Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 16, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, and Chris McKraig

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

I actually went out and bought homogenized milk for the first time for this recipe!

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Glass bowl with whipped cream. Prepared with nitrogen in a gourmet whip. Structure achieved by a decorator tip. High point of view.

a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.

The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]

Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that

the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]

In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as

a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]

The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]

Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:

In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator

True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators

Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.

In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).

The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]

The Farmers Creamery milk was non-homogenized. The yellow bits on top are the cream melting in.

a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.

The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]

Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that

the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]

In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as

a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]

The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]

Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:

In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator

True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators

Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.

In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).

The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]

Glass bowl with whipped cream. Prepared with nitrogen in a gourmet whip. Structure achieved by a decorator tip. High point of view.

The story of the Buddha and the kings of Sri Lanka is recorded on these walls. Every village has a temple like this. These paintings are hundreds of years old. This way the people remember their history and their culture, a valuable resource in the time of globalization and homogenization of global peoples. Biodiversity is necessary for survival, and I believe that cultural diversity is also...for the same reasons...adaptability and resilience of the species. We need to protect and conserve our cultural and biological resources in all their multiplicitous forms.

This southbound on the Texas line is assembling its train for departure. IIRC the flash went off inadvertently and lit up the Scotchlite strip on the front of the locos. There was just enough overcast to allow it to affect the photo.

For a while after the Rock Island bankruptcy, as the Cotton Belt (SP) acquired the Tucumcari line, an MKT subsidiary 'Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas (OKKT)' took over this Texas line from Herington to the south. Naturally, this connection was homogenized when the UP acquired both the SP and MKT. Not far behind the camera would have been the Missouri Pacific's Pueblo mainline, which the UP has since taken up except for a spur west of town. The Rock's branch line to Abilene and Salina left to the west a bit north of this area and is now gone up to Enterprise where the remaining line becomes the Abilene & Smoky Valley Ry.

Herington, KS

1980 depot view: flic.kr/p/2qu9WjX

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Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Whipped cream in glass bowl.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 16, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, and Chris McKraig

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

The images from the series “Infrastructure of Artifice” were shot on location in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2007, using a large format view camera. Being the largest port in Europe, (second only to Shanghai globally) the Port of Rotterdam is a construct of enormous proportions that necessitates the globalized economy in which we all reside. In an increasingly globalized world, society becomes ever more homogenized creating a level of disassociation and isolation within the human psyche. The photographic gaze is drawn to the literal infrastructure of the port, at the same time highlighting the artificial construct of a landscape entirely reclaimed from the sea. This extreme example of how humankind affects the ‘natural’ landscape acts as a metaphor for the implications of artifice within the modern world. The images herein, seek to meditate upon the Port of Rotterdam as a simulacrum of modern day society and how this reflects upon the human condition.

a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.

The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]

Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that

the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]

In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as

a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]

The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]

Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:

In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator

True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators

Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.

In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).

The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

The punk girl in the photo is named Zephyr. Her story is shrouded in a dark and decadent aura, which is reflected in her lifestyle and rebellious personality.

Zephyr grows up in a gray and dull city, surrounded by a society that seems incapable of appreciating the beauty of individuality. From a young age, she feels out of place, as if she doesn't belong in that monotonous and conformist world.

One day, by chance, she discovers punk music. The aggressive notes and protest lyrics resonate in Zephyr's soul, awakening a dormant anger and passion. She decides to fully embrace the punk style, using clothing as a form of expression and rebellion against the oppressive society.

Zephyr dyes her hair in vibrant colors, flaunts extravagant clothes, and wears a black jacket adorned with pins and studs. Her outward appearance reflects her rebellious and determined personality. She is a symbol of resistance, challenging stereotypes and breaking the conventions imposed by society.

Skateboarding becomes her escape. Zephyr races at full speed through the deserted streets of the city, feeling the wind tousle her colored hair. In those moments of freedom, she feels alive and in control, aware that she can overcome any obstacle that life puts in front of her.

The photo captures a moment of intensity in Zephyr's life. As she zooms on that skateboard, with a determined expression on her face, she conveys a message of defiance and hope. She is a symbol of strength and individuality in a world that seeks to homogenize everyone.

Her story is that of a girl who rebels against stereotypes and expectations imposed by society, embracing her dark and decadent side. Zephyr represents the beauty of being authentic and living without compromises, reminding herself of the importance of following her own instincts, no matter how different they may seem.

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Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

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Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 16, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, and Chris McKraig

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.

The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]

Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that

the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]

In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as

a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]

The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]

Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:

In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator

True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators

Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.

In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).

The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

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mmmmm....ice cream shop and chocolate factory. This was a neat place. It's been around for over 100 years...not as an ice cream/candy place though. It was originally a local dairy. The shop still has the sign with the milk prices. A 1/2 gallon of homogenized milk was 47 cents!

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

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Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 16, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, and Chris McKraig

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

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Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.

Site - NETL-Albany

Date - April 15, 2025

Building - Thermo-Mechanical Processing Laboratory, B4

Individuals photographed - Paul Jablonski, James Willis, Chris McKraig, and Andrew Huffine

Alloy Development and Manufacture - Melt Processing

Unique materials designed for use in extreme environments are formulated in NETL’s Metals Melting Facility. Researchers define alloy specifications to technicians who developed the metal in the laboratory’s high temperature furnaces. Molds are used to cool the resulting alloy into ingots, which are then heat treated to homogenize the structure. Formulated metal alloys are machined using a band saw, lathe, and other equipment in preparation for hot working in the Fabrication Facility. The Metals Melting Facility can melt any metals needed for NETL research, resulting in batches ranging from a few grams to over 400 lbs. Ingots produced in the Facility typically go on to vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, electro-slag remelting, or button melting operations in the same facility.