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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
iPhone Wednesday #33: Informative Corner
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iPhone Wednesday #33: Informative Corner
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This iPhone shot looking south near Salmon Bay has enough to say for itself, so I'll just shut up :-).
It's my iPhone Wednesday shot for this week, where the image is taken and edited in the iPhone using one or more fun apps. Easy peasy lo-fi fun. My photo buddies Chuck at One A Day Mostly Seattle and Ming the Merciless at Bangor Daily Photo are featuring iPhone shots today as well, so hope you'll check them out and maybe create an on-the-go image of your own to share with us.
It's my iPhone Wednesday shot for this week, where the image is taken and edited in the iPhone using one or more fun apps. Easy peasy lo-fi fun. My photo buddies Chuck at One A Day Mostly Seattle and Ming the Merciless at Bangor Daily Photo are featuring iPhone shots today as well, so hope you'll check them out and maybe create an on-the-go image of your own to share with us.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Straight Shot
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Perhaps it isn't easy to tell from the angle of my shot, but these stones form a straight line. Not just any straight line. I learned from the nearby plaque on the ground that they are perfectly aligned in calibrated intervals. They are an art installation erected by Perri Lynch in 2007. "In land surveying, as in art, spatial relationships may be expressed through classic algebraic terms. Between each pair of stones, the distance doubles over the course of a measured kilometer. Field adjustments have been made in tune with natural forms and features. One may sight through [holes in] the stones, taking up the stance of a surveyor. In this particular case it's a straight shot."
Do you see the two holes that are bored into each stone? They are perfectly aligned so that you can look through them from beginning to end. The stones are in an orderly progression from south to north and mark the Sandpoint Calibration Baseline in Magnuson Park. Seattle Public Utilities uses the baseline to calibrate its equipment, and it is also used by surveying, engineering, public safety, law enforcement, transportation and scientific entities to verify accuracy and calibrate their electronic distance measurement equipment. So, in this piece of art's case, form truly does follow function. It's not quite Stonehenge, but at least if you come upon it you'll have an inkling what it's about. Don't you wish the Druids or whomever had left an explanatory plaque near the stone circles they erected in Britain? Those also seem to blend scientific and artistic purposes. The hole we are peering through below does not seem quite perfectly round because a spider had built a nest sac in there :-).
Do you see the two holes that are bored into each stone? They are perfectly aligned so that you can look through them from beginning to end. The stones are in an orderly progression from south to north and mark the Sandpoint Calibration Baseline in Magnuson Park. Seattle Public Utilities uses the baseline to calibrate its equipment, and it is also used by surveying, engineering, public safety, law enforcement, transportation and scientific entities to verify accuracy and calibrate their electronic distance measurement equipment. So, in this piece of art's case, form truly does follow function. It's not quite Stonehenge, but at least if you come upon it you'll have an inkling what it's about. Don't you wish the Druids or whomever had left an explanatory plaque near the stone circles they erected in Britain? Those also seem to blend scientific and artistic purposes. The hole we are peering through below does not seem quite perfectly round because a spider had built a nest sac in there :-).
Straight Shot
Photo & Text Copyright 2009 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing.
Perhaps it isn't easy to tell from the angle of my shot, but these stones form a straight line. Not just any straight line. I learned from the nearby plaque on the ground that they are perfectly aligned in calibrated intervals. They are an art installation erected by Perri Lynch in 2007. "In land surveying, as in art, spatial relationships may be expressed through classic algebraic terms. Between each pair of stones, the distance doubles over the course of a measured kilometer. Field adjustments have been made in tune with natural forms and features. One may sight through [holes in] the stones, taking up the stance of a surveyor. In this particular case it's a straight shot."
Do you see the two holes that are bored into each stone? They are perfectly aligned so that you can look through them from beginning to end. The stones are in an orderly progression from south to north and mark the Sandpoint Calibration Baseline in Magnuson Park. Seattle Public Utilities uses the baseline to calibrate its equipment, and it is also used by surveying, engineering, public safety, law enforcement, transportation and scientific entities to verify accuracy and calibrate their electronic distance measurement equipment. So, in this piece of art's case, form truly does follow function. It's not quite Stonehenge, but at least if you come upon it you'll have an inkling what it's about. Don't you wish the Druids or whomever had left an explanatory plaque near the stone circles they erected in Britain? Those also seem to blend scientific and artistic purposes. The hole we are peering through below does not seem quite perfectly round because a spider had built a nest sac in there :-).
