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A minor modification I did for the LEGO Speed Champions 76895 Ferrari F8 Tributo. I decided to replace the sticker headlights to the transparent pieces. Looks even better, but not accurate as like the real model. This modification is just for the looks, nothing particularly follow the real replica model. For those of you who doesn't like stickers here's an option for you.
Feel free to spread the idea and don't forget to tag me 😉
Have you ever found your LEGO switch has lost its spring?!? This might be an answer....
Apologies for the video presentation in places, it's my first 'instruction' piece.
Any comments welcome.
This old barn had attached timber corrals and stalls. It appears as though the timber rails were removed with a saw of some sort leaving the remnants of the timber rails behind.
Alright, here is my second mod. I did not make this yesterday/today if that's what you're wondering. I actually created 3 mods together and finished them all roughly the same time. This was just one of the smaller modifications. It includes a red-dot, and an extra magazine. Not comparable to my RPK, i'd say.
I've really started to like modding, and i think that I will do a lot more of it. The only thing I don't like is cutting up my brickarms. :3 I need to buy extras! I actually have two more mods that I'll show the next two days.
The weapon was not inspired by anyone specifically, but those added have inspired me to mod in general. I love their modding, and I think that at some time, I may be able to mod as good as them!
On a totally different note, Bricks Cascade is in 8 days! :D Can't wait to see a lot of you guys there!
Feedback on all of my mods are appreciated more than you could imagine. I actually use the feedback on my future mods. Thanks again fellas!
Jake
I love having a sewing machine. When I bought this skirt, it was a rather generously proportioned size 14 (I can never tell if I'm a 12 or a 14); now it's much tighter...
Errant Class 155's were stored awaiting modifications in the carriage sidings at Southport on June 4th 1989. The 42 x 2-Car Sprinters with a pair of 23 Metre length bodies utilising Leyland National body modules had been built in 1988. Within weeks of their introduction in service, various faults manifested themselves, including the plug doors opening on one set whilst it was in motion. The entire fleet was subsequently grounded and eventually a programme of reworking/modification was carried out by BR/Leyland engineers using two undercover roads at what was then Steamport Museum based in the former Southport MPD at Derby Road. All of the 155's visited Southport during 1989, including the seven West Yorkshire PTE examples, for the work to be done, and subsequently one could 'clear' the 155's by visiting Southport regularly, without chasing them in service.
288 has made it out of Rio and is coming up on Doylestown. I intercept him at Long Crossing Road, where a Milwaukee Road-era WRRS crossing setup still remains.
Both the lead engine and the crossing set up are very old, but have upgrades to make them useable. 6306 is an SD60-3, rather than an SD60, so it has newer software and electrical equipment. The old WRRS setup still retains the original gate mast and base, however a WCH E-Bell and LED lights are in place of the mechanical bell and incandescent lights that once ruled the Milwaukee.
"The place of John's burial in the southern aisle of the cathedral choir in front of the Vlašimská chapel was marked by a stone plaque with his name in the pavement. According to the testimony of the Žitavska Chronicle, a lattice was placed around it from the middle of the 15th century. Another lattice was set up by St. Vitus dean Václav of Wolfenburg in 1530. Analysts record further modifications in 1595, 1621 and 1679, when Archbishop Jan Bedřich of Valdštejn held a service in front of the altar. An engraving from 1712 depicts an altar table with a coffin and a tabernacle. Promotional engravings of the canonization from 1729 show the state of the decoration to date.
Countess Kinská, born in Fünfkirch († 1729), initiated the construction of the new Prague tombstone. Her financial donation was combined with a long-term public canonization collection, which ended up with a surplus. The mediators of the realization of the magnificent silver monument were Cardinal Bedřich of Althan and Privy Councilor Gundakar of Althan, with the support of Emperor Karl VI. the choice fell on a court artist: based on a sketch by Josef Emanuel Fischer from Erlach from 1733, the Italian sculptor Antonio Corradini created a wooden model of the figure of the saint kneeling on a sarcophagus between two angels, which, after approval by the emperor, he converted to a monumental scale in 1735. In the years 1735–1736, the Viennese silversmith Johann Joseph Würth cast and hammered the wooden hoods into silver with five journeymen, including Raffael Donner and Kašpar Gschwandtner. The silver mausoleum of John of Nepomuk was then assembled on the site of the former grave and altar in the choir of the St. Vitus Cathedral. The sculptures of flying angels date from 1771, the canopy for the mausoleum was ordered by Empress Maria Theresa. The marble balustrade was ordered by the Prague bishop Zdeněk Jiřík Chřepický from Modlíškovice in 1746. The six female figures on the corners – allegories of the Christian virtues – according to the models of the sculptor Platzer, were supplied by the Prague silversmith Jiří Vilém Seitz only in 1749.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert (Czech: metropolitní katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha) is a Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral (Czech: katedrála svatého Víta or svatovítská katedrála).
