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Giant replica of Salvador Dali's 'Persistence of Time' sculpture in Piazza San Francesco, with the church of San Francesco d'Assisi in the background.
Matera, Italy
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
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Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
On s'assoit sur une dune de sable. On ne voit rien. On n'entend rien. Et cependant quelque chose rayonne en silence (...) Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part.
One sits on a sand dune. One sees nothing. One hears nothing. And yet something shines in silence (...) What embellishes the desert is that it hides a well somewhere.
( Antoine de Saint Exupery - Le Petit Prince - 1943 )
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regarde bien petit
© Jacques Brel - 1968
regarde bien petit, regarde bien sur la plaine là-bas à hauteur des roseaux
entre ciel et moulins y'a un homme qui vient que je ne connais pas
regarde bien petit, regarde bien
est-ce un lointain voisin un voyageur perdu
un revenant de guerre un montreur de dentelles
est-ce un abbé porteur de ces fausses nouvelles qui aident à vieillir?
est-ce mon frère qui vient me dire qu'il est temps
d'un peu moins nous haïr ou n'est-ce que le vent
qui gonfle un peu le sable
et forme des mirages pour nous passer le temps
ce n'est pas un voisin son cheval est trop fier
pour être de ce coin pour revenir de guerre
ce n'est pas un abbé son cheval est trop pauvre pour être paroissien
ce n'est pas un marchand son cheval est trop clair
son habit est trop blanc et aucun voyageur
n'a plus passé le pont depuis la mort du père, ni ne sait nos prénoms
ce n'est pas mon frère son cheval aurait bu
non ce n'est pas mon frère il ne l'oserait plus
il n'est plus rien ici qui puisse le servir
non ce n'est pas mon frère, mon frère a pu mourir
cette ombre de midi aurait plus de tourment s'il s'agissait de lui
allons c'est bien le vent qui gonfle un peu le sable
pour nous passer le temps
regarde bien petit, regarde bien....
y'a un homme qui part que nous ne saurons pas...
il faut sécher tes larmes
y'a un homme qui part que nous ne saurons pas...
tu peux ranger les armes
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Hi everyone!
Vincent Van Gogh is my personal hero. I admire his courage and persistence to become the artist he envisioned himself to be. However troubled his life was, he kept on painting and drawing. In many ways his life relates to mine. The quote I picked for today is a good one. It reveals...
For the entire post go to www.danielnovotnyart.com/?p=1995.
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this tree across the street has the most persistent leaves...i wonder if they'll ever fall?
i see them as a gentle reminder to be unwavering in my determination. especially in winter when all i want to do is curl up with a warm mug of something delicious and read....
"Time don't have nothing
To do with how high you can
Time don't got nothing
To do with how high you can count
Time and life
Life and time"
[Anthrax, "Time"]
Hispaniola, a Caribbean island smack dab in the hurricane belt, is known as the hurricane shredder. That's because the island has five distinct mountain ranges, with Pico Duarte, at 10,128 ft (3,087 meters) above sea level, as the highest peak in the Antilles. These mountains literally reach into passing hurricanes and disrupt the system, not only slowing the system, but literally shearing and destabilizing the directional winds with their immovable presence.
The mountains of western North Carolina affect weather in much the same way... this tree from along the Craggy Pinnacle trail at Craggy Gardens gives evidence of that. I've watched from the top of Craggy Pinnacle as cold air from the west collides with warm air from the east... clouds form, swirl, and move off directly overhead of these high ridges. These mountains often divert harsh colder weather north into Virginia, which is partly why we enjoy overall temperate weather where I live in Durham, some 200 miles east of here. Often, when it snows in Durham (which isn't very often) it has already snowed further south in Atlanta, Georgia. Those frontal systems push under the Appalachian Chain, meet warm air from off the coast, and push back up into North Carolina. These kinds of frontal collisions produce wind, and in the case of where this photo was taken, that wind is quite incessant and often high speed... that, along with cold temperatures and low clouds, can create a pretty harsh environment.
Patience is a necessity for any nature photographer... here, even the most patient can become quite frustrated waiting out the combination of "just right" light and wind. This tree, however, exhibits the ultimate in patience. The trail follows the ridge for a good ways, but from about where this tree is, the ridge rises sharply with many exposed rocks dominating that rise. That's obviously of no matter to this tree as it wraps its roots around the rocks to firmly establish its place on the mountain... it persists against the harsh elements and won't be bullied by the wind as it protects the understory beneath it.
