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Pasting from Wikipedia: Kresge Auditorium
Kresge Auditorium is an auditorium building for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the noted architect Eero Saarinen, with ground-breaking in 1953 and dedication in 1955. It was designed together with the MIT Chapel, the two buildings separated by a "green," referred to by students as the "Kresge Oval." The ensemble is recognized as one of the best examples of mid-Century modern architecture in the US. Though unassuming by today's standards, the buildings were part of an attempt to define MIT's social cohesion. The Auditorium was where MIT students and faculty could gather for formal events, the chapel was intended for marriages and memorial; the green that stretches between the two buildings, in the tradition of early-American urban planning, was to serve as the setting for civic events. Though the campus has grown around the buildings, the essential features of this idea are still easily legible. The building was named for its principal funder, Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of Kresge Stores (corporate predecessor of K-Mart) and the Kresge Foundation.
The auditorium is defined by an elegant thin-shell structure, one-eighth of a sphere rising to a height of 50 feet, and sliced away by sheer glass walls so that it comes to earth on only three points. Thin shelled concrete technology was innovative for the times. The dome weighs only 1200 tons and is clad with copper. Sitting on a circular brick platform, the dome contains a concert hall (with seating for 1226 people), with a lower level that houses a small theater (seating 204), two rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, offices, bathrooms, and lounges. The concert hall also contains a Holtkamp organ. The opening ceremony in 1955, that featured the organ, included a piece of music that was commissioned for the event, Aaron Copland's "Canticle of Freedom."
Every seat in concert hall has an unobstructed view since there are no interior supports for the overarching dome. Working with renowned acoustical architects Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Saarinen employed free-hanging acoustic "clouds" that absorb and direct sound, instead of a traditional plaster ceiling. These clouds also contained lights, loudspeakers, and ventilation.
While standing on either side of the entry lobby, one can distinctly hear people on the other side speaking in as low a voice as a whisper.
The first professional recording at the Kresge Auditorium was a performance by soloist James Stagliano on the French Horn, playing Mozart's 4 Concerti for Horn, accompanied by the Zimbler Sinfonietta. The recording was made using a single Telefunken microphone, positioned 10 feet from the concert platform. The performance was recorded on an Ampex tape recorder, and released on LP under the 'Boston Records' Label.
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Excel Mortgage & Investment
MAKING DREAMS HAPPEN
They must mean like that dream I had when I had my wisdom teeth out, and I was knocked out on Percoset. You know, the dream where I was on a hike in the mountains with a bunch of people, and the terrain kept getting harder and harder, and then we were being chased by wolves, and everyone just seemed to disappear, and it was just me and the wolves, and I was running & running and getting so tired, and then I came to this big brackish, polluted lake, and the only options were swim or the wolves, so I jumped in with my camping gear and everything, and started swimming for the other side, and the wolves came in after me, and then I woke up. In a cold sweat. Exhausted.
I hated that dream.
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This photo appeared on NPR's Planet Money blog on 5 Jun 2009, and on paltalk News Network on 9 Dec 2009.
The large building at the top-right is the Somerville Theatre, a cool old cinema that also does occasional concerts. It is also the proud home of the Museum of Bad Art, about which more later.
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This image also appears on www.gatewaytonepal.org/aboutgateway/.
If you like the pictures of the Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII, you should also check out the earlier ones of a 3000 MkII. :-)
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Pasting from Copley Motorcars:
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1964, Austin Healey 3000 MkIII BJ8
Exterior color
Colorado Red
Interior color
black
Mileage
70,900
Price
$34,800.00
The first of the MkIII "big" Healeys, 150hp 2.9 litre in-line 6 cylinder engine, 4 speed manual transmission, electronic over drive, wire wheels, original steering wheel, roll up windows, proper soft top, seat belts front and rear, well preserved older restoration.
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Pasting from Wikipedia: Austin-Healey 3000:
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The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 to 1967, and is the best known of the 'big' Healey models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors, and the vehicles were assembled at the BMC Abingdon works.
The 3000 was a successful car which won its class in many European rallies in its heyday - and is still used in competition by enthusiasts today.
[...]
The 3000 Mk III was launched in October 1963, and remained in production until the end of 1967 when production of Austin-Healeys finally ceased. (One further car was built in March 1968.) Classified as the BJ8, the new model was the most powerful and luxurious of the big Healeys, with a walnut-veneer dash, wind up windows, and 150 hp (112 kW) engine. Improvements to the engine included a new camshaft and valve springs, and twin SU 2" HD8 carburettors, together with a new design of exhaust system. Servo-assisted brakes were now fitted as standard. Only 2+2 seat versions were made. Option extras were similar to those offered for the MkII, the main change being that the standard interior trim was now Ambla vinyl, with leather seats being added to the list of options.
In May 1964 the Phase II version of the MkIII was released, which had a modified rear chassis to allow rear ground clearance to be increased, and subsequently, in March 1965 the car also gained separate indicators.
17,712 were made.[2]
Most people create reward systems for themselves when they manage to achieve their goals. A friend does the opposite. He set up a self-penalty system for punishing himself when he fails to achieve his goals. His penalty: burning 20-dollar bills. He keeps evidence of the penalty on his fridge as a constant reminder.
