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The particular beans that you see here are from a batch of Josuma Select Malabar Gold, a blend of coffee beans specially formulated for espresso.
In the center are the so called "green beans" before they were roasted, and on the outside are some beans after I roasted them in my home coffee roaster (a Fresh Roast Plus).
For espresso I manually grind them to a slightly gritty but still fine powder in a manual burr grinder (a Zassenhaus). This gets loaded and hand-tamped into a double basket portafilter, conventionally used to dose for a double shot, and inserted into either the La Cara or La Pavoni manual piston espresso machines. Both of these machines involve the user by having him push down on a lever to force the hot water through the tightly compacted espresso grounds.
The shot then gets pulled under great pressure into a pre-heated tazzina (a small espresso cup - I use a 68 cc feldspathic porcelain tazzina made by IPA Porcellane in Italy, pattern Bologna), for a total draw of around 1.25-1.5 ounces (2.5-3 tablespoons).
Such a very short shot is called a ristretto, which when made correctly has to be the purest form that one can enjoy an espresso - a wonderful concentration of coffee flavor with plenty of mouthfeel and a pleasant bitterness.
...and once in a blue moon when everything is right it produces the proverbial "god shot", which is actually creamy in taste. (And yes, this is all without using any milk! :-) )
Much has changed since I first posted this; here's a video on YouTube that shows my current eqiupment and workflow...
Taken with an Epson Perfection 4990 scanner.
Before and After - Coffee Roasting
At home
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA
Jan. 9, 2006
blog sighting at:
My Espresso Machine - Love Your Coffee
Smithsonian's Food & Think blog
Image search on Google
Also spotted in Flickr's explore ("interestingness") blog.
Høgronden (2118 m./6949 ft.), Midtronden (2060 m./6759 ft.) and Digerronden (2016 m./6614 ft.) peaks photographed from Dørålen in NE Rondane Nasjonalpark. September 2010.
An hour before sunrise, a subtle glow (alpen glow) on snow-covered peaks can be even more beautiful than the actual sunrise. An early snowfall suprised the yellow autumn birches which made a spectacular environment to photograph.
*view this photograph larger at my website.
I`m pleased to announce that I`ve been selected as one of five featured The Nature Conservancy-photographers over at Planet Green with three of my photographs from Rondane National Park in Norway!
The feature slideshow can be seen here:
Amazing Views of the World Through The Conservation Photographers Lens
You can also read my interview at The Portfolio Pro-group that I did in early September.
- Website: Fine Art Landscape Photography of Seung Kye Lee
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This was taken near the southwest corner of the park...
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Oct 2009) blog titled "Amish says ... sit in park." It was also published in a Jun 23, 2010 blog titled "Workers of the World Unite! Take Back Your Lunch!" It was also published in a Sep 16, 2010 blog titled "Cities for People: A Q&A With Architect Jan Gehl," at www-dot-fastcompany-dot-com-slash-1689519/cities-for-people-a-qa-with-architect-jan-gehl . And it was published in a Sep 24, 2010 blog titled "Friday 5: Urban Miscellany from Sept 18th-24th.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published (for reasons I simply don't understand at all) in a blog titled "Find a Dentist in Birmingham." And it was published in an undated (early Oct 2011) blog titled " Az öregedés jelei ."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Feb 13, 2012 Atlantic blog titled "Why So Many Romantic Comedies Are Set in Cities." And it was published in a May 1, 2012 blog titled "ブログでは書かないメルマガ相談所（工事中)."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Mar 21, 2013 blog titled For "Thriving Public Spaces, Just Add Seating."
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I had a lunchtime dentist appointment in midtown Manhattan the other day, and when it was over, I decided to walk a couple blocks over to Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library. It was a sunny day, and I thought I might see some gorgeous babes sunbathing on the park lawn in their bikinis (even being an amateur photographer is a tough job, but someone's gotta do it). If not, I thought perhaps I'd find some photogenic tourists or oddball New Yorkers that I could photograph.
