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The survivor hid out of sight behind the grimy metal pillar, knowing that if he was seen, it would all be over.
IMG_0922 S31° 34' 47" E152° 33' 00"
This road has been closed for a couple of years....
see www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/la/qala.nsf/18101dc36b6383...
4015—MOUNT COMBOYNE TRIG POINT AND LOOKOUT
Mr John Turner to the Minister for Education and Training, and Minister for Women representing the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Energy, Minister for Mineral Resources, and Minister for State Development—
Is access to the trig point and lookout of Mount Comboyne open to the public?
If not, why not?
If not, how long has the trig point and lookout been closed to tourists and the general public?
If not, is the lack of access advertised by way of a road sign or on the State Forest's website to inform the general public?
If not, why not?
Is the Minister aware visitors from Sydney and Melbourne recently travelled to the trig point lookout of Mount Comboyne but access was denied because of locked gates across the road?
When will the gates be reopened to tourists and the general public?
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No.
While the area was used by many bone-fide four-wheel drive enthusiasts and other recreational users, it was also victim to excessive vandalism and misuse. This rendered the fire lookout tower, which is a strategic tool in fire management of the region's State forests, unsafe for use. Additional vandalism had occurred to the Forests NSW radio repeater, which is used to service the whole of the region and is an important tool for the safety of staff. To preserve the safety of the tower operators and other staff, the gate was locked and access permitted to walking traffic only.
Comboyne Trig Road and Trig Point have been closed for approximately 1 month coinciding with the restoration of the fire tower and the upgrade of the road. The restoration of the fire tower and Comboyne Trig Road cost in excess of $10,000.
A sign was erected in the area approximately two years ago advising of the intention to lock the gate.
See above.
No.
Gates will not be open to casual tourists due to safety risks to visitors, and due to excessive vandalism to the fire lookout tower and the radio repeater. A number of other vantage points are available in the region, including North Brother Lookout (picnic and toilet facilities available), Bago Bluff Lookout (Pine Hut Road, Bago NP), Rawson Lookout (Borganna NP), Newbys Lookout and Flat Rock Lookout (Coorabakh NP). These all provide views of Camden Haven and surrounds.
www.exploroz.com/interact/UHFRepeaters.asp?State=NSW&...
Check this trig too! From www.westprint.com.au 14/12/18
Friday Forum
Townsend Corner
Townsend Corner is the junction of the Murray River with the Black-Allan Line at the eastern end of the Victorian – New South Wales border. I hadn’t heard of this before and so I have done some research. Jo.
This Information came from a paper written by Nadia Albert on behalf of the Office of the Surveyor General of Victoria.
Prior to the 1870s, some survey work had been done in the area of the Black Allan
line, most notably that of Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (1812-1869) under the leadership of NSW Surveyor General Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell.
Townsend led his party of ‘free-men’ (ex-convicts) and bullocks under difficult conditions, ‘days being generally excessively hot, the nights severely cold.’ To ascertain what he believed to be the nearest source of the Murray to Cape Howe, Townsend surveyed the Great Dividing Range. This was not an easy task given the ‘large number of springs and rugged, densely timbered terrain,’ and it required that ‘every water channel and every minutest bend of the range [be investigated] so as to leave no doubt as to the particular source sought for.’
From this Townsend made a reduced plan to indicate the straight line to Cape Howe. At the expedition’s end, Townsend’s equipment was in a ‘mutilated state:’ his men and bullocks were not much healthier.
In 1866 the Victorian Parliament deemed Townsend’s marking of Cape Howe insufficient, and so in 1869, a conference was held to geodetically survey the twenty kilometres of Cape Howe, and to decide the exact position of the boundary end-point.
It is believed that this survey was never completed or maybe never undertaken.
The Age Nov 24, 2004.
With its restoration of a historic survey cairn near the source of the Murray River complete, a team of 16 surveyors has ended 153 years of unfinished business between Victoria and NSW.
The team, from the Victorian Surveyor General's office, RMIT's geospatial science unit and volunteers from the Institution of Surveyors finished restoring the 134-year-old monument.
The team's work paves the way for a formal recognition of the straight-line part of the border. A draft proclamation was begun in 1874 but never invoked.
The land boundary, as distinct from the Murray River boundary, was agreed to before the colonies separated in 1851.
The border begins at the official source of the Murray - a two-metre-wide patch of wet ground - on the north-west slope of Forest Hill, near Mount Kosciuszko. It then drops east-south-east for 155 kilometres in a straight line to Cape Howe.
RMIT lecturer and survey team member Ron Grenfell said there had been intense rivalry between the two colonies from the start and NSW usually triumphed.
Before they had even split, the southern colony had already lost the rich farm country of the Riverina and rights to tax the lucrative Murray River trade.
The original border was to have been the Murrumbidgee River, which would have ceded to the southern colony a large tract of land, almost as far north as Canberra.
"Victoria would have been huge," Dr Grenfell said.
The discovery of gold at Delegate, and the question of which colony it lay in, prompted the first survey of the line from the Murray to Cape Howe nearly 20 years after the colonies had split. Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan forced their way through some of Australia's most rugged terrain to finish the two-year survey in 1872.
Black, a Victorian, laid the marker stone so that it faced Victoria. The straight segment of border was named the Black-Allan Line in their honour.
Even though it owns Delegate, not everything has gone NSW's way. When Dr Grenfell and a team of RMIT students surveyed part of the Black-Allan Line in 1984, they discovered an error that meant NSW had for decades been repairing a Victorian stretch of the Princes Highway just north of Genoa.
It was only a 14-metre stretch but, after the loss of the Riverina, the Murray watercourse and the gold at Delegate, it was, for Victoria, a symbolic victory.
And from the Bombala Times Feb 21, 2006.
AFTER a wait of more than 130 years, the eastern straight-line portion of the NSW and Victorian border was formally recognised last Thursday, February 16.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Victorian Premier, Bruce Mildenhall completed a dedication to Townsend Corner, which was named after early explorer, Thomas Scott Townsend who found the source of the Murray River nearest to Cape Howe.
Officially naming Indi Springs of the upper reaches of the Murray, NSW Minister for Lands, Tony Kelly then explained the Aboriginal origins of the title, with 'Indi' meaning ‘something far away, or belonging to the past'.
Below is a photo of the post at the Eastern end of the Black Allen Line (you refer to it as Townsends Corner) and the stone cairn on the first peak about a kilometre East of that point. The trail of stones marks the direction of the border line. This cairn was rebuilt about 7 years ago. Peter.
This is my first entry to the Competition Corner Group for the weekly theme of 'Post-it' I have a similar image taken 2 years ago in my stream and saw this lovely little 'in the wall' post box whilst driving through Ellel near Lancaster today....hope you like :)
Thank you for your views and comments, all very much appreciated :)
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I actually found this note in a post secret book.
It says "While visiting my parents last night, I caught my father sleeping in front of the TV. The moment was both beautiful & sad. I realized how little I really know him - yet, at that moment, I felt more connected to him than I ever had before."
It really touched me.
Post Office, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire. George V wall box MK18 211 is set into the window. 20th April 2018.
not sure what you would hunt fish or trap here but I'm warned! :)
This is at the edge of the site for the planned LaReunion artist residency program. lareuniontx.org
Instructions for an Incubation
EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
Feb 12-13, 2016 10pm-11am
Incubation is the practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely inspired dream or cure. As the exhibition is loosely based on an ancient Greek temple of healing, we too will seek the inspired dream or cure. To encourage dreaming, the following is recommended:
Before arriving:
Avoid caffeine, sleeping pills, alcohol, and marijuana. (At least the hours just prior to sleep)
Relax- stretch, take a bath or a shower, be mindful, have intention. What ails you? What is the dream? What is the cure?
Bring something to record your dreams. Keep it by your side so when you wake up you can take notes as soon as possible. Just thinking about remembering your dreams will help you to remember them. Be prepared to draw and/or write the dream.
Bring something to be comfortable while sleeping. Bed roll, sleeping bag, air mattress, favorite blanket, Snuggie?
When thinking about dinner options, consider something with cheese, chicken, or salmon.
Avoid a heavy meal.
Consider breakfast. Perhaps bring an item to share?
Gabie Strong (and friends) 10pm-midnight
Music for Healing or What You Need # 2
Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, Ted Byrnes
February 12, 10pm-midnight
Baik Art
Please join us Friday, February 12 for an evening with Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, and Ted Byrnes. Themes of catharsis and cleansing will lead into a sonic space to prepare us to dream and, ideally, to heal. Between 10pm-midnight, Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, and Ted Byrnes will activate the space of Baik Art. For an optimal experience, be prepared to lie down.
An intrepid group will spend the night following the performance in the ancient Greek tradition of ‘incubation’. Your dreams will be interpreted the following morning by a professional. Please email Matt Wardell at shonufwardell@hotmail.com to reserve your spot. BYOB (Bring Your Own Bedding). Details of the overnight stay will follow. Space is very limited!!
Gabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Strong uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, environmental installation, photography and video as mediums for experimentation.
Her work has been presented on Kchung TV at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2014 biennial exhibition, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pitzer Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, and LAXArt amongst others.
Strong has performed at MOCA, the wulf, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Jabberjaw, and with her all-female free-psych band Lady Noise for Dawn Kasper’s performances at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Strong’s work is an exploration of the affect of decay that is experienced from living in the spatial disorganization of the twenty-first century. This disorganization is the result of living in multiple non-places at once—both physical and virtual— where borders are both confining and permeable. I often collaborate with other artists, musicians and poets to create work that embodies the difference of lived experience.
Christopher Reid Martin is a multidisciplinary artist, currently residing in Los Angeles. He first began working with sound in Orange County in 2004, layering sounds from various field recordings of daily life which convey living truths and over processed instrumentation as the reactionary expression. These expressions came to birth the solo project known as of Shelter Death, as it has evolved into a project in which performance and sound interplay to make for a personal reactionary experience in a perpetually decaying world.
In 2010, Christopher had taken his creative endeavors into other avenues, releasing tracks under various formats under his shared Orange County based label Via Injection. Christopher's creative repertoire expanded when he began documenting his experience in countries outside the US, by taking field recordings, foreign radio recordings, and/or taking photographs. Photographs were either left unadulterated as they were taken or digitally manipulating and layered these with old scanned various schematics. This has lead to an ongoing body of work, which fuses reality in the form of photography, with corroded ideas in the form of chopped manipulated grids and manuals. Christopher has and continues to show work in a number of art shows and has performed live in a number of events in projects such as Bailouts, Via Injection, Shelter Death, and under his own name.
christopher-reid-martin.format.com/
Ted Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, new music, electro-acoustic music, and noise.
Ted primarily works in ad hoc improvisational settings, but has standing improvisational groups including: a group with Ulrich Krieger, a duo with Jeff Parker, a duo with Chris Cooper (AQH), a duo with Nicholas Deyoe, a duo with John Wiese, a duo with Scott Cazan, a trio with Jacob Wick and Owen Stewart-Robertson, among others. Additionally, Ted has played in duo/trio/or ensemble settings with: Mazen Kerbaj, David Watson, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Charlemagne Palestine, Alfred 23 Harth, Tim Perkis, Jaap Blonk, Torsten Muller, Kim Myhr, Jim Denley, Lloyd Honeybrook, Chris Schlarb, Mike Watt, Paul Masvidal, the LAFMS (including Smegma, Airway, Ace Farren Ford’s Artificial Art Ensemble, Rick and Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Vetza, etc), Sissy Spacek (the band), Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and more.
Ted has also collaborated with / worked for a variety of visual artists: he has accompanied a Doug Aitken “happening”, collaborated with Olivia Booth to play her glass artworks, collaborated with Dani Tull on a sound performance, performed with John Knuth and Bret Nicely at an installation in an empty pool, and has performed for FLUXUS artist Jeff Perkins on multiple occasions for his projector/light installations.
Currently, Ted is delving further into the possibilities and realities of solo drumset performance in addition to continuing to work with his existing projects.
An offering will be made of cheesecake and figs. Lights will be extinguished.
Daniel Pontius 9am-11am
Daniel Pontius will provide individual consultations of your dreams.
Designer and co-owner of SIMEONA LEONA, Daniel Pontius’ approach to intuitive dream analysis looks at the archetypal language of the collective unconscious filtered through the dreamer’s personal symbology. You are the oracle. This approach assists the dreamer to develop their own narrative in what may feel like an esoteric dream-world. It empowers the dreamer to become their own oracle—to find their own guidance and council to questions and concerns.
Daniel Pontius’ first job out of graduate school (MA Interior Design, 2003. WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute) was making curtains for a 17th century Wiltshire, England manor house, updated in 1908 by Detmar Blow. Arriving in Manhattan after London, he sourced and designed custom fabrics and furniture for Clodagh Design International Interiors, followed by a key position in the Interiors Department of Deborah Berke and Partners Architects.
In 2008, his love of textiles and design brought him to Los Angeles where he began working on interiors as well as crafting custom pillows and hand-embellished textiles from vintage and antique materials for Pat McGann Gallery, Blackman Cruz and Hallworth Design. In 2014, Daniel Pontius and Cirilo Domine opened SIMEONA LEONA, an imaginatively curated design gallery located in Los Angeles’ emerging Koreatown neighborhood. The gallery spotlights the singular and the beautiful; focusing on simplicity and proportion.
