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Front of O2 Headquarter - Munich - Germany
O2 is one of the big mobile phone providers in Europe.
The sun stands not perfect, creates an in this case undesirable sunstar and shows the dirt on the windows. It is also difficult to find an uncommon perspective or POV on a simple monolithic cuboid made of glas and steel.
But I think, at all it is an impressive facade worth to be shown.
For my own guess the round windows have a touch of Jules Verne.
Dear friends all over the world: Please take all care of you and stay safe and healthy every time.
Tragedy has struck, my beloved D5600 has developed several faults at once thus I have had to send it back, and it's refund or find another. The LV was completely distorted, the menu screen was faulty and the focus was no longer sharp. Seems the circuitry was starting to fall apart. It'll be at least a week before I hear back from the supplier but they were good enough to pay for the shipping as it was well within the 3 year guarantee.
Thus I decided to go a bit rhetoric 80's whilst digging through my archives, this one I took in 2019 with my old D3400 outside of a technical college in Berlin city. There were these multi coloured cuboids all slowly changing colour, so setting this to a longer exposure time wasn't working, the 1 second was to try and define all the alternative colours, without them blending into one.
I exploded the saturation and was greeted with, having originally tweaked the WB, with a colourful contradiction of dystopia and colours into one.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you!
Beelitz
mit einer Skulptur aus der Serie "Klone" des Bildhauers Marcus Golter
Er sagt dazu: "Ich bündele eine Vielzahl von Köpfen zu Quadern oder Würfeln. Die einen recken ihre Gesichter der Welt entgegen, andere sind fest in ihren Kubus gepresst – wie die Eier in der Schachtel.
Ich türme Janusköpfe übereinander. Die Türme werden immer höher, ich steigere das gefundene Bild ins Monumentale. Das reicht mir aber noch nicht. Teilweise vergolde ich sie – sie sollen auch schön aussehen und verführen. Ich umwickele sie mit irritierenden, bizarren Gebilden aus gegossenem Metall – oder aus Polyester, belegt mit Aluminium. Manche dieser Objekte wirken abstoßend, andere glänzen sehr schön im Licht."
HWW with a sculpture from the "Klone" series by the sculptor Marcus Golter
He says: "I bundle a large number of heads into cuboids or cubes. Some stretch their faces towards the world, others are firmly pressed into their cube - like eggs in a box.
I pile Janus heads on top of each other. The towers keep getting taller, I amplify the image I have found to the monumental. But that's not enough for me. Sometimes I gild them - they should also look beautiful and seduce. I wrap them in irritating, bizarre shapes made of cast metal - or polyester covered with aluminum. Some of these objects are repulsive, others shine beautifully in the light."
Mussorgsky, Bilder einer Ausstellung: Gnomus - Orchester der Hochschule München
Created for the Kreative People Contest "Denim Blues and Leather Brown
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Die Quadratur des Kreises. Da ist ein Loch in der Welt.
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But only a very small hole. At least here in my tiny piece of wood and in my small macro world. Otherwise, unfortunately, it looks just different in the big wide world. We need something like squaring the circle as soon as possible, right?
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Aber nur ein ganz kleines Loch. Jedenfalls hier in meinem winzigen Holzstück und in meiner kleinen Makrowelt. Sonst sieht es gerade leider anders aus in der großen weiten Welt. Da brauchen wir möglichst bald so etwas wie die Quadratur des Kreises, oder?
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Ingredients: square piece of wood (cuboid, 0.43 inches) with a hole as a circle (I found it in the garage a time ago and added it to my collection to my Macro Mondays box – for the little things that you can always use sometimes...) birch bark as a background, glass box as spacer for a bright hole, daylight.
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Zutaten: Quadratisches Holzstück (Quader, 11 mm) mit einem Loch als Kreis (Ich habe es irgendwann in der Garage gefunden und zu meiner Sammlung in meine Macro-Mondays-Kiste dazugefügt – für die kleinen Dinge, die man immer mal gebrauchen kann ...), Birkenrinde als Hintergrund, Glasbox als Abstandshalter für ein helles Loch, Tageslicht.
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Here is a song that inspired me for the title and that we used in my choir as a pre-exercise for singing in – which unfortunately has to fail in these times constantly:
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Hier ein Song, der mich für den Titel inspiriert hat und den wir in meinem Chor immer als Vorübung zum Einsingen verwendet haben – was in diesen Zeiten leider konstant ausfallen muss:
The Eagles / Hole In The World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2lD6EZ7eQ
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#MacroMondays 2020 / July 06 / #SquaredCircle / HMM to everyone!
I took this shot to get a closer look at the bottom left corner of the web on the adjacent shot, and how is had been attached to that lower twig to give the square, our cuboid shape of the overall structure. To think that you could just stumble through that unthinkingly, and destroy it, after all that engineering skill and work.
