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Boston Calling Day Two: Robyn, Odeza, Miike Snow, City and Colour, Courtney Barnett, Børns, The Vaccines, Battles, Lizzo, Palehound. Photos © 2016 by Andy Moran.
"In a park in Tottenham sits a magnificent ancient Oak tree – a 500-year-old symbol of permanence that dominates a corner in this forever-changing pocket of the city. Bird-like calls, songs and messages echo out from the canopy of the tree as performers continually appear and disappear, fluctuating between restful perching to passionate vocal and physical activity. The performers beckon knowing audiences and unwitting passers-by alike, enticing them to stop, look up, contemplate and enjoy. Bring your blanket or rug, lie on the grass, and expect to see – and hear – the iconic tree in a completely new way." LIFT
I had a blast watching the Prairie Dogs all making their little noises. One would start and pop up with hands in the air then it seemed like they would all do the wave and the next would pop up with its hands up and scream. Pretty funny, they would make great sports fans!
Tokyo's leading underground London club night makes its Tokyo debut. DJs Mike McKenna, Munoz, Luis Sanchez, Wotlie & Hisashi T play London Calling at La Fabrique Tokyo.
A Seattle Design Nerds installation for the Opening Celebration of "Design with the 90%" at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center. Calling Home is an 'empathy engine' disguised as a data visualization exercise, participants answer questions about their own housing situation while learning about what persons experiencing homlessness in King County go through.
A Seattle Design Nerds installation for the Opening Celebration of "Design with the 90%" at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center. Calling Home is an 'empathy engine' disguised as a data visualization exercise, participants answer questions about their own housing situation while learning about what persons experiencing homlessness in King County go through.
trainee Guard calling on LMS Crab 13065 to it's train at the East Lancashire Railway during it's Spring Steam gala on the 12th March 2016
A Seattle Design Nerds installation for the Opening Celebration of "Design with the 90%" at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center. Calling Home is an 'empathy engine' disguised as a data visualization exercise, participants answer questions about their own housing situation while learning about what persons experiencing homlessness in King County go through.
"In a park in Tottenham sits a magnificent ancient Oak tree – a 500-year-old symbol of permanence that dominates a corner in this forever-changing pocket of the city. Bird-like calls, songs and messages echo out from the canopy of the tree as performers continually appear and disappear, fluctuating between restful perching to passionate vocal and physical activity. The performers beckon knowing audiences and unwitting passers-by alike, enticing them to stop, look up, contemplate and enjoy. Bring your blanket or rug, lie on the grass, and expect to see – and hear – the iconic tree in a completely new way." LIFT
These drummers started off a show highlighting the dance, music, and traditional garments of their minority group. After a it of back-and-forth with drums and horns, the girls came out to dance.
The Mezquita encapsulates about 1,500 years of Cordoban history in one location.
The building that you will see standing on this location is simultaneously called: the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba (Mezquita-Catedral de Cordoba), the Great Mosque of Cordoba (Mezquita de Cordoba), and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Catedral de Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion). How on Earth did that come to pass? Well, a little history of the site...
Before the Christians were the Moors, and before the Moors, the Visigoths...who had built a (presumably humble, I imagine) church called St. Vincent's here. It was a Catholic church.
When the Moors came along in 711 A.D., everyone prayed happily in the church (most likely different times and different locations in the church). Eventually, the Moorish ruler, Abd al-Rahman I, bought out the Christian interest in the church and ordered construction of the Great Mosque on the site in 784 A.D..
Subsequent rulers expanded the mosque. Abd al-Rahman II ordered a new minaret (the current bell tower) to be built. (The site of the original minaret is a few meters inside the Door of Forgiveness on the patio of oranges.) Al-Hakam II enlarged the building and enriched the mihrab (most important section of the mosque) in 961 A.D. The last of the expansions took place in 987 A.D. under al-Mansur with the completion of the outer naves (practically doubling the size of the building) and courtyard. At that time, the mosque could accommodate about 35,000 people.
There have been subtractions, too. There was once a raised walkway that connected the mosque to the palace which no longer exists.
Architecturally, it was originally a square design with a central nave leading from the door to the mihrab with 5 naves on each side. The columns (jasper, onyx, marble, granite) are from a previous Roman building on site. The double arches are in horseshoe shape (typical Muslim design) and are made of stone and brick in the original section and painted stone in the "new" 987 A.D. expansion.
Well, that's a rough summary of the mosque, but this is a cathedral, too. When King Fernando III reconquered Cordoba in 1236, I'm told he found the mosque so beautiful he didn't want to destroy it. (Look at the Seville Cathedral in contrast; that was the site of the mosque and, well...it's almost completely gone.)
This is the opposite. The minaret stopped being a minaret calling Muslims to prayer and was converted into the bell tower that you see.
The most bizarre thing, though, is the interior of the mosque. Along the edges, the naves have primarily been converted into chapels. There are about 45 chapels around the building. There's also an (old) main chapel and a current chapel which is beautiful. Standing inside the current chapel, you almost forget you're in a mosque. Also, there's a sacristy that has a few treasures and looks like it has no business being in a mosque.
It's a very strange (and beautiful) dynamic that you see in this place. This doesn't come for free, though.
Spanish Muslims would like to pray here in the mosque. It's their history, too. They've petitioned both the Spanish church and the Vatican, only to be repeatedly denied. In 2010, a few Muslim tourists (from an eastern European tour group) prayed here and were stopped by guards who told them to continue with the tour or leave. They began to fight...
Who knows what the future of this place will be? Nothing on this planet seems to last forever.
An amazing fuss considering the neighbor, Rocket was fully visible, 20 feet away in the riding school. Thoroughbreds! p6258285
A somewhat rare electrical storm in Vancouver, shot early evening August 7th.
View larger on a black background to reveal all the crows.
London's Calling 2017, Friday, 10th February at CodeNode, London. Conference Photography. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8979-london-s-calling-2017#p.... Images copyright - www.edtelling.com
From darkness to light,
take my hand
O child
o inferno
Let us burn like camphor,
no ash left,
no more darkness
Let us burn pure
O child
o inferno
love knows
no bounds
no limits
Boston Calling Day Two: Robyn, Odeza, Miike Snow, City and Colour, Courtney Barnett, Børns, The Vaccines, Battles, Lizzo, Palehound. Photos © 2016 by Andy Moran.
A Seattle Design Nerds installation for the Opening Celebration of "Design with the 90%" at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center. Calling Home is an 'empathy engine' disguised as a data visualization exercise, participants answer questions about their own housing situation while learning about what persons experiencing homlessness in King County go through.
four calling birds, enamelled copper with snowflake motif, framed in a black flat frame which can be wall hung or freestanding. 12cm x 17cm and 3cm deep.