The Mushroom Rocks Of Taiwan’s Yehliu Geopark
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Maybe you’ve seen China’s ancient stone forest, or even the stunning rock steps of Pamukkale, but the astounding mushroom rocks of Taiwan’s Yehlui Geopark remain a sight unlike any other.
Formed by wind and water erosion, and reaching over 100 feet tall, these one-of-a-kind rocks have made the park one of Taiwan’s most popular tourist attractions — and it’s not at all hard to understand why.
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27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York
Frank Mullen / Getty ImagesPerforming in 1985 in New York, Black Flag gained renown for the raw energy of lead singer, Henry Rollins, displayed.
In the mid-1970s, a new incarnation of rock emerged in juxtaposition to the opulent and carnival-like music that had dominated the decade so far. It was punk rock, a music fast on pace and low on instrumentation with an anti-authoritarian ethos at its core.
Punk’s geographical center could be found in New York City neighborhoods like the Lower East Side and the Bowery, which white flight and deindustrialization had left for dead. While today, high-end shopping and dining eat away at whatever remains of punk’s memory in those neighborhoods, we look back at the early days when punk emerged from the depths of 1970s and 1980s New York City.
Allan Tannenbaum / ArtnetIggy Pop, who was at the time launching a solo career after the disbanding of The Stooges, became a fixture of the developing punk scene that would strongly influence his performance style in the subsequent decades.
Allan Tannenbaum / ArtnetIn the early 1970s, strands of punk music sprang out of Mercer Arts Center members. Patti Smith, a highly regarded poet and feminist that came from the Mercers Art Center, recorded the single “Hey Joe”/”Piss Factory” in 1975, one of the first recognizable punk songs.
