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Giant Steps

I’m beside myself with satisfaction – and no small amount of pride: After months of painstaking development, we have within the past week launched two major initiatives within the WaterShapes.com web site: [ ] First, the system by which we categorize and file articles has been completely revamped. When the site was originally mapped out, we worked with

Test Your Knowledge #56

Security Breach: Goldfish Found Swimming at U.S. Nuclear Reactor

Ripples #67

Compiled and written by Lenny Giteck Two American Tourists Forced to Swim 12 to 14 Hours to Survive

#5: Flush Spa

For a while there, it seemed like most pool/spa combinations were being built with raised spas – that is, systems in which the level of the spa was set above the level of the pool, with the connection between the vessels made by means of a spillway of some sort. Recently, however, some of our clients have opted for a different approach in which the pool and spa appear to

Test Your Knowledge #55

Billionaire Stands in Pool for Television Commercial

Exotically American

I visited Washington, D.C., for the first time in 1978. I had stopped to see my brother, who was living there at that time, and was intent on taking in as much as I could before heading back home to California after many months of travel that had carried me all over the northeastern United States and Europe.

Ripples #66

Compiled and edited by Lenny Giteck British Freestyle Record-Setter Guilty of Pool Peeping Tomism

Liquid Mettle

From the beginning of my career as a sculptor, I’ve mostly given myself over to two simple elements – metal and water – and have tried to develop approaches that turn one into an extension of the other. I like the sense that a sheet of flowing water completes the simple stainless steel shapes I create. I also like to play with illusion by creating the impression that

The Birth of a Dream

It’s speculated that the exterior spaces at Playboy Mansion West must be the most photographed in the world. That’s hard to quantify, of course, but it’s certainly safe to say that since construction began in the 1970s, the home of publisher Hugh Hefner and its famous swimming pool and grotto have been used ceaselessly to promote

Pushing Boundaries

Through many of the early “WaterShapes World” blogs, I wrote (perhaps too often?) about what was happening with the WaterShapes franchise and web site and all sorts of grand plans we had to burst back onto the scene with a huge, multilayered portal aimed at serving a broad universe filled by watershapers and their clients and prospects. In reality, we didn’t do much bursting and instead discovered what all sorts of web operations have experienced through the years: Making things happen