Dungeness
Dungeness
On the way back from the sound mirrors we went to Dungeness. I very much enjoy the assembly of seemingly unrelated pieces that seem to make their own sort of sense. The way the ground is left to its own devices accounts for much of this assembly – a tentative infrastructure.
This is also my 365th post on this blog in just under two years that it has been running – so just over a post every two days.
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Sound Mirrors
Another vist to the Denge Sound Mirrors today, the last of the summer open days when there is access to the island where three sound mirrors sit. I will sift through the photographs and post a few more tomorrow. The site only opens after two O’clock, when the sun has already passed the reflective surface of the mirrors, so most of my pictures are of the rear surfaces. As the position of the sun changed the texture, facets and board marks conspired with the geometry to provide a lesson in sciagraphy. I will post some examples tomorrow.
Launch control
Titan Missile Base, Arizona
Titan Missile Base, Arizona
Instrument Eight
Another irritatingly obscure view of the new instruments
Pioneer Village Museum, Beausejour
Pioneer Village Museum, Beausejour
A couple of views in the Beausejour Pioneer Village Museum in rural Manitoba. The selection, accumulation and process of classification in such places is most endearing, with a mixture of contingency and obsession forming parallel logics to the conventions of material taxonomies. Also the location of one of the most awkward, funny and tragic situations I have experienced.
Houses in Winnipeg
Houses in Winnipeg
Houses in Winnipeg
Houses in Winnipeg
Houses in Winnipeg
On the outskirts of Winnipeg, and I imagine in many North American cities, there are house shops with a collection of brand new houses ready to truck to the buyer’s site. They stand on stacks of wood ready to be moved. When the rollerskating rink closed on Portage close to Downtown these houses resembled a second hand house shop. In fact they were being taken from the site (in 2007) to be reused elsewhere. They look like standard pattern book houses but apparently required quite a few adaptations to their new location due to context specific aspects such as rights of light and overlooking. Note the truck wheels already under the houses ready for their move.
Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Studios
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