He reasoned that when the system is as harsh as burning one's own money, those goals are more readily achieved - for example, it serves as a great way to quit smoking. Each time you smoke a cigarette, you must burn a twenty-dollar bill.
He suggested that putting physical evidence as a penalty reminder is not something new: in the old times when the penalty of crime was getting one's head chopped off, cities used to place those heads on spears and placed at the town square to remind citizens to not commit crime.
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Uhm, what?
I'm totally willing to go along with the idea that the USA is, and has long been, an imperial power. If the definition of an "empire" is any state that exerts direct or indirect control over an external territory, then the definition certainly works.
(Hello, Iraq & Afghanistan, yes, but also Germany, Japan, & South Korea, who all agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for a tacit promise that the USA would protect them if they were ever attacked. If the USA is defending the territory, then it's no stretch that it's the USA's territory, even if under local independent administration. This isn't so different from how the Romans would have local independent governors administering Gallia, Germania, etc.)
But Lincoln? Wasn't his whole presidency consumed with trying to hold the Union together? He didn't have time for overseas adventures the way presidents before & since him did. During his presidency, the US added Kansas (1861), West Virginia (1863), and Nevada (1864), and all of them shared a border with an already-existing state.
Also, what's with the Japanese "Rising Sun" flag? Is the message that Lincoln was somehow in cahoots with Imperial Japan, which had only come out of centuries of isolation a handful of years before Lincoln came into office, and didn't really start acting in an imperial way (or, more to the point, using that imperial flag) until the Sino-Japanese War a few decades after Lincoln died? Really? Because if that's the message, I don't get the message.
Other than that though, clever poster, dude. Stick it to the man, Chomsky-ite. Word.
Similar views of the Stata Center: day, night.
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As tipped off by a commenter on Universal Hub, the label on the "Jack Daniels" whisky bottle actually seems to be identical to this image from the MIT Museum site, which reads:
Old
No. 5
East
Quality
Massachusetts
ROOF & TUNNEL
HACKERS
LAZARUS LIVES Prop. Inc.
Cambridge MASS.
For the rest of the background, I refer you to MIT's Hacks FAQ, and paste from Wikipedia: Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness or commemorate popular culture and historical topics.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The pranks are anonymously constructed at night by undergraduate students (hackers) and are governed by an extensive and informal body of precedent, tradition, and ethics. Although hacks can occur across campus, many make use of the prominent Great Dome. Hacker alumni include Nobel Laureate George F. Smoot.[7] Although the practice is unsanctioned by the university and students have been arraigned on trespassing charges for hacking,[8][9][10] hacks have substantial significance to MIT's history and student culture and several hacks are prominently featured as exhibits in recent buildings such as the Stata Center and MIT Museum.[11]
Famous hacks include a weather balloon labeled "MIT" appearing at the 50-yard line at the Harvard/Yale football game in 1982, placing a campus police cruiser on the roof of the Great Dome,[12] converting the Great Dome into R2-D2 or a large yellow ring to acknowledge the release of Star Wars Episode I and Lord of the Rings respectively,[13] or placing replicas of the Wright Flyer and a firetruck to acknowledge the anniversaries of first flight and the September 11th attacks respectively.[14]
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Welcome, @UniversalHub readers :-)
Tried to visit (what's left of) the Bell Labs facilities in Holmdel, NJ. The Eero Saarinen-designed main office buildings seem to be closed, but for now at least are still in good repair.
The really interesting thing to me though was the radio telescope atop Telegraph Hill at their Crawford Hill facility, where Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used the Horn Antenna to measure the cosmic microwave background raditation, and thus provided some of the first proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe.
Unfortunately, though the telescope has been established as a national historic landmark, it's still on private property, and the top of the hill is blocked from public access -- all I could get was glimpses through the trees from down the hill. Oh well.
The side entrance to the Holmdel complex was barricaded, but the main entrance around the corner was open, and you could drive right up to the other side of this gate.
Pasting from Wikipedia: Jordan Marsh, Enchanted Village:
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From the 1940s until 1972—and again in the early 1990s—the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston's Downtown Crossing was home to the Enchanted Village, a lavish Christmas display which at its height took over an entire floor of the department store and was also spotlighted in its display windows. From what started as a marketing gimmick, the Enchanted Village quickly became a legendary Boston tradition and an annual mainstay of the city's holiday season. Macy's discontinued the Enchanted Village in 1998 when it was moved to City Hall Plaza. [6] More recently it has been housed in the Hynes Convention Center.
On June 16, 2009, the Enchanted Village, including all props and figures was sold at auction, as the City of Boston could no longer afford to be a major sponsor of the annual event. [7] It was sold to Jordan's Furniture (no connection to Jordan Marsh), and will be on display for 3 months a year at the Avon, MA location.
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Pasting from Jordan's marketing page on Enchanted Village:
[[
The Enchanted Village
Returns to Greater Boston
JORDAN'S FURNITURE IS PROUD to host a true
New England tradition.
Once, called the Enchanted Village of St. Nicholas, the holiday display was originally created in 1958. At that time, Jordan Marsh Company commissioned a Bavarian toy maker to create 28 fully decorated holiday scenes with 250 “magically” animated figures.
The Spirit of Boston’s Holidays
Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, Jordan Marsh displayed the Enchanted Village in its Downtown Crossing store. The heart-warming display quickly became an integral part of New England’s seasonal celebrations. Until 1972, when Jordan Marsh closed the display, a trip to The Village was a traditional event.
A Tradition in Jeopardy
The Enchanted Village remained closed from 1972 until its rebirth in 1990. Then, in 1998, when Macy’s purchased Jordan Marsh, the Village was sold to the City of Boston for a City Hall Plaza display. In 2003, a lack of funding forced the Village to move to the Hynes Convention Center. By 2006, Boston stopped displaying The Village altogether. In 2009, the Village was put up for auction.
A Local Custom Continues
Jordan’s Furniture purchased the surviving pieces of the Enchanted Village at auction in May of 2009 and restored the vintage collection to its former glory. The surviving collection includes 59 mechanical figurines and 18 vignettes. The Village is on permanent display in Avon, and is open for all to enjoy during the holiday season.
The Enchanted Village is FREE for all ages!
Visit the HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE at the Avon store during normal store hours:
Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
PLUS! Santa Claus will visit the Enchanted Village each day. He will be available for Christmas requests and photos during the following hours:
Monday–Friday, Noon to 8 p.m.
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
I knew that flickr stats were glitchy but if this set of stats on a newly uploaded photo are an indicator of how the smartest monkeys at Flickr HQ write code, we're in for more trouble. Flickr is FUBAR.
Flickr, ie: Yahoo! wants to eliminate stats altogether. This is their plot to make stats utterly useless so we all quit our Pro accounts and go to their lousy, ad supported "free" accounts. The panda should be disappointed in you Flickr Staff!!
Reads, roughly, "In this house was on 5 Feb. 1916, the Cabaret Voltaire opened and the reasons for Dadaism"
Quoting from Wikipedia::
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In 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean/Hans Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber; along with others discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it. By some accounts Dada coalesced on October 6 at the cabaret.
At the first public soiree at the cabaret on July 14, 1916, Ball recited the first manifesto (see text). Tzara, in 1918, wrote a Dada manifesto considered one of the most important of the Dada writings. Other manifestos followed.
Marcel Janco recalled,
We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the "tabula rasa". At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order.
A single issue of Cabaret Voltaire was the first publication to come out of the movement.
After the cabaret closed down, activities moved to a new gallery, and Ball left Europe. Tzara began a relentless campaign to spread Dada ideas. He bombarded French and Italian artists and writers with letters, and soon emerged as the Dada leader and master strategist. The Cabaret Voltaire has by now re-opened, and is still in the same place at the Spiegelgasse 1 in the Niederdorf.
Zürich Dada, with Tzara at the helm, published the art and literature review Dada beginning in July 1917, with five editions from Zürich and the final two from Paris.
When World War I ended in 1918, most of the Zürich Dadaists returned to their home countries, and some began Dada activities in other cities.
Full circle panorama, split roughly in the middle. (Also see this version, which has an unbroken view.)
Standing at the stern of the USS Cassin Young, the World War 2 destroyer that is berthed next to the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") at the Charlestown Navy Yard national park.
I didn't realize it at the time, but the modern vessel marked "50" and docked next to Constitution is an active navy ship that was visiting Boston for shore leave at the time. The montage of the Constitution's stern shows that this ship is called "Taylor", making it the USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate.
Across the harbor to the top-right here, you can see the North End of Boston, with the downtown skyscrapers beyond. At the top-left you can make out some of Logan Airport in East Boston.
Nice details, #1: I like how this shows two versions of the guy in the brown jacket, first taking a photo at the top left, then just looking around at the bottom right. (Random thought: do one of these in a semi-crowded place like this and get multiple loops, so that the same people are shown several times doing different things.)
Nice details, #1: Isaac in his orange jacket walking over to the fence at the top right, then standing at the fence & looking over the water at the bottom left a moment later.
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I took a series of these panoramas the same day:
* Tobin Bridge #1 (under the tollbooths)
* Tobin Bridge #2 (over Little Mystic Channel)
* USS Cassin Young #1 (split panorama)
* USS Cassin Young #2 (full panorama)
Plus, of course, the other photomontages I've been putting up over the last few months.
Charles Ro Supply Co, "America's Largest Train Store". Pasting from Wikipedia:
Charles Ro Supply Company
USA Trains started out as part of Charles Ro Supply Company, the biggest train store, as well as America's largest Lionel dealer. USA Trains is a family-run business, started by father and son Charles Ro senior and junior.
