View allAll Photos Tagged Work
my boss just gave me 4 double packs of spectra film. that's 96 shots!
his camera is broken.
i feel like i should get him something.
I took this photo about an hour ago and they finally got the trapped victim out just a couple of minutes ago. These are Menlo Park firefighters attempting to jimmy the elevator door open to get the man trapped inside out. The elevator got stuck between the second and third floors of my building at work.
My mom and I swap trades every now and then. I make her a letterhead and she sews me a work apron. SWEET!
Baby alligators work to free themselves from their eggs inside a laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy’s Ecological Program studies several facets of alligator health, including nesting. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 140,000 acres that provide a habitat for more than 330 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitrios Gerondidakis
I just made a nice little work space for me in the dining room. We have no extra bedroom's for a craft room, so this works out nicely!
Voltron helps me out with my duties at work. He guards my desk when I am away and he scares away the Jesus Lady, who believes he is demonic.
Background:
One day, Matt (aka Green Hocker) and I were discussing the huge effect that the 1980's robot-craze had on our lives. There were Transformers, Go-Bots, Johnny-5 (from Short Circuit), Konky & Magic Screen (from Pee-Wee's Playhouse), among others. I told him how I never had a Voltron (I had the Berryessa Flea Market version that broke after the first couple days), and he told me he had one lying around somewhere, and the next day I had a Voltron!
Note: Voltron was recalled in 1986, because of a lead-paint hazard. (Maybe it's a good thing I didn't have one when I was young!)
This is as far as I have come now - I laid them out on the floor just to see what I have going on.... and there are 8 in all now, in varying sizes and drama.
Hmmmm.... what to do?! Giving it quite some thought....
Based at the iconic Tea Building in Shorditch High Street, London, the client requested an open plan work space that allowed for easy communication and work with the building's many existing interior features. The finished scheme has a layout that promotes flow and capitalises on the natural daylight whilst the strong colour branding highlights the interior's industrial charm.
Not only is this Axumite obelisk (or, more correctly, stela) unfinished, it hasn't even been separated from its parent boulder, or matrix. Because this stela is a work in progress that was just in the roughing-out stages when work ceased, I'll refer to it as a stela "blank." I call it a blank because I assume none of the fine carving would have been done until after the stela had been removed from the field and presumably brought to a stone yard for the finish work.
It looks like the masons planned to leave a thin rib at the end of the stela to connect that end to the matrix, probably to help support the stella's weight, keep it from settling down onto the matrix, and provide a gap under the stela through which planks, handles or other similar attachment points could be inserted to help move the stela blank to its next location.
Realistically, though, I think it would have been necessary to leave supporting ribs at various points along the stela's length. Otherwise, the masons would have risked having the stela blank crack under its own weight.
Wouldn't it be interesting to know why work on the stela stopped at this preliminary stage? Did the masons discover a flaw in the stone or accidentally damage it? Were mistakes made during the cutting process that rendered the piece unfit for its intended use? Did the family or group who ordered the stela suffer a reversal of fortune or status? Did they change their minds? Or did external factors, such as changes in funerary practices, war, or foreign conquest, leave this project in a forever-unfinished state?
I took this photo on a hillside near Axum where archaeologists believe stelae were quarried during the Axumite Kingdom.
The Axumite period in Ethiopian history extends from about 400 BCE to the 10th century of the common era; the Kingdom is thought to have reached its peak between the third and sixth centuries of the common era.
Archaeologists believe the stelae in and around the city of Axum mark the tombs of Axumite royals and nobles.
If this unfinished stela is representative of Axumite quarrying techniques, it shows Axumite stonemasons cut their stelae blanks from larger pieces of stone - large boulders, actually - that were found scattered on slopes below rock cliffs, having already fallen off the cliffs as a result of ordinary erosional processes.
Like the Inka of South America, it appears the Axumites did not quarry stone by cutting directly into solid, living rock where it emerged from the ground or mountainsides. Instead, both cultures quarried stone from boulders that had already become separated from their sources (e.g., cliffs) naturally.
Three fourth year pupils of Arbroath High School went on work experience with Tayside Police in November, 1995. Pictured at Arbroath Police Station with Community Police Officer Colin Barnes were, from left - Rhys Abbott, Matthew Lee and Ailsa Marr.
Hieronymus Bosch born Jheronimus van Aken c. 1450 – 9 August 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter. His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes and illustrations of moral and religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.
