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Bryn Celli Ddu is generally recognised as the finest passage tomb in Wales, and unlike many other megalithic sites, it not only has a full entrance passage and a roughly circular chamber, but also lies beneath a mound of earth which was backfilled after the 1929 excavations. It is located on the island of Anglesey.
The oldest remains of the complex are five postholes, which were previously thought to date from the time of the tomb. However, radiocarbon analyses in 2006 revealed that they date from around 4000 BC. This means that the holes date from the end of the Mesolithic period and are therefore around 1000 years older than the next known utilisation phase of the site.
A henge was built around 3000 BC, consisting of a circular rampart and a ditch 21 metres in diameter. Within this circle was an oval stone circle. Burnt human bones were buried at the foot of some of these stones. The serpent pattern stone was found lying nearby, its decoration on both sides suggesting that it was standing upright.
About 1000 years after the henge was built, the site was radically remodelled. All but one of the standing stones were vandalised and the tomb was erected. At 26 metres in diameter, it was much larger than it is now, and will have had a full row of kerbstones. Human bones, both burnt and unburnt, were found in the chamber and in the passage, indicating a number of different burial rituals. In the end, the tomb was sealed by placing a large stone in front of the entrance between the two portal stones.
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WEEK 39 – Toys “R” Us Closing, Columbia, SC (III)
Last but not least, here’s an “epilogue” photo of sorts to wrap up this album. Shortly after TRU’s closure, this store was backfilled with a Value City Furniture, which itself relocated from elsewhere in Columbia. Its grand opening occurred in June 2019, approximately a year after TRU’s departure. The space is shared with “Designer Looks,” which I assume is the business name of the VCF franchisee.
I think what they did to the exterior looks pretty nice – much better than when TRU was here, sad to say – and the interior looks to have been very heavily renovated as well. You can see some photos of that over at Google Maps.
Hope y’all enjoyed this last farewell tour of Toys “R” Us to make it to my photostream. As usual, I’ll have more to share from the Columbia area sooner or later. More immediately, though, our next, much more local destination begins uploading on Saturday, so stick around for that!
Value City Furniture // 140 Columbiana Drive, Columbia, SC 29212
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I spent most of the morning until about 1 pm installing the last 10 feet or so of the paving bricks. The curve portion was far easier to do that the straight portion. I did have my 'process' of sifting the dirt from the rock, discarding the weeds and roots of grass, then piling the rocks in one pile, and pouring the dirt on a piece of cardboard to allow it to 'dry' a bit before reusing it to level the bricks as well as backfill them once positioned. This project is now completed, even having 6 extra bricks to use in the same project in the back yard... but next year in the spring!
Inner Boston Harbor
April 25th, 2014
Since its discovery by John Smith in 1614, Boston Harbor has been an important port in American history. It was the site of the Boston Tea Party as well as almost continuous backfilling of the harbor until the 19th century. By 1660 almost all imports came to the greater Boston area and the New England coast through the waters of Boston Harbor. A rapid influx of people transformed Boston into a booming city. The health of the harbor quickly decreased as the population of Boston increased. As early as the late 19th century Boston citizens were advised not to swim in any portion of the Harbor. In the 1800s two of the first steam sewage stations were built (one in East Boston and one later on Deer Island). With these mandates the harbor was seeing small improvements, but raw sewage was still continuously pumped into the harbor. In 1919 the Metropolitan District Commission was created to oversee and regulate the quality of harbor water. However, not much improvement was seen and general public awareness of the poor quality of water was very low. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed in order to help promote increased national water quality.
Boston did not receive a clean water act waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, leaving Boston with little incentive to increase water quality of the harbor. Since the mid-1970s organizations within the Boston community have battled for a cleaner Boston Harbor. More recently, the harbor was the site of the $4.5 billion Boston Harbor Project. Failures at Nut Island sewage treatment plant in Quincy and the companion Deer Island plant adjacent to Winthrop had far-reaching environmental and political effects. Fecal coliform bacteria levels forced frequent swimming prohibitions along the harbor beaches and the Charles River for many years. The city of Quincy sued the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) and the separate Boston Water and Sewer Commission in 1982 charging unchecked systemic pollution of the city’s waterfront. That suit was followed by one by the Conservation Law Foundation and finally by the United States government, resulting in the landmark court-ordered cleanup of Boston Harbor.
