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The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The car wasn't very succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been built. Nowadays Lancia's line-up is reduced to just one car, the Ypsilon.
For the senior thesis project this semester, I'm focusing on illustrating episodes from WNYC's program Radiolab. This episode was about animal minds and how and/or if we as humans can ever truly understand what other organisms on this planet think.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The car wasn't very succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been have been built. Nowadays Lancia's line-up is reduced to just one car, the Ypsilon.
My first time spotting a Thesis, this was just around the corner from a Dedra, Possibly a coincidence but an exciting few minutes for me.
I know they're a little bit of an odd one, but there's a strong allure. The wheels appear to be OEM, but a fairly rare option. Not easy to clean!
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The car wasn't very succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been have been built. This one has a 2.4 litre 5-cylinder turbo-diesel engine.
Don't think I've ever seen one of these before. Even though they're relatively modern (2001-09, apparently) I imagine most are in the hands of enthusiast owners.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The car wasn't very succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been built. Nowadays Lancia's line-up is reduced to just one car, the Ypsilon, available in Italy only.
The computer science lab I work in is being relocated to another place in Paris. So while movers are having fun with our 13-storey building, I carried my paper collection home so I could work. This pile is almost everything I have to cite in my thesis. It's rather daunting, especially if you know that I printed most papers in a "two pages per side" layout to save paper. Fortunately it's already mostly sorted, annotated, and indexed.
Prepping for this afternoon's info meeting at the Brewery!
More info on the study here: sites.google.com/a/u.rochester.edu/builders-brewery-disse...
Also near St Johns Church and cemetery were the Kapunda marble quarries at Koonunga. These grey marble quarries provided the impressive marble for the South Australian Parliament on North Terrace. The Kapunda Marble and Building Company got the contract to provide the marble and build the western wing of the SA parliament. After some legal difficulties and a restructuring of the company work began around 1883 and was finished in 1889.The company quote for the work without dome or tower in 1883 was over £100,000. 500 tons of lime and 3 million bricks were needed for the structure and Victor Harbor granite was used for the basement. To provide the best marble the company bought new land at Koonunga sections 88, 115 and 116 of the Hundred of Belvidere for £1.145 covering 299 acres. Also in 1883 Robert Barr Smith of Torrens Park House put in an order for Kapunda marble for steps at his mansion and the City of Adelaide ordered 1,000 yards of marble flags for footpaths in Adelaide. During construction of parliament around 100 men were employed in the quarry. In 1886 a dispute on the final cost erupted between the government and the company and the contract was suspended and the quarry closed. After a year or so of negations a new company took veer the supply of marble from the Kapunda quarry and completed the building of parliament house! When the new company took over the quarry several workers’ deaths occurred. As parliament house neared completion the government allowed the Kapunda Marble Company to resume their lands and quarry in 1889. In 1887 the Kapunda Marble Company had won a medal at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition for their marble. The Company auctioned the plant and equipment at the marble quarry in July 1889 and voluntarily wound itself up in September 1893. Today you can still see where the quarry was once worked at Koonunga. It was not until 1936 when Sir Langdon Bonython the owner of the Adelaide Advertiser donated gave £100,000 that work began and the central and eastern sections of parliament house. Different marble quarries around Kapunda were used for the central and eastern sections of parliament house. Thanks to Sir Langdon Bonython’s generous donation the new wing opened in 1939 still in grey Kapunda marble. But the money did not stretch to incorporate the planned central dome above the building.
