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SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight. On September 17, 1976 the first full scale prototype was completed.
Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.
Construction began on Enterprise on June 4, 1974. Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. A write-in campaign by Trekkies to President Gerald Ford asked that the orbiter be named after the Starship Enterprise, featured on the television show Star Trek. Although Ford did not mention the campaign, the president—who during World War II had served on the aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) that served with USS Enterprise (CV-6)—said that he was "partial to the name" and overrode NASA officials.
The design of OV-101 was not the same as that planned for OV-102, the first flight model; the tail was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on this vehicle, but the capacity to add them in the future was retained. Instead of a thermal protection system, its surface was primarily covered with simulated tiles made from polyurethane foam. Fiberglass was used for the leading edge panels in place of the reinforced carbon-carbon ones of spaceflight worthy orbiters. Only a few sample thermal tiles and some nomex blankets were real.
In mid-1976, the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.
On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.
On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.
While at NASA Dryden, Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program. The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.
The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.
Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations. On the fifth and final glider flight, pilot-induced oscillation problems were revealed, which had to be addressed before the first orbital launch occurred.
On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time.
Following the ALT program, Enterprise was ferried among several NASA facilities to configure the craft for vibration testing. In June 1979, it was mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a boilerplate configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A.
With the completion of critical testing, Enterprise was partially disassembled to allow certain components to be reused in other shuttles, then underwent an international tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Alabama, and Louisiana (during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition). It was also used to fit-check the never-used shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. Finally, on November 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried to Washington, D.C., where it became property of the Smithsonian Institution.
Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it has been the centerpiece of the space collection. On April 12, 2011, NASA announced that Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled orbiter in the fleet, would be added to the collection once the Shuttle fleet was retired. In Spring 2012, Enterprise is expected to be flown to JFK International Airport and in the Summer, be moved by barge to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. In preparation for the anticipated relocation, engineers evaluated the vehicle in early 2010 and determined that it was safe to fly on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once again. On December 12th, 2011, ownership of the Enterprise was officially transferred to the Intrepid Museum.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
slurl.com/secondlife/Sialimonus/127/146/239
Stonehenge in space? Fly up high to visit and experience this new twist on one of the most famous monuments in the world
Street photography: is this the space seen from the space station? Or is this the sky seen from under a bench? :D
2023 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 38, L for Liminal Space
Finding our own liminal space in the reflection on the garden window
The Orion Crew Module Adapter simulator arrives at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Christopher Lynch)
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
My editorial for The Ones2watch (http://theones2watch.com/)
SPACE COWBOYS
Photography - Lucia O'Connor-McCarthy
Styling - John William
Make-up - Nami Yoshida
featuring models Jake & Axel ELITE LONDON
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
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RECREATE SPACE *
• RECREATE SPACE - EXHIBITION
ReCreate Space * - The Naxos-Creatures :
Photo-Exhibition / Spiral-Instalation by Wolfgang Sterneck
in the Old Herring Factory in Djúpavík (Iceland), 23.09.2012.
Info: www.sterneck.net/naxos
Photo-Set: www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157631753608761
Djúpavík - Info and Pics:
www.djupavik.com/en_herringfactory.php
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157631753172827
Takk fyrir Eva, Ásbjörn og Claus.
