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Get your bearings before you break out the protractor and tackle the topographic map.
Once you master: always read a military map "Right and Up"... you'll be rattling off 8-digit grid coordinates in no time.
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The current Toybox 52 Theme is Geometry. So I asked some advice from Blueprint, who knows all about it - he’s always to be found with a pair of compasses in hand and loves to sketch and draw geometric shapes. More info. Ref: D1097_17
Cadets from 10th Regiment, Advanced Camp, completed their land navigation qualification at Fort Knox, Ky., July 28, 2023. Armed with a compass, protractor, pencil, map, and a list of coordinates, the Cadets set out, fueled by determination, to find each of their points in under 4 hours. | Photo by Rosalita Mitchell, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
Most triangulation pillars are situated on top of hills, however the summit of Farley Mound is occupied by a pyramidal monument, so this one has to stand to one side. This means that it doesn't have an uninterupted 360 degree view as the Iron Age mound that the monument is on obscures the view to the south-west.
Trigpoints are the common name for these "triangulation pillars". These concrete pillars, are about 4' tall, and were used by the Ordnance Survey in order to determine the exact shape of the country. They are generally located on the highest bit of ground in the area, so that there is a direct line of sight from one to the next. By sitting a theodolite (an accurate protractor built into a telescope) on the top of the pillar, accurate angles between pairs of nearby trigpoints could be measured. This process is called "triangulation".
A major project to map out the shape of Great Britain began in 1936. The network of triangulation pillars, with accurately known positions, led to the excellent OS maps. The coordinate system used on these maps is known as the "National Grid", and it is essential that you are familiar with this system if you are to get the most of OS maps.
Greenock war memorial stands in front of the entrance gates of Wellpark in Regent Street, Greenock. It was unveiled on Saturday 4th October 1924. The architect was Messrs. Wright & Wylie and the sculptor Alexander Proudfoot, both of Glasgow. Proudfoot was born in Liverpool of Scottish parents and served in the Artists Rifles in WWI. During the war he also designed and patented a new form of protractor / rangefinder for the Vickers machine gun and later began to model relief landscapes of the trenches for army intelligence. After the war he became head of sculpture at Glasgow School of Art. The Greenock monument is loaded with symbolic meaning which is detailed in the booklet which was issued for the unveiling ceremony.
Tried a bit of cross polarization today, something I have wanted to try for a long while and ended up doing the protractors and ruler that everybody do's, but hay they work the best and every body has has a set. A couple of polarizing filters, a light source and a bit of macro photography and here is the result.
This was taken for the 3 Legged Thing 'A Year in the Life' 52-week challenge. This weeks subject is artificial light, and what could be more artificial than a cross-polarisation shot?
This is similar to something I've done before, but I think this version is a superior image...
Real photo postcard. Postally unused.
Bought from an eBay seller in Church Minshull, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
Who can properly describe what kind of cleverness is going on here?
ART NAHPRO says, with precision: "... measuring / calculating the height of a tall building using a protractor (clinometer)." See comments.
That's the geometry lesson over. Now we need to open our geography textbooks ...
ORLANDO, Fla. – The 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Best Warrior Competition began in earnest today as 12 Soldiers from the 143d ESC and the 321st Military Intelligence Battalion demonstrated their physical power and mental might to complete a gauntlet of Soldier skills.
Dawn had yet to illuminate the lakes and trees blanketing Camp Blanding, Fla., when the Soldiers endured an Physical Fitness Test directed by Army Reserve drill sergeants from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 485th Infantry Regiment (Initial Entry Training) out of Jacksonville, Fla. After completing pushups, sit-ups and a two-mile run, the competitors had less than hour to eat, clean, change uniforms, don rucksacks and step into a van bound for Camp Blanding’s live fire ranges.
