View allAll Photos Tagged lectures
This photo now appears on page 79 of "Confessions of a Public Speaker" by Scott Berkun. Go check it out!
www.amazon.com/Confessions-Public-Speaker-Scott-Berkun/dp...
I couldn't WAIT to see inside the Chrysler Building for the first time in my life.
This crowd is listening to an openhousenewyork lecture on the building's genesis. I have to admit that I was a little disappointed that only the lobby was open to the public for the day...I wanted to go up to the top! However, a guard confided to us that it isn't worth it. Unlike, say, the Empire State Building, it does not have an observatory or viewing platform, and is accessible only by a series of ladders after the stairs end. Want to know what's up there???
A toilet.
The highest toilet in the world, or at least it was at the time. Walter P. Chrysler himself had an apartment up there and apparently liked the idea of relieving himself above the heads of his rivals (although of course, they weren't in the same building). I can't vouch for the veracity of this urban legend, but it sure makes a great story.
The ceiling mural is by Edward Trumbull, who also designed the decoration for the Chanin Building. It is called "Transport and Human Endeavor," and according to the speaker, is the largest indoor mural in the U.S. (or the world? I didn't quite catch it, but it seems hard to believe).
Incidentally, I had no idea until just now (looking up websites) that the building's ornamentation, including the gargoyles) are actually modelled after CAR PARTS- hood ornaments, radiator caps, and the like. For those who don't know, Chrysler is best-known as a car company.
Here's what OHNY said about the Chrysler:
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, New York
neighborhood: Midtown
opendialogue: Historian, Robert Klara will lead informal discussions at 12-3 pm both Sat & Sun.
building date: 1930
architect: Willam Van Alen
View one of the finest examples of Art Deco restored to its 1930s splendor, including Edward Trumbull's vast ceiling mural, "Transport and Human Endeavor," in the marble-and-steel lobby.
And here are several links about the building:
www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID021.htm
www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=114867
11-15-2011 - Photos of the Chancellor's Lecture held in the Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium with guest speaker and political author, Francis Fukuyama. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green)
Albert Bartholomé (1848-1928). "La lecture". Huile sur toile, vers 1880. Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais.
Jose Pereirinha Professor and Vice-President for Scientific Affairs at ISEG during Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon. Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
I gave a talk on engineering love at the How The Lights Gets In festival. The armchair was comfy and just the kind of place you want to hold forth on philosophy from.
11-15-2011 - Photos of the Chancellor's Lecture held in the Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium with guest speaker and political author, Francis Fukuyama. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green)
Simon Ruda, Pedro Lomba and Jose Pereirinha during Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
Simon Ruda speaking how behavioural science could improve public policies during lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
Sketchnotes of lecture by Art Spiegelman at the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program series (March 31, 2011)
(With the topic, speaker, ideas expressed, and how it fit into the page out as the lecture unfolded, I think this session of my sketchnoting is the one I'm most pleased with to date... but still gotta draw people better: that's supposed to be Art Spiegelman in the bottom right...)
Carlos Slim Helú, President of the Carlos Slim Foundation, addresses during the Geneva Lectures Series, Palais des Nations. Monday 11 June 2012. Photo by Violaine Martin
La “Andreatta lecture” di Romano Prodi, che di Andreatta fu prima allievo, poi collaboratore e infine presidente del Consiglio, introdotta da Enrico Letta.
Boredom and a slice of 'luck' created this one. I went to change a setting on my camera and accidentally triggered the shutter and up flashed this. Not sure what it says about me/the lecturer/the university, but whatever it is it made a reasonable photo!
Photo a Day #5
Simon Ruda of Behavioural Insights Team on improving development results thanks to behavioural science. Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
11-15-2011 - Photos of the Chancellor's Lecture held in the Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium with guest speaker and political author, Francis Fukuyama. (Vanderbilt University/Steve Green)
As part of the "Pressure of Light" symposium hosted by the Dartmouth Physics Department, Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips delivers a public lecture entitled "The Legacy of Nichols and Hull: 100+ Years of Radiative Forces." Ernest Fox Nichols was both a physicist and the president of Dartmouth College from 1909-1916. (photo by Eli Burakian '00)
Our lecture hall seats more than 200 and is located on the third level of the West Building near West Hall A. The lecture hall features a theatre lighting system, basic audio house system including an automatic mixer and a dressing room containing venue audio infrastructure.
Jens Martens, head of Global Policy Forum, on the new post 2015 development during the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Helsinki on 29 October 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu
Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town speaking at the Kapuscinski Development Lecture on 5 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu