Creating a Sci-fi Alleyway. Detailed Environment Techniques with Devon Fay – great inspirational tutorial on the gnomon workshop.
What a beautiful piece of art Fay’s “Sci-fi Alleyway” is. 657 more words
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#24. gnomon
#24. gnomon
{NO – mun}
(letters – 6 | syllables – 2)
(scrabble score – 9)
{first use 1546 Elizabethan Renaissance}
noun | indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial. 235 more words
Time and Words
and Architectural imagination in using the Sun to remind us where we are.
Found this on the Juxtapoz magazine site.
29 more wordsThe creation of India’s first public art gallery turned the Lodhi Colony into something spectacular.
what is a wristwatch to an oak tree
The sun is rising farther to the south
inching each day to the true east
to the equinox.
Gnomon,
the one who knows,
his shadow casts the lengthening light across… 114 more words
The bushing is visible as a black spot at the base of the center window.
The sun’s rays on a pillar.
The disc of marble and meridian line, inset into the floor.
Disc of light overlapping disc of marble.
Gnomon
Another great day in the Duomo! Today I attended an observation of the transit of the sun on the meridian plane (I’ll have to study more to understand that fully!). 305 more words
Random Fridays: Serene Hours
The Latin on this sundial (“horas non numero nisi serenas”) translates variously as “I count only the hours that are serene / sunny / summery / tranquil”. 45 more words
gnome
There was a gnome on the gnomon, guarding the garden.
“You will pass,” he said.
“I—” I was about to ask about the missing “not” but thought then I should not. 459 more words
