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As Listed Buildings go, this one is pretty unusual, as it was only ever in situ for a short length of time.
This structure at Farnborough was built in 1912 and designed to house airships, and could be moved as required. When in use, it would have been covered with some form of canvas.
However, by the end of 1913, this project was abandoned and the framework was recycled, with the lower portion being used in Building Q65 nearby (by 1917) and the upper part incorporated in Building R51 in 1914, also nearby.
Following the closure of the RAE Factory site in 1998, those components were saved and in 2004 re-assembled to show how they once were all those years ago, and now form a centrepiece in the modern business park immediately north of the airfield.
Farnborough, Hampshire
13th July 2022
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This image has been selected as the cover illustration for the upcoming book The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner (The cover design is below.)
THE FAULKNER PORTABLE
William Faulkner’s Underwood Universal Portable typewriter, rests on a tiny desk his stepson helped him build. It's the highlight of the Rowan Oak experience for many visitors, even though this room was part of the open back porch until Faulkner spent part of a Random House advance to enclose it in l952, long after he had written his seminal Compson and Sartoris family novels.
He insisted that this room not be called his "study." According to biographer Joseph Blotner, "he did not study in it, so there was no sense in calling it that. It was the 'office,' the traditional name for the room in the plantation houses where the business was transacted."
As to the typewriter itself, Underwood introduced its Universal Portable in the mid-l930's among a full line of portables such as Champion, Noiseless Portable and Junior. Faulkner had a habit of buying used portables locally, wearing them out, then trading them in on more used portables.
This Underwood was one of at least three typewriters in Faulkner`s possession at the time of his death (the University of Virginia has one, too). So, this is no more "the" typewriter any more than those square carpenter`s pencils next to it are "the" pencils. Had Faulkner lived a few more years, this machine would have met the same fate as the rest. Still, the room has a resonance.
Taking the photo:
BOOK magazine was publishing an article of mine on "Yoknapatourism," [see the text of it below] and thinking (mistakenly) that the editors hadn`t already selected a photographer, I returned to Oxford on a rainy October afternoon to make my own pictures for submission. The travel piece was eventually illustrated with sunny-day brochure shots, but I was happy to keep this one for myself.
There was no direct lighting within the office, so I let the film take its time, soaking up faint incandescent glow from the library and main hallway, which neatly balanced the cloudy daylight. I used the camera`s timer so my hand wouldn't jostle the tripod, and I even backed out of the room--in part to let the scarce light do its work and, I think, because I wanted Faulkner`s office truly vacant.
Trivia: The book sitting next to William Faulkner's typewriter is the 1939 edition of Writer's Market
The trail of my thoughts veers at times to this mini-series of portable architecture kits, as I like to think of them. Being that architecture is about spatial concerns in addition to the structural ones, this may be pertinent.
The main theme of the mint atelier is not only smallness but also the lozenge shape that I love.
The Lozenge is very handy. It reveals itself here in the contents of my customized pen pouch.
1. Craig Mint Green Craig pen case (or camera bag too)
2. Digital Harinezumi camera (the 1st one, I'm not getting into the pixel-phase)
3. Cohiba Siglo VI humitube (huge cigar, but great fountain pen holder)
4. Tiny handcrafted notebook (Boku brand)
5. Toraya Yokan box with Seal stamp and ink case (lucky horseracing box, seal from HK)
6. Namiki Flexible nib fountain pen Red Namiki ink (finest pen I have ever used, and not expensive either)
Strobist info :
1 Multiblitz Minilite 200 1/2 power w/17 " x 55 ' softbox + 1 tracing paper on the left.
1 YN 560 1/2 power with grid aim at the steam from behind
above.
1 white foam board on the right as fill light.
Triggered with Cactus V5.
I was too lazy not to iron my shirts and clothes for quite a long time. But since I bought a Muslim backdrop for studio shot, I need this USD 26 from Amazon portable handheld steamer to eliminate the winkles and it did well !
Why have a little ultra portable computer when you could have a computer that transports itself?
What I find interesting is how the background reflecting off the glass used as a floor doesn't look much like a reflection. There is a whitish streak on the right side that is clearly a reflection, but the rest of the background highlights don't seem to match up. All the highlights were above the glass.
The checkerboard can be folded with the game pieces locked inside.
You can find instructions on the AppStore for free.
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My old Game Gear still had some life left in it tonight. So I popped in a new game I hadn't played before, Portable Ninja. The goal of this game is to destroy as many time pieces (called 'minutes', you can even destroy 'hours' if you're good enough) as possible while traveling through a dark tunnel reaching out for a posing voice in the dark. It sounds pretty lame, but the reward for beating it is pretty cool.
I've heard there are tons of alternate endings in this game. Guess I'll have to play through again to see what different outcomes there are. I have other new games to try also, and I don't even feel that I played as well as I could've tonight.
Me on the hold, the circle and the settings.
J on the flash and the trigger.
DJJD as the Ninja
Seen in Brookfield Place atrium, downtown Toronto. Low overhead as this "road warrior" negotiates a deal over the phone from his "office."
Tuned into 40 meters SSB.