Please be aware that the gallery will open to the public starting at 11am.
Please be prepared to bring an offering (suggested $5-20 donation) to compensate our artists.
And, be aware that a liability waiver must be signed to participate in the overnight event.
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EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
January 9 - February 13, 2016
Baik Art presents EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion), a solo installation and series of events by Los Angeles artist Matt Wardell.
For the exhibition, Wardell will present an immersive environment of images and objects by channeling ‘something like’ an ancient Greek temple of healing. Using Baik Art’s unique architecture, viewers experience a literal (and perhaps figurative) katabasis (‘to go down’ as in a descent of some type), but more importantly, and ideally, a catharsis (‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’).
Numerous objects, found and constructed, engage with the verticality of Baik Art’s shaft-like space, surrounded by an installation of wall works including drawings, collages, and repurposed images. Several fabric sculptures fill the gallery functioning as apotropaic totems. These Guardian Figures suggest a ‘presence’, ideally something beyond the object.
Daytime and evening events will further activate the gallery a space for healing. Practitioners from a variety of fields will be on hand for consultation. Music for Healing or What You Need will present a sonic cleansing. Incubation and Dream Analysis will be an overnight event of guided sleep followed by dream analysis with a professional. Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. For the date and time of each event, please contact the artist at shonufwardell@hotmail.com.
In ancient Greece and Rome, an asclepeion was a healing temple, sacred to Asclepius, the Greek God of Medicine. These temples were places in which patients would visit to receive either treatment or some sort of healing, whether it was spiritual or physical. Epidaurus was the first place to worship Asclepius as a god, beginning sometime in the 5th century BCE.
Starting around 350 BCE, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular. Pilgrims flocked to asclepieia to be healed. They slept overnight (“incubation”) and reported their dreams to a priest the following day. He prescribed a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium. Since snakes were sacred to Asclepius, they were often used in healing rituals. Non-venomous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.
Matt Wardell seeks to prolong a sense of wonder while placing the viewer in a lingering position of active assessment. He is interested in how we choose to live and in introducing work that facilitates these investigations. Wardell enjoys walking on fences, answering wrong numbers, and giving directions to places he does not know. Uncomfortable laughter, confusion, and irritation tend to be the byproducts of Wardell’s works.
Wardell has exhibited his work at venues throughout the United States and Mexico, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (SFMOMA), Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), REDCAT, PØST, Human Resources, Black Dragon Society, Mark Moore Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council, all in Los Angeles. Wardell is a founding member of the artist collective 10lb Ape.
Baik Art
2600 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034
310.842.3892
Linocut
Print on Hahnemühle paper cm 32,5 x 50
Black Calcograph ink
cm 25 x 35
2017
THE KINGDOM OF FUNGI
More than 30 years have passed since the Chernobyl disaster, since then the radioactive magma that was generated following the explosion of the fourth reactor was buried under a vault of steel and cement. Over the years the various and systematic inspections of the protective sarcophagus have revealed a black mushroom rich in melanin which, despite a very inhospitable and prohibitive environment, grew more and more flourishing on the walls of the protective structure. A team of researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has studied the phenomenon and found that strong ionizing radiations, more or less deadly for most living beings, are a major vital resource for fungi, in fact, researchers have shown that mycetes, thanks to a mechanism similar to that of chlorophylline photosynthesis, can absorb the radiations to develop and thrive.
I believe that in any post-nuclear scenario the mushrooms can not be missing and so as they have colonized the walls of the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl reactor are definitely destined to colonize the world. It seems unbelievable that this simple spongy and brainless organism, in the case of a nuclear catastrophe, is sure to survive the human species.
In Italy the boletus edulis also known as porcino is one of the most loved and sought after spontaneous mushrooms, and is considered the king of mushrooms and woods, it is a sin that it is greedy with ionizing radiation, especially cesium 137.
Silverton, CO 1975
(Homemade post cards were very popular in the 70's among photographers. Bill Dane raised it to an art form; most did it to communicate, and exhcange examples of their work. I found this one, unsent, among my other pictures.)
exploring the old abandoned Chicago Post office was fun, This was the biggest and most visible abandoned building in Chicago
I researched into Victorian Post Mortem Photography for my exam topic of Shade and recreated my own shoot from the ideas I found in my findings.
