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Each rhododendron bloom is a gathered colony of small, near-identical flowers—delicate, deliberate, and designed to draw in early summer’s pollinators. Their symmetry has both function and grace.
MLC Centre architecture cannot be overlooked. With elegantly contoured, stark white concrete, white quartz and glass, the façade presents itself as a handsomely moulded sculpture.
Harry Seidler AC QBE is a luminary of Australian architecture. Widely considered as the first architect to fully express the Bauhaus aesthetic here. The MLC Centre remains one of his most definitive works on the Sydney Skyline.
244m to antenna and 227m to roof. The MLC Centre was Sydney’s tallest building in Sydney from 1977 to 1992. It is currently the fifth tallest building behind the Meriton World Tower (230m), Deutsche Bank Place (240m), Citigroup Centre (243m) and Chifley Tower (244m). The tallest structure in Sydney is still the Sydney Tower at 309m.
Fornasetti Creation
La mano, questo mezzo eccezionale, fa parte del pensiero, perché, non solo lo interpreta, ma lo giuda nello stesso tempo per certe sue misteriose capacità di inventiva. L’arte è o manuale o mediata, come nell’architettura e nel design, i quali si esprimono per idee che guidano l’esecuzione, attraverso la mediazione del disegno e del modello. Architettura e disegno si identificano nel disegno o nel modello, ma non nell’opera come nelle arti pure. In questo caso di Fornasetti, l’arte è esercizio mentale e mediato. Ma fa lo stesso, perché in fondo l’intelletto opera manualmente, cioè pensando alle mani operanti.
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The hand, this exceptional mean, is a part of thought because it not just interprets it, but at the same time
guides it by some mysterious powers of invention. Art is either manual or mediated, as in architecture and design, which express ideas that guide the execution through the medium of the sketch and the model.
Architecture and design are identified with the sketch or model, but not with the work itself, as in the pure arts. In the case of Fornasetti, art is a mental and mediated exercise. But it makes no difference, because in the end, the intellect functions manually, that is, by thinking about the hands working.
In France we say: "La fonction fait la forme". Here, one could say: "The form generates the function".
I've gotten a bit away from my concert photos lately, not because I am not going to concerts, but because there are so many areas of photography that I am interested in exploring between macro abstract, macro nature, landscapes, the. magic in every day neighborhoods, street photography, travel photography, and more. Anyway, what this means is that I miss a lot of birthdays and there's kind of an ebb and flow to my stream that occurs. In other words, you don't like what I post one week, you might enjoy the next week more.
Either way, concert photography was my first passion and I just can't imagine functioning in my life without music. I can't even sleep without music (if the power goes off and the music turns off, I'm awake in a flash!) So...it's a pretty important evergreen companion to my daily existence.
I hope I caught something special in this moment with Rachel Goswell that is removed from just performance but captures the genuineness of being alive, playing your songs, and having so many people loving them. It was her birthday on Friday.
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Swallowtail, southwest France this summer. I liked the way the insect and the leaf have the same shape and pattern
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Spring 2021
These are the remains of the hamlet of Lodge overlooking Scar House Reservoir, Upper Nidderdale
The view from the ruins of the Methodist Chapel over Scar House Reservoir is a delight to see though when the chapel was functioning the view would have been over a green and fertile valley
Lodge was a small farming hamlet complete with Methodist Chapel originally founded as a monastic grange farm. Abandoned in the 1920's its historic legacy is faint but enduring.
In 1900 Lodge was a thriving community of small upland farms. It probably started life in the 13th century when a grange farm was built here. The farm and land belonged to the Cistercian Monastery of Byland Abbey. When the Abbey was dissolved in 1538 the land was sold to wealthy local landowners who over the next 350 years improved the farms and land.
Bradford Corporation, responsible for building Scar House Reservoir owned Lodge from 1904. The last residents left in 1929
At one time the droveway through Lodge was the main road connecting Scotland to Eastern England
Detail from the information board at Lodge
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Seville is full of these elegant and practical inner courtyards to apartments. I'm no architect but my understanding is that the Moors used this design to create a venturi effect in order to circulate relatively cooler air from the ground floor upwards.
Architecte : Jacques-Germain SOUFFLOT ( 1761)
Edifié depuis le moyen âge par une progression architecturale, ce lieu a une fonction d'hôpital. François RABELAIS y a été nommé (1532) médecin avec une vingtaine de religieuses. Soufflot réalise le bâtiment actuel qui en 2015 devient un hotel de luxe, une offre de bureaux et commerces ainsi qu'une cité de la gastronomie.
Ages by an architectural progression, this place has a hospital function. François RABELAIS was appointed (1532) doctor there with around twenty nuns. Soufflot is building the current building which in 2015 became a luxury hotel, an office and retail offering as well as a city of gastronomy.
And down the path to more garden greens. Beleura.
1,504 cases today but not a lot of deaths (7) which is good.
I met Joe Obe at the Remembrance Sunday function in Cambridge. He's the Chairman of The Royal British Legion's Cambridge Branch. He spoke at the function and later showed me his hand-written notes on a scrap of paper. A likeable chap, I thought!
As a few have already guessed right, the little crank on the base has a purpose. The turning reveals an unique clockwork function in each castles.
I tried to inspire the motions by the animations in the Game of Thrones show intro, but kept it very simple to blend in with the castle design. Functionality is not one of my strengths so it was quite a challenge, but an interesting one.
List of all castles:
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I hope you like my series as much as I liked building it.
Your feedback was already overwhelming, so I'm motivated to work on a sequel for the next year. Stay tuned!
A dial on Rotel RX-303, a vintage receiver/amplifier.
Shot for Macro Mondays circles theme.
I realize i shot a different detail of this device for the last theme but I cant help myself. I love old tech and this one in particular. We have shared tunes together for 40 years.
Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk; since that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.