Lionel
Charles Ro Supply Company was established in and it started out as a beauty shop business of 4 salons with sixty hairdressers but moved into the hobby business when Charles Ro, Sr. began selling used Lionel trains at one of the storefronts in Everett, Massachusetts. In 1972 Ro started purchasing directly from Lionel to sell them mail-order. By 1980, Ro had completed Lionel's first million dollar order. Also at this time, the company moved to a new location in Malden, Massachusetts into an old supermarket building. [4]
In 1982, Lionel moved production to Mexico, not producing model trains for 9 months. To make up for this, Ro began selling German-made large-scale model trains that were suitable for outdoor use. Realizing their popularity, Ro began making his own large scale model trains under the name Charles Ro Manufacturing Company. In 1989, business was moved into a new building, it's current location, in Malden, Massachusetts with 3 storeys and over 50,000 square feet of area. Until 1995, when manufactuuring was moved offshore, USA Trains were manufactured at this new location which also served as the store.
Awards/Recognition
In 1998, the GP 7/9 locomotive won Model Railroader's Reader's Choice Award
The Ultimate Series line introduced in 1999 won four Reader's Choice Awards
In 2003 , USA Train's Jle Hudson won the 2003 Reader's Choice Award
USA Trains claims to have the world's largest selection of G scale rolling stock
Looks like this was the 1898 version of "fair trade", "organic", etc "greenwash" marketing, in the way it talks about work conditions, worker training & housing, wages, etc.
It doesn't seem to have worked in the long run. By 1903, they were having strikes & legal arbitration, and at some point after they must have vanished, as I've never heard of them and I can't find a Google hit for anything less than 100 years ago.
Tried to visit (what's left of) the Bell Labs facilities in Holmdel, NJ. The Eero Saarinen-designed main office buildings seem to be closed, but for now at least are still in good repair.
The really interesting thing to me though was the radio telescope atop Telegraph Hill at their Crawford Hill facility, where Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used the Horn Antenna to measure the cosmic microwave background raditation, and thus provided some of the first proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe.
Unfortunately, though the telescope has been established as a national historic landmark, it's still on private property, and the top of the hill is blocked from public access -- all I could get was glimpses through the trees from down the hill. Oh well.
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Messerschmitt ME-163B-1a Komet:
Transferred from the United States Air Force
Manufacturer:
Country of Origin:
Germany
Dimensions:
96 x 366 x 211.75 in. (243.8 x 929.6 x 537.8 cm)
Physical Description:
Single-seat, single engine, mid wing, rocket-powered fighter, swept wing, semi-tailless, World War II
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Rocket Motor, Liquid Fuel, HWK 109-509 A-1:
Manufacturer:
Date:
1944-1945
Country of Origin:
Germany
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 ft. 3 in. tall x 3 ft. 1/2 in. wide x 8 ft. 5 1/2 in. deep x 8 in. diameter, 365 lb. (68.6 x 92.7 x 257.8 x 20.32cm, 165.6kg)
Materials:
Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Paint
The 109-509A-1 was the power plant for the World War II German Me 163 B-1 Komet rocket fighter. It was the first variable-thrust rocket engine to be installed in a service aircraft and employed hydrogen peroxide with a hydrazine hydrate/methanol mixture as propellants. Some peroxide was diverted to a catalytic chamber containing potassium permanganate, producing steam to drive turbopumps to move the propellants The engine produced from 200-1800 kg (660-3740 lbs) thrust for 8-10 minutes. Developed by the firm of Helmut Walter in Kiel, it went into series production in August 1944. The Me 163 B-1, the world's first and only operational rocket fighter, was used in attacks against U.S. bombers in the fall of 1944, but did not prove very successful.
The Smithsonian received this engine as a gift from Purdue University in 1967, which presumably had received it from the U.S. Air Force after World War II.
Gift of Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
Also taken while at the Golden Palm Tree Resort. This was the most relaxing trip I have taken for years. I didn't even have the intention to take photos while there - and ridding of all the traveling baggage was but one of the few steps one can take to be unplugged, and yet the location inspires me to record my memories. There are many things that could be expressed with an image which I can never put into words. This is one of them.
The plaque next to this car reads:
1946 Studebaker Midget
owned by Dr. Bob Collins
restored by Sammy Packard
Pasting from the website of the Collings Foundation:
The Collings Foundation Hosts:
Battle for the Airfield
WWII Reenactment and Living History Weekend
October 10th and 11th
Picture this:
….An undercover French Resistance Fighter met with the Allied Forces and showed the exact coordinates of the German encampment. The night before an elite German force over took a small grass airstrip just a few hundred feet away. The Allied Forces had to gain control of this airfield so they could fly in much-needed supplies. - It was going to be a tough fight.
How will the battle end? Will the Allied troops be able to gain control of the airfield and further their advancement? You will have to be here to find out. The Collings Foundation will host a Living History event you will never forget. You will be able to see original equipment from WWII in action. Everything from the cooking utensils to M1 rifles is original. The only event of this type - in the world. – Don’t miss it!
October 10th and 11th
Open Daily: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $15 Adults / $10 Children
This is a public event and reservations are not required.
Two reenactments per day: 11:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
Display will include:
* Aircraft: TBM Avenger, Wright "Vin Fiz" replica, 1909 Bleriot, Fokker DR-I replica, PT-17 Stearman, Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, North American AT-6 Texan, Fiesler Fi-156 Storch, and many more!
