#cementwork

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CEMENT ART HANDS BOWL | BY PENKRAFT

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The work continues we still need your help please Donate to the link thank you Reposted from @mipatria.pr We have poured the roof and walkway! The finish line is within sight. In 2 weeks we will begin the final phase of the Mercado Family rebuild. Volunteers are welcome to help us get this family into their home. #isabelapr #cementwork #rebuildingpuertorico #volunteerism https://www.instagram.com/p/Cklh_hIjf_H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ericstefani]

An above shot of the layout where I had planned to put the bricks even though I have never layed bricks and voweled to never touch cement again.

[rockscapes]

She was playing hold my foot with Charles every time I went by! She seems like a trickster! www.rockscapescanada.com #trickster #gorilla #gorillazmemes #habitat #torontozoo #zoo #artificialtrees #fauxtree #trees #treesculpture #shotcrete #concrete #cement #cementwork (at Toronto Zoo)

[aftenbrook]

This evening Devin worked on closing up the hole in the basement where we had to address raw sewage last fall. We’ve been living with a huge hole in our basement for a full year! Not anymore. Our support beam for our new stair system was also installed today 🥰 It’s a cool log in the same style as the other rustic logs throughout our sweet little home. I love it. #twobrokemorons #hutrehab #diyers #diyhomerenovation #diyhomeprojects #homerenovations #cementwork #wetmess https://www.instagram.com/p/B1fZxfjgvjV/?igshid=7k5udwbunxha

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Another look at our bowl!

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[gogopak]

Dear @whatisuniversal , I’m reminded of the time we mixed cement together for the “My Name is Pencil” sculpture in NYC, and the face of the man doing the same in Jakarta. Your exploration of people’s negotiations in our culturally hybridized world made me feel enlightenment. It glimmers sometimes. Hope you and your family are happy and magical. Sending love and admiration~ @lexcrae #indonesia #thenetherlands #dutchart #universality #identity #culturalhybridity #ethnicroots #pencilsculpture #cementworker #jakarta #individual #subjective #collective #normative #culturalcollisions #alienation #exoticism #mediasociety #parody #contradictoryspace #promises #displacement #creativecriticalthinking #globalization #authenticity #lumentravogallery #manifestabiennial #jogjabiennial (at Lower East Side Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXjQHYGL1P8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fergusthetracionloco]

[so part to of meh stort]

*the break down train(aka rocky) and a bunch of ambluances arives with scotsman pulling it. scot was worried about his brother and the expres.*

Gordon: brother?

scot: yes brother i am here. what happened? and how did this happen?

Gordon: an explosion came from the cement works and the fore of the explosion hit me i guess.

scot: lets get you to the steam works brother.

*Gordon gets pushes to the steamworks on flatbeds by scot*

*sir bertrum toppem hatt calls a meating of all functioning locos at the steam works to make an amount witch was every rare especially since the last all loco meating was at the end of ww2*

*bertrum stareted to cound the locos who were at the steam works*

*mr persivel and the owner of the arsldale railway were there as well*

bertrum: everyone please settel down. i know the recent news has you all woried but do not threat. we will not stop until we find out who made this attack! but untill then we must be on guard and prepare. i have contacted miss jenny and her construction crew as well as the main land steal works and bothbare willing to help rebuild and fix the now destroyed cementworks. we will have the new rails deliverd by rail with the help of Murdoch and sam. mr.persivel, mr owen and i have agreed to have soem of our locomotives on watch at each main station. so if this happens again we can be informed and all locomotives will be fitted with radios to inform each other of what they saw. and harvy and scotsman will go back to the cemtworks to see if fergus has survived the blast. i will visit each of the sheds to check if anyone saw anything that includes narrow and miniture gauge. now please go back to your sheds and rest.

*the engins do so*

*sam and Murdoch head off to the mainland*

*scot and harvy head off to the destroyed cement works*

*the scotish twins head off takeing the narow and minter gauges back to there respective railways*

[TBC. i got bordd of typeing for a bit]

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[athelari]

Things I blurted out whilst playing Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silver Earring:

(Beware spoilers!)

Is it just me, or do [Holmes and Watson] rather resemble their Lenfilm versions here? Like how SHCP is recognisably Granada, and Devil's Daughter is Ritchie?

Right, isn't this game supposed to have very glitchy graphics? Oh, this'll be fun.

*half an hour into the game* Ohhh, that's where the inventory is! Could've told me that earlier. Do we not have a tutorial?

Holmes, I will not tolerate any Doctor Strange shenanigans. Stop levitating and get down here this instant!

Les-trayde? Les-trayde or Les-trahd? I always thought it was Les-trahd…

*Holmes is giggling at the cook, who is chopping a chicken most enthusiastically. I am also giggling, because his laughter is infectious. How can a grown man in shoddy 3D be so bloody endearing?*

*referring to the automaton in Fowlett's house* I hate that jester already.

*excited voice* GIN! BLOOD! GIN! *laughs* BLOOD!

Ugh, some of these puzzles are quite sadistic.

(Context: I played the J2ME version of this game on my phone, years ago.) I don't remember anything about this case, except that there will be potatoes. Didn't I try to measure a potato once?

