Showing posts with label wind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wind. Show all posts

12.3.07

✪ Judgement stones.

Great monoliths that were used to sentence ancient criminals, who were crushed when the stones toppled due to the wind.

These objects can be found on the British Isles, throughout Scandinavia and even in the Balkan. Many of them have names, and Logan stones seem to be a certain type of rocking-stone, which look like they could not be used for judgments because of the way they are situated.

The total number of these stones is unknown since many of them collect earth round their bases during the ages and lose their balance.








✪Logan Stones.


2.3.07

✪ On the Aesthetics of Windtunnels.


Saint Joseph of Cupertino, the flying friar, during an aerodynamics test.





Hieronymus Bosch 'Ascent of the Blessed.' And part of a supersonic windtunnel.
If there is any place on Earth that resonates with Platonic beauty it is the wind-tunnel. A chilly, highly specialized place far removed from daily life, reminiscent even of Bosch's tunnel of light that leads the way to heaven.





Lit beautifully by cold fluorescent light, this is a room that feels like its moving at high speed, yet isolated from the flow of duration. Wind inside a building is strange anyway, but a room constructed especially for it is an enigma, which I think is at its best when seen empty.