It was too chilly outside on the deck, so I set up inside. Operating on battery power at 50 watts.
class sample for 2010 proposals
Portable Smiles
(still needs a red / polka dot mushroom hanging down from bottom eyelet and wire at top to hang from a necklace or piece of art)
portable turntable cake, buttercream with fondant accessories, including a fully edible hand-painted velvet underground record sleeve
This year, 2026 is the centenary of the formation of Zeiss Ikon, a major player in European camera manufacture in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 20th century.
To mark this anniversary, I've decided to use a different Zeiss Ikon camera every two weeks throughout the year, a project I'm calling “Twenty-six in Twenty-six”.
The Nettar 515 is a mid-range medium format folding camera from the 1930s. It takes 16 4.5cm x 6cm negatives on a roll. It's very portable, and I use this one quite a lot. The film is Fomapan 100, developed in Rodinal.
Multiple exposure of several identical bollards.
Equipment used
Godox LP800X Portable Battery Pack for Flash
Elinchrom Rotalux Deep Octabox (100cm / 39")
Elinchrom D-Lite RX 4 with built-in Skyport
“11” impact C-Stand
Two sculptures by the British artist Julian Opie (b. 1958) inspired by the bell towers of the Aveiro Cathedral (left) and Estrela Basilica, Lisbon. Shown at Opie's exhibition at Galeria Diogo Sequeira in 2020.
Photogenic Powerlight 600 w/16" parabolic and DIY portable AC power supply tripped via Quantum radio slave. Canon 40D, 10-22mm. 1/160 sec @ f/29 - 12 feet. Total cost of DIY power supply - under $400. Girlfriend vacationing in Hungary so you are stuck with me for the model. See Notes for details on build.
This is how they did it back in the good ol' days when a generator had to be moved from one spot to another. Since it is on a sled - I am assuming that it was last used during the winter months. I found this gem up in the 40 mile country in Alaska. I thought that some of my Flickr friends might get a kick out of it's size. These days a 2000 watt generator is easily lifted and transported anywhere. Many people use them for camping out, or for emergency situations. It sure beats hooking up the horses, then hooking up to a sled, in order to haul power out to a remote site - like they had to do during the gold rush days.
Okay, before anyone freaks out, please don’t judge me too hard.
This dolly abomination absolutely saved my grade and my sanity.
Back in 200? (2007-2008?) I was pursuing a bachaelors degree in art at a local university. I was in an upper division Art History class with a professor notorious for high expectations and harsh grading. Like any other “400 level” class there was a very large research paper project that was going to be a major part of our grade in the class. Something like a thirty page research paper.
Now at the time my personal life was rocky, I was close to graduating but gradually taking fewer and fewer classes, and I was working more full-time hours at my retail job. (Burnout. In hindsight I was burning out.)
I didn’t realize I was burning out but I knew, I just KNEW that I didn’t have thirty pages of words inside of me to put on a page. Even though I really enjoyed the class and love the topic: History of Surrealism, I knew I didn’t have thirty pages in me so I had to come up with a creative solution. I needed a muse.
In lieu of writing a thirty page paper, I created this Portable Muse.
I turned in this Muse (and a hand bound book of surrealist art games we had learned about in the class. I had recreated the games and wrote little explanations of them.) I got a really good grade and passed the class.
(I did end up dropping out of school for real and never finished my degree. Oops.)
The muse herself is a Britney Spears head on a Ocean Toys Pamela Love torso mounted on an imitation squirrel paintbrush. She comes in her own labeled tin (a repurposed Surf Benders tin.)
(I have the original head for this torso and had been looking for poor Pamela’s body for a while… then I remembered what I had done to her and found this old Portable Muse in my studio.)
The Mixed Nuts exhibit took place in May 2008 in Australia. The project involved interpreting a stuffed nut pattern that was shared with all participating artists including Lori Joy Smith, Sandra Monat, Jess Hutchinson, Elsita, and Kirsty Campion (the curator), among others. You can see all of the finished products at Kirsty's blog.
Our contribution (which we've been anxious to share photos of since sending it out in March) was conceived and finished while we were in Buenos Aires for a few months. Starting with the basic nut shape, our children drew birds, beetles, faces, fish, etc. One of the drawings depicted a monster that swallowed all sorts of objects and thus turned our attention to the inside of the nut. At the time, Enzo was also making many Katamari Damacy inspired drawings, so we combined the idea from those drawings of having trees growing on spheres and settled on creating an embedded landscape which could be made portable by closing up and sealing it with a zipper. With limited recycled materials we put together a series of small islands, three of them forested with 40 hand stitched miniature trees and one of them barren rock with two small houses. Our full set of images can be found in this set. Above is a video slideshow (also here) we put together in which Enzo demonstrates how to open and close the nut.
Update September 2008: After being on the road for a year, we're back in Southern California. We have many projects in the works including a new installation in San Diego, a group show in New York, original softie characters, and costumes for this year's Halloween. Bear with us as we are still gathering materials in our new studio. We'll be sharing more of our projects as often as we can. If you are interested in any of our available items, don't hesitate to ask and we'll send you more information about them.
Portable Landscape
thrifted fabrics and zipper
recycled polyfill stuffing
salvaged cardboard
based on drawings by
seven-year-old boy
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