*three hours into the game* Huh?—Ohhh if I double-click, you run! You can run? Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier?!

I don't hate Comic Sans, but why would you use it for a Sherlock Holmes game set in the Victorian era? Accessibility, perhaps?

Exactly how tall are you, old chap? You look like you'll slam into every doorframe.

tHE POTATOES! I FOUND THE POTATOES!

We're not even going to look at the deceased? Not even to identify his corpse, just—just measure his shoes? OK then.

(Holmes: "It is simplicity itself.") No, it ain't! What on earth was that puzzle?

*referring to the Cementworks* Why is it so bloody dark?? I can't—see a bloody fing! At least The Persian Carpet let me tweak the gamma settings. I can't even see you!

So many assets are reused [i.e. from The Persian Carpet]! How economical.

Timed sequences! I hate timed sequences!

Guacamole??

Why on earth would someone make three earrings? That's either too many ears, or too few.

Done. And I'm not doing this again. Though I kind of want to replay the mobile version now. Hm. I do still have an emulator installed…

(Not included above: frequently and sarcastically mimicking Holmes' "I need something", laughing at graphical glitches, forgetting NPCs' names, and badly humming/whistling along to the soundtrack.)

[bryonysimcox]

Cutting, calling, sticking, sitting, subtitling: Week 15, Spain

With future certainty and concrete plans nowhere in sight, this week’s blog post is in praise of the mundane. Seven days of everyday life.

When prepping for this blog entry, I started panicking. What’s the overarching message? The big-picture mood of the week or the lesson I’ve learnt? Well this week, there isn’t one. It’s been seven days of everyday life and I reckon that’s worth celebrating too.

We’ve been pitching for some exciting work this week.

I can’t talk about the specifics, but it’s heartening to be actually planning and quoting for real-life projects that could bring in real-life money and real-life experience. We pretty much work on Broaden as a full-time venture anyway (regardless of if it makes us money), so when prospective clients reach out to Broaden to ask us to do more of what we love, then that’s a bonus.

I guess that’s the beauty of filmmaking, it’s so broad and its potential is so great that it can be valuable for a whole lot of people. I also think in the coming ‘new normal’ as countries, cities and communities come to adapt life around Covid-19, that the role of video and online streaming will shift, and perhaps become a more central element in our lives.

I’ve also been working away at editing the video we started filming last week about Economics for a more just and equitable world. It’s starting to take shape, though there is a lot of refinement needed (I’ve cut 150 minutes down to 30 minutes but still have a fair way to go!). Working on this video is also bringing about a newfound challenge of how we make videos like this visually stimulating, when they predominantly feature digital interviews and we can’t film footage out and about due to lockdown. It’s forcing us to get more creative with motion graphics, which is no bad thing.

In what is the culmination of a longstanding project, we also interviewed Rich Evans about The Foundations in New South Wales this week.

‘The Foundations’ is a truly extraordinary project/place in Portland, a tiny town about two-hours inland from Sydney. I first discovered the project when I worked in Australia, and the company I worked for, RobertsDay, was involved in a masterplanning process. Portland was established around a cementworks which went on to not only be the driving economic force behind the town, but also the backbone of the community. It was a source of civic pride (cement from Portland famously went to Sydney amid the building boom, coining it the phrase ‘The Town That Built Sydney’), and also helped establish social infrastructure like the swimming pool that is still a celebrated destination in the little town today. Sadly, as the cementworks decreased in scale and eventually closed in the nineties, it had a huge impact on the town.

(images) Scenes from January 2019 when we started filming at The Foundations, Portland NSW.

Back at RobertsDay, I had the pleasure of working on the masterplan and placemaking work for the next chapter of the cementworks, and I immediately fell in love with the place. Not only was it this incredible place of industrial heritage, but the owners actually wanted to transform the site into something really special - a tourist destination, an asset to the community, and a revitalised part of the town. From its current state - fenced-off, closed, and perhaps even an eyesore, the owners wanted to introduce artwork, markets, community gardens, museum collections, fishing and camping, weddings, concerts and a whole host of other things.

It was obvious that there was a story about The Foundations that deserved to be told, and so in January 2019 George and I spent a weekend there, filming local residents, business owners, and the wonderful Rich Evans, ‘Chief Reactivation Officer’ from The Foundations. This was before we’d even launched Broaden, but we were passionate to use filmmaking to document the transformation that was taking place there. However, over the course of 2019, other things took centre stage in our lives and we never got around to editing the final film.

And so, in lockdown here in Spain, we decided it was finally time to close off this story. Just this week,we called Rich over Zoom and asked him all about how things have progressed since we last visited Portland. Rich is a larger-than-life character who had so much good stuff to report (an artist in residence, growing market attendee numbers, new custom-designed public furniture, and the renovation of a central historic building which involved the removal of 1000s of bees!).

In a strange way, I’d originally thought of this hiatus as a weakness for our film, but it now has added another facet to the story: giving Rich a chance to reflect on progress at The Foundations and show viewers how much is possible in the space of a year.

Making collages serves as respite for the mind.

