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Like some form of gateway, an arch serves to frame the rising sun. As to the purpose of this rectangular item, I am at a loss. Likely it once served to receive a boat, but now is just another hunk of wood connected to the structure. However, it too was at the Hopkins Pier and at that time, worked well as a compositional element.
The brilliance of the light threw the wooden arch into the shadows, which delivered a useful silhouette. At the time, I was thinking it can be useful to include a sense of mystery in an image.
RVYC was formed in 1903 as the Vancouver Yacht Club, receiving its Royal Warrant in 1906.
[...]. Our Coal Harbour home port is nestled into the shores of Stanley Park, a stone's throw from the cycling path, park trails, and downtown Vancouver - our floating restaurant there, the Mermaid Inn serves breakfast and lunch daily. The vistas over the bay from the Star & Dragon patio or the Marine Lounge's Upper Deck have given us the nickname of having the best view in Vancouver. www.royalvan.com/about
B R A U N . . .
Mit kaum einer anderen Firma ist der Begriff der „Guten Form“ so eng verbunden wie mit dem westdeutschen Elektrogerätehersteller Braun.
In den Nachkriegsjahren repräsentierte er die neuen Grundwerte guter Gestaltung: Ökonomie der Mittel, Funktionalität, Hochwertigkeit, Langlebigkeit und Ehrlichkeit.
In den bürgerlichen Wohnzimmern der 1950er Jahre, wo Radios in edlen Holzgehäusen oder gar in sogenannten Musiktruhen versteckt wurden, löste der nüchterne Braun - Stil eine kleine Revolution aus.
Ein hell lackiertes Gehäuse, glatte, schmucklose Seitenteile aus Holz und bei den Truhen ein durchsichtiger Deckel aus Plexiglas, der den Blick auf die Bedienungselemente freigibt, war sensationell und zugleich schockierend in seiner asketischen Ästhetik.
Das Gestaltungskonzept überließ nichts dem Zufall: Die Bedienung der L-förmig angelegten Knöpfe erfolgte ausschließlich von oben, die Typografien der Skalen waren nach Vorgaben des Ulmer Architekten Otl Aichers gestaltet und z. B. die Plattenspielereinheit war ein Entwurf Wilhelm Wagenfelds.
Für das Gesamterscheinungsbild jedoch waren in der Hauptsache Hans Gugelot und Dieter Rams, der auch die Idee der Plexiglashaube einbrachte, verantwortlich.
Mit diesen Entwürfen läutete Braun eine neue Ära der technischen Produktkultur ein.
Überraschend schnell avancierten z. B. der der nüchterne Quader der Truhe (ich werde sie noch zeigen), im Volksmund, aufgrund der Plexiglashaube, auch „Schneewittchensarg“ genannt, zum Lieblingsobjekt der Architekten und Intellektuellen.
Und natürlich sehen wir hier ein Röhrenradio, kein Transistorradio ! Röhren findet man heutzutage nur in High-End-Geräten.
Die Welt ist viel zu vielseitig um einseitig betrachtet zu werden ...
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Few companies are as closely associated with the concept of "good design" as the West German electrical appliance manufacturer Braun.
In the post-war years, it represented the new fundamental values of good design: economy of means, functionality, high quality, durability, and honesty.
In the middle-class living rooms of the 1950s, where radios were hidden away in elegant wooden cabinets or even in so-called music chests, the austere Braun style sparked a small revolution.
A light-colored lacquered cabinet, smooth, unadorned wooden side panels, and, in the case of the chests, a transparent Plexiglas lid that revealed the controls, was sensational and, at the same time, shocking in its ascetic aesthetic.
The design concept left nothing to chance: The L-shaped knobs were operated exclusively from above, the dial typography was designed according to specifications by the Ulm architect Otl Aicher, and, for example, the record player unit was a design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
However, the overall appearance was primarily the work of Hans Gugelot and Dieter Rams, who also came up with the idea for the Plexiglas cover.
With these designs, Braun ushered in a new era of technical product design.
Surprisingly quickly, the simple rectangular box of the chest (which I will show later), nicknamed "Snow White's Coffin" by the public due to its Plexiglas cover, became a favorite among architects and intellectuals.
And of course, we see a radio with vacuum tubes receiver, here, no transistorized radio !
