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The amplifier with elegance. Gracefully refined and dignified.
# Features: A solid state amplifier pre-tuned to sound similar to our ultra high-end Musee acoustic amplifier series.
# Individual input level control with allows each channel to be independently controlled for multi-channel system, or 5.1 channel system.
# Pulse width modulation power supply built with toroidal core transformer for great response to high frequency and current capacity. Power supply keeps steady voltage and provides wider dynamic range.
# Powerful output final stage driven by Pc=100W 1c=10A bipolar power transistor in a single push-pull. This provides a simple and uniformed output sound.
# Blue glass epoxy circuit board for durability, reliability and endurance. 70um thick copper foil is also used for all wiring.
# High density aluminum chassis with real wood ornaments provides the elegant look and the luxury satisfaction as well as the functionality as a heat sink.
# Cooper plate backing.
# Specification: Rated Power: 70W x 4ch (4Ω) (210W x 2ch(4ΩBridged))
# Maximum Output Power: 140W x 4 (4Ω)
# Load Impedance: 2Ω - 8Ω/4Ω - 8Ω(Bridged)
# Input Sensitivity: 0.2-5V (Each channel can be individually controlled)
# Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01% (1KHz/4Ω)
# Frequency Response: 5Hz - 100kHz (+0,-1.5dB)
# Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100dB (1KHz/IHF-A)
# Standby Time: Short Circuit/Over Voltage/Over Load/Thermal
# Input Voltage: DC12-16V
# Current Consumption: 1.2A (Idle) /40A (Rated Power)
# Dimensions: 431(W ) x210(D) x 55(H)mm
# Weight: 5.0Kg
Group 4_
Aaron Onchi, Betty Sanchez, Roberto Gutierrez, Frank Durán , Belén Olaya GarcÃa
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
I photographed this figure from an 1895 magazine in my collection.
It depicts an oversized American heliograph - the usual mirrors were 4.5" square. The "station" mirror variant had 8" mirrors - perhaps this is one of those. The article does mention the fact that the Department of Colorado held the world's record, which was set just one year prior using 8"x8" mirrors to perform two-way Morse Code communication over 183 miles.
The heliograph was used to signal by mirror-reflected sunlight, modulated into the dots and dashes of Morse Code or Myer Code. The American heliograph used a shutter on a second tripod for modulation.
This image is from the article: "Signaling from Long's Peak in Colorado", and appeared on page 167 of Leslie's Weekly Illustrated, Vol LXXXI, No. 2087, September 12, 1895.
Here are some excerpts from the story:
"A twinkling star seventy miles away in the mountains the other day caught the eyes of Denver people. ... A heliograph in the hands of an expert of the United States Army Signal Corps was responsible for the flash that came from the mountains. On the top of the Equitable building in Denver, Captain William A. Glassford, chief signal officer of the Department of the Colorado, and his men received the intelligence. It came in dots and dashes, in the Morse code, and was as easily interpreted as the click of the telegraph. Messages were sent from Denver to the party on Long's Peak, and when "30" was flashed, the operators folded their instruments and started for a toilsome climb to the summit of Gray's Peak, where the next experiments were to be made.
...
The heliographing outfit consists of a mirror, a "shutter," a telescope and a field-glass. The mirror and "shutter" are each mounted on tripods for convenience. When it is desired to communicate with a party in any specified locality the mirror is set so as to throw a reflection on the spot where the answering party is supposed to be located. By sweeping the horizon the answering flash indicates when the mirror is correctly set. The opening and closing of the shutter in front of the mirror gives the effect of dots and dashes and enables the second party to receive the message. At ordinary distances the telescope is not found necessary.
The world's record in long-distance signaling is held by the Department of the Colorado. ...."
I make no copyright claim to this - you are free to use it as your laws allow. As an image published prior to January 1, 1923, it should be in the public domain in the USA, but rights determination is your responsibility. In the event that it turns out that my action entitles me to copyright, I release it to the public domain, as indicated by the Flickr CC0 copyright marking.
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So I moulded and casted an improved cockpit from my vac-formed master, cleaned it up, and hey, not bad!
