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371 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC.
This is one of Kamloops’ finest downtown brick business blocks. It was built in 1914 by G.W. & R. Godman as an office and commercial building. A few years previous, the Ellis family had moved to Kamloops from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The father, W.J. Ellis, opened a garage and machine shop on Lorne Street, which remained in business until 1982. One of the sons, W.O. Ellis, became a pharmacist and in 1917 formed a partnership with A. Galloway. They opened an office and pharmacy on the ground floor of the Godmans’ block.
The Galloway-Ellis drugstore continued in operation on this site under various owners until 1994. The name of the business block was changed to Ellis Block in 1951 when W.O. Ellis bought the building.
This block was built by Kamloops contractors, Johnston & Gill using their own signature bricks. It is a two-storey building, with a basement. On the east side, the main entrance is flanked by two large granite Doric columns. Step back to appreciate the brick frieze and ornamental parapet along the top edge of the building.
Gas block for my WIP. Figured y'all could use it, too. Thoughts? It spawns at 200. Remember to credit.
BTS of James Maslow & Tommy Flanagan during blocking on set of "Wild For The Night" the movie
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Tri-x400 rated @ 1600asa
Developed in Xtol for 11 minutes
Epson V700
Ok..may not be the block of my dreams...but got 23 of them for $20. Enough to do a low wall. Now the chipping off the old cement...wish me luck.
It's easy to shut down the street for a block party! www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=33907
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This is the block that will produce the grey tone in this piece that I have been working on all winter. It obviously represents some agricultural machine but I love the abstract feel of the piece with all its sweeping curves. It took so long to produce because a great many of the small dots of texture had to be left standing proud when the ground had been carved away. I am so glad to have finished it. This is the block after the first coverage of ink. The image above of the final print is one that I am happy with. The first eight that I did I was not happy with (more paper wasted). Size 300mm square or approximately a foot square.
Incidentally, I think I am pretty good with a plane and I made the boards to carve this image from by hand and planned it myself. There are still the tiniest ridges here and there though that I need to improve on next time because they gave me a little trouble whilst trying to print the image.
342 Water Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Burns Block is a five storey plus lower level stone-clad commercial building located in the historic district of Gastown, in the triangle of land where Water Street joins West Cordova Street. It has similar primary facades facing both streets, and terminates the vista to the north on Homer Street. The northern slope of the site towards the original waterfront allows a partial exposure of the lower level.
Heritage Value:
Gastown is the historic core of Vancouver, and is the city's earliest, most historic area of commercial buildings and warehouses. The Burns Block is representative of the importance of Gastown as the trans-shipment point between the terminus of the railway and Pacific shipping routes, and the consequent expansion of Vancouver into western Canada's predominant commercial centre in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The massive cubic form and notable height of this structure are a clear indication of the extent and prosperity of commercial trade during this period.
The Burns Block is significant as an important design by William Blackmore (1842-1904), one of Vancouver's earliest and most prolific architects. Blackmore's mature work in the Romanesque Revival style helped to establish the character of Gastown as a successful and progressive commercial district. The style had a powerful rhythm and unity of materials that conveyed corporate strength and security appropriate to Late Victorian sensibilities. The three Romanesque entrance arches, with carved capitals and grotesque keystone heads, reflects the more eclectic, medieval-inspired aspects of the style.
The economic boom of the pre-World War One era was reflected by the addition of two additional storeys in 1911, designed in a compatible style by architects Grant and Henderson, to accommodate expanding business needs.
Source: City of Vancouver, Heritage Planning Street Files
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Burns Block include:
- location, in close proximity to the waterfront of Burrard Inlet and the Canadian Pacific Railway yard
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- location on a trapezoidal lot, with two street frontages and a return onto an alley, as a result of the irregular street layout of Gastown
- five-storey plus lower level flat-roofed symmetrical form, scale and massing
- masonry construction: rough-dressed sandstone used on both the Water Street and West Cordova Street facades; brick demising walls; and parged brick side facades
- Romanesque Revival style, as exemplified by the pier-and-spandrel motif, rough-dressed masonry, round-headed entrance arches, carved capitals and grotesque keystone heads
- two round-arched entries on West Cordova Street, and one larger arched entry on Water Street
- regular fenestration, employing double-hung 1-over-1 wood-sash windows on the upper floors
- large rectangular ground floor windows with monolithic sandstone sills and lintels
- elaborate sheet metal cornices with heavy brackets
- heavy timber frame internal structure
- interior features such as brick demising walls
The building was called The Buscombe Building at one time.
