Monday, 22 December 2008
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork constructed by artist, Robert Smithson in 1970.
It's on the North shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah should you wish to visit it.
This is the sort of thing that Smithson did. Big land sculptures. He died in a helicopter accident while overflying potential sites for a future piece.
And while I'm about it, see this geoglyph ?
It's called the Marree Man and is a modern land sculpture in a similar vein to antique works like the Cerna Abbas giant. Nobody knows who made it, but it was discovered from the air in 1998.
9 years later, photographs were taken for google earth. It's faded slightly in the decade since it's discovery.
It's on the North shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah should you wish to visit it.
This is the sort of thing that Smithson did. Big land sculptures. He died in a helicopter accident while overflying potential sites for a future piece.
And while I'm about it, see this geoglyph ?
It's called the Marree Man and is a modern land sculpture in a similar vein to antique works like the Cerna Abbas giant. Nobody knows who made it, but it was discovered from the air in 1998.
9 years later, photographs were taken for google earth. It's faded slightly in the decade since it's discovery.
Thursday, 18 December 2008
From the I.T. Department
A double whammy! Both of these letters hail from East Anglia, England. If they'd both been fields, they'd have been too similar in concept, location and time of finding and I wouldn't have used one of them. But since one of them is a big pile of rocks to stop Norfolk becoming part of the North Sea, (coastal erosion is a big problem in parts of Eastern England) I'm happy to put them both in.
The I:
52°47'19.42"N, 1°36'38.39"EThe t:
52°18'48.87"N, 1° 4'40.56"Eabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890
The I opens a whole load of potential words that I could now say with letters. But I'm still nowhere near being able to say the word "BANJO".
Still, only 4 to go now, and I have a B in the pipeline.
Yo!
Hangin'with my homies... In East Anglia.
There's loads of these *fields that look like grafitti* things around. I'm musing about them a bit but can't think of much to say about it right now. Maybe some future post...
There's loads of these *fields that look like grafitti* things around. I'm musing about them a bit but can't think of much to say about it right now. Maybe some future post...
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Piers Morgan
I got a new camera for my birthday, and a pair of walking shoes.
So off we went to use them, and we ended up in Llandudno.
We climbed part way up the Great Orme, and had a nice meal at a local Caff before returning home.
I had a look at Llandudno and the Orme on Google Earth and found that we could have gone on a spectacular drive around the entire edifice.
I also found that Llandudno pier has it's own Googe Earth wikipedia entry. This differs slightly from the standard wikipedia entry for Llandudno pier because it contains the following paragraph...
So off we went to use them, and we ended up in Llandudno.
We climbed part way up the Great Orme, and had a nice meal at a local Caff before returning home.
I had a look at Llandudno and the Orme on Google Earth and found that we could have gone on a spectacular drive around the entire edifice.
I also found that Llandudno pier has it's own Googe Earth wikipedia entry. This differs slightly from the standard wikipedia entry for Llandudno pier because it contains the following paragraph...
On visiting the pier former News of the World editor Piers Morgan said his mother named him due to her love of piers in particular Llandundo Pier, which she described as being long and thin, something which the many lovers of Piers Morgan have described him as.How delightfully bizarre. I tend to think of Piers Morgan as being something else that's long and thin that also begins with the letter "P"
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