longing for imagined homes

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Helene Beland - Un capteur de lumière, 2012

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♱ MISCELLANEOUS WHIMSIGOTH PNGS ♱

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Artwork „DEVIATION“ BY: @studiosvensauer TRAIN MODIFICATION: @helldorfer_engineering ELECTRONICS: LUKAS ESSER CREATIVE CODING: @studiomarkusgraf PRODUCTION: @nsevvalg; @martinhussain MUSIC: theatre_of_delays CLIP: @frank_sauer Exhibition: @thedarkroomsexhibition

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Private residence in Verona, Italy circa 1989

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pnw forest fog

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Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon (from the San Jose Museum of Art)

Cyanotype prints on found book pages exposed to moonlight.

Thirty-six Views of the Moon is a collection of night exposures, left from dusk till dawn and exposed by moonlight on book pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky spanning the last ten centuries. Working with photographic negatives of the Moon from the Lick Observatory archives in Northern California and treating each book page with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype) to make the surface of the page light-sensitive, the pages are then exposed overnight by the UV-light emitted by the moon. The work takes its cue from a poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines us as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze and, in response, produces a vignette of windows on the Moon that abstract the typical celestial gaze, merging galaxy with ground to collapse space and time. (McEvoy Foundation for the Arts)

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Driving through Las Vegas, February 1965

(1-2) Fashion Square Shopping Center at Las Vegas Blvd & Convention Center Drive. (3-5) Driving north on the Strip past La Concha Motel and the Sahara. (6-7) Continuing north on downtown Las Vegas Blvd past Cupid Wedding Chapel (1519 LVBS) and Monterey Lodge Motel (1133 LVBS).

(8-10) On foot downtown at Carson & Casino Center, and Fremont & Casino Center. The Mint tower still under construction. (11) Driving east on Fremont St. On the left is Desert Moon Motel (1701) and Biddulph Rambler (1715). T&N Studebaker transmission shop on the right is 1600 Fremont, a former Findlay Oldsmobile.

Slide scans from Walgoods

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From Bath Design (1986)

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East Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, c. 1975

Macayo Vegas (1741 E Charleston), Jaws playing at Fox Theatre (1800), and Woolco dept. store (1720). Billboard for New Century Homes at present day I-515 overpass.

Garvin City Planning Image Collection, Yale University.

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Abandoned lighthouse on Sakhalin Island, Russia. 

[fromthedust]

The Atomium

The Atomium under construction at the World Expo, Brussels, 1957 by Dolf Kruger

The Atomium 1958 by R.Seidman

Two 1958 issue Belgian stamps featuring the Atomium

The Atomium in spring (postcard view)

Five interior views of the Atomium by TheLadyTravels.com - March 20, 2015

The Atomium is an iconic building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo ‘58, the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn with interiors by architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (59 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose escalators and a lift to allow access to the five habitable spheres which contain exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere provides a panoramic view of Brussels … or the shadow in the parking lot. 

Carry your dog on the escalator! (obligatory dual Flemish and French signage)

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Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Wish I was here...

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Poppy, linocut, 2023 🌞

Summer here in Southern California is making me miss the cooler weather and the spring poppy bloom!

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HAH I FINISHED IT. Will have to get Real Pictures outside when the sun returns. I learned I need to use more strongly textured glass at that scale but overall this has been my smoothest sailing stained glass yet. Straight edges help a lot.

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Postcard, c. 1996