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The Book. (This is the interior title page, and not the front cover.)
While it marks the end of my thesis, the project isn't actually complete yet: I still need to flesh out some wireframes and begin user testing and refinement, and then actually implement it. And someday I really do hope to do so...it's still too soon, though, and I really need some time away from it before continuing and completing it. The topic is near and dear to my heart, but I kind of burned myself out on Japan and the JET Programme at the end. :)
(Colophon: the typefaces used were AW Conqueror Sans and Garamond. I must confess to being hooked on Conqueror Sans; there are some fantastic free typefaces available these days. This copy will live in the School of Design thesis archives, where nobody will ever look at it again, so I just had it printed and bound at my neighborhood Kinko's. Soon I'll be printing (hopefully nicer) copies for my advisor and myself.)
A closer view of the path of I-485 meeting the I-85/I-485 interchange project in northeast Mecklenburg County.
25 members of the tenth year cohort of the Aboriginal Youth Internship Program (AYIP) celebrated the completion of their 12-month program at a ceremony in Victoria, BC.
With the successful completion of the first project, the CBK,
dS + V, Alderman Lucas Bolsius, the WBR and the counsel of
Kralingen-Crooswijk commissioned the Ubehave Foundation for a cariffiti based project for the Graffitibriljanten project in Rotterdam.
The theme of this second project is “Idols and Icons ‘
resulting in two murals on the passage Sophiakade – Berkelplein in
Kralingen Rotterdam. The two murals of 10 x 10 m giving a total of 32
portraits of idols and icons from the past decades: from Gandhi to
2Pac Shakur and Muhammad Ali to Johan Cruyff.
The main goal of this project is to create new impulses in the neigherborhood.
Not only the works themselves, but even more through cooperation
between artists and youths.
Produced by the artists for this project Cariffiti composite group,
comprising:
Ras Elijah: Artist from Curacao. Has global
experience in making murals for, among other
bars, restaurants and shops.
Meres: Graffiti artist from Queens, New York City. Manages 5
Pointz (formerly known as the Phun Factory), where a pilot for over 15 years legal
graffiti may be written.
Nina Valkhoff: Dutch creative lady from a well known rotterdams artists nest has several murals in Rotterdam
and its surroundings under her belt.
Ken Kenetic: visual artist was responsible for the composition and making sure the composition was fit/measured/aligned on the loose panels
You know it was bound to happen. I lost the drill bit in the planter. How many bent over girls does it take to find a drill bit? 2...we found it, no worries.
With the successful completion of the first project, the CBK,
dS + V, Alderman Lucas Bolsius, the WBR and the counsel of
Kralingen-Crooswijk commissioned the Ubehave Foundation for a cariffiti based project for the Graffitibriljanten project in Rotterdam.
The theme of this second project is “Idols and Icons ‘
resulting in two murals on the passage Sophiakade – Berkelplein in
Kralingen Rotterdam. The two murals of 10 x 10 m giving a total of 32
portraits of idols and icons from the past decades: from Gandhi to
2Pac Shakur and Muhammad Ali to Johan Cruyff.
The main goal of this project is to create new impulses in the neigherborhood.
Not only the works themselves, but even more through cooperation
between artists and youths.
Produced by the artists for this project Cariffiti composite group,
comprising:
Ras Elijah: Artist from Curacao. Has global
experience in making murals for, among other
bars, restaurants and shops.
Meres: Graffiti artist from Queens, New York City. Manages 5
Pointz (formerly known as the Phun Factory), where a pilot for over 15 years legal
graffiti may be written.
Nina Valkhoff: Dutch creative lady from a well known rotterdams artists nest has several murals in Rotterdam
and its surroundings under her belt.
Ken Kenetic: visual artist was responsible for the composition and making sure the composition was fit/measured/aligned on the loose panels
Unveiling of Precinct Plaque.
From right :CCC Chairman Mr Goh Chee Koh, MPs for Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC Ms Penny Low, Dr Ahmad Magad and Guest-of-Honour Deputy Prime Minister Mr Teo Chee Hean
From left :Punggol Grove RC Chairman Mr Koh Lin Wei, CEO Dr Cheong Koon Hean, MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC Mr Charles Chong and Minister for National Development Mr Mah Bow Tan
Improving Degree Completion for 21st Century Students
A Federal Role in Credit Transfer and Metro Region Policy
October 28, 2010, 9:00am – 11:00am
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/10/metroed.html
The Obama administration has set an aggressive goal for the United States to retake global leadership in postsecondary degree attainment by 2020. The president's goals will require the highly decentralized system of 4,600 colleges and universities to increase productivity dramatically. Productivity, as measured by the number of degrees produced, can be improved by ensuring that students who transfer, an increasingly common phenomenon, retain as much college credit as possible as well as better aligning postsecondary policy with key cross-state metropolitan areas that drive regional and national economic growth.
