fOtofair 2006 Sassafras

by Sassafras Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:50:01 PM EST

fOtofair 2006 Sassafras

My collection of...what appears to be rather a lot of shiny stuff.

fOtofair 2006 Sassafras | 30 comments (30 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

Umm, aren't you sposed to put some pictures here ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:14:05 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

It takes a while to add in the code and url's etc for each comment box unless you do it all in a text doc first. Took me ages to do my first one and then I managed to speed it up.

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:29:12 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

Glad it wasn't just me, then ;)

by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:51:59 PM EST
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it was me too ... :) nt (none / 1)

by olivia on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:20:39 PM EST
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fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 9)

Something shiny

Guggenheim Bilbao

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:19:33 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

Oh that's gorgeous, I love forms like that. It looks very similar to the stuff the roof of the Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay is made from.

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:30:40 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

It's clad in titanium.

by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:03:55 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

Very nice.

Now I have to add Bilbao to my list of places to visit in Spain.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:09:53 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 7)

Something else shiny

Saturn V

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:23:36 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (none / 0)

All I see is a "bare" Apollo command module. Is a Saturn-V mockup underneath?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 01:17:40 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (none / 0)

I knew somebody would pick me up on that. :) It's part of the Apollo 11 exhibit at Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V is above and behind. The original module is in the Smithsonian.

by Sassafras on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 02:26:03 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 9)

Something

that may have been shiny once

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:28:57 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 6)

Pantheon

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:34:19 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 7)

Astronaut helmet

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:41:03 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

It always worries me when you can't see the photographer in a shot like this. :)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:10:33 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

I'm a vegetarian vampire. I only drain the blood from vegetarians ;)

by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:19:46 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 4)

I remain oddly unreassured. :)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:22:11 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 7)

Skylight

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:44:38 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

More Rome?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:13:29 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

Yes. Somewhere between the forum and the Trevi fountain. I think.

by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:21:55 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (none / 1)

This skylight features in a recurring dream of mine. I blame it on my architecture kick of '03 when I was renting architecture documentaries like they were going out of style. This building was featured in one of the docs.

by fabooj (fabooj@mail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 09:53:00 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 7)

Something orange

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:47:57 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 2)

This reminds me of the exhibit that was done in Central Park NY a couple of years ago - I can't remember the artist's name but there were orange flag like things -- like this.

Where was this?

by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:53:36 PM EST
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The Gates (4.00 / 2)

link here

by olivia on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 06:18:32 PM EST
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Re: The Gates, thanks for memory jog! (none / 0)

I had the good fortune to see this in person. I would highly recommend seeing whatever Christo and Jean-Claude are doing, next exhibit is in Colorado.

NVA, a viable option when the political process fails.

by NorthDakotaDemocrat (NorthDakotaDemocrat at gmail dot com) on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 03:35:11 AM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 7)

Something else

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by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 04:50:54 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

Any hints about where this is?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:12:30 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (4.00 / 3)

Bilbao airport :)

by Sassafras on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:18:16 PM EST
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Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (none / 1)

Shiny bits...Gehry do the Guggeneheim addition too? Right now, I'm over him as he's turned Venice Beach into something it should never have been (unaffordable to me) and we're losing a lot of old beach bungalows to 3500 square foot, Gehry-insprired cubes of corrugated crap.

But I'm not bitter or anything.

by fabooj (fabooj@mail.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 09:51:05 PM EST

Re: fOtofair 2006 Sassafras (none / 0)

Yes, he did. I always wonder how his places will look in about 20 years. I've seen metal-sheathed buildings after hail storms - they look like really bad cases of acne. That's what I expect the laser center he designed at UIowa to look like; possibly the Business school at Case Western, too.

by Kspeak (thorfinn at skip this ameritech dot net as usual) on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 12:55:23 AM EST
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