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Tensegrity is een samentrekking van tension en structural integrity. Het verwijst naar de integriteit van structuren gebaseerd op een evenwicht tussen trek- en drukbelastingen. De trekkrachten worden opgevangen in flexibele staalkabels. De drukkrachten worden opgevangen in staven van staal.
Day 258 - 35mm Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600 on a Nikon FE with Nikkor 50mm f/2 ai-s lense. Metadata describes how image was uploaded.
Nikon D7100 | AF-S DX VR Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G
Müngsten Bridge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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I find that by breaking down the figure into a skeleton of circles, triangles and lines I am able to build up the figure and easily map out the proportions correctly.
The Pukamani tutini sculptural poles (intricately carved ironwood poles inspired by traditional Pukamani ceremonies) display at the Australian Garden, Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay.
Urbex Tip #47: Sagging Ceilings
When exploring a building, if you should come across a ceiling that is bulging or sagging significantly in some way...go elsewhere.
Conversely, if while exploring you should come across a place where the ceiling has in fact already given way and there's a rather large tree growing up through the hole...setup your tripod and take a picture; somebody might think it's cool.
This concludes today's urbex tip. :-)
Swift Meat Packing Ruins, Fort Worth, Texas.
Night, mostly full moon, xenon flashlight.
Wedding Cake Decorating Kit from Michael's Crafts ($49.99) include 6 of these columns - 13" high each.
**Use your 50% off coupons**
And today's word is "Tessellated".
As in the construction of the glass roof over the British Museum Great Court, London.
This brilliant design by architect Norman Foster and structural engineer Buro Happold, is "the largest covered square in Europe, bigger than a football field. The glass and steel roof is made up of 4,878 unique steel members connected at 1,566 unique nodes and 1,656 pairs of glass windowpanes making up 6,100 sq. metres of glazing; each of a unique shape because of the undulating nature of the roof."
The sad, but colourful autumnal change
Now showing Exif if you are interested, though i'm still shooting large fine jpeg. Like the seasons, i'm slow to change. When the weather gets a bit raw....
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Dubail, UAE.
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"House U Beránka (also U Zlatého Beránka) is a neo - baroque house from 1906-07, built on Velké náměstí in Hradec Králové on the site of the older hotel U Zlatého Beránka.
When the Jesuits came to Hradec Králové at the invitation of Bishop Edvard Jan Brynych in 1900, they were not given back the building of their former Jesuit college (today's Nové Adalbertinum), which they lost when the order was abolished in 1773. But a new house was built for them, on the site of the U Zlatého Beránek hotel, which was demolished in 1905 due to structural problems, and the neighboring Kropáčka tower, which was demolished in 1906. The project by architect Rudolf Němek was approved by mayor František Ulrich on May 14, 1906. The investor was the Roman Catholic church, which already owned several other buildings on the southern front of Velké náměstí - the Jesuits only managed the house. The construction was carried out by Robert Schmidt's construction company and was completed in 1907.
It is a corner house, four-story in the front and three-story in the back, with a gable roof. The frontage to the square is four-axis, the facade to the street is significantly longer – fourteen-axis. The ground floor is decorated with belted rustication, and on the upper floors the facade is divided by tall pilasters with Tuscan capitals. The second floor is separated from the third by a prominent cornice. The most striking element of the main facade is the richly decorated Baroque shield. There is a polygonal window in the middle of the shield, two oval openings on the sides. Stone vases were originally placed in the openings and on the sides of the shield. At the top of the shield is a circular halo with the inscription "Agnus Dei" and formerly also a sculpture of a lamb. On the ground floor, the facade to the square opens to a storefront, and on the upper floors, there are windows set in chamfers and with richly decorated suprafenestres.
Hradec Králové (Königgrätz in German) is a statutory city in eastern Bohemia, located at the confluence of the Elbe and Orlica. It has approximately 94 thousand inhabitants and is the capital of the Hradec Králové region. Together with nearby Pardubice, it forms a metropolitan area with 340,000 inhabitants.
Due to its favorable characteristics, the territory of Hradec was already inhabited in prehistoric times. In the Middle Ages, it was the dowry city of Czech queens, and it is to this period that the Gothic cathedral of St. Ducha on its Great Square, which today, alongside the White Tower and the Old Town Hall, is one of the city's landmarks. In the years 1766 to 1857, the city served as a military fortress, due to the lack of interest of the city, it was restored and abolished only in 1884. The city administration made full use of the possibility of complete management of urban development. This literally freed up space for the golden era of Hradec Králové architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, from which, thanks to the buildings of Gočár and Kotěra, the city earned the title Salon of the Republic.