All credit for the electronics and programming work goes to my dad, who is just roughing out the sequencing for the micropython system. He assures me the modulation and frequency can be made a lot smoother, but these tests are just to understand what we're trying to acheive
Various outputs from a C++/OpenGL custom software i'm working on.
Demo here: vimeo.com/user18035206/sound-sculptures
really good stopping power AND modulation. A little finicky to set up, but many other cantis are worse.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
6th Swiss Design Network Conference 2010 Basel,
Marenko, Betti
Contagious Affectivity. The Management of Emotions in Late Capitalist Design
I am investigating the notion of affect as elaborated by Baruch Spinoza and, drawing from Spinoza, also by Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi, who have written extensively about this subject in relation to the constitution of subjectivities. The general framework I am following is given by the critique of current forms of capitalism, which I am inclined to rename semio-chemio-neuro-affective capital. This term underlines the coagulation of different levels of production, reproduction and control concerning regimes of signs, circulation of knowledge and affects, language and desire, the chemical and neurological composition of subjectivities and so on.
I see here a progression from my previous work on how the production of subjectivities within a biopolitical/affective framework is mediated by psychopharmaceutical technologies (Marenko 2009a) and on the emotional entanglement that characterizes our relationship with objects, which I have reframed within a neo-animist paradigm (Marenko 2009b). I argue that we cannot look at design without first addressing how emotion itself is being designed as labour within the current new spirit of capitalism.
In this sense the increasing emphasis on emotion in design reflects and reinforces what is currently at the core of late capitalism, that is, the shift to affect, knowledge, information and experience, what Italian Marxist theorists (Maurizio Lazzarato, Christian Marazzi, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno) define as immaterial labour. Against this backdrop I refer to Eva Illouz’s notion of emotional capitalism and Bernard Stiegler’s ideas of psychopower and the capture of attention, as well as to Deleuze’s ideas on modulation and control. My intention in this paper is first to map the territory of what we mean by affect, as distinct from emotion (Deleuze, Massumi). The notion of an affective turn in the social sciences will be addressed (Patricia Clough). Then I will look at the transmission of affect (Teresa Brennan) by invoking an epidemiology paradigm (Gabriel Tarde) and ideas of social contagion and viral spreading. Finally I will position these ideas in relation to designed objects and the process and practice of design, specifically in relation to what is known as emotion- driven design.
The Dirty Carter Electronic Sound Generating Instrument was designed by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Chris Carter from legendary Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It was produced for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble in 2010. It was originally designed as a touch controlled instrument with the player's skin resistance completing the circuit. This hard wired modification by A.S.M.O. gives more control and predictability by wiring all to the touch contacts to pots and switches. An additional low pass resonant filter has been added, LFO and an external CV socket for filter modulation.
The case is made of stained ply and the front panel is covered with black leatherette.
Shot with a Canon FD 50mm f/0.95 on an extension tube using a Fuji APS-C camera at high ISO and an electronic shutter. The lens isn’t particularly sharp even by vintage fast 50mm standards and the depth of field is razor-thin as is this XXF nib.
The stripes in the bokeh balls appear because the LEDs are dimmed with Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), meaning they are constantly flickering on and off. With an electronic rolling shutter, the camera reads the image line by line and each line lands at a different moment in that PWM cycle, some when the LED is bright and others when it is off, which creates banding and broken bokeh especially at very fast shutter speeds when the camera cannot average the flicker.
Inside the bokeh balls you can also see tiny fine lines which come from the high-frequency PWM pattern itself, stretched across the blurred highlight. The larger, thicker black bands come from the overall rolling shutter readout timing, where whole rows are captured during a darker part of the PWM cycle. Switching to a mechanical shutter usually avoids this because it effectively averages the flicker over the exposure, so PWM artefacts are mostly smoothed out.
Group 3_
Alejandro Candela, Georgina Muñoz, Carlos Paz, Berenice Jimenez, Laura Antelo, Gabriel Manriquez
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Complex oscillator based on two sine waves that are each distinctly "warped" by either wavetable data or unpredictable volatile memory information; the results are then morphed between one another for your output timbre. Includes a dedicated modulation oscillator. Pitch can be controlled via internal bus in 200e systems with a 225e MIDI/Preset Manager.
The amplifier with elegance. Gracefully refined and dignified.