* Automobiles: Entire Collings Foundation collection - see list for details.
* Collings Foundation Gift Shop
* Vetran's Roundtable Discussion: Hear amazing stories from WWII Veterans about thier experiences during the war. 1:00 PM on hangar floor - both 10/10 and 10/11.
* PT-17 Stearman Rides - Limited Availability
* $230 for 1/2 Hour
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* See PT-17 Info here
* T-6 Texan Rides - Limited Availability
* $450 for 45 minutes
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* The WWII Battle reenactment will take place twice each day on the grass landing strip in front of the hangar. It will take place at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
* There will be suprises each battle!
* The Collings Foundation grounds are very nice and make a great setting for such an event. Getting here is tricky! Click on the link above for directions.
* The Fiesler FI-156 Storch has an incredible history during WWII. This aircraft is well known for its versatility and easy flying characteristics. The plane that saved Mussolini! (temporarily). We will be flying as part of the battle reenactment.
* Our M-16 Half-Track has been beautifully restored. The quad mount 50cal machine guns fully rotate. The M-16 will be participating in the WWII battle reenactments.
* The German 88mm flak cannon was feared by all airmen. One of the first weapons to have "pre-programmed" ammunition. This cannon will also be a part of the battle reenactments.
* For a "birds eye" view of the event- we will be offering PT-17 Stearman and T-6 Texan flights. Flying in these aircraft is a lot of fun! Call to reserve your flight: 800-568-8924
* Post-war German ingenuity.. A Messerschmitt minicar! On display courtesy of the Gould Foundation collection.
* It will be the Allied vs. the Axis in a very memorable battle re-enactment! This living history perfomance will captivate and educate. It will take place each day at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
Pasting from the website of the Collings Foundation:
The Collings Foundation Hosts:
Battle for the Airfield
WWII Reenactment and Living History Weekend
October 10th and 11th
Picture this:
….An undercover French Resistance Fighter met with the Allied Forces and showed the exact coordinates of the German encampment. The night before an elite German force over took a small grass airstrip just a few hundred feet away. The Allied Forces had to gain control of this airfield so they could fly in much-needed supplies. - It was going to be a tough fight.
How will the battle end? Will the Allied troops be able to gain control of the airfield and further their advancement? You will have to be here to find out. The Collings Foundation will host a Living History event you will never forget. You will be able to see original equipment from WWII in action. Everything from the cooking utensils to M1 rifles is original. The only event of this type - in the world. – Don’t miss it!
October 10th and 11th
Open Daily: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $15 Adults / $10 Children
This is a public event and reservations are not required.
Two reenactments per day: 11:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
Display will include:
* Aircraft: TBM Avenger, Wright "Vin Fiz" replica, 1909 Bleriot, Fokker DR-I replica, PT-17 Stearman, Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, North American AT-6 Texan, Fiesler Fi-156 Storch, and many more!
* Automobiles: Entire Collings Foundation collection - see list for details.
* Collings Foundation Gift Shop
* Vetran's Roundtable Discussion: Hear amazing stories from WWII Veterans about thier experiences during the war. 1:00 PM on hangar floor - both 10/10 and 10/11.
* PT-17 Stearman Rides - Limited Availability
* $230 for 1/2 Hour
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* See PT-17 Info here
* T-6 Texan Rides - Limited Availability
* $450 for 45 minutes
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* The WWII Battle reenactment will take place twice each day on the grass landing strip in front of the hangar. It will take place at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
* There will be suprises each battle!
* The Collings Foundation grounds are very nice and make a great setting for such an event. Getting here is tricky! Click on the link above for directions.
* The Fiesler FI-156 Storch has an incredible history during WWII. This aircraft is well known for its versatility and easy flying characteristics. The plane that saved Mussolini! (temporarily). We will be flying as part of the battle reenactment.
* Our M-16 Half-Track has been beautifully restored. The quad mount 50cal machine guns fully rotate. The M-16 will be participating in the WWII battle reenactments.
* The German 88mm flak cannon was feared by all airmen. One of the first weapons to have "pre-programmed" ammunition. This cannon will also be a part of the battle reenactments.
* For a "birds eye" view of the event- we will be offering PT-17 Stearman and T-6 Texan flights. Flying in these aircraft is a lot of fun! Call to reserve your flight: 800-568-8924
* Post-war German ingenuity.. A Messerschmitt minicar! On display courtesy of the Gould Foundation collection.
* It will be the Allied vs. the Axis in a very memorable battle re-enactment! This living history perfomance will captivate and educate. It will take place each day at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
Pasting from Bostonist: More MITardis: Doctor Who vs. Harvard?:
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Earlier today, we posted photographs of the scifi cult object that recently appeared on the roof of MIT building 7. After a closer inspection of the images, we have deciphered the text on the left door:
HACKER TELEPHONE
FREE FOR USE OF
HACKERS
ADVICE & ASSISTANCE
NOT REALLY OBTAINABLE
JACK & JAMES
MAY RESPOND TO CALLS
DO NOT OPEN
We've also learned, from Eric Schmiedl's gorgeous nighttime photographs, that the TARDIS lights up at night.
