日本銀行

Bank of Japan.

up to something dynamic and interactive, as usual

Detail of futuristic metal decorative element crowning "The Focal" building in Spring Street, Melbourne.

This decoration has fascinated me for years, and always makes me think of Art Deco flagpoles, ray guns from Marvin the Martian cartoons, and Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.

"The Focal" was built in 1996, and is a nine level mid-rise residential apartment building containing a heated indoor pool, full sized tennis court, gym, and my favourite - a communal herb garden. Most of the other commercial and residential buildings in the area are pretty boring and don't have anything like this on them to make them stand out.

Taken from the backyard

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It's Friday! Who can complain??

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Got a little bored at work yesterday... so I went to the roof... contemplated jumping off.. then started shooting... pictures that is :)

PDX photowalk 10-18-08

Part of the Looking Up set

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Palm Trees and Hotels

Giant Redwood at Inverary Bell Tower

... of the gatehouse to the ruins of Thetford Priory - the staircase long gone.

Kaleidoscope Skylight

Really. Big. Tree. (I think it's the Tulip Poplar, in the back of the garden, 20 feet around.)

Dohany St. Synagogue

this is actually very much mostly sooc

Interior of the Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter

A lot of terra cotta panels on this building c.1900 - This panel must have been an uplifting experience for pupils arriving each day - I guess it would not be very PC today. Now used by the local authority as offices etc.

b l o g g e d

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深川神明宮

handheld 1/10s view from reading seat (shared with cat Woody) - with review deadline, wisdom tooth recovery and arctic temperatures outside, I spent whole day reading - though for much of the afternoon Woody had this space to himself and I was on chair to the right of frame

We took a tour of the Washington National Cathedral, which is walking distance from Evan's apartment. I'd been there once on the super-fail 8th grade class trip of 1996, but we didn't see very much then.

D.C. regulations restrict very tall buildings, which means that the tower of the Cathedral is one of the highest places in the city, so he recommended I get to see the view. It was just in time, too, because the next month the Virginia earthquake damaged the building and closed it for several months. The restoration might not be done for years.

Also I thiiiink I'm sitting under the Wisconsin flag.

Detail above front entrance - SANDSTONE AND CERAMICS. This detailing is unusual in that it lacks the 'flourishes' of the Art Nouveau and the transition to Edwardian - in fact it is slightly 'art deco' in character and pre dates CRM's work at Derngate, Northampton - 1916 - 1917.

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