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Manuscript title: Astronomical-computistic encyclopedia
Manuscript summary: Collection of Astronomical-computistical tables and charts with high-quality pen drawings of the constellations.
Origin: St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Period: 9th century
Image source: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 250: Astronomical-computistic encyclopedia
Berlin – 19.12.2016
Der Terror hat nun wohl auch Deutschland erreicht! In Berlin-Charlottenburg an der Gedächtniskirche auf dem Breitscheidplatz bzw. an der Budapester Straße wurde ein 40-Tonnen-Lkw in den dortigen Weihnachtsmarkt gesteuert und dabei Menschen getötet und teilweise schwer verletzt!
Wann hat der Wahnsinn ein Ende???????????
Gold thermography business cards for Cassandre Snyder Events. Created to match the letterpress/foil business cards shown in other photos.
Logo by Deborah Nader
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Crane melons are without a doubt the best melons about. ;-)
Crane Melon
Stati Uniti, California
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In Sonoma County (Ca), Crane is synonymous with melon. The season coincides with our Indian summer and grape harvest.
The Cranes (from Missouri) first settled in Sonoma County in the 1850s after the Crane brothers left the gold fields of the Sierra foothills where they were grocers. They settled in the southern Santa Rosa area and became farmers. In the 1920s, Oliver Crane planted a Japanese melon that had a reputation for growing well, un-irrigated, in clay soils common in some parts of the county. He thought the melon was too thin-skinned and fragile, so he crossed it with a cantaloupe.
His resulting melon (a bit more sturdy) was known as the “Japanese melon” until World War II when the local farmers changed the name to Crane. Four generations of the Crane family have raised these melons which they sell direct-to-consumers from their old Melon Barn. In the 1990s the family lost their attempt to restrict the legal use of “Crane” to only those melons grown on their farm. Today, the Crane melon is grown by several growers who farm in the county’s warm, inland valleys.
This 4-6 pound, tear-drop shaped melon has light orange flesh that is highly aromatic, fruity-sweet and exceptionally juicy. The melon is rarely available in conventional markets; customers buy Cranes from the Melon Barn on Petaluma Hill Road and at local farmers’ markets from September until the first frost. When perfectly ripe, it has a tendency to crack open and perish.
The Crane Family
The Melon Barn
Petaluma Hill Road
Santa Rosa, CA
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The Crane Melon is a Sonoma County tradition. Available only during September and October, the Crane melon was developed to be grown in a particular soil type and grown in an area with a certain climate. The property where the melon was developed is still owned and farmed by the Crane family. It is because of this soil, climate and farming style that the original crane melon can only be purchased directly form the Crane Family at the Crane Melon Barn. The Crane Melon Barn is a Sonoma County Historic landmark. It was built in 1868 entirely out of redwood and has been completely restores by Richard Crane.
From DeLeuw and Cather's Report to the City Planning Commission on a Transportation Plan for San Francisco.
For twenty-five years London has been subject to a beautiful onslaught of criminal activity, reprehensible to some, embraced by others, colourful, witty and provocative. Street art, phenomenon of the 1990s, developed from graffiti art, a phenomenon of 1980s, is a regular occurrence on London's streets; in some areas it is ubiquitous. Its existence in London owes much to the city's cultural ties with New York, London's wealth and status and to the talent and determination of Bristol based artist Banksy, who introduced street art to London.
In London there are hives, around which street artists buzz, fanatics hunt and serendipitous locals and tourists register pieces on their mobile phones. These hives are to be found in Camden, East London and Leake Street in Waterloo. The Camden part of Regent's Canal, in 2009, hosted London's first and only street art battle between street-artist par excellence Banksy and an old time graffiti artist Robbo. In Shoreditch, East London, gallery owners, design studios and businesses, inspired by early works of Banksy, commission art on the outside of their buildings. This commissioned work is accompanied by an ever changing pastiche of gratuitous work, which has turned Shoreditch and East London into the spiritual home of street art. Leake Street, a disused railway tunnel just behind Waterloo Train Station became a hive for street artists and graffiti artists after Banksy organised a street art festival there in Spring 2008, which led to the tunnel being designated a legal space for street art and graffiti.
The Chinese say life is both yin and yang and the same can be said for the energies and motivations driving street art. Yin is an explosion of energy, an attempt to mean something to someone, a fire fuelled by a need for recognition and acceptance. Yang is a deep breath out, a chance to reflect, an opportunity to disconnect and feel one's real emotions; to disengage from the zeitgeist. For some, street art is all about the yang about free expression, emotion, creativity and the altruism of the street artist. It is part of an idealistic utopian philosophy that art should be for the people, free and accessible. However, in reality, most artists are guided by yin, fuelled by a desire to make it as an artist, to get a name, to get ahead.
All street artists experience the tension between yin and yang, it causes many to entertain delusions about the greater good of what they are doing, to hide their problematic egoistic tendencies and criminal activity. The fact is, the street artist is a psychopathic charmer, trying to seduce you with the beauty, audacity and complexity of his gift, hoping you forget he has, unilaterally, decided that his need for his art on your wall, is greater than your right to enjoy your wall, as it is, without interference. And London's heart is fluttering. The media celebrate street art, local authorities protect street art works from vandalism; the firm Pearl and Coutts, when it found out that Westminster Council wanted to remove a Banksy exhibit from one of its walls, went to the length of taking Westminster Council to court, to try, unsuccessfully, to have the image protected. In 2008, London art auctioneer Bonhams held London's first auction of street art, ; Village Undeground held an "urban art sale" and a piece by Banksy attracted a bid of £208,100. The elevated status of the street artist prompts invitations for shows from owners hoping to cash in on the cache. Like this the street artist is laundered.