# Features: A solid state amplifier pre-tuned to sound similar to our ultra high-end Musee acoustic amplifier series.
# Individual input level control with allows each channel to be independently controlled for multi-channel system, or 5.1 channel system.
# Pulse width modulation power supply built with toroidal core transformer for great response to high frequency and current capacity. Power supply keeps steady voltage and provides wider dynamic range.
# Powerful output final stage driven by Pc=100W 1c=10A bipolar power transistor in a single push-pull. This provides a simple and uniformed output sound.
# Blue glass epoxy circuit board for durability, reliability and endurance. 70um thick copper foil is also used for all wiring.
# High density aluminum chassis with real wood ornaments provides the elegant look and the luxury satisfaction as well as the functionality as a heat sink.
# Cooper plate backing.
# Specification: Rated Power: 70W x 4ch (4Ω) (210W x 2ch(4ΩBridged))
# Maximum Output Power: 140W x 4 (4Ω)
# Load Impedance: 2Ω - 8Ω/4Ω - 8Ω(Bridged)
# Input Sensitivity: 0.2-5V (Each channel can be individually controlled)
# Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01% (1KHz/4Ω)
# Frequency Response: 5Hz - 100kHz (+0,-1.5dB)
# Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100dB (1KHz/IHF-A)
# Standby Time: Short Circuit/Over Voltage/Over Load/Thermal
# Input Voltage: DC12-16V
# Current Consumption: 1.2A (Idle) /40A (Rated Power)
# Dimensions: 431(W ) x210(D) x 55(H)mm
# Weight: 5.0Kg
The layering corresponds to Milankovitch cycle.
Unit: Morbiokalk (limestone), Lias
Graham P. Weedon:
"The 21 000 year (21 ka) precession cycle was detected in all three cases, the 100 ka eccentricity cycle in two cases and the 41 ka obliquity cycle in one. Filtering revealed that the supposed 21 ka sedimentary cycles are grouped into packets of four or five small and large amplitude cycles. The packets reflect the 100 ka modulation of the 21 ka precession cycle. Local disruption of the packaging can be used to locate hiatuses in pelagic strata."
source: jgs.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/ 146/1/133
Chinese Buddhist prayer machine circuit bent by A.S.M.O.
Beech wood case, translucent polycarbonate pannel, LFO modulation with speed, wave shape, depth controls and LED indicator. Pitch control, touch contacts, mashup / distortion switch, loop selector, built in speaker and 1/4 inch jack audio out.
asmo23.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/screaming-buddha-prayer-m...
Installed the NS-2 noise suppressor with a clean signal coming from the TU-2 tuner pedal. The send/return cover the dirt and modulation section after which it routes to the DD-5 delay.
The modulation section now also has the FX600 by Behringer mostly for tremolo and pitch-shift functionality.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
So I moulded and casted an improved cockpit from my vac-formed master, cleaned it up, and hey, not bad!
All credit for the electronics and programming work goes to my dad, who is just roughing out the sequencing for the micropython system. He assures me the modulation and frequency can be made a lot smoother, but these tests are just to understand what we're trying to acheive
Caught in the middle of an recording and the programming :)
Music :
soundcloud.com/nightbirds-electronic
soundcloud.com/nightbirds-past-records
Vidéo :
Someone really ought to do something about this!
Here, I heterodyne a master clock laser at 657 nm (linewidth perhaps ~1Hz) with a second-order slave laser (that is, master -> slave 1 -> slave 2). The optical interference should have a clean rf beatnote around 318 MHz since there is a double-pass AOM between the lasers.
Look at all that spectral fuzz within 0.5 MHz of the beat! The rf source is a maser-stabilized DDS, so there's no excuse. We've suspected that this higher-power slave laser was wonky, and well, here it is. I realigned the injection today, and it looks a lot better than this photo. Tomorrow we might get some comb time and see if it makes any difference.
Yet another example of perhaps the best lesson out there: when you want to measure something small, fleeting, and buried in noise, take it to high-frequency and somehow arrange to measure frequencies.
