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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.
The last couple of weeks I have been going through boxes of old pre-digital photos. Luckily I found a number of pics of building demolitions, which I will share with you here on flickr.
Located near Montrose and Broadway, Buena Memorial Presbyterian Church was demolished in 1996 not long after the roof collapsed. Even though some elements couldn't be saved, including the large pipe organ, over 50 windows were salvaged. A few of the hand-painted panels were done by the firm Gianini & Hilgart in 1905.
Here's a link with more info:
uptownhistory.compassrose.org/2007/09/buena-memorial-pres...
Map artist not credited; via Ideals Magazine "Adventure" 1958.
I was at a thrift store and found a 1958 Ideals magazine with the theme "Adventure". Besides the usual schmaltzy poetry (which includes the obligatory photo of lilies of the valley, which can be found in almost every edition of Ideals Magazine), there was a long travelogue, illustrated with photos and sketches, and a wonderfully vintage map drawn by plus prints of paintings by Carlos Dreyer Spohr (1895-1975), a German painter and collector of Peruvian artifacts who lived in Puno.
Dreyer spent 30 years in Peru, painting and sketching the Peruvian people and their culture. His paintings and many of his artifacts, along with examples of Incan and Peruvian gold- and silver-work are on display in the Carlos Dreyer Museum in Puno.
Compass rose on a streetlight in Sitges, near Barcelona. The light in this coastal resort in November is staggering.
This is a Foucault Pendulum w/ Compass Rose/Timepiece - Came upon this beautiful feature in the Forest Lawn Mausoleum. A Foucault Pendulum was first created as an experiment in 1851 by the French physicist of the same name. Its purpose was to prove that the earth rotates on its axis kind of like a top does as it spins. The copper ball is suspended by a wire four stories high with a bearing that prevents any movement of the sphere as the buildind/earth under it rotates...proving that the earth on its axis under the suspended sphere. The sphere swings back and forth uniformly almost reaching to the very edges of the circle...after it is set in a specific motion by staff. This pendulum was not functioning. The compass rose is created of hand placed mosaic tiles with the fluorescent lights illuminating it. View large and you'll see various fields of study...law, medicine, music, painting, architecture, etc. As the earth moves, so move the compass rose and the time designations on the tile surface. I've seen one Foucault pendulum that actually has small bowling style pegs set up all around the outside edge of the circle and as the pendulum ball swings wide back and forth through the day, each peg is knocked over. This means the pendulum can serve not only to proved the earth moves but it can also serve as a timepiece. Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Long Beach, CA USA