The lawsuits forced then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis to propose separating the water and sewer treatment divisions from the MDC, resulting in the creation of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in 1985. The slow progress of the cleanup became a key theme of the 1988 U.S. presidential election as George H.W. Bush defeated Dukakis partly through campaign speeches casting doubt on the governor’s environmental record, which Dukakis himself had claimed was better than that of Bush. The court ordered cleanup continued throughout the next two decades and is still ongoing.
Before the cleanup projects, the water was so polluted that The Standells released a song in 1966 called Dirty Water about the sorry state of the Charles River. The song is still popular with Red Sox fans and is played regularly at Fenway Park whenever the Sox win the game.
Since the writing of the song, the water quality in both the Harbor and the Charles River has significantly improved, and the projects have dramatically transformed Boston Harbor from one of the filthiest in the nation to one of the cleanest. Today Boston Harbor is safe for fishing and for swimming nearly every day, though there are still beach closings after even small rainstorms, caused by bacteria-laden storm water and the occasional combined sewer overflow.
A fine view showing the construction of the Barbican in London's historic heart and the consequential diversion of the London Underground's Metropolitan, H&C, Circle and 'Met Widened lines tracks that occurred as part of the 1960s redevelopment of the area. The new cut and cover boxes that would carry the lines further to the south can clearly be seen and these would form part of the base of the new Barbican development. This would allow closure and backfilling of the original 1865/66 track alignment that can be seen here. This huge development was mostly driven by the extent of WW2 bomb damage in this part of London that had seen the most complete destruction of such a large area in the city. The view is looking west north west; to get bearings the old railway substation can be seen extreme lower right with the partially demolished Milton St bridge above. The buildings towards the upper right with the conical tower would be the old Whitbread Brewery.
2013. Custom Plywood Mill Site
Phase III, 2019: Final phase of remedial action for approximately 10.4 acres of subtidal sediments; 4.7 acres of those sediments support eelgrass. The planned Phase III remedial action, as proposed, consists of:
Placement of a thin layer cap (between 2 to 8-inch thickness) over approximately 10 acres of subtidal sediments with dioxin concentration greater than 10 nanograms per kilogram (ppt) TEC (but less than 25 ppt) Dredging and backfilling 0.46 acres of sediment in excess of 25 ppt dioxins and wood waste accumulation greater than 1-foot below the mud line within eelgrass beds.
Eelgrass mitigation using advanced mitigation plantings from Phase II along with additional mitigation efforts to compensate for the loss of eelgrass bed due to dredging (0.38 acres out of 0.46 acre dredge footprint supports eelgrass)
Phase II, 2013: the Department of Ecology remove old creosote dock pilings and other in-water concrete and metal structures. Dug up and dredged about 10 acres of sediment contaminated with dioxins and wood waste. Disposed of contaminated sediment off-site.Improve the near-shore habitat by reshaping an existing spit and jetty. Connected Fidalgo Bay with the wetland area that was created in 2011. The site was vacant property (2013) with abandoned building remnants and debris. A sawmill and wood-box factory, and then a plywood mill, operated on the site for almost a century. Mill features included a hog-fuel boiler, drum storage tank area, transformer yard, above-ground storage tanks containing fuel oil, gasoline, diesel and/or propane, phenolic formaldehyde resin and caustic storage tanks (both used in making plywood glue), a machine shop, a metal shop, and an area for spraying paint and oil.
Phase I, 2011: work focused on cleaning up about 6 upland acres. It included removing pilings and other structures to allow excavation of about 33,600 tons of contaminated soil; off-site disposal of the soil, structures and pilings; and backfilling the site with about 39,000 tons of clean soil. Site soil contains elevated concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, zinc, oil-range petroleum hydrocarbons, dioxins, and furans. Groundwater beneath the site does not meet drinking water standards. The water also contains elevated concentrations of arsenic, copper and nickel. Dioxins and wood debris contaminate Marine sediments are found to be contaminated with dioxins and wood debris.
Excavation & Earthworks: Bulk, Strip, Muck, Footing, Trench, and Topsoil Excavation – Ditching, Backfill, Grading, Hauling and Shoring Services
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The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.
The sculptures, which represent kelpies, were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. An unveiling ceremony took place in April 2014. Around the sculptures is an area of parkland known as The Helix.