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• NAXOS-CREATURES
Free creative spaces in the Naxos-Halls in Frankfurt *
- Naxos-Creatures - The History of the Naxos-Union - The Naxos Buildings - Naxos as a creative space
• NAXOS-GESTALTEN
Kreative Freiräume in den Naxos-Hallen in Frankfurt *
- Naxos-Gestalten - Die Geschichte der Naxos-Union - Das Naxos-Gebäude - Naxos als kreativer Freiraum
• NAXOS-PHOTO-SETS
Photos by Wolfgang Sterneck (2008-2011):
- Naxos - Gestalten
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626589346012
- Hinter den Mauern I
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626467109065
- Hinter den Mauern II
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626467117353
- Hinter den Mauern III
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157627973776306
• NAXOS-UNION-GESCHICHTE
- Naxos-Union (wiki)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxos-Union
- Geschichten von der Naxos-Union
www.naxos-bauhuette.de/download/naxos.pdf
• OFFENES ATELIER
Atelier NaXoshalle
jugendladen-b.junetz.de/2_0_2_offenes_atelier.html
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NAXOS-CREATURES -
THE NAXOS-HALLS IN FRANKFURT AS CREATIVE FREE SPACES
1. NAXOS-CREATURES
A world quite of one's own with very special creatures opened up behind the walls of the former Naxos-Union factory buildings. Whoever was appropriately open, met queer Rabbits, the smiling City Ghosts or Alice, who designed fanciful a Wonderland of her own design. In other areas were some surreal letters, which developed an independent existence, and moonstars°*, which danced in shopping trolleys, or strange, apparently disembodied faces, which were visible in the light of a flashlight for a brief moment, to then disappear again in the darkness of the rooms. All these creatures of the decayed Naxos halls were seeking reality niches in which they could exist, and they have been successful for years.
2. THE HISTORY OF THE NAXOS-UNION
The polarities of a capitalist economic system were reflected sustainably in the history of the Naxos-Union. The Naxos Union managed the ascent among a worldwide market leader. Later, however, due to the changing production conditions, it broke into pieces. The company based in Frankfurt am Main in Germany secured the rights for the mining of a special emery rock on the Greek island of Naxos and started around 1880 with the for decades extremely profitable production of grinding machines.
Only in the eighties of the last century the enterprise rapidly lost importance. Changes have occurred repeatedly in the ownership of the company, and the original production centers in Frankfurt were abandoned. The Naxos-Union experienced the darkest chapter of its history during the period of fascist reign of terror in the "Third Reich", when the forced laborers provided the work to maintain the operation.
3. THE NAXOS BUILDINGS
After the decline of the enterprise, the former area of the Naxos-Union in the avenue Wittelsbacher in Frankfurt divided itself into three areas. A former big administrative building and the former production hall lying in the middle area were redeveloped in several stages. Today it's used by agencies, theatrical projects and art projects. As a monument of the industrial culture, the middle hall, in the meantime, is protected due to her architectural and historical meaning.
The third complex of the buildings with several halls and another administrative edifice stood widely empty about many years away and went increasingly to ruin. Despite bans and sealing offs, it developed at the same time as a open space for numerous artists who crafted the rooms creatively and fulfilled them over and over with new life. After the city of Frankfurt had rented parts of the area for a completely excessive price over years, the whole property was purchased in 2006. Meanwhile, the empty halls were torn off completely. In the near future different residential projects shall find there a place.
4. NAXOS AS A CREATIVE FREE SPACE
The art of the urban metropolises can hardly be found in the conventional galleries and museums. It only becomes visible and understandable if one breaks free of the bourgeois art concept and instead goes onto the streets. Whole districts have turned out as museums of an urban underground culture and found a creative expression in the various formations of streetart within the last decades.
Nevertheless, if it's only about the penetrating marking of ones own signature or a scratching onto a wall, it gets caught in a dead end of egocentric and destructive behaviour. Instead streetart unfolds its constructive potential as a reclaiming of public areas, when critical impulses are given and positive energies are released. In this meaning the significance of the Naxos-Halls changed at times. They turned into a creative free space and a museum of the underground, animated by all those Naxos-Creatures.
Wolfgang Sterneck, April 2011.
