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Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
OurDailyChallenge "Begins with R"
In this case "Range Rider" a toy from the late 1940s - 1950s. There are numerous versions of this toy with various colours of horse and rider's costume and several colours of lettering. Another version featured Hopalong Cassidy. Both were cowboy characters in books, comics and movies. These toys have a windup mechanism that activates a lever in the base that causes it to rock back & forth, the lasso whirling around and the loose arm in front with the gun to raise and lower.
This is a rather poor quality video, but it gets the point across:
Some more photos from yesterdays's visit to the gorgeous Wemyss Bay station with my dad, once built to connect steam trains from Glasgow to steam boats going out across the Firth of Clyde to the islands, it is still a working port as well as train station, and the ferry Bute came in as we arrived then after unloading took on new cars, pedestrians and bikes before sailing off, so I shot a bunch of pics, long-range and close ups of the decks and bridge.
111016-N-8377A-202 CAMP MARMAL LIVE FIRE RANGE, Balkh province, Afghanistan – Students at the live fire portion of the Weapons Intelligence Training course taught on Camp Marmal, are put into teams consisting of a team leader, scribe, photographer and forensic collector to exploit the scene which included simulated blood. The live range portion, where students actually react to explosive incidents as if they were on call in their real mission assignments, is the culmination of the 15-day course which starts with an entrance test, classroom lectures along with written and practical tests. The students are learning to save lives by collecting information about enemy tactics, techniques, and the procedures to identify, track, and eliminate the bomb-makers. Upon completion of the WIT course, students will take their new skills out into the field for use in real world incidents. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael Ard/Released)
Wow! A 36" Viking range and hood are contrasted against a black & white mosaic glass tile backsplash for lots of drama.
Morning over moutains!!
My first HDR (3X). Since I didn't use tripod i couldn't catch the frames perfectly!
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just playing around and trying to get some more knowledge
The following photograph depicts moonrise amongst cloudy skies north of Tucson, Arizona. Saguaro cacti along the mountain tops of the Tortolita range can be seen silhouetted against the sky. An almost full moon provided a great deal of back lighting and illumination intensifying the contrast of the scene.
Crater Lake is a large, deep, freshwater lake in the Cascade Range of America's Pacific Northwest. It formed about 7,700 years ago when an ancient volcano called Mt. Mazama had an enormous explosive ash eruption. The eruption was followed by collapse of the mountain, leaving a large depression which later filled with water. Large holes or depressions formed when a volcano destroys itself or collapses are called calderas. Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon is a world-class example of this type of volcanic feature.
Seen here are the Pinnacles - differentially eroded pillars composed of volcanic ash and larger pyroclasts. The volcanic debris was deposited during Mazama's caldera-forming eruption (= an ultraplinian eruption). The light-colored lower unit erupted early - it is composed of rhyodacite ash and pumice. It ultimately came from magma near the top of the subsurface magma chamber. The darker-colored upper unit erupted later - it is composed of basaltic andesite ash and scoria. It came from magma nearer the bottom of the magma chamber, because it was more dense.
The deposit is part of the Wineglass Welded Tuff, a unit representing ash flows from collapse of the ultraplinian eruptive column.
The pinnacles themselves are sites of paleofumarole conduits. Fumaroles are hot steam vents. The subsurface plumbing was preferentially cemented and has resisted erosion compared with the less-lithified surrounding materials. The result is prominent, pointed columns.
Stratigraphy: Wineglass Welded Tuff, lower Holocene, ~7700 years old
Locality: Pinnacles, along Wheeler Creek, Pinnacle Valley, southeast of Crater Lake Caldera, Crater Lake National Park, southwestern Oregon, USA
Such an unusual sight, these older 2 door Rangies. Seen on a used car sales pitch filled with otherwise dull modern stuff. I don't think this was for sale.
After arriving at New Delhi, we slept for a few hours at the airport before heading to Guwahati in Assam (N-E India) with the Himalaya mountain range visible in the distance.
The visit to Guwahati was limited to 1 day, visiting the Assam National Museum and Temple of Kamakhya during the last days of the monsoon period. The next day we left already and we crossed the Bhramaputra river north to the Bhutan border to start our visit to the kingdom of Bhutan .
Bhutan to New Delhi We left Bhutan in Phuntsholing crossing the border with India and we headed for the airport of Bagdagra.
For sure a few hours to remember. At the end of the day we arrived again in New Delhi for 2 additional days in India.
Our first day in New Delhi was used for a citytour. Along all the sites and sounds from traffic, we visited some historic places like the Jama Masjid Mosque, Humayun's tomb, Gurudwara Bangla Sahib temple, India Gate and the Raj Ghat park, with the marble platform that marks the spot where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated.
On our last day, A very early departure for a 5 hour drive over the Yamuna Express way to Agra.
Visiting one of the 7 current World Miracles and the Unesco World Heritage site Taj Mahal temple, Agra Fort and also a brief visit the Little Taj Mahal temple.
Additional Information
Gurdwara Bangla Sahib is the most prominent Sikh gurdwara, or Sikh house of worship, in Delhi, known for its association with the eighth Sikh Guru, Guru Har Krishan, and the pool inside its complex, known as the "Sarovar." It was first built as a small temple by Sikh General, Sardar Bhagel Singh in 1783, who supervised the construction of nine Sikh shrines in Delhi in the same year, during the reign of Mughal Emperor, Shah Alam II.
It is situated near Connaught Place, New Delhi and is instantly recognisable by its stunning golden dome and tall flagpole, Nishan
Our Unesco World Heritage visits
Jeep KHR 656P: No data.
Land Rover JAC 908N:
Tax Status: Unlicensed
Expiry Date: 28/10/1994
Registration Date: 09/04/1975
Range Rover HAC 865N: No data.
Toyota JUW 855N:
Tax Status: Unlicensed
Expiry Date: 01/07/1981
Registration Date: 12/06/1975
Magnificent new Superfast themed recolour of the Matchbox 2018 Range Rover Vogue SE resplendent in a very metallic Burnt Orange colour. Matchbox idea of a premium release falls a little short of other competitors sadly, I can still see unpainted grey plastic, its baseplate isnt metal and its rear opening hatch is made of plastic BUT we should be grateful they have been allowed to make such castings after years of neglect and stagnation by Mattel. Worldwide distribution however remains a huge and frustrating problem having yet again needing to source these from the U.S. Mint and boxed.
Rhodochrosite-tetrahedrite-tennantite-pyrite-quartz from the Oligocene of Colorado, USA. (4.1 centimeters across at its widest)
Pink to red = rhodochrosite
Silvery-gray = tetrahedrite-tennantite
Brassy gold = pyrite
Gray glassy masses = quartz
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The carbonate minerals all contain one or more carbonate (CO3-2) anions.
Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral, MnCO3. Most rhodochrosite is pinkish, but high-quality specimens are a gorgeous red color. Its crystals are rhomb-shaped. Rhodochrosite has a glassy, nonmetallic luster, a white streak, and has a hardness of about 3.5 to 4.
Colorado's Sweet Home Mine has produced the most spectacular rhodochrosite specimens on Earth. Specimens from this site are intimately associated with polymetallic sulfides (tetrahedrite-tennantite - (Cu,Fe,Ag,Zn)12(Sb,As)4S13), pyrite, and quartz.
Rhodochrosite at this locality occurs in hydrothermal veins that intrude Precambrian basement rocks (granodiorites, gneisses, schists, migmatites, and pegmatites). Isotopic dating shows that hydrothermal mineralization occurred during the Oligocene, from 27.6 to 30.6 million years ago.
Locality: Sweet Home Mine, above Buckskin Gulch, south-southwest of Mt. Bross, northwest of Alma, Alma Mining District, eastern slopes of the northern Mosquito Range, far-western Park County, central Colorado, USA
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