Craggy Gardens, near milepost 375 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, is so named because of the proliferation of beautiful Catawba rhododendron that grow there... but, as with many things, there are stories within stories that shouldn't be missed. Be sure to see the notes here.
La catedral de Colonia (en alemán, Kölner Dom —oficialmente Hohe Domkirche St. Peter) es un templo católico de estilo gótico, comenzó a construirse en 1248 y no se terminó hasta 1880. Está situada en el centro de la ciudad de Colonia. Con sus 157 metros de altura fue el edificio más alto del mundo hasta la culminación del Monumento a Washington en 1884, de 170 metros. Es el monumento más visitado de Alemania. Es además la sede del arzobispo de Colonia y de la administración de la arquidiócesis de Colonia. Fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1996.
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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day, and currently the tallest twin-spired church at 157 m (515 ft) tall.
Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".
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El río Rin (en alemán: Rhein; en francés: Rhin; en neerlandés: Rijn; en romanche: Rain) es un importante río de Europa, la vía fluvial más utilizada de la Unión Europea (UE). Con una longitud de 1233 km (14° más largo de Europa), es navegable en un tramo de 883 km entre Basilea (Suiza) y su delta en el mar del Norte.
El nombre Rin es de origen celta y significa 'fluir' (como en griego antiguo rheīn 'fluir'). Junto con el Danubio, el Rin constituía la mayor parte de la frontera septentrional (el limes) del Imperio romano. Los romanos lo denominaban Rhēnus.
The Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin[1], Italian: Reno, Dutch: Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of about 2,900 m3/s (100,000 cu ft/s).
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a vital and navigable waterway carrying trade and goods deep inland. Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. In the modern era, it has become a symbol of German nationalism.
In my garden I have a patch of hens and chicks. They're nestled amongst these stones at the base of an oak stump. When the tree fell the Virginia Creeper that covered it fell with it, but soon made a comeback. A week ago, I pulled it out and the roots ran so deep that I ended up dislodging my entire hens and chick family. I replanted them, and transplanted the Virginia Creeper. Today I see that it has made a comeback. Persistant little thing, isn't it? :D
Several of the trees hold their leaves for a long time...the Japanese maple and the oaks. Soon even these will let go.
Solved by balsamia / Trine / ThioOof / KaRiNe_Fr / PhotoGraham / Zolurne / and you ?
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
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Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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R i d d l e of the day:
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Di nuovo a Firenze ... stop.
Da Parigi, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Mosca, Parigi, ... stop.
Scalo Milano, incognito ... stop.
Chi sono io ?
[ uk | us ]
Back to Firenze ... stop
from Paris, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, ... stop
Stopover Milan, incognito ... stop
Who am I ?
[ fr ]
De retour à Florence ... stop
depuis Paris, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Moscou, Paris, ... stop
Escale à Milan, incognito, ... stop
Qui suis-je ?
[ es ]
Volver a Firenze ... Stop
De Paris, Nueva York, Washington, Tokio, Moscú, París, ... Stop
Escala de Milán, de incógnito ... Stop
¿Quién soy yo?
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
"... The production of motive power is due, ... not to an actual consumption of calories, but to its transport from a warm body to a cold body, ie to restore its balance, balance assumed broken for any reason whatsoever ... it takes place not only for steam engines, but for all fire machines, ie for any machine which engine is the caloric. The heat can obviously be a movement source only under the changes in volume or form it causes to the bodies, these changes are not due to a constant temperature, but due to alternatings between heats and colds, yet to heat any substance one must have a warmer body , and to cool it, we need a colder body. ... "
( Sadi Carnot - 1824 - Thoughts about the motive power of fire and about the machineries able to develop this power. )
"... La production de la puissance motrice est donc due, ..., non à une consommation réelle du calorique, mais à son transport d’un corps chaud à un corps froid, c’est-à-dire à son rétablissement d’équilibre, équilibre supposé rompu par quelque cause que ce soit, ... cela a lieu, non seulement pour les machines à vapeur, mais aussi pour toute machine à feu, c'est-à-dire pour toute machine dont le calorique est le moteur. La chaleur ne peut évidemment être une cause de mouvement qu'en vertu des changements de volume ou de forme qu'elle fait subir aux corps ; ces changements ne sont pas dus à une constance de température, mais bien à des alternatives de chaleur et de froid : or, pour échauffer une substance quelconque il faut un corps plus chaud qu'elle; et pour la refroidir, il faut un corps plus froid. ..."
( Sadi Carnot - 1824 - Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance )
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A C T I O N of the day : Sign up the petition & tell your friends to do so . .