This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture, and is the largest and most important church in the country. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, the cathedral is under the ownership of the Czech government as part of the Prague Castle complex. Cathedral dimensions are 124 m × 60 m (407 ft × 197 ft), the main tower is 102.8 m (337 ft) high, front towers 82 m (269 ft), arch height 33.2 m (109 ft).
Prague Castle (Czech: Pražský hrad; [ˈpraʃskiː ˈɦrat]) is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic serving as the official residence and workplace of the president of the Czech Republic. Built in the 9th century, the castle has long served as the seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. As such, the term "Prague Castle" or simply "Castle" are often used as metonymy for the president and his staff and advisors. The Bohemian Crown Jewels are kept within a hidden room inside it.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world, occupying an area of almost 70,000 square metres (750,000 square feet), at about 570 metres (1,870 feet) in length and an average of about 130 metres (430 feet) wide. The castle is among the most visited tourist attractions in Prague, attracting over 1.8 million visitors annually.
Hradčany (German: Hradschin) is an urban district and cadastral territory of Prague with an area of 1.5 km², divided between city districts and at the same time the city districts of Prague 1 and Prague 6. A significant part of the district is occupied by Prague Castle, one of the most famous castles in Europe and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest castle complex in the world. Hradčany was an independent town until 1784, when it became part of the united royal capital of Prague.
Hradčany includes the area of Prague Castle, the territory of the historic city around Hradčanské and Loretánské náměstí, Pohořelec, the area of Strahov Monastery and Nový Svět, as well as the area of the former Marian Walls forming an arc from the western edge of Letenská plain to the top of Petřín.
Prague 6 includes a strip of territory defined by tram lines in Dlabačov, Keplerova, Jelení, Mariánské hradby, Badeni, Milada Horáková, Patočkova and Myslbekova streets. The cadastral territory Hradčany is adjacent to Střešovice to the northwest, Dejvice to the north, Mala Strana to the east, Smíchov (a small strip of territory) to the south, and Břevnov to the southwest.
Prague (/ˈprɑːɡ/ PRAHG; Czech: Praha [ˈpraɦa]; German: Prag [pʁaːk]; Latin: Praga) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.
Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611).
It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era.
Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th-century Europe. Main attractions include Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The city has more than ten major museums, along with numerous theatres, galleries, cinemas, and other historical exhibits. An extensive modern public transportation system connects the city. It is home to a wide range of public and private schools, including Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in Central Europe.
Prague is classified as a "Alpha-" global city according to GaWC studies. In 2019, the city was ranked as 69th most livable city in the world by Mercer. In the same year, the PICSA Index ranked the city as 13th most livable city in the world. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination and as of 2017, the city receives more than 8.5 million international visitors annually. In 2017, Prague was listed as the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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The original Lego Creator London Bus - set nr. 10258 - and my version of this icon!
Funny enough, originally I thought there would have been tons of interpretation of this set out there, but I mainly came across the original version.
This gave me the inspiration to do something different and as I am a Star Wars fan, I did something in the 501st Legion colors.
Looking forward to see what others can now make out of this; classic castle or space, Friends or maybe in steam punk livery 🤔😋
Again, thanks to Brickvault for the for the honorable mention in last weeks Top 10 MOC video 👍.
Love to hear what you think; let me know in the comments below 👍.
For another round of modifications, I added 1x4 slopes to the wings. I'm interested to see how these will look in person.
The Mk3 can now be downloaded for free on Rebrickable. My first official submission!
