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Hey, my pic made it to number one (for now) of the most popular images on the BBC's Britain in Pictures website, I am so chuffed - I know it won't last, so the best thing is to enjoy it while you can - lol
Here's the link
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/britain/gallery/queryengine?config...
As we enter Leeds City Art Gallery we are immediately confronted by two key pieces of figurative sculpture; Auguste Rodin's The Age Of Bronze (1875-76) and Antony Gormley's Model for the Leeds Brick Man (1986), the pieces stand abreast a public lavatory. A visit to the neighbouring Henry Moore Institute archives quickly reveals a number of connections between the two works. Rodin's piece, his first venture in figurative sculpture, when first exhibited was widely criticised for apparently being cast from life – the piece seemed too life-like for those visiting the Cercle Artistique de Bruxelles in 1877. In those days casting from life - covering a human body with plaster - was a big no-no, so much so Paul Gsell challenged Rodin to reveal how the piece was made: "When I look at your figure of 'The Age of Bronze' who seems to wake up, fill his lungs with air and raise his arms…my admiration is mixed with astonishment. It seems to me that there is a little sorcery in this science of making the bronze move"
Rodin replied with full details on how the piece was made and the name and location of its human subject – a 22 year-old Belgium soldier by the name of Auguste Neyt, residing in Brussels. For the most part Rodin was believed in his claims to have chiselled the piece from a plaster block.
Antony Gormley's Model for Leeds Brick Man is proudly cast from life – the artist himself suffered the discomfort of being encased in plaster. The piece, as its title suggests, is a model for what would have been a much larger sculpture; in the late 80s Leeds Brick Man was proposed to stand 180ft above the train station, to welcome visitors to the city in much the same way Gormley's Angel of the North would do for those visiting Gateshead some years later. Unfortunately the project was denied planning permission by Leeds City Council, much to the disappointment of local residents.
We were viewing the Brick Man when a local resident left the lavatory behind it and began a discussion on the council's decision not to proceed with the project, Martin, the resident, suggested cowardice was at play: "That bloody lot are chicken, they said no and then what happens? They build that great big bird up in Gateshead and the whole world knows about Gateshead, we could have had it in Leeds, but no. That bloody model should walk out of here and down to the train station, that's where it belongs, bloody idiot council, they're fools"
We thought about Martin's proposal that the model should walk out of the gallery and about Paul Gsell's challenge to Rodin, the idea that the bronze might fill its lungs with air and actually move. We decided we'd attempt to move the two sculptures across the city and towards their subjects – in Rodin's case we assumed his human model would still reside, albeit underground, in Brussels and in Gormley's case records held in the Henry Moore Institute archive suggested the model was cast in his London studio. We walked from Leeds City Art Gallery across the city towards London, on the following day we left the gallery and took a south-easterly path towards Brussels. We walked for six hours each day, re-staging the pose and stance of the sculpture at ten-minute intervals for a digital photograph. Each walk took us to the very edge of the city, beyond the motorway, to the very edge of our map.
Background
Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters formed Lone Twin in 1997 with an ambition to explore contemporary ideas of place, context and travel through live actions and performances.
As a result they have found themselves walking day and night across bridges in Norway, dancing blindfolded in Berlin dressed as cowboys for 12 hours and creating clouds from their body heat in cities too numerous to mention.
They have also recited the London A-Z from opposite ends and met in the middle at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their varied inspirations range from meteorology to the dance steps of Justin Timberlake.
The first time I have visited here since 1980, I believe when I went on my forst unacompanied trip to London. That day I bought records, lots of records as Soho was jammed with great record shops.
Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.
The building includes the BBC Radio Theatre from where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience. The radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio 4 Extra are also broadcast from studios within the building.
As part of a long term consolidation of the BBC's property portfolio, additional services including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 6 Music and the BBC World Service will move into Broadcasting House following an extensive renovation of the building. The move also includes that of BBC News and BBC World News from Television Centre into a newly constructed newsroom.
Construction of Broadcasting House began in 1932, and the building opened to the BBC's offices and radio operations on 14 May 1934, eight years after the corporation's establishment. George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery. The original interiors were the work of Raymond McGrath, an Australian-Irish architect. He directed a team which included Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates and designed the vaudeville studio, the associated green and dressing rooms, and the dance and chamber music studios in a flowing Art Deco style. It was later said of his efforts that "the designs for the BBC gave the first real fillip to industrial design in England".[citation needed]
The radio studios were arranged in a central location and constructed of Portland stone. The remainder of the building was steel framed and faced with Portland stone on the outside. These areas housed the offices, so that they could be both away from the noise of the radio operations, and have access to daylight.[1] Objections by local residents also caused the structure to be changed. The east side of the building blocked out the light to local residents, and after complaints and seeking the right of ancient lights, the building was altered so that the east side of the building had a sloped roof. Underground structures, including hundred year old sewers, presented problems during construction. The building was built atop the Bakerloo line of the London Underground, while the Victoria line was in turn tunnelled beneath Broadcasting House in the 1960s, and has since presented problems for construction of the Egton Wing (see below).[2] Noise from passing trains is audible within the radio theatre, but generally imperceptible in recordings.
