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Trevor

First casts! Showing my inexperience, but a great learning opportunity. The concrete looks awesome, it's definitely the right material. But I a) mixed the concrete too wet, b) didn't vibrate out the air bubbles enough, c) didn't let it cure long enough before demolding, and d) was way too aggressive with the demolding. I could probably also stand to reinforce it even more than the fibres in the concrete do. These are the things you think about after, when in the moment you're more focused on engaging and monitoring your five-year-old who is eager to help!

A pair of stylized concrete maple leaves whose geometry cast patterns of light and shadow.
#Canada#3Dprinting#concrete
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les briques
On ne peut pas le louper en face de la porte de Flandre, sur le quai du Hainaut, ce grand immeuble qui affiche le nom d’une marque de bière bien connue. Ça fait d’ailleurs longtemps (2018 pour la première photo) que je veux montrer sa bouille, mais je me heurte toujours à l’absence d’infos sur l’histoire du bâtiment. Bien qu’il ait été inscrit à l’inventaire du patrimoine bruxellois en 2024, sa fiche ne mentionne même pas son année de construction ni son architecte. Bref, infos bienvenues. Juin 2022.
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#briquesdebruxelles #passionbriques #bruxellesmabelle #bruxelles #brussels #brussel #molenbeek #immeublevedett #vedett #brusselsarchitecture #modernism #streamlinearchitecture #interwarmodernism #stylepaquebot #modernistarchitecture
Grand immeuble moderniste en brique jaune faisant l’angle d’un quai. Il compte six étages et porte un marquage commercial des bières Vedett en lettres blanches. L’angle de l’immeuble est arrondi, évoquant le style paquebot des années 30.
#modernistarchitecture
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Pentaxke
A #Belgian thingy?

Until 2016 publication of these photos would have been illegal. From the website of the #Atomium (pictured here:)
‘#copyright restrictions exempt private individuals (…) where photographs are taken by private individuals and shown on private websites for no commercial purpose.’

SABAM, #Belgium's society for collecting copyrights and having an illustrious reputation for claiming copyrights (even when it’s not even holding it,) has claimed worldwide intellectual property rights on all reproductions of the Atomium and has gone so far to demand a US website to remove all images from its pages.

Luckily Belgium has come to its senses and since 2016 there is freedom of panorama, allowing pictures of public buildings under copyright to be legally distributed.

#monochromemonday #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #architecture #architecturephotography #modernism #waterkeyn #polak #travel #traveltip #heizel #heysel #brussels #bruxelles #brussel #bruxellesmabelle #belgie #belgique #thisisbelgium #pentax #pentaxk1 #editedincaptureone
All three images are details of the Atomium: 9 gigantic (18m diameter) Stainless steel clad spheres joined together with steel tubes (which hold the escalators and elevators) shaped together in unit cell that represent an iron crystal, magnified 165 million times.
#editedincaptureone
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"Sunday Afternoon in the Country," Florine Stettheimer, 1917.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a Modernist painter and theatrical designer, as well as a pioneering feminist, poet, and salonniere.

While at first glance this seems rather mundane, the colors are strange; check out the red tree. Some of the characters seem to be doing bizarre, random things, and some appear to be sitting in upholstered armchairs.

In reality, this is her memory of a picnic she held; in the upper right, hardly visible, she paints herself working at her easel. In the lower left, photographer Edward Steichen points his camera at Dada founder Marcel Duchamp. leaning on a table, while Ettie Stettheimer (the artist's sister) stands behind him in the red coat. Other real-life people are depicted, but in a strange style reminiscent of Chagall.

Stettheimer refused to identify with any group or school; her work is Modernist by default for the time she worked in and her style. Not taken seriously in her liftetime, her work was donated to museums and rediscovered in the 1990s, and now she is hailed as a great American artist.

From the Cleveland Museum of Art.

A Modernist painting. We see a scene set in a garden of sorts, but it's dominated by shades of pink and red, with some pale green. The garden is holding what appears to be a picnic of sorts, but it's populated by figures doing odd things. In the center, a man faces away while a girl beside him turns back. Lower left, a photographer aims a camera at a man leaning on a table. Lower right, two women sit in upholstered armchairs. Middle left, a purple blanket is a surface for a drummer and a green figure with a yellow parasol. Upper left, a woman sits under a red/pink tree while a man does a handstand; on the right, a woman leans face-first into a green tree, and almost invisible figure of a woman works at a painting on her easel.
#Art#FlorineStettheimer#Modernism
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Approaches to Annotation: Insights & Challenges Editing Hogg & Woolf
15 May, University of Glasgow – free

Dr Megan Coyer & Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (& poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical?

@litstudies

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EventbriteApproaches to Annotation: Insights and Challenges Editing Hogg and Woolf1-3pm, Thursday 15th May 2025, Dr Megan Coyer and Dr Annie Strausa
#Scottish#literature#romanticism
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“[Davidson] makes the case for those in the depth of hardship by the depiction of an ordinary husband and wife, suffering inescapably, but maintaining a grip on their powers of resilience and love.”

—Carol Rumens on John Davidson’s “Villanelle” – “A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope.”

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theguardian.com/books/2024/dec

The Guardian · Poem of the week: Villanelle by John DavidsonBy Carol Rumens
#Scottish#literature#poetry
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