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The “Atom” panoptican (www.flickr.com/photos/67668518@N08/9301635536/) is a popular artwork in rural north-east Lancashire. It is located approximately 3 miles east-southeast of Colne (“Roaring River”) and stands in the car park and picnic area of Wycoller (“Dairy Farm among the Alder Trees”) Country Park, on the Laneshaw Bridge to Haworth (“Enclosure with a Hedge”) road.
The bronze-coated glass reinforced concrete structure was officially opened to the public on 22nd September 2006 and was designed by Peter Meacock, Andrew Edmunds and Katarina Novomestska of Peter Meacock Projects. It occupies a commanding position on the hillside above Wycoller village and affords spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. Indeed, the panoptican was intended to be not just a work of art, but also to be a viewing point and a shelter. Inside the panoptican there used to be a large, polished steel ball that was mounted on the pillar in the centre. The ball reflected the views to be seen through each of the openings in the panoptican and it was an important piece of the design. Sadly and for reasons known only to themselves, mindless vandals have felt the need to hack off the ball and an important feature of the design has been lost.
The picture was taken inside the atom, looking out of the apertures on the west wall. Unfortunately much of the visual impact has been lost now that the internal globe has been removed.
This started out as a large piece of hardwood that nobody wanted - the grain is inconsistent and it was weirdly shaped. I cut it down, planed it down and sanded it quite a bit.. until I ended up with a square about 6x6".
The design is the logo for The Geek Group which is where I work. The guys in the shop wanted to see the atom logo carved in wood.
I'm rather fond of it. :)
" The Ariel Atom is a high performance open air roadster that is produced by the Ariel Motor Company in Somerset, England. The Atom is built with an exoskeleton type frame and features very minimal bodywork to go along with the sports car’s lightweight theme. The Ariel Atom is powered by a variety of power plants ranging from a supercharged Honda K series four cylinders to GM Ecotec engines with outputs ranging from 245 HP to 300 HP depending upon the application. The standard Atom is able to accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH in only 2.7 seconds and can reach a top speed of 150 MPH. Ariel is currently working on the Atom 500, taking the lightweight sports car to the next level with a 2.4 Liter 10,000 RPM V8 made from a pair of Suzuki Hyabusa engines that will produce a maximum output of 500 HP."
Deux modèles d'Aiglon.
1 avec objectif Angénieux 4,5/75 mm
1 avec objectif Berthiot 6/75 mm
pour les deux.Atos 1
The legendary Ariel Atom. One of the baddest street legal cars in existance. This car is quite literally a race car for the streets.
The Atom is a panopticon situated close to the Haworth Road Car Park above Wycoller in Lancashire.
A panopticon is a structure, space or device providing a comprehensive or panoramic view; in this case, of the beautiful countryside of The Forest of Trawden.
Atom is a result of 3 years work by designers Peter Meacock with Katarina Novomestska and Architects WCW.
The structure originally included a polished steel ball inside, designed to reflect the views through the circular windows, but unfortunately this has had to be removed due to vandalism.
Seen in a corridor at the LSE. I'm so used to thinking of Google as bits that it's disorienting to see it as atoms. I guess the box contained an Intranet search server...
Atom Smasher. Experiments to investigate atoms and atomic particles require huge pieces of equipment. This is one section of an accelerator used at the Univ of Edinburgh from 1950. This portion produced a very high voltage. This type of circuit was used by John Cockcroft & Ernest Walton in 1932.
I needed some inspiration so I drew this... Sometimes doing something completely unrelated helps sparks a new idea. This time it worked....
Quando Quango was a Manchester, England based new wave dance project formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier Rietveld. Their unique sound influenced the underground dance music scenes in New York and Chicago in the 1980s. Their first release was the "Go Exciting" twelve-inch single on Factory Records in 1982, and their last release of new music was the 1985 full-length album Pigs & Battleships (reissued in 2003).
Quando Quango is best known for its dance singles "Love Tempo," which reached number four on the Billboard Dance Chart, and "Atom Rock." Their sound was the result of an eclectic mix of Latin, jazz, reggae and disco, all in a pioneering New Wave context. Hillegonda Rietveld said, describing the group's music, "...Fela Kuti meets Kraftwerk somewhere between Manchester and Rotterdam, part of a new wave of post-punk electronica, with a whole lot of Mike Pickering's admirably broad knowledge of soul, disco, reggae and pop to stuff the gaps."
The group was formed in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 1980 by Mancunian Mike Pickering and Rotterdam-based Gonnie Rietveld, supported on drums by her brother Reinier Rietveld. In 1982 they moved to Manchester, England, where Pickering's friend Rob Gretton was setting up The Haçienda nightclub. [4]
In 1983 Reinier Rietveld left the group to concentrate on his Rotterdam band Spasmodique. Soon after, former A Certain Ratio singer/trumpeter/percussionist Simon Topping joined as percussionist. Hillegonda Rietveld settled into her role programming their electronic music and Pickering continued to write lyrics and melodies.
The same year, Derek Johnson of fellow Factory act 52nd Street joined on bass, soon to be replaced by his brother Barry Johnson, formerly of Sweet Sensation, and later of Aswad.
After releasing a few singles that were minor dance club hits, the group collaborated with Manchester music legends Johnny Marr and Vini Reilly to create the full-length album Pigs & Battleships. Andy Connell of A Certain Ratio and Beverley McDonald of 52nd Street also contributed.
The group didn't last long after the album's release, but before their collapse they recorded more material with prominent guests. Lisa Stansfield sang on demos of "Bad Blood" and "Vision of America" in 1986. Stephen Morris of Joy Division and New Order contributed percussion to "What Price Beauty," which later became the M People track "Kiss It Better."
After the group's demise, Pickering went on to form dance duo T-Coy with Topping and, later, M People. Rietveld's connection with the Haçienda continued when she researched and co-edited the book The Haçienda Must Be Built!, which was edited by Jon Savage. After gaining her doctorate, Dr Rietveld single-authored This Is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies, and is currently a Reader in Cultural Studies at London South Bank University, where she supervises postgraduate research projects in electronic dance music cultures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quando_Quango
The Ariel Atom is a high performance sports car made by the Ariel Motor Company based in Somerset, England and under license also by Brammo Motorsports in the United States.
The Ariel Atom is unusual in that it is exoskeletal—the chassis is the body— and therefore lacks a roof, windows and other features commonly found on road cars. It is available with a range of engines, the top of the range being a supercharged Honda Civic Type-R K20 and a supercharged 2.0 litre, 300 hp (220 kW) GM Ecotec engine.
The Ariel Atom has received great media interest. In 2004 it was tested by Jeremy Clarkson on the BBC motoring television programme Top Gear, where it lapped their test track faster than, most notably, a Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 and a Porsche Carrera GT and also creatively re-arranged Clarkson's face because of the open cockpit's lack of wind protection. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Atom)
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