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Projection Studio Enchants Wolverhampton
Projection and digital art specialist Ross Ashton of London based The Projection Studio created two spectacular projection works in Wolverhampton, west Midlands UK for the inaugural Wolverhampton Enchanted City event, which attracted up to 8000 people each evening into the city centre
Ashton was commissioned to produce the works by Wolverhampton City Council following his work at the first ever Enchanted City ‘pilot’ event at Horncastle, Lincolnshire earlier in the year. Ashton is developing this unique event concept together with Brighton based Robin Morley of Magnetic Events, who also produced this show.
The giant 15 metre tall images were beamed onto two well-known local landmarks – the 1920s style Barclays Bank building in St Peter’s square, and the Wulfrana Street entrance to the University of Wolverhampton around 100 metres away.
The Oldest Place
This was the title of the Barclays Bank projections in St Peter’s Square, and based on the story of the monastery originally consecrated in 994 on land granted by Lady Wulfrun, which then became St Peter’s Church.
Ashton once again collaborated with sound artist Karen Monid who created a dynamic bespoke soundtrack based on Anglo Saxon poetry about the Garden of Eden which was read by specialist in Old English language that she sourced and recorded.
The images were all inspired by medieval manuscripts together with patterns based on the shape and geometry of the building.
The images were produced using a single Christie Roadster S+20K projector located on top of a specially built tower close to the building, fitted with a 1.2 – 1 short-throw lens.
Content for the three minute loop was played back from a MacBook Pro running Millumin software, which is perfect for single projector shows like this.
Generator
The show at the University entrance – projected onto the imposing 1930s building - was designed to be a complete contrast to the pastoral and reflective tone of St Peter’s Square.
Generator was hi-energy all-action animation based on the flow of ideas, knowledge and energy associated with learning.
Set to a pumping dance track, which turned the atmosphere of the space almost into a joyous public rave, the building/s frontage was transformed into a fantasy-style generator with frantically turning cogs emitting oozing steam and flying sparks, together with random objects flying across the surface representing some of the disciplines taught there.
These included cameras (film), keyboards (music) and even a flying cow (agricultural sciences) all with a colourful spacey background of flying stars and galaxies.
“The idea was to make ‘Generator’ fun and amusing while ‘The Oldest Place’ was thoughtful and tranquil, both of them at the polar opposite end of the ‘spiritual spectrum’, and by their juxtaposition, asking people to explore the natural synergies between these two important locations in their city.” explains Ashton, adding “Effectively it highlights these integral elements of the metropolitan area and presents them in a completely different light”.
An almost identical projection set up was utilised for Generator, except the Christie Roadster was fitted with a .7 lens. This show also ran in three minute loops.
The public reaction was overwhelmingly positive : “I have just experienced one of the most wonderful evenings … Just brilliant” wrote one delighted visitor, while another who was also prompted to visit the art gallery for the first time after many years of living in Wolverhampton enthused, “The St Peter’s Gardens illuminations were amazing” … the thank-you’s and appreciation flooded the City Council’s Email and social media channels for many days afterwards.
Ian Bustin of Wolverhampton City Council said, “We set out to do something different combining fantastic technology and creativity with community performances representing a true festival atmosphere. The projection images and tone completely changed the perception and atmosphere of the city. Children, families and young people reclaimed the city centre as a place to socialise and the festival reawakened a real sense of local pride and ambition.”
Generator at the Canopy Camp; our backup system. In 2014, 30 solar panels were installed at the Canopy Camp, providing ample renewable energy for the entire lodge.
Canopy Camp Darien, Panama
Photo by Alex Alba
HHO Generator installed in my 2002 PTCruiser. The HHO Generator is powered only when the ignition switch is turned on, through a simple 80 amp 14volt relay from Tanners Electronics, Dallas Texas.
NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, Bulgaria – Generators provide power to U.S. Army Europe's Contingency Command Post, established as a rapidly deploying, forward command and control element in support of missions directed by USAREUR, during Saber Guardian 2014. This year's exercise is hosted by USAREUR and the Bulgarian Land Forces, is a multinational military exercise involving approximately 700 military personnel from twelve participating nations including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and the U.S., as well as representatives from NATO. The exercise, which runs until April 4, 2014, is designed to strengthen international agency and military partnering while fostering trust and improving interoperability between NATO and partner nations involved in foreign consequence management and peace support operations with U.S. forces. Saber Guardian 2014 is part of the U.S. Army Europe annual training and exercise program and has been planned for since 2013. Last year’s iteration of the training exercise was conducted at the Romanian Land Forces Combat Training Center in Cincu, Romania. The training at Saber Guardian 2014 will reinforce USAREUR commitment to increasing regional flexibility, preserving and enhancing NATO interoperability, and facilitating multinational training. (Photo by Sgt. Brooks Fletcher, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
In the engine room aboard SS Jeremiah O'Brien
SS Jeremiah O'Brien (ship's web site):
SS Jeremiah O'Brien (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Jeremiah_O'Brien
Liberty Ship (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
Compound Steam Engine (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_steam_engine
Engineering Reference
(San Francisco Maritime National Park Association):
Inside the standby ventilation plant room.
Paddock was built at the start of the 2nd World War below the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill. The purpose of the two level citadel was to act as a standby to the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall. The bunker became operational in 1940 with the War Cabinet meeting there on 3rd October.
Churchill did not like the new bunker and by the autumn of 1943 the standby cabinet war rooms were relocated to the North Rotunda in Marsham Street, close to Whitehall; Paddock was abandoned the following year.
During the cold war, Paddock was suggested as a replacement for the North London Group War Room at Partingdale Lane, Mill Hill but this was rejected by the GLC. It was also, along with Station Z at Harrow, suggested as the Main Control Centre for the whole of London with the 4 (later 5) Group Controls reporting to it. The idea of 1 central control was never adopted and the upper floor at Paddock was relegated to a Post Office social club.
Following closure of Post Office Research Station, in the mid 1990's the site was sold to a property developer who converted the Research Station into luxury flats with a new housing estate on the rest of the site. The single storey surface building above Paddock was demolished but the citadel, which has local authority listing was untouched and two access points were retained one an unobtrusive steel door in a wall between two houses and the other a brick blockhouse beside the road which also houses a small electricity sub station. The site has now been handed over to a housing association.
[Subterranea Britannica www.subbrit.org.uk]
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Allis
Big Allis, formally known as Ravenswood No. 3, is a giant electric power generator originally commissioned by Consolidated Edison Company (ConEd) and built by the Allis-Chalmers Corporation in 1965. Currently owned by Transcanada Corp., it is located on 36th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard in western Queens, New York.
During 1963, Allis-Chalmers announced that ConEd had ordered the "world’s first MILLION-KILOWATT unit...big enough to serve 3,000,000 people." This sheer scale helped the plant become popularly known as "Big Allis".
At the time of its installation, it was the world's largest energy generating facility. It is located on the Ravenswood site, consisting of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as several small Gas Turbines (GTs), and an oil depot. The site overall produces about 2,500 MW, or approximately 20% of New York City's current energy needs. The current installed capacity of Big Allis is around 980 MW.
The Ravenswood, Queens site also includes a steam generation plant consisting of four B&W boilers, commonly known as "The A House", currently owned and run by Con Edison, which helps in the supply of steam to the Manhattan steam system when needed, via a tunnel crossing under the East River.
Ravenswood was owned by Con Ed from the time it was built until 1999, when due to deregulation, Con Ed was forced to sell its in-city generating capacity. KeySpan bought the site for $600 million US dollars. In 2007, KeySpan merged with National Grid. Because of the possibility to influence in-city electrical costs due to National Grid's significant upstate electrical distribution, the New York State Public Service Commission forced National Grid to sell the site. In 2008, TransCanada Corp, based in Calgary, AB, Canada, bought the site for $2.9 billion US dollars.
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I am only guessing that this is a generator, and that it would be used to power the pump house in the event of a power failure. View On Black
A great signal generator that can be had for a very reasonable price. Thousands of these were made and many found their way to Canadian high schools as part of the electronics program. Also available in the Starkit name could be purchased in kit form and assembled by the end user. This is my everyday signal generator.
It's the barrel generator texture created in the Filter Forge plugin. It can be seamless tiled and rendered in any resolution without loosing details.
