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Bottle of Notes is a sculpture by internationally renowned artists and creators of public artworks, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Unveiled in 1993, it was commissioned by Middlesbrough Borough Council as the first public artwork to be installed as part of a regeneration initiative for the Tees Valley region.
Situated in Middlesbrough Centre Square, outside Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), the sculpture takes the form of a giant bottle, standing nine metres high – twice the height of a giraffe. The shape of the bottle is made from a continuous, off-white swirl of steel letters. Blue letters spiral upwards from the inside.
The artists took their inspiration from the local area’s industrial heritage, its relationship with the sea and from Captain Cook, one of the area’s most famous sons. The intricate steel lettering reflects the region’s rich heritage in steel production and fabrication. It was constructed in Hebburn, helping to provide employment for steel workers in the shipyards.
For the outside of the bottle, van Bruggen selected a line of text from Captain Cook’s Journals, written during his first voyage of exploration in the Pacific in 1769: We had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole of the passage of the planet Venus over the Sun’s disk. The text on the inside comes from a poem she wrote, ‘Recalling Amsterdam’, which links the English shore to the European continent: “I like to remember seagulls in full flight gliding over the ring of canals.”
The sculpture is positioned on a slant, to appear as if it had been left stuck in the sand by a receding wave – a giant message in a bottle to local people and the wider world.
An exercise we did at the studio to paint a picture of where we'd like to be down the line.
I added a star system to rate myself on how well I was doing to figure out where I need to invest more time and energy.
OMG when did this HAPPEN!!!!! yyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy so exciting!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Yahoo Flickr Team!!!!
Having bagged his spot on a trolley, a spotter notes down 86030 as it runs through Crewe light engine on 30th May 1978. White Adidas bag is a classic!
Zenit EM Scanned from a Kodacolour negative
Notes on paper study.
I won the Kamera67 Karfoto photo competition with this photo. The competition was held in December -06.
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I haphazardly collect old and new hymn books. I bought these two from the historical library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, while doing some research there. The open book is The Sacred Hymnal, a shape note tunebook from the Ruebush Kieffer Co., the main focus of my recent research efforts. Edited by J. H. Hall, J. H. Ruebush, and W. H. Ruebush, the book was published in 1899 and intended for worship services, prayer meetings, Sunday school, revivals, and other religious meetings. It contains 200 hymns divided into 7 sections: worship, man’s ruin and redemption, the Christian life, the Christian church, young people’s department, the life beyond, and miscellaneous.
The other book is Sacred Songs No.1, edited by Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan, and George C. Stebbins. The book is in round notes and published by the Biglow and Main Company of New York in 1896. Sankey and Philip Bliss were instrumental in the formation of gospel music, publishing their first collection of songs for gospel meetings in 1875. The book includes many new songs along with “useful and popular pieces,” making it “practical and desirable.” Many sacred and gospel music publishers in the late 19th century issued new songbooks on a regular basis, suggesting that the public sang regularly from the published books and had an appetite for new songs. The editors express their hope that the book will be useful in churches and prayers meetings, as well as in the home so that “the good old-time custom of singing the praises of God in the home may again be revived.”
I keep a paper record of the photos I add to my two 365 groups. This is the list for the daily self-portrait group 365 Days of which (by dint of long-service) I'm one of the admins.
You will note that this is photograph 3543 of my daily selfies. Early in 2007 I saw Flickr folk posting daily self-portraits but I'd missed the obvious starting point of the First of January so I waited until my 65th birthday on 21 April 2007
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to a group which we have each set up for the purpose. I have set up the Bulldog clips group. Admission is free to all, but submissions will be ruthlessly moderated. BULLDOG is a registered trademark of Brandsley Limited which is licensed to Faire Bros & Co Limited. Its registration as a trademark in the United Kingdom dates back to 1944.
Stuck for an idea for your daily 365 shot? Try the hereios of the We're Here! group for inspiration.
note yellow legs of adult gull clearly distinguishing their from the herring gull Larus argentatus. Main area of breeding are the Black sea and the Caspian sea regions
The hair! The faces on the people around them........the doorman who you can't see in this photo that asked them to "calm the dancing down". Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I have seriously started a Lauren Fanclub. She's the person who gets the most comments & favourites out of all my photos. I think I can safely say you can 'hire' her for a party for the small price of getting her really, really drunk.....
She is also a free spirit now that she graduated today.....That is correct people....she is also very intelligent as well as being a pretty face.......(pretty sure she has an English degree now or something)
She is going travelling throughout Europe this summer so if you want her to come to your party let me know!
Editor's note: this is worth zooming in on the large size! From astronaut Don Pettit's blog: the San Antonio Astronomical Association sends a signal to the Station! Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/
From the blog: It sounds deceptively easy. In an earlier post I wrote about the technical requirements. But like so many other tasks, it becomes much more involved in the execution than in the planning.
Early Sunday morning (Mar. 4) at 01:27 our time, the San Antonio Astronomical Association, an amateur astronomy group, succeeded in flashing the space station with a one-watt blue laser and a white spotlight as we passed overhead. This took a number of engineering calculations. Projected beam diameters (assuming the propagation of a Gaussian wave for the laser) and intensity at the target had to be calculated. Tracking space station’s path as it streaked across the sky was another challenge. I used email to communicate with Robert Reeves, one of the association’s members. Considering that it takes a day, maybe more, for a simple exchange of messages (on space station we receive email drops two to three times a day), the whole event took weeks to plan.
I was ready with cameras for the early morning San Antonio pass and can report that it was a flashing success. Here’s one of the pictures to prove it!
Image credit: NASA
Original image/read the blog:
blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/letters/posts/post_1330964044656.html
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
There's a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/
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Typewriter Notes - notecard set curated and designed by Janine Vangool of UPPERCASE magazine. Published by Chronicle Books with the front cover photograph by me! Available to buy via the UPPERCASE online shop, Chronicle Books, Amazon etc
Kantō Railway Jōsō Line (常総線) KiHa 300 single-car DMU No. 301 (ex-Tsukuba KiHa 30-1, ex-JNR KiHa 30-16)
Stored out of use
Mitsukaidou Depot (水海道), Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
April 29th, 2012
Notes: Acquired by the Joso Line in 1988 from the recently closed Tsukuba Railway, which had received it from JNR in 1986 from the Takasaki Division. This car is preserved at Mitsukaido.
1600 x 1050
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, said there should be no limits for immigration from the Muslim Middle East to Germany.
Did Merkel just "read out Germany's suicide note"?
MY NOTE:To make it short - just remember WHY they are refugees in such a large number? They flee because they are on a KILLING SPREE among each other. They are on a killing spree to eliminating EACH OTHER as they did for the past 1.400 years in the name of ALLAH and wanting to do the same everywhere they go - feel free to share...
Canon AE-1 Program
Rollei Crossbird Experimental Film / Cross Processed
1/125th @ F/2.8
JOBO Developed
Scanned Epson V550