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NAXOS-GESTALTEN -
KREATIVE FREIRÄUME IN DEN NAXOS-HALLEN IN FRANKFURT *
1. NAXOS-GESTALTEN
Hinter den Mauern der ehemaligen Naxos-Fabrikhallen eröffnete sich eine ganz eigene Welt. Wer entsprechend offen war, der traf queere Rabbits, die lächelnden City-Ghosts oder eine Alice, die fantasievoll ihr Wunderland gestaltete. In anderen Bereichen waren es surreale Buchstaben, die ein Eigenleben entwickelten, und Mondsterne°*, die in Einkaufswagen tanzten, oder auch seltsame, scheinbar körperlose Gesichter, die für einen kurzen Moment im Licht einer Taschenlampe sichtbar waren, um dann wieder im Dunkel der Räume zu verschwinden. All diese Gestalten der zerfallenen Naxos-Hallen waren auf der Suche nach Wirklichkeitsnischen, in denen sie existieren konnten - und sie waren fündig geworden.
2. DIE GESCHICHTE DER NAXOS-UNION
In der Geschichte der Naxos-Union spiegelten sich nachhaltig die Polaritäten eines kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems. Der Naxos-Union gelang der Aufstieg zu einem weltweit führenden Unternehmen, das später jedoch an veränderten Produktionsbedingungen zerbrach. Die in Frankfurt am Main beheimatete Firma sicherte sich die Rechte für den Abbau eines besonderen Schmirgelgesteins auf der griechischen Insel Naxos und begann um 1880 mit der über Jahrzehnte hinweg äußerst profitablen Produktion von Schleifmaschinen. Erst in den achtziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts verlor das Unternehmen rapide an Bedeutung. Die Besitzverhältnisse wandelten sich mehrfach und die ursprünglichen Produktionsstätten in Frankfurt wurden aufgegeben. Ihre dunkelste Zeit erlebte die Naxos-Union im Zuge der faschistischen Terrorherrschaft, als der Betrieb vor allem durch den Einsatz von ZwangsarbeiterInnen aufrecht erhalten wurde.
3. DIE NAXOS-GEBÄUDE
Das ehemalige Gelände der Naxos-Union an der Wittelsbacherallee in Frankfurt unterteilte sich nach dem Niedergang des Unternehmens in drei Bereiche. Ein ehemaliges großes Verwaltungsgebäude und die im mittleren Bereich liegende ehemalige Produktionshalle wurden in mehreren Etappen saniert und werden von Agenturen bzw. Theater- und Kunstprojekten genutzt. Die mittlere Halle ist inzwischen auf Grund ihrer architektonischen bzw. historischen Bedeutung als ein Denkmal der Industriekultur geschützt. Der dritte Gebäudekomplex mit mehreren Hallen und einem weiteren Verwaltungsgebäude stand über viele Jahre hinweg weitgehend leer und verfiel zunehmend. Gleichzeitig entwickelte er sich trotz Verbote und Absperrungen als ein Freiraum für zahlreiche KünstlerInnen, welche die Räumlichkeiten kreativ gestalteten und immer wieder mit neuem Leben erfüllten. Nachdem die Stadt Frankfurt Teile des Geländes zu einem völlig überhöhten Preis über Jahre hinweg gemietet hatte, erwarb sie 2006 das gesamte Grundstück. Inzwischen wurden die leer stehenden Hallen vollständig abgerissen. Zukünftig sollen dort verschiedene Wohnprojekte einen Platz finden.
4. NAXOS ALS KREATIVER FREIRAUM
Die Kunst der Metropolen findet sich kaum in den herkömmlichen Galerien und Museen. Sie wird erst dann wirklich sichtbar und verständlich, wenn man sich vom bürgerlichen Kunstbegriff löst und auf die Straßen begibt. Ganze Stadtteile sind zu Museen einer urbanen Kultur des Undergrounds geworden, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten in den vielfältigen Ausformungen der Streetart einen kreativen Ausdruck gefunden hat. Allerdings bleibt sie überall dort, wo es nur um die penetrante Markierung mit dem eigenen Namenzug oder ein Bekritzeln freier Flächen geht, in egozentrischen und destruktiven Sackgassen verfangen. Ihr konstruktives Potential entfaltet die Streetart als Wiederaneignung öffentlichen Raumes stattdessen überall dort, wo sie kritische Impulse gibt und positive Energien freisetzt. In diesem Sinne veränderte sich zeitweise die Bedeutung der Naxos-Hallen und sie wurden als kreativer Freiraum zu einem Museum des Untergrunds, das die Naxos-Gestalten mit Leben erfüllten.