These are all the pieces that go into making the Robot designed by Jess Hutch from her booklet Unusual Toys to Knit. I'm giving this fellow to my friend for xmas. Hopefully I'll have him all sewn up tonight! You can see my ghetto blocking style... it's a piece of cardboard from a box with lines dawn on it in permanent marker. I really need a blocking board! blogged
May 5, 2008 (126/366)
I believe proper knitters use t-pins for blocking, but I don't have any, so some of my quilting pins have to do double duty.
For her blocks in the Tag Square Bee Jo asked for pink and white blocks. Our theme in this bee is squares and this month I wanted to make squares without using squares. This block is just half square triangles. I'm really happy with how it turned out!
Our Daily Challenge 14-20 January : Water
This huge puddle just outside my gate is a temptation to some to create a wave. Sadly nobody obliged whilst I was taking pics, but one of my lodgers was a victim of an idiot who targeted her on purpose.
I changed the corner prints of block #2 for a less busy block to fit in better with my new layout idea
PORT GENTILE, Gabon (Jan. 12, 2008) Seaman Wilfredo Jirauruiz blocks a spike during a volleyball game against the Vieille Gloire (Old Glory) team a local Gabonese volleyball team. Africa Partnership Station (APS) uses sports games like this one as a way to create partnerships throughout West and Central Africa. APS is a multi-national effort to bring the latest training and techniques to maritime professionals in nine West and Central African countries, and to address the common threats of illegal fishing, smuggling and human trafficking. In addition to maritime training, APS will perform more than 20 humanitarian projects in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class RJ Stratchko (Released)
(1361), A few stacks of stock piled blocks fell over onto the side of an Hanson lorry, (photo courtesy of RM.
From the autumn 2016 trip to Vietnam:
Upon waking up and checking out around 8:00 in the morning, we found a bright, sunny day; great for a road trip down to Hoi An. After a quick breakfast (also known as me watching Junebug drink coffee), we went back to the store where we’d met Mr. Trung on Monday night.
Mr. Trung & Mr. Trong were there, as they said they would be, and we were off for a quick stop at the Danang Cathedral a few blocks away. This particular cathedral, also called Con Ga Church (Rooster Church) by the locals is slightly peculiar. For starters, it’s a lovely pastel pink. Aside from that, it’s a rather nice looking cathedral, though we couldn’t go inside; it wasn’t open that early in the morning, I suppose. (Some of the windows were open, though, and it was dark inside, so we didn’t miss much.)
The other aspect of this church – that lends to its local name – is the weathercock on top of the steeple. This isn’t an old church (as far as churches go). It was buily for Danang’s French residents in 1923 and today serves a Catholic community of over 4000. (Thanks to LP for this information…)
After 5-10 minutes at the church, we headed off to the Museum of Cham Sculpture, which is a place I was quite interested in seeing. This museum was founded in 1915 and has the largest collection of Cham artefacts in the world. (Before you allow that to excite you, I doubt there are more than a handful of museums in the world that even have Cham art.)
A quick note about the Cham. This is an ancient empire that rivaled the neighboring Khmer empire at Angkor. The Champa empire was nowhere near as large in scope or size as the Khmer empire, though it persevered. The Chams controlled the region on the Vietnamese coast from central to southern Vietnam between the 2nd and the 19th century (before finally being assimilated into Vietnam).
The art from this museum comes from sites all over the country including Phu Quoc and My Son. I was quite impressed by the collection and spent about an hour slowly walking around. It’s not a huge museum, but what they have is excellent.
From the museum, we finally headed off from Danang and made our way south towards Hoi An. Thanks to the advice of Mr. Trung, we stopped at Marble Mountain on the way to Hoi An. (I kept thinking it sounds like an amusement park…) Instead, I’ll give an excerpt from LP Vietnam about the Marble Mountains as it’s fairly succinct and says most of what you need to know:
“Just off the China Beach coastal road, the Marble Mountains (Ngu Hanh Son) consist of five craggy marble outcrops topped with pagodas. Each mountain is named for the natural element it’s said to represent: Thuy Son (Water), Moc Son (Wood), Hoa Son (Fire), Kim Son (Metal or Gold) and Tho Son (Earth). The villages that have sprung up at the base of the mountains specialize in marble sculpture, though they now astutely use marble from China rather than hacking away at the mountains that bring the visitors (and buyers) in.”
When you say you’re going to the Marble Mountains, what you really mean to say is that you’re going to Thuy Son. For about $2-3, you take an elevator up to the top of the mountain. This is the “crowded” mountain in terms of sites and, therefore, people, though it didn’t feel crowded at all – especially by Chinese standards that I’m accustomed to.
The first thing you see upon exiting the elevator at the top of the mountain is a pavilion that affords a nice view of the sea. The Sea Watch Tower & Xa Loi Pagoda are a good introduction to this mountain.
