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Form follows function is a principle associated with 20th-century modernist architecture and industrial design which says that the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended function or purpose.
Kaleidoscope and spirograph meet in a tunnel. Collaborative effort with { tcb } He did most of the lighting while I worked the optics
There's a sort of Forest Gumpian function to our lives. A lot of stuff that happens is not probable. If you rewind, stuff that happened seems unbelievable. This is about the past.
Finding a place to live has been a life-long problem in California made worse today by rental housing being converted to short term rentals. In an upscale part of Silicon Valley, I was renting an industrial, former ambulance quarters: set back from the street and within walking distance of everything. A local government official who knew me had introduced me to the landlord. Window air conditioner? TV antenna? The owner could care less if I customized the place. Best of all, the rent was about half of the market rate.
Meanwhile, I stumbled on information about another local deal: a cottage on an abandoned estate (above). I told a friend who taught undergraduate classes. He reported the property had been foreclosed and was owned by a financial institution. The friend quickly moved in.
About a month later he had an opportunity which included relocation. He called me. "This place is tied up in a lawsuit. It's going to be vacant for years. You should move here," he counseled. "I already called the property manager and told them you're moving in." Well, then. I guess it's a done deal.
It was two and a half acre oak woodland in an area of 1-acre minimum lots. There were several buildings. The main house was over 8,000 square feet. You couldn't see the main house from the street. There was a functional, but cold, swimming pool maintained by a pool service. The place was somewhat overgrown and run down but also unreal. The original owner had been a retail chain tycoon. The garage had been built for carriages so my big Dodge would not fit inside the narrow doorways. I joked about it being a 'safe house.' In reality, it wasn't.
My neighbor had a Rolls Royce Silver something-or-other. Another neighbor had an elevator in their house and a diesel generator set that would light up whenever the power failed. There was a Ferrari in the neighborhood. The trappings of wealth were all over. Almost everyone was friendly.
I lived in one of several out buildings (not shown). The main house is shown. The only furniture in the main house was a table and recliner in the dining room used by me for reading. The dining room is the right portion of the building between the two chimneys. The restaurant-sized kitchen is out of frame to the right. The master bedroom is beyond the two-story portion of the home out of frame at left. There had been a lawn and irrigation at one time. These were weeds during the rainy season. I lived there for several years. At the end of my stay, the place was fully renovated. There was structural work. A note, "The leprechauns have been here and everything of value has been removed," was found behind fire brick during repair of one fireplace. Missing gargoyle heads were replaced. You get the picture.
There were many deer. A large, arthritic buck and I developed an understanding. There was a Great Horned Owl. Stellars Jays and Scrub Jays owned the place. Ravens? Yes. I found a fawn's head and vertebrae in the yard which I much later realized was a mountain lion kill.
The chief of a police department inquired about having a bachelor party. Invite a dozen people with guns over for some heavy drinking and running around the swimming pool? No, thank you.
Whoever has the goods to allocate never forgets himself.
- Leon Trotsky
Journalism grade images.
Source: newly scanned grainy 35mm film negative scanned on 4,000 DPI scanner.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.
The building, centre of picture, is the White Tomkins & Courage grain silo, Stanley Dock Liverpool, built c1913.
Grain imports were a quintessential component of Liverpool's historic port activity, employing several generations of local people. This particular building even had its own railway siding and the tracks still remain in place.
Apart from being of local heritage value the White Tomkins & Courage grain silo is a good (and locally rare) example of "industrial classicism" architecture. This evolved in the early 20th century as part of the Modern movement, promoted in Germany by Behrens, Loos, Gropius and Le Corbusier, whose key aesthetic aims were : -
(1) rejection of all unnecessary ornamentation
(2) use of the smooth, flat "modern materials" (reinforced concrete)
(3) expression of the building structure on the elevations as an integral component of the architecture
(4) in the absence of ornamentation, more focus on proportional perfection
This Liverpool dock estate building has all of these qualities in abundance in spite of an industrial silo being generally regarded as potentially a "low grade" architectural commission.
The White Tomkins & Courage building was demolished in September 2017. This action was taken following a local planning consultant's report that it was obstructing the conversion of the dock warehouses into residential accommodation and was "of no architectural or historic value".
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Built for the Return of the G.O.A.T. contest on classic-castle. I chose to re-imagine set 6078 and had fun putting my own twist on the recognizable structure. My rendition features ladders or stairs to reach every area of the gatehouse, along with a functional drawbridge. The two hidden spaces under ramps at front and back are also there, though I added some barred gates under the front ramp so minifigures have access to that storage area. The rear one contains a hidden nook where some unfortunate soul seems to have been on the wrong end of a magical scroll.
Special thanks to Rolli for loaning me the original minifigures!
Plenty more images and a functions video on Brickbuilt.