Not far from the copper mine was a completely Irish Catholic settlement called a clachan at Bakers’ Flat. Susan Arthure researched this Irish settlement through an archaeological survey and reconstructed history for her MA. in archaeology at Flinders University. Her ground breaking study resurrected knowledge of the existence of such a village which had been recorded now as the only clachan village in Australia. Ms Arthure started from some 1920s Kapunda stories about a former Irish village. Her research discovered old photographs of the thatched cottages, and when the land of Bakers’ Flat was sold in 1898 a surveyor was employed to draw a detailed map of the area previously in 1893. This survey map showed the location of houses and other buildings at Bakers’ Flat. The Irish immigrants settled on the lands from 1854 when they came to be copper miners. The village flourished in the 1860s and 1870s with Catholic Church records indicating around 100 families lived at Bakers’ Flat with 250 recorded births up to 1906. The Sisters of St Joseph ran a school at Bakers’ Flat from 1876 to 1882. By 1902 there were only 38 occupied dwellings down from an earlier 100 dwellings. All dwellings were on rented land or more usually on land occupied with no rental paid. After the Kapunda mine closed in 1878 the villagers moved away and the village declined with the last residents leaving the lands in the 1920s. All buildings were then destroyed or rotted away and Bakers’ Flat became a wheat paddock which it is today. The details it must have been to dig and find them. Ground penetrating radar allowed her to eventually located foundations of some dwellings beneath the soil. Her traditional archaeological work revealed the remains of 13 dwellings and over 1,000 objects. The objects included 91 food items like pepper pots and sugar caster, 62 pieces of cutlery, 700 buttons and 12 decorative buckles, 93 jewellery items, 275 coins, 12 ornaments and 29 religious artefacts etc. Some of these mid-19th century items were stunningly beautiful. You can seem photographs of them in her Master’s degree on line at flex.flinders.edu.au/file/ae35c92e-c373-49b6-b8e2-f5c47fb...
To me the four leaf clover decorative buttons, the snake head buckles, the cricket players buckle, the partial male bust, the lily of the valley, the butterfly and the coiled snake broaches and the triple copper horseshoe broach are superb.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The car wasn't very succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been built. Nowadays Lancia's line-up is reduced to just one car, the Ypsilon, available in Italy only.
On the set of the dystopian science-fiction movie Ready Player One, being filmed around the western parts of Birmingham City Centre. For the duration of the film, the city centre has been decked out to look like the horrifying future of 2044 Ohio, with burning oil drums, graffiti on the walls (which already had graffiti on them!) and a selection of old vehicles from both Europe and America which have been battered and broken to resemble the results of years of neglect and vandalism.
The vehicle demonstrated here is a rather beaten up externally, but internally pristine, Lancia Thesis, one of those rather pug-faced luxury machines made available only to the European market.
From what I've heard the Thesis is a very good car, being very smooth, comfortable, a bit heavy on the turning but otherwise a very good machine, but that styling does look a bit... well... strange...
The car first made an appearance as a prototype back in 1998 Dià logos concept car, and some early one-offs were built as early as 2000, with a special laundalet version being built for Pope John Paul II. The production model made its debut in March 2001 at the Geneva Motorshow and its interior was displayed for first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Sales started in June 2002 in Italy, with export markets following shortly after. The car was powered by a range of engines, from the base 2.0L single-block Inline-5 Turbo engine to a 3.2L V6. Internally the car was very well equipped, with wood and leather beautifully styled and crafted to perfection, and was endearing for its addition of radar adaptive cruise-control, the first Lancia car to come with this feature.
Contention however was with the external styling, which many motoring critics were quick to pounce on as being somewhat repulsive, almost as if Lancia had attempted to base the car on the abject failure that was the Ford Scorpio. However, according to Lancia designers, the car was designed to be deliberately po-faced so as to turn heads, in similar fashion to the FIAT Multipla and its layer cake style.
Production ended in 2009 after only 16,000 units were built, and for a while Lancia didn't actually build executive cars. However, in 2011 the company began to release badge-engineered versions of the new Chrysler 300C, being dubbed the Lancia Thema II.
On Wednesday afternoon I finally submitted 3 copies of my MSc thesis: one to the department, one to the university library and one to the UNESCO external examiner.
Now I just have to wait three months to find out what the verdict is. In the meantime...
1945: Ad for Eleanor Hamlin makeup featuring instantly recognizable Trifari jewelry. The bracelet and ring are shown in their own Trifari ad in December 1945. There was a fair amount of cross promotion between jewelry, both fine and costume, and other products. There's a section on this in my thesis.
CAMERA: Canon NEW F1
LENS: Canon fd lens 55mm f/1,2 S.S.C.
FILM: Color Negative Film Fuji Eterna 250D ISO 250 36 exp. manual winding
FILM DEVELOPMENT: author's manual film development
ECN-2 handmade ki [8min 45sec 30 °C]
FILM SCANNED: OpticFilm Plustek 7400 with SilverFast Software
SHOOTING DATE: 10/2015
DEVELOPER DATE: 09/2016
TECHNIQUE: Multiple Exposure unedited.