Journal of Doctor S. Finnigan – Leading doctor of Project B27
Entry 104
After three months of the modification project, we are finally starting the last phase. The subject’s immune system is no longer fighting the medication and his muscles have been dissolved from the bones. According to Professor Rosenfeld’s calculations, they will easily reattach to the carbon skeleton after the procedure. Our head engineer Mr. Gordon and his team finished the prototype ten days ago and produced the first usable version. We are now making the final calibrations. The subject has been sedated and the observation team has arrived. The insertion procedure will start at 3pm, after the gouvernment‘s permission is given.
As you might noticed, this small but IMO really cool Vignette was built by N-11 Ordo, Mr Grievous and me together in the year 2011. But we never uploaded it for some reason so we came up with the idea of doing it now. I hope you enjoy it as much as I still do. Old School ftw!
Work in progress:
..aaand finally - we get a completely different, unique face. One the left is the initial face mold 'Taiga' without modifications, on the right is the modified porcelain face. I've changed the form of: eyes, eyebrow ridges, nose, lips, cheeks and cheekbones, chin. Actually, there isn't a part here that I haven't changed.
Рабочий процесс:
..иии, наконец - получаем совершенно другое, уникальное лицо. Слева - изначальная модель лица "Тайга" без модификаций, справа - фарфоровое лицо с модификациями. Я изменила форму: глаз, надбровных дуг, носа, губ, щёк и скул, подбородка. Фактически, здесь нет ни одной части лица, которую бы я не изменила.
This was more of an exercise rather than an updated version because I still prefer the old one. It's not obvious, but there are some significant changes for this version, among them:
-larger head (perhaps to large?)
-longer tail
-longer arms (yes!)
-obviously a spiky sail achieved by adding two more pleats
-and the biggest difference is this one uses a 10 x 10 grid rather than a 9 x 9 one!
Designed by Shuki Kato
14" square Tant paper
~4 hours to fold
The Vulcan bomber was designed in response to a specification issued in 1947 at the height of the cold war. To help gain data for the radical new design, several 'mini-Vulcans' were built; these were the Avro Type 707s. Finally, in 1952, the first Type 698 (VX770) flew. There followed Several spectacular appearances at the Farnborough Air show including a full roll at the 1955 show (try that in a B-52!). There were various modifications before finally in 1956 the delivery of production Vulcan B.1s to the RAF began. The last Vulcan B.1A was withdrawn from service by 1968 by which time the three remaining squadrons had been re-equipped with the B.2 variant which had a longer range, the ability to carry a heavier payload and much improved self-defence measures. In November 1981, it was decided to withdraw the Vulcan from service in June 1982 and the Vulcan would have flown for its entire service life without ever dropping a bomb in anger However, the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in the spring of 1982 gave the Vulcan an extended lease of life, and an unexpected swansong at the end of its distinguished RAF career.
Sitting beside the A15 road just south of Lincoln at RAF Waddington stands Avro Vulcan XM607, the very first Vulcan to drop bombs on the runway at Port Stanley airfield during the 1982 Falklands war. The mission "Black Buck 1" (sometimes referred to as mission impossible) was to put a Vulcan over the Falklands to bomb a 40-yard wide target from a height of 10,000ft. Had the Falklands not been 3,886 miles away from the nearest usable airfield, this would not have been quite such a difficult task to actually carry out! Flying to the Falklands from Ascension Island, a small island near the coast of Africa, would take eight hours flying time and require multiple in-flight refuelling sessions. In all eleven Victor tankers would be needed. A carefully planned sequence had the Victors refuelling both the Vulcan (XM607) and the other tankers, with increasingly smaller numbers of tankers continuing with the Vulcan while empty tankers returned to Ascension. Due to unexpected differences in the performance of the Vulcan and Victor, many of the Victors returned with barely enough fuel to land - at one point several Victors had to land one after the other, without even enough spare fuel to allow the previous Victors to clear the end of the runway. The last Victor had to give up so much fuel to the Vulcan that it did not have enough fuel left to reach the island, so another Victor had to be scrambled to refuel the incoming Victor so it could reach the airfield! For the six-man crew of Vulcan XM607, in the early