Explain this! Sunny-side up?What's this giant fried egg doing on a beach in Sydney, Australia? It's a display at the Sculpture by the Sea Sydney and Perth 'Sculpture by the Sea' exhibition is Australia's largest annual outdoor sculpture exhibition. 2006 was the tenth year it showed off the beautiful work of both Australian and overseas artists in spectacular Australian Coastal locations. exhibition, which took place last November, Australian artist Jeremy Parnell created the sunny side up egg sculpture--called Big Chock--out of fiberglass and glossy, waterproof paint. The word "chock" is slang in Australia for "chicken" Parnell got his inspiration from watching people "frying" themselves on the beach to get a suntan. Although Parnell's idea for his sculpture may make you laugh, sun tanning Sun tanning describes a darkening of the skin (especially of fair-skinned individuals) in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation from sunshine (or a sunbed). With excess exposure to the sun, a suntanned area can also develop sunburn. is really no joke. Exposure to the sun's ultraviolet An invisible band of radiation at the upper end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 10 to 400 nm, ultraviolet starts at the end of visible light and ends at the beginning of X-rays. The primary source of ultraviolet light is the sun. radiation can damage skin cells, and can lead to skin cancer. To learn more about tanning tanning, process by which skins and hides are converted into leather. Vegetable tanning, a method requiring more than a month even with modern machinery and tanning liquors, employs tannin; its use is shown in Egyptian tomb paintings dating from 3000 B.C. risks, visit this Web site: www.edc.gov/ChooseYourCover/qanda.htm [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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