All lit up for the first time! All the instrument lights except for the Dynon D180 and the AP74 autopilot control are on one dimmer pot and switch. They balance out quite well after I added dropping resistors to individual lights. The Dynon can be set up to automatically dim its screen when the cockpit is dark...a function of the AP74. Dynon says that the autodim feature can control other panel lights using a pulse width modulation signal, but they didn't provide any documentation for it in the manual.
Specification:
‧ Tracks up to 32 satellites
‧ Receiver : L1, 1575.42 MHz
‧ C/A code:1.023 MHz
‧ Update rate : 1 HZ.
‧ Antenna type : Built in patch antenna
‧ Minimum signal tracked : -159dBm
‧ Dimension : 67 × 23 × 16 mm.
‧ Weight : 30g.
‧ On/Off switch : slide switcher
‧ Lithium-ion battery lasts for 23 hours of use
‧ Operation temperature : -10 ℃ to + 60 ℃
‧ Store temperature : -20 ℃ to + 60 ℃
‧ Store temperature : -30 ℃ to + 80 ℃ (Without Lithium-ion battery )
‧ Operation humidity : 5% to 95% no condensing
Position:
‧ Non DGPS (Differential GPS)：
‧ Position : 3.0 m CEP without SA
‧ Velocity : 0.1m. / sec2
‧ Time : 0.1 microsecond. sync GPS time
‧ DGPS(RTCM/EGNOS/WAAS/MSAS)：
‧ Position : < 2.2 m., horizontal 95 % of time <　5 m., vertical 95 % of time
‧ Above data follows MediaTek Inc. MT3318 chipset specification.
Acquisition Time:
‧ Reacquisition < 0.1 sec. Average
‧ Hot start 1 sec.
‧ Warm start 33 sec
‧ Cold start 36 sec.
‧ Above data follows MediaTek Inc. MT3318 chipset specification.
Protocol & Interface:
‧ Compatible with Bluetooth devices with Serial Port Profile (SPP)
‧ Bluetooth version 1.2 compliant
‧ Bluetooth Class 2 operation (up to 10 meters range in open space)
‧ Frequency : 2.400 to 2.480 GHz
‧ Modulation: FHSS / GFSK
‧ RF channels: 79
‧ Input sensitivity: -85dBm
‧ Output level: +2dB
‧ Output terminal: Mini-USB (CMOS Level)
‧ NMEA protocol output : V 3.01
‧ Baud rate : 38400 bps
‧ Data bit : 8
‧ Parity : N
‧ Stop bit : 1
‧ Output format :
Standard : GPGGA (1time/1 sec), GPGSA (1 time/5 sec.), GPGSV (1time /5 sec.), GPRMC (1time /1 sec.), GPVTG (1 time/1 sec).
‧ Optional : GLL, or MTK NMEA Command.
Dynamic Conditions:
‧ Altitude :Max 18,000 m ( 60,000 feet )
‧ Velocity : Max 515 m./sec ( 1000 knots )
‧ Acceleration : Max 4G
‧ Jerk : 20 m/ second3, max.
3 Led Function:
‧ Bluetooth , navigation update and battery/charger status Indication
Chinese Buddhist prayer machine circuit bent by A.S.M.O.
Beech wood case, translucent polycarbonate pannel, LFO modulation with speed, wave shape, depth controls and LED indicator. Pitch control, touch contacts, mashup / distortion switch, loop selector, built in speaker and 1/4 inch jack audio out.
asmo23.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/screaming-buddha-prayer-m...
period doubling (frequency halving) in an RF pulse using a 5 pence diode. The interesting behaviour here is how rapidly the frequency-halving follows modulations. Thus it can be used for frequency translation of fast signals.
A simple Darlington Transistor circuit for controlling the speed of a DC Brushless fan (12 volts). Requires a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) input. I use and Arduino UNO for this PWM input but any Microprocessor can be used. You can even use a 555 or 556 timer circuit.
For the sake of this simple circuit the Darlington Transistor TIP120 can be thought of as a MOSFET transistor.
Desayunador 2da y Miramar -
Ensenada, Baja California
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
A synthetic vibraphone, synthesised on the Arduino by using the PWM (pulse-width modulation) facility. Same Y scale as the photo of the filtered PWM signal, but a much slower timebase. Fuzziness of the signal is due to residual, un-filtered-out, PWM signal at 31.25kHz.