The 143d ESC cadre and A-2/485 drill sergeants managed the ranges that tested the each competitor’s competency with the M4 Carbine, M9 Pistol and M203 Grenade Launcher—all while wearing a gas mask. The Soldiers were then ferried deep into Camp Blanding’s dense forest. The troops applied their land navigation skills to physically locate three distant points on a map using only a compass and protractor.
As the hot, dry day relinquished control to a cold, moonless night, the competitors returned to the field with weapons in hands and night vision goggles over their eyes. Muzzle flashes pierced the darkness as the competitors attempted to eliminate their artificially illuminated targets.
The exhausted yet enthusiastic dozen returned then to their barracks to clean weapons, write an essay and prepare for another grueling day that begins with a 10-mile road march.
Photos by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC, and Spc. Aaron Barnes, 321st MI BN
I spent a Saturday morning at the superb North Carolina Museum of Art. I hope to return several times, and to keep adding to a set that will show the range of the collections, the beautifully designed new building, and the outdoor sculpture park and greenway that connect it to North Carolina's capitol city.
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"To many artists of Frank Stella’s generation, the highly subjective paintings of the abstract expressionists seemed mannered and self-indulgent. Stella’s response was to systematize the abstract picture using geometry and a strict but arbitrary set of procedures. Explaining that his art “is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there,” he sought to distill the image to paint and canvas alone. He stripped his paintings of story or statement—even a brushstroke conveyed too much personality. Stella methodically developed images in series, first mapping the designs on paper before transferring them to canvas. Little was left to chance.
Raqqa II belongs to Stella’s aptly titled Protractor Series, begun in 1967. Though never completed, the series was to include thirty-one compositions, each to be carried out in three different formats: interlaces, rainbows, and fans. He titled the paintings after ancient, circular-plan cities. (Raqqa in Syria was an important trade center under the Arab caliphs.) Raqqa II does not lie quietly on the wall. It dominates its surroundings. What at first glance appears like a childlike pattern is actually a highly complex exercise in perception. Bright bands of flat color arc and overlap, promising an illusion of receding space. However, their containment within a strict system of seven shaped and framed units confounds that illusion. The monumental scale and aggressive confidence of Raqqa II typify American art during the 1960s."
I'm beginning to really like making these....now I'm wishing for a bigger set than 12 of the Inktense pencils!!!
Cadets from 10th Regiment, Advanced Camp, completed their land navigation qualification at Fort Knox, Ky., July 28, 2023. Armed with a compass, protractor, pencil, map, and a list of coordinates, the Cadets set out, fueled by determination, to find each of their points in under 4 hours. | Photo by Rosalita Mitchell, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
yet another work where i try to create visual depth. it's taken me so long to get to the point where i even vaguely understand that concept, one that other people -- even some children and a lot of teenagers -- seem to grasp so easily.
i put two-and-two together last year that a learning disability i have is probably the reason why -- it's called NVLD and it affects spatial perception. professionals say that if you ask a kid with NVLD to copy a drawing of a cube, they'll redraw it with "profound distortions." this is so me -- i just don't seem to "get" spatial dimensions easily like other people. but i am finding that using colors to create depth is either more engaging or makes more sense to me, so that's been fun.
it has been strange to come to terms with the fact that this is probably why producing technically correct artwork has always been so hard for me. i remember being in the 6th grade and my art teacher talking about perspective & perpendicular lines and me being so incredibly confused and frustrated. everyone around me could easily use their rulers & protractors to produce these perfectly lined-up scenes and mine was a complete mess, much to the teacher's disappointment. i also have always been so far behind my brother in terms of technical art skills, in a way that's significant even though he's two years my senior. just last week, when he was home from college for christmas, he was trying out a new marker set and casually drew something with spatial & technical accuracy that would take me tons of effort, and still look "wrong" in ways. and he doesn't even make art regularly at all!
additionally, friends told me growing up i should learn the "basics" of art (i.e. drawing from life) and despite my best efforts, this was always incredibly difficult for me to do. only this year have i learned how to do some of these things, by talking myself through them, and sort of creating a map in my head of what elements come into play in a scene -- i.e., in a portrait, light usually is brightest on the forehead, the nose, & the cheeks, and is more subdued on the chin & sides of face & neck, et cetera. learning these types of things wasn't very intuitive for me, even given my experience with photography.
