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A collection of over 5,000 objects from the Titanic, including these gloves, will be auctioned by Guernsey's Auction House, 100 years after the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. The collection, comprising all items that were recovered from the deep since the wreck was discovered in 1985, is sold as one lot.
Article: bit.ly/titanic-auction
The point I'm groping towards is that as objects informationalise communication channels are getting built in. And there are ways of doing this that are mass, cheap and easy. Printing. Paper. Ink. RFID. And cleverer phones will be the perfect things to interact with these clever objects. This is what advertising and marketing and media people really need to get afeared by. All this web stuff is going to look like a picnic compared to the horrors that will be dealt to the agency and media businesses when every product has a communications channel built right in.
Russell Davies
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UMO: 82929469 Collar insignia, monogram U.S., as worn by American Army Officers in World War II; Brass, pin back--Image from SDASM's Curatorial collection--Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
This is part of an ongoing project. I thought it would be interesting to look around me and see what could be interpreted as faces in every day ordinary objects. My intention is to make people look twice and to see if they can figure out what these objects are :-) Please let me know if you have any suggestions or guesses! Feel free to check out my sets so you can see the photos as a collective.
Before these treasures are unpacked and distributed throughout my home, I thought to photograph them all together, as a memento of the collection of objects inherited from my Grandma and Grandpa's house last spring... I have a personal connection or memory of most of these items, but a few others were just too cool to be tossed away... Oh, sentimental heart...
1. Ceramic Dish from front hall
2. Metal Shoe form (stand not pictured)
3. Grandpa's Stanley Thermos from kitchen cupboard
4. Crystal Christmas Tree from xmas decor collection
5. Glass Shell Bowl, used for mashed potatoes... or was it beans?
6. Blue Ceramic Birdhouse hung in corner of dining room over TV
7. Divided Glass Dish used for pickles and radishes
8. Green Glass Power Line Object
9. Wooden Nativity Puzzle from x-mas collection
10. Dice from the cards and games drawer
11. Ceramic Greeting Card Collector
12. Milky Glass Oriental Container
13. Small Glass Serving Bowl
14. Antique Kitchen Tongs
15. LR & Rose Card Game Scorecard from the cards and games drawer
16. Set of Quilted Apple Placemats
17. Ceramic Ball Bearing from Jim
18. Wood and Crystal Window Ornament
19. Wooden Colander Press from canning supplies
20. Grandpa's Bird Book
21. Fishing Trip Pack List - see separate scan
22. Footed Glass Key Dish from front hall
23. Ceramic Fish Spoon Rest
Haus Tietz, former Japanese Embassy Object ID: 40845
Schottenring 10
Inner City. This in 1870/71 by Carl Tietz in strict historical forms of the New Viennese Renaissance built palace-like house with ionic pillar balcony portal presents in all floors significant ceiling furnishings (stucco work by Johann Hutterites, Josef Pokorny and Franz Schoenthaler, oil paintings by August Eisenmenger and Karl Geiger.)
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Prehistory
From 13th Century on a wall surrounded the city. After the first Turkish siege of 1529 and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), this fortification was further expanded and strengthened. In addition, outside the fortifications a glacis, a strip of meadow, was created that can not be obstructed and the defense impeding growth is not allowed. The strip with construction ban was originally 95 meters wide and has been extended till 1683 to 450 meters width. The with projecting gun terraces - so-called bastions - equipped city walls proved during the second Turkish siege in 1683 very much, but then lost in importance and were from the late 18th Century outdated military technology.
Therefore, Emperor Joseph II from 1770 let add pedestrian walkways and driveways on the glacis, lanterns set up in 1776 and since 1781 about 3,000 alley trees plant. The glacis was now an open-air workshop for artisans, stalls were set up. 1809, the castle bastion was blown up by Napoleon's troops, in 1820 the outer castle gate in this area erected, which served the representation.
After the revolution of 1848, the city walls and outlying forts were also standing the urban development of the rapidly growing metropolis in the way: Because 1850, the suburbs were incorporated as districts II to VIII (from 1861 II -IX), so that the fortifications constituted a noticeable obstacle to traffic. The park-like Glacis, with its refreshment pavilions, however, was widely appreciated as a recreational area.
Demolition of the city wall and laying ot the ring road
On 20 December 1857 took Emperor Franz Joseph I. the decision to "abandon the ramparts and fortifications of the inner city, like the ditches around the same" and he ordered the construction of a boulevard at this point. In his "Most High Handwritten Letter" to Interior Minister Alexander von Bach, which begins with the oft-quoted words, "It is my will" and on 25 December was published in full on page 1 of the official "Wiener Zeitung", the Emperor decreed the exact size and use of the area newly acquired and announced a design competition. In March 1858 began at the Rotenturmtor by the Danube Canal the demolition work that was completed only in 1874. By the summer of 1858 85 projects for the basic plan of the ring road had been received.
The new road was planned as a representation Boulevard; therefore for the load carts has been provided a parallel "load road". This traffic control exists until today. The originally different names bearing load road is now known as a two line, the from the tram operation borrowed name referred to the herein till 1980 running tram lines E2, G2 and H2 and is since then the between Karlsplatz and Alserstraße under the street passing subway line U2.
