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Here is the crease pattern for my recent "escape" model.
As you can see, the structure is a mix of box-pleating (for the creature arms), 22.5° lines (for the octagonal well), and a tessellation (Momotani's wall, for the well's bricks).
I do not suggest anyone to try this, but if you decide to do it, I'm not gonna stop you!
Just a modern office fire escape and not my usual kind of subject but the colour, texture and shapes caught my eye.
Nice optical illusion here - the centre pole really is straight !
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
- Clifford D. Simak
I had forgotten Simak until I found this quote. I remember liking his books when I was much younger, so it is time to revisit. Or maybe I shouldn't...I have been laughing at Star Trek TNG lately.
As always, a special thanks to all of you who drop by to look, comment and fave!
I was surprised at all the fire escapes in San Francisco. So I took a few picks and gave them a B&W treatment!
Is what this is.
Freedom is on the way. ;)
Day .363.
I will be around soon! Apologies in advance! ;)
Santa Monica, CA
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
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Hey Flickr! It feels good to be back after a very long hiatus. Now I'm back with a vengeance! LOL Got New gear and got lots of time to shoot! This is my first digital post after being on the "analog" phase for a while but I still love film/lomo so don't expect me to quit posting those... =) Looking forward to reconnecting to all of my great contacts and hopefully meeting new ones! I'm still thinking of a project to do for 2010... so all your suggestions are welcome.. Happy Flickering!
The joys of researching can tire even in a skirt! I'm a bit off in this picture as I kept being bombed by a spiny tree!
Antrim town lies just to the right, and yet you enter another world on his side of the wall. Antrim Castle Gardens.
Having seen a few of these done brilliantly I had to have a go myself, and found it easier than I thought. My friend had no idea this was being taken, as he was concentrating on his own camera. I thought his pose was perfect for this. The others I've seen had people escaping from the photo, I wanted to create the impression he had just stepped into it.
Kuwait - Alamiry Abandoned Hospital
it was a great feeling to feel fear there in the abandoned hospital , it was even abandoned before 1990 when there was the big fire where many people died in the fire , when I was there I was imagining the hospital when it was alive , I almost lived there !
and this chair is just amazing and looking at it makes you feel strange , its a wheelchair without wheels , it needs two people to carry the one sitting on it !
Nikkor 14-24
Nikon D3
A sneaky way through the snow maze at Voyageur Winter Carnival.
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Fire escapes in the loop, Chicago. Best viewed large.
NOTE: This photo made it into Flickr's 'Explore" as one of the top five hundred most interesting photos on a particular day, which makes me somewhat sad as the actual resulting photos didn't make it, ha! You can see all of my photo's that have made it into the Flickr Explore pages here.
A couple of weekends ago I popped up to London to visit friends. They know of my passion for all things medieval and took me to Leeds Castle in Kent. Wow. There cannot be many castles so infused with light as that. The castle, completely surrounded by a substantial lake, was filled with light inside with the daylight reflected back up and into the rooms in a way I have never seen before.
This isn't the castle. this is the maze.
This shot marks the end of my employment with my current practice and the launch of my own business. It is nowhere near the best time to be doing something as crazy as this, but I am excited about prospects.
Consequently if anyone is interested in a new-build moated house I am available!
U-Bahn station Hallesches Tor (in English: "Halle Gate") one of Berlin’s first metro stations, with the U-Bahn line U3 approaching, City of Berlin, Germany
Some background information:
The Berlin U-Bahn is a rapid transit system in the city of Berlin. Together with the S-Bahn, a network of suburban train lines, and a tram network that operates mostly in the eastern parts of the city, it serves as the main means of transport in the capital. Opened in 1902, the U-Bahn serves 175 stations spread across nine lines, with a total track length of 155.4 kilometres (96 miles), about 80% of which is underground.