G A Z A _ : _ A R R Ê T E Z _ L E _ M A S S A C R E _ !
G A Z A _ : _ S T O P _ T H E _ B L O O D S H E D _ !
Avaaz means “Voice” in many Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages. Avaaz.org is a new global web movement with a simple democratic mission : to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want.
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La bêtise et le cynisme sont-ils les derniers noms d'Entropie ?
En Birmanie ? En Chine ? En Tchétchénie ? A Guantanamo ? A Gaza & Ashkelon ? . .
. . ou dans notre vertueuse Europe, qui donne des leçons de Droits de l'Homme . .
. . tout en méprisant, traquant et rejetant ses propres . . indésirables ?
Are silliness and cynicism the last names of Entropy ?
In Burma ? In China ? In Tchétchénie ? In Guantanamo ? In Gaza & Ashkelon ?. .
. . or in our virtuous Europe giving human rights lessons
. . while scorning, tracking and rejecting our own . . unwelcomes ?
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Fun With Final Bows - Man Ray's Solarization Effect on ABT's Playful Nutcracker Performance 2016
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How Man Ray Revolutionized Photography
written by: Zoe Van-de-Velde•edited by: Tricia Goss•updated: 8/14/2011
Man Ray was a photographer who was an important part of the birth if surrealism in the 1920s. His photography pushed the boundaries of the medium and moved it away from the pictorialism prevalent at the time. Man Ray created new photographic techniques such as the Rayograph and Solarization.
From Painting to Photography
Man Ray - Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924
Man Ray, originally named Emmanual Radnitsky was born in 1890 in Philapdephia. Man Ray started out as a painter, who only used photography to record his paintings. Man Ray went to classes in 1910 and 1911 at the Ferrer Center to learn more about drawing and watercolor in New York. In 1914 he appears to have given up his family name and become Man Ray, as this was recorded on his marriage certificate to his first wife, Adon Lacroix. By 1915 he had procured his first solo exhibition. This exhibition was of his paintings and etchings, at this show Arthur J. Eddy buys six of his paintings for $2000. He used his photographic reproductions to publicize his work and it was not until he saw how Alfred Stieglitz used his camera in his gallery in New York that he considered using photography as a means of doing something other than preserving his paintings. After splitting up with his first wife Man Ray made the decision that he would take up photography.
The real turning point for Man Ray was his move to Paris in 1921. Man Ray was already a good friend of Marcel Duchamp and it was this connection that led him to be welcomed into the Dada group. By 1921 Dada was in crisis and the other participants; Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Phillipe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Andre Breton, and Jacques Rigaut accepted him as a photographer even though his experience was fairly limited. Man Ray was useful to them for recording their own artistic activities and he was unique in that they had no other photographers in their group at the time. Man Ray’s best work was achieved in Paris between 1921 and 1940. During this period Man Ray experimented, he had no real formal training and therefore his approach to photography allowed for “mistakes" in the darkroom, these mistakes assisted him in finding what he was looking for in photography. Man Ray enjoyed the random nature of the medium, that he could overlap images in the darkroom, create doubles and reimagine dreams.
Man Ray was also successful as a commercial photographer and shot portraits, and worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar and many other magazines of the time.
Man Ray also worked on advertising campaigns such as Pond’s Cold Cream and Wrigley’s Gum. Man Ray tended to dismiss this commercial work and was far more interested in the surrealist images and films that he was making with other artists.
The Birth of Surrealism
Man Ray & Salvador Dali, 1934
Surrealism began in 1924 with Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism. Surrealism had come out of Dadaism and many Dadaists had moved to the Surrealist movement. For the first five years, Man Ray was the only photographer to have made that shift. Therefore, Man Ray’s were the only photographs to appear in the first Surrealist magazine, La Révolution Surréaliste.
The Surrealists were interested in making work “automatically," the idea being that rational thought was not applied to the work. In automatic writing, the sitter writes the first things that come to mind while in a trance-like state. Many Surrealist writings and poems were made by this method. Photography worked automatically and therefore was a perfect medium for Surrealistic imagery. Man Ray described photography as “unreality contained in reality itself" (Heitling M. 2008:20). The other things that interested Surrealist thought and artworks were the unconscious and dreams, sexuality, feelings, intuition, accidents, random ideas, mechanical objects and madness. Salvador Dali’s paintings used ideas of memories and dreams to depict the unconscious world. Dali’s Persistence of Memory from 1931 shows clocks melting over a barren landscape. The imagery is beautiful and yet disturbing. Man Ray equally explored these ideas through his photographs. People appear twice in double exposures, heads are removed or covered, extra body parts appear that are false or the wrong shape and size, objects seem to become more human and humans become more like objects. Man Ray and Surrealism turns everything around to what you are least expecting.