Wolfgang Sterneck, April 2011.
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Pigs in space. The arcade game. :)
This is my entry in the MocOlympics TFOL Fatal Fourway. The category is pigs in space. More pictures and description over on Mocpages
Space models at BrickFest
on Saturday, March 28, 2009 in Portland, OR by Bill Ward. See also BrickFest Photo Roundup on my blog.
Space Western / Heft-Reihe
Spurs Jackson / The Madman of Mars
cover: Stan Campbell
Charlton Comics / USA 1953
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
The office building I work in has all these plants and live trees on the lower lever and they change out the plants at least every other week. When they do, they go around and give each office in the buiding a plant. I got my hands on this one months ago and brought it home, repotted it and have been nurturing it ever since.
I have a green thumb to begin with, so its really not too hard to keep this one looking good. I prune it, water it, put that leaf shine on every single leaf, and have it in front of my patio door where it gets plenty of southern exposure sunlight from morning until early afternoon. Its a crazy plant though. It thinks its spring or Hawaii or both...lol. It keeps sprouting flowers. Right now, I have a half dozen in full bloom and a couple more getting ready to open up. Due to the weather today, I pretty much just lounged around and did nothing except clean out photos on my computer. After that, I was pretty bored so picked up my camera and shot frames of my plant just for the heck of it. I like how this came out so I thought I would share. Was anyone else snowed in today? LOL
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
look at earth from outer space
everyone must find a place
give me time and give me space
give me real, don't give me fake
give me strength, reserve control
give me heart and give me soul
tell me your own politik
yeah, this is a view on black.
+4 in comments (all are sooc).
i thought the flare looked a bit like a planet, and the dust looks like stars. so this looks like space to me.
i'm really excited to start my 365. only 5 weeks or so! (i'm starting it on dec. 31, my birthday)
i like having comments off. i think i will keep them off for a little while.
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RECREATE SPACE *
• RECREATE SPACE - EXHIBITION
ReCreate Space * - The Naxos-Creatures :
Photo-Exhibition / Spiral-Instalation by Wolfgang Sterneck
in the Old Herring Factory in Djúpavík (Iceland), 23.09.2012.
Info: www.sterneck.net/naxos
Photo-Set: www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157631753608761
Djúpavík - Info and Pics:
www.djupavik.com/en_herringfactory.php
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157631753172827
Takk fyrir Eva, Ásbjörn og Claus.
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• NAXOS-CREATURES
Free creative spaces in the Naxos-Halls in Frankfurt *
- Naxos-Creatures - The History of the Naxos-Union - The Naxos Buildings - Naxos as a creative space
• NAXOS-GESTALTEN
Kreative Freiräume in den Naxos-Hallen in Frankfurt *
- Naxos-Gestalten - Die Geschichte der Naxos-Union - Das Naxos-Gebäude - Naxos als kreativer Freiraum
• NAXOS-PHOTO-SETS
Photos by Wolfgang Sterneck (2008-2011):
- Naxos - Gestalten
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626589346012
- Hinter den Mauern I
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626467109065
- Hinter den Mauern II
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626467117353
- Hinter den Mauern III
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157627973776306
• NAXOS-UNION-GESCHICHTE
- Naxos-Union (wiki)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxos-Union
- Geschichten von der Naxos-Union
www.naxos-bauhuette.de/download/naxos.pdf
• OFFENES ATELIER
Atelier NaXoshalle
jugendladen-b.junetz.de/2_0_2_offenes_atelier.html
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NAXOS-CREATURES -
THE NAXOS-HALLS IN FRANKFURT AS CREATIVE FREE SPACES
1. NAXOS-CREATURES
A world quite of one's own with very special creatures opened up behind the walls of the former Naxos-Union factory buildings. Whoever was appropriately open, met queer Rabbits, the smiling City Ghosts or Alice, who designed fanciful a Wonderland of her own design. In other areas were some surreal letters, which developed an independent existence, and moonstars°*, which danced in shopping trolleys, or strange, apparently disembodied faces, which were visible in the light of a flashlight for a brief moment, to then disappear again in the darkness of the rooms. All these creatures of the decayed Naxos halls were seeking reality niches in which they could exist, and they have been successful for years.