CNC milled tree trunk from Linden wood based on a form modeled in 3D. Milled at the HfG Offenbach with the kind assistance of Mr. Wolfgang Heide. Digital image taken at the exhibition "Natur-Struktur" in March-April 2008 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
wakefield, massachusetts
1957
trade show display
from the transitron line of electronic products
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Corners of Houston, Lafayette, Mulberry and Jersey, Nolita
The Puck Building, originally the home of Puck magazine, is one of the great surviving buildings from New York's old publishing and printing district.
The red-brick round-arched structure occupies the entire block bounded by East Houston, Lafayette, Mulberry and Jersey Streets, and has been one of the most prominent architectural presences in the area since its construction one hundred years ago. The building is further distinguished by the large statue of Puck at the building's East Houston and Mulberry Street corner; this is among the city 's most conspicuous pieces of architectural sculpture.
Puck was, from its founding in 1876 until its demise in 1918, the city's and one of the country's best-known humor magazines. Published in both English and German-language editions , Puck satirized most of the public events of the day. The magazine featured color lithographic cartoons produced by the J. Ottman Lithographic Company, largest in the country, which shared the Puck Bllilding space.
The current building is the result of three stages of construction, all supervised by architect Albert Wagner; the building and its additions read as a single unified composit ion. The style is an adaptation of the Romanesque
Revival, which had reached great popularity in the 1880s through the works of H. H. Richardson. Wagner's Romanesque, however, was not Richardsonian. A German-born architect, Wagner had worked in New York for Prague-trained Leopold Eidlitz, and his version of the Romanesque appears to reflect the round-arched Gernan "Rundbogenstil" that Eidlitz had brought to New York several decades earlier.
The Puck Building remains one of the most striking 19th-century industrial buildings in lower Manhattan. The comic magazine was founded by Joseph Keppler (1838-1894) and Adolph Schwarzman first appeared in German in 1876. Puck's attitude varied from d humor to merciless satire. Politicallv, in Keppler's time, supported the Democratic Party, but it was never a partisan magazine. It ridiculed poiitical corruption, monopolies, labor unions, suffragism, and all forms of graft, extravagance, and unjustice. It reviewed theater and musical performances. It laughed at fashions and different fads.
In March 1885, with the magazine's circulation and success on the rise, Keppler, Schwarzmann and Ottman purchased property on the southwest corner of East Houston and Mulberry Streets to be the site of a building to house both Puck and the Ottman company. The location was at the fringes of what was then New York's printing district, whose -center was the Astor Library on Lafayette Street (then Lafayette Place). The authors of a Puck supplement issued on the occasion of its tenth anniversary wrote that "Houston street marks the southernmost boundary of a region much affected by large publishing houses."
Publishing houses, periodicals, and printers were located throughout the neighborhood during the 1880s and 1890s, and it was a natural choice for Puck. The original building was erected in 1885-86 to the designs of Albert Wagner, but went through several additions and alterations. In August 1890, spurred by the continuing growth of the magazine, Keppler, Schwarzann, and J. Ottman's heirs bought the adjoining property to the south at 281 Mulberry Street and erected an addition to the Puck Building in 1892-93, again to Albert Wagner's design. The two-year delay was caused by uncertainty in 1890, about the potential route of a proposed new rapid transit line.
Although the Puck Building is too late to be considered part of the Rundbogenstil, it appears to show the influence of Wagner's earlier experience with it. Such a connection would help explain both the references to the style as "Renaissance," and its dissimilarity to the then more popular Richardsonian version of the Romanesque.
The enormous red brick structure has been a commanding presence in the neighborhood since the time of its construction. Its identity was further announced by the statue of Puck at the Houston and Mulberry Street corner of the building, where the two main entrances originally met, one on either street. There is also a smaller statue over the Lafayette Street entrance. The larger '"Puck" on East Houston Street was apparently designed by Henry Baerer, the sculptor of the bust of Beethoven in Central Park. The designer of the smaller "Puck" is not known.
