Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: dinosaur

The Monteverde Cheese Factory has played an integral role in the development of the Monteverde community since the 1950s, when a group of American Quakers arrived on the scene and began farming dairy cattle. They opened the factory in 1953, using the milk from their own farms to produce about 10 kg of cheese per day. Within two years, their reach had expanded to nearby, non-Quaker farms, whose milk was used to make an increasing amount of cheese. This was an important step in this rural economy, as it helped generate a living for many of the farmers and families living in the central highlands of Costa Rica. The company – whose official name is Productores de Monteverde S.A. – now works with over 250 farms and employs over 300 people. Their daily output of cheese is now roughly 1,550 kg. The first cheese that the factory made – which, in fact, was the first pasteurized cheese to be made in all of Costa Rica – was a Gouda. Over the last sixty years, the range of cheeses the factory produces has skyrocketed to an astounding 17 different varieties. Their ice cream selection is extensive as well, and uses local crops to produce such flavors as coffee, coconut, mango, orange and pineapple. In addition to serving what is arguably the best ice cream in Costa Rica, the Cheese Factory is adjacent to Parque Mega-Fauna Monteverde which boasts a mile-and-a-half trail that wends its way through some 26 statues of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that depict animals from the Triassic to the Jurassic to the Cretaceous.

Without my morning coffee, I'm not quite myself either!

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of world culture and natural history based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest museums in North America, attracting over one million visitors every year. With more than six million items and forty galleries, the museum’s diverse collections of world culture and natural history are part of the reason for its international reputation. The museum contains notable collections of dinosaurs, minerals and meteorites, Near Eastern and African art, Art of East Asia, European history, and Canadian history. It also houses the world’s largest collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens. The museum also contains an extensive collection of design and fine arts. These include clothing, interior, and product design, especially Art Deco. The new main entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum, Daniel Libeskind’s The Crystal, first opened in 2007. The building’s design is similar to some of Libeskind’s other works, notably the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, and the Fredric C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum. The Deconstructivist crystalline-form is clad in 25 percent glass and 75 percent aluminium sitting on top of a steel frame. The Crystal’s canted walls do not touch the sides of the existing heritage buildings, used to close the envelope between the new form and existing walls. These walls act as a pathway for pedestrians to safely travel across "The Crystal". The overall aim of The Crystal is to provide openness and accessibility, seeking to blur the lines between the threshold linking the public area of the street and the more private area of the museum.

Xiphactinus (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray") is an extinct genus of large, 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) long predatory marine bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous. When alive, the fish would have resembled a gargantuan, fanged tarpon (to which it was, however, not related). Xiphactinus were voracious predators. At least a dozen specimens of X. audax have been collected with the remains of large, undigested or partially digested prey in their stomachs.

Florence Riggs was born in 1961 in Beryl, Utah into a family of Navajo weavers. She is now recognized as a leader in the contemporary pictorial weaving movement. She uses traditional techniques, but buys commercially dyed yarn and draws her subject matter from magazine illustrations as well as her own experience of contemporary Navajo life.

The Reverend Howard Finster was perhaps the most famous American religious artist of his time. He was born in Valley Head, Alabama in 1916 and died in Georgia in 2001. Because Finster realized that his congregation did not remember his sermons even minutes after he had finished, he published religious songs and poetry in local newspapers in the 1930s and hosted a radio prayer show in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He claims God charged him to illustrate his religious visions in 1976 when "A warm feeling came over me to paint sacred art." The official name of this painting – done in oils on wood paneling – is "God is Love. Seek his will and find his peace he saves from sin." Finster began building his everchanging environmental sculpture, Paradise Garden, on swampy land behind his house in the early 1960s. Composed of walkways and constructions made from cast-off pieces of technology, the Garden assembles individual monuments to human inventors into an all-encompassing "Memorial to God." Much of the building material in the garden was accumulated from Finster’s television and bicycle repair businesses and his twenty-one other trades.

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"It's like what they said about the raptor in Jurassic Park - one of us gets your attention, the other one gets you." - Greg Lloyd

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... and such a little brain!

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