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The straight lines unstraightened, reflected in the water below - organic construction?
The original framework (a slightly different PoV) in the previous upload:
A bit quiet for a May bank holiday weekend.
Edinburgh during the easing of restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic (tier three).
Spaces for People measures on George IV Bridge. These were installed in the Old Town of Edinburgh during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide more space for pedestrians and cyclists. Emergency Traffic Regulation Orders (ETROs) were used throughout Edinburgh to provide extra room for social distancing and cycle lanes.
Although these measures claim to improve mobility, there are complaints they have done the opposite and those with disabilites have been adversely affected. The floating bus stop outside the main central library on this street, and opposite the National Library of Scotland, has been amended. The council say they are no longer installing floating bus stops (they are intrisincally dangerous - particularly for the hearing or sight impaired - and probably contrary to the Equality Act).
The internal auditors gave the implemention of the scheme a 'red' rating in August 2021 (see below). In the wake of this, and the lack of public support for the measures, traffic experts at the council are proposing rebranding Spaces for People as ‘Travelling Safely’. It is also reported the Spaces for People measures on George IV Bridge are to be 'scrapped' although the measures in other areas are to remain (16 Aug 2021).
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-cou...
Alternative infrastructure for cyclists will be put in place - let's hope it is better designed with people with disabilities in mind.
"...council officials said because a new scheme for George IV Bridge/Forrest Road had already been approved by the committee the legal advice was an ETRO could not be used in that case."
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-c...
The city council belatedly held a consultation on the Spaces for People measures and reported this to the council’s Transport and Environment Committee on 17 June 2021. An Evening News report stated 17,600 people responded to the online public consultation which resulted in "overall opposition for a majority of the proposals except those designed to make school areas safer and less congested."
The Herald reported: "...only 38% of the public support the council’s protected cycle lanes compared to 56% who oppose them. Only 37% of people support measures along shopping streets and 35% back leisure connections." Furthermore businesses overwhelmingly oppose the policy. (Most of the businesses on this street are restaurants and have supplies delivered through their front doors.)
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/spac...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/19345936.thousands-edinburgh-...
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/spaces-people-1
In early August 2021 it emerged Edinburgh City Council's internal auditors had given the council a red rating in relation to the Spaces for people scheme. The auditor's report said there was a lack of consultation with residents and "significant and/or numerous control weaknesses were identified, in the design and/or effectiveness of the control environment and/or governance and risk management frameworks".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58160674
The report said the specific measures were based on suggestions from a relatively small group of officers and community stakeholders and the final prioritisation decisions were based the judgment of two of the project team.
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/spaces-for-people-edinburgh...
UNESCO World Heritage site listing: whc.unesco.org/en/list/728
Old Town Conservation Area Character Appraisal: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory-record/1099435/old-town-co...
In recent years, Simon Denny’s research-based art projects have explored aspects of technological evolution and obsolescence, corporate and neoliberal culture, national identity, tech-industry culture, and the internet.
His Biennale Arte 2015 project, Secret Power, was partly prompted by the impact of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks of PowerPoint slides outlining top-secret US telecommunications surveillance programmes to the world media, which began in 2013. These slides highlighted New Zealand’s role in US intelligence work, as a member of the US-led Five Eyes alliance. Now in the open, the slides have come to represent international surveillance work and its impact on individual privacy.
Secret Power takes its title from investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s 1996 book, which first revealed New Zealand’s involvement in US intelligence gathering.
Secret Power addresses the intersection of knowledge and geography in the post-Snowden era. It investigates current and obsolete languages for describing geo-political space, focusing on the roles played by technology and design. The contexts and histories of both venues provide highly productive frameworks for Secret Power, and have been directly engaged with through the work.
In the Library, Denny has installed a server room, with server racks and a workstation. In addition to holding computer equipment, the server racks and workstation double as vitrines, displaying a case study in NSA visual culture, consisting of sculptural and graphic elements based on the work of a former NSA designer and Creative Director of Defense Intelligence David Darchicourt and the Snowden slide archive, suggesting links in iconography and treatment. The server room resonates with the Library’s decorated Renaissance-period interior, with its maps and allegorical paintings—Denny’s inquiry into the current iconography of geopolitical power being framed within an obsolete one.
Ex Wynns of Newport Diamond T 981 3630DW, not long sold by Alan Davis Recovery of Worcester (aka Warndon Service Station) arrives courtesy of Peter Court's Scammell Crusader low loader with its new owner.
The not insubstantial lifting frame that utilised the DT's GarWood winch was removed not long after I took this picture in the late '80s. Apparently a Ford dealer fitted this framing after Wynns sold it, does anyone know what dealer it was please?
