„Wir wollten neue Entdeckungen machen“

Das sei die Voraussetzung für die Entwicklung von ZERO gewesen, „denn wir wollten ja neue Entdeckungen machen – und dazu gehörte das Licht“, so Mack. „Das Licht war nicht nur einfach eine Voraussetzung für die Kunst, sondern wir hatten auf einmal die Idee, dass selbst das Medium Licht gestaltbar ist, so wie man auch Holz, Eisen, Marmor oder andere Materialien gestaltet“.

Neun goldene Säulen vor einem Bergpanorama an einem See. (picture alliance / Gian Ehrenzeller / KEYSTONE / dpa)2016 baute Heinz Mack seine Installation ‚The Sky Over Nine Columns‘ im schweizerischen St. Moritz auf – nach Stationen in Venedig, Istanbul und Valencia. (picture alliance / Gian Ehrenzeller / KEYSTONE / dpa)

Mack reiste in den 60er-Jahren in die Sahara und in den 70ern in die Arktis, wo er seine Arbeiten der Kraft des Lichts aussetzte. Diese bestanden aus Sandreliefs, Kuben, Spiegeln, Flügelreliefs, Segeln, Fahnen und monumentalen Lichtstelen einerseits und schwimmenden Plexiglaskörpern, Lichtblumen, prismatischen Pyramiden, Eiskristallen und Feuerflößen andererseits.

A duck swims at Joffre Lakes Provincial Park. August 2015

I was going for "toe beans" which is what I remembered the Happy Caturday theme as being. I was wrong - it's "paws" which is great since the toe beans are out of focus. Actually, the only thing in focus is Mack's face but at least I didn't have to resort to an old photo of Jimmy.

Happy Caturday: Paws

... along with a very dirty window!

Happy Caturday: Eyes of March

A slide I took in the mid 1980s at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire. This Mack F786 was at the steam traction engine rally held there one weekend. If you show heavy and slow moving traction engines, you need something to haul one around!

I found out about this rally by chance listening to the local Amateur Radio group who had a special event station there. I had a brief chat on 2 meters with them and decided to go up and take a look.

This photo was taken four years ago with a CAMERA instead of a phone. Mack was looking good - even SOOC.

With five assorted GP’s for power, a westbound Rio Grande manifest escapes the cloud cover just before ducking under Interstate 70 at Mack, Colorado.

This week's Happy Caturday them is "now and then". I took this photo of Mack this week with an actual camera. He is now over 17 years old and that shows mainly in the "lacey" look of his irises and the dark freckles on his nose and on the rims of his eyes. His face has become more angular as he loses fat and he stands with his elbows bent out because of osteoarthritis. He has lost his two cohorts, Jimmy and Ella.

Mack has strong opinions and a very loud voice. For so much of his life he has seemed dissatisfied - he wants to be out when he's in, he wants it to be warmer outside when he sniffs the cold air in the winter, he wants more food when he was on a diet... So when he sleeps in the sun - inside or out - or when he grooms in an open window on his perch, I'm filled with a peaceful feeling because at least for a moment, all is right in Mack's little world. This morning when I woke up it was still dark out and the first thing I saw as I stood up was Mack playing with his catnip fish toy. A happy, playful, content Mack was the perfect way to start the day.

Happy Caturday: Now and Then

This is one of the earliest photos of Mack that I posted on Flickr 13 years ago when I first joined. He and Jimmy were 4 years old and Ella was 6. They were all so young and healthy - in the prime of their lives. You can see that Mack was just starting to get the freckles that orange cats get as they age. That was a very happy time. The pets were young and healthy and I was starting a new hobby - photography. My cats were my perfect subjects and through them, I met friends from all around the world on Flickr.

Happy Caturday: Now and Then

Lots has changed in our cat world this year. I had to say goodbye to Ella and we gained Pippi. The one happy constant has been Mack, AKA Big Mack Attack (from an old McDonald's commercial).

Mack, at 16, is still very much himself. He still has strong (loud) opinions about wanting to go outside or to come back inside and he still lies on top of me in bed so close that his nose nearly touches mine. He loves sitting on George's lap at night after I've gone to bed and has handled all the changes in his life with calm acceptance. I love this sweet, vocal, ginger kitty and am grateful that he's doing well.

