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This temporary structure, Flow, takes the form of a 3D ice crystal built with digitally fabricated slot-fitting wood connections. The design's loose bonds allow it to be reconfigured into various shapes, similar to the frozen and liquid states of water. This display is another one of the 7 temporary winter art arrangements transforming the lifeguard stations in Toronto Eastern Beaches. These structures are meant to draw Torontonians out of hibernation and back outdoors.
On a recent trip to Boston, one of the top attractions for me was this set of sculptures called Harbor Fog. Getting this image was funny. Normally I spend my time behind the camera almost like a statue myself. Here, that was not the case. The lighting and 'fog' was motion activated. So you have to interact with these sculptures in order to get them to spew fog. So I would set up the camera and then run through them to set them off. I had other people with me, and they did a fair amount of running too. There was some science behind how you approached them and how much fog they put out. I admit, I don't think we ever figured it out. Anyway, we looked like around of silly gents continually running around like chickens with our heads cut off.
It has been fun to watch the area around these sculptures grow over time. For a long time the trees were new and the images around them have grown a lot. In the winter this scene looks much different, more stark. You almost have to shoot it in the summer to get the framing. I tried several different lens combos to make the Custom House building it bigger and smaller. In the end, I would have liked it bigger, but it kind of distracted when it was. In the end I liked these proportions better. Naturally, this is a blend of several images, to add as much fog as I could. I wished there was more, but these sculptures are tricky. Here is some info on these from wiki:
Harbor Fog, stilled buoys dream of a lost harbor, is a responsive sensor-activated interactive contemporary public sculptural environment located in Boston along the main pedestrian walkway of Wharf District Park Parcel 17, on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The first permanent public artwork along the Greenway, the concept was selected through a competition for commission by the Mass Highway Department, and integrated into site construction in collaboration with engineers during building of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig).
The sculpture is constructed of three column forms fabricated from stainless steel and bronze, that reference the shape of buoys, each column contains multiple fog nozzles, LED light sources, motion sensors, and sound systems. The sculptural columns are surrounded by a boat-shaped outline of granite seawall blocks, salvaged from landfill containing 18th century piers that were discovered during sub-surface highway construction. The 2000 lb granite seawall blocks are elevated on stainless steel supports that allow the fog to travel under the blocks, and openings between the elevated blocks allow passage into the interior space. Multiple motion sensors on top of the vertical columns register pedestrian activity that is transmitted to a computer processor to control changing sequences of fog, light, and sound.
The technology that operates the sculpture is maintained by the non-profit Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
"This lucid dream lingers onward, indefinitely
I am one
Omnipotent, I am the one
I'll touch the sun
As you sow, and so you shall reap
What is life, if but a fevered dream?
Restless nexus, my consensus
Striking at god at fucking will
Yet and I am still not even satisfied
I fabricate, manipulate, incinerate and duplicate
Restabilize the precipice, my arbitrary exodus inside
Losing ourselves in the infinite".
The bridge was built by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company and opened in 1975 replacing the Ballachulish ferry. It is a two-lane road bridge of through steel truss construction with fabricated box chords
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Boucle Noire
GR412 - Sentier des terrils
Thy-Marcinelle
Steel Fabricator
Zone Sambre industrielle
Rue de l'Acier
Charleroi
België
Fabricated by William F. Colburn, Jr. and dedicated July 25, 2011
Mobile County District Courthouse
Mobile, AL
USA
Fabricated wooden-arch pedestrian bridge across Etobicoke Creek at Watson Family Park in Peel Village
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Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
Both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.
The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
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Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
3D Printing
When repairing vintage cameras, I often use a 3D printer to design and fabricate replacement parts that are otherwise unavailable. Even after all this time, the intricate movements and precision of this machine fascinates me. I was printing a tiny 5mm wide hollow bushing for a camera I was servicing. I sat watching the printer form the part, layer by layer. I suddenly thought … “I need to photograph this because it’s something many have never seen!” I grabbed a camera and captured this image in the final seconds, just as the hot end of the printer withdrew from the finished print.
