Showing posts with label air plane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air plane. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2020
Friday, March 11, 2016
SKYACHT™ONE
Designer Eddie Sotto (former Senior Vice President of Concept Design at Disney's Imagineering division) has created an amazing airplane he has named Skyacht One, inspired by the vision of one George Whittell Jr. of Lake Tahoe, California. Back in 1939 Whittell was in love with his Douglas DC2 Aircraft. The gleaming fuselage and streamlined shapes drove him to commission the Thunderbird, a fantastic Hackercraft motor yacht (seen below) to match his airplane.
Sotto used this as a springboard to bring the idea full circle and transform the mahogany planks and exposed technology of the boat into a luxury "yacht in the sky." The design and details are staggering, mixing a kind of 1930s air-and-sea-travel sensibility with designs of astrolabes, armillary spheres, and charts to give it a Jules Verne-esque twist...from the handmade brass and marquetry clock inspired by the 15th Century Ducal Palace Studiolo, to Piero Fornasetti's gold plated "Astrolabio" China that gleams over dinner.
http://www.skyachtone.com/
Sotto used this as a springboard to bring the idea full circle and transform the mahogany planks and exposed technology of the boat into a luxury "yacht in the sky." The design and details are staggering, mixing a kind of 1930s air-and-sea-travel sensibility with designs of astrolabes, armillary spheres, and charts to give it a Jules Verne-esque twist...from the handmade brass and marquetry clock inspired by the 15th Century Ducal Palace Studiolo, to Piero Fornasetti's gold plated "Astrolabio" China that gleams over dinner.
http://www.skyachtone.com/
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Porta Estel-lar
This interactive art/theater collaboration between Eduardo Cajal (owner of the air plane), Playmodes, and MID (Media Interactive Design) takes audience members on a six-minute journey to outer space and other dimensions using state of the art lighting and sound. Entitled Porta Estel-lar, it was installed in Spain in the Ciutadella Park during the Barcelona local holidays of La Mercé, September of 2015.
Monday, February 23, 2015
BEAUTY: Photography--Dietmar Eckell
I will let Dietmar Eckell, the photographer himself speak about his photo series Happy End:
"Happy End is a photo-project about miracles in aviation history - 15 airplanes that had forced landings but ALL on board survived and were rescued from remote locations. The planes have been abandoned in the middle of nowhere for 10 years and up to 70 years. It's part of my long term project 'restwert' (German for residual value) to document abandoned objects with fascinating backgrounds like cold war relicts [sic], Olympic sites, flooded churches, railroad tracks, never finished nuclear reactors, overgrown adventure parks etc. It started with my interest in the visual disruption of nostalgic technology in endless landscapes - but soon I got hooked on these planes/stories and spent over two years researching and documenting them. Aviation miracles are rare and the planes remaining out there are very remote - but the challenge was motivating and it was like a pilgrimage to get to these 'wonders' on 4 continents from Papua New Guinea to the Arctic Circle. My photography is not about documenting the planes condition & details but how they are embedded in nature after so many years. I try to capture the surreal beauty of these settings using high viewpoints or shooting through layers. Inspired by the shipwreck painters of the romantic period I look for dramatic skies, late light or fall colors to 'glorify' these wonderful planes."
http://www.dietmareckell.com/
"Happy End is a photo-project about miracles in aviation history - 15 airplanes that had forced landings but ALL on board survived and were rescued from remote locations. The planes have been abandoned in the middle of nowhere for 10 years and up to 70 years. It's part of my long term project 'restwert' (German for residual value) to document abandoned objects with fascinating backgrounds like cold war relicts [sic], Olympic sites, flooded churches, railroad tracks, never finished nuclear reactors, overgrown adventure parks etc. It started with my interest in the visual disruption of nostalgic technology in endless landscapes - but soon I got hooked on these planes/stories and spent over two years researching and documenting them. Aviation miracles are rare and the planes remaining out there are very remote - but the challenge was motivating and it was like a pilgrimage to get to these 'wonders' on 4 continents from Papua New Guinea to the Arctic Circle. My photography is not about documenting the planes condition & details but how they are embedded in nature after so many years. I try to capture the surreal beauty of these settings using high viewpoints or shooting through layers. Inspired by the shipwreck painters of the romantic period I look for dramatic skies, late light or fall colors to 'glorify' these wonderful planes."
Douglas C-47, crashed February 1950, Yukon Canada
Grumman HU-16 Albatross, crashed August 2004, Mexico
Curtiss C-46 Commando, crashed November 1979, Manitoba Canada
Vought F4U Corsair, crashed 1948, Hawaii
Bristol 170, crashed May 1956, NWT Canada
Fairchild C-82, crashed January 1965, Alaska
Fairchild C-82, crashed January 1965, Alaska (rear view)
B-24 Liberator, crashed October 1943, Papua New Guinea
Douglas C-53, crashed February 1942, Australia
Avro Shackleton, crashed July 1994, Western Sahara
http://www.dietmareckell.com/
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
BEAUTY: Painting--Jim Darling
Still flying...
This looks so familiar to me, having been on planes for many hours this year. The view from the window can be so fascinating but also comforting in a way. The world looks so organized and manageable from high above...
Jim darling makes plastic facsimiles of plane windows to frame his aerial views of urban and rural landscapes.
Top to bottom: Dallas; NYC; Heartland2; Heartland; unknown
http://cargocollective.com/jimdarling/
This looks so familiar to me, having been on planes for many hours this year. The view from the window can be so fascinating but also comforting in a way. The world looks so organized and manageable from high above...
Jim darling makes plastic facsimiles of plane windows to frame his aerial views of urban and rural landscapes.
Top to bottom: Dallas; NYC; Heartland2; Heartland; unknown
http://cargocollective.com/jimdarling/
Monday, September 8, 2014
San Francisco From Above
Photographer, musician, and co-founder of @Circa Matt Galligan recently had an opportunity to shoot some gorgeous aerial views of my beloved San Francisco. It really is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States.
Below we can see: the Golden Gate Bridge leading into San Francisco; a superb view of the greenery of Golden gate Park ending at the Pacific Ocean; downtown San Francisco with the Bay Bridge connecting to Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands in the bay (and beyond that one can the second, newer span of the Bay Bridge leading to the East Bay cities of Oakland and Berkeley...and at the very back of the horizon, Mt. Diablo is visible); and then back to the Golden Gate Bridge leading into the Marin Headlands lightly tipped with some fog...lovely.
And spectacular photos Matt--they really show the lay of the land!
https://medium.com/@mg/san-francisco-from-above-b362fe8c07e1
Below we can see: the Golden Gate Bridge leading into San Francisco; a superb view of the greenery of Golden gate Park ending at the Pacific Ocean; downtown San Francisco with the Bay Bridge connecting to Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands in the bay (and beyond that one can the second, newer span of the Bay Bridge leading to the East Bay cities of Oakland and Berkeley...and at the very back of the horizon, Mt. Diablo is visible); and then back to the Golden Gate Bridge leading into the Marin Headlands lightly tipped with some fog...lovely.
And spectacular photos Matt--they really show the lay of the land!
https://medium.com/@mg/san-francisco-from-above-b362fe8c07e1
Saturday, April 27, 2013
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