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I took this photo in Berlin, Germany in 2012 when it was located at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Broken Obelisk is a sculpture designed by Barnett Newman between 1963 and 1967. Fabricated from three tons of Cor-Ten steel, which acquires a rust-colored patina. Four multiples of the sculpture exist. With the permission of the Barnett Newman Foundation, a fourth multiple was commissioned in 2003 and completed in 2005–06 by Lippincott, Merrifield, and Roberts. This last of the four multiples was installed in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2007–08 and later acquired by Storm King Art Center.
Art critic Robert Hughes, writing on Broken Obelisk in 1971, said: Newman's pursuit of the sublime lay less in nature than in culture. This enabled him to pick ancient, man-made forms and return them to pristine significance without a trace of piracy. One index of that ability was his sculpture. Broken Obelisk, perhaps the best American sculpture of its time, is Newman's meditation on ancient Egypt: a steel pyramid, from whose apex an inverted obelisk rises like a beam of light. Here, Newman bypassed the Western associations of pyramids and broken columns with death, and produced a life-affirming image of transcendence. That unruffled self-sufficiency, beyond style, gave Newman's work its mysterious didactic value. It is not 'expressive'; the silence at the core bespeaks a man for whom art was a philosophical activity, a way of knowledge. [Wikipedia edited]
Whilst cooking boiled eggs for my dogs I noticed one had split in the pan and thought what a great subject for this weeks MM theme - hope you like it
Adri came to me the other day with some new orb tool ideas and this one was particularly hard to make but it came out great!!
Orb by Adri
Finally getting around to editing pictures that have been sitting on my computer for much too long. I think it's safe to say I'm not really keeping up with my 52 week or Troys either. So for right now I'm just posting whatever ... no particular order just posting. :)
I hope you all had a great weekend and Mothers Day.
This was one of my first shots on arrival at Talacre in North Wales. It was around 25 mins before sunset so there was lots of strong golden light from the west creating this nice side light on the structure. The broken rocks and old path way created a nice natural leading line up to the Lighthouse again highlighting the lovely colours on show. More of a Holiday snap type of shot for me but a nice memory from short time there.
The broken end of a piece of dried angel-hair pasta about to be turned into a midnight snack.
The pasta is ~1.8mm or 7/100" across.
Macro ring-light attachment and in camera focus stack followed by additional cropping.
Two of my favorite subjects to photograph in Hua Hin, Thailand.
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Explored July 16, 2025
Things have to be broken, isn't it? Scan your archives, make your choice, and tweet it to @Flickr, adding #TwitterTuesday #Broken. We'll showcase the best ones on the Flickr Blog tomorrow.
Photo CC-BY from Vox Efx - flic.kr/p/4nVVy5
Opened in 1867, Dieweg cemetery served as the municipal burial ground until the Second World War and was definitively decommissioned in 1958. It is a testament to the peak of funerary art, when the great families erected veritable architectural works of art for their deceased loved ones, sometimes in the form of chapels (such as the “Allard Chapel” and its family vault, considered the biggest private funerary monument in Belgium). All the styles in vogue at the time are represented, starting with the “neo” or revival styles (Egyptian, Greek, Romanesque, Gothic, Classical, etc.), followed by Eclecticism and Art Nouveau and ending with Art Deco.
The Royal Cement Plant has an interesting history. Originally built in Iowa in 1954, it was purchased and moved to its current location in 1985 for $500,000 by a one Aldo DiNardo. It cost another $500,000 just to transport it. DiNardo then spent the next ten years rebuilding and trying to bring the plant up to EPA standards, which he claimed wasn't necessary since the plant had originally been built before the current EPA rules.
DiNardo was fined by the EPA and currently owes $70,000 in back emissions fees and late charges and $94,000 in penalties. Yet, after sinking over 12 million into the plant and never making any real money, DiNardo claimed that he wanted to reopen the plant, insisting he could make it profit.
On July 1, 1999 a fatal accident occurred at the plant, caused mostly by aging equipment. An electrician was electrocuted when he contacted an energized 4160 volt cable inside the crusher and finish grinding transformer. The flicker switches in the interrupter switches for the transformer were defective in that they did not open when the switch was tripped due to an accumulation of dust and dirt. With the switches stuck in the closed position, power was inadvertently supplied to the 4160 volt transformer. The Royal Cement Company was ordered to pay just $5,000 in fines.
In 2003 the BLM discovered that the plant was essentially occupying on public lands illegally, as DiNardo failed to pay fees of $1,300 to maintain his mining claims to the area in 2002. The voiding of the claims was never appealed, and DiNardo's plan of operations were revoked.
More details of the plant's history can be read here: lasvegassun.com/news/2004/jul/26/polluting-cement-plant-h...
A broken window in a shelter near the Victorian coastal town of Margate symbolises the contradictions of hope in the future for those who live around our coasts
rolling…
“shavadavadava“
like a Merry Go Round
rolling my eyes
“un du torowa”
…let’s sing a song!
“shavadavadava“
shall we dance?
“shavadavadava“
welcome to Attraction
would you coffin…welcome
“un du torowa”
come on baby…
sure…interesting!
TERROR in the night!
shall we dance!?
Song: Marry Go Round -TCST-
Model: Me
The Blues - Macro Monday
The pendant is less than 1.5 inches long
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Polvoranca Park,Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
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number. 82126540
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Old broken wagon in Houck, Arizona.
Photographed with a Zeiss Ikon ICA TRONA 210/7 9x12 cm Folding Plate Camera with a Zeiss Tessar 135mm f/4.5 lens. Shot on a J. Lane Speed Plate (dry glass plate), developed in Kodak HC-110 Dilution B.
Broken, just like my computer! I haven't posted much because I don't have any of my editing programs on my laptop. I will kiss my desktop all over when it returns home to me:)
Macro Monday: Broken
When looking for some motives, I found this scattered bottle on the ground which attracted my attention...
Stacked from 10 pictures
HMM!
Lucca, Italy. This poor bicycle had seen better days. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.