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The Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 was an event dedicated to progress, the celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal, and the rebirth of San Francisco following the disastrous 1906 earthquake. Funds came from six million dollars in donations, five million in state bonds and five million in San Francisco taxes.
A nationwide architectural commission conceived of the Exposition as an architectural unit, and Berkeley architect Bernard Maybeck was assigned the task of designing the Palace of Fine Arts.
The Palace was the last of the major buildings of the Exposition to be started; construction began December 8, 1913. The original columns and Rotunda were framed in wood, and covered with "staff", a mixture of plaster and burlap-type fiber. It was the largest building ever to be made of that material. For purposes of an exposition, in which buildings were supposed to last a year and then collapse readily, staff was ideal; but durability was one quality it lacked.
William Merchant, who was from Maybeck's office, designed many of the Palace's decorative elements. He also spent the last ten years of his life until 1962 planning the Palace's restoration.
A move to preserve the Palace was begun in October, 1915 with a Fine Arts Preservation Day. 33,000 supportive signatures were gathered, and $350,000 was raised towards the duplication of the Palace in lasting materials.
When the ashes of the Exposition were cleared, all that was left was the Palace of Fine Arts. It was maintained first by the San Francisco Art Association who attempted to raise additional funds for the preservation. After the First World War, the Palace became part of the city park system. Federal funds were used to repair and replace some of the Palace's decorations, and in 1934, the Recreation and Park Department installed eighteen lighted tennis courts that operated until 1942. During the Second World War, the Palace was used by the Army as a motor pool. In 1947, the Army returned the building to the city.
The Palace slowly crumbled from the ravages of the weather and ill-use. Finally, the structure had to be fenced off as it was a public hazard.
Then, in the late 1950's, a group of dedicated citizens, led by philanthropist Walter S. Johnson, initiated a drive to rescue the Palace from planned demolition and restore it to its former glory. On July 20, 1964, a contract was awarded and the reconstruction began. Workers carefully removed original design elements from which molds were made. The rotunda, colonnade and all except the steel framework of the gallery were torn down and replaced with concrete castings. In September, 1967, work was completed of a stripped-down version of Maybeck's original. The addition of the remaining original colonnades was completed in January, 1975 - a gift from Walter S. Johnson to the city and the people of San Francisco.
The gallery area now houses the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre and the Exploratorium. The theatre, which seats 1,000 in a continental-style configuration, was added in 1970. The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre is operated by the Palace of Fine Arts League, Inc., a non-profit corporation. Past events at the theatre include:
Status of the Uncharted costumes - not complete. I'm in the middle of trying to move house at the moment, so there won't be nearly so much dollying time for a little while, sadly. However, Elena now has some trousers, as I felt bad about her sitting around half naked. She stole her boots from Hunger Games Peeta, and until she gets her proper game accurate shirt, she's still wearing the Barbie fashion pack top.
Nate is still as he was, though he's somehow lost most of his shirt buttons. Oh well; that's what you get for adventuring.
After a few days' work (on and off, not constant!), this is how far I've progressed on the bargain Michèle Wilson wooden jigsaw puzzle . As you can see, I've more or less completed the aviary and now have the greenery to assemble. I have a feeling that the hardest part is yet to come...
The push fit makes it slow going: every time I insert a piece it dislodges all the ones around it.
So far it seems to be complete, but only time will tell.
I downloaded a copy of the image which has helped enormously, if only so I can check that I'm on the right track.
I can understand why this puzzle ended up in a charity shop, it's a stinker!
Mike's working on a 1000pc (cardboard) mini-puzzle while I'm assembling this one, I have a feeling he'll finish first!
John Gast
1872
"This depiction of American Progress captured a common belief in the 'manifest destiny' of Anglo Americans to rule and civlize the New World. Commissioned in 1872 from a New York artist, it appeared in a popular magazine that celebrated the railroads. The central figure wears the 'Star of Empire' and carries a book symbolizing education and enlightenment. From her other hand, telegraph wires 'flash intelligence [information] through the land.' Peace reigns, the years of civi war are over. The partially completed Brooklyn Bridge represents the powerful cities in the East as white Americans and railroads bring progress to the West. The conquest of the American Indians seems assured, though the wars still raged."
From "Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion" at the Oregon Historical Society.
It's important to note that to get to the west coast, Ms. Manifest Destiny is going to have to trot across an enormous* amount of land that was part of Mexico until 1848, when the United States took it in a base act of territorial expansion through war. And before that, the land had belonged to Native Americans.
*The United States contains 900,000 square miles of land that used to be Mexico, about equal in size to Western Europe, according to Wikipedia.
This image has fascinated me every time I browse through my "In Progress" folder which is where I keep all the photos I am currently "working on". I only put that in quotations because there are about 250 images currently in the folder, and even though I edit through about 20 or so a week, it rarely dips under 200 with all the scanning I have been doing.
This is a pretty recent image. I shot this in either July or August on a trip to Depoe Bay. This was actually taken from the hotel balcony. Sad to say (not really) that I did not even have to put shoes on to take this photo. :-p
Anyway, on this day I was doing a number of experiments trying to capture the motion of the waves and the foam. I was usually a polarizer and a red filter to both increase contrast and exposure times, and bracketing that by removing the red filter now and then. I even took a couple of color photos with the red filter on with the intent of scanning them grayscale to see if the result would be similar or different to that of black and white film shot with the red filter. If this is leaving your head spinning, don't worry, it is not that important.
What is important was how this shot left me feeling. I love the line of the foam leading into an almost invisible horizon. But I also love how it branches out. There is something decidedly organic in the pattern, that defies our intent to overlay our understood order onto everything. But at the same time, there is an order to this, it is not all random or chaotic. It is like seeing an almost alien language, one so foreign, that it is just barely recognizable as being a language at all. Yet it still leaves you with the impression that if you could but translate what is being said or written in front of you, that ages of wisdom would be yours to understand. And that is how I feel when I look at the ocean. I feel like I am just barely catching the tip of something so vast that it blows my understanding of the world and life away, but if I could just start to understand what it is saying...
Perhaps a romantic view of the ocean, but I have certainly been accused of being worse things. ;-) I miss the ocean. It was also on this day that two whales swam into the surf just below our balcony to feed. I have seen whales plenty of times, but never this close. I could have picked up a rock and easily hit them from the shore, not that I would have of course, but that is how close they were swimming.
As I already said, I miss the ocean.
I made some progress yesterday and it is actually looking like the pattern!! yahooo!! I still can't believe I am really knitting...ha ha!
Jacey's SGS Scarf Pattern: jaceycraft.blogspot.com/2011/11/sgs-scarf-pattern.html
I made some good progress the last week. the upper part of the ship also needs to have LEDs installed.
(Tennessee Williams)
This girl's tattoes are a work in progress, as is she, as are we all...
Wow, is there a lot of tattooing going on in a certain segment of our society.. Mostly, of course, among the people who aren't yet old enough to have seen fashion trends come and go, and lived to regret having fallen into the trap of being trendy.. Bell bottoms.. wind pants.. perms.. you name the trend, and it has come and gone.
It's not that I have anything against tattoos - in the right places, and for the right reasons.. Tattoos that have deep personal significance, to mark some event in a person's life? I can see that.. And a truly beautiful little tat to enhance the back of a pretty shoulder in a strapless gown, or the nape of the neck.. I can see that too.
But I don't really like tattoos that are half-covered by clothing. Just an OCD thing on my part, I suppose.. It just doesn’t look right. I want to see it all, or not see it at all. Which, when you are tattooed like this pretty young woman, requires her to be naked, or all buttoned up. Neither of which seems entirely appropriate at the river, but if I had to make a choice…. (grins..)
Conversation from my previous post made me think about if, or how much my skills as a photographer have changed since I have been taking this craft more seriously.
The photos above are two shots of the same waterfall taken four years apart. The photo on the left was taken in October of 2006. The shot at the right was taken recently.
Four years ago I was pretty darn proud of the shot on the left, but am mortified that I would think that it was a great shot. I hate the stand up and take a snapshot composition. The water is all blown out and the sky is blown out as well.
This is how I see the shot on the right. The low comp is better... the sky is hidden keeping me from having to deal with that... and the colors are more vivid and saturated... something that I like in my work.
Have I taken any workshops? Have I read books? Have I taken college classes? Nope, nope and nope. You see, four years ago I discovered Flickr and have been learning from the photographers whose work I admire the most. The best part is the honest opinions and advice given freely by the same people that I admire. I am blown away at how approachable and willing to help the photographers that I admired are.
Thank you to everyone that takes the time to leave comments and critiques. Just a benign and simple "Nice shot!" comment, that some abhor, is seen as positive affirmation and encouragement by me. The critiques for me are lessons from skillful, caring generous photographers that are willing to take their valuable time to help to improve others work.
You all have something to do with my skill as a photographer and the resulting confidence that it fosters. My confidence and my constantly moving benchmark for where I want to be as a photographer are what drives me in what I do as a photographer.
I sincerely... totally sincerely thank everyone that has left comments, critiques and encouragement on my photos. You will never know how much they have helped my work and the personal happiness that I have in my life... especially when I'm out in the fresh air with my camera.
One disclaimer... I am in no way disparaging workshops or college courses. I'm sure that if my life's present situation were a bit more affluent I would be paying for workshops, college courses and books. I am confident that my learning curve would have been shorter and I would have improved my skill quicker. So by all means, take a class or a workshop, but don't discount what can be garnered from personal experimentation, observation of others work and the comments that are left on your photos here on Flickr.
Thanks so much my friends! : )
Standing outside the Co-operative hardware store at Beamish Museum is this absolute masterpiece of motor car preservation, a 1901 four seater tonneau, made by The Progress Cycle Co. of Coventry and UK registered EU 12.
Note the blanket lying on the front. Even on a warm day this must have been an essential part of the car's equipment.
The Progress Cycle Company made cars from 1898 until 1903. They also made motorcycles between 1900 and 1905.
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Some of you may recall me posting a couple of shots this time last year of the Solido model of a bus with so much wrong with how it was finished? As bought second hand, it purported to be RT3224 in the livery of London Country, who never ran it, on a mixture of Green Line route 704 and Country route 406, neither of which it ever ran on. Well, here’s the model outshopped as RT3183, in correct LT Country Area finish, bearing blinds for route 409 which that vehicle could have run on since it was allocated to Godstone garage. There is indeed an RT in preservation outshopped like this. Still work to do - e.g. indicators - but at least it’s now more authentic. This (if it works) is a link to last January’s posting: flic.kr/p/2eiTui2
I don't know if it's clear here, but my ambitious sketch was attempting to incorporate a little bit of everyone's previous work, around a slightly modified version of Nate's cockpit, which is brilliant, by the way.
However it's ending up slightly smaller than I thought, and certainly will be less massive than Nate's. But don't worry, Don. I'll make up the difference with some swanky greebs and way too many modified plates with bars on them.
in progress, about 6" x 16"
i'm pretty much finished with the face, but what should i do with the rest of it?!
New Year's Resolution No. #1 is to finish this quilt! My goal is to have it complete by March 1st~just in time to back it with a print from the re-release of FMF. See, there is a method to my madness.
They call it progress but I feel sad each time I see these structures being built. All the orchards and farms are all gone and the population has gone up from 40, 000 to more that 200, 000 in 35 years that we've been here. The farmer across the street from our house used to let me go and help myself to whatever he had growing. The farmer passed away and the family sold the farm and became residential houses not too long after.
An abandoned classroom at Hall Summit school. If I hadn't already done the research on this place and knew that it was abandoned in 2001, I would have guessed that it had been vacant since the early 90s. Time has not been kind to this school.
Here is the tank progress so far. I am really really happy with the turret. Now all I need to do is add the interior, rear hatches, and drivers hatch.
Also on a side note you can see some beautiful artwork of a friend that I did for high school credit.
Apesar da cor predominantemente preta para trabalhar sob o clima quente do território brasileiro, a pintura ficou bem legal nessas unidades!
Despite the mostly black color to work under the hot weather over brazilian territory, they did pretty cool painting on these units!
...or is it really? View On Black
Despite a country-wide housing crunch, commercial development in the PNW is robust. A number of high-rises are going up. Commercial Real Estate in downtown urban areas still command high premiums. New retailers are moving in, along with the hopes of high-end downtown luxury living. We'll see. I'm cautiously optimistic.
My Licca dollhouse is progressing steadily. The roof terrace is all but finished.
I've been working on the windows now. They have been a challenge to design so that they're practical and neat to make with the equipment/facilities I have. Not having a designated workshop area for woodwork is a downside, when every piece is sawn by hand. I have all this stuff just piled up in my dolly room now and I need to scoot off to the backyard warehouse when I need to saw something. Hehe!
I will do some touch ups on the paint work all over yet, but I'm fairly pleased with how its coming along, the colours chosen and such. :) Building this is so much fun, coming up with ways to do the different parts of the house and getting to play the designer a bit.