this also got me to thinking that my inability to process spatial dimensions properly probably affects the art i like. i remember having an argument with a friend earlier this year about how i don't appreciate visual depth & accuracy in art that much, whereas they love it, and find it makes everything look better. we couldn't seem to see each other's perspectives as sensical. i later found out that this friend is very skilled at perceiving spatial dimensions, whereas i'm awful at it. when this person looks at artworks that are all colors & basic lines, they must see a lack of depth, whereas when i look at artworks with tons of dimension, i'm like "what the hell am i looking at?!" it seems plausible to me that the perceptual centers of the brain affect whether we find a michelangelo or a matisse painting most strikingly beautiful.
in spite of appreciating line & graphic type art the most, i am interested in deepening my skill set. there's a lot of roadblocks, but i do feel that i'm getting somewhere. and i do feel that this disability is a superpower in a way -- even though learning technical skills is harder for me than other people, i feel that my strange visual processing style gives my art a unique flair. i can't make things look exactly right, so i'm not bound by perfection. i'm naturally given to producing abstraction and distortion, something that is very interesting & defining in art.
Collage, glue, ink, graphite on paper
9" x 12"
2009
Enrique Castrejon
Measured in inches
Scale 1/8" = 1/8"
Bob Megargee Collection
Enrique Castrejon: Artist Statement 2013
Images of beauty, queer bodies, HIV, war, death, destruction and tragic current events are elements that inspire my work. I linearly dissect and cut appropriated images found in variety of eclectic media sources such as newspapers, magazines, advertisements and photographs, art books, Sotheby’s auction catalogs, porn, personal photos and online sources into smaller identifiable geometric shapes. I investigate and describe what I see through measurements. I transform this selected graphic imagery into quantified drawings mapped by measuring distances between points (x inches), at times calculating the varied angle degrees created within the shapes (360˚-A˚= B˚), and/or written data related to the image of each shape. The distances around the shapes are measured in inches and their corresponding degree angles are calculated with a protractor and calculator. These precise measurements abstract the image interfering and altering its fixed meaning, creating other possible interpretations through this linear dissection. The final results are written around the shapes creating an intricate explosive web of verifiable units. This repetitive and meditative process allows me to map out the drawing and reveal the invisible mathematical language found in everything. Also, in creating these fragmented and measured drawings from the cut up parts of the whole and reconfigured, I challenge our perceptions of what is real, forcing us to think critically about information that is constantly bombarding our everyday lives through images selected in directed advertisements, pop-culture sources, editorials and news stories found in printed and online media.
Enrique Castrejon lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Currently, a solo exhibition of his work, Axiom of Solitude: Investigations & Meditations, is on view at Bermudez Projects Downtown from September 28th to November 26th, 2013. Castrejon’s work is also traveling nationally in a group exhibition called Out of Rubble, organized and curated by Susanne Slavick, that looks at how artists have “reacted to the wake of war – its realities and representations.” Castrejon was also a featured artist and panelist on a KPCC 89.3 radio program, Air Talk with Larry Mantel on the topic of Chicano Art & Pacific Standard Time exhibit with participating artists and panelists Gronk, Patissi Valdez and Sonia Romero.
Cadets of 2nd Regiment, Basic Camp, participate in Land Navigation training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 18, 2022. The Cadets worked in groups to locate at least one out of two points using only a map, compass, protractor and pencil. | Photo by Julia Galli, CST Public Affairs Office
A marvelous old Texas windmill along Highway 7, a product of the Baker Mfg Co.
