Robot Buzzer

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Picturesque robot-head door buzzer
Campo dei Mori, Cannaregio
Venice, October 2012

Bruderkuß

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«Господи! Помоги мне выжить среди этой смертной любви»
„Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben“
(My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love) by Dmitri Vrubel, East Side Gallery
Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Berlin, September 2011

“... and the Russian artist Dimitri Vrubel's ‘Mein Gott hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben’ (Dear God, help me to survive this fatal love), a picture of Honecker and Brezhnev's brotherly kiss. This ensemble of paintings was officially opened in September 1990 as the East Side Gallery; known worldwide, it is extremely popular with visitors to Berlin.” (East Side Gallery, Berlin.de)

See also: Berlin Wall - Test the Rest - Stay Free - Without Title - Sonic Malade - Vergesst mir die Liebe nicht - Niemandsland - Many Small People - Curriculum Vitae

Scramble

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“Scramble”, The Battle of Britain Monument, First Panel - Fighter Command
Paul Day sculptor, Donald Insall Associates architects
Victoria Embankment
London, October 2009

“That classic moment, when the signal to ‘Scramble’ is given, had to take centre stage. It is the very symbol of the Battle. In this case, the pilots surge off the wall, out of their picture and onto the pavement, into our world, a reminder to say that these men really did exist and do those incredible things.” (Description of monument scenes by the sculptor, Battle of Britain Monument)

See also: The Observers

Henri Farman

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Homage to Henri Farman and the Voisin brothers by Paul Landowski, 1929
Rue Henry-Farman
Quartier de Javel, 15th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

See also: King Edward VII - The Sons of Cain

“If we pass over his tentative hops during September 1907, we can mark October 1907 as the month of his first powered and sustained flights (including one at Issy of 2,530ft on October 26), and January 1908 as the month of his first powered, sustained and controlled flying, in that he made the first officially observed kilometre circuit on January 13, and to won the Prix Deutsch-Archdeacon. Henri Furman was also the first
true and proper powered aeroplane pilot of Europe. Santos Dumont’s best ‘flight’ in 1906 —when he was adjudged to have made the first powered flights in Europe— was only some 720ft, after which he speedily abandoned his ingenious but impractical and virtually uncontrollable aircraft, and did not make a significant aeroplane flight of any kind until 1909. Furthermore, neither Delagrange nor Blériot, despite their good efforts in 1907, were able to fly properly until well into 1908. For the academic, it should be said that one finds Farman‘s Christian name spelt both ‘Henry’ and ‘Henri’ during 1907 and 1908, with Henri appearing on the tail-unit side-curtains of his Voisin biplane, and on his own designed machines of l909.” (From All Quarters – Obituary of Henry Farman, Flight, 1958)

Delivery Boats

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Delivery boats on the the Canal Grande (Grand Canal)
seen from the Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge)
Venice, October 2012

“The system of transport, for example, with the fast Grand Canal cutting across the slower-moving smaller canals, was a model of its kind. The waters of the lagoon have also ensured that the city remained of a manageable size; it did not sprawl, and its only suburbs were the other islands that had an intrinsic life of their own.” (Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City)

Charité Bettenhochhaus

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Charité
Bettenhochhaus, Campus Mitte
Berlin, September 2011

“Soon, Berlin was divided. The Mitte campus fell into East German property, bordering the Berlin Wall to Moabit. The Charité was announced the leading hospital of the ‘capital of the GDR’ and soon received a new building, which still dominates the skyline over Northern Mitte. The Bettenhochhaus (bed high rise) with its twenty-one floors and connected sections still rises high above the campus. After the Wall came down and when financial issues affected local politics, the Charité gradually merged with the former West-Berlin campi in Wedding and Steglitz.” (Charité Campus Mitte, Finding Berlin)

Mother Playing

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“Mother Playing” by Chaim Gross, 1961
Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus
New York, September 2007

An identical sculpture is installed in Miriam's Garden at Hadassah Medical Center, Ein Kerem. (Art @ Hadassah Study Group)