History
The name was chosen by Scottish Canals at the inception of The Helix project in 2005, to reflect the mythological transforming beasts possessing the strength and endurance of ten horses. The Kelpies represent the lineage of the heavy horse of Scottish industry and economy, pulling the wagons, ploughs, barges, and coalships that shaped the geographical layout of the Falkirk area.
According to sculptor Andy Scott, "The original concept of mythical water horses was a valid starting point for the artistic development of the structures." He also said that he "took that concept and moved with it towards a more equine and contemporary response, shifting from any mythological references towards a socio-historical monument intended to celebrate the horse's role in industry and agriculture as well as the obvious association with the canals as tow horses".[5] In 2008 Scott created three-metre-high miniature versions in his Glasgow studio. These were then scanned by lasers to help the steel fabricators create accurate full-scale components.
According to Scott the end result would be "[w]ater-borne, towering gateways into The Helix, the Forth and Clyde Canal and Scotland, translating the legacy of the area into proud equine guardians".
During the first year following the opening, nearly one million people visited the sculptures.
The first routine maintenance and cleaning was carried out by a high-wire team in the summer of 2017.
Structure
Built of structural steel with a stainless steel cladding, The Kelpies are 30 metres high and weigh 300 tonnes each. Construction began in June 2013 and was complete by October 2013. A topping out ceremony was held on 27 November 2013. The Kelpies are positioned either side of a specially constructed lock and basin, part of the redeveloped Kelpies Hub. The forms are inspired by Clydesdale (draught) horses.
Maquettes
There are two sets of 1:10 scale maquettes. These have been displayed locally, nationally, and internationally at events and locations including Edinburgh Airport, the Field Museum in Grant Park, Chicago, The Falkirk Wheel, Expo 2011 (Aberdeen), Expo 2012 (Edinburgh) and Expo 2013 (Glasgow), BBC Scotland, Glasgow, Kirkcudbright Arts & Crafts Trail 2017, University of Glasgow, Sheffield International Steel Celebration, and later at Bryant Park in New York.
Sculpted from steel then galvanized using a hot dip process, the Kelpie maquettes were welded by hand from small plates of steel.
In the media.
The judges of the British Constructional Steelwork Association's Structural Steel Design Awards 2014 said the structures required "considerable engineering finesse".
The Courier wrote that "Scots are being offered a tantalising glimpse of two staggering sculptures that will help transform the landscape of central Scotland."
The Guardian reported that "They will create one of the most dramatic gateways through which to enter Britain".
The New Civil Engineer website defined the Kelpies as "one of Scotland’s most complex sculptures"
The Ordnance Survey described them as "amazing and dramatic".
Tiffany Jenkins on The Scotsman wrote that "They are impressive, stunning even, and I think people will become attached to them and proud of them. Of course, they will not please everyone, but that it is not possible as no such art work exists".
Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian, described them as "the latest misbegotten 'masterpiece' of public art. It is big. It is bold. And it is rotten. [...] The Kelpies is just a kitsch exercise in art 'for the people', carefully stripped of difficulty, controversy, and meaning."
Andy Scott (born 1964) is a Scottish figurative sculptor, working in galvanised steel and bronze.
Biography
Andy Scott graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in Fine Art Sculpture, and in 1987 with a diploma in Postgraduate Studies.
Andy Scott is a Los Angeles–based figurative sculptor who works internationally on public and private artworks. His works combine traditional draftsmanship with contemporary fabrication techniques and currently range from 10 to 100 feet (3.0 to 30.5 metres) in height.
Notable works
Andy Scott is well known for The Kelpies
The Kelpies, monumental horses heads completed on 27 November 2013 Falkirk, Scotland
"Lulla-Bye", Edinburgh, Scotland
Arria, Cumbernauld, Scotland
Poised, Marischal Square, Aberdeen
Rise, Glasgow Harbour, Scotland
COB, Bexley, London
Arabesque, Queensland, Australia
Argestes Aqua, Victoria, Australia
River Spirit, Stride, Foxboy, I Can See For Miles, Journeys End, Lifeline: all Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Beacon of Hope, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ibrox Disaster Memorial, Glasgow, Scotland
Heavy Horse, on M8 Edinburgh to Glasgow motorway
Equus Altüs and The Briggate Minerva, Trinity Leeds shopping centre, Leeds, England
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, statue unveiled on the 90th anniversary of his death on 10 December 2018.