Baker began in 1872 with the designing of a rotary steam engine by Allen S. Baker and Levi Shaw. Mr. Baker took the design to a Milwaukee firm to be built and the tests looked promising. the Baker Manufacturing Company (founded in 1873 in Evansville, WI) was a well-known maker of windmills, most famously under the Monitor brand. From 1873 to 1876 the Company increased its capital from $6,000 to $12,500. During this period a new foundry was built and the company began the manufacture of iron pumps and wooden windmills, designed and tested by Allen Baker. By 1876, newspapers carried ads for "Monitor" windmills, a trade name still used today.The 1880's saw a growth in physical facilities so that by 1882, the Baker Company consisted of a machine shop, a foundry, a wood department, a paint department and a blacksmith shop. There were forty men on the payroll. In addition to producing and shipping windmills at the rate of seventy per month, rotary feed grinders and wood saws were manufactured. LE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM of fame and fortune is grasped by many in many different ways. For six men in Evansville, Wisconsin, it was to take the shape of the A. S. Baker Company. Their vision of one hundred twenty years ago became the forerunner of the Baker Manufacturing Company which through the years has marketed such a diversity and variety of products as water systems components, gasoline engines, walking and acrobatic toys, hydrofoil boats, an anti-aircraft lead computing sight, an average protractor for matching aircraft propeller blades and scientific instruments.
Okay, how many of you remember your math days when you had to use a device like this? The protractor was standard issue as a Weapon of Math Instruction. (Okay, I heard you groan.)
But you remember the math jokes, too, don't you? Like what did the acorn say when it grew up? Answer: Gee, I'm a tree--Geometry. (Okay, I heard you groan again.)
What were your favorite Math jokes?
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Cadets from 10th Regiment, Advanced Camp, completed their land navigation qualification at Fort Knox, Ky., July 28, 2023. Armed with a compass, protractor, pencil, map, and a list of coordinates, the Cadets set out, fueled by determination, to find each of their points in under 4 hours. | Photo by Rosalita Mitchell, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
Alternative Macro Mondays Shot for the PPEP theme for 10 Oct 16. Flight Ruler, chinagraph pencil and pilot's log book, resting on a 1:500,000 air chart.
Cadets of 2nd Regiment, Basic Camp, participate in Land Navigation training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 18, 2022. The Cadets worked in groups to locate at least one out of two points using only a map, compass, protractor and pencil. | Photo by Julia Galli, CST Public Affairs Office
‘On you go now! Run, son, like the devil
And tell your mother to try
To find me a bubble for the spirit level
And a new knot for this tie.’
Seamus Heaney
Among my various bits of obsolete technology are an assortment of measuring instruments: for length, weight, hardness, curvature, cycles per minute - a pretty miscellaneous bunch.
These particular ones are for measuring angles. The big Dietzgen protractor in the back is a hundred years old, made of nickel with a transparent crosshair insert at the center. The others are newer; the newest is the plastic one in the front, which is still pushing fifty.
No real reason for having these, except that if I didn't, somebody else would probably throw them out.
I hand piece, so these are templates without seam allowance. I trace them onto the fabric then sew by hand along the pencil lines. I constructed the templates with a straight ruler and a protractor; the only angles I used are 60, 90, 120 and 150 degrees so you can also use a kite ruler instead of the protractor. I'm not really sure why I labeled the templates with a "TOP" side as they are all symmetrical and it doesn't really matter... just habit I guess.
The biggest template makes the clovers (you need 4 of those leaves per clover) and the other three templates make the stars - 6 of the 60 degree diamonds are in the center of each star, they get surrounded by 6 of the irregular shape (the bottom template in the picture) and finally 12 of the 60 degree triangles.
My main side length is 2.5". If you want to resize: All sides of the cloverleaf shape and the 60 degree triangle are that main side length. The bottom side of the irregular shape is also that length, and the two sides next to that are exactly half that length. The pain in the butt is calculating the length of the side for the 60 degree diamond, which is also the length of the remaining 2 sides on the irregular shape. This length is:
(main side length) x (1 + square root of 3) / (square root of 6). If you round that to the nearest 8th or 16th of an inch you should be fine. For the 2.5" main length, the side of the diamonds is just a smidge over 2.75".
