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This clock was damaged when the A-bomb was exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02 local time on 9th August 1945.
The bomb used 6.4kg of Plutonium and had an explosive power equivalent to 21 thousand tons of TNT. Between 40,000 and 80,000 people were killed.
The Clock Tower in the centre of Brighton has been draped in clothes by one of Finland’s leading artists, Kaarina Kaikkonen, as part of this year’s Brighton Festival. You can just see the clock faces peering out beneath dozens of shirts! The Brighton Festival runs until 26th May and you can find out more here brightonfestival.org/ For more information on the artist and her work at the festival, go to www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Artist-s-Statement-...
RESTORE!! (This was one of my New Year's "guidelines," to restore or repair old things and make them new again). I took an old clock that I have had since about 1967 and made it over into something quite different. It might be gaudy for some, but I like how it matches the multi-colored frames on my nightstand now.
Basically I cleaned up the old hardware and scraped old glue, then painted the wood parts of the clock gold. I then attached glass crystals in various sizes and colors to make something that looks like it could come from the thieves' cave that Ali Baba visits (or so I tell myself).
While I did this I watched the uncut version of 1954's "The Egyptian," directed by Michael Curtiz. OMG what a long and melodramatic movie!!! I saw it years ago but I had forgotten most of it.
We wanted a new clock that was readable from our garden. After an exhaustive search we ended up buying a "hands only' mechanism and the necessary numbers/letters to create a (probably) unique clock.
credit for design goes to my beloved, credit for painting etc goes to me.
To save anyone asking; the 1000 is 8 in Binary & the A is 10 in Hexadecimal ;-)
#77 Quirky / Unusual for 116 pictures in 2016
St. Michael's Cathedral (Roman Catholic), a major landmark in the very heart of Cluj / Kolozsvár / Klausenburg, Transylvania, Romania.
This one was really a race against time, but I've made it! "More Properties" says:
Taken on: January 26, 2009 at 11.24pm EET
Posted to Flickr: January 26, 2009 at 11.59pm EET
Therefore I didn't break the rules: take one picture a day, and post it that day, before midnight. (Descriptions may lag a bit behind, but they always do follow. :D)
These are my own rules on this personal 365-days project (I'm not a member of any flickr-365 type of groups) so I should better stick to them. haha
This shot doesn't look so good right off the thumbnail, so I don't expect as many random visitors as for my sushi shots, for example. Pictures of food are a special language, that speaks directly to the stomach. Church towers and clocks, on the other hand, are not so edible and enticing... Still I keep my hopes up, because I've worked for this one, in even harder conditions (an hour outside in the cold) than for the previous sushi shots. Okay, we've got some relatively warm days (+8 Centigrade) these days, so it wasn't *that* bad.
I've spent about two hours resetting my HTC Windows Mobile PDA phone to factory defaults, then reinstalling everything from scratch. The resetting itself went quite quickly and without major events, in about 15 minutes. Now I can say "I've reinstalled Windows on my cellphone". haha But then putting back zillions of configuration settings, and reinstalling some of my favourite programs and gadgets took ages, and I'm still not done completely. And my contact list is still empty, will have to synchronize it from my old phone, via Outlook.
Insane as it is... my phone died and did all kind of crazy wrong stuff for some 2-3 days last week. Maybe it got a power spike one night while it was charging, I've got no other explanation for this, as now it is back to normal, and works better than ever, without a glich. Last I went to the Vodafone store it came from, and wanted to fully replace it. They didn't want to, they wanted to service it instead, that could have taken 2 weeks or so. Just imagine two weeks with some small crappy dumb phone from their swap pool, without my numbers and contacts.
But now, this phone has made a fool out of me... I went back, argued with them a lot about my rights to replacement as I was still marginally in a 30-day period. Now I'm gonna have to go back and tell them that it's okay, the phone now works like a charm, everything seems to be just fine. So how will I look now?!?! (I can almost hear them saying "this guy is completely nuts, and a such major nuisance".) ^_^
But enough rambling and ranting for now. I thing I'm going to call this thing a flog, as in a flickr blog, or photoblog. I don't have the time to keep both things going separately. That would take hours every day, which would be quite insane. Therefore, I will just type my thoughts right under the day's picture, whoever wants to read them, there they are. Otherwise, they can just look at the day's shot and browse further, so everyone's happy. :)
I'm so sad, people don't seem to like this shot, I've got only 3 views in 90 minutes. If we go on like this, I will be forced to photograph only popular subjects and spectacular scenes, definitely missing out the whole point of this project, which I would call "fragments of life and a world" or something like that. Anyway, I will finish my description, and tell you a few things about this church I have pictured. (well, part of it.)