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Wall of wood , long and wide
Masking the lake, that does hide
Behind the trunks of freezing brown
That now form a winter town
Where the birds sing a song
As they dive and fly along
The wall of wood , stretching wide
In front of the wild blue found inside
An interior view of the Western Concourse at King’s Cross Station in London, looking up into the semi circular steel and glass diagrid roof supported by a central tapered funnel and 16 branching tree-form structural steel columns.
Designed by John McAslan + Partners with Arup, the concourse opened in 2012 as the centrepiece of the station’s major redevelopment and became Europe’s largest single-span station structure at the time.
The Western Concourse is part of the transformation of the Grade I listed King’s Cross station, originally designed by Lewis Cubitt in 1852, combining restored Victorian railway architecture with a dramatic contemporary roof that acts as the new public heart of the station. The tree-like steel supports radiate across the space like a canopy, creating a sense of movement, openness and structural elegance that has made the concourse one of London’s best-known transport interiors.
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King’s Cross Station Western Concourse London: Tree-Form Columns and Steel Diagrid Roof
inspired by Barbara Hepworth!
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
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To gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Nothing is more useful than power, nothing more frightful. We have often suffered from degradation by poverty; now we are threatened with degradation through power. There is happiness in the love of labor; there is misery in the love of gain. Many hearts and pitchers are broken at the fountain of profit. Selling himself into slavery to things, man becomes a utensil that is broken at the fountain.
AS CIVILIZATION ADVANCES, the sense of wonder almost necessarily declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information, but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel
a forma di Angelo , trovato in un vecchio libro .. Pensiero di Rosa, una cara compagna di scuola, molto dolce, che non ho mai più rivisto.
Sono in contatto ancora con due mie compagne, ogni tanto ci sentiamo
Memory of your school mate Rosa 🌹
An old newspaper clipping with the shape of an angel
At about 3000 feet elevation, Clear Lake (Oregon) is a mountain lake formed by an ancient lava flow.
This kayak view of the vine maple in fall color on the black lava gives the impression that they are on fire. The still day provided a fine reflection.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Red/Amber Sliced Descending Form by Harvey K. Littleton
Harvey K. Littleton was a pioneer in the use of glass as a material for sculpture. He was the first academic to set up a university glass program-at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963-and he championed the introduction of glass into art school and university curriculums across the country and around the world.
The first record of a mill at Worsbrough was in the Domesday book of 1086, although the exact location of the mill along the River Dove is unknown. The oldest part of the mill standing today dates from about 1625 and forms the two storey stone building known as the Old Mill, which houses the waterwheel. Before the Mill House was built in the mid 18th century the miller and his family would have lived in the mill itself. There are large fireplaces on both the ground and first floors and the lintel over the fireplace on the first floor is inscribed with several dates and initials of the millers.
The Old Mill was probably modernised in the early 1820’s to improve its output, and in the 1840’s the New Mill was built next door. The machinery in the New Mill was powered by a steam engine and a third floor, where grain could be stored in bulk, was added.
Trade for corn and flour began to drop off towards the end of the 19th century as cheap imported wheat came in from abroad.
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An artistic rendering of a macro view of a Pop It Topper bubble fidget toy. The frame represents a span of two-inches across.
Those who are not familiar with Pop It Toppers can click the below link to a Wikipedia article about them (with pictures). The version I photographed (in its entirety) is a very small topper with only four bubbles on it.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights and a steady LED light. The SB900s were placed CL/CR and fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄32 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs. The LED was placed @ 11-o'clock.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 12mm + 20mm extension tubes attached.
The light burns the skin, erases the lines, and eats away the contours. The legs are no longer a shape or a pose to look at: they become just white, raw substance squeezed between the color of the fabric. Matter is wiped out by the light to subtract the body from the hypocrisy of the outside gaze. It is a radical refusal to sell oneself to the dynamics of exhibitionism and provocation: the flesh becomes an anonymous and pure mass precisely to exist without the obligation to please or to excite
The Garden Wall is a geologic ridge called an arête, formed by passing glaciers. The Garden Wall is situated at the top of Logan Pass. It is best viewed and enjoyed on the Highline Trail, from which this shot was taken.
