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SAM describes the work this way:
Echo was modeled on the 9-year old daughter of a restaurant owner near the artist's studio in Barcelona. With computer modeling, Plensa elongates and abstracts the girl's features. The sculpture references Echo, the mountain nymph from Greek mythology. As told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Echo offended the goddess Hera by keeping her engaged in conversation, and preventing her from spying on one of Zeus's amours. To punish Echo, Hera deprived the nymph of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words of another. Plensa created this monumental head of Echo, listening with her eyes closed or in a state of meditation. The artist envisions Echo to look out over Puget Sound in the direction of Mount Olympus.
Projet photographique en ultraviolet, avec la participation d' Anthony Pelé.
Série complète à découvrir sur mon site : www.plferrer.photos/series/echo-urbain/
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Part of an abandoned amusement park turned into an art colony just outside Washington, D.C. Shot with a Mamiya RB67, 50mm Sekor, Kodak TMax 100. Processed in D76 1:1.
jason bruges installation at the onedotzero night transvision at the victoria and albert museum in london. strangely mesmerising and fun...
Union Pacific SD40-2 3212 is seen leading the eastbound Ogden to Echo lecal near Echo, Utah - 23/09/2011
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Echo Park is a historic area close to the downtown LA civic center, The Echo Park Lake where much of the surrounding homes and business were built around was formed as a reservoir in 1868.
Over the ensuing years the reservoir was transformed into a beautiful lake complete with a boathouse in 1932.
In 2006 Echo Park Lake was declared a City of Los Angeles Cultural Historic Monument and for more information about this lake and all the other unique places to be found in the historic Echo Park area check this link: www.historicechopark.org/index.html
In a future shaped by the harsh realities of the climate crisis, deserts have expanded across vast areas of the world. The scarcity of water and relentless drought have rendered the land barren, while devastating wildfires have eradicated vegetation and life. In this new world, where rain has become a rare luxury, new deserts have emerged in what were once fertile regions. Humanity had forgotten that there were once peoples who lived and thrived in the desert—the nomads of the Sahara.
By a remarkable stroke of luck, a large, forgotten library was discovered in the region formerly known as Timbuktu. This discovery became a revelation, a beacon of hope in an otherwise bleak time. The library contained invaluable manuscripts and wisdom from the past, which could unveil the secrets behind the nomads' ability to survive in harsh desert conditions. In the many caves and underground grottos around Timbuktu, ancient documents were unearthed, bringing new knowledge to light.
This photo series explores the rediscovery of this forgotten wisdom, providing a glimpse into how our ancestors navigated life's challenges in the desert. Through these images, ancient truths are brought to life once more, inspiring us to learn from the nomads of the past, as we seek new paths forward in a world grappling with climate change.
In the sands of time, where dunes now rise,
A future unfolds under sunburned skies.
Forgotten whispers of a people long gone,
Nomads who thrived in the desert's dawn.
From Timbuktu's hidden troves they emerge,
Ancient tomes with knowledge to purge.
Beneath the earth, in caves so deep,
The secrets of survival, awake from sleep.
The world once forgot these sun-scorched lands,
But hope rekindles with ink-stained hands.
From parchments brittle, wisdom flows,
As past and present in the desert grows.
Haikus:
Lost in shifting sands,
Ancient voices rise again,
Nomads’ truths untold.
Dust of ages past,
Timbuktu’s wisdom revealed,
Hope in arid lands.
It seems like I always have song lyrics in my head, something to correspond to the place I am at any given time. On my recent trip to Los Angeles, I visited Echo Park and I couldn't stop thinking about a Warren Zevon song, Carmelita .
As an Angelino, Zevon wound references to his city through the song.
I like the ability of an HDR image to create the look of an old hand tinted postcard.
Darfur: It has been ten years since the conflict broke out. Humanitarian needs still run high, while agencies lack independent access.
Photo credit: EU/ECHO
Chats with a child about her artwork, during a visit to the Association to Benefit Children's new Echo Park children and family facility in Harlem.
New York, United States / September 20, 2006
تتحدث مع طفلة عن عملها الفني خلال زيارة إلى المركز الجديد الذي تم إضافته لمؤسسة منفعة الأطفال والمخصص للأطفال وأهاليهم
نيويورك، الولايات المتحده / 20 أيلول 2006
© Royal Hashemite Court
Darfur: It has been ten years since the conflict broke out. Humanitarian needs still run high, while agencies lack independent access. Photo credit: EU/ECHO
A man stands with young boy inside one of several transit tents at the Imvepi refugee settlement in Arua district, located in northwestern Uganda on August 28, 2017.
©EU/ECHO/Edward Echwalu
A green oven. This is priceless to me. I would have taken it with me if I could have.
View large on black.
Echo Lake Incinerator
Fort Worth, Texas
What? A picture where you can actually see Echo's eye(s)? Unheard of!
I may get her Ancient Tales eyes for her good eye because I like the size of those in the FIDs, but for now she's got a Safrin one.
In the cleft between infinities, we hold in hand but echoes of a world whose scale we glimpse but cannot comprehend.
Darfur: It has been ten years since the conflict broke out. Humanitarian needs still run high, while agencies lack independent access.
Photo credit: EU/ECHO
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
Echo Drive-in theater in Roosevelt, Utah one of just a few drive-in's remaining in Utah. Since this theater uses RF transmission to your FM radio for sound there are no speaker poles or lines for parking spaces -- looks a little weird but it has everything else even a small playground in front of the screen.
The weather was perfect in Yantai and there such a relaxing atmosphere with just the right mix of Chinese and English being spoken this was the best day I had in Yantai. More beach pics coming soon.
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circa 1942.
This photograph depicts a specially-painted 5000-class P.C.C. (Presidents' Conference Committee) streamliner heading north on Glendale Blvd. at Echo Park on the Glendale Burbank Line. The special livery was to promote Navy Recruitment and the car was painted blue.
Darfur: It has been ten years since the conflict broke out. Humanitarian needs still run high, while agencies lack independent access. Photo credit: EU/ECHO