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New Years in Niagara
One of the best times of my life was the trip me and a few buddies took to Niagara for New Years, this video was taken on the 30th.
My first video upload on flickr!
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Uploaded on Jan 4, 2012
The Pinnacle HDR
The Pinnacle at Symphony Place is a 29 story, office and retail skyscraper located in Nashville, Tennessee, in the city's SoBro (South of Broadway) district. Located adjacent to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the building officially opened on February 10, 2010.[1] The building includes 520,000 square feet (48,000 m2) of Class A office space and 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2) of retail space.[2]
The Pinnacle is home to Nashville law firms Bass, Berry & Sims and Sherrard & Roe, and Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners. It is the first office tower in downtown Nashville to gain Gold LEED Certification due to its energy-efficient design.[3] The building features a one-acre green roof terrace garden[4] over the parking garage and other environmentally-friendly amenities.[5]
The tower was designed by Pickard Chilton & Associates of New Haven, Connecticut, and Everton Oglesby of Nashville. According to architect Jon Pickard, the tower's exterior design "takes its inspiration from the timeless design of classic skyscrapers."
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Uploaded on Dec 23, 2011
Ryman HDR
The auditorium first opened as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892. It was built by Thomas Ryman (1843–1904), a riverboat captain and Nashville businessman who owned several saloons. Ryman conceived of the auditorium as a tabernacle for the influential revivalist Samuel Porter Jones.[3] After Ryman's death, the Tabernacle was renamed Ryman Auditorium in his honor. Architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson designed the structure.
It was used for Grand Ole Opry broadcasts from 1943 until 1974, when the Opry built a larger venue just outside Nashville at the Opryland USA theme park. (In an effort to maintain continuity with the Opry's storied past, a large circle was cut from the floor of the Ryman stage and inlaid into the center of the new Opry stage.) The Ryman then sat mostly vacant and fell into disrepair until 1992 when Emmylou Harris and her band, the Nash Ramblers, performed a series of concerts there (the results of which appeared on her album At the Ryman). The Harris concerts renewed interest in restoring the Ryman, and it was reopened as an intimate performance venue and museum in 1994. Audiences at the Ryman find themselves sitting in pews, the 1994 renovation notwithstanding. The seating is a reminder of the auditorium's origins as a house of worship, hence giving it the nickname "The Mother Church of Country Music".
The Ryman Auditorium was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was further designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001
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Uploaded on Dec 23, 2011
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building (formerly the South Central Bell Building and BellSouth Building, colloquially known as the Batman Building) is a 617 ft (188 m), 33-story skyscraper completed in August 1994 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. The structure is designed as an office tower capable of housing 2,000 workers and as of 2008 is occupied by two companies. It is currently the tallest building in the state of Tennessee.
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Uploaded on Dec 23, 2011
An unusual site
Walking up the road in Nashville, two days in a row we seen this dog. People were laughing and calling at it and it just ignored them. What a smart dog. Maybe he even drove the motorcycle.
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Uploaded on Dec 23, 2011
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