Do you see the two holes that are bored into each stone? They are perfectly aligned so that you can look through them from beginning to end. The stones are in an orderly progression from south to north and mark the Sandpoint Calibration Baseline in Magnuson Park. Seattle Public Utilities uses the baseline to calibrate its equipment, and it is also used by surveying, engineering, public safety, law enforcement, transportation and scientific entities to verify accuracy and calibrate their electronic distance measurement equipment. So, in this piece of art's case, form truly does follow function. It's not quite Stonehenge, but at least if you come upon it you'll have an inkling what it's about. Don't you wish the Druids or whomever had left an explanatory plaque near the stone circles they erected in Britain? Those also seem to blend scientific and artistic purposes. The hole we are peering through below does not seem quite perfectly round because a spider had built a nest sac in there :-).
Monday, March 1, 2010
Theme Day: Passages
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This shot spoke to me of two different types of passages. When our little daughter had conquered learning to walk and run, she turned her sights on mastering stairs. We had steps up to our front porch, and so did most of our neighbors. Every evening while I was preparing dinner my husband would take her for a walk around the block. Many a neighbor would hear "tramp, tramp, tramp" on their stairs and come to the front door wondering what the racket was. My red-faced husband would explain his toddler was practicing stairs while holding his hand. Some evenings she would insist they go up and down every set of porch stairs around the entire block. Then I would end up re-heating dinner when they finally got back. Well, she's still a very determined person who loves to master skills and I love to see her conquer one challenge after another as she makes her way. This physical passage is a curved corridor and staircase in the very, very red zone on the 3rd floor of Seattle's Central Library. That's my daughter and her boyfriend ascending the stairs. :-)
You can see all the creative ways the theme of Passageways has been interpreted by City Daily Photo Bloggers from around the globe for our first of the month theme day. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
You can see all the creative ways the theme of Passageways has been interpreted by City Daily Photo Bloggers from around the globe for our first of the month theme day. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
Theme Day: Passages
Photo & Text Copyright 2010 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing.
This shot spoke to me of two different types of passages. When our little daughter had conquered learning to walk and run, she turned her sights on mastering stairs. We had steps up to our front porch, and so did most of our neighbors. Every evening while I was preparing dinner my husband would take her for a walk around the block. Many a neighbor would hear "tramp, tramp, tramp" on their stairs and come to the front door wondering what the racket was. My red-faced husband would explain his toddler was practicing stairs while holding his hand. Some evenings she would insist they go up and down every set of porch stairs around the entire block. Then I would end up re-heating dinner when they finally got back. Well, she's still a very determined person who loves to master skills and I love to see her conquer one challenge after another as she makes her way. This physical passage is a curved corridor and staircase in the very, very red zone on the 3rd floor of Seattle's Central Library. That's my daughter and her boyfriend ascending the stairs. :-)
You can see all the creative ways the theme of Passageways has been interpreted by City Daily Photo Bloggers from around the globe for our first of the month theme day. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
You can see all the creative ways the theme of Passageways has been interpreted by City Daily Photo Bloggers from around the globe for our first of the month theme day. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Time Away
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Yesterday I got away with friends to a lovely spot on the Eastside of Lake Washington and had a wonderful, restorative, do nothing "productive" kind of day. I was surprised to come upon these rocking chairs on a dock with a Seattle city view. It was raining lightly, but I was too charmed to go indoors. Below is the view of the south north tip of Mercer Island and the tall buildings of the Seattle skyline beyond that in the center.
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It's my iPhone Wednesday shot for this week, where the image is taken and edited in the iPhone using one or more fun apps. Easy peasy lo-fi fun. My photo buddies Chuck at One A Day Mostly Seattle and Ming the Merciless at Bangor Daily Photo are featuring iPhone shots today as well, so hope you'll check them out and maybe create an on-the-go image of your own to share with us.