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Another homework for university. The idea was to create 3 different black and white structures each 20x20. The composition should range from calm to energetic.
Too bad the scrren with its 72ppi can't fully reproduce the thin lines. Maybe someone gets a kick by looking at the moiré ::]
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This amazing glass couture piece Structures of Self was recently modeled by one of the collaborating artists during the new Beakerhead festival of science, art and engineering. The idea to collaborate on an a photoshoot that paired the alien/bug like garment with the 40 foot RayGun Gothic Rocketship during the setting sun, made for some pretty creative images
Structures of Self:
lead artist: Farlee Mowat
artist: Lana Collier
Raygun Gothic Rocketship:
Sean Orlando
Nathaniel Taylor
David Shulman
The First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, also known as Old First of Elizabeth, at 42 Broad Street, is a complex of structures including the church building itself, a cemetery and a Parish House. It is the site of the first English-speaking congregation in the State of New Jersey and was the center of community life in the early settlement of Elizabeth.
The first church building was constructed around 1665. In 1724, it was replaced with a wood frame structure that burned during the American Revolution. In 1793, the existing brick church was constructed in a typical traditional New England style including a belfry and steeple. In 1946, the church was partially destroyed by a fire and rebuilt to its original configuration. However, due to limited funding, the steeple was not rebuilt.
The cemetery has approximately 2,032 known grave locations, including many prominent settlers including Reverend James Caldwell, as well as hundreds of unknown locations. The oldest known stone dates to 1687, and the last burial was in 1916.
The Parish House was constructed in 1917. Its site was originally the location of the Old Academy, a grammar school founded in 1766 and attended by Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
National Register #77000914 (1977)
New Jersey State Register (1976)
Mid-Town Historic District National Register #95001143 (1995)
Mid-Town Historic District New Jersey State Register (1994)
CAL FIRE/Placer County Fire Department assisted Placer Hills Fire Protection District with a structure fire on Ponderosa Lane Auburn February 2023.
I'm always stunned by the numerous patterns you can observe in the vegetal reign and I particularly like to capture them with sunlight coming from behind, through the leaves. This one was shot near Belém, Brasil. If someone knew the name of that plant I would be very thankful if he'd let me know !
Title: Villa la Magia
Other title: Villa la Magia (Quarrata, Italy)
Creator: Buontalenti, Bernardo, 1536-1608
Creator role: Architect
Date: 16th-18th century
Current location: Quarrata, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
Description of work: This villa, formerly the fortified residence of the Panciatichi family, was bought by the grand-duke Francesco (de'Medici) in 1581, who commissioned Buontalenti to carry out rebuilding work. The property later passed into the hands of the Attavanti family, then to the Ricasoli and finally to the Amati-Cellesi Counts, the current owners. The villa's late-Renaissance features - a solid square building from which two corner towers protrude - are perfectly preserved. The facades, pierced by a regular series of windows with stone surrounds, recall the linear simplicity found on other designs by Buontalenti. The entrance to the park, which is full of oaks, Himalayan cedars, holm-oaks, plane trees, ginkgo biloba and black walnut trees, is through a gate with a masonrywork exedra adorned with pedimented columns. On the southern side of the villa is a Baroque-style garden, furnished with 17th-century works. Another attractive feature is the lake, added at a later stage both for ornamentation and for water storage purposes. (Quarrata-Villa la Magia, www.cultura.toscana.it/architetture/giardini/pistoia/vill... accessed 03/06/2007)
Description of view: The large garden structure.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Renaissance: Late Renaissance: Mannerist
Culture: Italian
Materials/Techniques: Masonry
Source: DeTuerk, James (copyright James DeTuerk)
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 369H X 551W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0101 Villa La Magia.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0101
Sub collection: garden structures
Copyight holder: Copyright James DeTuerk
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Lincoln Beach was an amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana, functioning from 1939 through 1965. The park was for the area's African American population during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation.
Lincoln Beach was located along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain near Little Woods, in a portion of the Eastern New Orleans section of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans that was little developed in the 1930s. The Orleans Levee Board first designated this section as a swimming area in the lake for "Colored" New Orleanians, then built out additional land in the lake for the amusement park to be built on. The park was similar to the then "whites only" Pontchartrain Beach amusement park on a smaller scale. It featured various rides, games, restaurants, a swimming pool in addition to lake swimming, and frequent live music performances. In the last decade, Fats Domino was repeatedly a featured musical act.
Pontchartrain Beach was desegregated in 1964, and business declined rapidly at Lincoln Beach, which, now rendered obsolete, closed soon after.
Although there have been various proposals to redevelop the Lincoln Beach site, the decaying ruins of the park have remained vacant for decades.
Photography: Helmut Meister, Concept: Julian C. Schaber, Models: Alf Altendorf, Peter.W., David Schreckeis, Norbert K. Hund
Relationships between various basic mathematical structures. The arrows generally indicate addition of new symbols and/or axioms. Arrows that meet indicate the combination of structures --- for instance, an algebra is a vector space that is also a ring, and a Lie group is a group that is also a manifold.
Title: Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Rose Garden: Bench
Other title: Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Creator: Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959
Creator role: Landscape Architect
Date: circa 1925 (constructed) 1978 (redesigned)
Current location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Description of work: The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens were designed by the noted landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand, in cooperation with her clients Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, who purchased the property in 1920. The formal gardens occupy 10 acres. The major work was completed between 1921 and 1941, although changes, notably the addition of the Pebble Garden and redesign of the Ellipse, continued to be made by Mrs. Bliss, working with Ruth Havey. Endowments were established expressly for the purpose of maintaining the gardens and for supporting a program of research in landscape architecture.