2. THE HISTORY OF THE NAXOS-UNION
The polarities of a capitalist economic system were reflected sustainably in the history of the Naxos-Union. The Naxos Union managed the ascent among a worldwide market leader. Later, however, due to the changing production conditions, it broke into pieces. The company based in Frankfurt am Main in Germany secured the rights for the mining of a special emery rock on the Greek island of Naxos and started around 1880 with the for decades extremely profitable production of grinding machines.
Only in the eighties of the last century the enterprise rapidly lost importance. Changes have occurred repeatedly in the ownership of the company, and the original production centers in Frankfurt were abandoned. The Naxos-Union experienced the darkest chapter of its history during the period of fascist reign of terror in the "Third Reich", when the forced laborers provided the work to maintain the operation.
3. THE NAXOS BUILDINGS
After the decline of the enterprise, the former area of the Naxos-Union in the avenue Wittelsbacher in Frankfurt divided itself into three areas. A former big administrative building and the former production hall lying in the middle area were redeveloped in several stages. Today it's used by agencies, theatrical projects and art projects. As a monument of the industrial culture, the middle hall, in the meantime, is protected due to her architectural and historical meaning.
The third complex of the buildings with several halls and another administrative edifice stood widely empty about many years away and went increasingly to ruin. Despite bans and sealing offs, it developed at the same time as a open space for numerous artists who crafted the rooms creatively and fulfilled them over and over with new life. After the city of Frankfurt had rented parts of the area for a completely excessive price over years, the whole property was purchased in 2006. Meanwhile, the empty halls were torn off completely. In the near future different residential projects shall find there a place.
4. NAXOS AS A CREATIVE FREE SPACE
The art of the urban metropolises can hardly be found in the conventional galleries and museums. It only becomes visible and understandable if one breaks free of the bourgeois art concept and instead goes onto the streets. Whole districts have turned out as museums of an urban underground culture and found a creative expression in the various formations of streetart within the last decades.
Nevertheless, if it's only about the penetrating marking of ones own signature or a scratching onto a wall, it gets caught in a dead end of egocentric and destructive behaviour. Instead streetart unfolds its constructive potential as a reclaiming of public areas, when critical impulses are given and positive energies are released. In this meaning the significance of the Naxos-Halls changed at times. They turned into a creative free space and a museum of the underground, animated by all those Naxos-Creatures.
Wolfgang Sterneck, April 2011.
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NAXOS-GESTALTEN -
KREATIVE FREIRÄUME IN DEN NAXOS-HALLEN IN FRANKFURT *
1. NAXOS-GESTALTEN
Hinter den Mauern der ehemaligen Naxos-Fabrikhallen eröffnete sich eine ganz eigene Welt. Wer entsprechend offen war, der traf queere Rabbits, die lächelnden City-Ghosts oder eine Alice, die fantasievoll ihr Wunderland gestaltete. In anderen Bereichen waren es surreale Buchstaben, die ein Eigenleben entwickelten, und Mondsterne°*, die in Einkaufswagen tanzten, oder auch seltsame, scheinbar körperlose Gesichter, die für einen kurzen Moment im Licht einer Taschenlampe sichtbar waren, um dann wieder im Dunkel der Räume zu verschwinden. All diese Gestalten der zerfallenen Naxos-Hallen waren auf der Suche nach Wirklichkeitsnischen, in denen sie existieren konnten - und sie waren fündig geworden.