The ground floor of the building was fitted with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the street, as it was believed that to finance such a project (costing £25,000,000 in today's money) they would need to let the ground floor as a retail unit. The rapid expansion of the BBC meant this never occurred.
The original building also showcases a number of works of art, most prominently the statues of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) by Eric Gill. Their choice was fitting since Prospero was a magician and scholar, and Ariel, a spirit of the air, in which radio waves travel. There was, reportedly, controversy over some features of the statues when first built and they were said to have been subsequently modified. They were reported to have been sculpted by Gill as God and Man, rather than simply Prospero and Ariel, and that there is a small carved picture of a beautiful girl on the back of the statue of Prospero. Additional carvings of Ariel can be found on the building's exterior in many bas-reliefs, some by Gill, others by Gilbert Bayes.[3][4][5] The reception area also contains a statue of 'The sower' also by Gill.
The original structure is now a Grade II* listed building, and the BBC works with English Heritage on its maintenance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_House
IoE Number: 424540
Location: BROADCASTING HOUSE, PORTLAND PLACE W1 (east side)
MARYLEBONE, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer: Mr Anthony Rau
Date Photographed: N/A
Date listed: 16 January 1981
Date of last amendment: 16 January 1981
Grade II*
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, Wl 45/106 (east side) 16.1.81 Broadcasting House G.V. II The building shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star), the letters 'G.V.' shall be deleted, and the first two sentences of the description shall be amended to read as follows: 'Offices and studios for the British Broadcasting Corporation (north extension not of special interest). 1930-32 by Col. G Val Myer and Watson Hart, relief panels by Eric Gill and Gilbert Bayes, etc.' ------------------------------------ TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, W1 45/106 (East side) 16.1.81 Broadcasting House G.V. II Offices and studios (north extension not of special interest). 1930-31 by Val Myers and Watson Hart, relief panels by Eric Gill and Gilbert Bayes, etc. Portland stone on steel frame. Long frontage to Portland Place, rounded end with main entrance to Langham Place and eastern return. Shallow modelling to stepped facades in mixed Modernist-Georgian monumental style. 9 storeys with 4 to 6 storey corner clock tower pavilion massing. 35-window range to Portland Place and 7 window wide rounded clock tower end. Main entrance to Langham Place has bronze doors under massive lintel and Eric Gill's "Prospero and Ariel" in niche above. The terminal pavilions to Portland Place have a shop front to south and entrance to north both surmounted by relief panels. Vertically proportioned shallow recessed metal glazing bar casements. 7 "porthole" windows in centre of top attic storey to Portland Place. Upper storeys recessed at various levels with metal balustrades at set-backs. Latticework masts over clock tower and behind. Inside the foyer the windows are flanked by pilasters with glass capitals and cornice carrying lights; Eric Gill's "The Sower" set opposite the entrance. The original, innovatory McGrath, Wells Coates, Chermayeff, etc. interiors and studio fittings removed. Thirties Exhibition Catalogue. Britain in the Thirties; A.D.Profile.
www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=424540...
The latest version of Boxee includes iPlayer integration. Viewed here from the Mac Mini via screen sharing, it works like a dream. Just needs to wait a bit more at the start in order to stream more smoothly.
At Radio Theatre to see Weekend Wogan with Peter Alllis Beth Nielsen Chapman, John Barrowman and Neil Se
February 28 2010
BBC Congo general cargo enters the Mersey for Cammell Laird basin from Foynes, Ireland.
She carries winches for the new vessel being built there. - Thanks for the info, Das
IMO: 9436331
MMSI: 305466000
Call Sign: V2EL3
Flag: Antigua Barbuda
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 12974
Deadweight: 16936 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 143.13m × 23.13m
Year Built: 2010
Status: Active
The BBC Spring (IMO 9418999) is seen here at the Zuidnatie Terminal at the Churchill dock loading powerplant equipment bound for Bangladesh
loading of the Plasser & Theures built Unimat Compact 08-275/3S universal tamping machine bound for Algeria, on board of the chartered BBC Anglia.
Taken: Friday 14th November 2014 BBC 2014 Children in Need on Stockton High Street. Byline: Dave Charnley Photography Ltd Website Link: www.davecharnleyphotography.com All Rights Reserved 2014 Mobile: 07753559 Office: 01642 586269 Email: info@davecharnleyphotography.com
Taken: Friday 14th November 2014 BBC 2014 Children in Need on Stockton High Street. Byline: Dave Charnley Photography Ltd Website Link: www.davecharnleyphotography.com All Rights Reserved 2014 Mobile: 07753559 Office: 01642 586269 Email: info@davecharnleyphotography.com
Kevin Geary of the BBC talking about User Generated Content. Excellent talk!
Also check out the interview (available as audio-file) I did with Kevin's colleague, Vicky Taylor:
melodiefabriek.nl/2006/10/19/my-interview-with-vicky-tayl...
As you can see the building is still unfinished.... kinda cool though :)