As it turns out, almost all of the central lawn was being covered over with some kind of wooden platform -- presumably for an upcoming concert performance of some kind -- so nobody was sunbathing out on the grass. But since that area was unavailable, and since it was still the lunchtime period, the periphery around the central lawn was chock-a-block with people. There's now a cafe immediately behind (i.e., to the west) of the library itself, and it was doing a land-office business. And all along the north and south sides of the park, as well as the broader western side, there were tables and chairs and benches where people could enjoy their lunch with whatever food or entertainment they had brought along.
I was already aware of the pentanque court on the western side of the park, and knew that I'd find one or two good pictures there. But I didn't realize that the Parks Department had set up two ping-pong tables, as well as several tables for chess-players. In addition, there were a few card games underway, and there was also a section set aside for people who wanted to borrow local newspapers to read.
As for the people: I had to remind myself that because Bryant Park is smack in the middle of mid-town Manhattan (a block away from Times Square, filling the square block between 41st/42nd street, and 5th/6th Avenue), most of the people enjoying their lunch were office workers. So the men typically wore slacks and dress shirts, and a surprising number of them were also wearing suits and ties. The women wore dresses and skirts, and generally looked quite fashionable and presentable. Of course, there were also tourists and students and miscellaneous others; but overall, it was a much more "upscale" bunch of people than I'm accustomed to seeing in my own residential area on the Upper West Side.
I was surprised by how many people were sitting alone -- eating alone, reading alone, listening to music alone, dozing alone, or just staring into space alone. You'll see some of them in this album, though I didn't want to over-emphasize their presence; equally important, many of the loners just weren't all that interesting from a photogenic perspective. So you'll also see lots of couples, some children, a couple of families, and occasionally larger groups of people who were eating and chatting and enjoying the warm summer day.
Three activities dominated the scene, all of which were fairly predictable, under the circumstances: eating, reading, and talking on cellphones. You would expect people to be eating at lunch-time, of course; and you wouldn't be surprised at the notion of people reading a book as they sat behind the New York Public Library on a warm, sunny day. But the pervasiveness of the cellphones was quite astonishing ... oh, yeah, there were a few laptops, too, but fewer than I might have imagined.
I've photographed Bryant Park several times over the past 40 years, going back to some photos of 1969 Vietnam War protest marches that you can see in this album. I was here in the summer of 2008 to take these photos; I came back in January 2009 to take these photos of the winter scene; and I returned again for these pictures in March 2009 and these these pictures in the late spring of 2009; all of these have been collected into a Flickr "collection" of albums that you can find here. But if you want to see what New York City's midtown office workers are doing at lunch, take a look at what's in this album.
40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22 - 2010
Nikon FE2
I've just loaded two rolls this morning and determined to shoot for the Earth Day 2010.
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40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22 - 2010
This flower looks beautiful under the morning sun.
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40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22 - 2010
The smallest of wildflowers are still beautiful.
Olympus OM-2n | 50/1.4MC
Fujipro 400H
Scanned -ve
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The thing with them from a laid back town sometimes...most thought photographers should only shoot or photograph people, landscape will do perhaps. A couple thought am strange and laughed over my crawling on my tummy just to shoot weeds?
I like that...Lol!!
A curios one approached me while doing this shot...she asked what's with a grass to be photographed? I said wait and see...
I showed her this macro shot result from the camera lcd... she said...NO WAY!!!
Lol!
MY MOTHER'S GARDEN o12
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/anatomy-of-an-oil-spill-...
planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/gulfofmexico-oil...
www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/y-didnt-they-burn-the-bp...
Dear Pablo: I am very disturbed by the massive oil spill in the Gulf. Why didn't BP or the Government just burn it all before it began reaching land? Surely this would have been a lesser evil.
