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If you take the Taylor Highway to Chicken Alaska - you will see a lot of old equipment laying about that was used back in the gold rush days. This old generator atop a sledge, is just one of the many tools used to help with the extraction of gold.
Just 6 days ago the Taylor (or "Top of the World Highway") was plowed open by Alaska DOT. In about 6 short weeks, tourists will be making their way over the primitive two lane road to visit the historic sites located there. While there you can pan for gold, roam about looking at old mining tools, see a huge gold dredge, stay over night in a cabin, (or overnight in an RV park if that is your mode of travel), and of course, you can also eat some delicious fried chicken in Chicken. The scenery is so beautiful as you climb ever higher into true mining country. There are a lot of mines up and running to this very day - and a lot of delightfully quirky people to chat with. Oh -and I must not forget that gasoline is available, as well as souvenirs. Be sure to get off the beaten path and see "old Chicken", as well as the newly developed portion of town known as the "new Chicken".
See you in Chicken this summer. :-)
Before General Veers destroyed the Rebels' main power generator, he sent a recon force to scout ahead and take out the rebels guarding the generator.
Some how I had lost the original so, I had to steal this from one of my sites. Sorry for the low quality.
At the Boston Museum of Science
What a great show!
Some info on the show:
"Indoor bolts produced by the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator spark exciting explorations of lightning, conductors, insulators, electricity, magnetism, and storm safety."
People have asked how I built the shield generator. Here's the full technique. The outer uses 2x8 plates, with a 2x3 separating one end, and a 1x2-1x2 bracket attaching the curves (I tried using 1x2-1x4s, but the inner ring wouldn't fit on one side with them). Every fifth 2x8 plate has clips inserted to attach flex hose. The inner ring uses 1x4 plateswith a dot and bracked on one end, and a clip on the other. the clips are only half pressed in to their neighbours, so the spacing is 2½ plates at the inside end, and 3 plates at the outer end. Four inner segments are needed for every 5 outer segments. I did find the spacing of the inner segments slightly wider, so when building the full disc, it was necessary to sneak a few extra plates into the outer ring to compensate.
Hope this gives people enough to get started.
Sorry about the multi-coloured 2x8 plates - I used up all the grey ones!
See full shield generator here: www.flickr.com/photos/lostcarpark/34626045361/in/datepost...
a close up shot of one of the wheels on the gigantic refrigeration generator left behind at the abandoned armour meat packing plant in national city, illinois right outside of east st. louis.
if you look closly on the wheel, you can see the peeling paint remains from the gold pinstriping - they just don't make things like they use too.
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Just out of the paint shop Feb 2023 & looking vert smart, built by Charles Roberts, Wakefield, in 1956. Rebuilt 1971 by BREL Litchurch Lane Works, Derby, RPSI Generator Van
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The quiet places.
These are one of the things I enjoy most about my photography - the thrill of discovering and seeing with my own eyes the remote, little known and sometimes utterly deserted sites built on by man. I have no doubt of those thus far encountered, the vast majority I would never have visited (nor even known about) were it not for my desire to commit scenes like this one to permanent media. It's odd though, you'd be forgiven for thinking within this wide scope I might include historic buildings - abandoned churches, castles and the like, and in some cases you'd be right - except commonly these are still frequented by people and as such their interest wains for me. So how do I categorise these quiet places? Well, there are no hard and fast rules, but generally I find the less appeal a location has to the masses the more it holds for me. Old industrial sites, fortified remnants of the world wars, lighthouses, forgotten mines, ruined bridges and so forth all intrigue me. Does it have a single lane road, near-impassable dirt track or nothing at all leading to it? Chances are I will want to go there! Not listed on a map, cordoned off, hidden from sight by near-impregnable undergrowth? Tell me, where is it?!
So why do I like them so much? Well, leaving besides the obvious photographic possibilities, it's something about their auras. In my previous post I touched on how noise seems strangely amplified at night once people are sleeping - paradoxically enhanced when there's nobody to hear it. Of course, the cacophany we all make as we go about our daily lives is enough to drown out or deaden anything, and as you'll know visiting the kitchen in the middle of the night for a drink of water, or perhaps driving home after a night out with friends has a very different vibe than when all are awake and switched on... People create their own buzz, generating conflicting moods and atmospheres - they impress them not only upon themselves and others but also physical locations. Remove the people and the impressions fade. Remove them long enough and they vanish forever.
This building isn't completely bereft of activity, as you can perhaps tell from it's well maintained blockwork and fresh paint. It houses emergency generators for a working lighthouse, together with the frequency generators for a fog horn contained in the smaller building to the right. Despite this, just yards away is a row of five cottages that have remained empty for a decade, currently on the market for just under £1,000,000 the lot - or alternatively the same money will buy you the old, defunct lighthouse complex nearby now operating as a holiday let. Given the setting's extremely remote placement, as soon as I arrived I began to feel that familiar aura - an unmistakeable sense of solitude and calm. I've thought long and hard for a word that best describes my reaction to the mood(?), atmosphere(?), or ambience(?) that hits me when I'm at one of these quiet places. The closest I've come up with is reverence. It's a sense of profound pleasure at having been fortunate enough to visit, and a conscious, palpable regret that I may never have the opportunity to return.
