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Champ. Round 1 - Brock Rogers (CA State University Bakersfield, CA-Unattach) vs Alejandro Torres (Arizona State-Unattached)
NCAA Wrestling Tournament. The 2019 Roadrunner Open, hosted by Cal State Univ Bakersfield, California, USA. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
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
Chandigarh's principal insignia is meant to represent the city's 'openness to giving and to receiving.'
The 2019 Derbyshire Open Wrestling Competition was held at Wirksworth Leisure Centre On Saturday 5th October 2019.
Wirksworth Leisure Centre,
Hannage Way,
Wirksworth,
Derbyshire,
DE4 4JG.
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
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.
Nikon S (Rangefinder)
Nippon 50mm F2
Kodak 400CN shot at 200
With the new addition to the family comes some good and some bad after shooting it i pretty much knew i'd have to get it CLA'd but I may also need the curtains replaced but after shooting the camera i fell in love so guess I'll just have to remain patient and wait for it to be complete....camera is built like a brick but is a cool looking camera and the viewfinder is awesome...this was one of the few that wasnt effected by the cracks in the curtains...
Kollhoff-Tower reflection in the DB Tower seen from the Kollhoff-Tower at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin / Germany.
After laser cutting a sheet of Acrylic into all sorts of wonderful little pieces you are left with the problem of how to remove them from the machine. The answer lifting with a sticker sheet, this machine measures out 9.5 inch squares of sticker sheet for just this purpose.
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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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