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Four found objects from around my home:
Letterbox
Dwarfs
Rocking horse
Broken window & casment
Letterbox - Brightness/Contrast & Photo Filter Adjustment Layers
Dwarfs - Black & White Adjustment Layer and Mask; Hue & Saturation Adjustment Layer
Rocking Horse - Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer; Photo Filter Adjustment Layer
Broken Window - Brightness/Contrast & Photo Filter Adjustment Layers
3 Keriyoo textures
2 Grunge Edges (4&5)
The House-Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party (usually referred to as the Buzludzha Monument) is located on the top of the 1400m Buzludzha Mountain in Bulgaria.
It is a stunning, world class, piece of architecture in a quite breath-taking location. But because it is so closely associated with Bulgaria's now despised communist regime, it is being left gently rot away.
This is at once both deeply sad, because the Buzludzha Monument truly is one of the modern wonders of the world, and understandably given the pain and anguish many people can't help but link with the organisation it was built to celebrate.
The architect was Georgi Stoilov, and more than 60 artists worked on the mosaics, statues and other art works. The monument opened in 1981, and closed just 8 years later when the Bulgarian communist regime collapsed in 1989.
Getting inside the monument was easy enough, at least it was with our guides to show us the way, and the inside is just as stunning as the outside. We even climbed the 18 story tower to the viewing platform at the top. It was exhausting, occasionally painful (I managed to crack my head twice on the way up!), but well worth the effort.
At the top of the tower are two red glass stars, one facing north and one facing south. They're almost 3 stories high (bigger than the stars installed on the Kremlin in Moscow) and in times long gone they were lit from within. It is said that the north facing star could be seen from Romania and the south facing star could be seen from Turkey.
Exploring Buzludzha was a truly unforgettable experience, particularly in the beautiful evening light.
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Here you can see one of the red stars at the top of the Buzludzha tower. It seems that the local rumour mill at the time Buzludzha was built thought they were made from rubies... they're not!
Fort Hancock - Sandy Hook
Middletown Township, New Jersey
Sandy Hook is a barrier spit, approximately 6 miles in length and varying between 0.1 to 1 miles wide in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic Ocean coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. The barrier spit encloses the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay south of New York City. The Dutch called the area "Sant Hoek", with the English "Hook" deriving from the Dutch "Hoek" (corner, angle), meaning "spit of land".
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground.
In 1893, Fort Hancock installed Battery Potter, the nation's first disappearing gun battery. It also was important for the defense of the vital New York Harbor throughout World War II, preventing the entrance of German submarines into the harbor. In the late 1950s Project Nike antiaircraft missiles were based there. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974.
The fort and its small museum are managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is part of National Parks of New York Harbor unit of the National Park System.
From our book book BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC
#graffiti #brokenwindows #burningnewyork #graffitinyc
I don't understand purposeful destruction. But I will capitalize on it! I've been watching a particular building that is near where I walk. There's been a big, old piece of plywood covering the blocks of windows for many years. It's looked like someone had been trying to pry it loose & finally succeeded & low & behold...... graffiti is behind it! There was natural light behind me which showed off the cement blocks nicely. It's at an old fish hatchery, so anyone's guess is good as to what the blocks were used for.
Elberton, GA (Elbert County). Copyright 2007 D. Nelson
While this looks as if I am standing in a basement looking out a broken window, this was actually taken in broad daylight outside an abandoned building, looking in. The roof was gone, hence the blue sky. I deliberately underexposed to create this optical illusion.
For a view of the entire building, see here. This window is on the right side, I believe it was the second to last one.
She is in the hospital.
The story is not as simple as it seems.
I knew this would end badly.
I don't think she'll be back.
Oh, John's EXIF isn't showing, either. Must have something to do with Flickr. Problem solved : )
Original Caption: Looking Toward Copley Square from Pier 4, South Boston, in the Early Morning. John Hancock Building, with Boarded Windows, in Rear 05/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-7580
Photographer: Halberstadt, Ernst, 1910-1987
Subjects:
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/550065
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