The concentration of population and economic resources in metropolitan regions makes them engines of America's competitiveness, but many metros cross state boundaries, creating inefficiencies in terms of increased tuition costs, difficulty of transfer and even duplication of fixed costs as states compete for higher education supremacy. Policies that help ease the college-going of metro residents can also help reduce the costs and increase effectiveness of postsecondary education.
The Makah tribe celebrated the completion of a new state-of-the-art dock that can withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami wave of 15 feet. It has five offloading hoists, including an industrial one that can life 10 tons, largely aimed at oil response and rescue vessels that need to move heavy equipment. A 100-ton capacity ice machine will alleviate one of the pressing problems of the old facility and the ability for up to two semi-trucks to pass will improve traffic flow as well. More than 50 percent of the people of Neah Bay rely on fishing in some way and the catch is valued at between $7 and $10 million each year.
Captured at 9:45pm a few minutes after Io had just completed its transit of Jupiter and is visible just to the right of the planet, next to the Southern Equatorial Belt.
Io's shadow on the SEB, approximately 55% through its transit.
Captured at 1024x768 @ 10fps. 500 frames processed with Registax 6.
Built in 1912, this Beaux Arts-style 14-story skyscraper was designed by Esenwein and Johnson and Edward B. Green. Inspired by the landmark centerpiece of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition and the Pharos Lighthouse that was a wonder of the ancient world in Alexandria, Egypt, the tower became the tallest building in Buffalo upon its completion, surpassing the earlier St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, which had been Buffalo’s tallest building since 1851, and remained the tallest building until the Liberty Building was built in 1925. The building originally was home to the Buffalo General Electric Company after which it was named, and was expanded with seven-story additions to the east and northeast of the original building in 1924-1927, designed by Edward B. Green and Sons, and a three-story addition to the roof of the building’s original east wing. The building was renovated in the 1930s, adding several Art Deco elements to the building’s interior. The building utilized electric lighting to help it stand out on the city’s skyline, and housed a series of local electrical utility companies, with Buffalo General Electric being absorbed into Niagara Hudson, and eventually becoming Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, remaining in the building until they sold it in 2003. The building’s lobby and office spaces were altered between the 1970s and 1990s in a series of renovations attempting to modernize the space, covering up and removing several decorative elements, while the exterior terra cotta was treated with care and repaired or replaced in a long-term maintenance program.
The building features two seven-story wings forming a “podium” to the east of the tower, which feature large banks o windows, pilasters, white terra cotta cladding, simple cornices, and storefronts along Genesee Street and part of Huron Street, with a light well capped by a skylight sitting in the middle of this section of the building. The most iconic part of the structure, however, is the octagonal white terra cotta-clad tower that rises from the corner of Washington Street and Huron Street, which features a tripartite composition to the main section, and a spire on top. The base features large arched bays with storefronts surrounded by decorative trim and featuring metal mullions and spandrels, with the most decorative trim being at the bay on the Genesee Street side of the tower, which projects from the building and features a rooftop terra above flanked by decorative margents, with all of the openings at the base featuring decorative keystones with wreaths. Additionally, decorative multi-globe metal lampposts flank the main entrance. Above this, the building features four window bays per side flanked by common pilasters an featuring terra cotta spandrels with triglyphs and roman lattice motif, with larger pilasters at the corners, terminating at massive oversized headers at the top of the thirteenth floor windows, with large decorative keystones featuring wreaths. Above this are five smaller recessed windows on each side of the fourteenth floor, flanked by large margents, with the capitals of the pilasters featuring decorative trim including smaller margents, and half-sphere caps atop the pilasters, with the parapets on each side featuring rounded middle sections and terra cotta caps. Above the fourteenth floor is the building’s two-story spire, which features doric columns at the corners with margents and egg and dart motif at the capitals on the first level, ionic columns with margents at the corners of the second level, large roman lattice screens on each side of the levels, decorative terra cotta cladding, keystones with argents, cornices with dentils, parapets with square sections above the columns and arched sections over the windows with margents, and low-slope roofs around the base of each level of the spire, with each level getting smaller and having a setback as the building gets taller. At the top, the building is crowned with a domed terra cotta open lantern with corinthian columns and pilasters, a cornice with dentils, ribbed dome with festoons, and a copper finial with a cylindrical lower section and a spherical upper section.
