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| 28 May 2008 05:41:01 pm |
 Notes on Maps 1994 |
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'A map can be used to make a walk. A map can be used to make a work of art.
Maps have layers of information; they show history, geography, the naming of places.
A map is an artistic and poetic combination of image and language.
For me, a map is a potent alternative to a photograph, it has a different function.
It can show the idea of a whole work, not a moment.
A map can show time and space in a work of art.
Distance, the days of walking, the campsite, the shape of walking, can be shown in one concise but rich image.
In some of my works, I find the best places to realise particular ideas by first looking at a map.
A map can decide place and idea, either or both.
Maps can be read in many different ways, they are a standard and universal language.
I like to think my work on a map exists equally with all other information on it.
On a long walk a map becomes a familiar, trusted object, something to look at endlessly, without boredom.
I can look at the planned future and the completed past.
A map is a light.
A map could save my life.'
Richard Long |
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Category : archeology
| By : Elaine |  Comments [15] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 13 May 2008 08:40:15 pm |
| Proposed Glacial Valley Tour |
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Category : archeology
| By : Gareth | Comments [10] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 13 May 2008 05:38:36 pm |
| White Van Economy |
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White van Flea market stall, Ballyshannon, Sunday Market, April 2008 |
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Category : culture
| By : Gareth | Comments [12] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 06 May 2008 01:38:45 pm |
| ...perfection |
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Category : archeology
| By : Elaine | Comments [11] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 30 Apr 2008 04:19:44 pm |
| Ice Terminology |
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There is an internationally accepted terminology for ice forms and conditions.
General Terminology
The following terms are the ones commonly used in the preparation of the Canadian Ice Service products and publications.
Sea-ice types
New: A general term for recently formed ice which includes frazil ice, grease ice, slush and shuga. These types of ice are composed of ice crystals which are only weakly frozen together (if at all) and have a definite form only while they are afloat.
Grey: Young ice 10-15 cm thick. Less elastic than nilas and breaks on swell. Usually rafts under pressure.
Grey-white: Young ice 15-30 cm thick. Under pressure it is more likely to ridge than to raft.
Thin first-year: First-year ice of not more than one winter's growth, 30-70 cm thick.
Medium first-year: First-year, ice 70-120 cm thick.
Thick first-year: First-year ice over 120 cm thick.
Old ice: Sea ice which has survived at least one summer's melt. Topographic features generally are smoother than first-year ice. May be subdivided into second-year ice and multi-year ice.
Second-year ice: Old ice which has survived only one summer's melt.
Multi-year ice: Old ice which has survived at least two summer's melt.
Lake-ice types
New: Recently formed ice less than 5 cm thick.
Thin: Ice of varying colours, 5-15 cm thick.
Medium: A further development of floes or fast ice, 15-30 cm thick.
Thick: Ice 30-70 cm thick.
Very Thick: Floes or fast ice developed to more than 70 cm thickness.
Arrangement of the ice
Ice drift: Caused by the combined action of the wind and water current's drag on the ice. Expressed in units of kilometres per day (km/d). Terms used are descriptive: slow or light, moderate, rapid, and variable.
Ice growth: Caused by the freezing of water by cold air, and its rate will depend on the air temperature, wind conditions, and water salinity. Terms used are descriptive: little or no ice growth, slow or light, moderate, and rapid.
Ice melt: Caused by the melting of ice by warm water or warm air. Terms used are descriptive: slow or light, moderate, and rapid.
Ice pressure: Caused by compaction of ice floes under the influence of wind or water currents, forming ice deformation of several forms (fractures, hummocks, ridges, rafting). Terms used are descriptive: light, moderate, strong. |
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Category : climate
| By : Gareth | Comments [8] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 30 Apr 2008 04:04:44 pm |
| On the formation of Sea Ice.. |
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- Excerpt from Ms Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg, 1993 (Pg 450).
The Ice cover was formed last year in the Arctic Ocean. From there it was forced out between Svalbard and the east coast of Greenland, carried down around Cape Farewell, and pushed up along the west coast.
It was created in beauty. On an October day the temperature drop 30 degrees in 4 hours, and the sea grows as motionless as a mirror. Its waiting to reflect a wonder of creation. The clouds and the sea now glide together in a curtain of heavy grey silk. The water grows viscous and tinged with pink, like a liquor of wild berries. A blue fog of frost smoke detaches itself from the surface of the water and drifts across the surface of the mirror. Then the water solidifies. Out of the dark sea the cold now pulls up a rose garden, a white blanket of ice blossoms formed form salt and frozen drops of water. They may last for four hours or two days.
At his point the structure of the ice crystals is based on the number 6. Surrounding a hexagon, like a honeycomb of solidified water, six arms reach out towards six other cells, which in turn – as seen in a photograph taken with a colour filter and greatly enlarged – dissolve into new hexagons.
Then frazil ice is formed, grease ice, and pancake ice, whose plates freeze together in floes. The ice separates out the salt, the seawater freezes from below. The ice breaks, packing, precipitation and increased cold give it an undulating surface. Eventually the ice is forced adrift.
Frazil ice
Grease ice
Pancake ice |
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Category : climate
| By : Gareth | Comments [16] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 30 Apr 2008 03:00:24 pm |
| 12 hour disassembly |
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Jakkelsen is leaning against the rail. “this is incredible, fucking incredible!”
