{"id":26745,"date":"2015-02-06T05:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T12:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=26745"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:54:56","slug":"creative-prompt-296-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/creative-prompt-296-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #296: Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarot card<\/p>\n<p>Coit Tower<\/p>\n<p>Sutro Tower<\/p>\n<p>Leaning Tower of Pisa<\/p>\n<p>Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog.<\/p>\n<p>We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/aqcpp\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to\u00a0 post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"A%20tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.  Towers are specifically distinguished from 'buildings' in that they are not built to be habitable but to serve other functions. The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: visibility of other features attached to the tower such clock towers; as part of a larger structure or device to increase the visibility of the surroundings as in a fortified building such as a castle; or as a structural feature as an integral part of a bridge.  Towers can be stand alone structures or be supported by adjacent buildings or can be a feature on top of a large structure or building.\" target=\"_blank\">Definition<\/a>: &#8220;A <b>tower<\/b> is a tall <a title=\"Nonbuilding structure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonbuilding_structure\">structure<\/a>, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from <a title=\"Guyed mast\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyed_mast\">masts<\/a> by their lack of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Guy-wires\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy-wires\">guy-wires<\/a> and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.<\/p>\n<p>Towers are specifically distinguished from &#8216;buildings&#8217; in that they are not built to be habitable but to serve other functions. The principal function is the use of their <a title=\"Height\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Height\">height<\/a> to enable various functions to be achieved including: visibility of other features attached to the tower such <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Clock towers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clock_towers\">clock towers<\/a>; as part of a larger structure or device to increase the visibility of the surroundings as in a fortified building such as a <a title=\"Castle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Castle\">castle<\/a>; or as a structural feature as an integral part of a <a title=\"Bridge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridge\">bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Towers can be stand alone structures or be supported by adjacent buildings or can be a feature on top of a large structure or building.&#8221; (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>the Two Towers, Bologna<\/p>\n<p>water tower<\/p>\n<p>storage silo<\/p>\n<p>Uhrturm, Graz, Austria<\/p>\n<p>La Tour Eiffel<\/p>\n<p>Tower Market<\/p>\n<p>tower defense<\/p>\n<p>Devil&#8217;s Tower National Monument<\/p>\n<p>The Tower (IMDB 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Tower of Power<\/p>\n<p>Tower Hill Botanical Garden: <span class=\"st\">Operated by Worcester County Horticultural Society, this garden features several distinctive theme areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">The <em>Tower<\/em> District is Fresno&#8217;s dining, arts and entertainment district. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Willis Tower, Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Hoover Tower, Stanford University<\/p>\n<p>Twin Towers<\/p>\n<p>ivory tower<\/p>\n<p>Fire towers<\/p>\n<p>Tower Bridge<\/p>\n<p>The Tower of London<\/p>\n<p>computer towers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarot card Coit Tower Sutro Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/creative-prompt-296-tower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #296: Tower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[379],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-26745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}