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St Bryce Kirk (or St Brycedale as it was originally) was opened in 1881. It was always a large building, and in the 80s it underwent considerable internal remodelling with a floor being constructed across the church at gallery level.
This is the old console of the Brindley & Foster organ which was originally sited immediately under the pipes above the communion table at the front. It is now preserved as a museum piece.
Our temporary desk setup for the new telescope control system, before we start ripping out the innards of the old console so we can place this in there.
After we realised we hadn't been operating with the Z gear corrections being applied correctly for 3 months (someone forgot to call the function), we did another pointing test and the first star came straight down the middle.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN--Simple, breath-taking! This console mixes raw wood and hand-worked metal to come up with something greater than the sum of its parts. Perfect for entryway! 102 x 36 cm, height 90 cm
Week 5, Day 5
This is going to be my office next week.
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Monument in the church of St Andrew, Norwich, to Robert Suckling († 1589), a mercer, sheriff (1564) and twice mayor of Norwich (1572 and 1582), with his first wife, Elizabeth Barwick († 1569), shown facing each other across a prayer desk. Their children, four sons and five daughters, are shown as mourners. His father, Richard, was a baker and alderman. (There is also a monument to Robert Suckling's son, Sir John, and his wife, Martha, in the same chapel). The alabaster wall-monument is set in an architectural surround with bulging capitals and consoles under a cornice. Below, skulls are placed on chalice stands filled with ripe and decaying pomegranates. The one on the left (seen here) is original while the one to the right is a replacement following theft. The heraldic crest with a buck or a stag, above, was augmented with honeysuckle (held in the stag's mouth) by Elizabeth I in 1578 when she visited Norwich and was entertained by Robert Suckling, This was presumably as an allusion to the family name.
This is the console of my car. Lots of writing paper (of course) and a mechanical pencil (not a pen, which would leak in the intense heat of summer and freeze in the bitter cold winter). In the cup holders (at the moment - this stuff changes a lot) are a loupe, and a couple of dozen Trivial Pursuit cards.
About those cards... They look to be in rough shape, don't they? Here's the story. On the way to work one day I saw a card lying on the pavement. It had an image of Edgar Allen Poe (an engraving). When I flipped it over I saw that it was a Trivial Pursuit card. I'd never seen this edition with images on one side. I took it into the office and had fun that day testing co-workers' knowledge - co-workers that I knew, through conversation, had some knowledge of Edgar Allen Poe as well as other practically useless information in their heads - practically useless, as in applying it to anything necessary in daily living, but not useless when it comes to fun conversation. We speculated as to how the card wound up there in the parking lot where I found it. So the card was a nice aside for the day...
After work, as I walked a different way to the car than I did to get to the building that morning, I discovered more cards. I picked them up. Some were nearly pristine. Others had been wet, or stepped on and dirt was ground in, or driven over and there were impressions of gravel that, in the case of larger ones, nearly punctured through the card. They made a thick pack, being no longer flat. I took them all home and cleaned them up.
Over the next week I kept my eyes open and found more cards, some in places far from where I'd found the first one. The wind had distributed them far and wide. Eventually there were no more sightings.
So why did I gather, clean up and keep these cards? Because that's a large part of the story of my life. Noticing. Noticing the little things that are invisible background to most folks. I have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). One of the books had a good line. An empty toilet paper roll is trash to most people. But to someone with ADD, it’s a craft item. The person’s imagination is replete with all the uses of the roll – all the things that could be created using it. They’re imagined visually, and the process is enjoyed. And it’s thought that someday those things will be made. It’s exciting. And the empty toilet paper roll is kept, not thrown out.
Now multiply that by nearly everything encountered on a daily basis and there you have a good picture of the tendencies in me. Fortunately, there’s some control exerted to keep from hanging on to dozens of things each day, but some things always seem to slip through. And clutter already-out-of-control gets added to. And what’s more, the already-out-of-control mind clutter gets added to – with projects that there is some actual intention of doing someday in the future. So many that it would taken a hundred lifetimes to really do them all. And yet they can’t be let go. I still have a “to do” list from when I was a teenager that has tasks on it I still intend to do!
Crazy...
So that answers why I still have those cards. Partially. Here’s the rest of it. Trivial Pursuit cards are an interesting diversion with friends when driving, if conversation lags. And they often get a new topic going.
And here’s more... Another reason for retaining the cards... There’s something about having collected the disparate cards from where the forces of Nature carried them... Something magical, even... Certainly something that has a tale to tell - and that’s one thing that grabs me, as you can very well imagine...