A Cadet uses her protractor to determine her point's location at Fort Knox, Ky. July 6, 2019. The Land Navigation Refresher gives Cadets a chance to familiarize themselves with the area they will be navigating as well as reacquaint themselves with the equipment. | Photo by Jacob Hempen, CST Public Affairs Office
Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.
Charts is a former map purveyor to seagoing vessels visiting Newcastle Quayside. Well before the advent of GPS and digital maps, navigation was performed on large paper charts, using compasses, dividers, and protractors. The navigator would make sightings of coastal landmarks, or if out of sight of land, by dead reckoning and the use of a sextant. An accurate chronometer was vital for calculating longitude, and a compass in the wheelhouse to determine the bearing.
Today it is a pub/restaurant, serving a variety of beers and ales, as well as sprits with a seafaring theme.
The building is a three story brick structure with a Grade II Listing.
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Taken on 16th July, 2022 at 1523hrs with a Canon EOS 5D Mk II digital still camera, through a Canon EF 24-105mm ƒ/4 L IS USM zoom lens, post processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
© Timothy Pickford-Jones 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. – The 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Best Warrior Competition began in earnest today as 12 Soldiers from the 143d ESC and the 321st Military Intelligence Battalion demonstrated their physical power and mental might to complete a gauntlet of Soldier skills.
Dawn had yet to illuminate the lakes and trees blanketing Camp Blanding, Fla., when the Soldiers endured an Physical Fitness Test directed by Army Reserve drill sergeants from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 485th Infantry Regiment (Initial Entry Training) out of Jacksonville, Fla. After completing pushups, sit-ups and a two-mile run, the competitors had less than hour to eat, clean, change uniforms, don rucksacks and step into a van bound for Camp Blanding’s live fire ranges.
The 143d ESC cadre and A-2/485 drill sergeants managed the ranges that tested the each competitor’s competency with the M4 Carbine, M9 Pistol and M203 Grenade Launcher—all while wearing a gas mask. The Soldiers were then ferried deep into Camp Blanding’s dense forest. The troops applied their land navigation skills to physically locate three distant points on a map using only a compass and protractor.
As the hot, dry day relinquished control to a cold, moonless night, the competitors returned to the field with weapons in hands and night vision goggles over their eyes. Muzzle flashes pierced the darkness as the competitors attempted to eliminate their artificially illuminated targets.
The exhausted yet enthusiastic dozen returned then to their barracks to clean weapons, write an essay and prepare for another grueling day that begins with a 10-mile road march.
Photos by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC, and Spc. Aaron Barnes, 321st MI BN
10th Regiment, Advanced Camp completes the Land Navigation Course during Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 16, 2022. Cadets are given a map, protractor, compass, and must find points on the Land Navigation course without the use of GPS devices. | Photo by 2nd Lt. Courtney Huhta, CST Public Affairs Office
Every so often in life we come across something or someone that inspires us to do better. It can be ever so subtle or completely hits us in the face, a realisation if you will. In this instance I had a real 'face-plant' moment.
I came across the exemplary work of Regina Pagles recently, better known here on flickr as Shineylewis. Her work is in my humble opinion simply stunning. By her own admission she lives, eats, breathes, sleeps and even dreams about Photoshop, her work shows the mastery she possesses with such a marvellous piece of software.
But it doesn't end there, in fact it doesn't even start there either.
Peruse her photography as you would rushing through any others photostream and you'll miss one heck of a lot, the Photoshop skills are clearly evident but there is also much more to her imagery. For me there is a life force in her images, the hard work, dedication, artistry and connectivity clearly shows in each and every picture. Her writings and comments tell of her struggles, the hours spent learning lighting, honing her retouching skills and then to top it all she shares the resources she's found. Bloody marvellous I think.
The inspiring bit?
