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I drove out Radio Station Road today on the way home. I've driven by this transmitting station many times, but never on this road which provided a different perspective of some of the freaky looking transmitter arrays. I would not want to be on the crew that had to rig this stuff up.
From October 2017 to April 2018, ARM participated in the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign. During MARCUS, ARM instruments collected data on the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis as it traveled from Hobart, Australia, to three different Australian Antarctic research stations.
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One of the 13th century seated figures arrayed in niches on the west face of the buttresses of the southern half of the facade.
The west front holds the largest collection of medieval statuary surviving in England, originally containing around 400 sculptures (just under 300 hundred original statues remain). The niches with their sculptures cover the entire width of the facade and extend around the corner on the north and east sides of the north tower. Surprisingly there were no serious losses to the statues during either the Reformation or Civil War, the worst damage occurring slightly later in 1685 during the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, when a drunken mob pulled down the statues from the lowest level of the facade, leaving the sad row of empty niches we see at its base today (only four of these figures survived on the main front, though most around the corner on the north tower happily survived).
Aside from the figures on the gable (and a couple of more recent replacements) all the sculptures date from the original construction of the facade (c1230-60) and are of high quality. The iconography is less certain with relatively few of the figures identifiable as specific individuals, but saints, bishops and kings are found in abundance. Though other English facades also employed this approach with seried ranks of statuary in niches, none are known to have ever surpassed this display at Wells.
Wells Cathedral is a magical place to me, having cast a spell over me from the very first time I laid eyes on it as a seven-year old when it started to be a regular break on our journeys south west for childhood holidays. Although it wasn't the first cathedral I'd encountered it was the first I'd seen after developing a more conscious interest in church art and architecture and it seemed to me like something from another world (which in many ways it is). I never forgot the impression it made, its beauties inside and out, and having not visited for nearly three decades I decided getting reacquainted was long overdue.
Described as England's 'Queen amongst cathedrals' it is not as huge as some but it is as beautiful as any, and its setting within the enclosure of a charming cathedral close that constitutes a large part of this modestly-sized but picturesque cathedral-city just adds to its qualities. Its three towers beckon the visitor through the turreted gates that connect the close to the market place and to walk through these and behold the west facade for the first time is an unforgettable experience. The central tower is a beautiful example of Somerset's pinnacled late Gothic masterpieces, and yet it almost disappears, practically forgotten, when one encounters the rich display between the two western towers with their curiously flat parapets. These towers are also mainly 15th century work, but below them, and built two centuries earlier, the facade unfolds like a huge screen covered with niches, most of which remarkably retain their original statues, the largest display of medieval sculpture surviving in England.
Currently visitors are directed to enter via the cloisters on the south side rather than through the surprisingly small, almost apologetic doorways burrowed through the base of this astonishing facade, so it is important to spend some time absorbing it before entering the building. Once inside the effect is rather calmer than the riot of ornamentation on the west front, and the scale a little more intimate and inviting than many cathedral interiors. Most of it is early 13th century and harmonious in style, but it is a later addition that draws the eye looking down the nave, the unique 'scissor arches' installed to brace the crossing in order to stabilise the central tower following signs of movement. The transepts beyond are of the same date and design as the nave, whilst further east the more ornate choir is a little later, being completed in the early 14th century. Beyond this the retrochoir and polygonal Lady Chapel with their delicate pillars and vaults form one of the most delightful and visually satisfying of English medieval interiors.
Furnishings and features of interest are plentiful as one explores the church admiring the beauty of its architecture, with much medieval glass surviving at the east end, the east window and the adjoining clerestories having survived almost intact (more survives in the choir aisles and lady chapel though aside from the traceries most is in a fragmentary state). Many medieval bishops effigies are to be seen (many forming a posthumous 13th century commemoration of earlier Saxon bishops) along with three chantry chapels. In the north transept is the famous medieval astronomical clock with its painted dials and jousting knights marking the quarter hours.
One of the most exquisite features is the chapter house also on the north side, approached via a delightfully timeworn staircase and covered by a particularly attractive vaulted ceiling. It is one of the highlights of the building and shouldn't be missed. The cloisters on the south side are also a delight to wander through and were one of the last major additions to the cathedral.
Wells Cathedral is without a doubt one of the country's greatest treasures and in my mind one of the most beautiful churches anywhere and even its surroundings are a joy to explore. Happily it now at last appears to be reopening after the long hiatus of lockdown, it deserves to be visited and enjoyed again by all once the present crisis is over.
The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) was an astronomical instrument comprising 23 radio telescopes. These telescopes formed an astronomical interferometer where all the signals are combined in a purpose-built computer (a correlator) to produce high-resolution astronomical images. The telescopes ceased operation in April 2015 and were relocated to the Owens Valley Radio Observatory for storage.
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Tesla design models have influenced our intellects with clean power, high safety ratings and a wide array of 21st century technologies. Tesla, the purveyor of premium electric cars utilizes supercar acceleration and cat-like reflexes to also appeal to our lust for power and the primal urge to control and direct it. The Model 3 will begin pricing at $35,000 which is roughly half the cost of a base Model S. The base car will accelerate 0-60 mph in less than 6 seconds, enjoys an electric range of at least 215 miles per charge, seats five comfortably and provides storage from front and rear trunks. Expect deliveries yearend 2017.
Graham Snowden arranged circles and lines (or zeros and ones) at various angles and invites us to look from various angles and see what we can find.
On Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland New Zealand, The Headland "Sculpture on the Gulf" exhibition was spread out around the cliff tops overlooking the sea.
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Rescale array of Green Island bridge, Troy, N.Y. Nikon F100 camera used, then 20 pictures were taken using Rite Aid 200 (rebranded Fuji) film; the film was flipped in the camera to achieve the redscale effect. Each image was shot with a different exposure time, and then the images were scanned and added to this digital array. Photo and collage (c) Chuck Miller.
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