BG's Photo Library: MD -- Silver Spring -- Discovery headquarters (Shark Week)

MD -- Silver Spring -- Discovery headquarters (Shark Week) -- Notes:

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Description of Subject Matter: Outside Mural:

One of the prominent features of this building is a porcelain enamel on steel mural which runs the length of the buidling's Colesville Road side. The work, called "A Brushstroke of Discovery", is 2200 Square feet, 180 feet wide, and 9 feet tall at one end and 18 feet at the other end. It was done by Narcissus Quagliatain 2003 with co-credits given to Esmaltados Alfher ("Porcelain enamel on steel, manufacturing and silk-screen process, Mexico City") and Pablo Torrealba ("Silk screen and digital process design, Mexico City"). According to Narcissus web site at http://www.nquagliata.com/abrushstroke3.html:

Inspiration:
The foundation of this work is the very simple premise that the entire history of our planet is but a single brushstroke on the immense canvas of the cosmos, and that life is in perpetual transformation. The theme of discovery runs throughout the entire mural as a thread that holds the entire work compositionally together and makes it flow from one image to the next.

Innovation:
This very large mural is in itself an innovation, because it presents a painting that can be placed outdoors without fading and lose color intensity. Painting traditionally is a medium that cannot be exposed to the elements for it's chemical fragility.

A meeting of art and industry:
In essence the mural is a fine art image that has been realized by adapting and extending industrial methods to achieve durable surfaces for the exterior of buildings with fired glass enamels. The mural has been made possible by the close collaboration of the artist, Narcissus Quagliata, Alfonso Hernandez of Esmaltados Alfher, and Pablo Torrealba, director of the silk-screen studio at Alfher, in Mexico City.

The work merges together into one event the disciplines of painting, photography, silk-screen, computer digital work, and the final direct intervention of the artist on the surface of the work.

In the context of a life dedicated to imagin ...More...
Various Signs: Eureka!
George Rhoads' Audio-Kinetic Sculpture:
George Rhoads is a multi-talented artist of international renown and the creator of original works of art. His sculptures are widely recognized as popular music artworks that incorporate technology while retaining their aesthetic integrity.
Eureka! was commissioned by Discovery Networks and constructed at Rock Stream Studios in Ithaca, New York.
We invite you to take a few minutes to pause and explore this imaginative triumph of technological wizardry.

Called "Eureka!", it's an audio-kinetic sculpture by George Rhoads. Basically, a screw device (blue) lifts balls up to the top of the sculpture. From there, the balls travel somewhat randomly over a number of paths before they reach the bottom and come back up again. There are a number of signs around it which give you a number of details:

George Rhoads is a multi-talented artist of international renown and the creator of original works of art. His sculptures are widely recognized as popular music artworks that incorporate technology while retaining their aesthetic integrity.
Eureka! was commissioned by Discovery Networks and constructed at Rock Stream Studios in Ithaca, New York.
We invite you to take a few minutes to pause and explore this imaginative triumph of technological wizardry.

(The red triangle at the top:) The Clumper: With a childlike sense of fun, the sculpture combines the whimsical and the scientific in the "Clumper," a motorized randomizer device which sends from one to seven balls into a rollercoaster loop.

(The head just below the globe:) The Monkey Table: The ape-like figure with moving arms hits the ball back and forth across a flat table until, totally at random, they fall through a hole and continue on their amazing journey.

(The gong at the top above the screen:) Reaction Balls: This device illustrates energy transfer. The last ball in knocks the first ball out to strike the chime.

(A hexagonal flat with pegs in it ...More...
Missing Some Bigger photos? Each new digital camera by default wants to take larger and larger photos. To save myself time and server space, I don't upload to the web site versons of photos that are bigger than 2.75 megabytes to the web page. If you want the biggest sized photo and you don't see a link bigger than 0640x0480, email Bruce Guthrie and I'll email specific photos to you.
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Generally-Related Subject: MD -- Silver Spring
Generally-Related Subject Description: From http://www.fact-index.com/s/si/silver_spring__maryland.html:

In 1840, Francis Preston Blair, with his daughter, Elizabeth, and his horse Selim discovered the spring, flowing with chips of mica. Two years later, the 20-room mansion Silver Spring was built on a 250-acre country homestead situated just outside of Washington, D.C. By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln, and represented Dred Scott before the United States Supreme Court built a house in the area, called Falkland. Samuel Phillips Lee married Elizabeth Blair, and they bore Francis Preston Blair Lee in 1857. The child would eventually become the first popularly elected Senator in United States history. In 1864, Confederate States of America Army General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring prior to the Battle of Fort Stevens. After the engagement, fleeing Confederate soldiers razed Montgomery Blair's Falkland residence.

In the late 1800s, the area started developing. 1873 brought rails to the area, as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch ran from Washington, DC to Point of Rocks, Maryland. The first suburban development began in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on Colesville Road and Brookville Road into 5 and 10 acre plots.

In 1893, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee, who is known as the father of modern Silver Spring for his visionary attitude about developing the region. ... E. Brooke Lee and his brother, Blair Lee, founded the Lee Development Company, whose Colesville Road office building remains a downtown fixture. Suburban development continued in 1922 when Woodside Development Corporation created Woodside Park, with acre plot home sites. Montgomery Blair High School opened in 1924; it was the first high school in Montgomery County. 1924 also was the year that trolley service on Georgia Avenue across B&O's Metropolitan Branch was temporarily suspended so ...More...
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- 2006_MD_SS: MD -- Silver Spring (6 photos from 2006)
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Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: Structures
2010 photos: Equipment this year: I was using mostly the Fuji S100fs until the third one broke and I started sending them back for repairs. Then I used either the Fuji S200EHX or the Nikon D90. Trips this year: I've got so many local commitments that I'm having trouble getting away. I drove out to Lexington, Kentucky to cover the Civil War Preservation Trust's annual conference in June. I flew out to California and Nevada for two weeks in July for the San Diego Comic-Con. Ego strokes: Nothing major so far. Photos taken this year: 260,000 through August -- down about 5 percent from last year's frenetic pace.
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