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Amtrak's Beech Grove Executive Car hitches a ride on the back of Amtrak 352 with the head of the FRA riding on the train. The BG is a special car that has an open air platform on the back.
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open mic poetry & Spoken Worrd @ the virtual public artspace hangout, open :air
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Formed 2009 by Ei Wada and college fellows Kimitoshi Sato, Haruka Yoshida, Takumi Namba and Masaru Yoshida (bass), Open Reel Ensemble combines old school, reel-to-reel (“open reel”) tape deck and modern technology into a musical instrument.
The group roots in leader Wada’s mid-teen days, when he obtained a reel-to-reel tape deck about to be discarded from a radio station. After fooling around not knowing how to operate it, he, at one point, misperceived it as a musical instrument. By touching the reel and the exposed magnetic tape, he experienced the sense of “physically intervening in music and time”, and “playing the sound of the tape itself”. In 2008, Wada and Sato began developing a reel-to-reel tape deck with USB ports by incorporating a computer in order to explore the potential of a reel-to-reel tape deck as an instrument. Civilization critic Ivan Illich once said: “A convivial tool offers the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruit of its user’s vision.” ‘Convivial’ derives from a French word that means to live together in joy; Illich described convivial tools as “tools used apart from their industrial values”. Precisely, Open Reel Ensemble pursues an alternative value of an obsolete tool as a “convivial tool”.To manipulate a reel-to-reel tape deck as a musical instrument, a USB port was attached to enable the computer (and Max/MSP) to control. This allowed originally impossible performances, remote control, OSC interface, and sounds created by controlling the spin of the reel. In addition, they attached a sound oscillator that directly vibrates the tape. Visualizing a world of people jamming with this instrument, they envisioned this project as a band as well. They construct music as an ensemble by manipulating reel-to-reel tape decks with all their might and by using voices and sounds sampled on the spot, pursuing an alternative value of a forgotten media form, and
attempting to explore the world of “convivial tools”.
Credit: Takeshi Horinouchi
Isobel Pooley, High Jump, 2012 Midlands Indoor Athletics Open Meeting, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, UK.
The open hand monument at chandigarh.. designed by architect Le Corbusier... it was constructed many years after he died... open hand resembles both a hand and a free bird... local kids love to play cricket at the sunken court adjoining the monument...
NCAA Open wrestling tournament. The 2018 Roadrunner Open held a California State University, Bakersfield. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
Chandigarh's principal insignia is meant to represent the city's 'openness to giving and to receiving.'
August 21, 2014
Queens, NY
Maria Sanchez (USA) def. Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)
This photo is from two days I went to the qualifying rounds ("the Qualies") for the US Open tennis tournament. There are hundreds more photos to come. (8/23/14)
In total contrast to the forward shot, R711 reverses over the Lydiard Street Level Crossing in the heart of Ballarat as it runs around Steamrail's Eureka Express from Melbourne. 24/4/21
The Southern set of gates of the crossing had been destroyed in an accident with a V/Locity in mid-2020, causing the road to be totally blocked off to traffic while a choice was made as to the future of the gates. 11 months later, action was still yet to be taken on the gates, causing protest from locals wishing for both the gates to be retained, but the crossing to be reopened. A small symbol of this was a sign placed on the gates reading "Open Our Road, No Boom Gates".
Since this photo was taken, the gates have since been replaced with traditional level crossing gates, and the road has finally been reopened to traffic.
Dartmouth Formula Racing's car for the Thayer-founded Formula Hybrid Competition at Open House, which provides an opportunity for the community and incoming students to explore the work of engineering students, staff, and faculty.
Photo by Douglas Fraser.
Shot of people waiting at a bridge in Amsterdam. Taken with my Sony HX1.
The Hogesluis is one of my favorite bridges, it crosses the Amstel and it's sitting right next to the beautiful Amstel Hotel, one of the prettiest buildings in the best city in the world, it was re-opened just a few days ago after having been closed off for traffic for the last years for renovation works, now it's done, and it never looked better. The first time I biked across this bridge again last week, I was overcome with joy, and I couldn't wipe a smug smile off my face while riding on the smooth, new surface with my fellow Amsterdammers, it seems we were all happy to take this landmark back into our possession...and to celebrate this event, I took some shots of the people waiting for the bridge to open again after a big boat passed by :)
I've made a wicked movie of the waiting crowd too, check it out on my YouTube channel, thank you :)
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