Advancing Photographic Art
Man Ray - Solarization, Natasha 1931
Through his experiments, Man Ray invented new photographic techniques. These techniques advanced photography from mere pictorial representation and reproduction to something that could be considered a malleable art form. Man Ray treated photography as he had treated his paintings. He retouched, reinvented, reversed, inverted and dramatically changed the original image into something new.
The Rayograph or Photogram
Man Ray invented the Rayograph or Photogram in early 1922. This technique was a way of capturing images without a camera. This effect is achieved by placing objects on photographic paper and then exposing them to light for a few seconds. The photographic paper is then processed in the normal way, achieving a reverse image. Christian Shad, who was part of the Zurich Dada group and had placed flat objects on sensitive paper, probably inspired Man Ray. Schad used no darkroom and his images tended to be akin to Cubist collages. Man Ray wanted more control over the image and used the darkroom technique so that his images would be fixed and he could experiment with three dimensional objects and shadows. Man Ray further advanced this technique by creating images that were both reversed and positive images.
Solarization
In 1930, Man Ray invented Solarization with Lee Miller . This process had been discovered in 1857 but had only been discussed as a curiosity. At the time, Miller was a student of Man Ray and was in the darkroom developing images when she felt something move across her foot. In a panic, she switched on the light and exposed all the images. Man Ray saved the images and looked at them later. He discovered that backgrounds were dark but there was a clear line between the white body and the background. This is what he called Solarization. Man Ray worked on perfecting the technique. He experimented until he came up with a process that worked to dramatically affect his images. The technique was kept secret until 1933. In 1934, this technique was demonstrated at “The French Society of Photography." Man Ray and Lee Miller were credited with inventing Photographic Solarization for artistic purposes.
Man Ray's achievements as an artist and photographer owed much to his sheer spirit of discovery. Man Ray enjoyed experimenting and trying out new and different things and he continued to do this in Paris until 1940, when he returned to New York. Man Ray's last works were published in 1944 in Harper's Bazaar. Man Ray died in Paris on November 18, 1976.
Image Credits
Image One: Man Ray: Le Violon d’Ingres, 1924. Flickr Andréa Farias’ Photostream by rightee under CC BY-SA 2.0
Image Two: Man Ray & Salvador Dali by Can Van Vetchen, 1934. Flickr pingnews Photostream by rightee under CC BY-SA 2.0
Image Three: Man Ray: Untitled, Natasha 1931. Flickr Mulling It Over Photostream by rightee under CC BY-SA 2.0
References
Lenin Imports: Man Ray: Biography
TCF.UJ: Manifesto of Surrealism by Andre Breton
Bowness, Alan, Modern European Art, Thames & Hudson, London, 1992
Edited by Heiting, Manfred, Man Ray, Taschen, 2008
Image Exchange: Man Ray Biography
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography & Surrealism
Martin, Jean-Hubert, Man Ray: Photographs, Thames & Hudson, 2001
De L’Ecotais, Emmanuelle & Sayag, Allain, Man Ray: Photography and its Double, Gingko Press, 1998
CCHem: Berkeley: Early Artistic Solarization
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Since I was out anyway to pick up some stuff in Beamsville, Ontario, I decided to extend my trip by taking Old Highway 8 in the rain to see how Spring was progressing on the farms in the area. I pulled off to head up the Niagara Escarpment to the Cave Springs Bruce Trail access parking lot with the intention to meander through the area. Sadly, Mother Nature exhibited a stubborn persistence with the steady, slow, drenching rain, and I cut short my stay as a result. As I was about to pack my stuff into the car, I noticed a Jeep parked nearby and, in addition to the typical hard-core outdoors adventure appearance package, a long row of various-coloured rubber ducks were nestled behind the rain spattered windshield. It struck me as a bit incongruous so I had to pull out the camera and get a shot before seeking my own shelter from the rain. – JW
Date Taken: 2025-05-21
Date PP: 2025-05-22
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Taken using hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 58mm, 2SO100 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/200 sec.
PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source: Set final image size to 9000px wide and cropped to a 16x9 format, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, increase Black Level slightly to darken the Jeep’s colouring back to a more normal value, use Tone Curve 2 tool in Parametric Mode to recover/darken Lights (mainly for the ducks) , use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool to darken the windshield’s sky reflection, increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, applied some Noise reduction to clean up the sky, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: duplicate the image to a new layer and use it to adjust the ducks without tampering with the rest of the image and on that add a black/transparent layer mask followed by panting the ducks areas in white so they will show in the final version, on the ducks layer adjust colour balance to offset the green tint and also boost overall colour balance, increase the ducks’ contrast, make new layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale to 7100 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3700 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
Five months later--after enduring strong winds, heavy rains, wet snows, and hail--this Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) leaf continues to resist the inevitable.
water cuts through rock, not because of strength, but through persistence.
jim watkins
📍Big South Fork National River & Scenic Area, KY
Credit to Svetlana Petrova & Zarathustra the Cat
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2003 Bradford entered a bid for 2008 European Capital of Culture.
The bid campaign slogan ‘One Landscape, Many Views’ appeared across the district and on one of Bradford Royales. Bradford was not successful. The bus went on for a fairly long life and even managed to be repainted into the firstgroup corporate livery at the time, albeit it was operating in Edinburgh by then. Everything in this view is now history except the old building on the left. Busmiles...ahhh !
Taken with a Ferrania Condor camera on Kentmere 400 film, developed in Rodinal for 15.5minsa at 21.5 degrees.
Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
1998-2001.
By Feilden Clegg Bradley.
A purpose-built fine art and crafts studio for Yorkshire ArtSpace Society.
The building is by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, and as their website observes:
Persistence Works was the UK’s first purpose-built fine art and crafts studio complex. Located in Sheffield, it provides a permanent base for 89 artists. The client was Yorkshire ArtSpace, a charitable organisation supporting artists and craftspeople by providing studio space at affordable rents, while offering a wide range of visual arts events and activities to the community.
The project was part funded from the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England and the European Regional Development Fund, although the intention was that this low maintenance, low energy facility would provide sufficient studio space to enable it to become financially independent.
The site is a prominent one, situated at the inter-section between the cultural and industrial developments within Sheffield’s old cutlery industries’ quarter. The function of the building is a synthesis of the two aspects of the cultural and industrial sectors; a synthesis which is also reflected in its form.
The building demonstrates innovation in our use of materials. It explores the use of concrete and the design and method of construction were carefully researched to achieve the highest quality affordable finish. The cast in situ concrete is contrasted with lightweight, frameless glass elements. The building incorporates a number of artists’ works, with the primary collaboration a “floating wall” to the main frontage.
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Yorkshire ArtSpace
Museum/Gallery
Yorkshire ArtSpace is a project established to provide studio space for artists which opened in October 2001 at the Persistence Works building in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The Yorkshire ArtSpace Society, originally established in Sheffield in 1977 by a group of artists, aimed to provide accessible studio space. At that time, the Society was based at Washington Works, but only on a short term lease. Persistence Works was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. It is the UK’s first purpose built studio complex for artists and craftspeople. The project has created studio space for sixty eight practicing artists and craftspeople in addition to exhibition, project, education and office spaces, The building won an RIBA Yorkshire White Rose award and a Civic Trust Award Commendation. It was also a finalist in the Prime Ministers’ Better Public Building Awards in 2002.
Day 92 of 365.
Previously titled couldabeen Day 92 this pic seemed to be preferred by my Flickr friends. Who am I to stand in the way of what the people want. Thus it has transcended from couldabeen to now is my Day 92.
It is a balmy 10 degrees C today, and these flowers have no plans to pack it in anytime soon. The light purple ones are a wildflower, I believe, heart shaped aster. They are always the last to bloom. The white ones are a cultivated flower, look like a tiny mum, but I don't know what they are called. These bloom early and keep on blooming, and reseed themselves like crazy.
The stones are from right here, a lovely thick, hard layer of stone with lots of fossils, about 300 million years old, and already nicely broken up into giant brick shapes.
Once I saw this tree I knew I had to get a shot of it. This is also from Sandefjord where my in-laws has a cottege and this tree was standing on the top of a hill, alone watching over the whole place.
This was taken during the sunset, though the sun is setting right behind me so I didn't get to capture a lot of colors here, but I think the sky turned out pretty dramatic with this long exposure.
It turned out so much better then I thought it would so I'm very happy with the result even though it's not the kind of picture I normaly take :)
Canon 450d, Sigma 10-20mm, Green*l ND 8,
2 exposures: 8'', 30''
f/16, ISO-100, 10mm
Thank you for viewing :)
When the conditions are favorable and allow for a pretty solid chance of capturing a great image you’ll find me out shooting the night sky. I always head out with high hopes knowing that I ......
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