ADD’s tendencies were and are integral to who I am. ADD is hell and heaven, both. As I wrote to a flickr friend in frustration not long ago, the very impulses that hijack me to squander hour-upon-hour obsessively in mostly meaningless pursuits (meaningless in relationship to my bigger picture meaning – that is, what I’d like to be doing with my time in the short span of life left to me in this world), are the same impulses that are the source of my prolific artistic pursuits – drawing, writing, photography, music, and much more, including fascination with topics that results in intense research in them – which is how I picked up so much information that makes its way into what you see and read in my flickr photostream. There's great satisfaction in most of that. There's also the knowledge that, while they are a more satisfying hijacking (the Muse is great company), they are hijacking nevertheless. My priorities tend to be dictated by my ADD-driven impulses. The content and direction of my life tends to be determined by those impulses, not my intention, and I scream and rage as I'm ("I'm" meaning the me inside here that knows what's most meaningful) dragged along for the ride. I have fun while I'm hijacked. Fun isn't, by itself, what makes spending those precious elapsing days that remain for me in life... worthwhile.... The fun/stimulation is finally counterpoised, and then overweighted, by the hollowness - the hollowness - of that very fun/stimulation (even as I still experience the immediacy of the high of it). Gaaaaaaahhh!!!!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote that "Life is always drawing us away from the understanding of life."
Don’t I know it.... It sucks, ya know? And it’s also wonderful – how the world immerses us in the moment. Such an experience... that oneness! Hours fly like minutes. That facility to oneness is deeply spiritual when occurring in meaningful ways... I’m grateful for that, and for all of the multitude of moments each day that I notice some little vignette and experience an elation of wonder and beauty – a gift that is largely responsible for my photographer’s “good eye”...
Sigh...
The loupe in my console can be looked through in two ways, each opposite from the other, but each necessary for the other to work. Give up one, and you give up the other....
Still a work in progress, i still have some details to add but the controls are mostly done on the panels
Detection radar console that was once part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
BMEWS (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System
Peterson Air & Space Museum
Peterson AFB, Colorado
Peterson Air & Space Museum Web Site:
Peterson Air & Space Museum (Wikipedia):
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13-02-10 'm stuck in the office all weekend. My wife is on nights all weekend. We will see each other for about 20 mins each day untill Monday. It's Valentine's day tomorrow! Our first as man and wife. This really sucks. Todays shot reflect some of the geeky comments that were made on yesterday's post on flickr. This is a console port on a switch, with a rollover cable attached. Dont know why this stood out today. I took a photowalk around the office and I was drawn to the rainbow colours in the rollover cable. It was processed with colour efex pro again, specifically one of the wonderful cross processing settings.
Manual Page Read: At work all weekend. I'll try and read a page tonight when I get home though.
Images Viewed: I found a new blog. Its called Stuck in Customs and its curated by Trey Ratcliff. Take a look, there are some wonderful images in there!
Other Inspiration: Yesterday I had the wonderful experience of being featured on Tasra Mar's 365 site! Tasra was a big inspiration for me to start this 365 so it's a great honor to have my story and my pictures featured over there! I'm so proud!
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My 365 blog - greg365.mcmull.in
29.25" by 5.75" by 32" h.
One of 6 new tables, made in a 2 day "rush", for a Open Studio Show in my studio.
All 6 tables are "rePurposed" from Vintage bits, left over from other projects.
look for other examples of my rePurposed Furniture @ www.kramerdesignstudio.com/repurposed.htm
Neal from JP2Way began tearing down the old console positions the week before. This is console position 5, unplugged and being prepared for removal from the dispatch center.
Must not have been good for a while judging from the weeds around the TV and grime on the chair. Heck of a place to enjoy your old console TV, I did not however see either rabbit ears or an antenna in the tree... Except for the cabinet, looks good as new...a bargain hunter's delight...
Some of my limited edition consoles:
Madden 09, Batman:Joker, Batman: Cycle, Ninja Gaiden 2, Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles,Simpsons Movie, and several custom consoles
The serial number is 066, and it is from the late 70's/early 80's. They were made in Houston Texas and there is little to no information anywhere on this make. I did get the manual, and it is an interesting log book of this board's history, including badly hand drawn schematics, cryptic documentation, Radio Shack receipts for diodes purchased for it in 1981. Who knows what variety of sound this thing has had through it in the past 30 years... but I do know it is either going to love me, or make my life a living hell. We shall see. So far so good. Sorry for the bad photo.