Her humbleness, the slight embarrassment at receiving praise, the simple shrug of the shoulders when someone condones her work, her persistence in doing what she does and a lot more besides. Above all her fantastic work!
Just like her if anyone wanted a 'tutorial' for the 'process' I used you'd be hard pushed. This was in GIMP rather than Photoshop but I fiddled, played, made layers, deleted some, made more, fiddled, fiddled some more, almost gave up and then finally something started to come together I liked. Luck? Maybe, but I took notes so the 'luck' will be a bit easier to come across next time ;-)
Put it this way, it wasn't a one-click plug-in process, it took flipping hours.
An artist friend of mine when asked how he paints such exquisite pictures always replies with, "Oh, it's easy really, I spend days pushing paint around a canvas". Couldn't be better said.
Boring bits following that seem to be a posting requirement here on flickr, as about as important as to whether I scratched my bum or picked my nose whilst taking the image........
Lighting - 23" beauty dish made from the crud coated lid of an old Weber barbecue lid, sand paper used to remove said crud and then painted with white satin radiator enamel...poorly. Bolted onto a home made boom arm, diffused with an old pillow case. Weighs a ton.
Vivitar flash, old crap one. No, not the crap 283 but the crappier 550FD, about half power.
All lit rather poorly, (or well?), to ensure that I didn't lose the shadows or blow the highlights for later fiddling with GIMP.
Shot with a camera........the Olympus one, the 'old' one,(e410), with my old slide film strip DIY IR filter on the pop-up just to trigger the Vivitar optically via a home made micro-controller optical slave.
Kit lens, about halfway, hooded and sat at the bottom of the 'beauty dish' just touching, dish tilted, didn't have a protractor handy so it was just tilted down to about where my head would be.
EXIF data, really? No EXIF data, couldn't be bothered to bolt it back onto the image which is manipulated so much it doesn't really matter.
Think that's enough......oh yeah, bum scratching - must have been twice, nose picking - zero.
(Look at the size of my nose, one pick and you'd get lost in that big old hooter and fold inside out! Only the big ears would stop that happening.)
Cadets from 10th Regiment, Advanced Camp, completed their land navigation qualification at Fort Knox, Ky., July 28, 2023. Armed with a compass, protractor, pencil, map, and a list of coordinates, the Cadets set out, fueled by determination, to find each of their points in under 4 hours. | Photo by Rosalita Mitchell, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs Office
Long live math!
There are only two things that any serious paperfolder needs: Haga's theorems and the Fujimoto approximation.
That's right-- no need for rulers, protractors, or those horrendously complex folding sequences for "perfect" polygons. All you need to create any regular polygon is the fujimoto approximation. 'Cause unlike those other methods, the Fujimoto approximation REDUCES error instead of magnifying it, by virtue of its recursive nature. Diagrams will be forthcoming.
Ain't geometry great?
Oh yeah, this is an elaboration of an open-backed heptagonal twist, made easy by a precreased heptagonal grid. And yes Daniel, this one WAS planned in advance. And oh, it was so much FUN!
*UPDATE*
This model has now been diagrammed:
10th Regiment, Advanced Camp completes the Land Navigation Course during Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 16, 2022. Cadets are given a map, protractor, compass, and must find points on the Land Navigation course without the use of GPS devices. | Photo by 2nd Lt. Courtney Huhta, CST Public Affairs Office
SET SQUARES - (Round 2)
David Chipperfield Vs. Krijn de Koning 'Dwelling'
(I count 7 triangles in this image, But 9 here -link)
Reductive Duotone: #summerofcolour
'Dwelling'; I quite approve of this work, especially as a contrast to David Chipperfields Architecture. Pity its so obviously a temporary structure. Good build accuracy, and nice installers!