Description of view: View of garden from edge of garden looking across the rose plantings and pathways towards the stone bench.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Culture: American
Materials/Techniques: Shrubs
Stone
Herbaceous plants
Source: DeTuerk, James (copyright James DeTuerk)
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 1397H X 2100W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0213 Dumbarton.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0213
Sub collection: walkways
gardens
garden structures
Copyight holder: Copyright James DeTuerk
9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
Once in position it wasn’t long before the windows, lower panels and doors were removed, revealing parts of the basic structure.
9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
Taken during various visits to the Summer Palace in the North West corner of the city of Beijing, China.
Some background info from wikipedia:-
The Summer Palace (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán) is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing, China. The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometres (720 acres), three-quarters of which is water.
Longevity Hill is about 60 metres (200 feet) high and has many buildings positioned in sequence. The front hill is rich with splendid halls and pavilions, while the back hill, in sharp contrast, is quiet with natural beauty.
The central Kunming Lake covering 2.2 square kilometres (540 acres) was entirely man-made and the excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill. In the Summer Palace, one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style architectural structures.
In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value." It is a popular tourist destination but also serves as a recreational park.
When the Jin Dynasty emperor Wányán Liàng (February 24, 1122–December 15, 1161 CE) moved his capital to the Beijing area, he had a Gold Mountain Palace built on the site of the hill. In the Yuan Dynasty, the hill was renamed from Gold Mountain to Jug Hill (Weng Shan). This name change is explained by a legend according to which a jar with a treasure inside was once found on the hill. The loss of the jar is said to have coincided with the fall of the Ming Dynasty as had been predicted by its finder.
The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), who commissioned work on the imperial gardens on the hill in 1749, gave Longevity Hill its present-day name in 1752, in celebration of his mother's 60th birthday.
The Summer Palace started out life as the 'Garden of Clear Ripples' (simplified Chinese: 清漪园; traditional Chinese: 清漪園; pinyin: Qīngyī Yuán) in 1750 (Reign Year 15 of Qianlong Emperor). Artisans reproduced the garden architecture styles of various palaces in China. Kunming Lake was created by extending an existing body of water to imitate the West Lake in Hangzhou. The palace complex suffered two major attacks—during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 (with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900. The garden survived and was rebuilt in 1886 and 1902. In 1888, it was given the current name, Yihe Yuan. It served as a summer resort for Empress Dowager Cixi, who diverted 30 million taels of silver, said to be originally designated for the Chinese navy (Beiyang Fleet), into the reconstruction and enlargement of the Summer Palace.
This diversion of funds away from military sources came just six years before the first First Sino-Japanese War which China lost.
On its southern slope, Longevity Hill is adorned with an ensemble of grand buildings: The Cloud-Dispelling Hall, the Temple of Buddhist Virtue, and the Sea of Wisdom Temple form a south-north (lakeside - peak) oriented axis which is flanked by various other buildings. In the center of the Temple of Buddhist Virtue stands the Tower of Buddhist Incense (Fo Xiang Ge), which forms the focal point for the buildings on the southern slope of Longevity Hill. The tower is built on a 20-meter-tall stone base, is 41 meters high with three stories and supported by eight ironwood (lignumvitae) pillars.
More info here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace
Note: The left side of the photo exhibits natural soil structure. The right side has been smoothed.
A representative soil profile of Grainola clay loam. (Soil Survey of Noble County, Oklahoma; by Gregory F. Scott, Troy L. Collier, Jim E. Henley, R. Dwaine Gelnar, and Karen B. Stevenson, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Grainola series consists of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in material weathered from shale of Permian age. These soils are on summits and backslopes of low hills in the Central Rolling Red Prairies (MLRA 80A). Slope ranges from 1 to 25 percent. Mean annual air temperature is 16 degrees C (60 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is 840 mm (33 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Udertic Haplustalfs
Depth to bedrock: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 in)
Parent material: noncemented soft siltstone or shale bedrock
Soil cracking: This soil has cracks within 125 cm (50 in)of the soil surface that are 5 mm (1 in) or more wide to a thickness of 30 cm (12 in) or more for some time in most years.
Depth to vertic features: pressure faces, slickensides or wedge-shaped aggregates in a layer 15 cm or more thick that has it upper boundary within 125 cm of the soil surface.
Linear extensibility of 6.0 cm or more between the soil surface and a depth of 100 cm (39 in) or a densic contact, whichever is shallower.
Coarse fragments: typically sandstone, sandstone cemented with hematite, and calcium carbonate concretions and nodules. Some areas have stones or boulders which cover 3 to 35 percent of the soil surface
USE AND VEGETATION: Nearly all used for range. Native vegetation is short and midgrass prairie.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Oklahoma and Kansas; LRR H, Bluestem Hills (MLRA 76), and Central Rolling Red Prairies (MLRA 80A). The series is extensive. This series and OSD was originally set in Osage County in the Flint Hills in a limestone area. Rewrote OSD and moved location to accommodate the actual setting of series.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
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After the children are done, men are next. They then proceed to the structure, swinging the lit sticks into the crowd along the way.
No, seriously. A lot of the men, being extremely drunk, end up flinging the flames into the crowd, hence why it's best to either wear expendable clothing or stand back from the front.
Once they reach the structure, they not only beat against the ropes, but also each other. Aka, drunk spear fighting. It's pretty cool if you're not the one getting poked with flaming sticks, which repeatedly happened to me. I had to duck quite a few times, and then someone actually smacked me in the head with some flames. Luckily I was wearing a hat, but I had three different people dusting me off while telling me I was on fire. Extremely funny now, though quite nerve-wracking at the time. The next day, the coat I was wearing had holes burnt into the hood and sleeves. A small price to pay, I think.