A landmark in the center of Cluj, Unirii Square, formerly Libertatii Square -- "Freedom Square" -- in Communist times, before December 1989, go figure, can you smell the irony here. :)
It is the second largest church in Transylvania by the surface, second after The Black Church of Brasov. It has the highest church tower in Transylvania, 76 meters, 80m with cross included.
They've started to build it in 1316 AD, and the whole process lasted for more than a century. Large churches required lots of stone and materials, a lot of manpower, not to mention substantial funds. Therefore, they've done a lot of collecting, and had it built in small steps, calling it finished around 1442-1444 AD.
The tower was built only later, between 1511-1545 AD, but it got badly damaged in a 1697 fire. They had it demolished along with a very damaged chapel in 1730, (the church itself stayed more or less intact) and then rebuilt again from scratch between 1837-1862. So that's what you see picutred here.
After the Reformation, the curch got taken over by Protestants in 1545 and Unitarians from 1566 to 1716, then it got rightfully returned to the Pope's Roman Catholic Church.
There used to be five bells in the tower, but three of them got melted into cannons in 1917. In 1924, craftsman Friedrich Honig from Arad made some new bells to replace the ones lost to making WWI cannons.
The church organ was made in 1763 by German craftsman Johannes Hahn from Sibiu / Nagyszeben / Hermannstadt. These German (Sachsen) craftsmen were very well known for their skills in technology, ranging from locks and clocks to all sorts of musical instruments. They've made a great contribution to the technological advancement of Transylvania ever since the middle ages.
After WWII, during Communist times, a large part of the German minority of Transylvania has fled back to Germany. I've heard that (please confirm) dictator Ceausescu was actually selling the Germans back to Germany, for sums like 800-1200 german marks per capita, based on an "unofficial agreement" with the German authorities, to let the Sachsen go and repatriate. That's how most of them managed to get away, leaving entire villages empty and beautiful old Saxon (Sas / Szász / Sachsen) houses abandoned in some of the major cities. A few of them remained, and again some of them got mixed up and absorbed into the local population.
Therefore we are a mix of Romanians, Hungarians and Germans here (that's why I often put up names in R / H / G format), plus a few more lesser minorities, all in a great melting pot, pretty good for a fresh and healthy gene pool! :)
That's Transylvania... and a lot more. You're going to see how everything falls into place further down the road I'm planning to take you on.
P.S.: 8 views in about 3 hours? Okay, tomorrow I'll have to try and find something more popular. We'll see what we can put our lens on, then...
The large early medieval dial of the Exeter Astronomical Clock is a working model of the solar system as it was then understood. The sun and moon circle around the earth at the centre of the dial.
The outermost black disc, decorated with fleur-de-lys, represents the sun. It goes round the dial once every 24 hours, pointing outwards to the time of day. The tail of the fleur-de-lys points to the day in the lunar month on the inner ring. The ball inside the lunar month ring represents the moon with half its surface black and half silver. It rotates on its axis to show the correct phase of the moon.
The fixed golden ball in the centre of the dial represents the earth.
Exeter Cathedral
This clock in the entrance to Cardiff Market has seen better times. It must have looked good when the neon lighting was working.
this was pretty easy to build, just drilled a hole through the motherboard. I'm going to try to drill a hole through the cpu that was on this motherboard, but it might be a little tough!
Clocks just ask to be photographed. They're like cameras, so many models made through the years. Love the bokeh on this lens.
Shot with the Nikon FM 35mm camera loaded with Kentmere 100 asa film developed in Ilfosol3 for 7.5 minutes at 68F.
This Bluefield Town Clock stands at the intersection of Bland and Federal Streets in Downtown Bluefield West Virginia.
Not available for manipulation or reproduction.
Please don't use this image without my permission.
link back to the image and credit me: Ali Tweel - www.about.me/alitweel.