Signed & framed HiQ Duograph print available for sale. (32x25)
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Cadets of 2nd Regiment, Basic Camp, participate in Land Navigation training at Fort Knox, Ky., July 18, 2022. The Cadets worked in groups to locate at least one out of two points using only a map, compass, protractor and pencil. | Photo by Julia Galli, CST Public Affairs Office
ORLANDO, Fla. – The 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Best Warrior Competition began in earnest today as 12 Soldiers from the 143d ESC and the 321st Military Intelligence Battalion demonstrated their physical power and mental might to complete a gauntlet of Soldier skills.
Dawn had yet to illuminate the lakes and trees blanketing Camp Blanding, Fla., when the Soldiers endured an Physical Fitness Test directed by Army Reserve drill sergeants from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 485th Infantry Regiment (Initial Entry Training) out of Jacksonville, Fla. After completing pushups, sit-ups and a two-mile run, the competitors had less than hour to eat, clean, change uniforms, don rucksacks and step into a van bound for Camp Blanding’s live fire ranges.
The 143d ESC cadre and A-2/485 drill sergeants managed the ranges that tested the each competitor’s competency with the M4 Carbine, M9 Pistol and M203 Grenade Launcher—all while wearing a gas mask. The Soldiers were then ferried deep into Camp Blanding’s dense forest. The troops applied their land navigation skills to physically locate three distant points on a map using only a compass and protractor.
As the hot, dry day relinquished control to a cold, moonless night, the competitors returned to the field with weapons in hands and night vision goggles over their eyes. Muzzle flashes pierced the darkness as the competitors attempted to eliminate their artificially illuminated targets.
The exhausted yet enthusiastic dozen returned then to their barracks to clean weapons, write an essay and prepare for another grueling day that begins with a 10-mile road march.
Photos by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC, and Spc. Aaron Barnes, 321st MI BN
pro-trac-tor (noun): 1. A semicircular instrument for measuring and constructing angles.
man-made pro-trac-tor (noun): 1. A ferris wheel half-ed.
view it Large here.
Collage, glue, ink on paper.
10" x 13"
2011
Enrique Castrejon
Measured in inches
Scale 1/8" = 1/8"
Enrique Castrejon: Artist Statement
I linearly dissect and cut appropriated images found in variety of eclectic media sources such as newspapers, magazines, advertisements and photographs, art books, Sotheby’s auction catalogs, porn, personal photos and online sources into smaller identifiable geometric shapes. I investigate and describe what I see through measurements. I transform this selected graphic imagery into quantified drawings mapped by measuring distances between points (x inches), at times calculating the varied angle degrees created within the shapes (360˚-A˚= B˚), and/or written data related to the image of each shape. The distances around the shapes are measured in inches and their corresponding degree angles are calculated with a protractor and calculator. These precise measurements abstract the image interfering and altering its fixed meaning, creating other possible interpretations through this linear dissection. The final results are written around the shapes creating an intricate explosive web of verifiable units. This repetitive and meditative process allows me to map out the drawing and reveal the invisible mathematical language found in everything. Also, in creating these fragmented and measured drawings from the cut up parts of the whole and reconfigured, I challenge our perceptions of what is real, forcing us to think critically about information that is constantly bombarding our everyday lives through images selected in directed advertisements, pop-culture sources, editorials and news stories found in printed and online media.
Enrique Castrejon lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Castrejon’s work is also traveling nationally in a group exhibition called Out of Rubble, organized and curated by Susanne Slavick, that looks at how artists have “reacted to the wake of war – its realities and representations.” Castrejon was also a featured artist and panelist on a KPCC 89.3 radio program, Air Talk with Larry Mantel on the topic of Chicano Art & Pacific Standard Time exhibit with participating artists and panelists Gronk, Patissi Valdez and Sonia Romero.
For this image, I focused on the heart because I was dealing with my father’s double by-pass surgery this past Jan 2012. He unfortunately suffered a heart attack in December and I was struggling to understand his situation and condition. This drawing titled “Heart Measured in Inches” is an image that I created to do something with my anxiety over my father’s health and surgery. Each line coming out from the heart directly points to a measured part of it. Fortunately, my father is progressively getting better after his surgery in Jan. 2013.