farm and village analysis

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You see a Farm? A village? I don't see anything.

IYou did not see any village in the anything in the imagine I showed, right? You're skeptic (and you have to be) mainly because you know this is a picture coming from Mars. But if if wouldn't come from Mars would you recognize what is on that picture? My first aim, in building this site, was to offer an alternative point of view on analyzing images, and overall to have a chance to offer a different approach to things: and this image is emblematic for that. Why did I called "The Farm?" What the heck: because it resembles a Farm. Ok.Ok. You don't think so, but that's because you probably think at a farm in your terms. This page is in english, and you reader probably are from USA or other european country. So you tend to use your visual education in giving a meaning to shapes. That's why I'm talking of the need of a different approach: exactly as you do, I use my visual education to intrepretize shapes, and my visual education has been formed by another territory, another sighseeing, another visual experience. I have grown up in Italy, surrounded by signs of a history of more than two thousand years of civilization; my eyes are used to recognize that that pile of stone in the parking is what remain of a old roman building, and that those stones at the crossway are what the time spared from a bridge dated 150 B.C. So when I'm talking of a Farm, I mean a farm you're not used to see in your daily experience, a "village" of my visual experience:
	The image below shows the village of Palmavera's Nuraghe, Alghero - Isle of Sardinia - Italy
	click on the image to enlarge In this village, seen from the sky, there is nothing even closely resembling a straight line. How do you think it would look like, from a satellite image?
click on images to enlarge	This is an old farm typical of the surroundings of town of Teulada, Isle of Sardinia, Italy. Notice the shape of the enclosures (and see drawing below)

click on images to enlarge These small buildings are typical of this area; are called "sa Pinnetta".	click on images to enlarge
When talking about buildings keep in mind that even big buildings cound not have squared corners; here you can see some example: the hole in the top serves for smoke. These kind of buildings were common in the island and most are dated pre roman-empire, and some as far as 1400 B.C.

This (below) is a Nuraghe: it is 60 meters in diameter, was about 40 meters high, and its is a late sample of its kind. Older samples were much bigger, but lower.

Another nuraghe, with ruins of the village surrounding it.
Alwais talking about buildings, these are from south Italy: on the right you see how the original building was some 900 years ago.




Now a last comment: I didn't say THIS IS A FARM. I simply wanted to justify WHY it looks a like a farm (and a village) to me. And to you too, I suppose, now. Then what's on in that image remains questionable. I hate to be taken as a fool.

Village color map and all Mars color images presented here are ©2001 by G.Napolitano - village and other map village courtesy of: Regione Siciliana - Assessorato B.C.A. e P.I. Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali - Messina; Regione Sardegna - CNR/Ente turismo sardegna/Ente promozione turistica Alghero; Regione Puglia - Assessorato B.C.A. e P.I. Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali