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Developed four exposures from single raw file, merged to HDR image and tone-mapped with Photomatix.
Prints for "Mappings" solo show at [DAM]Berlin. Based on sound signals. Last minute decision to scale up to 150x100 cm horizontal format rather than the 60x90 vertical cropping.
A tenant-owners' society with 6 buildings and 42 apartments. Built: 2013-14. Architect: Glantz Arkitektstudio.
I placed my Simple Skyline block next to my Intermediate Skyline block, just to see how the skyline will look once it's pieced. I've wanted to do a cityscape quilt for the last couple months and am excited to have the Simply Solids group to help me make it happen!
A rather cool February night in Wallan, as N469 pulls Seymour bound train #8337 into the platform.
The signaller is seen greeting the driver as the train arrives. The signaller here would alert the driver by radio that the double line block instruments have failed, and it is absolute block working between Wallan and Kilmore East.
It is not yet clear when the Double Line Block instruments will again be operable.
Wallan, Vic.
18/2/19
Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) french printmaker, draughtsman and painter.
An individualist who believed in the superiority of the imagination over observation of nature, rejected the Realism and Impressionism of his contemporaries in favor of a more personal artistic vision.
Born as Bertrand-Jean Redon, he acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon started drawing as a child, and at the age of ten he was awarded a drawing prize at school. Aged fifteen, he began the formal study of drawing, but on the insistence of his father he changed to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he briefly studied painting there under Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1864. (His younger brother Gaston Redon would become a noted architect.)
Back home in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpture, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. His artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris, working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. He called his visionary works, conceived in shades of black, his "Noirs". It would not be until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with Guardian Spirit of the Waters, and he published his first album of lithographs, titled Dans le Rêve, in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled, À rebours (Against Nature).
In the 1890s, pastel and oils became his favored media, and he produced no more noirs after 1900. In 1899, he exhibited with the Nabis at Durand-Ruel's. In 1903 he was awarded the Legion of Honor.
He became a celebrated figure in fin-de-siècle Paris, greatly admired by artists and writers of the Symbolist movement with whom he shared an enthusiasm for the fantastic, mystical, and sublime forces found beneath the surface of everyday life.
He was greatly inspired by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe and Gustave Flaubert, whose unusual sensibilities were well suited to the artist's own. Redon was so moved by Flaubert's 1874 prose poem The Temptation of Saint Anthony that he created three separate projects based on it.
His popularity increased when a catalogue of etchings and lithographs was published by André Mellerio in 1913 and that same year, he was given the largest single representation at the New York Armory Show.
Redon died on July 6, 1916.
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"Those were the pictures bearing the signature: Odilon Redon. They held, between their gold-edged frames of unpolished pearwood, undreamed-of images: a Merovingian-type head, resting upon a cup; a bearded man, reminiscent both of a Buddhist priest and a public orator, touching an enormous cannon-ball with his finger; a spider with a human face lodged in the centre of its body. Then there were charcoal sketches which delved even deeper into the terrors of fever-ridden dreams. Here, on an enormous die, a melancholy eyelid winked; over there stretched dry and arid landscapes, calcinated plains, heaving and quaking ground, where volcanos erupted into rebellious clouds, under foul and murky skies; sometimes the subjects seemed to have been taken from the nightmarish dreams of science, and hark back to prehistoric times; monstrous flora bloomed on the rocks; everywhere, in among the erratic blocks and glacial mud, were figures whose simian appearance--heavy jawbone, protruding brows, receding forehead, and flattened skull top--recalled the ancestral head, the head of the first Quaternary Period, the head of man when he was still fructivorous and without speech, the contemporary of the mammoth, of the rhinoceros with septate nostrils, and of the giant bear. These drawings defied classification; unheeding, for the most part, of the limitations of painting, they ushered in a very special type of the fantastic, one born of sickness and delirium."
À rebours, chapter V
sources: moma.org; wikipedia.com
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, PA
May 26th, 2014
One of the tops views of Cell Block Seven that is often photographed. I lucked out and got there early enough before anyone else was in the shot
Some info from the E.S.P. website:
"Most eighteenth century prisons were simply large holding pens. Groups of adults and children, men and women, and petty thieves and murderers, sorted out their own affairs behind locked doors. Physical punishment and mutilation were common, and abuse of the prisoners by the guards and overseers was assumed.
In 1787, a group of well-known and powerful Philadelphians convened in the home of Benjamin Franklin. The members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons expressed growing concern with the conditions in American and European prisons. Dr. Benjamin Rush spoke on the Society's goal, to see the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania set the international standard in prison design. He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart. The concept grew from Enlightenment thinking, but no government had successfully carried out such a program.
It took the Society more than thirty years to convince the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to build the kind of prison it suggested: a revolutionary new building on farmland outside Philadelphia."
For More info: www.easternstate.org/learn/research-library/history
when they're postage stamp-sized . . . but it's 66 blocks closer to being finished!
snapped this progress shot to get perspective on how the new blocks will blend into the quilt. better photos to follow . . . as soon as i sew the new strips of blocks on. somehow the muslin strips between the blocks are a wee bit too big, which means i have some ripping, trimming + re-sewing to do. i have no idea how i measured those wrong!
Blocks are finished & I have a nice Nest inner border ready to go. I don't have enough of the outter border I wanted and I am determined not to buy any fabric to finish ..must go search stash a little harder.
Tyco Super Blocks Telephone from 1988.
If you lived in the 80's you probably owned one. If you didn't own one, you definitely wanted one.
Sew Pieceful August Hive #2
Colors: Violet, electric blue, bright green, with a charcoal background.
I was originally going to make modified 'retro flowers' blocks, but I'm really in love with this quilt by She Can Quilt, and liked the blocks better when the petals/wings were connected. I love that she calls them butterfly blocks.
And I seriously want to make a whole quilt out of these. Swoon.
Now the Office block.
Victoria Barracks is found in Paddington Sydney. These barracks were constructed in sandstone by convict labour from 1841 to 1848.
They were used by the British Troops until 1870, and then the New South Wales corps. The NSW contingent to the Sudan were trained there in 1885. Between 1931 and 1936 it was the home of the Royal Military College of Australia. Victoria Barracks is still in use today and is home to the Headquarters Land Command and the Headquarters Training Command.
There are guided tours held here each Thursday.