NUMBER OF EXPOSURES: 2
NO POST-PROCESSING
OBJECT: Dancing House or the House "Ginger and Fred"
PLACE: Prague, Czech Republic 2015
On the set of the dystopian science-fiction movie Ready Player One, being filmed around the western parts of Birmingham City Centre. For the duration of the film, the city centre has been decked out to look like the horrifying future of 2044 Ohio, with burning oil drums, graffiti on the walls (which already had graffiti on them!) and a selection of old vehicles from both Europe and America which have been battered and broken to resemble the results of years of neglect and vandalism.
The vehicle demonstrated here is a rather beaten up externally, but internally pristine, Lancia Thesis, one of those rather pug-faced luxury machines made available only to the European market.
From what I've heard the Thesis is a very good car, being very smooth, comfortable, a bit heavy on the turning but otherwise a very good machine, but that styling does look a bit... well... strange...
The car first made an appearance as a prototype back in 1998 Dià logos concept car, and some early one-offs were built as early as 2000, with a special laundalet version being built for Pope John Paul II. The production model made its debut in March 2001 at the Geneva Motorshow and its interior was displayed for first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Sales started in June 2002 in Italy, with export markets following shortly after. The car was powered by a range of engines, from the base 2.0L single-block Inline-5 Turbo engine to a 3.2L V6. Internally the car was very well equipped, with wood and leather beautifully styled and crafted to perfection, and was endearing for its addition of radar adaptive cruise-control, the first Lancia car to come with this feature.
Contention however was with the external styling, which many motoring critics were quick to pounce on as being somewhat repulsive, almost as if Lancia had attempted to base the car on the abject failure that was the Ford Scorpio. However, according to Lancia designers, the car was designed to be deliberately po-faced so as to turn heads, in similar fashion to the FIAT Multipla and its layer cake style.
Production ended in 2009 after only 16,000 units were built, and for a while Lancia didn't actually build executive cars. However, in 2011 the company began to release badge-engineered versions of the new Chrysler 300C, being dubbed the Lancia Thema II.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The design of the car was rather controversial at that time. The car wasn't succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been have been built.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. The design of the car was rather controversial at that time. The car wasn't succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been have been built.
On the set of the dystopian science-fiction movie Ready Player One, being filmed around the western parts of Birmingham City Centre. For the duration of the film, the city centre has been decked out to look like the horrifying future of 2044 Ohio, with burning oil drums, graffiti on the walls (which already had graffiti on them!) and a selection of old vehicles from both Europe and America which have been battered and broken to resemble the results of years of neglect and vandalism.
The vehicle demonstrated here is a rather beaten up externally, but internally pristine, Lancia Thesis, one of those rather pug-faced luxury machines made available only to the European market.
From what I've heard the Thesis is a very good car, being very smooth, comfortable, a bit heavy on the turning but otherwise a very good machine, but that styling does look a bit... well... strange...
The car first made an appearance as a prototype back in 1998 Dià logos concept car, and some early one-offs were built as early as 2000, with a special laundalet version being built for Pope John Paul II. The production model made its debut in March 2001 at the Geneva Motorshow and its interior was displayed for first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Sales started in June 2002 in Italy, with export markets following shortly after. The car was powered by a range of engines, from the base 2.0L single-block Inline-5 Turbo engine to a 3.2L V6. Internally the car was very well equipped, with wood and leather beautifully styled and crafted to perfection, and was endearing for its addition of radar adaptive cruise-control, the first Lancia car to come with this feature.
Contention however was with the external styling, which many motoring critics were quick to pounce on as being somewhat repulsive, almost as if Lancia had attempted to base the car on the abject failure that was the Ford Scorpio. However, according to Lancia designers, the car was designed to be deliberately po-faced so as to turn heads, in similar fashion to the FIAT Multipla and its layer cake style.
Production ended in 2009 after only 16,000 units were built, and for a while Lancia didn't actually build executive cars. However, in 2011 the company began to release badge-engineered versions of the new Chrysler 300C, being dubbed the Lancia Thema II.