The DunBear, DunBear Park in Dunbar, statue unveiled on 2019 in honour of Dunbar-born naturalist John Muir.
Statues of Vincent Kompany, David Silva, and Sergio Agüero, Etihad Stadium, Manchester
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast. The canal is 35 miles (56 km) long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
Successful in its day, it suffered as the seagoing vessels were built larger and could no longer pass through. The railway age further impaired the success of the canal, and in the 1930s decline had ended in dormancy. The final decision to close the canal in the early 1960s was made due to maintenance costs of bridges crossing the canal exceeding the revenues it brought in. However, subsidies to the rail network were also a cause for its decline and the closure ended the movement of the east-coast Forth River fishing fleets across the country to fish the Irish Sea. The lack of political and financial foresight also removed a historical recreational waterway and potential future revenue generator to the town of Grangemouth. Unlike the majority of major canals the route through Grangemouth was drained and backfilled before 1967 to create a new carriageway for port traffic.
The M8 motorway in the eastern approaches to Glasgow took over some of the alignment of the canal, but more recent ideas have regenerated the utility of the canal for leisure use.
The Carron is a river in central Scotland, rising in the Campsie Fells and flowing along Strathcarron into the Firth of Forth. It has given its name to several locations in Stirlingshire, as well as a type of cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships, and an island in the Southern Hemisphere.
View In Small On Black / View In Large On Black
Hi Everyone,
It's been almost a month since my last upload so I figured I should put something up. Sorry for being gone for so long. Unfortunately life has been pretty eventful. Work is back in lay-off mode and I'm currently backfilling for two people who have left and a third who is on vacation for March Break. That plus a bunch of other things not worth talking about have meant a lot stress and I haven't felt in the mood to do anything with my photos. Instead I've been taking out my stress playing video games and reading... in other words just getting away from it all without actually leaving! LOL!
Hope you're all well. I'll be around soon to look at the wonderful works you've created over the last month.
This is a shot from the fog series, taken behind the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.
Looking down at the leftovers from the sewer line ditch back-fill, it kind of reminds me of a NASCAR short dirt track. You go around and around the two trees, with the pits off to the right beyond the "Commit Cone" behind the now over filled ditch. You come back out of the pits past the "Timing Stand" (the green electrical box) where the "Pylon" (phone line box) marks the "Start-Finish Line".
Just glad to see it get to this point. It will all have to be landscaped, and hopefully the smell will go away after the soil is baked by the sun.
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Following the mass departure of Aberdeen drivers after First imposed a pay and conditions reduction on them in May, First have struggled to backfill the gap. The hiring of drivers from elsewhere in the group and administration staff driving buses has been used but ultimately the gap has not been filled and now buses are being pulled from service. Initially this was just for a few hours but now a board will be removed each day and now multiple boards.
With the rail replacement operation ending today I wonder if the agency drivers used on it will migrate to city work. Certainly a few days ago, I saw a Platinum 12 being driven by a guy in a t shirt and a baseball cap. There was also a complaint on Twitter from a passenger who said the driver left a Platinum 19 with passengers to go to Costa Coffee for a drink mid route.
The 1A ran hourly instead of the timetabled half hour service for much of the summer until passengers rumbled it and complaint was made to the Traffic Commissioner. Now other routes are being targeted.
No. 3 Slip. When it was built in 1838, it was the largest wooden building in the world. It has a linked truss structure and was originally covered in tarred paper, which was quickly replaced with a zinc roof. Ships were constructed in the slipways, which were covered to prevent ships rotting before they had been launched. The slip was backfilled around 1900 and a steel mezzanine floor was added. It became a store house for ships boats.
This pendant is inspired by the 1950's and so are the colours. It combines several clay techniques including backfilling, liquid clay and acrylics.
I am finally getting the little frog / fish pond finished. Into a big hole in the ground a Huge tractor tire was dumped. I put sand in the bottom and then a liner in it. It is filled with water and then today I was shoveling dirt around it to finish the backfill process. But I had to stop to rescue this little Northern Red-bellied snake. In this photo it is about the size of a dime. I wasn't even sure it was a snake until that little forked tongue came out! It is just a baby I think. :) Very minimal processing done on this one... just lightened it up a bit really.