Interesting naturally formed loop or naturally formed basketball hoop on some Stag horn sumac trees Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , cropped photograph , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , September 28. 2021
Interesting naturally formed loop
naturally formed basketball hoop
Beautiful sky , a view from the Lake Ontario waterfront park on lake driveway West
Waterfront Park
Teasels on the waterfront trail at Lake Ontario
September 2021
Stag horn Sumac tree
Hoop
Flowering succulent
Waterfront park
Sky
Flowering shrubs
Flowers
Large Oak tree
Information plaque
Fallen tree
canoe boat launch
Ontario
Ajax
Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
Tall grasses
Sunset
March 2020
Favourites
IPhone XR
Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Duffins Marsh
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
Bridge
Bridge across Duffins Creek
Twilight
Sticks
Stones
Fallen trees
Fallen tree
Fungi
Mushrooms
Cropped photograph
Beach
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
River
Duffins marsh
Duffins creek
Duffins trail
IPhone 6s
There are two sea stacks that together form Drangarnir. These impressive natural formations have become a symbol of the Faroe Islands’ unspoiled landscapes and untamed wilderness. To me, they conjure visions of a dragon's back, rising up from the icy waters swirling along its base. It is a haven for birdlife and a bucket list item for photographer's fortunate enough to find themselves in this Viking wonderland.
For me, it was an experience of a lifetime and the fulfillment of a bucket list dream that all began with a tiny image I saw on Instagram of a grass roofed cottage. What an incredible privilege to photograph the immense Drangarnir sea stacks (the smaller one rises out of the ocean to a height of over 200 '), probably one of the most iconic formations of the Faroe Islands.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the more harrowing places to get to. If I wasn’t grey already, that day would have done it in spades. Thank God for great travel partners, and our gifted leader, Thomas Vikre, who guided us through the gauntlet of eel-slippery rocks, steep slopes ending abruptly into the North Atlantic, and high tides bouncing our Zodiac around like a ping pong ball. Honestly, I would have turned back each time if given a choice. I have no desire to “prove” myself, or conquer fears at this point in my life, but it was a one way street, so no way to turn back. And in the end, I am glad for that. The beauty and majesty of the place is really indescribable, and to stand in the midst of it was truly an “epic” 😉 experience for us all.
“You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
In our earth-lab, a life form has existed randomly, thanks to the reaction of atoms of the ingredients which were already there, in the lab, for the creation of this life form. It has started to develop and expand on the earth, randomly. Later, after billions of years, it got conscious, randomly , but not all life forms have headed to the same direction. The evolution occurred according "the tree of life”.
Speculation:
Big bang has sealed the fate of our future by creating the atom based universe, like all the necessary ingredients were put in a beaker, in a chemical lab, to become the expected ( not randomly) chemical solution.
A life form is the expected result, depending of the time, of the existence and reaction of ingredients in a beaker.
2024 was one of the hardest years of my life.
I learned so much about myself - strengths and weaknesses.
I broke myself repeatedly to form a more solid me.
I sacrificed true love on an altar of commitment.
I watched generations wither and stepped into the gap.
I gained beautiful flowers in my garden of friends.
I froze in the face of trial and closed within myself.
I created from the depths of my agony.
I screamed in silence for dreams unfulfilled.
I stepped up and made the choice - God over everything else.
I struggled out of the pit of surviving.
I don't know what 2025 holds.
But I know there will be continued pain... continued longing...continued moments of falling and picking myself back up. Moments of showing up for myself in solitude. Moments of nostalgia... and memory... that crush the air from my very chest.
And likely...Grief.
But through it all...
I will continue to persevere as best I can.
I will continue to cry out to God in my confusion and gain clarity.
I will continue to soak up the sun and dance in the rain.
I will continue to find small joys in the birds song.
I will continue to breathe in and out.
I will continue to believe.
I will continue to live.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
Forever is composed of Nows
Tis not a different time
Except for Infiniteness
And Latitude of Home
~Emily Dickinson
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Vue de la vallée de Thingvellir ( Islande ) . Thingvellir est située dans le Sud-ouest de l’Islande , à environ 50 km au Nord - Est de Reykjavik . La principale caractéristique du site est qu’il est parcouru par de nombreuses failles saillantes , comme de larges cicatrices dans le paysage ! Il s’agit donc d’une zone de rift , où on trouve Almannagjá , une énorme faille de 7,7 km de long et 64 m au point le plus large qui forme un véritable canyon sur le site . Chaque année les plaques tectoniques Nord - Américaine et Eurasiatique divergent et se séparent de 2 à 3 cm .