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I'm in Canberra visiting my daughter, Billie-Mae for The Queen's Birthday Long Weekend. There was a fireworks display which we didn't bother seeing. But maybe there's a Hint of Fireworks in our Outfits.
I'm not sure what Billie-Mae is wearing. Something or Other that looks Black, with a scarf & a Toy Leather bomber jacket.
I'm wearing a mainly thrifted outfit - Op-Art inspired skirt & 'Pringle' Men's zippered cardigan & a pashmina from 'Cotton On' in the Canberra Centre. Faux Chanel quilted boots, remixed.
Cooke's Explosive Works, Penrhyndeudraeth.
Picio yno cyn troi at yr A470
The main manufacturing industry in Penrhyndeudraeth was established in 1872 to make guncotton. Cookes Explosives Ltd - part of the Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) dealing with increased demand for munitions during World War I set up a new explosives manufacturing facility at Penrhyndeudraeth, bringing an economic boom to the town. The plant produced thousands of tons of munitions for the war and explosives for quarrying and mining. The prolonged miners' strike of 1983 and the competition from foreign coal imports resulted in wholesale pit closures which, in turn, reduced the demand for mining explosives to the point where production was no longer economic and the site was finally cleared in 1997.
It was donated to the North Wales Wildlife Trust by ICI in 1998 and is now managed as a nature reserve. This 28 hectare site exhibits a range of habitats including woodland, scrub, heathland, bare rock and open water and supports a wide range of species including Nightjar, Barn Owl, Pied flycatcher, Polecat, seven species of bat, and the impressive Emperor Dragonfly. The reserve offers fabulous views over the Dwyryd Estuary from the bird hide and the many paths throughout the site will offer excellent access.
"Seventeen million grenades and other munitions were made at Cooke's Explosives Ltd during WWII."
"A massive explosion in 1915 (perhaps enemy sabotage) destroyed the facilities, and responsibility for the site was taken over by the Ministry of Munitions before being sold to Cooke's in the 1920s."
"When explosives are being mixed it's essential to keep them cool and the process involved piping in water from a nearby pond with an operator monitoring temperature and flow. This worker was provided with a stool, but for his protection it had just one leg. If he fell asleep, it would not be for long! "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhyndeudraeth
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/nature/pages/gwaithpo...
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/english/reserves/Gwait...
www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/85184/details/COOKE%27S+EXPLOS...
Exhibition Jean Tinguely - Machine Spectacle 1 Oct 2016 - 5 Mar 2017 in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Jean Tinguely is famous for his playful, boldly kinetic machines and explosive performances. Everything had to be different, everything had to move. Precisely twenty-five years after his death, the Stedelijk Museum opens a Tinguely retrospective: the largest-ever exhibition of the artist to be mounted in a Dutch museum.
The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) played a key role in the rise of kinetic art in the fifties. With over a hundred machine sculptures, most of which are in working order, paired with films, photos, drawings, and archive materials, the presentation takes the public on a chronological and thematic journey of Tinguely’s artistic development and ideas, from his love of absurd play to his fascination for destruction and ephemerality.
The presentation features his early wire sculptures and reliefs, in which Tinguely imitated and animated the abstract paintings of artists such as Malevich, Miró, and Klee; the interactive drawing machines and wild dancing installations constructed from salvaged metal, waste materials, and discarded clothing; and his streamlined, military-looking black sculptures.
Tinguely’s self-destructive performances are a special feature of the Stedelijk presentation. The enormous installations Tinguely created between 1960–1970 (Homage to New York, Étude pour une fin du monde No. 1, Study for an End of the World No. 2, and La Vittoria) were designed to spectacularly disintegrate in a barrage of sound. The presentation also spotlights the exhibitions Tinguely organized at the Stedelijk, Bewogen Beweging (1961) and Dylaby (1962), and the gigantic sculptures he later produced: HON – en katedral (“SHE – a cathedral,” 1966), Crocrodrome (1977) and the extraordinary Le Cyclop (1969–1994), which is still on display outside Paris. The survey ends with a dramatic grand finale, the remarkable, room-filling installation, Mengele-Totentanz (1986), a disturbing display of light and shadow never previously shown in the Netherlands. Tinguely realized the work after witnessing a devastating fire, reclaiming objects from the ashes to piece together his installation: scorched beams, agricultural machinery (made by the Mengele company), and animal skeletons. The final piece is a gigantic memento mori, yet also an invocation of the Nazi concentration camps. Its juddering movements and piercing sounds evoke a haunting, grisly mood.
Jean Tinguely created his work as a rejection of the static, conventional art world; he sought to emphasize play and experiment. For Tinguely, art was not about standing in a sterile white space, distantly gazing at a silent painting. He produced kinetic sculptures to set art and art history in motion, in works that animated the boundary between art and life. With his do-it-yourself drawing machines, Tinguely critiqued the role of the artist and the elitist position of art in society. He renounced the unicity of “the artist’s hand” by encouraging visitors to produce work themselves. Collaboration was integral to Tinguely’s career. He worked extensively with artists like Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle (also his wife), Yves Klein, and others from the ZERO network, as well as museum directors such as Pontus Hultén, Willem Sandberg, and Paul Wember. Thanks to his charismatic, vibrant personality and the dazzling success with which he presented his work (and himself) in the public sphere, Tinguely was a vital figure within these networks, acting as leader, inspirator, and connector.