Photo two for tonight takes us back to more recent goings-on in the Commons at Wolfcreek – and back to the “Wolfcreek” portion of the conjoined shopping center, to boot. In this shot we're looking at Memphis's first Dave & Buster's – something that I believe locals were pretty excited about, back when it first arrived just a few months ago, back in February 2018! That grand opening took place just shy of a year after D&B's foray into the Bluff City was first announced.
This location of the part-arcade, part-restaurant chain occupies most of the Commons at Wolfcreek's former Sports Authority store, which – as I noted in this photo taken back during its liquidation – was included in the first round of that chain's closures in 2016, before all Sports Authority stores ultimately wound up closing. A Skechers Outlet store, which you see on the left of this shot, also managed to carve a bit of space out from this location; I guess Dave & Buster's didn't need the entirety of the former Sports Authority's 43,500 square feet all to themselves.
The only thing that slightly worries me about Dave & Buster's taking over this former Sports Authority is that the chain is one of the few that's willing to take over vacated mall anchor space these days... and with Wolfchase Galleria directly across the street, in my mind this now limits the pool of willing occupants for the Sears store there once it inevitably bites the dust. Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen anytime soon, and in fact, I hope the Sears will continue to operate for years to come. I also completely understand Dave & Buster's preference to take over this store ASAP, especially considering that the uncertainty of Sears's fate could have meant a much longer wait for them to enter Memphis. But I can't help that that's simply where my mind goes to on this... :/
Skechers Outlet // 2747 Wolfcreek Parkway, Memphis, TN 38133
Dave & Buster's // 2751 Wolfcreek Parkway, Memphis, TN 38133
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
The work boys sift sand in the early morning sunrise to make "mix-mix," which will be used for backfilling the excavation trench.
Thank you, everyone, for the favourites and nice comments and awards! :D
Filey Holiday Camp station, 29th June 1974 (photo B.Mills)
The road train is visable at the bottom of the picture. This took passengers through the subway and to the camp.
Filey Holiday camp was the biggest of Billy Butlin's camps. It extended to some 400 acres and eventually accommodating nearly 11,000 campers.When the station opened most holiday makers traveled to the camp by train but as the years went by more and more people came by car until it was uneconomic to keep the station open. The last train ran on Saturday 17th July 1977.
All platforms, concourse, exit steps, fencing and concrete lampposts are still in situ - the lampposts even still have the public address speakers attached. The site now derelict, with the once vital passenger subway backfilled and flooded.
i used a sheet of white (medium setting on my pasta machine...too thick and its a pain to wrap, too thin and you have little wriggle room when it comes to smoothing or sanding out lumps and bumps) and smoothed it around the bauble with my fingers. then i firmly wrapped a length of 15lb fishing line (you couyld use nylon beading thread/string/whatever you have to hand..experiment) round and round until i was happy with the design (next time i need to be firmer and pull the line tighter when doing this as a few bits are patchy). then i carefully unraveled the line then i baked the bauble and backfilled (use soft well conditioned clay, bit like buttering bread) the lines with gold polymer clay, baked again and sanded Smiley
i only used 600 grit on this piece as i liked the matt look of this, like unglazed ceramic
Garrison Crossing, Toronto ON 12 Jan 2020
Slope failure and solifluction in recent fill at Toronto's brand-new Garrison Crossing park. Wet weather, freeze-thaw cycles and ill-advised engineered backfill.
polymer clay over a scrap clay armature.
backfilled, sanded and buffed.
i made a larger armature for this bangle but i think the 'Galaxy' design works far better on a slimmer more delicate bangle.
The Grade II Listed 8 & 9 The Strait in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Both 17th Century buildings refronted in the 19th Century. Built of roughcast stone with brick facade, in 2001 it was found they had backfilled cellars. They have large 17th ashlar fireplaces, restored in the 19th Century with with wooden bressumer and brick hood.
Listing in 1901 show number 8 as J Clayton pork butcher and number 9 J Hallifax, antiques, and books. By the 1990’s it had been combined into one building.
1990 Straits Wine Bar
2005 Viela, Brazilian restaurant, and bar
2009 Straits Brasserie
2013 Ribs n Bibs restaurant
2017 Lawson's Bar & Bistro
Information Sources:
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101388806-8-and-9-the-strait...
www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/character-area/steep-hill-...