The complex below us is lit up with lights on poles lining both sides of the piers. Even now, bathed in this yellow light, painted grass green, with lights on in the distant buildings, and white traffic markings, Greenland Star looks like some thousands of square metres of steel plunked down in the Atlantic Ocean.
To me it seems so obviously a mistake. To Jakkelsen it’s a magnificent union of sea and high technology.
“Yes”, I say “ and the best thing is it can be taken apart and packed up in 12 hours”.
“With this place they have won over the sea, man. Now it doesn’t matter how, or what the weather’s like. They can put down a harbour anywhere, in the middle of the ocean”.
I’m no teacher or Boy Scout leader. I’m not interested in setting him straight.
“Why do they need to take it apart, Smilla?”
Maybe its nervousness that makes me answer him after all.
“They built it when they started bringing up oil from the sea floor off North Greenland. It took ten years from the time they first discovered oil until they could extract it. Their problem was the ice. First they built a prototype of what was to be the world’s largest and most solid oilrig, the Joint Venture Warrior, a product of Glasnost and Home Rule, a cooperative venture between the United States, the USSR, and A.P. Moller Shipping Inc. You’ve sailed past oil rigs, you know how big they are. You see them 50 sea miles away, and they get bigger and bigger, like a universe floating on posts. They’ve got restaurants, and offices and workshops and bars and cinemas and theatres and fire stations, the whole thing mounted 12 metres above the surface of the ocean so even the worst storm waves pass underneath it. Just think of one of them. The Joint Venture Warrior was meant to be 4 times as big. The prototype was 18 metres above the surface of the water. It was intended to provide jobs for 1400 people. They erected the prototype in Baffin Bay. When it was standing there, finished, an ice berg came along. This had been foreseen. But this iceberg was a little bit bigger then usual. It was calved somewhere on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. It was a hundred metres tall and flat on the top, the way icebergs are when they are that high. It had 400 metres of ice below the surface, and it weighed about 20 million tons. When they saw it coming they did get just a little nervous. But they had two big icebreakers on hand. They fastened them to the ice berg so they could pull it on to a different course. There was very little current and no wind. Still, nothing really happened when they revved up the engines. Except that the ice berg continued straight ahead. It did not seem to notice that anything was tugging at it.And it walked right over the prototype, and behind it, in the water, there was no traces of the proud model of the Joint Venture Warrior except for some patches of oil and debris. Since then they have made all Arctic Ocean equipment so it can be dismantled in 12 hours. That’s how much warning the Ice Centre can give them. They drill from floating platforms that can scarper. This magnificent harbour is nothing more then a tin tray. If the ice came along it would carry it off as if it had never been here. They only put it up during mild winters when the ice field doesn’t reach this far north or the pack ice this far south. They haven’t beaten the ice, Jakkelsen. The battle hasn’t even begun.”
He puts out his cigarette. He has his back to me. I don’t know whether he’s disappointed or indifferent.
- Excerpt from Ms Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg, 1993 |
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Category : climate
| By : Gareth | Comments [7] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 30 Apr 2008 01:13:24 pm |
| Access to website; |
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Would someone be able to post the address for for the website.
I seem to have taken it down wrong and can not access it
Cheers,
Elaine |
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Category : mmdesign
| By : Elaine | Comments [10] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 30 Apr 2008 01:08:07 pm |
| From the general to the Specific; |
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www.laviadellenergia.it
I found the above website to be a very good working model. It examines
themes to do with energy ranging from the very general (Energy, the Big Bang, Theory of Relatively)
to the specific (natural resources and industrial heritage of Lombardy, Italy, the concept of industrial/
power plant tourism) Content is accessible through simple navigation system, keywords and glossary.
Industrial tourism in Co.Leitrim
'The Energy Way' describes the origins of tourism in general,
they go on to discuss the emerging trend of power plant tourism
in relation to the development of industrial tourism.
The site of the former E.S.B (coal fueled) power plant, Arigna.
'A novel way to discover and appreciate an area, helping visitors see the region through the lens of industrial development. However, even though these sites are of great architectural, historic, environmental, technical, and scientific importance, they are still relatively unknown and seldom visited.
Our website, The Way of Energy, is primarily geared towards students and teachers, but it can also help raise interest among Italian and foreign tourists who want to learn more about the history of our region’s impressive industrial development. The website provides travel itineraries that combine visits to Lombardy’s power plants, with stops at other artistic, historic, natural, and gastronomic tourist sites.
These proposed itineraries are perfect examples of industrial tourism, which first emerged as a distinct subcategory of tourism towards the end of the 1990s. Since that time, industrial tourism has become a popular method of learning about and appreciating other cultures. Industrial tourism encompasses visits to a wide range of tourist sites including: corporate archives and museums; manufacturing plants; banks, insurance companies, chambers of commerce, and other centers of economic activity; transportation infrastructure; community buildings; and "industrial villages", all of which contain examples of "industrial archeology".' |
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Category : tourism
| By : Elaine | Comments [8] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 29 Apr 2008 04:05:12 pm |
| arigna's train |
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a couple of pictures of the old steam train that went up to the mine at Arigna.
Quote : IMAGE RESIZED BY ADMIN
Quote : IMAGE RESIZED BY ADMIN |
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Category : archeology
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