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I haven't been able to spend as much time with photography or on Flickr as I would have liked the past couple weeks. I'm sure everyone's been busy with the holidays. Unfortunately I got a nasty cold for Christmas and I've been spending most of my time in bed. Hopefully it won't take me too long to catch up on all your photos!
Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset.
Built in 1841, the Northwest Plinth was originally designed to host a bronze equestrian statue of King William IV by Sir Charles Barry, which was never installed. After more than 170 years, Elmgreen &Dragset have completed the process by presenting a new take on the tradition of equestrian statues, directly engaging with the history of the plinth itself.
The child is elevated to the status of a historical hero in line with the existing iconography of the other statues in the square. Instead of acknowledging the heroism of the powerful, however, the work celebrates the heroism of growing up. The image of a young boy astride his rocking horse encourages viewers to consider the less spectacular events in their lives, which are often the most important. The sculpture invokes life’s everyday activities and questions the tradition of monuments predicated on military victory or defeat.
In Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 there is not yet a history to commemorate – only a future to hope for. The boy's features gently mimic the authoritarian pose often found in the tradition of equestrian statues, but his gestures represent pure excitement. There will be no tragic consequences resulting from his imaginary conquest.
The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Working on my portfolio site so I have been uploading some older pieces that may not have been documented properly.
These images are from the Magnetic Structure prints we (The Barbarian Group) showed at the McLeod Residence gallery in Seattle.
Using processing, thousands of magnetic particles flow through space, controlled by gravitational forces and perlin noise. I saved out the xyz positions and handed that data off to Andrew Bell who fed the data back into Maya and with some help from his friend Hai, was able to render out these very nice ambient occlusion images which really make the forms seem like cut paper.
9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
Palladium coting
8x10 contact printing on platinotyp 100% cotton paper
contrast was controled by using firric oxalate oxadizer.
under uv light. time exposure 2 hours. developed in potasium oxalate heated at 110 F.
11-1-2016
Structure Fire
105 Josephine Rd, Garner
Polenta Elementary School
Mobile Unit
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, 50-210 FD, 50-210 EMS, Johnston Co Fire Marshal.
This fascinating structure was built during the Antebellum period using slave labor. Construction began on it 1845 and drew to an end in 1859. It was designed by celebrated Philadelphia architect William Strickland who designed the Independence Hall Tower. William Strickland died during the construction of this structure in 1854, so he was entombed in the north portico here. His son Francis Strickland took over his role from 1854 to 1857.
Another interesting point regarding this state capitol is that President James Knox Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk are interred on the east lawn. It was used as a military fortress during the Civil War.
The Tennessee State Capitol was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
Natural History Museum of Utah. The Rio Tinto Center, in the University of Utah's Research Park 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City. Photograph by James Russiello, November 11, 2017
The Rio Tinto Center is a 163,000-square-foot building set in foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. The building's highest point is a round structure on the back or east side which houses the Native Voices gallery. The architects for the building that opened in 2011 were Ennead Architects from New York City and GSBS of Salt Lake City. Ralph Appelbaum Associates designed the exhibits.
"The museum was conceived in 1959, when the University of Utah faculty committee decided to consolidate natural history collections from around its campus. The museum was established as the Utah Museum of Natural History on the University of Utah campus in 1963 by the Utah State Legislature. It opened in 1969 in the former George Thomas Library and included specimens from the Deseret Museum as well as from the Charles Nettleton Strevell Museum that was located in the old Lafayette School on South Temple Street from 1939 until 1947.
"The paleontology collections acquired a very important amount of new collected specimens during the 1960s, particularly fossilised remains of dinosaurs. It all began when a young local paleontologist called James Henry Madsen Jr. obtained his Master of Science in 1959 in the University of Utah. The following year, as of 1960, Madsen was hired as an assistant for Professor William Lee Stokes of the Princeton University, who at that time performed the dauntless project to extensively dig the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. Since the 1920s it had been firmly established by geologists that this quarry is one of the most important paleontological sites ever found in the United States, and still in the early 1960s literally tens of thousands of disarticulated dinosaur bones were buried in the rock, awaiting to be excavated. Because the bone bed was so vast and contained a so huge quantity of fossilised bones (mainly from Allosaurus fragilis), it seemed obvious to Stokes and Madsen that it was literally impossible for a single unique institution to dig up a number of specimens being realistically representative of the overall total. To accomplish this task, or at least a reasonable part of it, Stokes and Madsen founded the "University of Utah Cooperative Dinosaur Project," thank to initial funds allowed by the University of Utah and its Department of Geology. This project worked 16 years during in close collaboration not only with museums and institutions within the USA but also with prestigious international museums and research centers. Since financial assistance was brought by all the institutions who had participated in the project, the Dinosaur Project granted them casts or even original composite specimens of the dinosaurs found in the quarry.