The Puck Building today comprises the original 1885-86 structure and the 1892 addition, less the western portion of each removed in 1898; the Lafayette Street elevation dates from the latter alteration, but duplicates the earlier design. The building occupies an irregular lot bounded by East Houston Street on the north, Mulberry Street on the east, Jersey Street on the south, and Lafayette Street on the west.43 Despite the complexity of its building history, the Puck reads as a single structure retaining the integrity of its original design. The original portion is seven stories high, and the addition nine, but otherwise they are practically identical in design and material.
The building's architectural effects derive from the rhythms set up by arches of varying width, within bays of equal width, and from an adept use of red brick which creates the modulations in the piers, the definition of the arches, and the corbeling of the cornice. Cast-iron window enframements, statuary, and wrought-iron entrance gates, and the cast-iron and glass vault-lighting, provide the necessary contrast in materials.
The original section now comprises four bays on Lafayette Street, three bays on East Houston, and six bays on Mulberry. On Mulberry, the bays are defined by large brick piers that run the full height of the building. Each pier is actually in two sections: a wider pier at the first and second stories, and a narrower pier above. Each pier has a small brownstone base and rests on a five-foot high block of polished gray granite; each is banded in projecting brick. Within each bay at the first and second stories is a double-story brick arch, with projecting brick edges. Ihthin the arch, each bay consists of an upper arched lunette and a lower rectangle, separated by a cast-iron transom. The lunette contains a central double-hung one-over-one window, flanked on either side by a swing window topped by a quarter-arch pane. Beneath the spandrel are three large rectangular windows with transoms above and six-paned basement windows below.
The second and fourth bays south of East Houston Street contain secondary storefront entrances; the door replaces the central rectangular window of each storefront. The first and second stories are set off from those above by a brownstone stringcourse, beneath which is a band of corbeling.
The second section of pier, running from the third story to the seventh story, is narrower than the lower section; each is banded and adorned with an elegant iron ornamental tie-rod end at the fourth story, and a smaller one at the top. At the third and fourth story each bay comprises a pair of two-story arches, each half the width of the arches below. These arches rest on small brick piers with patterned brick "capitals." Within each arch are a pair of four-over-four doublehung windows above the brick spandrel, and a similar pair below the spandrel; each window in the pair is separated from the one next to it by a slender cast-iron pier with neo-Grec detailing. The third and fourth story bay is topped by corbeling and a brownstone sillcourse above.
- From the 1983 NYCLPC Landmark Designation report
Some color modulation and washes. Still lots of work to do.
The top word is "fascists" - anyone know what the bottom word is?
Passage of Her Song
A brush
~ gentle brush
To leave spun-silk these wiry curls,
braided ribbons and
other fancy things,
her hands wove round
a countenance ~ my own
reflected in the glass.
Her own ~ silver now flecked,
the porcelain handle etched mosaic
as the delicate fissures her face and mine.
In the shine
I see her soft and rhythmic stroke
perpetuum,
a movement I to she
whose composition blends and binds to me
Mother,
in my veins
you wrote a rhyme,
verses penned
in the rush of generations
~rush of red-letter days
and lonesome reserve of twilight kisses,
My lyrics sung
on the notes of toil and pride
pinched from time
and tears, honeyed and bittered
A hush
~ hush
To memorize our modulation
as we sing this final round of two,
this melody rising, each in separate measure,
to end upon
my single note,
sustained
and unwavering
jeanne rené 4/05 - 2/12
One of the most known fountains of Heraklion, point of reference for its inhabitants, but also for the visitors.
Today it is one of the most beautiful monuments of the city situated at the center of the most busy square - Eleftherios Venizelos sq. - of the town
The Venetian General Provisioner of Candia (Crete and Iraklion in Venetian times) Francesco Morosini ordered and supervised its construction in 1628. He managed to bring water from the Archanes' springs to the thirsty town of Heraklion through a complicated - for that period - system of pipelines and channels.
The eight-lobe cistern, which is based on a special stand, is decorated with embossed mythological depictions and maritime figures like tritons, dolphins and various coats of arms, while the water was flowing from the mouths of four lions. At the very top of the fountain there was a supernatural statue of Poseidon that was standing out but fell probably due to an earthquake.
During the Turkish period the fountain went into a vulgar modulation with the addition of a baldachin (ciborium) around it which was later taken away.
Morosini, on the occasion of the inauguration coined a special medal with his figure from one side and the fountain on the other.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]