Macro Mondays - Glass, August 24th 2020
- Laser engraving of dolphins in glass cuboid
(the dimension of the class cuboid is 24x15mm)
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The green color in the eyes comes from the reflection of my strobes. The yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicum) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Recorded occasionally since 2011 in the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea which it likely entered via the Suez Canal. They are known for their cuboid body shape, bright yellow and black spotted coloration, and the secretion of a toxic mucus when threatened.
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Main Tower is a 56-storey, 200 m (656 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is named after the nearby Main River. The building is 240 m (787 ft) when its antenna spire is included.
The tower has five underground floors and two public viewing platforms. It is the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing observatory. It is the 4th tallest building in Frankfurt and the 4th tallest in Germany, tied with Tower 185.
The foyer of the building has two art pieces accessible to the public: the video installation by Bill Viola "The World of Appearances" and the wall mosaic by Stephan Huber "Frankfurter Treppe / XX. Jahrhundert" ( "Frankfurt's Steps/20th century").
The tower's design features what appear to be two connected towers. The smaller of the two is of a cuboid shape and a design common to 1970s architecture. The second and taller of the two towers is a circular tower with an entire blue glass exterior which features the transmission tower on top.
Macro Mondays 9.7.2018 "Electronics Components"
Raspberry Pi B, object width ~1.7 cm
The small cuboids have a length of 2 mm
Focus stack
Delta 400 MZB,
Kallitype on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag,
Sodium citrate developer,
MT10 Gold toner 3 mins after fixing.
Edition of 6 prints 18x18cm on 11x14inch paper 80 EUR.
From another point of view! ;) Sitwellturm
The Sinwell Tower is a historic round tower and a striking part of the Nuremberg Castle (Imperial Castle). The tower's name comes from its cylindrical shape. In Middle High German, “sinwell” means “extremely round.
The tower was built in the second half of the 13th century on a striking rock of the Nuremberg Imperial Castle and is characterized by sandstone humpback cuboids worked at right angles and arranged in a round shape.
The top of the 41 meter[3] high Sinwell Tower is 389 meters above sea level and therefore almost 100 meters above the height of the main market.
Despite this exposed location, the tower was one of the few buildings in the castle complex that survived the air raids in the Second World War.
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Der Sinwellturm ist ein historischer Rundturm und prägnanter Teil der Nürnberger Burg (Kaiserburg). Namensgebend für den Turm ist seine zylindrische Form. Im Mittelhochdeutschen bedeutet „sinwell“ etwa „gewaltig rund.
Er wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts errichtet und zeichnet sich durch rechtwinklig bearbeitete und rund angeordnete Sandsteinbuckelquader aus.
Die Spitze des 41 Meter[3] hohen Sinwellturms liegt 389 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel und damit fast 100 Meter über dem Höhenniveau des Hauptmarkts.
Trotz dieser exponierten Lage überstand der Turm als eines der wenigen Gebäude der Burganlage die Luftangriffe im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
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Back Creek (after some rain) has an Artesian Memorial, Erected in commemoration of the explorative work undertaken by the pioneers of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia, and to the sinking of the first commercial artesian bore in Australia at Back Creek, 38km east of Barcaldine in 1886.
Barcaldine became the first town in Australia to use artesian water for reticulation from the town borehead completed in 1887.
Red River Gum (the Ghosts of the river)
Scientific Name: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, the river red gum, is a tree of the genus Eucalyptus. It is one of around 800 in the genus. It is a plantation species in many parts of the world, but is native to Australia, where it has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, especially beside inland water courses. Oddly, it is named for a private estate garden near the Camaldoli monastery near Naples (L'Hortus Camaldulensis di Napoli), from where the first specimen came to be described. Material from this tree was used by Frederick Dehnhardt, Chief Gardener at the Botanic Gardens in Naples, to describe this species in 1832.
It is a familiar and iconic tree seen along many watercourses right across inland Australia. The tree produces welcome shade in the extreme temperatures of central Australia, and plays an important role in stabilising river banks.
River reds and many other eucalypts have an ominous nickname, "widow maker", as they have a habit of dropping large boughs (often half the diameter of the trunk) without warning.
The species can be found along the banks of watercourses, as well as the floodplains of those watercourses. Due to the proximity to these watercourses, river red gum is subject to regular flooding in its natural habitat. River red gum prefers soils with clay content. The trees not only rely on rainfall but also on regular flooding, since flooding recharges the sub-soil with water.
Hollows start to form at around 120–180 years of age, creating habitat for many wildlife species, including a range of breeding and roosting animals such as bats, carpet pythons, and birds. The dense foliage of the tree also provides shade and shelter from the sun in drier areas.
The superb parrot, a threatened species, is amongst the bird species that nest in the river red gum.
Fertilisation will therefore occur with other flowers on the same tree or other flowers on a different tree. Insects, birds, and small mammals help in the pollination of other flowers.
After flowering, the stamens will detach. The fruit is the part of the flower that remains after fertilisation, which enlarges, dries, and becomes woody. Triangular valves in the fruit will open, dispersing yellow, cuboid seeds. When seeds are shed from a tree, most fall onto the ground below the crown, with some seed carried by the wind and water. Dissemination occurs mostly in spring and summer, while natural flooding occurs during winter and spring. As the tree is inextricably linked with waterways, seed dispersion would logically be facilitated by floodwater.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Der beigefarbene Marmor eignet sich perfekt für die stilvolle Ausgestaltung von Küchen und Badezimmern und seine warme Struktur, die von einer Beimischung an Erzen herrührt, macht den Stein so begehrlich, dass hier allein mehr als 20 Firmen riesige Marmorblöcke aus dem Hang schneiden. In der terrassierten Tiefe sind schwere Gerätschaften im Einsatz, um die tonnenschweren Quader zu zersägen und auf LKW zu laden. Ziel ist hauptsächlich der asiatische Raum und Russland, aber auch in arabische Länder wird der edle Stein anschließend verschifft.
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The beige marble is perfect for the stylish design of kitchens and bathrooms and its warm structure, which comes from an admixture of ores, makes the stone so desirable that more than 20 companies cut huge blocks of marble from the slope here alone. Heavy equipment is used in the terraced depths to saw the multi-ton cuboids and load them onto trucks. The destination is mainly the Asian region and Russia, but the precious stone is also then shipped to Arab countries.
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Gemeinsames Diptychon-Projekt von www.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/
und Manfred Geyer, Juni 2020
Berlin, Westhafen (Ute Kluge)
Aachen, St. Fronleichnam, Januar 2015 (Manfred Geyer)
Das neue Hotel de Ville von Montpellier liegt im Stadtteil Port Marianne und vereint nicht nur die meisten kommunalen Dienstleistungen, sondern ist auch ein Knotenpunkt, der in der Stadt eine neue urbane Dimension verleihen soll , indem man um sie herum Büros, Geschäfte und Wohnungen baut. Der Quader ist 40 Meter hoch, 50 breit und 90 Meter lang, ruht auf einem dem Fluss zugewandten Wasserspiegel, seine Fläche beträgt 27.000 m² auf 12 Ebenen. Es beherbergt 960 Gemeindebeamte in 500 Büros und hat 1300 m² Photovoltaik-Module auf dem Dach installiert. Sein Architekt Jean Nouvel (zusammen mit François Fontès) wollte, dass es offen und transparent ist, vertikal durch Innenhöfe und horizontal durch Hohlräume hervorgehoben wird, die den Blick auf den Park und den Fluss freigeben. Als nachhaltiges Gebäude beherbergt das Hotel de Ville ein Photovoltaik-Kraftwerk, das die Dachpaneele und die Brise-Soleils integriert, die die Fassaden schützen.
Located in the Port Marianne district in the southern part of Montpellier, the new town hall not only brings together most of the municipal services, but is also a hub designed to bring a new urban dimension to the city by building offices, shops and flats around it. The cuboid is 40 metres high, 50 wide and 90 metres long, resting on a water table facing the river, its surface area is 27,000 m² on 12 levels. It houses 960 municipal officials in 500 offices and has 1300 m² of photovoltaic panels installed on the roof. Its architect Jean Nouvel (with François Fontès) wanted it to be open and transparent, highlighted vertically by interior courtyards and horizontally by voids that open up views of the park and the river. As a sustainable building, the Hotel de Ville houses a photovoltaic power plant that integrates the roof panels and the brise-soleils that protect the façades.
Source: ArchiDiAP
The Samanid mausoleum is located in a park just outside the historic urban center of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The mausoleum is considered to be one of the most highly esteemed work of Central Asian architecture, and was built between 892 and 943 CE as the resting-place of Ismail Samani - a powerful and influential amir of the Samanid dynasty, one of the last native Persian dynasties that ruled in Central Asia in the 9th and 10th centuries, after the Samanids established virtual independence from the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. In addition to Ismail Samani, the mausoleum also houses the remains of his father Ahmed and his nephew Nasr, as well as the remains of other members of the Samanid dynasty.
The monument marks a new era in the development of Persian and Central Asian architecture, which was revived after the Arab conquest of the region. The overall structure is made similar to ancient Persian fire temples, commonly known as chartaqi in Persian. The architects continued to use an ancient tradition of baked brick construction, but to a much higher standard than had been seen before. The site is unique for its architectural style which combines both Zoroastrian motifs from the native Sogdian and Sassanid cultures, as well as Islamic motifs introduced from Arabia and Persia.