"In the running time of the "Cooperative Dinosaur Project" (from 1960 to 1976), literally tons of fossilised bones were dug up from the quarry, numerous remains of species as famous as Camarasaurus, Camptosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus and, of course, Allosaurus, among others (Allosaurus is by far the most represented species, with 44-46 individuals found). In addition of these already known species, two new species were discovered and named: Stokesosaurus (in 1974) and Marshosaurus (in 1976), whose holotypes are preciously preserved in the Natural History Museum of Utah. In 1976 the University of Utah stopped the project. To continue financing his research, Madsen founded Dinolab, a company that casted and sold skeletons of dinosaurs to museums, institutions or private buyers. Madsen died in 2009 and Dinolab disappeared in 2014, but thank to the "University of Utah Cooperative Dinosaur Project" and Madsen's excavations in the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry back in the 1960s and 1970s, the Natural History Museum of Utah possesses nowadays on display the biggest collection in the world of Allosaurus skeletons, among some additional dinosaur skeletal mounts belonging to other species."
Muhammad Ghaus (or Ghawth) was a 16th c Sufi saint and teacher of the Mughal emperor Humayun as well as Tansen, the famous musician in Akbar’s court. The saint’s large tomb, built in the second half of the 16th c during Akbar’s rule, is the main structure in the garden complex located about a kilometer away from Gwalior Fort’s main eastern approach, and is surrounded by graves and smaller pavilion tombs, including that of Tansen.
The large central dome of the saint’s tomb tops the actual enclosed and walled large single room that houses the tomb, and the surrounding structure is more like a verandah with jaalis (perforated stone screens), which gives the structure a larger “enclosed” appearance than it actually has. The central dome with four small chattris (domed pavilions) resting on a prominent rectangular base has a shape much like many domes found in central India, for example similar to the domes of Hoshang Shah’s tomb in Mandu and the Mandu Jami Masjid.
Custom buildings are not the easiest structures to build for a relative novice like myself. I originally was going to use Walthers' Modulars Kits for this project, but W.K. Walthers discontinued them. Therefore, I used DPM kits instead. The annex is a Pola Pickle Factory kit.
Failed cockatiel clutch had an egg with breached shell which led to dessication. As this is a situation not to be intentionally repeated it posed a rare photographic opportunity.
Not sure what this shelter was built for but it seems close to the edge of this small lake!!! Perhaps it was for a boat???
QLD: Nerang - Structure Fire 21/03/2021.
Structure fire at the Polaris/KTM dealership in Nerang saw multiple QFRS units merge to combat the fire. Night time and rain made for tricky conditions to shoot.
Attending were:
Southport: 631A & 631B
Surfers Paradise: 632A, 632J & 632i
Helensvale: 636A
Hollywell 637A
Robina 640A
Special Ops: 850o & Scientific1
Looks like I need to do something about the light leaks in my little Olympus Pen-D. Sometimes the leaks produce a helpful mayhem. Anyway--somebody in the local woods started a lean-to structure. Suitable subject for my ongoing series of triptychs exploring how we cannot capture in one frame how we see as we move through space and time.
Pen-D (half-frame) Tri-X (outdated since 2009)
Southbury Volunteers were dispatched to a morning fire at 126 Lower Fish Rock Rd the initial dispatch was for a fire involving a wood stove. They arrived to find a 2 story wood home set below the road on a lot with a steep incline sloping down to Lake Zoar with heavy fire showing. The large smoke column from the fire was clearly visible for miles due to the still and cold morning air. As fire fighters stretched in to attack the fire mutual aid was responding from Southbury Training School FD, Oxford, Sandy Hook, Woodbury, and Bethlehem in the form of tankers, engines, and a quint to help battle the blaze which was quickly spreading through out the dwelling. Several attempts were made to get the quint up the narrow and icy road without success. A water fill station at the travel center off I-84 was manned by Woodbury Engine 4 to resupply the multiple tankers shuttling water to the supply site at the intersection of Upper and Lower Fish Rock Rds. A defensive attack was established due to the damage and heavy fire in the upper floors of the structure and the stubborn fire would burn several hours before it was brought under control. At least one fire fighter was examined by EMS after he reported feeling ill at the scene. No civilian injuries were reported and the fire marshal was on scene to start the investigation as to the cause of the fire.