The building’s interior was partially restored after it was purchased by developers in 2004, and features Art Deco elements in the lobby, including aluminum trim and doors, plaster medallions on the ceilings, geometric motifs, stone cladding on the walls, decorative plaster trim at the transition between the ceilings and walls, an aluminum letterbox, chrome grilles, terrazzo floors, and a restored second-story balcony ringed by an Art Deco railing, creating an octagonal two-story space in the middle of the lobby with chrome wall sconces and light fixtures, art deco ceiling ornament, and a staircase with an art deco railing being present in this space as well. The lobby was partially modernized as part of the renovation, but any remaining historic material was maintained and reproduced to create a more cohesive visual character in the space. Additionally, the building features an intact original staircase with a Beaux Arts-style railing, Beaux Arts-style board rooms with intact original wooden paneling and trim on the walls, plaster ceilings with decorative plasterwork trim, plaster grilles, wall sconces, and a Classical Revival-style board room in one of the wings added in the 1920s, which features corinthian pilasters, wooden paneling, a decorative fireplace surround, and an arcade made up of wooden arches supported by wooden doric columns. The remnants of a photo room can be found on the fourteenth floor, which was originally the men’s lounge and steam room, with the space now being occupied by mechanical equipment. The remnants of a small lecture hall remain in the form of a concrete stage and concrete risers within the fifteenth floor, one of the spaces within the lantern, though structural elements added in 1995 during building renovations now cut through the space. This room now functions as utility space for the building. The interior was further modified in the conversion of the building to apartments in the 2000s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, and is presently owned by the Iskalo Development Company, and today is home to a variety of commercial office tenants. The building today is regularly lit up with various colored lights to commemorate special events, and is where the Buffalo Ball Drop is held on New Years Eve each year. The building remains the 7th tallest building in Buffalo, today succeeded by several towers built in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as those built later in the 1960s and 1970s. The building anchors the east side of Roosevelt Square.
Governor Phil Murphy announces the completion of construction for the Interchange 14A Improvement Project in Bayonne on May 21, 2018. OIT/Governor's Office.
My Schmidt coupling Meccanograph ,now complete is posed for its pictures. In our rather nice conservatory
**Following wallpaper removal, Sherwin Williams Multi-Purpose Oil Base Primer (White) was used on all walls for surface preparation
Paneled Ceilings (Wood Paneling):
Company: Sherwin Williams
Product and Color Name: Pro Mar 200 - Ultra White
Finish: Flat
Long Beams of Wood on Ceiling (perpendicular to Paneling):
Company: Sherwin Williams
Product and Color Name: Superpaint - Ultra White
Finish: Semi Gloss
** All Doors, Door Frames, Windows, Window Frames and Baseboards completed in the Superpaint Semi Gloss as well
Walls:
Company: Restoration Hardware (King of Prussia, PA)
Product and Color Name: Customer Selected Product and Color (Available Upon Request)
Finish: Matte
Interestingly, the original building dated from 1981 which was the 'Chinese Year of the Rooster'. Now this one is also dating from the 'Chinese Year of the Rooster' too!
1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 and so on are the Chinese Years of the Rooster.
Completion
Legs 90%
Torso 95%
Head 100% :D
Arms 25% :|
The transformation for the head is a simple sliding mechanism, which is vastly more space efficient and sturdy than trying to articulate it out of the chest any other way. The head sculpt is based on my Nova head design with heavy modification to beef it up and style it for this transformer. I wish I could add more volume to the legs but there's literally nowhere to get it from, unless I thicken the bed. The feet worked out really really well and are fully articulated. Now to finish the "sports car" arms, I expect to get the whole thing done in a week.
Mercer Corridor Project’s Substantial Completion
In August 2015, the West Phase of the Mercer Corridor Project reached substantial completion – meaning all major closures and improvements to the corridor are complete! All that remains is a localized closure on Roy St. and some low-key maintenance items with associated lane closures around the area, including landscaping, striping, and a few repairs.
Stitched Panorama
To celebrate completion of the first week of my Fall Semester I made a late Friday trip down to Alviso to check out Salt Ponds A6 and A8. These ponds lie just west of Alviso and have been opened to tidal flow in the last year.
I was able to visit Salt Pond A6 (the Knapp Tract) a year ago to photograph the pre-breach condition of the pond. It was an interesting landscape for a variety of reasons. The pond had been in disuse and its bottom had been taken over as a breeding ground by tens of thousands of California Gulls. The scene provided interesting ground textures with the added bonus that you could see the earthwork preparations for the upcoming levee breach.
Salt Pond A8 was a different scene. A year ago this pond was not dry but filled with water in a way that was visually complex. From the ground it looked like a large pond. But from above it was clear that the upper layer of the pond was clear fresh water (I assume rain water) while a couple of feet below the surface the water appeared to have higher salinity and the mid-green, turbid color of halophiles. This murky green water conformed to the deepest areas such as old marsh channels and borrow ditches. The effect was photographically interesting.
Fast-forward to the current day and Salt Pond A8 is still filled with water but it is now managed tidal flow. This new water is also turbid – with sediment not halophiles – and causes the pond to have a uniformity that is less interesting to photograph. On the other hand, Salt Pond A6 has made a more interesting transformation from dry abandoned pond to a place that fills and empties with the tides every day. It seems much transformed as seen from the air and is already accumulating sediment.
This set also includes views of Salt Pond A7 and its large crop of Cyanobacteria as well as Alviso Slough and the A ponds on its other side.