While in Italy some years ago, I saw this beautiful classic motorcycle, perfectly restored. I believe it is a 1963 Moto Guzzi Falcone Sport. I could not help but admire the graceful clean lines. Italians certainly know motorcycles!
While trying to get to a family function in Listowel, Ontario yesterday we missed a turn and found ourselves on a side-road, specifically Line 87. It was snowing pretty hard and while going ‘just a little further’ to make sure we had not inadvertently failed to go far enough, I spotted this isolated old farmhouse in a large open field. In the snow, it looked like a vintage, hand-tinted photo. I stopped (luckily no other vehicles out there in those conditions), grabbed the camera and got off a few hand-held frames before turning back and retracing our steps, eventually winding up in the right place. So I had an image in the camera and an impression of how it was supposed to look. A lonely farmhouse in a snowstorm. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-02-26
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm 1:4.0lense set to 120mm, ISO100 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Shutter Priority Mode, f/9.0, 1/500. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: correct vignetting, slightly brighten the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV+0.31, slightly boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlight detail (mainly for the snowy areas) and very slightly boost shadows, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly boost the contrast, use the Hue-Lightness-Saturation tool to select the cyan channel and reduce its saturation somewhat to get a more neutral snow and sky, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px high for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
I'll get a better video up eventually, but this one gives you the idea of how the grindstone works.
Also, Isaac has his first module up, check it out here: www.flickr.com/photos/66620538@N04/sets/72157651674040298
153385, a former EMR dogbox, now in faithful Network Rail service stopped at Leeds as it worked back and forth between there and Bradford Interchange.
21/03/23
that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be
one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
(This is probably my favorite photo from Saturday's trip.)
I usually shoot aperture priority wide open but at the same time I also keep my shutter priority function set at 1/15th of a second in case I decide to do some artistic slow motion and/or panning studies. That way I can quickly flip back and fourth between my "normal" aperture priority photography and abstract motion work.
One in a series of images titled 'Form minus Function'.
It's fair to say that type and ink only ever meet on a printed page. In this series of images, the two elements are presented to us in a way that is a little more unusual. Images of black and white ink in water are accompanied by small typographical letters to generate strange yet captivating forms that appear to float effortlessly in the air.
A contemporary tribute to traditional methods of print.
Best viewed large!
Just a little (and probably incorrect) mock-up of Storm Beast's function. It's very clever and yet simple. However I have to admit I'm a little disappointed with how far you need to move the tail to get the full rotation, which is pretty small 90 degrees anyway. In the video I activate the function slowly, trying to make the arms swing faster means flailing the tail around all over the place like a maniac. All in all it's fun but it feels more similar to controlling a stringed puppet more than a function. It requires a certain carefulness to use or else to becomes too chaotic.
Managed to modify my last year's minifigure scaled Winter Village Tram with full Power Functions (PF) motor, receiver and front/rear lights. It's controlled using the speed controller to ensure passengers don't fly off.
Still same length, width and only about a brick taller, but weighs considerably more.
See video of it in action here
We lived in Dubai, UAE from 1991 to 1996 and I worked at a campus of the Higher Colleges of Technology. These pictures include college functions as well as staff get togethers.
These images are directly from the scanner and rough due to the age of the photographs. Over time, I may do a bit of editing on these.
Build you own Rollertron with my instructions
Built for Mark Stafford for a Christmas gift exchange. I sent him the parts and printed instructions.
Built for DA4: The Hammer Falls, the Armored Limousine was required to have black windows, a functioning hood, trunk, and four doors, little flags, license plates, and a secret weapon.
Lego animated Gym Thanks to Peter Reid (Legoloverman) for the inspiration.
Driven by Lego Power functions.
A new set of power transmission towers is being erected in central Alberta and I drive by one section of it every morning on my way to work.
I had planned on making a trip to Lake Louise today to get some shots of the ice festival, but I cracked a couple of ribs falling on the ice on Saturday. I guess I'll have to rely on my archives for a while longer. Hopefully I'll be able to get out there shooting again soon.
Of all the things I saw while at the sand dunes, these dead tree trunks had the most artistic shapes. There were endless compositions to be had. via 500px ift.tt/2G6GFXy
One in a series of images titled 'Form minus Function'.
It's fair to say that type and ink only ever meet on a printed page. In this series of images, the two elements are presented to us in a way that is a little more unusual. Images of black and white ink in water are accompanied by small typographical letters to generate strange yet captivating forms that appear to float effortlessly in the air.
A contemporary tribute to traditional methods of print.
Best viewed large!
Had the day off of work, thanks to the non-functioning vehicle in my driveway (bad fuel pump). Had to walk to the mechanic part way, which afforded me the opportunity to cut through a local corn field. Not quite worth the money it cost to get the car fixed, but it's better than nothing.
Yeah, I know. I did one like this last 365. So what. I like this one better.