You can see the presets and download this texture for free on the Filter Forge site here — filterforge.com/filters/11724.html (created by dactilardesign)
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Assen, ca. 1941 – 1943: Door gebrek aan fossiele brandstoffen reden veel auto's in de Tweede Wereldoorlog op gasgeneratoren gestookt met houtskool. Hier vult een buschauffeur in Assen de generator op een aanhanger achter zijn bus bij. Bron foto: Collectie Drents Archief Assen
Land art generator initiative.
collaboration between Lateral Office and Paisajes Emergentes.
Experience and Economics
WeatherField patterns form in response to maximize performance in various weather events. These geometries are artful, as in sky-writing kite festivals, but also efficient and engineered.
WeatherField offers three kinds of public experience:
From a residential home, a sponsoring resident may have free electricity and a free view of the Gulf.
On the park’s site, a visitor may have the view using am embedded ‘periscope’ in each post.
An adventurous visitor may be harnessed to a para-kite to witness the view first-hand.
As a park, visitors or residents can witness and experience their commitment to renewable energy field in many different ways. They can be stake holders, investing in a single generator para-kite. The investor receives energy equivalent to that harvested by that generator, as well as a live feed view of the landscape from the para-kite into their home. This in house artwork serves a weather gauge and a ‘living’ landscape painting. Visitors to the energy park can also approach the support posts and have a ‘periscope’ view from the ground of the para-kite’s view. And finally, a visitor, may elect—with managed permission—to ride up in a para-kite. This allows the economic models for the implementation of the project to be distributed either before, through residential stakeholders, or after capital costs, through tourism. The project has an entrepreneurial spirit.
The park generates other phenomenal events such as playful shadows on the ground and dynamic patterns in the sky. These geometries could be commissioned to environmental artists, or could be coordinated with regional events or seasonal holidays.
Unlike large-scale energy infrastructures that are out-of-scale, off-site, and off-limits, WeatherField is interactive, and its energy capacity is scalable to the size of a single-home. In other words, energy use is quantifiable and qualitative at the scale of a single user, promoting energy efficiency and energy consciousness.
Paisajes Emergentes: Luis Callejas, Sebastián Mejia, Edgar mazo, Alexander Laing
Lateral Office: Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Matthew Spremulli, and Fei-Ling Tseng.
Single Cell, HHO Generator. The two outer plates are the Negative/Positive plates, while the 3 inner plates are neutrally isolated from the outer two plates. The plates are made up of TRUE #304 Stainless Steel. I run Citric acid in the Distilled Water to help with conductivity of the water.
FREE, file on building your own at: smacksboosters.110mb.com/Smack.pdf
Yep, runs the whole house in normal operations. TV, Fridge, coffee pot, computer. Doesn't seem to be a problem running the whole shabang. Needs a housing to hold the noise down and keep it safe from the weather. Should be a bit more livable than lanterns and batteries....
On generator as I upload this !!!...
We were very lucky compared to many people in the rest of the state. We only lost power for 6 days, and I ran a small generator to keep some of the things running in the house, most importantly the internet.
My husbands generators were originally safety orange and stood out like a sore thumb at the weddings and functions that rented them. Now they blend in. Enamel
NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, Bulgaria – Generators provide power to U.S. Army Europe's Contingency Command Post, established as a rapidly deploying, forward command and control element in support of missions directed by USAREUR, during Saber Guardian 2014. This year's exercise is hosted by USAREUR and the Bulgarian Land Forces, is a multinational military exercise involving approximately 700 military personnel from twelve participating nations including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and the U.S., as well as representatives from NATO. The exercise, which runs until April 4, 2014, is designed to strengthen international agency and military partnering while fostering trust and improving interoperability between NATO and partner nations involved in foreign consequence management and peace support operations with U.S. forces. Saber Guardian 2014 is part of the U.S. Army Europe annual training and exercise program and has been planned for since 2013. Last year’s iteration of the training exercise was conducted at the Romanian Land Forces Combat Training Center in Cincu, Romania. The training at Saber Guardian 2014 will reinforce USAREUR commitment to increasing regional flexibility, preserving and enhancing NATO interoperability, and facilitating multinational training. (Photo by Sgt. Brooks Fletcher, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)