Amsterdam has enjoyed a dynamic history with Tinguely. The exhibitions Bewogen Beweging (1961) and Dylaby (1962), for which Tinguely was (co)curator, particularly underline the extraordinarily close relationship that sprang up between the museum and the artist. Not only did he bring his kinetic Méta machines to the Netherlands, he also brought his international, avant-garde network, leaving an enduring impression on museum goers who flocked to see these experimental exhibitions. Close relationships with Willem Sandberg, then director of the Stedelijk Museum, and curator Ad Petersen prompted various retrospectives and acquisitions for the collection: thirteen sculptures, including his famous drawing machine, Méta-Matic No. 10 (1959), Gismo (1960), and the enormous Méta
3 April 2012. El Fasher: (Center) Abdurrahim Ahmed Mohamed (12 years old) is pictured in his house in Al Salam camp for displaced persons with his closest friends (from left to right) Maggi Issa (10), Mohammed Abdalla (8), Jamil Ala Abbakar (12) and Faris Kharoum (7).
Abdurrahim lost his right hand and the sight on his left eye due to a detonation of an unexploded ordnance (UXO).
It happened in 2008 in Kabkabiya, his original village, when Abdurrahim and his friends found the UXO near his house. They started playing with it until it detonated.
Abdurrahim, who wants to become a doctor, is still struggling to learn how to write with his left hand.
UXOs are explosive weapons (bombs, bullets, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, etc.) that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation, potentially many decades after they were used or discarded.
Tomorrow, 4th April, is the International Day of Mine Awareness. In Darfur, as a consequence of the ongoing conflict, UXOs is one of the main problems for the civilians, specially children. Hundreds of them have been mutilated.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID, www.albertgonzalez.net
Cooke's Explosive Works, Penrhyndeudraeth.
Picio yno cyn troi at yr A470
The main manufacturing industry in Penrhyndeudraeth was established in 1872 to make guncotton. Cookes Explosives Ltd - part of the Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) dealing with increased demand for munitions during World War I set up a new explosives manufacturing facility at Penrhyndeudraeth, bringing an economic boom to the town. The plant produced thousands of tons of munitions for the war and explosives for quarrying and mining. The prolonged miners' strike of 1983 and the competition from foreign coal imports resulted in wholesale pit closures which, in turn, reduced the demand for mining explosives to the point where production was no longer economic and the site was finally cleared in 1997.
It was donated to the North Wales Wildlife Trust by ICI in 1998 and is now managed as a nature reserve. This 28 hectare site exhibits a range of habitats including woodland, scrub, heathland, bare rock and open water and supports a wide range of species including Nightjar, Barn Owl, Pied flycatcher, Polecat, seven species of bat, and the impressive Emperor Dragonfly. The reserve offers fabulous views over the Dwyryd Estuary from the bird hide and the many paths throughout the site will offer excellent access.
"Seventeen million grenades and other munitions were made at Cooke's Explosives Ltd during WWII."
"A massive explosion in 1915 (perhaps enemy sabotage) destroyed the facilities, and responsibility for the site was taken over by the Ministry of Munitions before being sold to Cooke's in the 1920s."
"When explosives are being mixed it's essential to keep them cool and the process involved piping in water from a nearby pond with an operator monitoring temperature and flow. This worker was provided with a stool, but for his protection it had just one leg. If he fell asleep, it would not be for long! "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhyndeudraeth
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/nature/pages/gwaithpo...
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/english/reserves/Gwait...
www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/85184/details/COOKE%27S+EXPLOS...
My latest find. Symposium on Engineering with nuclear explosives.
January 14-16, 1970
Las Vegas, Nevada
CONF-700101 (Vol. 2)
All about project plowshare and the peaceful atom!
short version-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ09umBGtcc
long version-
Afghan National Police, working jointly with the Afghan Border Police and members of Special Operations Task Force – South, eliminated multiple explosives, including a 40 pound jug of homemade explosives and six munitions turned in by area residents from eastern Kandahar Province's Maruf District, Jan. 24. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ben Watson)(Released).
Detail from an old, perhaps WWII era crate. The text is both in Finnish and Swedish and it says: "explosives III Class".
Cooke's Explosive Works, Penrhyndeudraeth.
Picio yno cyn troi at yr A470
The main manufacturing industry in Penrhyndeudraeth was established in 1872 to make guncotton. Cookes Explosives Ltd - part of the Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) dealing with increased demand for munitions during World War I set up a new explosives manufacturing facility at Penrhyndeudraeth, bringing an economic boom to the town. The plant produced thousands of tons of munitions for the war and explosives for quarrying and mining. The prolonged miners' strike of 1983 and the competition from foreign coal imports resulted in wholesale pit closures which, in turn, reduced the demand for mining explosives to the point where production was no longer economic and the site was finally cleared in 1997.
It was donated to the North Wales Wildlife Trust by ICI in 1998 and is now managed as a nature reserve. This 28 hectare site exhibits a range of habitats including woodland, scrub, heathland, bare rock and open water and supports a wide range of species including Nightjar, Barn Owl, Pied flycatcher, Polecat, seven species of bat, and the impressive Emperor Dragonfly. The reserve offers fabulous views over the Dwyryd Estuary from the bird hide and the many paths throughout the site will offer excellent access.
"Seventeen million grenades and other munitions were made at Cooke's Explosives Ltd during WWII."
"A massive explosion in 1915 (perhaps enemy sabotage) destroyed the facilities, and responsibility for the site was taken over by the Ministry of Munitions before being sold to Cooke's in the 1920s."
"When explosives are being mixed it's essential to keep them cool and the process involved piping in water from a nearby pond with an operator monitoring temperature and flow. This worker was provided with a stool, but for his protection it had just one leg. If he fell asleep, it would not be for long! "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhyndeudraeth
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/nature/pages/gwaithpo...
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/english/reserves/Gwait...
www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/85184/details/COOKE%27S+EXPLOS...