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“Seven Magic Mountains is an artwork of thresholds and crossings, of balanced marvels and excessive colors, of casting and gathering and the contrary air between the desert and the city lights.” — Ugo Rondinone, artist
Seven Magic Mountains is a large-scale, site-specific public artwork by artist Ugo Rondinone, located south of Las Vegas. The installation opened in 2016 on a portion of the Mojave Desert managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Each totem is 30-35 feet high and contains 3-6 locally-sourced limestone boulders.
From a sign at the site:
“The artwork extends Rondinone’s long-running interest in natural phenomena and their reformulation in art. Inspired by naturally occurring Hoodoos and balancing rock formations, the stacks also evoke the art of meditative rock balancing. The works appear poised between monumentality and collapse—seeming to defy gravity in their teetering formations, but equally to depend on it.”
Looking at my collection is one thing but for some odd reason I particularly like watching my shoeboxes stack up. Like bricks building a house or a fort. Point is, when I see them stack I know I earned every pair with my own hardwork and effort. No handouts, no free passes. It doesn't matter if I cop exclusives or GRs. I earned what I have. That's what matters.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch. Award-winning author Mary Doria Russell.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
Made from 12 light frames (captured with a SONY camera) by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.1. Algorithm: Mean
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch. Dave Chappell & The Lone Stardusters.
Brough beach cleaned after joint collaboration between Caithness Beach Clean and Pentland Canoe Club with Ken Nicol on the beach. Scorrie island in the background, on the map as Stack of Brough.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
A stack of Rig Mat System's beautiful Crane Mats ready for shipment.
Our Crane mats are made from CLT, can be up to 40 feet long, are extremely strong and can hold up the heaviest of equipment.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch. Lisa Bankman, Events & Seminars Manager.
Stacks of a former open hearth shop at the USS Lorain Plant. This is a former plant of The National Tube Company.
Raw conversion in Capture NX, lens distortion removed with LensFixCI, Wratten 22 orange filter applied in Tiffen DFx, B&W conversion in Alien Exposure 2 simulating Fuji Neopan 100 Acros.
Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch.
I guess you could call this my first REAL attempt at rock stacking. I found the perfect spot with tons of flat rocks... have to go back some day when it's not 8 pm and the sun is quickly getting ready for bed and all I have is my P&S. The sand, you know.
this place is called.... locally... "teaspoons"
ever heard of it? it's pretty orange and a super popular place to swim.
I guess the size of this stack is hard to tell... it was maybe (only) 15 inches high. but come on, I'm a beginner :)
From Wikipedia: The Anaconda Smelter Stack is the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world, with an overall height of about 585 feet (178.3 m), including a brick chimney 555 feet (169.2 m) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) tall. It is a brick smoke stack or chimney, built in 1918 as part of the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) at Anaconda, Montana."
The smelter closed in 1981. The stack is now part of Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park.
Photo taken May 1983.