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On a ramble today with Kay (mathteacher) and Margaret (Reed Photo) we detoured into the TINY town of East Columbia and much to our delight found this wonderful old barn with a field of tiny purple wildflowers blooming. Many many a time I have driven right past the road to this town which is just 50 miles from home and had no idea what a gem awaits there. Margaret had been there before and knew that just about every place in the town (population 90) has a historical marker. Where these pretty flowers bloom now used to be the Columbia Hotel which Carrie Nation ran for a time, details are in the historical marker below which marks the spot. As you can tell by the trees it is still winter here in Texas but today was a beautiful springlike day and finding the windflowers blooming was a welcome sight from the starkness of winter.
To see Kay's photo of this barn showing how it really leans in two directions click here
The Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Duomo in the Field of Miracles in Pisa.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre Pendente) was started in 1173 as the bell tower (campanile) for the neighbouring cathedral (Duomo).
It started to lean when the third storey was added in 1274 and various attempts were made between then and its completion to stop the lean. All they did was make it more and more banana shaped.
Galileo took full advantage of the lean of the tower to conduct his experiments into gravity on its overhang.
It kept leaning further and further and was shut down in the 1990s because it was unsafe. Engineers worked their magic though and managed to correct some of the lean and make it accessible once more.
The Field of Miracles (Campo dei Miracoli) – phrase coined by Gabriele D’Annunzio – is an area in Pisa that contains four of the most important religious buildings in the town.
Located on the north western edge of Pisa it contains the cathedral (Duomo), baptistery, the Camposant Cemetery and the world famous Leaning Tower (Torre Pendente).
It’s always rammed with tourists, but rightly so as the place is just plain amazing.
Sketchnotes of Mary Poppendieck's talk 'The Rise of the Consumer' at Agile Iceland on 5 November 2014. (2 of 2)
March 21, 2009 | Behind the castle/info center on the Washington mall near the Smithsonian metro stop there is a park.
Visions of America: Amériques
Audio/Visual Performance conducted by Esa-pekka Salonen, performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic
6th of November, 2014
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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'The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s multimedia presentation of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques launched the new in/SIGHT series at Walt Disney Concert Hall,The presentation of Amériques is accompanied by the new Anadol site-specific architectural video installation, which was developed to illuminate and enhance the Varèse's composition and to activate the architecture of Walt Disney Concert Hall. The dynamic visual program created by Anadol uses custom-built algorithmic sound analysis to listen and respond to the music in real time, using architecture as a canvas and light as a material. Additionally, the movements of Salonen, as he conducts, will be captured by next generation Microsoft Kinect hardware and 3-D depth camera analysis to inform the visuals displayed. The result was a powerful and immersive experience for the audience that engaged their visual and auditory senses.'
Launching in/SIGHT – the LA Phil's groundbreaking series of concerts with video – this program embodies the vision of the New World as a place of unlimited artistic freedom. Amériques was the first musical piece that Varèse composed upon coming to New York and this project is fittingly the first site-specific audio-visual performance that I produce in the U.S. I approached this collaboration from the standpoint of a non-linear and ephemeral interaction between Salonen, Varèse, and me, and hope that I will be able to transform Varèse’s timeless musical fiction into an immersive visual medium through which a new kind of storytelling will occur. Rather than approaching this medium as a means of escape into some disembodied techno-utopian fantasy, this project sees itself as a means of return. It aims to facilitate a temporary release from our habitual
perceptions and culturally biased assumptions about being in the world, and to enable us, however momentarily, to perceive our own stories and the stories around us freshly.
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, Anadol stated regarding this work, “Instead of creating a media screen, there will be a story inside the space. What happens if you add a video layer that speaks to the audience in a whole new experience? We're exploring the boundaries of what is real, what is physical, what is virtual…”
I would like to sincerely thank everyone who made this project possible. This project would never have been possible without the tremendous and generous support of Los Angeles Philharmonic, President and CEO Deborah Borda; Vice President of Artistic Planning Chad Smith; Artistic Administrator Meghan Martineau and Concert Operations Manager Taylor Saleeby. I would also like to thank for their open-handed support the University California, Los Angeles, Department of Media Arts’ faculty members, Microsoft Research, and Lili Cheng, Finally and specially I would like to thank Frank Gehry for his dreamful canvas and Esa-Pekka Salonen for his open-minded collaboration with me to discover “New Worlds.”
CREDITS
Video Artist: Refik Anadol
Artistic Management: Dave Hunt
Executive Producer: Efsun Erkilic
Senior Generative Designers: Sebastian Neitsch & Woeishi Lean
Senior 3D Designer: Raman K. Mustafa
Senior Animator: Simon Russell
Junior Animators: Bahadir Dagdelen, Michael Hsiu, Kian Khiaban, Toby Heinemann,
Laurence Menor.
Research Assistant: Jarad Solomon
Figured out. Calculate Z (Pythagorean Theorem). Then you can get Angle A and Angle B, and add them together and then calculate the Lean Angle.
A Liverpool bound Pendolino leans into the curve through Lichfield Trent Valley station. Sunday 03-03-19
Lean on me,
When you're not strong,
And I'll be your friend,
I'll help you carry on,
For it won't be long,
'Til I'm gonna need,
Somebody to lean on.
(This one is for www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyc/ who always has a song for his picture and takes great photos - hope you like it)
Fire hydrants on the side a a new building nearing completion.
More photos from Nanning in southern China's Guangxi province.