If we weren't there already there before, BP's underwater gusher in the Gulf has our collective eco-anxiety approaching 11. Not only is the scale difficult to comprehend (3,850 square miles as of 4/30/2010) but, unlike the Exxon Valdez spill, this spill keeps on going at a rate of 1,000-5,000 barrels per day. Burning such large quantities of oil would be a dirty proposition, blackening skies and severely impacting air quality in the Southern US, but wouldn't it be better than letting it coat hundreds of miles of beaches, endangered seabirds, oyster beds, and protective barrier wetlands?
At roughly 9.4 kilograms of CO2 per gallon of crude oil, burning the already-spilled 1.6 million gallons (estimate as of 5/2/2010) would theoretically turn it into 15,000 metric tons of greenhouse gasses. This is equivalent to the estimated daily emissions from yesterday's news: the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland. Since crude oil is unrefined, contains various impurities, and because open combustion does not achieve ideal combustion conditions, the combustion emissions would also include various undesirable gasses including SOX, NOX, VOCs, particulate matter, N2O and probably some mercury too. But tell that to the birds that will have their feathers tarred, the fisherman that will loose their way of life, and the tourism industry of the Gulf Coast and you will soon realize that burning of the oil would be the lesser evil.
Unlike the gasoline that is distilled from it, crude oil has a relatively high flash point of 140°F. The flash point is the temperature at which a substance can vaporize to form a ignitable mixture in air. In order to sustain combustion the crude oil must be maintained at or above the flash point. Unfortunately the sea surface temperature near the oil spill is in the mid to low 70's and the air temperature is only slightly higher. This means that the additional heat to maintain the combustion needs to come from the combustion itself. Since the oil slick is spread out and quite thin, this surface layer does not contain enough chemical potential energy per square foot to sufficiently heat the oil adjacent to it.
You may have seen that there were attempts made at burning off some of the oil before it reached shore. In order to sustain the combustion, boats with booms were used to corral enough oil to achieve combustion that could be sustained. Sadly, by one estimate heard on National Public Radio (NPR), only about 3% of the oil could have been burned off in this way. To make matters worse, choppy seas have disrupted any burning operations over the last few days and oil has since made it to shore.
#124 in a series for one photo a day for a year
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22 - 2010
The Earth has sprung back to life again here in our backyard. Draught's long slumber is over and all around me I see thousands of trees green with new leaves, I smell the glorious scent of millions of new flowers, and I hear the songs of countless birds joyously praising nature. Everywhere there is wonderful evidence of new life and fresh beginnings. It makes me smile just to go outside in the morning and breathe.
Thanks for viewing!
Olympus OM-2n | 50/1.4MC
Fujipro 400H
Scanned -ve
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
30 Days of Gratitude: Day 8 - I am grateful for hot coffee in the morning.
Is your TV on or off? Is your microwave oven and coffeemaker using electricity even when you aren’t using those appliances? Did you know that mobile phone chargers are using electricity even when they’re plugged in?
www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/definitions/Phantom-Load
A "phantom load" is any appliance or electronic gizmo that uses energy even when turned off. Some people call them "vampire appliances" or "energy vampires." Phantom energy is drained by items including computers that still use power even when they're asleep, power tools that still drain electricity when the battery's charging, and anything with a built-in clock.
If your home is typical, you live with 20 vampires. They add about $200 to your annual energy bill, according to Cornell University. That’s because the "off" button doesn’t really mean "off" these days; instead, it means "standby." In fact, your TV with remote control likely uses more energy during the 20 hours a day that it’s turned off and in a "standby power" state than it does during the hours you watch the tube.
The upshot, according to Cornell, is we’re using the equivalent of seven electrical generating plants just to supply vampires that are turned "off."
Here are some clues to identify your energy suckers: They're appliances with remote controls, such as TVs, VCRs and audio equipment. They feature a continuous digital display -- like those glowing clocks on stoves. They feature rechargeable batteries, such as cordless phones (which use energy even after the battery is charged). And they're appliances with external power supplies, such as inkjet printers and iPod chargers.
How can you combat vampires?