The blue box, when it initially materialized at MIT, seems to have been accompanied by a banner declaring the score:
THE DOCTOR - 1
HAHVAHD - 0
We know (because we're nerds) that the Doctor has longstanding feuds with the Master, Sontarans, Cybermen, Daleks, the Rani, and the Ice Warriors, and he owes Casanova a chicken, but—what sort of conflict does he have with Harvard University?
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UPDATE: After The Doctor's visit to MIT, a Dalek showed up, too.
These cameras belonged to my parents before I was born, when my dad was stationed in the army in Germany. There, they bought the Nikkormat (all manual) and the slightly newer Nikomat (auto-shutter, manual aperture). By the time I was given the cameras to learn on in the late 90s, they were around 35 years old.
Tried to visit (what's left of) the Bell Labs facilities in Holmdel, NJ. The Eero Saarinen-designed main office buildings seem to be closed, but for now at least are still in good repair.
The really interesting thing to me though was the radio telescope atop Telegraph Hill at their Crawford Hill facility, where Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used the Horn Antenna to measure the cosmic microwave background raditation, and thus provided some of the first proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe.
Unfortunately, though the telescope has been established as a national historic landmark, it's still on private property, and the top of the hill is blocked from public access -- all I could get was glimpses through the trees from down the hill. Oh well.
Per Wikipedia:
Also of note is the water tower on the complex, which was designed to look like the then-new transistor and is still in usable condition more than 40 years after its construction.
We stopped by the Siberian Tiger Park (東北虎林園) at Harbin (哈爾濱) during our trip to Dongbei (東北). The park was built in 1996 and contains an open area with hundreds of tigers. At present, it is the largest natural park for wild Siberian tigers in the world.
You can definitely see the tigers up close and personal here. And there are so many of them. The ride through the open area takes approximately 30-45 minutes and is well worth it. I took my 100-400 with the 7D with me but even this photo was shot at 200mm because it was that close.
Photographed with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM.
88 松北街, Songbei, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Tiger’s Stare / 東北虎林園 Siberian Tiger Park / 中國黑龍江哈爾濱 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China / SML.20140729.7D.52252
Hood Milk Bottle in front of the Boston Children's Museum, seen in 2002, and again in 2008, after renovations.
This bottle was featured in Zippy the Pinhead's 27 Jan 2003 comic strip.
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Seen elsewhere: MuseumStuff.com: Boston Children's Museum: Hood Milk Bottle
Tracking the progression of the autumn foliage, from when the colors started to turn at the start of October, through when the leaves were all gone some time in November.
* October 2 (mostly green, boat, lens flare) (11th month of monthly photos here)
* October 9 (overcast, two boats)
* October 13 (raining)
* October 14 (sunny & crisp)
* October 15 (night mosiac)
* October 16 (colors fading, a boat)
* October 19 (still waters, lens flare)
* October 20 (still water, lens flare, boats)
* October 21 (rippled waters, no polarizer)
* October 22 (morning mist, boaters, sun)
* October 22 (evening headlights, fogged waters)
* October 26 (few clouds, colors blooming now)
* October 26 (evening, blue light, auto traffic)
* October 27 (grey skies, still waters)
* October 27 (evening, motion blur on waves)
* October 28 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 29 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 30 (lone boater on still water)
* November 2 (lone boater on cloud reflecting water)
* November 2 (evening view of clouds & traffic)
* November 3 (cloud-free sky over dappled waters) (12th month of monthly photos here)
* November 4 (cloud-free sky, dappled waters, lone boat)
* November 6 (grey skies, two boats, very brown trees)
* November 10 (grey skies, tree branches becoming visible)
* November 11 (blue skies, thin clouds, still waters)
* November 17 (bare trees, clear blue skies, still waters)
* November 18 (bare trees, dappled clouds in blue sky, rippled waters)
* November 20 (calm & partly cloudy, just after major morning rain)
* November 24 (light rain, grey skies)
* November 25 (fog & mist, like first photo a year ago)
* November 30 (crisp, grey, monochrome day, with boat)
* December 2 (no clouds & very, very still waters)
* December 3 (warm day after overnight storms, no clouds, rippled water, geese) (1st year / 13th month of photos here)
Pasting from the website of the Collings Foundation:
The Collings Foundation Hosts:
Battle for the Airfield
WWII Reenactment and Living History Weekend
October 10th and 11th
Picture this:
….An undercover French Resistance Fighter met with the Allied Forces and showed the exact coordinates of the German encampment. The night before an elite German force over took a small grass airstrip just a few hundred feet away. The Allied Forces had to gain control of this airfield so they could fly in much-needed supplies. - It was going to be a tough fight.
How will the battle end? Will the Allied troops be able to gain control of the airfield and further their advancement? You will have to be here to find out. The Collings Foundation will host a Living History event you will never forget. You will be able to see original equipment from WWII in action. Everything from the cooking utensils to M1 rifles is original. The only event of this type - in the world. – Don’t miss it!
