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Another up close and macro, this time the bricks of PICA, formerly the old Perth Technical School. Complete with carved tags from 1930 and before.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is for those with Seasonal Affective Disorder and those who are just plain tired of winter.
Our Daily Challenge ... bricks.
I have just a few bricks left over from the garden edging. I will have to get some more before I can complete the last few metres
Despite similar looks, this tessellation is not Momotani’s Wall — it is a different pattern designed by myself. Its relation to Momotani’s Wall is roughly such as the relation of Pythagorean Tiling to Rectangle and Square Flagstone.
The twists being placed around the rectangle with rotational but without axial symmetry lead to some interesting properties. First, the tessellation is not rectangular, although the staggered rectangles create a roughly rectangular outline whose sides are not parallel to the sides of the bricks. Second, unlike Momotani’s Brick Wall, the bricks in this design can be made with different proportions. The height is always two grid units and the length can be arbitrary as long as it’s at least two grid units. In this fold, the proportions are 3:2. The case with square bricks is the same design as Pythagorean Tiling with 1:1 ratio and the way I came up with the idea for Shifted Bricks was by modifying that model. It is even possible to mix different brick lengths in a single model as long as the length is consistent along each strip of bricks whose top and bottom edges are adjacent.
Shifted Bricks is an iso-area tessellation. In contrast to Momotani’s Wall, the bricks on both sides are parallel rather than perpendicular to each other. The direction of the slant between brick columns is mirrored between the sides. In the pictures you can see that I folded the model in such way that the front side is completely clean while the back side has some visible construction creases. Folding both sides cleanly seems possible for but rather tedious for larger grids (the model shown here is from 32×32 grid).
I will be teaching this model at the online CDO convention this November. If you want to try making a clean fold (with lots of precreasing), you can use the instructions I made available at origami.kosmulski.org/instructions/shifted-bricks
If you get to Porth Wen just as the sun comes up the bricks of the old Porth Wen brickworks glow with that lovely warm pinky, orangy brick colour. There must have been a lot of rain over night and the little gully you follow down through the gorse was a fairly rapid stream that I thought might end in a waterfall at the bottom. But it wasn't that bad and I arrived just before the sun started to shed the long shadows and orangey light. I immediately headed for that outcrop of white quartz that rises out of no where and ends in a Durdle Door style archway where it falls towards the sea. I climbed to the top and set up my tripod but realised that with a 16mm wideangle it wasn't wideangled enough to get the three ovens and the main brick building in shot. I needed to move further back. Further back, and closer to the sea the spine of quartz has just one more step, but it is narrow and short and a few feet higher than the rest. I was not at all happy trying to get up on that last point. The vertical drop on three sides is considerable and I managed to get up on top on all fours. But I felt that if I tried to stand up I might over balance. Using my tripod as a third leg I unsteadily rose to my feet, not daring to move in any direction. Carefully I put up my tripod but the space was so small I couldn't spread the legs far and I had to stand in the space between the two tripod legs. I don't suffer from vertigo but boy did I feel wobbly and unhappy there. At Porth Wen brickworks I really was bricking it. I just hope the shot was worth it. Of course I could have made it much easier and safer, and just stitched two shots together from a closer vantage point.
I wonder if anyone know how many bricks were used to build Battersea Power Station ... my guess is lots and lots :)
"This isn't Texas. We must be lost....."
Brick Rodeo was in Austin TX this year and we finally got to attend for more than one day (we bought the AFOL passes). I was thrilled to find these minifigs in my goody bag.,, especially the custom printed purple space torso :-)
I rearranged the minifigs slightly. The female face was on the red spaceman and I moved it to the purple torso. I also changed the hair to something that would fit over the purple oxygen tanks but otherwise, these are very similar to what we were given.
It was a fun event and I can't wait to attend it the next time it's in Austin (I think that's 2 years from now). I only wish it could be in Austin every year.....
Transforming, Cole Blaq inspired LEGOâ„¢ brick robot.
I've always been inspired by the brickbuilt 3:1 4x2 brick sculptures. A few years ago I built version 1 of this little fella, put him in a box, and forgot about him.
I found him again recently, and decided to rebuild him from the ground up. There were lots of things wrong with v1, but I think I've managed to address them all.
On the edge of Grand Ledge; a retired brick factory transformed into a park. They've cleaned the place up a bit since I took this photo in July of 2013, though it remains obviously a ruin.
I thought of creating a photo with double shot to convey the depressive emotion of The Wall in my photo for Flckr Frday group this week. However when I saw the depressive weather this morning I decided to show the mood with these dark skies lying ahead of the brick wall of my building. I hope you like it as much as I do, thank you for your visit :)