The Beard Slap

Tools of the Trade

World's Largest Expansion Chamber

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They always remind me of dinosaur remains when they are fitted for tack welding. 

Prototype Fuel Tank

 

Some overdue pictures of the now finished fuel tank for the prototype.

A Repugnant Stage

Aldo Rossi, via Guttae:

"Locus … is not unrelated to context; but context seems strangely bound up with illusion, with illusionism. As such it has nothing to do with the architecture of the city, but rather with the making of a scene, … saddening us like would-be tourists of a vanished world.

It is hardly surprising that this concept of context is espoused and applied by those who pretend to preserve the historical cities by retaining their ancient facades or reconstructing them in such a way as to maintain their silhouettes and colours and other such things; but what do we find after these operations when they are actually realised? An empty, often repugnant stage."

Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City

Inviato dal mio iPod

Paragon Unveiling Coming Soon...

The first Paragon is in the final stages of preparation for its debut in the next week. 

Goshen Thunderstorm

Cruising in Goshen, IN

Model of Bayleaf Farmstead

 

 

 

A model of the early 15th century Bayleaf Farmstead now at the Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex.

Pandora

Snapping Turtle on the Dock

Fitting Out Pandora

Antifouling paint, sandpaper, teak oil, varnish...