Looks like they decided to install new clean-outs closer to the building. Could be they had to remove the ones that were installed a little further down the line when they had to reopen the ditch. They'll cut them down to ground level once this all gets groomed.
I wrote these descriptions with the intent to post them tomorrow, but it's just as easy (in fact, it's even easier) to upload them today... so just pretend it's Tuesday, y'all :P
For this week's teaser photos, we're continuing the theme from three weeks ago of looking at some changes within the Commons at Wolfcreek shopping center across N Germantown Parkway from Wolfchase Galleria. Except where those two photos were more recent news bits – the closures of both Macaroni Grill and Walgreens – the store seen in this photo last experienced news four years ago!
Shown here is the Value City Furniture store located at 8044 Giacosa Place. You'll note that this store looks rather snazzy – I, for one, really like seeing its new logo on the façade, as well as that black paint treatment they gave to the upper border of the building. I can't speak to the full accuracy of this statement, but it seems to me, at least, as if it is rather rare to see VCF's new logo on any of their stores; instead, seeing their old logo seems much more common. So why did this store get the new logo?
Hopefully I'm leading your train of thought to this destination: this store certainly didn't simply receive a new exterior logo in a random refresh. No, there's much more at play here. You see, Value City Furniture once was located in another space, approximately diagonally southwest from here. That space was much bigger, too: if I'm reading things correctly, 50,000 square feet compared to this store's 37,500. But Value City, I'm guessing, was faced with a conundrum: either move, or lose its lease.
This conundrum came about because Value City's old store was located in an end of the shopping center where there were ten other, smaller (I'm talking majority 1,600 square feet here) bays... nine of which were totally vacant. The rest of the center, on the other hand, was – and remains – pretty healthy; that was simply a dull area. So in order to give that corner of the plaza its shine back (so to speak), property owner Brixmor decided to demolish Value City Furniture and its neighboring, empty strip center storefronts in favor of a brand new – wait for it – 73,586 square foot Academy Sports + Outdoors, Memphis's second. (The first area Academy opened in a former Schnucks in Collierville.)
I can't find any info as to whether the only other affected tenant, Simply Fashion, relocated to elsewhere in the plaza or just outright closed. VCF, meanwhile, did indeed relocate elsewhere within the shopping center, to the building you see here – the building, in fact, that it would seem this entire Academy deal hinged upon, lest VCF would have been evicted from the center entirely. Good thing this building was vacant, then!
And just what was this building previously, you ask? Well, some of you more trained retail eyes out there might be able to recognize this architecture... this was none other than a Linens 'N Things, prior to that chain's demise in 2008. Rather incredibly for this area, the former LNT big box managed to remain vacant for six years, allowing this VCF relocation/Academy demolition-and-rebuild episode to proceed without a hitch. With all the vacancies that allowed Academy to take over its land as well as the one right here that allowed for VCF's relocation, it seems like this scenario simply must have been meant to be!
I remember the whole demolition and construction deal taking place myself, and being happy not only that Value City Furniture had been allowed to stay in the shopping center, but especially so that it was occupying an existing vacant big box in so doing. I'm sure I've said this before, but I absolutely love when stores backfill existing retail space!! Otherwise, those shells are a complete waste just sitting empty...
I've been linking to LoopNet images of the shopping center's former setup and lease plan throughout this description, and just for kicks, here's one more photo of the old VCF before its move.
(It's worth noting that the old VCF logo remains up on the roadside pylon. The more things change...)
Value City Furniture (now closed) // 8044 Giacosa Place, Memphis, TN 38133
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
This irregular chalk block was recovered from the deliberate backfill of a communication trench at Larkhill, Wiltshire. The chalk block has inscribed upon it the names of 12 Australian Soldiers of A Company, 43rd Battalion, 11th Brigade, 3rd Division; including that of Lawrence Carthage Weathers.
To find out more about the chalk block and the story of Lawrence Weathers, please follow the link below:
After biding my time the return trip was underway. I headed up to Moon Road to watch them wind their way up out of the coulee, roaring to the heavens. In a few car lengths the conductor will swing aboard for the rest of the trip back to Warden.
Despite a generally arid climate, it looks like the Columbia Basin deals with muddy gumbo when things are wet. Spots like this show signs of excavating and backfilling the mainline. September 4, 2023.