Happy Caturday: Memories of 2024

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In the last class of my technical training I managed to arrange a job during the holidays at a company with these huge Macks (must have been just after the middle ages) My first task was to take the main gearbox out of this monster. That was done through the cabin!! A real birth.

This truck was build in the USA, delivered to Canada and after the war left in Europe.

Mack has wonderful ginger markings but the biggest contrast in colors can be found on his tail which is striped with both ginger and blond colors.

I love having my favorite group open for two days. I may post a second photo tomorrow.

Happy Caturday: patterns and paws

When I first got Mack as a kitten, I was relieved that he didn't have freckles as most ginger cats do. And then, about 10 years ago, he started developing a few freckles and I decided that since they were on Mack, I liked them after all (see post in the comments).

So for this week's Happy Caturday theme of "favorite part" I wanted a photo of Mack's freckles. I realize this isn't the best shot of them but the way his paws were framing his freckles was too cute.

Just a happy update, Mack hasn't had to wear his e-collar for the past week. No new lesions and since I think the unknown allergen is outside, I'm sort of relieved that the weather has turned so cold. Mack doesn't want to spend too much time outside.

Happy Caturday: Favorite part

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Mack pants are exclusive to the latest round of Alpha Event:

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They are rigged for:

* Legacy

* Jake

* Gianni; and

* Kario

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It is rigged for:

* Legacy

* Jake

* Gianni; and

* Kario

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Bateman Glasses by Deadwool

A loaded coal train from West Elk Mine is westbound on the former Rio Grande mainline near Mack, Colorado after an onslaught of afternoon thunderstorms.

Gerhard ("Helga Matura mit Verlobtem", Öl auf Leinwand) / Lichtkunst von H.Mack

Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

OLYMPUS EM-1 Mark II

Mack brewery had a very nice range of beers, and I think I tasted them all onboard MS Nordnorge.. but I have no idea which of them is in the glass this time!

Somewhere north of Tromsö, northern Norway.

Sorry I've been absent from Happy Caturday recently. I've picked up quite a few Saturday shifts at work which makes it hard to post and comment. And now that the weather is gorgeous it's hard to sit at a computer after working in a basement.

Happy Caturday: Whiskers

I can now continue to reveal the competing images from the 2021 Sandwich Fair Competition.

These images continue the series from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.

Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.

It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.

SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.

This image is of an antique Mack truck, part of the antique truck, firetruck, and tractor display inside the railroad tracks. (For those who have noticed, yes, "diesel" is spelled wrong. This is intentional. It's part of a joke one of my less-than-spelling-inclined friends did. A fan of Shaquille "Shaq Daddy Diesel" O'Neil, he always misspelled diesel wrong, even going so far as making it part his AOL screen name - Mack Daddy Diesal.)

2021 Category: Color Blue

For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.

I decided to go all out for Happy Caturday this week by taking a photo with my CAMERA instead of my phone. Because it was overcast, I used my fanciest lens which is 100mm f/2.8. My backyard is so tiny that even leaning against the side fence, I couldn't get all of Mack in the frame as well as the flowers behind him. Oh well, best laid plans...

Happy Caturday: Flowers

Explored May 6, 2023

Photo by Craig Johnson

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Mack was grooming himself this morning and finding his long fur a nuisance to wash.

Mack and Volvo driving thru city of olean

Lititz, PA

For Happy Caturday we get to post two photos that we took during 2019 that hadn't yet been posted for whatever reason. I went looking through old photos and liked this one of Mack showing off his whiskers. I have become so spoiled taking pictures with just my phone of cats at work that it was nice to go back through the photos I took outside of my own cats with an actual camera! lol

Happy Caturday: Retrospective

Photographed at the North Saint Paul History Cruzer Car Show, July 11, 2025.

NS B63 heads south (TT east) through the town of McNabb, Illinois, simply known as Mack in the timetable, behind a pair of GP60s and mostly cars from Marquis Energy outside of Hennepin at the west end of the Kankakee Line.

Western Mack cabover photographed by Stan Holtzman. New truck in 1975/76.