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Glass tubing between brick levels, right, defuses natural light, as will be revealed later,
inside. Right is administration
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Racine, Wisconsin
Ten seconds.
Vasquez, take point. Hicks, watch the rear. Look sharp people! This aint ordinary bears we're dealing with!
A wall of optical bricks lets you get playful in Jean Nouvel's Serpentine Pavillion where everything turns red.
Rather battered and not of the best quality is this unusually side-stamped brick seen in a wall at the long disused Stonetrough Colliery site in North Staffordshire. I have no idea where in South Leicestershire his was made or why it should have travelled so far.
Never underestimate how hard it is to photograph a single lego brick. Yeesh. I'm not all that happy with this, but it's a place to improve with. Back to minifigs for me!
I went to a free Bloggers and Photographers Preview of the Terra Cotta Warriors Exhibit that opens tomorrow at the National Geographic Museum. It was fascinating. I'm sure the exhibit will be incredibly popular - and locals, it will be free on Wednesday nights from 5:30-9:30 (I think those are the right hours).
This was one of a series of embossed bricks (HUGE bricks, about four feet long and 18" wide, probably) with intricate designs. I'd love to see this pattern embroidered!
Caradale Traditional Brick still make bricks at the Armadale Brickworks, albeit on a much smaller scale than GISCOL used to - that's the Glasgow Iron and Steel COmpany Limited to you and me.
According to Dave Sallery:
"It has been estimated that a third of all the brick houses in England are built from London Brick Company bricks. The London Brick Company started production just over a century ago and usage peaked in the Post-War rebuilding period up to the Nineteen Sixties. Maximum production rose, at one point, to an amazing 16,000,000 bricks per day. The early brick presses only applied two presses to the powdered clay in the brick moulds. The trade-name Phorpres came about because Fletton Bricks made in Bedfordshire are pressed twice in each direction so that they are literally 'four pressed'."
Sixteen million bricks, a day! Blimey.
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A closer view of College Ave. in Racine, WI where the old brick street has been preserved. There is a row of little skinny bricks down the middle of this shot. I can't help wondering if one guy worked from one end of the block and someone else worked from the other, and when they met there wasn't enough room for another regular row.
A Street Photography approach to a visit to Brick Lane in the East End of London. It was walking distance from where I was staying in Whitechapel.
Its famous for its street market, colourful street art and is home to a thriving Bangladeshi community.