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Compass Rose quintet performs in front of the Oak Park Public Library on August 12. That's my cousin thumping away on bass.
This Alt.Skirt was built for a client in Michigan who was unable to make it for a photo shoot (*but there will be photos of her in it soon!) so we decided to take a few on another model before it traveled to its owner.
Detail of the compass rose mosaic in front of Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument of the Discoveries), Belém, Lisboa (Lisbon), Portugal.
If you want to get an impression of the whole mosaic which is so unbelievably enormous, have a look at this photo by flickr-user Alexandre Costa.
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The structure is located on the northern bank of the Tagus River, limited by the Belém Marina, Algés and Dafundo Nautical Centre and the Museum of Popular Art (Portuguese: Museum de Arte Popular), and demarcated by stone pedestals with armillary spheres. Opposite the large square, and across the Avenida de Índia-Avenida de Brasília motorway, is the Praça do Império which fronts the Jerónimos Monastery, Belém Cultural Center and the green-spaces of the Jardim Vasca do Gama.
The original structure, which Telmo, Barros and Almeida created, was erected in steel and cement, while the 33 statutes was produced in a composite of plaster and tow. Ostensibly a 52 m-high slab standing vertically along the bank of the Tagus, the design takes the form of the prow of a caravel (ship used in the early Portuguese exploration). On either side of the slab are ramps that join at the river's edge, with the figure of Henry the Navigator on its edge. On either side of the Infante, along the ramp, are 16 figures (33 in total) representing figures from the Portuguese Age of Discovery. These great people of the era included monarchs, explorers, cartographers, artists, scientists and missionaries. Each idealized figure is designed to show movement towards the front (the unknown sea), projecting a direct or indirect synthesis of their participation in the events after Henry.
The South African government was responsible for gifting the construction of the square in front of the monument: the 50 metre diameter Rosa-dos-Ventos (compass rose), was executed using different types of marble. Designed by the architect Cristino da Silva, it includes a Mappa mundi that 14 metres wide, showing the routes of Portuguesecarracks and caravels during the Age of Discovery.
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Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
"The customers pay before they even see what they're paying for! There'll be money in that business." -Barney Balaban
$4MM, 4,381 seat "Spanish Mexican Renaissance" movie theater designed for Balaban and Katz chain by brothers C.W. (1861-1927) and George L. (1878-1949) Rapp -- Rapp and Rapp, Chicago • actually a complex of 4 bldg. sections • client requested a design that would "leave patrons awestruck" • 8-story terra cotta facade • one of world's largest air conditioning systems • 10,000 pipe Wurlitzer organ • largest single-screen theater ever in Chicago • current marquee dates from 50s • "grande window" above marquee originally outlined by light bulbs set at 1' intervals
opening day marquee read "ONE OF THE GREAT ART BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD - AN ACRE OF SEATS" -- over 12,000 in line for tickets to first show
"Watch the eyes of a child as it enters the portals of our great theatres and treads the pathway into fairyland. Watch the bright light in the eyes of the tired shopgirl who hurries noiselessly over carpets and sighs with satisfaction as she walks amid furnishings that once delighted the hearts of queens. See the toil-worn father whose dreams have never come true, and look inside his heart as he finds strength and rest within the theatre. There you have the answer to why motion picture theatres are so palatial. Here is a shrine to democracy where there are no privileged patrons. The wealthy rub elbows with the poor -- and are better for this contact." -George L. Rapp, architect
"Here is the Uptown Theatre. It is beyond human dreams of loveliness, rising in mountainous splendor, achieving that overpowering sense of tremendous size and exquisite beauty-a thing that comes miraculously seldom." -Balaban & Katz Magazine, Aug. 17, 1925
"Eclipsing in size, splendor and impressiveness anything that has been built in the last few years of hectic theater construction, this new house is not only beyond doubt the most gorgeous movie palace in the world, but is so far above its neighborhood that the North Side will be years before it is worthy of it." -Variety