I return to my collage practice as a meditative practice, and a restorative one too. It’s something I do when I want to clear my mind, and use a different part of my brain from the video-editing-zoom-calling-analytical-planning side of my brain.

That said, the last few paper collages I’ve made have felt like a bit of struggle, and I’ve felt rather uninspired. The collages are never meant to be a forced thing, but instead something visceral and playful, but in recent times they’d stopped being that.

Until this week! This week, inspired to make a collage for my mum’s birthday, I started getting my boxes of magazines and compiled sheets out, stuck my ‘Making Collage’ playlist on, and somehow just found my groove. Shapes and forms shouted out to me, and I was more preoccupied with the mood of the pieces than perfection and precision. I was drawn to more ambiguous textures and the way that they could be layered, and what started as one collage ended up being a series of three (the other two of which I’ll later publish this week).

(image) The collage I made for my mum’s birthday, ‘Flirtatious Textures’.

Whilst I’ve feel as though I’ve found my swing with collage-making again (and have been also considering embarking on some critical writing about my creative process using academic texts for reference), this week I had a piece rejected. I’d made it to enter into a competition, and when the rejection email landed in my inbox this week, the usual heart-racing pangs of inadequacy entered my mind. Not only had I lost money on the entry fee, but my work was ‘unwanted’. I’ve spent some time facing those demons these last couple of days and reminding myself that I make my work for ME.

So if that’s the cutting and sticking, and the zoom interviews were the calling, what’s the sitting and subtitling this week’s post refers to?

We’ve been doing a lot of sitting. Sitting and staring, sitting and watching the sun set, sitting and reading books, sitting and checking Instagram, sitting and feeling guilt for sitting, sitting and swatting mosquitoes away (it’s rather hot all of a sudden), sitting and eating crisps, sitting and calling friends, sitting and laughing, smiling, frowning, thinking.

(images, left to right) Everyday scenes from the cottage, cutting and sticking, and a lot of sitting (as demonstrated by George!)

It feels totally bonkers that as we face a global health pandemic, all I’m drawn to do (or able to do) is sit. And George and I have certainly discussed the guilt, lack of motivation, boredom and soul-searching that’s grown (and comes along with sitting!) in recent weeks. I’m not sure if there’s some grand benefit to all this sitting, but it has called for the enjoyment of many a good book, and also a good phonecall.

One of the most joyful moments (spent sitting!) this week was surely the video call I had for my Granny’s 80th birthday, between my mum, my brother, my aunt and my Granny herself. There were laughs and cheers, ridiculous filters used and lots of talk of birthday booze and plentiful cake. But after the call, there were also moments of reflection and of gratitude; that we are able to celebrate together (albeit digitally) for the momentous milestone that is my wonderful Granny’s eightieth birthday, as she sits alone in her house in Scotland, is a blessing. Of course, I would have loved to have seen her in person, but I am so bloody grateful that we can connect to her even if just through the airwaves.

Birthdays in May seem to be a common occurrence in my family, and this week saw my Mum’s birthday too. Again, there was a sense of loss that unsurprisingly, I couldn’t be with her due to coronavirus (a fact made worse by the fact I don’t think I’ve been with my Mum on her birthday for about five years), but we were also able to chat and videocall. And I was also able to go back through my photos, reflecting on wonderful times shared across the years.

(images, left to right) Looking back at memories with mum - as a child in a sling, on our trip to Sri Lanka in 2018, and at the exhibition opening of ‘Talking Sense’ where one of her sculptures was displayed at the Portico Library last year.

Access to computers and the internet, free time to sit and chill, and family who are safe and sound is not a privilege everyone shares. And I am so aware of that.

I continue to think of the inequalities this pandemic is highlighting, and the gaps it is widening. Access to the fundamental elements for a just and equitable life are basic human rights, and yet as BBC newsnight’s Emily Maitlis reminded us, 'The disease is not a great leveller'. If while I’m sitting this week, I can at least read, watch, learn and share ideas about how we can tackle these gaping inequalities, my sitting was perhaps not in vain.

As our fifteenth week on the road drew to a close, and looked ever less like life actually ‘on the road’, I decided to take on the task of subtitling The Hundred Miler.

Initially, the only motivation to create comprehensive subtitles for Broaden’s thirty minute documentary was so that we could enter foreign film fests. And even then, we’d have had it professionally subtitled if we weren’t looking for ways to save money!

And so I naively embarked on what was to become a two-day odyssey involving Artificial Intelligence transcript detection, manually correcting the script, learning about timecodes, downloading .srt files and working to integrate them with YouTube.

The long and short of it is that The Hundred Miler (which also hit a whopping 100,000 views this week) now has complete ‘closed caption’ subtitles which you can use and enjoy on YouTube! But more than that, through conversations with others I realised the importance of subtitles from an accessibility perspective, as a critical tool to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as those for whom English isn’t their mother tongue. It was a refreshing reminder that we exclude people without meaning to, but that we can also actively include them if we take certain measures.

So that’s it, Week 15 in all its mundane glory. To those of you who are still here, reading my reflections on these strange and tumultuous times, thank you. Maybe this week you’ve been cutting, calling, sticking, sitting and subtitling too, and for that, I salute you.