Hradec Králové is a university town, the University of Hradec Králové, some faculties of Charles University and the University of Defense teach here. For example, the regional court or the bishops of the Royal Hradec Catholic and Czechoslovak Hussite dioceses are based here. Klicper's theater is a recognized scene that has won the award "Theatre of the Year" four times, artkino Central is proud of the award "Best European cinema for young audiences" from 2008. Hradec Králové Park 360, which was created in part of the area of the former military airport, provides space, among other things, for the summer of the Rock for People festival.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
First responders from across the country were in Virginia Beach for a massive structural collapse training exercise hosted by the Virginia Beach Fire Department and Virginia Task Force 2. The annual School was held at the sprawling complex of crawl spaces and staged disaster zones representing different scenarios – things first responders have seen and experienced first-hand. This course gives urban search and rescue teams a chance to practice their skills. More than 160 people took part in the hands-on training lasting for 8 days with students coming from as far as San Francisco, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware.
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Winter is a good time to see the structure of deciduous trees, even though they look a little gaunt. This is a Common Lime, or Linden, Tilia europaea.
Elizabeth Barret Browning mentions the Linden in her poem "The Lost Bower" No doubt she was writing of the tree in spring or summer, but even in winter, they have a certain statuesque quality.
Here a linden-tree stood, bright'ning
All adown its silver rind;
For as some trees draw the lightning,
So this tree, unto my mind,
Drew to earth the blessed sunshine,
From the sky where it was shrined
1980 Mamiya ZE, f2.5/28mm Tamron lens, X2 yellow filter. Rollei Retro100 @200, In Diafine, 5+5mins at 21C. scanned @ 2400dpi on Epson V500.
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Tria Color Markers in Sketchbook - Pantone 471 Sanguine, Pantone 168-T Brown, Pantone Warm Gray 7-T and Pantone 3292 Green
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This is a one hour study working with four colors. After yesterday's very involved color and shape intricacies, today I felt the need to limit myself to fewer broader moves with grayer color tones and less time. Again, I'm working from the photo extracting planar shapes. Yesterday's work left me feeling I had been hindered by involvements with traditional portraiture concerns....the smaller details of Rodney's likeness. Thus, the need to get back to the more basic building blocks of Rodney's head.
For those interested in my working methods, I did not begin this with a limiting exterior contour line of the shape of the head. I sought to let the forms grow from the center outward. The first shape was the warm trapezoid over the bridge of the nose. From there, I began to work radiating out in all directions. As the planes and shapes amassed themselves over time, I began to get a better sense of the overall container shape of the skull. As you can see on the right side of the head, originally the green shape formed the right edge of the head. Further assessment determined that the head needed to expand. I then chose a tone contrasting in tone and temperature - a warm brown to expand the outer contour. This particular move made me happy as it reinforced for me that so called mistakes can easily be corrected without erasing by simply drawing a correction in a contrasting color/shade right on top of it. Kind of like the rock breaks scissors game....the stronger tool wins. To me, drawing and painting are like archaeology....the sum of the various strata attesting to the accumulation of the sands of time.
Would someone be able to build the internal structure to my Enterprise and give me feedback on its strength/utter weakness? I have absolutely no bricks for this so I cannot do it myself.
This sculpture was one of my favourites this year.
You can imagine the scale of this artwork by comparing the height
of the people in the background. It is by the same artist of last year's
Original title "Structural Wind"... Truly amazing
i found this
nest
of a
Barn Swallow BARS* (Hirundo rustica)
Interesting
Often this species will utilize a ledge or somewhat porous or irregular surface on which to build its nest
Here the metal siding would not have provided good adhesion for the mud construction techniques
i didn't notice evidence of "trial & error" so the 'architect-builders' of this nest would seem to have been ingenious to have chosen this material -meshing as a home site.
i am curious to monitor over the winter and see how it stands up -- and if it is reused next year.
Pendray Farm
Saanich Peninsula
British Columbia
DSCN4833
Imagine how many trips with mouthfuls of mud and straw to have built this!
i wonder how long it took....?
Window by Hardman's.
St Edith's at Monk's Kirby is one of the grandest churches in Warwickshire; having formerly been monastic it was built on a huge scale; the aisled nave and chancel form one vessel with no structural division, all built of rich red sandstone except for the later upper part of the tower giving it a distinctive two-toned red and white look.
The interior is a huge, dark, cavernous space, and with all three aisles virtually the same height feels like a German hall church. The arcades have no capitals, giving them an Arts & Crafts feel. The windows are large but high up (there was formerly a cloister to the north) and admit only so much light, having much rich glass by Hardman's at the west end and a fine Lavers & Barraud to the east. The furnishings are not old and the main items of interest are the monuments, with two Tudor-period tombs with effigies in the Fielding chapel in the north east corner. There are ghostly white marble 19th century memorials further west in the north aisle with members of the Earl of Denbigh's family in high relief, and a badly worn medieval knight's head poking out the wall at the north west corner (fragment of a large tomb effigy).
This is a very familiar church for me as I've been here several times over the years, in fact it was one of the first old churches I ever saw as a child (my mother wanted to see the monuments here when I was about 5 years old, but I ruined her visit by finding the tombs way too spooky and had to be taken out in a state of distress!). It is a church I can return to again and again with more appreciative adult eyes, and though I still feel the atmosphere that sparked my childhood trauma in here I welcome it as a special memory that first got me really thinking about and looking at such places. Happily the church is normally open and welcoming to visitors.