not a big money-maker for Balaban & Katz • stage shows added, then cut • to raise cash, sold off the Wurlitzer and about 100 original oil paintings that were part of the decor • purchased by American Broadcasting Co., 1969, became part of Plitt Theatres chain • closed, 1981 • several plans for restoration and conversion to music venue have fallen through but efforts to save the Uptown continue
Barney Balaban (1887-1971) later became president of Paramount Pictures • actor/producer/director Bob Balaban (b. 1945) is nephew of Barney and Abe Balaban
home page • Uptown, World's Largest And Finest, Opens -Chicago Evening American, 18 August 1925 • Uptown Theatre -Jazz Age Chicago • Uptown Theatre: A Glorious Sanctuary for Some -Chicago Sun Times (Buried Chicago) • Sleeping Beauty -Chicago Tribune • video (25:58): Uptown: Portrait of a Palace (2006) • Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago landmark, 1991 • National Register #86003181, 1986 • NRHP nomination form • Uptown Historic District National Register ##00001336, 2000
"The customers pay before they even see what they're paying for! There'll be money in that business." -Barney Balaban
$4MM, 4,381 seat "Spanish Mexican Renaissance" movie theater designed for Balaban and Katz chain by brothers C.W. (1861-1927) and George L. (1878-1949) Rapp -- Rapp and Rapp, Chicago • actually a complex of 4 bldg. sections • client requested a design that would "leave patrons awestruck" • 8-story terra cotta facade • one of world's largest air conditioning systems • 10,000 pipe Wurlitzer organ • largest single-screen theater ever in Chicago • current marquee dates from 50s • "grande window" above marquee originally outlined by light bulbs set at 1' intervals
opening day marquee read "ONE OF THE GREAT ART BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD - AN ACRE OF SEATS" -- over 12,000 in line for tickets to first show
"Watch the eyes of a child as it enters the portals of our great theatres and treads the pathway into fairyland. Watch the bright light in the eyes of the tired shopgirl who hurries noiselessly over carpets and sighs with satisfaction as she walks amid furnishings that once delighted the hearts of queens. See the toil-worn father whose dreams have never come true, and look inside his heart as he finds strength and rest within the theatre. There you have the answer to why motion picture theatres are so palatial. Here is a shrine to democracy where there are no privileged patrons. The wealthy rub elbows with the poor -- and are better for this contact." -George L. Rapp, architect
"Here is the Uptown Theatre. It is beyond human dreams of loveliness, rising in mountainous splendor, achieving that overpowering sense of tremendous size and exquisite beauty-a thing that comes miraculously seldom." -Balaban & Katz Magazine, Aug. 17, 1925
"Eclipsing in size, splendor and impressiveness anything that has been built in the last few years of hectic theater construction, this new house is not only beyond doubt the most gorgeous movie palace in the world, but is so far above its neighborhood that the North Side will be years before it is worthy of it." -Variety
not a big money-maker for Balaban & Katz • stage shows added, then cut • to raise cash, sold off the Wurlitzer and about 100 original oil paintings that were part of the decor • purchased by American Broadcasting Co., 1969, became part of Plitt Theatres chain • closed, 1981 • several plans for restoration and conversion to music venue have fallen through but efforts to save the Uptown continue
Barney Balaban (1887-1971) later became president of Paramount Pictures • actor/producer/director Bob Balaban (b. 1945) is nephew of Barney and Abe Balaban
home page • Uptown, World's Largest And Finest, Opens -Chicago Evening American, 18 August 1925 • Uptown Theatre -Jazz Age Chicago • Uptown Theatre: A Glorious Sanctuary for Some -Chicago Sun Times (Buried Chicago) • Sleeping Beauty -Chicago Tribune • video (25:58): Uptown: Portrait of a Palace (2006) • Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago landmark, 1991 • National Register #86003181, 1986 • NRHP nomination form • Uptown Historic District National Register ##00001336, 2000
Very cool tiles from artist Matt Matijczyk in Point Arena, CA. . These tiles are fired at very high temps and pieces of glass are added before the firing. The tiles end up with a sparkling crackle glaze. The glass melts and fuses to the tiles. A dazzling effect that creates a deep watery look, kind of "geode-like". My hubby made the great frames and I did a honey colored stain.