Website: www.sollows.ca
Contact and my links
"I can't wait 'til they fabricate the highway, crawling through this slurry is killing me."
"That'll never happen in our lifetime! You know the cartels don't stop bickering long enough for anything to get built."
"If they had any sense they'd finish it soon. The terraformers are in overdrive, the summers are getting longer and there's always more muck to crawl through while it's thawed."
"At least the CEO paid real money to get us some ex-military tech, built to survive. I can remember having to fix a drive chain on an old cargo rig. Back then we were in full gear too; at least these days you don't immediately suffocate outside your cabin."
"Yeah, nowadays it can take as long as 15 minutes to flatline."
"Hah! 'Travel offworld' they said... 'live in paradise' they said..."
Not the fastest vehicle by anyone's metric, auger drives are still a common sight because of their all-weather, amphibious capabilities. Corporations like Providence often procure their fleets from military fabricators, which they utilise in maintaining their vast terraformer facilities.
Hibernia is a collaborative worldbuilding exercise between Tayasuune, Dane Erland, Scotty, Shannon and myself
I have always loved an inviting arch or doorway. This is a fabricated image. The stone arch is based on a work "Stone Arch - Stock by HBKerr on DeviantArt". I used his free bitmap as a fill for my drawn wall shape and made a few minor alterations to fit the mood. The fence and creeping plants are as shot and the meadow flowers are from another of my own images, HBKerr deserves both visitors and customers. www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...
I am always fascinated with how they can turn a vacant space into a bar that looks like it has been there for the last 50+ years.
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Kosso Eloul
Canadac 1977
Fabricated wrought Stelcalloy
Kosso Eloul (1920-1995) was born at Mourom, U.S.S.R in 1920 and raised in Israel. In 1938, Eloul studied and began his artistic training at the Tel Aviv, a year later continued at the Art Institute of Chicago. There he studied under Frank Lloyd Wright and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in the 1940s.
He served in World War II and the War of Independence, resuming artistic practices in 1948.
In 1959, Eloul represented Israel at the 29th Venice Biennale, where a passion for international sculpture conferences began; he showed at the 1st Sculpture Symposium in Yugoslavia in 1961 and at the Negev Desert in 1962. At the end of the 1960’s, Eloul settled in Toronto, showing at the 10th Sculpture Conference
in 1978.
The process behind these sculptures rested in precise calculations and maquettes. These calculations and maquettes were sent to a fabrication plant in Toronto, where these large sculptures were created. Eloul’s sculptures are minimalistic and generally created through stainless steel or aluminum. It is common to experience several dominating geometric forms perched precariously on top of each other, testing the laws of gravity. These rectangular sculptures are site specific, maintained in many public spaces throughout Canada.
Eloul described: “I think that balancing, or the balancing act or the dynamics off this is just very expressive of our time, our personal predicament, our day and age, everything. The potential movement of those shapes is very exciting.”
A completely fabricated landscape! I was testing out a new texture and came across this wonderful barn photo, then added a quasar image from NASA, the moon (of course!), some trees and birds - using SkeletalMess brushes and a premade background!
Binyamin Council: How the torched church Blood Libel was debunked. Behind the scenes of how the council uncovered a story fabricated to blame Israelis for a fire at an ancient church archeological site in Taybeh.
Israel National News
2 minutes
Jul 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM (GMT+3)
2:32 / 2:32
הסרטון מהמקום שהוכיח שהכנסייה כלל לא נשרפה
עזרי טובי, דוברות בנימין
The Binyamin Regional Council has exposed the blood libel that was spread in the international media over the past week, claiming that residents set fire to a church in the village of Taybeh. The falsehood was refuted through a video from the scene proving that the church had not burned at all, along with direct communication between the Governor of the council and Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who issued a clarification on the matter.
