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By Phin Murphy, Sinatra Murphy & Andrew Hogg Design
Scale melds the themes of water, movement and marine heritage via the narrative of the epic migration of the Short Finned Eel (Anquila Australis).
Fifty-five Greenpeace volunteers have this afternoon scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and are now occupying the roof of the historic building. They are calling for a new style of politics in Britain, one capable of rising to meet the challenge of climate change.
Full story at www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/dozens-scale-parliamen...
(c) Cobbing/Greenpeace
Scale models of thirteen designs from Proposta per un'autoprogettazione ('Proposal for a self-design'), 1973
Enzo Mari, Elio Mari
Wood, metal
A radical proposal
Perhaps Mari's most overt attempt to democratise design and subvert the market was his seminal project Proposta per un'autoprogettazione ('Proposal for a self-design'). He devised instructions for the self-design of 19 models of furniture comprising only wooden boards and nails, using the simplest carpentry techniques. Mari published them as a catalogue, available to any individual for the price of postage. Later, a few of the technical drawings were distributed through manufacturer Simon International. Of the project, he said: 'In 1974, I thought that if people were encouraged to build a table, for example, with their own hands, they would be able to better understand the underlying thinking that has gone into it.' Today this project is recognised as an important precursor to the open-source movement.*
From the exhibition
Enzo Mari
(March – September 2024)
This major exhibition celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest Italian designers of the 20th century, Enzo Mari, whose designs have inspired generations of creatives around the world)
Not only one of the 20th century’s most significant designers, Mari was also an artist, teacher, theorist, and more. During his prolific career, he created countless enduring and timeless designs, filling the homes and streets of the Milanese and beyond. An outspoken critic of the design industry, his uncompromising belief in the social responsibility of design resonates powerfully today, as we face ecological and ethical issues with ever greater urgency.
This unmissable retrospective which was produced and presented by Triennale Milano in 2020, spans Mari’s 60-year career and brings together hundreds of his projects, ranging from furniture, children’s books and games, product and graphic design, to more conceptual installation-based works. Archival material provides greater insight into Mari’s research process, and the key principles that guided and unified his work.
[*Design Museum]
Taken in the Design Museum
Unless otherwise stated, work is by Enzo Mari
elements of visual thinking project. the prompt was "scale" I made a small-scaled "city" and using a projector and my computer's built in camera (and a bit of anthony mattox's IM magic) projected live video of my classmates interacting with (and eventually destroying) the city. the projection was on the opposite wall as the city, so people interacting with it could view it on a larger scale right in front of them.
unfortunately, all other documentation seems to have been lost, so I just have these screenshots.
This image was created using a focus stacking method and is trimmed to the proper size for use as a background for a desktop or a mobile device. If you'd like to purchase a full sized JPG suitable for printing out a canvas print, please let me know. The video below explains how the image was made. Linden Gledhill taught me how to do this.
Inch-scale layered plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene in the Precambrian of Montana, USA.
Southern Montana’s Beartooth Mountains has one of the few platinum mines in North America. There, platinum and palladium are mined from the 2.71 billion-years-old Stillwater Complex, a classic example of an LLI (large, layered igneous province). LLIs are large intrusive bodies that display large-scale and small-scale layering, even including cross bedding, ripples, graded bedding, channelforms, and other sedimentary-like features. The Stillwater originated as a large subsurface mass of slowly cooling magma. As various minerals crystallized, they settled to the bottom of the magma chamber - this resulted in layering. Igneous rocks that formed this way have a cumulate texture. Currents in the still-liquid portions of the magma chamber produced the sedimentary structures mentioned above. Most of the Stillwater displays only large-scale layering.
The rocks in the Stillwater are mafic and ultramafic, intrusive igneous rocks. Common lithologies include gabbro, norite, harzburgite, anorthosite, troctolite, chromitite, pyroxenite, and dunite. Portions of the Stillwater have been metamorphosed. Olivine is the most commonly altered component - it's usually been metamorphosed to serpentine.
The main platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd) occurrence is in the Johns-Manville Reef (J-M Reef), an interval in the lower part of the Lower Banded Series. The Pt and Pd occur in intercumulate sulfides, typically pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS) and chalcopyrite (CuFeS2). Platinum ores in the J-M Reef are principally sulfidic anorthosites, but other lithologies also occur. The J-M Reef is the highest grade deposit known for platinum-group elements (PGEs).
The outcrop seen here does not have platinum ore. The layering consists of alternating bands of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene. The layering was originally horizontal; Stillwater Complex rocks have been structurally tilted by mountain building.
Stratigraphy: Lower Banded Series, Stillwater Complex, Neoarchean, 2.71 Ga
Locality: roadcut along West Fork Stillwater Road (= Forest Service Road 2846), near & above the Stillwater Mine, Beartooth Mountains, southern Montana, USA
Karl Womack's model aircraft are showcased during this annual event. Featured at www.ModelAviation.com/sha2014
She looks so small out there.
Not a huge fan of this picture, but I suppose I like it enough to post.
I'm reworking some stuff from last summer. This was taken at the antique jamboree in Valley Junction. It was developed in Lightroom.
In the wet, dirty streets of Kampong Khlaeng
Please check out my PhotoBlog: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/every-day-life/morning-on-ma... for the back-story to these pictures.