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... en mitad de los arrozales se encuentran las conocidas barracas en las que se guardan, hoy en día, los áperos de labranza y, en inmemoriables tiempos incluso servían de vivienda a los campesinos que vivían en durísimas condiciones, siendo víctimas de la malaria provocada por mosquitos que plagaban la zona, y con un alto índice de mortalidad. Hoy se usan, entre otras funciones, como lugar de encuentro de familiares y amigos para hacer una comida en el arrozal ...
... in the middle of the rice fields are the well-known barracks where farm implements are kept today and, in time immemorial, even served as a home for peasants who lived in harsh conditions, being victims of malaria caused by mosquitoes that plagued the area, and with a high mortality rate. Today they are used, among other functions, as a meeting place for family and friends to have a meal in the rice paddy...
These old elevators were designed for function not so much for form or prettiness. Over time though their patina transforms them into a wonderful artistic looking form.
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.
Sandomierz: historic town in south-eastern Poland.
It was a royal city of the Polish Crown and functioned as a regional administrative centre from the High Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Sandomierz is one of the oldest and historically most significant cities in Poland.
The first known historical mention of the city comes from the early 12th-century, when the chronicler Gallus Anonymus ranked it together with Kraków and Wrocław as one of the main cities of Poland.
Thanks to the Wikipedia;)
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.
Looking up at the award-winning Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Although quite striking with the 12 multi-coloured, pencil-like supports, I downplayed the colour as to highlight the contrasting shapes, angles, light and textures with this capture.
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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".
Leyton Green Towers, an 11-storey block of flats. Built in the early 1960s and refurbished in the late 2010s.
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Location: Drone Haven
Backstory: Drone Haven, a city long abandoned by humanity, stands as a haunting testament to the fleeting importance of humankind in the grand narrative of nature. Rusted skyscrapers rise from fractured earth, their decayed frames wrapped in vines and moss, bearing witness to nature’s quiet reclamation. Faded posters and graffiti whisper a warning from a forgotten era: “The End is Near!” On the city’s outskirts, a survivalist camp briefly clung to life. Dreamers and pragmatists built it as humanity’s final stand, cultivating gardens and creating shelters in defiance of the inevitable. Yet disease, dwindling resources, and discord proved stronger than their resolve. The camp fell silent, overtaken by creeping greenery, its remnants a poignant symbol of resilience overshadowed by decline. At the city’s heart lies the ruins of a once-famous butcher shop, its walls weathered and its windows shattered. Moss softens its rusted fixtures, and vines snake through every crevice. Outside, the grim message echoes: “The End is Near!” This decaying relic serves as a stark reminder of human hubris and the fragile nature of survival. Amid the ruins, drones roam like spectral caretakers. Left by their creators, these machines continue to perform their programmed duties, planting native flora during their annual Echocycle rituals. They maintain Drone Haven as a paradox—a city simultaneously embodying human ambition and nature’s enduring dominance. Yet even the drones are not eternal. As creations of humankind, they too are bound by the finite nature of energy. Like their creators, they will eventually exhaust their resources and cease to function. This juxtaposition—humanity’s ephemeral existence and its legacy in the mechanical species it forged—underscores the fragility of all things, natural or artificial. Drone Haven whispers a layered tale: a reminder that humanity, for all its self-importance, is but a fleeting presence in the face of nature’s vast, enduring cycles. In its rusted beams and flowering vines, it reflects on collapse, resilience, and the inescapable truth that all energy is finite and ultimately consumed.
UPDATE: I think I finally discovered the actual species. According to this excellent site, it looks like it's a Cotton Harlequin Bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus).
I've never seen one of these before and apparently it's a Harlequin Beetle. I can't find much information or even the botanical name for it, so I did a search for quotes that referred to harlequins.
Imagine my delight when I found a quote from Battlestar Galactica! Here's the quote in full from Wikiquote:
Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...
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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Main Entry: 1shy
Function: adjective
Pronunciation: 'shī
Inflected Form(s): shi·er or shy·er/'shī(-&)r/ ; shi·est or shy·est/'shī-&st/
Etymology: Middle English schey, from Old English sceoh; akin to Old High German sciuhen to frighten off
1 : easily frightened : TIMID
2 : disposed to avoid a person or thing
3 : hesitant in committing oneself : CIRCUMSPECT
4 : sensitively diffident or retiring : RESERVED ; also : expressive of such a state or nature
5 : SECLUDED , HIDDEN
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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!