October 10th and 11th
Open Daily: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $15 Adults / $10 Children
This is a public event and reservations are not required.
Two reenactments per day: 11:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
Display will include:
* Aircraft: TBM Avenger, Wright "Vin Fiz" replica, 1909 Bleriot, Fokker DR-I replica, PT-17 Stearman, Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, North American AT-6 Texan, Fiesler Fi-156 Storch, and many more!
* Automobiles: Entire Collings Foundation collection - see list for details.
* Collings Foundation Gift Shop
* Vetran's Roundtable Discussion: Hear amazing stories from WWII Veterans about thier experiences during the war. 1:00 PM on hangar floor - both 10/10 and 10/11.
* PT-17 Stearman Rides - Limited Availability
* $230 for 1/2 Hour
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* See PT-17 Info here
* T-6 Texan Rides - Limited Availability
* $450 for 45 minutes
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* The WWII Battle reenactment will take place twice each day on the grass landing strip in front of the hangar. It will take place at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
* There will be suprises each battle!
* The Collings Foundation grounds are very nice and make a great setting for such an event. Getting here is tricky! Click on the link above for directions.
* The Fiesler FI-156 Storch has an incredible history during WWII. This aircraft is well known for its versatility and easy flying characteristics. The plane that saved Mussolini! (temporarily). We will be flying as part of the battle reenactment.
* Our M-16 Half-Track has been beautifully restored. The quad mount 50cal machine guns fully rotate. The M-16 will be participating in the WWII battle reenactments.
* The German 88mm flak cannon was feared by all airmen. One of the first weapons to have "pre-programmed" ammunition. This cannon will also be a part of the battle reenactments.
* For a "birds eye" view of the event- we will be offering PT-17 Stearman and T-6 Texan flights. Flying in these aircraft is a lot of fun! Call to reserve your flight: 800-568-8924
* Post-war German ingenuity.. A Messerschmitt minicar! On display courtesy of the Gould Foundation collection.
* It will be the Allied vs. the Axis in a very memorable battle re-enactment! This living history perfomance will captivate and educate. It will take place each day at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
Jeffrey Hurant + his new BMW bike + trash dump near New York City Hall Park
Jeffrey Hurant
SML Flickr Tags: Jeffrey Hurant
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View of the stern of the USS Constitution, or "Old Ironsides", the world's oldest commissioned floating warship. (HMS Victory is 30 years older, but in permanent drydock. Constitution still floats, a distinction the guides make a point of being clear about.)
As an active-duty ship, Constitution is staffed by Navy personnel at the Charlestown Navy Yard national park. Tours of the ship are free & open to the public.
We used to go see the ship during field trips when I was a kid. I can now attest that two year olds love it, too :-)
Complementary views of the ship: bow & stern.
Treating this as a dry-run for another version I'll do later in the summer, if I get a chance. I had a hard time lining up all the lines in the edges -- all those ropes & chains & walkways & rigging lines. More importantly, the ship is being renovated right now, so the tops of the masts are missing, there's a temporary roof over the main deck, etc.
It will be much prettier over the summer after the construction work is over.
At the left margin here you can catch a glimpse of the USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate that was visiting at the time. You can make out more of it in these two montages taken from the stern of the USS Cassin Young nearby.
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Bostonist: Photo of the Day, March 19, 2009: Old Ironsides #2 :-)
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I took a series of these panoramas the same day:
* Tobin Bridge #1 (under the tollbooths)
* Tobin Bridge #2 (over Little Mystic Channel)
* USS Cassin Young #1 (split panorama)
* USS Cassin Young #2 (full panorama)
Plus, of course, the other photomontages I've been putting up over the last few months.
Without quite realizing it or intending to, I apparently have taken a liking to the architects behind this & some other buildings, Machado and Silvetti Associates. They've designed:
• Honan-Allston Branch, Boston Public Library
• One Western Avenue (OWA), Harvard Business School
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum
• Dewey Square, near South Station in Boston
That means that, of the work they've done in Massachusetts, the only one I've never really noticed is South Boston Waterfront Park, and now that I think about it, I think I actually have noticed it before, but have never had a chance to walk around there, as it's kind of in a weird area -- not much around there, mostly only accessible by car at this point, yet nowhere to really park & walk around. It's a neighborhood that'll probably be really built up & nice in 10 or 20 years, but for now, it's kind of an island off by itself.
But the other four, though not all without controversy (a lot of people hate OWA), I generally like. Maybe I should start paying attention here...
Type A
Untitled, 2009
Plumb-bobs and thread
Variable dimensions, site specific
Price on request
www.goffandrosenthal.com/storage/exhibitions/TypeAPressRe...
Goff + Rosenthal is pleased to present an exhibition of new works entitled Ruled by the New York-based artist duo Type A. Type A is made up of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. This is their first exhibition in New York City since 2004.
Continuing with their ongoing interest in rules and regulations surrounding traditionally masculine activities, Type A explores the intrinsic authority and aesthetic of everyday objects, especially construction and sports equipment. Otherwise innocuous pieces of plastic, rubber, string and metal carry expectations of success and failure, dependability, predictability, competition and collaboration with them. Ruled is comprised of various installed ready-mades, a collection of ink on paper drawings, and chalk wall drawings.
The entire space in the front gallery is taken over by a single installation consisting of approximately 2000 plumb bobs—a reference tool used for millennia by surveyors, masons and builders that indicates a perfect vertical line pointing to the center of the earth. The objects themselves are pointed, sharp, and made of solid metal, both phallic and weapon-like. However, when they are installed, these objects have a slight and fragile simplicity that is uncharacteristic of their singular purpose as a reference tool. For the artists, they “determine the viewer’s path and present a staccato of lines that is both lyrical and dictatorial. They are as much a source of anxiety as beauty.” Used as a drawing device, the plumb bob becomes a simple pendulum that can illustrate the direction and, to a certain extent, the velocity with which the bobs were released. The character of the line shows a relationship between the plumb bob’s/pendulum’s displacement and its tendency towards equilibrium, as well as the irregularities that arise when the simple motion meets interference. In essence, each drawing shows the relationship of the variables that were in effect among the pen, paper and individual throw of each member of Type A as he released the plumb bob.
In the rear gallery, there are additional works which often allude to very specific Minimalist artists, albeit from a new critical (and subtly humorous) perspective. For example, the line of bronze-colored anodized aluminum relay batons has a De Maria-like simplicity and repetition. Type A is not only drawing out ideas of play, gamesmanship and competition within the canon of contemporary art and art history, they also exhibit here an “anxiety of influence” in which they question the unsure trajectories of the post-minimal.
Taken together, the objects used take on an entirely different meaning when configured to acknowledge the work of Carl Andre, Walter De Maria, Donald Judd, Fred Sandback, and others. Most compelling is not how the Minimalist aesthetic informs the new configurations but how this secondtier equipment, stripped of its intended purpose and context, was part and parcel of the very culture-- with its assumptions, references and tropes of masculinity and nationality—that inspired the original art.
Type A currently has a solo exhibition at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and upcoming solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Type A will also be included in the inaugural exhibition of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new 100 Acres Art & Nature Park opening in June 2010. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. They have been reviewed in The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, Art on Paper, Artnet, and The Village Voice.
Furthermore, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is producing a documentary about Type A for its Art Babble website, and the German publisher Hatje Cantz will be releasing a monograph to coincide with the IMA show in June 2010.
Goff + Rosenthal, 537B West 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
Got last minute tickets to the Celtics / Heat playoff game, so took The Boy to his first basketball game -- and by the third quarter, he already understood the sport better than his Dad. Good for him.
The Celtics ended up winning, 106-77, putting them up 2-0 in their series against Miami. Good for them, too :-)
Pasting from the Wikipedia page on Ramesses II:
[[[
Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses The Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses *Ri?misisu; also known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses' throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re) was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor."
He was born around 1303 BC and at age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I. He is believed to have taken the throne in his early 20s and to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC for a total of 66 years and 2 months, according to Manetho. He was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year. If he became Pharaoh in 1279 BC as most Egyptologists today believe, he would have assumed his throne on May 31, 1279 BC, based on his known accession date of III Shemu day 27. Ramesses II celebrated an unprecedented 14 sed festivals during his reign—more than any other pharaoh. On his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache where it was discovered in 1881, and is now on display in the Cairo Museum.
Ramesses II led several expeditions north into the lands east of the Mediterranean (the location of the modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria). He also led expeditions to the south, into Nubia, commemorated in inscriptions at Beit el-Wali and Gerf Hussein.
The early part of his reign was focused on building cities, temples and monuments. He established the city of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta as his new capital and main base for his campaigns in Syria. This city was built on the remains of the city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos when they took over, and was the location of the main Temple of Set.
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WOW! Thanks folks - in less than 12 hours since posting my Toyfair 2015 coverage, my average daily views of five to ten thousand, they've jumped up to 117,000 and the day's only half over!
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
American Eagle Outfitters: Leave Your Mark, Live Your Live crowdsourcing / social media campaign at Times Square, New York City.
Tried to visit (what's left of) the Bell Labs facilities in Holmdel, NJ. The Eero Saarinen-designed main office buildings seem to be closed, but for now at least are still in good repair.
The really interesting thing to me though was the radio telescope atop Telegraph Hill at their Crawford Hill facility, where Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used the Horn Antenna to measure the cosmic microwave background raditation, and thus provided some of the first proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe.
Unfortunately, though the telescope has been established as a national historic landmark, it's still on private property, and the top of the hill is blocked from public access -- all I could get was glimpses through the trees from down the hill. Oh well.
I like how this one came out.
The visit was getting late in the afternoon, and there had just been heavy rain, so a lot of the photos were hard to get to come out right -- way too much light or way too much shadow.
This one came out nicely though, I think.
The caption label is too blurred to read -- sorry -- but I think this one is Homo erectus.
Skulls in this display of the lineage of homo sapiens:
• Homo [???] (can't read caption, will update if I figure it out)
• Australopithecus [???] (can't read caption, will update if I figure it out)
• Australopithecus aethiopicus