain.com live or die?
The domain name goodfountain.com is up for renewal May 31, 2008. I hardly ever post new stuff here, as Im just too busy. I do find a lot of links to goodfountain.com when combing the internet and checking Google. Should goodfountain.com live? Or should I roll everything into a little corner of good ...
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Downtown Champaign gets a Fountain
According to the City of Champaigns 2009 Capital Improvements Plan, the One Main Plaza in downtown Champaign will have a fountain in 2009. The original conceptual drawings of the site, from the top. You can see the round blue pool area at the bottom of the image. Heres a 2005 aerial photo of One Ma ...
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Rain barrels - Schmain barrels
Check out this great post at Inhabit.com, RAINPOD???s Beautiful Water Harvesting System. Heres a borrowed photo and quote. Go read the full post now. Rain barrels, garbage cans, corrugated tanks??? most water collection systems have a problem: they???ve got ugly written into their DNA. An unfortuna ...
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Helios Fountain
Every now and then, someone contributes some photos for the site. Super Mel sent me this photo of Helios Fountain from her alma mater, Anderson University, in Anderson, Indiana. Oddly, I couldnt easily find other photos of this fountain on the internet, or much information on its construction. By t ...
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Peterhof 1: The Great Cascade
Im not well-traveled. Not yet, and maybe never. That explains why Id never heard of this fabulous collection of Peterhof fountains in Russia. There are so many of them, Im dividing the photos I find into several posts. Ive borrowed the first several posts worth of photos from one website, Tickets of ...
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Fountain Hills, Arizona
Fountain Hills, Arizona is apparently the disputed home of the tallest fountain in the world. Im not particularly impressed, as there isnt much thought put into how can we make this sucker shoot really high up thar?! Hee Har Haw. As stolen from Wikipedia: The eponymous fountain was built in 1971 by ...
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Four New York City fountains in the making
Four East River waterfalls should begin operating in New York City this July, 2008. Photos here are computer renditions. Brooklyn Bridge The project will consist of four man-made waterfalls, ranging 90 to 120-foot tall, installed temporarily at four sites along the shores of Brooklyn, Manhattan, a ...
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Rain Chains
Heres a pretty cool idea. You hang these rain chains (kusari doi in Japanese) from your house guttering system where you would usually have a boring downspout. With our awesome Midwest thunderstorms, Id be concerned about what happens when the wind gets to whipping around. Gutters are very important ...
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Virga: Rain that refuses to fall
My sister lives in Idaho. Stop with the potato jokes, already! We were talking about the weather, and she mentioned verga, which I had never heard of, or neglected to remember learning about in climatology. Webster Dictionary online doesnt know what verga is, so I dont feel too bad. Look it up on Fl ...
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Mysterious Centre Island Fountain de Liz
I found this fountain photo in a recent blog post by Liz. I dont know where the fountain is, or who is in front of it. For all I know, it could be Liz! Recently I asked Liz in an email if she had any groovy water fountain photos, as she is a handy photographer and surely has seen many water fountain ...
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Water is fun
Credit: nothing quite like water to attract a kid. It could be a puddle, a pool, a stream in the woods any number of water features. If it looks like theres water that you can touch and play with, it is a kid magnet! Here, this kid plays with the stream of water from a drinking fountain while his f ...
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Great place for a water fountain
Water fountains help soften the sights and sounds of an otherwise square-cornered, hard-lined urban area. Walking around downtown Champaign, Illinois today on lunch break, I realized there are certain areas that almost never have water fountains, but could really benefit from them. My first observat ...
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Phallus Water Fountain
Photo credit: the US flag in the background, this fountain is apparently in Amsterdam, in the Red Light district.
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Vaillancourt Fountain on the Embarcadero
Photo credit: here to see many more photos and maybe some video of the Vaillancourt Fountain on goodfountain.com The Armand Vaillancourt Fountain in the Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building at the base of Market Street in San Francisco. A stylistic reminder of the elevated freeway that ...
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Suet the Gnome in Battery Park
Photo credit: the gnome visits a water fountain in Battery Park in New York City.
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A fountain for every wall?
Classic Falls Triple wall fountain: $6,000 price tag. Indoor fountains and waterfalls havent appealed to me much to this point. The little tabletop fountains I have seen just seem to lack any unique appeal whatsoever. Large wall fountains, on the other hand, pique my interest. I just read that Stud ...
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Ontario Science Centre Hydraulophone
Ive designed several fountains that are supposed to make their own music. In principle, they are similar to a player piano or a wind-up music box. They use the waters behavior and natural sounds (splashes, trickles, flowing past fins, etc.) to make specific notes. One of these days, Ill actually con ...
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Gateway Geyser - Worlds Tallest Fountain
Yee haw. Lets shoot some water straight up in the air as far as it will go. Good times. Forgive me if I dont get excited. I suppose these types of fountains are pretty cool, as in something you dont see every day. A bit crude for my taste, though. Personally, I enjoy more subtle displays ??? or at l ...
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Fountains at Bellagio
Exciting? Spectacular? I guess, if thats what floats your boat. Ive never seen the Fountains at Bellagio in person, and it isnt high on my list. While it is a remarkable piece of engineering, it doesnt seem to be much more than a glorified laser light show, only done with water. Sure, water is fasci ...
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Fluid Dynamics: Pipes
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