After that, you come to the first temple & cave. The Linh Ung Pagoda is directly in front of the Tang Chon Cave. From there, it’s a short, and not too strenuous, walk upstairs towards the peak. En route, you pass Van Thong Cave (which we skipped), exiting a “gorge” through a masonry gate.
At this point, you come to an area that can go off in quite a few directions. Immediately to the right of the gate is a short walk up to Linh Nham Cave (which we skipped); a relaxation area with another walk off that to the peak (skipped…); a path to Tam Thai Pagoda, Tam Ton Pagoda, and Tu Tom Pagoda (visited all). In addition, the River Watch Tower is off in this direction with its views of the other 4 Marble Mountains and Danang in the distance.
After visiting the pagodas, we returned to the main junction and visited the last two caves (past the relaxation area). Hoa Nghiem Cave guards the entrance to Huyen Khong Cave, which is a somewhat large cavern with a natural oculus.
From there, we walked down to the village at the base, and I bought a little marble Buddha. We talked with Mr. Trong for a few minutes about getting from Hoi An to Hue on Thursday. With very little negotiation, we paid 1.35 million VND/person (~$60). For a point of comparison, the domestic flights in Vietnam all seem to be less than $50, so this was a bit pricy, but also worth it.
With “negotiating” done, we were off again to Hoi An, about 20 kilometers off to the south. The Hoang Trinh Hotel was – by far – the best customer service I’ve had at a hotel on this trip (and possibly anywhere). It felt like we were being welcomed on Fantasy Island. The only thing missing was Tattoo shouting, “De plane! De plane!”
Madam An’s hotel is a wonderful experience. Buffet breakfast; comfortable, trendy rooms; tour arrangements and other advice; and the friendliest demeanor you could wish for. They even gave me a free tie when we checked out. The cost for this? About $25/night.
The Hoang Trinh hotel is right across the street from the Confucian Temple (which was incredibly unappealing to me) and, more importantly, close to the Old Town, which is the reason most people come to Hoi An.
Every full moon, Hoi An has a lantern festival which is supposed to be quite lovely, though we weren’t here during a full moon. That, however, didn’t keep me from enjoying myself. The Old Town is just a section of town near the river where all the buildings appear as they did centuries ago. Inside the buildings now, though, are restaurants (Vietnamese & western), bars, souvenir shops, and the like.
The Old Town is photogenic during day or night, but I liked it best at dusk. On Tuesday, after a quick rest at the hotel, we went to the Old Town in the early afternoon after grabbing some banh mi on the street.
Admission to the Old Town is 120,000 VND (~$5-6 US) and covers a full week. We spent the afternoon watching the sun go by, wandering around shops, and drinking beer (or coffee) on the riverside opposite Old Town. As the sun got lower, we wandered around the Old Town again, eventually eating a less-than-satisfying pizza (thank God I wasn’t too hungry) at one of the restaurants next to the river before passing by the Japanese Bridge on the way back to the hotel.
When we got back to the hotel, we had the fellow at the front desk (whose English wasn’t nearly as fluent as Jean, the day girl, but he was just as helpful) arrange a day trip on Wednesday to My Son, which is “Vietnam’s version of Angkor Wat.” More on that in the next installation.
As always, thanks for dropping by and viewing these pictures. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments and I’ll answer as I have time.
La historia comienza así;
Caminando por Santiago, encuentro una bella y antigua pintura en muy mal estado...
los ´cachureos´ estaban a quinientos pesos en ese rincón de la feria.
La chica del dibujo anónimo
esperó pensativa tal vez meses o años, por algo más de color,
sólo unos cuantos trazos pintaban la silueta y la escena,
no tenía ni el cabello para soñar nuevas historias.
Buscó en su habitación...
Sin dejar de lado su tristeza encontró algo más adentro...
Ella ahora, escribe todo rojo en su corazón.
Block de notas / acrílico sobre tela / 40 x 50 cm / FelipeSmides 2009
Last block of the Ruby McKim Farm Quilt design set. Finished 11/2/09! Done with DMC #355 6-strand-floss.
Waffle Blocks Wee Waffle Blocks Car Truck From the Collection of Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia and TheToyChannel on YouTube. Wee Waffle Blocks by Little Tykes Little Tikes Toys 1980's-1990's Toys
I really love the design of this block, especially the sharp outer points. How stunning would a whole quilt of this block look? Like that's gonna happen!
No, not the American football kind. Some of the rigging on the Bluenose II. We talked with one of the crew about the woven rope mat on the deck. They have one of those for every cleat on the deck with a metal loop attached. They keep the metal from banging and scrapping on the wood. The crew makes them themselves when they're on hiatus from sailing.