Little is known of Bosch's life, though there are some records. He spent most of it in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch, though his roots are from Aachen, Germany. His pessimistic and fantastical style cast a wide influence on northern art of the 16th century, with Pieter Bruegel the Elder his best known follower. His paintings have been difficult to translate from a modern point of view; attempts to associate instances of modern sexual imagery with fringe sects or the occult have largely failed. Today he is seen as a hugely individualistic painter with deep insight into man's desires and deepest fears. Attribution has been especially difficult; today only 35 to 40 paintings are confidently given to his hand. His most acclaimed works consist of a few triptych altarpieces, the most outstanding of which is the Garden of Earthly Delights. His best surviving panels make innovative use of oil paint and especially glazed finish.
Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus (or Joen,respectively the Latin and Middle Dutch form of the name "Jerome") van Aken (meaning "from Aachen"). He signed a number of his paintings as Jheronimus Bosch (pronounced Yeronimus Bos[needs Dutch IPA] in Middle Dutch). The name derives from his birthplace, 's-Hertogenbosch, which is commonly called "Den Bosch" ('the forest').
Little is known of Bosch’s life or training. He left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of 's-Hertogenbosch, and in the account books of the local order of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady. Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Bosch’s date of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. 1450 on the basis of a hand drawn portrait (which may be a self-portrait) made shortly before his death in 1516. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late sixties.
Bosch was born and lived all his life in and near ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a city in the Duchy of Brabant. His grandfather, Jan van Aken (died 1454), was a painter and is first mentioned in the records in 1430. It is known that Jan had five sons, four of whom were also painters. Bosch’s father, Anthonius van Aken (died c. 1478), acted as artistic adviser to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady.It is generally assumed that either Bosch’s father or one of his uncles taught the artist to paint, but none of their works survive. Bosch first appears in the municipal record on 5 April 1474, when he is named along with two brothers and a sister.
's-Hertogenbosch was a flourishing city in 15th-century Brabant, in the south of the present-day Netherlands, at the time part of the Burgundian Netherlands, and during its lifetime passing through marriage to the Habsburgs. In 1463, 4,000 houses in the town were destroyed by a catastrophic fire, which the then (approximately) 13-year-old Bosch presumably witnessed. He became a popular painter in his lifetime and often received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch-conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of 's-Hertogenbosch, and 7,000 'outer-members' from around Europe.
Sometime between 1479 and 1481, Bosch married Aleyt Goyaerts van den Meerveen, who was a few years his senior. The couple moved to the nearby town of Oirschot, where his wife had inherited a house and land from her wealthy family. An entry in the accounts of the Brotherhood of Our Lady records Bosch’s death in 1516. A funeral mass served in his memory was held in the church of Saint John on 9 August of that year.
A good example of "pared down"= let the gemstones sing on their own.
I started this bracelet in November. I became a bit deflated when the center stone kept popping out of its frame. Plus, I realized I could do much better with the wirework in the areas of the connecting loops. It's taken 3 months to find the energy to start over!
The slabs of Tourmalated Quartz are just great. As usual my camera managed to pick up every single inclusion. In person, that quartz is much cleaner and with a fab glossy polish.
FotografÃa: Valeria Duque.
Producción: Carolina Restrepo, Carolina Vélez.
Maquillaje: Adelaida Cano.
Modelo: Laura Tamayo
The total views on my photostream reached 7,000,000+ after 7 years and 4 months hard work and midnight oil burnt on August 1st 2014.
While I've tended to steer my photostream and descriptions in the last few years towards an encyclopaedic tone with referrals from the major internet search engines my main objective, the continuing support and comments from my contacts and other Flickr members is very much appreciated and makes all the hard work over the last 7.4 years very much worthwhile.
A special mention and thanks too for my friend, colleague, fellow railway enthusiast and photostream contributor David whose 2358 donated items so far on this date have made a huge difference to my photostream, stats and interest generated.
7,000,000 views ÷ 9136 items = 766.19 views average per item which is a significant improvement on the 703.64 average per item at 6,000,000 views in April 2014.
The most viewed item in my photostream continues to be this one flic.kr/p/6ky5vY with well over twice as many views as its nearest rival. I don't see that changing for the foreseeable future.
Flickr is a huge, time consuming and rewarding project for me personally and I genuinely believe all the effort has been worthwhile.
Thank you so much for all your clicks!
;-)