Over the past week, serious accusations were made in the international media against residents of Binyamin, alleging they started a fire that spread to the Saint George Church (an old church in the village of Taybeh).
The information was disseminated by influencers and opinion leaders, falsely blaming the local residents for arson without any evidence. This incident caused significant damage to Israel’s public image and to the community in Binyamin, with the false claims reaching a wide global Christian audience. Even the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, visited the village and strongly condemned the alleged arson.
In response, the Binyamin Regional Council worked to debunk the lie. The council’s foreign affairs media desk managed to film a video showing that the church had not burned at all. Additionally, the Israel Police issued a statement clarifying that the church had not been damaged by the fire, which had occurred in nearby areas.
Governor Yisrael Ganz remained in close contact with Ambassador Huckabee and updated him with the facts. Following this, Huckabee issued a public statement correcting the record and clarifying that no church had been burned.
Importantly, the circulated footage used as supposed “evidence” against the residents in fact shows Jewish shepherds actively trying to extinguish the fire with firefighting tools they had with them.
Yisrael Ganz, Governor of the Binyamin Regional Council and Chairman of the Yesha Council, stated: “I want to extend my deep thanks to Ambassador Mike Huckabee for his important clarification. He is a true friend, and I value his integrity and willingness to stand with us, not only in support, but in seeking the truth. His voice carries weight among Christian communities around the world, and his commitment to uncovering the facts is a powerful blow to those who seek to defame Israel and its citizens."
"The attempt to frame the brave residents of Binyamin with a modern blood libel has failed. Anti-Israel actors are working relentlessly to divide us from our Christian allies by spreading lies and fabricated accusations. But here in Binyamin, we will continue to stand firm. We will not allow the name of the communities in Judea and Samaria, or the name of the State of Israel, to be tarnished.”
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Taiwan donates to new medical center in Binyamin region
'Dad, they're shooting at us'
Binyamin Rabbis urge probe, decry violence by IDF and residents
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Eliana Passentin, Director of the Binyamin Regional Council's Foreign Desk, stated: “As an archaeologist and someone deeply committed to interfaith respect, I was troubled when many of my Christian friends reached out with concern. I went to Taybeh myself, filmed the church, and confirmed it was completely unharmed. The brush fire could not pass the church’s exterior garden stone walls."
"We are determined to find whoever started the fire nearby. I deeply appreciate Ambassador Huckabee’s clarification, his integrity and friendship mean a great deal to us.”
04.10.10
ring a day
day 100/365
Thank You RAD Project
but I must leave you now.
i have enjoyed almost every minute we shared.
I bid you farewell.
i will continue to support all you RAD guys and gals until the end,
you all have my utmost appreciation and respect of your tenacity to keep going,
woo-hoo! keep on rockin'! the RAD!
oh and thanks to...
Dee's bird skulls.
Laurie and her friends.
Shannon for letting me borrow her crimper.
04.04.10
ring a day
day 94/365
This rabbit pendant was a gift from my friend Nakisha of BlueDogRose, aka www.nakisha.com/ and it was perfect to transform this little short eared guy to a RAD ring for easter.
*This ring's proceeds will be donated to the Rabbit Haven Bunny Sancturary in 2011.
Rabbit Haven is a no kill rabbit shelter, please read more about them here :)
completely hand fabricated from solid brass bar stock and sheet, this piece is the actual size of the living mantis-20cm
Taken of Central Fabricators' building in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The intersecting drain pipes were the first thing that caught my eye, but there is a lot more to think about while looking at this shot. Water damage - patch work repairs - blocked up windows - is it still being used? and on and on. The building is quite large and extends both directions out of the picture. There is another set of drain pipes that match this one just to the right.
Central Fabricators says they are custom chemical process equipment manufacturers for the midwest and have been since 1946. I wonder why all the windows have been blocked and what that does for the working conditions inside the building.