Brooklyn bridge
Weekly Photo Challenge. Connected: Brooklyn bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.
More info: Wikipedia
Brooklyn bridge
Factory
Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
Ruins
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
This image that has two clear halves. I take a photo with an explicit dividing diagonal line .
This photo shows medieval ruins in San Pere de Rodas, in the province of Girona (Catalonia). The half left side shows the cloudy sky. The right side, the ruins on the hill.
Another view of the ruins with a different editing:
Ruins
Lines
Lines
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883), was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
The notion of line or straight line was introduced by ancient mathematicians to represent straight objects (i.e., having no curvature) with negligible width and depth. Lines are an idealization of such objects.
Until the seventeenth century, lines were defined like this: “The [straight or curved] line is the first species of quantity, which has only one dimension, namely length, without any width nor depth, and is nothing else than the flow or run of the point which […] will leave from its imaginary moving some vestige in length, exempt of any width. […] The straight line is that which is equally extended between its points”
Euclid described a line as “breadthless length” which “lies equally with respect to the points on itself”.
More info: Wikipedia
Pont Royal. Paris bridge
The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie. Thanks to Sherry Lynn Felix for helping me with the name of the bridge.
The Seine is a 776-kilometre (482 mi) long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.
There are 37 bridges within Paris and dozens more spanning the river outside the city. The river is only 24 metres (79 ft) above sea level 446 kilometres (277 mi) from its mouth, making it slow flowing and thus easily navigable.
The river is a popular site for both suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel-turned-activist Katoucha Niane was found there.
More info: Wikipedia
Diocesan Museum of Barcelona
This incrediblely solid and heavy door belongs to the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona (next to the Cathedral).
This new museum’s doors were designed and made by the Catalan artist Josep Plandiura. The striking visual work done by Plandiura came under harsh criticism because of the contrast that existed between his abstract work and the gothic architecture of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
The door was made using weathering steel, best-known by the trademark Cor-Ten steel, a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and form a stable rust-like appearance if exposed to the weather for several years.
The door, with organic and labyrinth form, measures 3.5 meters high by 2.6 wide.
This is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge.
Thanks Norm for hosting this challenge!!
Diocesan Museum of Barcelona
Güell Palace
Thursday Doors Challenge
The Palau Güell (Güell Palace) is a mansion designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí for the industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell, and built between 1886 and 1888. It is situated in the Carrer Nou de la Rambla, in the El Raval neighbourhood of the city of Barcelona in Catalonia. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Works of Antoni Gaudí” since 1984.
The home is centered on a main room for entertaining high society guests. Guests entered the home in horse-drawn carriages through the front iron gates, which featured a parabolic arch and intricate patterns of forged iron-work resembling seaweed and in some parts a horsewhip. Animals could be taken down a ramp and kept in the livery stable in the basement where the servants resided, while the guests went up the stairs to the receiving room. The ornate walls and ceilings of the receiving room disguised small viewing windows high on the walls where the owners of the home could view their guests from the upper floor and get a ‘sneak peek’ before greeting them, in case they needed to adjust their attire accordingly.
The main party room has a high ceiling with small holes near the top where lanterns were hung at night from the outside to give the appearance of a starlit sky.
It was used in Antonioni‘s film The Passenger as a backdrop for the first meeting between Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
In 2004, visits by the public were completely suspended due to renovations; some of the stone used in the original construction was weak and has cracked over the years causing structural problems within the building. As of 1 February 2008, Palau Güell was partially reopened to the public, with access to limited parts of the building only. It is currently completely open with all restoration work completed in April 2011.
More info: WIkipedia
This is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge. Thanks Norm for hosting this challenge.
Güell Palace
The 4 Cats
Here is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge. Thanks Norm for hosting this challenge.
This is one of the six doors found in the bar restaurant The Four Cats (cat, Els Quatre Gats) in the street Carrer de Montsió, 3 (Barcelona)
Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats), often written Els 4 Gats, was a café in Barcelona (Catalonia) which opened on 12 June 1897. It also operated as a hostel, a cabaret, a pub and a restaurant. Active until 1903, Els Quatre Gats became one of the main centers of Modernisme in Barcelona. The artist Ramon Casas i Carbó largely financed this bar on the ground floor of Casa Martí (1896), a building by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch in Carrer Montsió near the center of Barcelona. Els Quatre Gats was reconstructed in 1978.
Pablo Picasso visited this pub–restaurant often in his early art career.
The 4 Cats
“Four Cats” is a colloquial Catalan expression for “only a few people” and the name of Els Quatre Gats is derived from this saying. The four founders of the café—Pere Romeu, Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, and Miguel Utrillo—also chose this name as a tribute to Le Chat Noir, “The Black Cat,” a celebrated Parisian café whose creator, Rodolphe Salis, had recently died. They modeled Els Quatre Gats largely after the Parisian café.
More info in Wikipedia.
The 4 Cats
The 4 Cats. Entrance:
The 4 Cats. Entrance
Broken
This is my contribution this week to the Weekly Photo Challenge. My personal interpretation on the topic of this week.
This is a photography taken in a paper factory in ruins.
Ruins
Dust and rubble settle at my feet,
A chaotic collapse
Inside myself that I could never
Have imagined,
The foundations are shaken,
The cracks began to show,
And piece by piece
It all spectacularly fell apart,
Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to steady myself with
As it all crashed and burned,
Leaving me surrounded by the ruins
Of an Empire that took years to build
And seconds to destroy.
by LJ Chaplin
the bar
The B&W version:
the bar
Which one do you prefer??
Enveloped: by a huge photo
This building was enveloped during a work by a huge picture of some models. A big announcement in fashion covering its body…
This is my contribution this week to the Weekly Photo Challenge. I think it is another interpretation to the concept of this week “enveloped”.
Balcony
Rustic balcony of a rural house in the village of Rupit
Balcony detail
Rupit is a municipality in the comarca of Osona (Barcelona province) in Catalonia.
If traditional rainfed agriculture (cereals, legumes, potatoes, corn and fodder) and livestock (cattle and pigs) were the foundations of the economy, today tourism, attracted by the quaintness of the town, is the main source rich with a multitude of shops and restaurants that host numerous visitors and summer weekend.
Rupit. Catalonia
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