The West Point Class of 2020 selected their first duty assignments or posts where they will first serve after attending BOLC (Basic Officer Leader Course). (U.S.Army Photos)
Originally in the East Lansing, Michigan post office; now in the Michigan State University library
Title: "America's First Agricultural College"
Artist: Henry Bernstein
Completed: 1938
I refer in the title to my note on the previous image.
A few minutes after my photographing the Odd Rock and due consideration of my next shot my thought process was alarmed to hear one of my granddaughters scream. I turned around to see her panicked face, looked down and saw the cause - an octopus tentacle around her ankle! In fact there were two octopus next to her. We all spent an entrancing 30 minutes studying these wonderful creatures in this large low tide seawater pool.
The octopus were searching for new hiding places and their investigations caused panic amongst the other creatures in the pool, large fish, young lobsters and crabs made a dash to safety whenever the clever octopus started to probe every crevasse and hole.
Another shot of the posts on Derwent Water in the Lake District, this was taken half an hour after my last upload from the same spot just as the sun was rising giving some fantastic light on Lord's Island.
Taken on my nikon d7000, sigma 17-70 lens, hitech06 nd soft grad, hitech 06 nd hard grad, lee polariser, tripod mounted and cable release.
Please view large On Black
The opening ceremony was reported in the Chelmsford Chronicle (14 October 1938):
DUNMOW'S NEW POST-OFFICE FITTED WITH BURGLAR ALARMS The new Dunmow Post-office adjoining the Rural Council offices in High Street was opened in the presence of a representative gathering on Wednesday by Mr. A. C. Knight, chairman the Dunmow Parish Council. Erected at a cost of £5,600, the premises are attractive in appearance and up-to-date in equipment. " For a small office, you will not find one better equipped anywhere in the country," an official said. "We have even installed burglar alarms in case of hold-ups at the public counter." The entrance lobby and public office are panelled with English oak. Two telephone silence cabinets are provided in the public office, which contains a large writing table and chairs for the use of the public, and there is a third telephone cabinet outside the building for use when the office is closed. Separated from the main building are a garage, cycle shed, etc. Mr E. F. Nunns, the Eastern District Surveyor, who presided at the opening, said £5,600 was a lot of money to spend on a new Post-office in a small town like Dunmow, but the growth of the business there justified it. The cost included the purchase of the site from the Dunmow Rural Council. Letters delivered in Dunmow numbered 44,000 a week and parcels 54,000 a year The number of postal orders issued annually was 34,269, and the number paid out was 12,291. The number of telegrams sent was 2,515 a year, and the number delivered 641. The work had increased by about 30 per cent, in the last ten years. At the request of the Dunmow Council, they proposed, in the new office, to give the public better service by engaging more staff. Mr. Knight recalled the days when the Dunmow Post-office formed part of Johnson's shop in High Street. The postal work rapidly increased, and later a move was made to the recently-vacated premises in High Street. It was amusing to recall old Post-office days, the older generation would remember Newman Ruffell, who used to leave Dunmow with his pony and trap and mails every day at 6 a.m., and arrive back at 6 p.m., heralding his approach by blowing trumpet. (Laughter). Postman East, another fine old character, used to drive the mails every morning to White Roding, and return with his pony and trap in the evening. Mr. Knight thanked the Dunmow Postmaster, Mr. J. T. Hull, assuring him that his courtesy and kindness were very much appreciated. (Hear, hear). The efficiency of the staff was notable. " Nothing ever goes wrong in the postal service in Dunmow; indeed, we never expect anything to go wrong". Mr Knight concluded by proposing hearty thanks to the Postmaster-General for providing such a fine Post-office. (Applause). Mr L. C Dickens, head postmaster of Bishop's Stortford, proposed thanks to Mr. Knight and bouquets were presented to Mrs. Knight and Mrs Nunns by Miss Olive Stanley and Miss Rosalind Frecknall. The company then adjourned to the new building, where Mr. Knight sent the first telegram. This was addressed to the Postmaster- General, and was worded as follows: "On behalf of the people of Dunmow, I would like to thank Major Tryon for the excellent new Post-office which I have had the privilege of opening to-day at Dunmow. The new Post-office is a worthy addition to the town, and is much appreciated. (Signed) A. C. Knight, chairman of the Dunmow Parish Council." Col T. Gibbons, D S.O . D.L., J.P.,purchased the first stamp. Mr. Knight then formally declared the new office open to the public Tea was served to the visitors in the sorting office, under the supervision of Mrs. Ken Beard.
For more on post office buildings visit www.britishpostofficearchitects.weebly.com