triple yello

apotrope

 

James Bridle: What you're looking at is a salt circle, a traditional form of protection—from within or without—in magical practice. In this case it's being used to arrest an autonomous vehicle—a self-driving car, which relies on machine vision and processing to guide it. By quickly deploying the expected form of road markings—in this case, a No Entry glyph—we can confuse the car's vision system into believing it's surrounded by no entry points, and entrap it.

echo brackets, henry moore, M16

we are making a new world.. unspeakable, godless, hopeless

[Nash/ Tate Britain]

Hunterian
Kimmeridge "coal money"; oil shale relic from ancient working of oil shale on a lathe. Oil shale is easy to polish and was much valued in antiquity. 


fracking:  a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock

warning: totalising system

the fallen the vex the hive the taken splicers nanite technology

prolaptic proleptic

apotrope // daisy wheel

http://www.sbebuilders.com/tools/geometry/treatise/Applied-Geometry.html
http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/pdf/Dayschool%202010%20Averting%20Evil.pdf 
http://www.conservation.gu.se/digitalAssets/1307/1307344_Daisywheel_-_introduktion.pdf 

apotropaic pattern

The Kolam threshold design

 

Malakulan sand drawing

True Lover's Knot

Project Gnome Markers

DESIGNING FOR DEEP TIME:

HOW ART HISTORY IS USED TO MARK NUCLEAR WASTE

by

Kelli Anderson

Another pattern that emerged from the referenced texts was the importance of redundancy in creating tangible, long lasting messages. The use of redundancy and multiples may aid in the reception of small scale communications, while contributing to the longevity of large scale messages. The Assyrian stone tablets mentioned in Chapter 1 provide an example of how redundancy can be used in deciphering small scale messages. The overlap of the symbols appearing on the tablets, as well as the patterns emerging from them as a group help later scholars interpret their meaning. Since “...several components within a given marking design, a number of items within each component, and cross referencing to link components...” were used, meaning can be extracted even though the symbols used were not initially understood. The ability to read these symbols comes from the interconnected, self deciphering web created by their overlap, not by the intrinsic communicative properties of the characters themselves. In terms of large scale communications, Goodenough cites Stonehenge as an example where a multiples strategy contributed to the longevity of the monument. He notes that although a third of the stones have been removed from the site, the quantity of stones used ensures that enough remain to reconstruct’ the original design.

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If the designers of Stonehenge had employed a single, monolithic approach, wherein only one stone was used, it would almost surely be gone today. The use of multiple stones, which creates a sense of environment versus a sense of object, promotes the longevity of a site. Stonehenge remains intact today largely due to the multiples strategy employed in its construction.

http://www.kellianderson.com/MSthesis.pdf

How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.

 

Preventing Human Intrusion into A High Level Nuclear Waste Depository 1994

Excerpts from Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation PilotPlant
(Sandia National Laboratories report SAND92-1382 / UC-721, p. F-49)

Figure 4.3-6. Spikes Bursting Through Grid, view 2 (concept by Michael Brill and art by Safdar Abidi).  

4.2 Descriptions of the Permanent Marker Components 

General descriptions of the conceptual design for the permanent marker components contained in the CCA are provided below; Figure 2 illustrates their locations. Additional detailis provided in Section 5.0.

1.Large Surface Markers - The conceptual design calls for 32 Large Surface Markers erected on the perimeter of the controlled area, and 16 markers erected on the perimeter of the repository footprint, within the Berm. Each marker will consist of two separate stone monoliths joined by a mortise-and-tenon joint; the lower member will be a truncated pyramid and the upper member will be a right prism. 

2. Small Subsurface Markers - The Small Subsurface Markers will be small buried disks warning of the presence of the repository. They will be buried throughout the repository footprint, within the Berm, and within the shaft seals. They will be randomly spaced and buried at depths ranging from two to six feet below the surface. 

3. Berm- The Berm will enclose an area that is 110 percent of the repository footprint. As currently planned, it will have a core base material of salt; the core will be protected by at least two other types of materials. Magnets and Radar Reflectors will be buried in the Berm. These will be buried at specified intervals in the Berm, producing distinctive anomalous magnetic and radar-reflective signatures. A Buried Storage Room will also be constructed at grade inside the Berm on its south side.

4.Buried Storage Rooms- One Buried Storage Room will be buried within the Berm. This room will be constructed at grade level at the center of the southern section of the Berm. It will be completely covered by Berm material. A second Buried Storage Room will be buried in the controlled area outside of the Berm and the repository footprint. This room will be buried approximately 20 feet below the surface, north of the Berm on a line passing through the Information Cent er, the center of the northern and southern sections of the Berm and the Hot Cell. 

5. Hot Cell - This is an existing reinforced concrete 40-by-70 foot structure with walls 4.5 feet thick. Its foundation extends 30 feet below grade, and the roof is 60 feet above grade. The Hot Cell will remain after closure as an “archeological remnant,” effectively serving the function of an additional permanent marker. 

6. Information Center- The Information Center will be an open structure having a rectangular design. It will be located on the land surface at the center of the repository footprint.
....

stone kissing

The act of fixing a stone to mark a place of worship is as old as history. In the Bible we are told that Jacob, on whom be peace, had fixed a stone at a place where he saw a vision. He poured oil on it and called it Bethel meaning 'house of God' (see Genesis 28:18). He did this again upon God's instruction (see Genesis 35:1, 14, 15). No one should understand from this that God instructed Jacob to worship the stone. (Shabir Ally, Common Questions People Ask About Islam, p. 46)

The Black stone is not worshipped by the pilgrims:

Muslims go to Makkah to glorify God, not to kiss a stone or worship a man or a semi-divinity. Kissing or touching the Black Stone at the Ka`bah is an optional action, not obligatory or prescribed. Those who kiss the Black Stone or touch it do not do it because they have faith in the Stone or attribute any superstitious qualities to it. Their faith is in God only. They kiss, touch or point at the Stone only as a token of respect or a symbol of love for Prophet Muhammad, who laid the Stone at the foundation of the Ka`bah when it was reconstructed. (1)

A sapphire hard drive is reported to have been developed that can store information on nuclear waste dumps for up to a million years - enough time for safe radioactive decay

The sapphire disk is one product of that effort. It's made from two thin disks, about 20 centimeters across, of industrial sapphire. On one side, text or images are etched in platinum—Charton says a single disk can store 40,000 miniaturized pages—and then the two disks are molecularly fused together. All a future archaeologist would need to read them is a microscope. 

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edge of upper mustang

street////rainbow///beach

RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. Surviving an Active Shooter Event - English

It may feel like just another day at the office, but occasionally life feels more like an action movie than reality

The authorities are working hard to protect you and to protect our public spaces

But sometimes bad people do bad things

Their motivations are different

The warning signs may vary, but the devastating effects are the same

And unfortunately you need to be prepared for the worst

If you are were ever to find yourself in the middle of an active shooter event

Your survival may depend upon whether or not you have a plan

The plan doesn’t have to be complicated

There are three things you could do that make a difference

RUN ///HIDE/// FIGHT

First and foremost if you can get out, do, always try and escape or evacuate even when others insist on staying, encourage others to leave with you, but don’t let them slow you down with indecision

Remember what’s important, you, not your stuff

Leave your belongings behind and try to find a way to get out safely

Trying to get yourself out of harms way needs to be your number one priority

Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 911

If you can’t get out safely, you need to find a place to hide

Act quickly and quietly, try to secure your hiding place the best you can

Turn out lights and if possible remember to lock doors

Silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone

And if you can’t find a safe room or closet

Try to conceal yourself behind large objects that may protect you

Do your best to remain quiet and calm

As a last resort if your life is at risk, whether you are alone or working together as a group

Fight, act with aggression, improvise weapons, disarm him and commit to taking the shooter down no matter what

Try to be aware of your environment, always have an exit plan

Know that in an incident like this victims are generally chosen randomly, the event is unpredictable and may evolve quickly

The first responders on the scene are not there to evacuate or tend the injured

They are well trained and are there to stop the shooter

Your actions can make a difference, for your safety and survival, be aware and be prepared

And if you find yourself facing an active shooter

There are three key things you need to remember to survive

RUN ///HIDE/// FIGHT

partes extra partes

poison apple

warding off the plague

The Courier's Tragedy

traitor's gate

Fifth principle. Heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that both isolates them and makes them penetrable. In general, the heterotopic site is not freely accessible like a public place. Either the entry is compulsory, as in the case of entering a barracks or a prison, or else the individual has to submit to rites and purifications. To get in one must have a certain permission and make certain gestures. Moreover, there are even heterotopias that are entirely consecrated to these activities of purification -purification that is partly religious and partly hygienic, such as the hammin of the Moslems, or else purification that appears to be purely hygienic, as in Scandinavian saunas.

reconstructed double yellow

coelacanth skin

its tissues exude oils even when dead

aitu fafine

December 13th 1890

I took the round top of a small meat cask and painted upon it a hideous head with great eyes and a wide, open mouth displaying a double row of pointed teeth. Instead of hair, flames radiate out from the head. These flames, the iris of the eyes, and the pointed teeth I have painted in luminous paint. It almost frightens me. The aitu fafine, I may add, has red hair that rises from her head very high, and a beautiful figure.