2. DIE GESCHICHTE DER NAXOS-UNION
In der Geschichte der Naxos-Union spiegelten sich nachhaltig die Polaritäten eines kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems. Der Naxos-Union gelang der Aufstieg zu einem weltweit führenden Unternehmen, das später jedoch an veränderten Produktionsbedingungen zerbrach. Die in Frankfurt am Main beheimatete Firma sicherte sich die Rechte für den Abbau eines besonderen Schmirgelgesteins auf der griechischen Insel Naxos und begann um 1880 mit der über Jahrzehnte hinweg äußerst profitablen Produktion von Schleifmaschinen. Erst in den achtziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts verlor das Unternehmen rapide an Bedeutung. Die Besitzverhältnisse wandelten sich mehrfach und die ursprünglichen Produktionsstätten in Frankfurt wurden aufgegeben. Ihre dunkelste Zeit erlebte die Naxos-Union im Zuge der faschistischen Terrorherrschaft, als der Betrieb vor allem durch den Einsatz von ZwangsarbeiterInnen aufrecht erhalten wurde.
3. DIE NAXOS-GEBÄUDE
Das ehemalige Gelände der Naxos-Union an der Wittelsbacherallee in Frankfurt unterteilte sich nach dem Niedergang des Unternehmens in drei Bereiche. Ein ehemaliges großes Verwaltungsgebäude und die im mittleren Bereich liegende ehemalige Produktionshalle wurden in mehreren Etappen saniert und werden von Agenturen bzw. Theater- und Kunstprojekten genutzt. Die mittlere Halle ist inzwischen auf Grund ihrer architektonischen bzw. historischen Bedeutung als ein Denkmal der Industriekultur geschützt. Der dritte Gebäudekomplex mit mehreren Hallen und einem weiteren Verwaltungsgebäude stand über viele Jahre hinweg weitgehend leer und verfiel zunehmend. Gleichzeitig entwickelte er sich trotz Verbote und Absperrungen als ein Freiraum für zahlreiche KünstlerInnen, welche die Räumlichkeiten kreativ gestalteten und immer wieder mit neuem Leben erfüllten. Nachdem die Stadt Frankfurt Teile des Geländes zu einem völlig überhöhten Preis über Jahre hinweg gemietet hatte, erwarb sie 2006 das gesamte Grundstück. Inzwischen wurden die leer stehenden Hallen vollständig abgerissen. Zukünftig sollen dort verschiedene Wohnprojekte einen Platz finden.
4. NAXOS ALS KREATIVER FREIRAUM
Die Kunst der Metropolen findet sich kaum in den herkömmlichen Galerien und Museen. Sie wird erst dann wirklich sichtbar und verständlich, wenn man sich vom bürgerlichen Kunstbegriff löst und auf die Straßen begibt. Ganze Stadtteile sind zu Museen einer urbanen Kultur des Undergrounds geworden, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten in den vielfältigen Ausformungen der Streetart einen kreativen Ausdruck gefunden hat. Allerdings bleibt sie überall dort, wo es nur um die penetrante Markierung mit dem eigenen Namenzug oder ein Bekritzeln freier Flächen geht, in egozentrischen und destruktiven Sackgassen verfangen. Ihr konstruktives Potential entfaltet die Streetart als Wiederaneignung öffentlichen Raumes stattdessen überall dort, wo sie kritische Impulse gibt und positive Energien freisetzt. In diesem Sinne veränderte sich zeitweise die Bedeutung der Naxos-Hallen und sie wurden als kreativer Freiraum zu einem Museum des Untergrunds, das die Naxos-Gestalten mit Leben erfüllten.
Wolfgang Sterneck, April 2011.
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SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.