hours of May 1, it was beginning to turn into a suicide mission. Some 300 miles out from the target the final mid-air refuelling of the Vulcan was beginning, the last in an immensely complex alternation of 11 tankers and 15 fuel transfers which had been involved in getting the bomber this far. The gauge spun up to 7,000 gallons - just a fraction of its total fuel capacity of 36,000 - and then the tanker signalled that it could give them no more. The tanker was even lower on fuel than the Vulcan and had probably sacrificed its crew to give the Vulcan a fighting chance of reaching the target. Problems had come about as the last two tankers were busy fuelling each other before giving the Vulcan the fuel it would need to return from its mission when, at 40 degrees south, the convoy flew into the path of a raging electrical storm. The two Victors were thrown around and the fuel hose thrashed between them until eventually the probe sheared off one of the tankers which was due to shepherd XM607 to its last refuelling. Having come this far, although desperately short of fuel, the crew decided to press on. At 290 miles away from the target, XM607 began a shallow descent towards Port Stanley to approach low to minimise its 'footprint' and then climb upwards to 8000 or 10,000 feet to try to stay clear of the "kill zone" of the Argentinian defences.A radar contact appeared: XM607 was dead on target. It was 4.30am local time, when the Vulcan roared upwards, straight into view of the Argentine search radars. But the young radar operators were unperturbed. The bomber could only be one of theirs - this had not been a shooting war so far. During the few minutes it took the Argentinians to wake up to the fact that this was in fact an enemy aircraft, the Vulcan had soared to its 10,000ft altitude and levelled off for the bomb run. Two miles from the runway the first of the thousand-pounders fell away from the Vulcan's cavernous belly. When all 21 were away, the Vulcan turned in a steep curve, in time for the crew to see a blossom of fire as the first bomb bored deep into the centre of the runway and detonated. Other blasts hit the airfield, gouging out massive chunks of its surface. Vulcan XM607 did, in fact, have enough fuel to make the rendezvous as is evidenced by this photo. It returned to Ascension Island and a heroes' welcome. The most ambitious sortie since World War II, had by the skin of its teeth been successful.
Today seems an appropriate day to post this shot for it is the 27th anniversary of the raid.
Stuart Area Historic District
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Originally Italianate, with Neoclassical modifications.
Le Pont du Millenium (en anglais : Millennium Bridge) est un pont suspendu situé à Londres au Royaume-Uni. Il s'agit d'une passerelle en acier réservée aux piétons enjambant la Tamise pour relier le quartier de Southwark sur la rive gauche à la City de l'autre côté. Le pont se trouve entre le Southwark Bridge en aval et le Blackfriars Bridge en amont. Inauguré le 10 juin 2000, il était le premier pont construit à Londres depuis le Southwark Bridge inauguré en 1921.
Le Millenium Bridge permet de se rendre au théâtre du Globe, à la Bankside Gallery et à la Tate Modern sur la rive gauche, ainsi qu'à la City of London School et la cathédrale Saint-Paul sur la rive droite.
L'alignement du pont est tel que la façade sud de la cathédrale Saint-Paul, encadrée par les portants du pont, est visible de l'autre côté du fleuve, offrant ainsi une des plus belles vues de la cathédrale. Il est créé par Norman Foster.
La conception du pont a fait l'objet d'un concours organisé en 1996 par le Conseil Municipal de Southwark. Le gagnant du concours fut un projet novateur intitulé Lame de Lumière réalisé par Arup, Foster et associés et Sir Anthony Caro.
En raison des limitations en hauteur et aussi pour améliorer la vue, les câbles de suspension ont été tendus au-dessous du niveau de la plate-forme, donnant ainsi un profil très peu profond. Le pont repose sur deux piliers enfoncés dans le fleuve ; il est constitué de trois sections principales de 81 m, 144 m et 108 m (du nord au sud), avec une structure d'une longueur totale de 325 mètres. La plate-forme en aluminium a une largeur de 4 mètres. Huit câbles de suspension exercent une poussée de 2 000 tonnes sur les piliers implantés sur chaque rive, suffisants pour soutenir une charge de 5 000 personnes.
Wobbly Bridge : 4m de largeur pour 320 de longueur. Les travaux ont commencé fin 1998 et la construction proprement dite, par Monberg Thorsen et Sir Robert McAlpine, le 28 avril 1999. Le pont a été inauguré le 10 juin 2000, avec deux mois de retard et un supplément de 2,2 millions de livres sur un budget initial de 18,2 millions de livres.