After conflicts of competence between the government and the city council in 1858 the city expansion fund was created, who belonged to the Aerar, managed by the Government Treasury. In 1859 it received the order to take over the project, sold the by the demolition of the city walls and the elimination of the defense become vacant land to private investors, which financed with it the representational buildings of the state. Only the New Town Hall, as it was called until 1960, was planned by the city administration. Because the city went empty-handed away with this large-scale real estate operation, it represented with even greater determination the partial preservation of the existing recreation areas. Up to the present, there are comparatively large green areas with City Park, Castle Garden, Public Garden, City Hall Park and Sigmund Freud Park along the ring road.
The expansion of the Stubenring stood for a long time the Franz Josef Barracks in the way, that with the north of the old city situated Rossauer Barracks should control the city center. Construction began in 1854 and was completed in 1857, the same year the emperor chose the conveyance of the fortifications. The Aspern Bridge as a connection from the Stubenring to the Leopoldstadt, the 2nd District, was indeed already opened in 1864, but not until 1900/1901, the barracks were demolished. On its former area standing the until 1913 built quarter around the former Imperial Post Office Savings Bank (built from 1904 to 1906, later extended), 1909/1910, the Urania was put as completion of ring road next to the Aspernbrücke, only in 1913 vis-à-vis the Post Office Savings Bank the new imperial War Office opened and the Stubenring with this completed.
The ring road was on 1 May 1865 by Emperor Franz Joseph I inaugurated in the presence of Empress Elisabeth, many Archdukes, ministers and representatives of the City of Vienna, Mayor Andreas Zelinka at the top. The ceremony took place in front of the castle gate outside the castle ring, in the subsequent voyage of the guests of honor for the royal table in the Prater, more than 100 carriages have been involved. At the time of the opening of the road (today's name) Stubenring, Burgring, Dr.-Karl -Renner-Ring, Universitätsring (former Dr.Karl-Lueger-Ring) and Scots ring (Schottenring) were still largely undeveloped. From the wool line (Wollzeile) to Babenbergerstraße, however, builders of aristocracy and bourgeoisie had already many "stately" homes built.
Buildings
Along the ring road numerous public and private buildings were erected. Aristocrats and other wealthy individuals who hastened to build representative Palais (Ringstraßenpalais).
One of the first buildings was the Heinrichhof (historical spelling without s) of the brick manufacturer Heinrich von Drasche-Wartinberg, who, lately damaged by war, stood till 1954 opposite the Opera House.
Noteworthy are most of all the K.K. Court Opera (now the State Opera ) in the Neo-Renaissance style by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null, the Parliament in neo-Attic style (a reference to the altathenische (pertaining to ancient Athens) democracy) and the Palais Epstein of Theophil von Hansen, the then New Town Hall in the Flemish Gothic style by Friedrich von Schmidt , the Burgtheater by Karl von Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper and the new university building by Heinrich von Ferstel . The Votive Church is the only religious building in neo-Gothic style (by Heinrich von Ferstel), which was founded in 1853 on the occasion of the deliverance of the Emperor Franz Joseph of assassination and for decades was under construction.
Cross to the ring road should be built before the historic Hofburg, the imperial residence, the monumental imperial forum to demonstrate the power of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the project remained a torso. Was built up to the First World War within the ring road, the Neue Hofburg, in which now the Austrian National Library, the Ethnographic Museum, the collection of ancient musical instruments, the Ephesus Museum and the Collection of Arms and Armory are housed. Other parts of the realized Imperial Forum are outside the ring road, the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) and the Natural History Museum.
According to the original opposite the New Hofburg should have been built a symmetric wing to the older parts of the Hofburg, which ought to connect with the Natural History Museum. Thus, the Heldenplatz and the Maria-Theresien-Platz would have been part of the from the ring road through archways between the museums and the new parts of the Hofburg crossed Imperial Monumental Forum. This plan came to a halt for lack of money, furthermore was at the beginning of the First World War not even the interior of the "New Castle" completed. The changed political situation after 1918 made the project obsolete.
The completion of the representative construction activity on the ring was not until 1913 with the finalisation of the Imperial War Department achieved, as the Ringstrassen style had become a bit unfashionable, as the about at the same time by Otto Wagner in Art Nouveau style built facing Post Office Savings Bank shows.
The biggest disaster of the ring road was the fire at the Ring Theatre in 1881, which claimed hundreds of lives. In lieu of the theater was built the Sühnhaus (expiation house), which in turn was destroyed in the Second World War and was offering space for the new construction of the Vienna Police Headquarters (Schottenring 7-9) to replace the existing as well destroyed police headquarters (Scots ring 11).
I was cycling through Rotterdam when I saw this weird object in the sky. It was not too big, I guess 1 meter maximum. It seemed to float along with the wind. It was gone in 30 seconds or so. Don't know what it is. It doesn't look like debris of a toy balloon.
Oostplein - more surroundings in this picture:
Photographer: Fred H. Politinsky
Subject: My Computer Eyeglasses
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distances, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment.
---- Joseph Addison, The Spectator (1711-12), 411
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