•Kill vampires by using a power strip sold at hardware stores, home-supply superstores, discount stores and the like. Step 1: Plug all components of a computer or home entertainment system into a power strip. Step 2: Turn off the power strip with a single switch. Anything plugged into the strip now is truly turned off.
•Unplug "vampires." Unplug rarely used appliances. Ditto for chargers that aren't in use. Unplug the TV, toaster oven and other well-used appliances before you leave. If it’s not plugged in, it can’t suck energy.
planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/penny-pinching-s...
www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/cut_back_on_pha.php
greenbootcamp.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-seven-phantom-ene...
79/100 Possibilities~ 100 Possibilities Project set
“If your home is typical, you live with 20 vampires.”
A "phantom load" is any appliance or electronic gizmo that uses energy even when turned off.
Some people call them "vampire appliances" or "energy vampires."
Phantom energy is drained by items including computers that still use power even when they're asleep, power tools that still drain electricity when the battery's charging, and anything with a built-in clock.
Energy vampires add about $200 to your annual energy bill, according to Cornell University. That’s because the "off" button doesn’t really mean "off" these days; instead, it means "standby." In fact, your TV with remote control likely uses more energy during the 20 hours a day that it’s turned off and in a "standby power" state than it does during the hours you watch the tube.
The upshot, according to Cornell, is we’re using the equivalent of seven electrical generating plants just to supply vampires that are turned "off."
All together, phantom energy can account for about 10 percent of an individual home's electricity use. It might not sound like much, until you consider that cutting out that 10 percent will get you over a month of free electricity every year.
Here are some clues to identify your energy vampires: They're appliances with remote controls, such as TVs, VCRs and audio equipment. They feature a continuous digital display -- like those glowing clocks on stoves. They feature rechargeable batteries, such as cordless phones (which use energy even after the battery is charged). And they're appliances with external power supplies, such as inkjet printers and iPod chargers.
How can you combat vampires?
•Kill vampires by using a power strip sold at hardware stores, home-supply superstores, discount stores and the like. Step 1: Plug all components of a computer or home entertainment system into a power strip. Step 2: Turn off the power strip with a single switch. Anything plugged into the strip now is truly turned off.
•Unplug "vampires." Unplug rarely used appliances. Ditto for chargers that aren't in use. Unplug the TV, toaster oven and other well-used appliances before you leave. If it’s not plugged in, it can’t suck energy.
www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/definitions/Phantom-Load
planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/penny-pinching-s...
www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/cut_back_on_pha.php
greenbootcamp.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-seven-phantom-ene...
40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22 - 2010
This mean looking wheels still leave my front gates two or three times a day for a short trip around the place. Single speed and dynamo powered headlamp and tail light - no batteries needed, just like Trip35. The all-steel is very strong for almost 40 years and will still serve for another 40 years, maybe. My humble contribution to protecting the Earth.
Thanks for viewing!
Olympus OM-2n | 50/1.4MC
Fujipro 400H
Scanned -ve
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
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I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.
This is a common site around Greensburg!
This building recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
From the Studio 804 website:
www.studio804.com/2008/greensburg/Proposal.html
Proposal
With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential.
As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program. Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become.
With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery. In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing. This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.
_____________________________________________________
I took these photos at the very end of a recent trip to my hometown of Greensburg, Kansas. After taking only a few exterior shots, I got an invite to come on inside the Art Center. I began snapping pictures furiously as people prepared for the start of a meeting.
The Discovery Channel was there filming for their reality TV series GREENSBURG, which will begin airing June 15 on their new Planet Green Network. This building should play prominently in that series as it is one of the few non-residential buildings built so far.
One of the meeting participants was kind enough to raise the sun screen for me which caused the film crew to give a thumbs up to the added light. After I started feeling a little in the way, I moved back outside on one of the windiest days of the year to try to get some more exterior shots, but my battery went dead after only a few more shots. I will try to get more images the next time I am there.