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GigaOM Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
In 1929, Pierre du Pont constructed Longwood’s 61-foot-tall stone Chimes Tower based on a similar structure he had seen in France.
He purchased the largest set of tower chimes he could find from the J.C. Deagan Company of Chicago after first borrowing one chime to test its carrying power. Twenty-five tubular chimes were installed in the upper tower chamber and Mr. du Pont installed a switch in the Peirce-du Pont House so he could activate the chimes from his residence.
In 1941, the Deagan Company approached Mr. du Pont with word of their newly developed electronic imitation bells. Mr. du Pont noted, however, that he had "definitely decided not to make any change in the chimes at Longwood."
In 1955, a year after Mr. du Pont's death, the Deagan Company again contacted Longwood, noting with electronic-age enthusiasm: "Your Tower Chimes are outmoded and obsolete. So many important changes have taken place since 1930 that what you have at Longwood positively cannot be compared with what we have to offer today." In 1956, the original chimes were replaced with a 32-note electronic carillon.
From 1956 to 1981, the electronic carillon sounded the quarter hours and played 16,000 daytime concerts and 600 evening concerts. In 1989, the electronic bells, which were in unacceptable playing condition, were disconnected.
The idea of restoring real bells to the tower was first proposed in 1977 by Schulmerich Carillons of Sellersville, PA. After 23 years of sporadic discussions and several trips to inspect instruments in this country and abroad, the Gardens signed a contract with Schulmerich's cast bell supplier, the Dutch firm Royal Eijsbouts, in June 2000 to build a 62-bell carillon.
Longwood closed the Chimes Tower in February 2001 to renovate the structure for the new carillon in the top chamber. The roof was removed, the bells and frame were assembled then lifted in by crane, and a new concrete roof was installed. The upper portion of the tower remains closed now that the bells are in (except after scheduled live concerts by a carillonneur), but was open today for a special tour.
The existential zoo is a retreat for those who believe that it is time to abandon LA. They have a fear of traffic lights always looking to the left and the right. Look at that man trapped in his car on a journey to some distant star. Look at that man falling out of the sky. Maybe he thinks that he can fly. There's a candle in front of wilted flowers and a picture of a dead Mexican kid. Let us use this dim light to disciver all the tragedies that have been hid. Walking alone under empty blue skies I don't like the way the land seems to lie. It's tilted a little to one side.
These images all started as pictures of some actual object, scene or whatever, but have been played with in Photo Shop in various ways. In some you might recognize the original subject matter, in many they bear little resemblance to what they started as. I love hearing what different people see in these almost as much as I love making them, so fire away--tell me what you see or feel about them!
Most of the images in this set will really reward being seen as large as possible.
Concord (NC) Fire Department working at a structure fire in an older building at the Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Facility.
I bought the Harbor Freight Portable Garage (Tent) to cover my car over the winter but once I put the framework structure together it was taller than I needed and wanted so I then figured out how to shorten the height by about 20" or so.
Wonderful structural, minimalist views of gas pipes outside of residences in Tel Aviv. These were all shapes and sizes and numbers of pipes. Generally a single larger pipe came up from the ground and spilt into multiple smaller pipes, connected with valves and meters, and then further pipes dissapeared into building walls.
I think a part of that is often times wanting to have a plan for the unplannable, does that make sense? So at least even if I don't have a concrete plan, I'll have structure, like a structure of a plan... So, I'm still like that, like when something happens, I'm still anxious and I have to think about all of the bad things that can happen. I still need to write it down a lot of times, call Danny and talk to her about it a lot times, like oh my god, what if this happens?... I've evolved into that being more of a “trust the process” personality, Even if it's bad or even if it seems bad, does that make sense?
Common example, I got offered the job at Brandeis University around the same time I was waiting for a job in Abu Dhabi. So, I have Brandise here like “we want an answer, we want it in this many days” and Abu Dhabi is like “we may or may not get back to you to say that we really want you to come in by this many days”. The two don't work together, I have two options; I take the job at Brandeis, give up on my current dream job in Abu Dhabi or I turn down the job at Brandeis and still believe that i'm going to get this job in Abu Dhabi, so it's kind of like a contradiction. I have the anxiety around I may not get this job and I’m like, oh my god, what if I turn this job down and then i don't get the Abu Dhabi job. What if I don't get another job, what if, what if, what if.
GigaOM Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
GigaOM Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
Veil of Maya
Support: Betraying The Martyrs, Vildhjarta, Structures, Volumes
08.05.2012
Baroeg, Rotterdam
Netherlands
Copyright © Jessica Santiago Lopez
Photos taken for www.metalkrant.net
The red brick structure where President Lincoln died in 1865 having been shot in the head by Boothe at the Ford Theater across the street.
the Shelby street pedestrian bridge by night.
as soon as we got to the other side of the bridge the lights went out, it was very dark.
After having observed the nest for a some time, my parents thought that this beautiful work of art made with some interweaved copper threads had been made by a big and very ingenious bird. The woodpecker was still often seen in the big pines around our neighbourhood and was indeed an ingenious bird. The chickadees and the sparrows were too small to have made it, and the crows were not enough sophisticated.
Discovering some silk threads still present in the structure, my parents recognized old telephone cables. When the phone company had set up the new lines (in the Thirties, Forties or Fifties?), the workmen had probably left some bits of cables everywhere in the streets. And some ingenious birds had used them to build a nest... That nest was indeed very old... :)
This is how high the structure is after modifying it and removing about 20" or so off of the side legs.
Veil of Maya
Support: Betraying The Martyrs, Vildhjarta, Structures, Volumes
08.05.2012
Baroeg, Rotterdam
Netherlands
Copyright © Jessica Santiago Lopez
Photos taken for www.metalkrant.net
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.