The building's facade is covered in intricately decorated brick work, which features circular patterns reminiscent of the sun - a common image in Zoroastrian art from the region at that time which is reminiscent of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda, who is typically represented by fire and light. The building's shape is cuboid, and reminiscent of the Ka'aba in Makkah, while the heavy corner buttresses are derived from Sogdian architectural styles. The syncretic style of the shrine is reflective of the 9th and 10th centuries - a time when the region still had large populations of Zoroastrians who had begun to convert to Islam around that time.
The height of the shrine is approximately 35 feet, with four identically designed facades which gently slope inwards with increasing height. The building's architectural engineers included four internal arches for support, upon which the dome is placed. The building's "four arch" design was adopted for use in several shrines throughout Central Asia. At the top of each side of the shrine are ten small windows which provided ventilation for the interior portion of the mausoleum.
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Bangkok: Silom skyline again
Wikipedia: MahaNakhon (Thai: มหานคร) is a luxury mixed-use skyscraper, located in the Silom/Sathon central business area of Bangkok, Thailand. Designed to fit into the Thai landscape with a unique pixelated facade, it features the unconventional appearance of a glass curtain walled square tower with a cuboid-surfaced spiral cut into the side of the building. Following transfer of the first residential units in April 2016, it has been recognized as the tallest building in Thailand on 4 May by CTBUH at 314.2 metres (1,031 ft), with 77 floors . Featuring hotel, retail and residences, 200 units of The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bangkok inside the building are priced between around US$1,100,000 to US$17,000,000, making it one of the most expensive condominiums in Bangkok.
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
Soundscape in a walk through the monument
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Holocaust Memorial in short, in the historic center of Berlin commemorates the approximately 6 million Jews who were murdered under the rule of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists.
The memorial, designed by Peter Eisenman, consists of 2711 cuboid concrete stelae. It was built between 2003 and spring 2005 on an area of about 19,000 m² south of the Brandenburg Gate. Inaugurated on May 10, 2005, it has been open to the public since May 12, 2005.
This statue made of rectangles struck me as I walked around London. Called 'Resolution' by Antony Gormley on the Corner of St. Bride Street and Shoe Lane, it was installed in 2007. I tried to find interesting angles and settled on this composition. I needed someone to walk into the frame and it took ages - it was a Saturday with no workers around and the whole place was deserted. In my mind the emptiness of the scene with just the one figure walking past in the background resonated with the permanent and enduring nature of the statue, standing like a sentinel, more kin to the modern glass building than to any life that passes by. Unfortunately the front view was somewhat spoiled by someone with a sense of humour sticking a cigarette in his cuboid mouth and he was also wearing a condom. I'm afraid I didn't fancy removing it as I wasn't sure if he'd got lucky... Canon EOS 6D & EF 28-80mm f/2.8-4.0L
Glistening sea from the caldera cliff at Fira on Santorini (or Thira) in the Aegean Sea. A island formed in the caldera since its last eruption is visible together with examples of the cuboid dwellings typical of Santorini.
Noodling around with Sculptris and Hexagon 3D to assemble the new inhabitants of a sim re-build. :-)
After a flock of sheep crosses the Danube on the bridge near Donaustauf, they move on to the next pasture. Right next to the bridge is the steel artwork "Ring mit Stab", which was created by one of Germany's most important visual artists, Alf Lecher. The artist consistently works with the basic geometric shapes of circle, straight line, square, rectangle and cuboid. His steel sculptures are considered provocative due to their apparent simplicity, in keeping with the motto "I can do that too". Alf Lechner's works of art can be found throughout Germany, but also in Saudi Arabia. The Alf Lechner Museum in Ingolstadt is dedicated to his work.
Nachdem eine Schafherde auf der Brücke bei Donaustauf die Donau überquert hat, zieht sie zur nächsten Weide. Direkt neben der Brücke steht das Stahlkunstwerk “Ring mit Stab”, das von einem der bedeutendsten bildenden Künstlern Deutschlands, Alf Lecher, gestaltet wurde. Der Künstler beschäftigt sich konsequent mit den geometrischen Grundformen Kreis, Gerade, Quadrat, Rechteck und Quader. Seine Stahlplastiken gelten wegen ihrer scheinbaren Einfachheit als Provokation, nach dem Motto „Das kann ich auch“. Die Kunstwerke von Alf Lechner sind in ganz Deutschland, aber auch in Saudi-Arabien zu finden. In Ingolstadt widmet sich das Alf Lechner Museum seinem Werk.
Text hautpsächlich aus dem "Mitteilungsblatt der Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Donaustauf." Verändert und übersetzt.