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Pentacam analysis of my right eye. The Oculus Pentacam is a state of the art corneal topographer and analyzer which measures refractive strength, astigmatism, thickness, elevation etc. of the cornea. It can also make a virtual "x-ray" of the cornea using only visible light.
Winged dove or beached whale carcass? These are just two of the descriptions being used for the $4 billion structure that encloses the World Trade Center Transportation hub in New York.
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, I think it is a beautiful glass and steel structure. Consider it a modern - very modern - Grand Central station update. People still gaze in awe at Grand Central and people will still gaze at this structure for decades to come.
Known as the Oculus, the building is designed to bring light down into the subterranean rail station and shopping centre that quietly opened in March 2016.
Critics have blasted the hub for its massive cost overruns ($4 billion in public money) and lack of anything resembling a traditional train station (ticket machines, clocks, maps). But its existence is significant, if only because the hub represents the type of ambitious open spaces that used to exemplify public transit in the US. Grotesquely expensive, sure. Tough on the eyes, no question. But at least we all get to share in the spectacle
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“What is Creative Mondays?
Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.
So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”
Recently I’ve been working on a few posters/designs in the hopes of creating a series (Superheroes, 80′s Guns…) but this week I wanted to break away from a specific task and just try some creative experimentation. I’ve worked on a few projects where I tried to recreate something lifelike and I had this image of a solitary eye on a canvas in my mind.
Working from reference I got the colours and some of the finer details completed and with some practice I got something I liked digitally. Building up the layers and ending up with something a little more abstract I must have had the word ‘Oculus’ in my head from all the recent Oculus Rift news and thought it would be a fitting title to the piece. Oculus is ‘eye’ in Latin.
Oculus Quest - August 2020: Family fun with a virtual reality gaming gadget that I won in a competition.
This photo was taken at insomnia54
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Rome shows its love for the simple circle.
The dome was covered with bronze, removed possibly for Gian Lorenzo Bernini's, baldacchino over the altar in St. Peters. It contains five concentric circles each containing 28 coffers diminishing in size as they rise to the apex, at the oculus of the dome.
The oculus is 30 feet wide and along with the main entrance is the only source of light inside.
NYC: WTC / 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Oculus (looking east)
Leica M10 Monochrom | Voigtländer 28/2 Ultron ASPH
The Pantheon was built under the reign of Emperor Hadrian, a connoisseur and lover of the arts as well as an author and architect.
The crypt windows of St Maria im Kapitol are the work of one of Germany's foremost postwar stained glass artists Wilhelm Buschulte.
Buschulte is a complex designer, whose work is found in many churches and in several different hallmark styles. He can be a strong colourist, producing semi abstract fluid forms in rich colour like giant watercolours, such as his windows in Soest or in the gallery of St Gereon in Cologne. He also goes to the oppositie extreme in creating geometric, often monochrome creations, sometimes using leaded glass or even setting pieces of thick, chunky glass into a more solid matrix.
In Cologne his work can also be seen in the lowest two stories of the Decagon at St Gereon, and in the huge Gothic side windows of the chancel at St Ursula, in their bold yellow and grey abstract/organic forms.
Here in the crypt at St Maria, his windows are almost monochrome, though with limited use of subdued colour, and follow strong geometric forms with chunky, beveled glass accents that catch the light (though sadly there was little of that about on the morning I called!)