"Watch_Dogs"
-4500x6000 (Nvidia custom resolutions)
-Natural & Realistic Lighting Mod by Danvsw
-Camera Tools by Otis_Inf
Last night I've climbed on the top of cable-stayed red bridge (highest in Moscow) and met here very beautiful morning.
This is just the basic framework for this pattern. You can make it different sizes, but it's nice if you make it with gaps that are 10 x 10 half-studs, because then you can fit lots of other things into them. The one on the right has holes that are 6x6, which is a somewhat awkward size to work with. I still liked how it looked, though.
Frameworks have been all around me
Ever since I can remember. There was always
A framework that I felt committed to –
Kinder garden, school – and every time one has ended
and I felt that freedom is at reach – I learnt
that I am just entering a new one.
Deferent and yet – a framework.
And then I understood the secret. Its not
a framework, it’s a frame of mind.
I need to break my own framing
And then these frameworks will be my
runway to take off.
Taken at Bethlehem Steel in the shadow of the towering blast furnace. Behind the visitors center, there is a clearing where many pipes and openings can be seen on the buildings behind the blast furnaces. I liked how this particular structure looks like a window on the roof of a house.
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Half-timbered houses in the little town of Cadolzburg, seen from the gateway of Cadolzburg Castle, Franconia (Bavaria)
Cadolzburg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1157. In the mid-13th century the area around Cadolzbug was acquired by the burgraves of Nuremberg from the house of Hohenzollern, who were known in the Middle Ages simply as the Zollern. Originally they came from Swabia, but after they were appointed burgraves of Nuremberg by the emperor in 1191, their centre of power shifted to Franconia.
The main castle, perched on a steep rocky spur, has an imposing ring wall, which like the main gate and the so-called Palas ( as a part of the New Palace) dates from the 13th century. Only the basement known as the crypt beneath the originally free-standing chapel has remained from what was probably the previous building on this site. In front of the main castle is a spacious bailey, which was initially where the castle guards lived. In the Renaissance period a garden was laid out in the bailey.
The ring wall surrounds both Old and New Palace, which are connected by the chapel wing. Despite its name, the section of the so-called New Palace adjoining the chapel is the oldest part of the castle and dates from around 1250. The Old Palace was built in the 15th century under Elector Friedrich I. About 1600, the New Palace was considerably extended.
When in the 14th century the House of Hohenzollern increasingly came into conflict with the citizens of the Imperial City of Nuremberg, they moved their seat of government to the nearby Cadolzburg Castle. In 1415 King Sigismund then appointed burgrave Friedrich VI Elector of the Mark Brandenburg. From this time on the House of Hohenzollern was included among the seven rulers entitled to elect kings, and occupied an eminent position in the Old Empire, from which the Hohenzollerns eventually rose to become kings of Prussia in 1713 and emperors of the German Empire in 1871. This was how for a long time in the Late Middle Ages Berlin came to be governed from Cadolzburg and Ansbach.
Shortly before the end of the World War II, on 17th April 1945, the castle went up in flames. A small group of German soldiers, who belonged to Nazi-Germany’s last means, had entrenched themselves behind the castle walls and shot at two arriving armoured US regiments on their way to the city of Nuremberg. Of course the American Sherman tanks returned fire. The firestorm raged for days and the main castle lost its roofs and ceilings. For decades the ruin remained open to the sky and increasingly deteriorated.
Over the past few decades the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, which had entered into possession of the castle in 1979, has secured the rock on which the castle stands and the building substance and rebuilt large sections of the complex. In 2016 the work on the interior of the Old Palace was completed and in June 2017, restored Cadolzburg Castle was reopened to the public.
The little town of Cadolzburg has more than 10,700 residents and is located about 10 km (6.2 miles) west of the city of Fuerth and about 15 km (9.3 miles) west of the city of Nuremberg in the Bavarian district of Middle Franconia. Its municipal territory belongs to the Nuremberg metropolitan area.
During the High Middle Ages, the settlement began to prosper around the castle, but the spot was already inhabited since the year 793, when Herrieden Abbey was founded at this place. The name “Cadolzburg” most likely traces back to Count Kadold, who is believed to be the founder of Herrieden Abbey. At the beginning of the 15th century, elector Friedrich VI from the House of Hohenzollern, came into possession of the castle and the estates belonging to it. His son Albrecht Achilles, margrave of Brandenburg, made Cadolzburg his hunting lodge and the forests surrounding it his hunting grounds.
In the 1880s, Cadolzburg was connected to the new train line between Nuremberg and Crailsheim by stagecoaches. But in 1892, Cadolzburg itself got a rail connection. At that time the residents still made a living mainly from farming and working in the nearby quarries. Today Cadolzburg is a rather popular place of residence. On the one hand it is still a quiet and sleepy little town with great recreational value, but on the other it is also very well connected to the nearby cities of Fuerth and Nuremberg by roads and local public transport.
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Captured with a manual Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack.