As a native Chicagoan, count me in. Fun idea. Cheers, Christine
On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:56 AM, David Mann wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been mulling over an idea recently which you may or may not be > interested in. > > Since our earthquake way back in February there have been 1,227 buildings > marked for demolition and that number still seems to be growing (there were > 65 added last week). Most are in the CBD but many are also in the outer > suburbs. > > About a quarter of them are listed heritage buildings. Among the others are > several large (by our standards) hotel and office towers including some very > modern buildings. AFAIK our Town Hall is still in doubt and I'm not sure > about the fate of both the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals. > > As you might understand, many people are quite upset about the loss of > history and the way the landscape in our central city is changing. > > Because of this I'm wondering if we could each go out and photograph our > favourite building, or at least dig a nice pic out of the archives. The > rules I've thought of so far are as follows: > > 1. It must currently be standing (unoccupied is ok, as is derelict) > 2. It must be in your current town or city of residence. I could be flexible > and allow your home town as well. > 3. You'd have to write a short passage to explain why you like it and/or why > it's important to you. > 4. You must own the copyright or have permission from the copyright holder (I > would prefer if you took the photo but if your spouse or a close relative > did, that's fine by me). > > I'll accept any reason for rule #3, it doesn't have to be a work of > architectural beauty. I'm more interested in why it's significant to YOU. > > Would anyone be interested? It's only an idea at this stage. I was thinking > about starting a whole website for it but that may be a bit over the top. > However it may be feasible for a local audience so I'm sitting tight on that > one. > > - > > Weird, we had a good size shake just now. Biggest for a couple of months. I > grabbed a screen shot of the Geonet real-time intensity image. It's quite > cool to see these things light up. > http://www.multi.net.nz/shake-screenshot/ > > I had that within about a minute, but I grabbed another one as they hadn't > quite received the signals from more distant sensors. > > More details to come once they've analysed it, but it appears to have > originated close to here. My uneducated guess would be Richter 5.2, probably > about 10km from my house, but we'll wait and see. I'm usually a bit out and > looking at the seismograph I may even have underestimated. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