Cependant il a dû être fermé au public deux jours plus tard, en raison d'un phénomène de résonance, le pont oscillant latéralement de façon imprévue. Ce jour-là, une marche caritative devant traverser le pont attira beaucoup de monde. Les mouvements de balancement furent provoqués par le grand nombre de piétons (90 000 personnes le premier jour avec jusqu'à 2 000 personnes en même temps sur le pont). Les premières vibrations encourageaient et parfois obligeaient les piétons à marcher au rythme du balancement, ce qui accentua les oscillations, même en début de journée lorsque le pont était relativement peu chargé.
Ce mouvement de balancement lui a valu le surnom de Wobbly Bridge (pont bancal). Les mesures prises pour limiter le nombre de personnes traversant le pont ont entraîné de longues files d'attente, mais n'ont atténué ni l'enthousiasme du public pour ce manège qui décoiffe, ni les vibrations elles-mêmes. La fermeture du pont après seulement trois jours d'ouverture a été sévèrement critiquée par le public, qui associait ce retard à celui dont avait souffert le Dôme du Millenium.
Les phénomènes de résonance des ponts suspendus avaient été bien étudiés depuis la catastrophe du pont de Tacoma Narrows (Washington, États-Unis). Néanmoins peu d'attention avait été prêtée au mouvement latéral produit par des piétons, provoqué par la réaction humaine à des petits mouvements latéraux dans le pont, entraînant un mouvement de pulsion qui n'avait pas été anticipé dans l'analyse statistique avant la construction. On a pensé que le profil exceptionnellement bas des câbles de suspension a contribué au problème, mais une étude menée par des ingénieurs prouve que l'oscillation peut se produire sur n'importe quel pont à suspension ou autre, soumis à un grand mouvement de foule.
Le problème a été résolu par l'installation d'amortisseurs hydrauliques et de masse pour contrôler les oscillations horizontales et latérales. Les travaux ont été menés de mai 2001 à janvier 2002. Après une période d'essai, le pont a été rouvert au public le 22 février 2002 : depuis, aucune vibration importante n'a été signalée.
Le 18 janvier 2007 le pont fut une nouvelle fois fermé, mais cette fois en raison des vents violents provoqués par la Tempête Kyrill et qui menaçaient d'emporter les piétons.
Dans le film Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mêlé de David Yates sorti le 15 juillet 2009 au cinéma, le Millennium Bridge est attaqué et détruit par des Mangemorts. Cependant, c'est une erreur de la part des producteurs car l'attaque est censée avoir lieu en 1996, alors que le pont n'a été ouvert qu'en 2000.
Dans le film Rubinrot de Felix Fuchssteiner sorti le 14 mars 2013 au cinéma, Gwendolyn téléphone à son amie Leslie depuis le Millennium Bridge pour lui confier qu'elle a fait un voyage dans le temps.
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The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, linking Bankside with the City of London. It is sited between Southwark Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge. The Millennium Bridge is owned and maintained by Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. Construction of the bridge began in 1998, with the opening in June 2000.
Londoners nicknamed the bridge the "Wobbly Bridge" after participants in a charity walk on behalf of Save the Children to open the bridge felt an unexpected and, for some, uncomfortable swaying motion on the first two days after the bridge opened. The bridge was closed later that day, and after two days of limited access the bridge was closed for almost two years while modifications were made to eliminate the wobble entirely. It reopened in 2002.
The southern end of the bridge is near the Globe theatre, the Bankside Gallery and Tate Modern, the north end next to the City of London School below St Paul's Cathedral. The bridge alignment is such that a clear view of St Paul's south façade is presented from across the river, framed by the bridge supports.
The design of the bridge was the subject of a competition organized in 1996 by Southwark council and RIBA Competitions. The winning entry was an innovative "blade of light" effort from Arup, Foster and Partners and Sir Anthony Caro. Due to height restrictions, and to improve the view, the bridge's suspension design had the supporting cables below the deck level, giving a very shallow profile. The bridge has two river piers and is made of three main sections of 81 metres (266 ft), 144 metres (472 ft) and 108 metres (354 ft) (North to South) with a total structure length of 325 metres (1,066 ft); the aluminium deck is 4 metres (13 ft) wide. The eight suspension cables are tensioned to pull with a force of 2,000 tons against the piers set into each bank — enough to support a working load of 5,000 people on the bridge at one time.