This is the first part of a concept series I am finally starting thanks to the prompting of the DEDPXL08 assignment.
This particular concept was borne out of reading the novel "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" by Haruki Murakami. If you have not read Murakami's work, he is excellent at drawing out an atmosphere in such a way as I have never read before. I was inspired by his work to create my own interpretation of a scene from the end of the novel, with some creative liberties taken.
Major help both in creative and modeling departments from Peter Longno, tagged in photo. Please check out his work, he is an amazing photographer.
Strobist:
Backfill/rim - PCB E640 on camera left, behind subject ~15 degrees and 20 yards. 1/64 power with a 20 degree grid in reflector.
Ambient at train station for all other light.
Triggered with Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 and PowerMC2.
Egad, it has been longer than I realized since I shot and scanned a roll of film. Aspiring to do better!
A panoramic view of Ffos-y-fan opencast colliery near Merthyr Tydfil, dominated by the mounds of spoil that will be used to backfill the site. Just visible left of centre is Class 66 no.66098 at the head of the 1039 from Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery, the loading facilities for which are just off to the right. Class 66 no.66164 is right of centre, propelling a set of empties newly arrived from Earles Sidings (Hope) onto the loading pad.
Extra-wet conditions and high flow in the Kissimmee River brought the MacArthur Ditch backfill contract to a stop from September into early October. Construction is scheduled to resume in mid-October.
circa 2009
This pin is really fun to touch, and was even more rewarding to make. I was looking to continue with many of the stylistic choices I'd made in my other white pieces, going for something simple and sleek.
I started with a line drawing of the three main structural elements, and the outer pieces were formed through handmade dies adapted from the drawing. The right side features a surface made from a customized texture sheet (also made from polymer clay). Backfilled dots complete the design. The form on the left is my favourite. I can't tell you how good it felt, after many years immersed in polymer's infinite world of colour, pattern, and texture, to make this form in smooth simple white. My feeling was, with all the visual complexity polymer is capable of, sometimes it makes a bigger statement to choose simplicity. Both of these two outer forms have the same 'racing stripe' edges as the beads in my White Necklace: in the necklace, the orange piping surrounding every bead is the same, bringing unity to the assorted forms and surfaces; in this piece, the cross sections of the two backing layers differ slightly from each other, to complement the edges in the same way the surfaces complement each other.
The central cylinder was made by wrapping contrasting layers concentrically around a tube. I had to be very precise with the thickness of the clay layers so that the final diameter fit snugly within the space created by the two interlocking forms. The orange bowl in the centre began as a slab with a grid of 'Lines' that I peeled to create a thin veneer. I used a circular template to cut the veneer into a circle, and then I draped that circle upside down over a dome support for baking. Turning a flat circle into a three-dimensional dome will reduce the diameter of the original veneer. To ensure that the final dome fit tightly into the cylinder as I needed it to here, I had to start with a circle that was slightly larger than the cylinder's opening. I determined this size through trial and error. A very thin interior rim lines the inside of the cylinder, flush with the front. Once baked, the dome was inserted from behind and it rests against this rim. It was important to me that the edges of the dome not be visible.
The little white ball in the centre of the piece was rolled by hand and baked separately. Then I used a pin vise and tiny drill bit to drill holes in both the white ball and the orange bowl, so I could securely connect them with a small wire rod. I put a drop of cyanoacrylate glue on one end of the rod and pushed it into the pre-drilled hole in the ball. I put more glue on the other end of the rod and then pushed that into the hole in the bowl. The little white ball is very secure within the piece.
I used a similar system of holes and rods to put the pin together. The three structural parts are attached with three metal rods imbedded into the edges of the forms. One of them (the first one I did), connects the centre cylinder with the textured form on the right. Once those were joined, I connected the two outer forms where they meet at the top and bottom. For the pin back, two metal tie tack posts were baked into the back of the pin. The connecting clutches attach to the posts for wearing.
The Polar Pin has been featured in Polymer Arts Magazine, and is currently part of the permanent collection at Woman Creative Art & Jewelry Design Center Gallery in Buford, GA.
The downspout had to be removed and straightened as well as to allow room to work in backfilling and smoothing out the ground. Landscape fabric is applied to serve as a boundary to prevent weeds from inhabiting the freshly laid stone.
You can see the sifting table I constructed in the lower right hand corner of this photo. This was a time-saver!