When I occasionally meet other people at sites like this, I groan inwardly - knowing that social nicety (combined with the fact I have a camera on a tripod ergo instigating a talking point) will dictate us to interact, however briefly. It's not that I'm unsociable (my wife may disagree!), but I'm content in my own company. How odd then that conversely, chance encounters at quiet places are often with the most agreeable people one could hope to meet - as was the case here when Nick and Helen, as they introduced themselves, appeared beside me. We chatted a while about this and that before they headed on their way. My belief is a part of most of us enjoys these quiet places, yet at the same time we need affirmation that people are still within easy reach.
Hi Nick. Hi Helen.
On a side note for those of you with a paid subscription to Landscape Photography Magazine, my latest article can be found in the current issue #19. landscapephotographymagazine.com/
Based off an older model of mine which used to reside in my city, I rennovated this Power Generator for the GTW LUG's Cyberpunk display which was heald at The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. Unlike most of my other MOCs this one was made with out the use of LDD or Studio. It was all free hand.
These are just some of the 74 generators in the Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant at the Soo. The plant is now operated by Cloverland Electric Cooperative.
Photographed using a Sony A7R using a Nikkor 18mm f/4 lens.
Kidwelly Brick Works to the north of Kidwelly station was opened c.1858 by William Edwards of Swansea. This site ceased operation in c.1903. A new works was built to the south of of the railway station by Alderman Daniel Stephens which opened in 1903. Stephens worked silica from Mynydd-y-Garreg and this was brought into the works via train. Up to 1927 the firm was known as Stephens & Co, but later as Beynon Davies Civils Ltd.
These photographs, taken in March 2017, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
Former BG modified as a Generator Van as used on the Inverness -London Sleeper Service with pairs of "no heat" Class 37/0's or 37/5's.
From March till May 2014 Dutch artist Theo Jansen exhibits his stunning work of so-called 'Strandbeesten' at the E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek (Electricity Factory) in The Hague, the Netherlands.
In 1990, Theo Jansen (born 1948) began what he is known for today: building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own, known as Strandbeest (Dutch: strand=beach; beest=beast). His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence so they can avoid obstacles by changing course when one is detected, such as the sea itself. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to their environment. Constructed as intricate assemblages of piping, wood, and wing-like sails, Jansen's creations are constantly being improved and have become excellently adapted to their sandy beach environment.
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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 opende in de Electriciteitsfabriek de tentoonstelling "Generator Strandbeest" rond het werk van kunstenaar en uitvinder Theo Jansen. De expositie is een absolute aanrader! Tijdens de opening deed Kamerkoor Kwintessens uit Den Haag er nog een schepje magie bovenop en klonk het prachtige "Da pacem Domine" van Arvo Pärt in de gigantische turbinehal.
Theo Jansen is een Nederlandse kunstenaar-uitvinder die vooral bekendheid geniet vanwege zijn zogenaamde "Strandbeesten". Deze spectaculaire wezens zijn gebouwd van pvc-buizen en plastic flessen, en lijken echt te leven. Sinds 1990 probeert Theo Jansen in zijn kunst levende wezens zo goed mogelijk te benaderen. Het resultaat zijn reusachtige geraamtes gemaakt van vaak honderden pvc-buizen. De geraamtes bewegen op windenergie. Zij lopen op dezelfde manier als wezens uit de natuur.
Tot begin mei 2014 presenteert Jansen zijn werk in de industriële en poëtische turbinehal van de E.ON Electriciteitsfabriek in Den Haag, waar het maakproces van een nieuw Strandbeest van dichtbij te volgen is. In de hal construeert Jansen een groot, nieuw dier: de Animaris Suspendisse (10 x 4 meter, bij 4 meter hoog). Een uitgestrekte zandlaag vormt de werkvloer om het nieuwe beest uit te proberen. Zeven andere forse strandbeesten bewegen zich, aan de hand van een bezoeker, voort op de begane grond.
Als in een laboratorium experimenteert Jansen met electriciteisbuis, tape, tie-raps en patflessen. Al twintig jaar toetst Jansen de vernuftige proefjes om tot de techniek te komen waarmee ooit zijn kudde, misschien wel geheel zelfstandig, de duinen kan onderhouden. Een droom die hem drijft om door te zoeken naar nieuwe technieken en ontwikkelingen.
In de tentoonstelling "Generator Strandbeest", op de eerste verdieping van de fabriek, wordt een historisch overzicht getoond van de evolutie en het maakproces van de dieren aan de hand van een paleontologisch veld met fossielen. Film, foto’s en video materiaal lichten de ontstaansgeschiedenis toe. Openingstijden van de tentoonstelling zijn van vrijdag t/m zondag van 14:00 tot 22:00 uur. Dagelijks wordt er om 20:00 uur een rondleiding gegeven door Theo Jansen zelf.
Begin mei wordt de kudde, dan een dier rijker, uitgeleid naar zee waarna de dieren weer wind kunnen vangen en uitgelaten langs de kustlijn kunnen paraderen.
Territorio Abandonado - Thermal Plant
Exploration filmed with Go Pro camera
Abandoned Thermal Plant - TERRITORIO ABANDONADO from nacho labrador on Vimeo.
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