Ordinarily bridges across the River Thames require an Act of Parliament. For this bridge that was avoided by the Port of London Authority granting a licence for the structure obtaining planning permissions from the City of London and London Borough of Southwark. Construction began in late 1998 and the main works were started on 28 April 1999 by Monberg & Thorsen and Sir Robert McAlpine. The bridge was completed at a cost of £18.2M (£2.2M over budget), primarily paid for by the Millennium Commission and the London Bridge Trust. It opened on 10 June 2000 (two months late).
Unexpected lateral vibration (resonant structural response) caused the bridge to be closed on 12 June 2000 for modifications. Attempts were made to limit the number of people crossing the bridge. This led to long queues and dampened neither public enthusiasm for what was something of a white-knuckle ride, nor the vibrations themselves. The closure of the bridge only two days after opening attracted public criticism of it as another high-profile British Millennium project suffered an embarrassing setback, akin to how many saw the Millennium Dome. The wobble was attributed to an under-researched phenomenon whereby pedestrians crossing a bridge that has a lateral sway have an unconscious tendency to match their footsteps to the sway, thereby exacerbating the sway. The tendency of a suspension bridge to sway when troops march over it in step was well known, which is why troops are required to break step when crossing such a bridge.
The bridge was temporarily closed on 18 January 2007, during the Kyrill storm due to strong winds and a risk of pedestrians being blown off the bridge.
The bridge's movements were caused by a 'positive feedback' phenomenon, known as synchronous lateral excitation. The natural sway motion of people walking caused small sideways oscillations in the bridge, which in turn caused people on the bridge to sway in step, increasing the amplitude of the bridge oscillations and continually reinforcing the effect. On the day of opening the bridge was crossed by 90,000 people, with up to 2,000 on the bridge at any one time.
Resonant vibrational modes due to vertical loads (such as trains, traffic, pedestrians) and wind loads are well understood in bridge design. In the case of the Millennium Bridge, because the lateral motion caused the pedestrians loading the bridge to directly participate with the bridge, the vibrational modes had not been anticipated by the designers. The crucial point is that when the bridge lurches to one side, the pedestrians must adjust to keep from falling over, and they all do this at exactly the same time. Hence the situation is similar to soldiers marching in lockstep, but horizontal instead of vertical.
The lateral vibration problems of the Millennium Bridge are very unusual, but not entirely unique. Any bridge with lateral frequency modes of less than 1.3 Hz, and sufficiently low mass, could witness the same phenomenon with sufficient pedestrian loading. The greater the number of people, the greater the amplitude of the vibrations. For example, Albert Bridge in London has a sign dating from 1873 warning marching ranks of soldiers to break step while crossing. Other bridges which have seen similar problems are:
•Birmingham NEC Link bridge, with a lateral frequency of 0.7 Hz
•Groves Suspension Bridge, Chester, in 1977 during the Jubilee river regatta
•Auckland Harbour Road Bridge, with a lateral frequency of 0.67 Hz, during a 1975 demonstration
After extensive analysis by the engineers, the problem was fixed by the retrofitting of 37 fluid-viscous dampers (energy dissipating) to control horizontal movement and 52 tuned mass dampers (inertial) to control vertical movement. This took from May 2001 to January 2002 and cost £5M. After a period of testing, the bridge was successfully re-opened on 22 February 2002. The bridge has not been subject to significant vibration since. In spite of the successful fix of the problem, the affectionate "wobbly bridge" epithet remains in common usage among Londoners.
An artistic expression of the higher-frequency resonances within the cables of the bridge were explored by Bill Fontana's 'Harmonic Bridge' exhibition at the Tate Modern museum in mid-2006. This used acoustic transducers placed at strategic locations on the cabling of the Millennium Bridge and the signals from those transducers were amplified and dynamically distributed throughout the Turbine Hall of the Tate by a programme which Fontana entered into the sound diffusion engine of the Richmond Sound Design AudioBox.
•The Millennium Bridge was featured in the sixth installment of the Harry Potter film franchise, where the bridge collapsed following an attack by Death Eaters.
•The Bridge also appeared in the 2014 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy during the climactic battle on Xandar.
•The Bridge also appeared in the video to the Olly Murs song "Heart on My Sleeve."