Hallesches Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn station in the central Kreuzberg quarter, served by lines U1, U3, and U6. It is named after the historic Hallesches Tor of the Berlin Customs Wall, erected in the 18th century. The U1 and U3 platforms, on an elevated railway at the northern banks of the Landwehr Canal, opened on 18th February 1902 with Berlin's first U-Bahn line from Stralauer Tor to Potsdamer Platz. The underground U6 platform was finished on 30th January 1923, linked by a pedestrian tunnel. Even today, changing from one platform to the other is quite a long distance.
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it also the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. Berlin’s urban area has even a population of 4.7 million, while its metropolitan area of more than 5.3 million, which makes it the European Union’s third most populous city, according to population within the metropolitan area. The city of Berlin is also one of Germany's sixteen constituent states. Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital.
Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree river, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the rivers Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Mueggelsee. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals, and lakes.
In 1237, the town of Koelln, which was situated on an river island of the Spree and nowadays is a central part of Berlin, was first mentioned in a document. In 1244, also the town of Berlin was documented first, which was located on the northeastern bank of the river Spree. However, archaeological excavations have proven that both settlements, which sat at the crossing of two important trade routes, already existed in the 12th century. Subsequently both towns grew together.
In 1356, the Margarviate of Brandenburg became an electorate and in 1417, Berlin became its capital. In 1539, prince-elector Joachim II Hector from the reigning House of Hohenzollern established the reformation in Berlin, which was accepted peacefully by the city’s inhabitants. But the Thirty Years’ War from 1618 to 1648 had devastating consequences for Berlin. One third of all houses was damaged and the number of citizens was halved.
In 1640, Frederick William, popularly known as the "Great Elector", took the government business over from his father. Just one year later, the suburbs of Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt were founded. Prince-elector Frederick William also pursued a policy of immigration and religious tolerance. Jewish families from Austria were rehomed in Berlin and Huguenots from France were invited, 5,000 of which settled in the city. A lot of immigrants also came from Poland, Bohemia and the state of Salzburg, which belonged to the Bavarian Circle at that time. Finally, Frederick William converted the town into a fortress with altogether 13 bastions.
When Frederick I was crowned King of Prussia in 1701, Berlin became Prussia’s capital. After the towns of Berlin, Koelln, Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt had finally merged in 1709, the total population climbed to 55,000. In the course of the 18th century, Berlin evolved into a centre of Enlightenment. After Prussia had been defeated by the French under Napoleon in 1806, King Frederick William III fled to the city of Königsberg in the very east of Prussia. Shortly afterwards the city was occupied by French troops, which stayed until 1808.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution reached Berlin with all its might. Many new factories popped up outside the city walls and new important companies like Siemens, Borsig and AEG were founded. Hence, also new working class quarters emerged. Berlin was soon considered as an industrial city and the dire living conditions of the workers fostered the formation of a very strong working-class movement.
When Germany became an empire in 1871 and the Prussian King William I became its first emperor, the Prussian capital Berlin was naturally designated the capital of the new German Empire. In 1877, Berlin’s total population exceeded one million, and in 1905, the city already had two million inhabitants. After having lost World War I in 1918, Germany was proclaimed to be a republic in Berlin. General strikes and uprisings in the following months were quelled violently and cost the lives of hundreds of people.
But Berlin recovered soon. In the Weimar Republic the city flourished and became the place to be in Europe. During the Golden Twenties, Berlin experienced its heyday as a major world city. Its population rose to four million and thus, Berlin became the third-largest city in the world, only outreached by New York and London.
After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Berlin was still the capital of Nazi Germany. Hitler and his architect Albert Speer planned to convert the city into the so-called "World Capital Germania", but fortunately most of the megalomaniac Nazi plans were never realised. However, during the Nazi era, Berlin’s great Jewish community was extinguished completely.
During Word War II, the city was widely destroyed by allied bomb raids and in the course of the street battles in the final days of the war. The Battle of Berlin ended with Hitler’s suicide in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery and the Soviet capture of the city. Afterwards the town was divided into four occupation zones, three of them forming West Berlin, while the Soviet zone forming East Berlin. West Berlin became a de facto exclave of West Germany on the territory of Soviet-held East Germany, while East Berlin was made the capital of the newly founded German Democratic Republic. However, West Berlin was substituted as West Germany’s capital with the city of Bonn.