See all the pictures of this incident on my website at
The first part of the homework dealing with structure. Made with acrylic black on white paper and a steelwool.
Actually I threw this one out of the series and replaced it with a different one. As my prof. has the originals at the moment, I'll put the final version online by the time I get it back.
A nice and quiet courtyard area surrounded by historical buildings. At the west of the Dom with a structure similar to the Carolingian atrium Katschhof on the south side, which used to be the central courtyard of the Palatinate.
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Aachen Aachener Dom
Aachener Dom - also Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle (Est. 796), a UNESCO site. Claimed as one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe and was constructed by order of the emperor Charlemagne, who was buried there after his death in 814. For 595 years, from 936 to 1531, the Palatine Chapel, heart of the cathedral, was the church of coronation for thirty-one German kings and twelve queens.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral
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Aachen - with the most important geographical feature the various natural hot springs, the city emerged as a Roman settlement and spa, later the medieval imperial residence of Charlemagne (936-1531) and place where 31 holy Roman emperors were crowned kings of the Germans. Today a city with many visible traces of a rich history in a popular city center.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen.
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Richard Poppelaars - #architecture #history - #Aachen #DE
Inflatable structure by Hans Walter Muller
for an architecture exhibition at Arc En Rêve / Bordeaux, July 2012
Studio Ad Hoc / HWM
Turtle inflatable structure. A temporary, pop up structure ideal for concerts, gigs, performances, theaters, festivals and shows. It can also be used as a pop up shop, bar or catering space. #EvolutionDome #Venue #Stage #Festival #Alternative #Theater #CateringSpace #PopUpShop #PopUpBar #ShowSpace #Inflatable #Temporary #Structure #Awning
The ubiquitous concrete and steel structures of the present era go back as far as the 19th century in Glasgow.
Orient House in Cowcaddens, which was completed in 1895, is the best preserved Victorian example of the style. It was designed by William J Anderson, who was appointed as Dean of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art in 1894, during the building's construction. This was the time when the innovative ideas of Glasgow architects such as the young Charles Rennie Mackintosh were in their formative stages.
Anderson died in 1900, unaware of how popular his experimental methods of construction would turn out to be in the new century. It has been suggested that a fatal accident in 1899 in one of Anderson's unconventional structures was a contributory factor in his early death at his own hands.
Anderson's experimental construction methods were developed further by one of his former pupils, James Salmon, in the design of Lion Chambers on the east side of Hope Street.
Salmon and his partner, James. G. Gillespie, produced a modernistic building which was perhaps too ambitious for 1907 when it was completed. It was built with lightweight reinforced concrete with a conventional outward appearance which disguises the fact that the non-structural external walls are only 4 inches thick. From the 4th storey upwards the tower stands on its own without the support of the adjoining block. On these upper levels there are very small common landings leading to a narrow staircase, less than 6 feet wide, tagged on to the side of the building.
The structure was fabricated with the patented "Hennebique Ferro-Concrete" system, which was widely used for civil engineering projects at the time.
In April 1995 the 7 co-owners of the block were refused planning permission for its demolition owing to the historical and architectural novelty of the structure which made it a category "A" listed building. Protective metal mesh was placed around the external shell to hold together the disintegrating concrete.
Lion Chambers is currently unoccupied and will remain so until the money and the collective will is found for refurbishment.
A more likely scenario, given the probable cost of renovation, is that the owners will be granted their wish to pull it down.
This fascinating structure was built during the Antebellum period using slave labor. Construction began on it 1845 and drew to an end in 1859. It was designed by celebrated Philadelphia architect William Strickland who designed the Independence Hall Tower. William Strickland died during the construction of this structure in 1854, so he was entombed in the north portico here. His son Francis Strickland took over his role from 1854 to 1857.
Another interesting point regarding this state capitol is that President James Knox Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk are interred on the east lawn. It was used as a military fortress during the Civil War.
The Tennessee State Capitol was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
NS lashup in Edon OH on the INER. this use to be a NS line till NS shed the line some 15 years ago. so to see an actual NS lashup on this line is somewhat amazing.
A close-up view of the Union Switch & Signal Model S-8 electro-mechanical interlocking machine. The electrical levers at center controlled the plant's signals and were connected to the mechanical levers (out of sight below) that operated switches, derails, and locks.