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El Puente del Milenio es un puente colgante, peatonal y fabricado con acero que cruza el río Támesis, a su paso por Londres, en Inglaterra, uniendo la zona de Bankside con la City. Se localiza entre el Puente de Southwark y el Puente de Blackfriars. Fue el primero que cruzó el Támesis desde que se construyera el Tower Bridge, o Puente de la Torre, en 1894. Es propiedad de la Bridge House Estates una fundación benéfica que también se encarga de su mantenimiento, y que es supervisada por la City of London Corporation.
El lado sur del puente se encuentra cerca del teatro The Globe, de la Galería de Bankside y del Tate Modern. El lado norte del puente se encuentra cerca de la School of London City y de la Catedral de San Pablo. El alineamiento del puente es tal, que nos ofrece una clara vista de la fachada sur de la Catedral de San Pablo, enmarcada por los soportes del puente, que constituye uno de los lugares mas fotogénicos de la Catedral.
El diseño del puente fue elegido por concurso, en 1996 por el concilio de Southwark. El diseño ganador fue muy innovador, y fue realizado por Arup, por Foster and Partners y por sir Anthony Caro. Debido a las restricciones de peso, y para mejorar la vista, la suspensión del puente tuvo que tener cables de apoyo bajo el nivel de la cubierta, dando una sensación de poca profundidad en las aguas. El puente tiene dos plataformas de soporte y está hecho en tres secciones de 81 m, 144 m, y 108 m (de norte a sur) con una estructura resultante de 325 m; la cubierta de aluminio mide 4 m de ancho. Los 8 cables que mantienen el puente en suspensión, están tensados para poder sostener 2000 toneladas de peso, lo suficiente para soportar a 5000 personas en el puente al mismo tiempo.
La construcción comenzó a finales de 1998, pero los principales trabajos comenzaron el 28 de abril de 1999. El coste económico del puente fue de 18,2 millones de Libras, 2,2 millones por encima del presupuesto anunciado. Fue abierto el 10 de junio del año 2000, dos meses más tarde de lo esperado, y unas inesperadas vibraciones y fallos estructurales, hicieron que éste tuviera que ser cerrado el 12 de junio, dos días después de su apertura, para realizar modificaciones. Estos movimientos eran producidos por el gran número de personas, 90.000 el primer día y más de 2.000 en el puente al mismo tiempo. Las primeras pequeñas vibraciones animaron (o incluso obligaron) a los viandantes a caminar de manera sincronizada con el balanceo, incrementando el efecto, incluso cuando el puente se encontraba relativamente poco transitado al comienzo del día. Estos balanceos hicieron que el puente se ganase el apodo de Wobbly Bridge.
Se intentó limitar el número de personas cruzando el puente en el mismo momento. La clausura del puente solo 3 días después de que se abriese produjo una gran crítica pública, como otro gran proyecto del sentir británico que sufría un revés vergonzoso, semejante al del Millennium Dome.
Tras unas obras que duraron desde mayo de 2001 hasta enero de 2002 y que costaron 5 millones de libras, el problema se arregló, y tras un periodo de prueba, se reabrió el 22 de febrero de 2002.
Desde entonces no se han vuelto a tener noticias de movimientos extraños en el puente, y sólo se volvió a cerrar durante la tormenta Kyrill, una especie de ciclón.
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Presqu'île St Laurent - Porspoder (Bretagne - Finistère)
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Picture of my girlfriend Valérie. Probably one of my favorite out there. Making of video coming soon!
As per request, I ran the Auto Correct first to see if the image was first worth restoring. I see too much in the way of blown out highlights but it does improve things overall. Still somewhat hazy looking.
109, a red Caterham Seven - FV03 CMF - entered by Graham Sinclair, seen in the paddock during practice at Doune Hill Climb, September 2018.
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This is a modification of the 1966 GT40 from 75881. I actually really like the design LEGO came up with for this car a lot, so I didn't want to change any of its design features. I did drop it 2 plates lower to the ground, though, since the GT40 is a legendarily low car. I also deleted the visible studs. It still seats a minifig! They just have to recline a little more than usual.
From a recent Editorial shoot with local Model Ashley Cvitanich!
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Douchanbé (Asie Centrale - Tadjikistan)
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Well he is kinda finished. I see a lot of things I could've done better. But I will alter him when I have time again.
I will sand his eyes a tad better for example. They are a tad bit grainy now. So it needs to be smoother.
But in the end I am happy with the result. He is the little snarling guy I wanted him to be, haha.
Fun project ^^