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ access to their sectors of Berlin for almost a year. To carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift was organised. American and British air forces flew over Berlin more than 250,000 times, dropping necessities such as fuel and food, with the original plan being to lift 3,475 tons of supplies daily. As this number was often met twofold by the so-called "raisin bombers", the Soviet Union lifted its unsuccessful blockade of West Berlin in May 1949.
In 1961, the German Democratic Republic commenced the construction of the Berlin Wall. It had a total length of 167.8 km (104.3 miles) and girdled West Berlin completely. The Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting East Berlin’s population, while the West Berlin city government referred to it as the "Wall of Shame". Berlin families were suddenly separated by the Wall, but during its existence, more than 100,000 people attempted to escape. 5,000 of them succeeded, but an estimated number of 200 was killed by the Wall’s mine belt, its spring guns or the gunfire of the guards.
In 1989, a peaceful revolution ended the separation of Germany and with that also the separation of Berlin. Germany was finally reunified on 3rd October 1990. In the following year, Berlin was again declared the capital of Germany and also its seat of the government. Today, the city is a very vibrant megapolis with twelve boroughs. But Berlin’s authorities are generally classed as being inefficient and in need of modernisation. It’s also a nuisance for many Germans, that a lot of money from other German states is transferred to the capital, where it is often used without any sense.
This is my photo for the latest SlashThree exhibition; "Quote Unquote"
My quote for this photo is: "Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding"
- Franz Kafka
To watch all the other awesome designs, photos etc. then check: www.slashthree.com/exhibitions/
Thank you for watching.
What is incredibly interesting about this photo is at first thought you wonder what is such a generous church doing on a prison property. then you realize that being in the shadow of the tower no one could contemplate escape. but thats exactly what happened in 1995. On January 2nd 6 inmates escaped from a tunnel underneath this church that they were digging for who knows how long while they were helping construct this church , one was immediately caught when a guard saw them running, they split up but one by one they were all caught, the longest one on the loose Juan Flietas captured in Mexico august 3d 1997 shot by police after someone recognized him from Americas most wanted. much more to this story but Ill keep it short and sweet. As much as I dislike Arista EDU film it did a good job rendering the gritty detail in this brick building.
Lomography color negative 100, Mamiya M645
#heylomography #lomography100 #abandonedplaces #urbanexploration #mamiya645
30 Nov - The Escape Gate
Life is the maze.
Always step forward and step back - however there is a right solution always...
Here is in the park next to my daughter's school. I wanted to go to the post office on the way before pick her up, but could not find a car parking space near by then give it up. Instead, I arrived at the school 30 minutes early, so decided to discover the another part of the park.
I saw the maze in there for the first time. I could hear the laughing but no sign of the people for a long time.
Maybe our life is like that, confused and pazzled, but fell relieved when we see something that we can rely on...
Yippee! Friday's here!
We can all breathe a sigh of relief, the weekend is finally upon us.
I choose another in the series of images I took recently in Everglades NP while photographing this quite amusing reddish egret. Over time, the light started becoming a bit harsh, but it didn't matter to me, as this guy was running ... jumping ... and taking flight, as often it was escaping the wrath of a white egret in the area that didn't appreciate it's jolly attitude.
So, this is how I will feel in just a few short hours, as I "escape" the work week and settle into the weekend for some fun and relaxation. Hope you do too!
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This is the kind of clothing a uk prisoner who poses an escape risk from custody would wear. This maybe due to the seriousness of their crime or made previous attempts. There is a slight variation on this with the same colours but a denim jacket and jeans worn and in large letters the initials of the prison establishment on the back. The prisoner would remain handcuffed throughout transportation. Thankfuly I never had to escort too many of them.