The rise of the internet, which has coincided with the rise of street art, has created a virtual street art world. In the real world of street art those who happen to see the art, and enjoy it, encounter it as a moment of serendipity. Bloggers and web site owners rip the art from their geographical location and juxtapose the images next to each other. Here, viewers of street art get a concentrated experience, delivered to them through the click of a mouse, rather than the motion of their legs. Street art in the real world is transient, in the virtual world, digitally preserved, it lasts forever. The magic that might have been shared by a few, who had the luck to walk down a street at a particular point in time, can now be shared by millions in the virtual world. What we are left to ponder is whether street artists are creating street art, with a view to how this will be seen in the virtual world first, with considerations for people who and experience it in the street, coming second?
Times Square, New York City, New Years Eve Ball Drop, 2013 - 2014
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2013 - 2014 celebration Miley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Blondie, Icona Pop, Jencarlos Canela, El Dasa, Rodney Atkins, Melissa Etheridge
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Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2013
CaboSanRoque
La cobla patafísica 2015–2001
The pataphysical cobla 2015–2001
Fabulatorio f.05
Colección Somnámbulo Funámbulo
Ref: f.05 | Colección Somnámbulo Funámbulo
Título: CaboSanRoque. La cobla patafísica 2015–2001
Publicado: 24/02/2015
Tirada: 400
Fotografías: Inga Knölke
Textos: Moisés Puente, Víctor Nubla, Pablo Martín Sánchez, Pierre Bastien
Idea editorial: Moisés Puente / Cibrán Rico / Suso Vázquez
Edición: Moisés Puente
Deseño: desescribir
Páxinas: 176
Tamaño: 165 x 235 mm
Idioma: Inglés / Castelán
Impresión: Offset (6 tintas)
Encadernación: Lomo visto con funda de plástico e cartel
Tipografía: Tiempos Text / Founders Grotesk / Plantin
Papeis: Cyclus 90 g/m2 / Gardapat Kiara 115 g/m2
Cuberta:Funda con cartel pregado (450 x 700 mm)
Imprenta: Agencia Gráfica
Filmación: Masplanchas
Encadernadora: Legatoria
ISBN: 978-84-940115-4-2
Notas: Este libro foi publicado co gallo da exposición CaboSanRoque. La cobla patafísica 2015–2001» que tivo lugar no Arts Santa Mònica de Barcelona do 3 de marzo ao 12 de abril de 2015.
Coeditado con Arts Santa Mónica
Henri Gouraud was born in Paris, rue de Grenelle, November 17, 1867. He is the son of Dr. Xavier Gouraud, doctor Hospitals and Mary Portal.
Gouraud are from the Vendée. They leave the country during the Revolution Angers and Paris. They are doctors from father to son. As for Portal are Rouen.
Dr. and Mrs. Gouraud have six children. Françoise Henry after that will come religious priest Joseph, officer Pierre, Marie-Thérèse catechist and Xavier doctor.
Henry gets his family and Stanislas College, where he studied, a solid education marked by a deep faith, a sense of duty and discipline.
They spoke little in the Army then Gouraud. The military role of Henry is very personal. She wakes up with the occupation following the defeat of 1870. Henri four years he wrote much later: "I can still see myself sitting on the ground in the street above me with a huge white horse ridden by a Uhlan. Colonial His vocation dates from the discovery he made a day, abandoned the family stake, weapons brought from Africa by his great uncle, officer, died of fever in Constantine in 1848. Later General Gouraud will honor these weapons among its own trophies.
But it is mostly through reading the story develops his vocation. At the age of twelve years, Henry is surprised at his family, the plan of the battle of Marengo. Later he won the first prize of History and Geography at the Concours Général which met at that time, public and private institutions. Saint Cyr prepares the "Corniche" Stanislas, who later bear his name. It is received in the Contest of 1888 with the promotion of "Grand Triomphe". Aptly named since then include sixty officers.
On leaving school, Gouraud hoped from overseas, but his father opposed, fearing the bad influence of the marines on his son. Gouraud respects his father's will. He was assigned to the 21st Fighter Battalion foot Montbéliard. It is a happy choice to head the Battalion Commander is the ticket, admirable officer who knows the field complete the training school.
With a lot of help from Google translate I managed to order some lovely fabric treats for myself. I can not wait to start sewing again!!
I'm planning a project to be printed on a book- or text-weight paper. I asked the members of Letpress, PPLetterpress, and Briar Press for suggestions. Here are the suggestions in tabular form. The Briar Press discussion is here.
Description: Collection consists of eight small notebooks (May-Oct. 1893) detailing Viles-Wyman's
travels to and sojourns in Lake Placid, N.Y., and New York City, including accounts of sightseeing, theater,
dance lessons in New York, and discussions of dressmaking and fashion; programs, sketches, and swatches of fabric are included.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Lilla Bell Viles-Wyman Journals
Call Number: A/V701
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/001880387/catalog
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