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Well shucks. But all credit really goes to our host Paul. His speedy central co-ordination of info made all this possible!!!
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My images are up. About 70 images total, but I had to rush the colour balancing so some are a bit dodgy. The order is also incorrect here and there due to a naming mess up (caused by the aforementioned rushing).
http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/spike/
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Oh well,
My camera just can’t handle that little light, so here’s the weirdest set of photos you’re going to see of an actual piece being put in place (scroll waaaay down):
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(jesus – they look weird)
Jeez – that Ross guy is talking pure crap. Beautiful rhetoric, but crap none the less….
Regarding employees not making statements about construction – that’s just sensible. Remember that whole thing about the Calatrava Bridge in nthis forum?? The company is better off making full statements, and if they have a little problem that they need to (and are able to) sort out, then let them do it without the papers attempting to crucify them. Every project/job I’ve worked on has seen teething problems that we overcame. It’s normal, but the Daily Mirror and The Sun don’t tend to show things in a balanced manner.
A&E Departments: I’ve got a pal who works in one. He would like for people to stop going out at the weekend, getting plastered, and then ending up wasting their time on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Blame the drink industry??? No way – blame the Spike!!!
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Nice sundial idea. I guess it could work by placing things at uneven distances fomr the spike, so that they wouldn’t be obvious straight away…
And this really is a good source of info, so well done again to Paul. In the meantime, here’s Dundrum looking inwards again…
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Well, the Spike will certainly be a must-see for any tourist in Ireland. Hell, yesterday there were tourists getting their photos taken with it as a background.
The Lava Lamp sounds like a good idea and a terrible idea rolled into one. On one hand, lava lamps are a bit cliched and old, and the design looks a little too like a giant version of the “desktop” model. On the other hand, if anyone turns on a lava lamp in front of me I will stare at it, and so I would certainly go see this crazy thing if I was up visiting that dam. In summary – they should build it. It will bring in mney and tourists and be very, very pretty (especially at night). I’d certainly visit their web cam.
On other business: I think it’s four. See – the joins are pretty good!!
Alastair: “a bus depot aerial”????????????????????
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I guess they could have achieved that by putting it in the middle of a big decorative pool, although water features on that location have had problems in the past (because bad people kept resting by them (and they looked grim)). So perhaps that’s why they didn’t do the pool thing then.
I guess it’s hard to figure out an easy way to stop people from touching something without it seeming a little facist. Railings just wouldn’t be good. The pool thing could backfire for the reasons above (places for drunk people to relax). An excellent method for stopping graffiti on walls is to plant creeping ivy plants. They make the wall look nice when they’re grown, and are really hard to write on (being plants). Anyone fancy proposing the development of the world’s tallest ivy?
So we’re back to enforcement (in this country?) versus vigilante snipers on the GPO. I’ll be very disappointed when I see the first piece of writing. But dissappointed at the beaver-munchers who wrote it, and not the spike designers, as I also look forward to walking up and touching it for the first time. Don’t forget that humans like contact with objects.
Snipers. Maybe just with Air Rifles.
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At the risk of commenting on every topic at the top of the forum, that sounds like a good idea (unless I’m mistaken in my assumption that property developers make buckets of money). And the market is so hard pushed I’d find it hard to believe that they could manage to pass that on to home-buyers, who are currently about as pushed as they could possibly get.
Now would this apply to citizens building a private house, or just to apartments and stuff???
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Yeah, it really looks excellent, and the round corner near Baggot Street looks just fantastic, though I can’t figure out what the did with it. I think they lowered the statue plynth (?) and added lights and paving, but it just seems to really catch my eye every time I walk by.
I’d go as far as saying that it looks “cool”.
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my chinese geneticist friends say different.
The spike is going to be written on. All someone has to do is walk up, lean against it with their hands behind their back, and write their initials with a marker. Simple as that, and they’ll think it’s hilarious too. So it’s going to happen, and all the sterilisation machines in the world couldn’t stop it.
Hopefully the corpo will just clean it off every morning, and fine people a PSII if they’re caught. Or even better – make them clean it every morning for a fortnight (sweet, and cost effective too).
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Hurray again!!!
Well I’m back. Bummer with the Bus strike – walked there and got a taxi back (from Baggot Street).
Anyway, here’s another twenty five new photos:
just click on this bit of text
They start at “spike-030115-01.jpg”, and “spike-030115-13-tip…” etc refers to photos of the last section on the ground (pointy enough to kill you if you fell from a plane onto it).
Looks sweet alright, particularly from distances, although I did notice a dull patch on it about half way up (sounds like what Graham noticed yesterday – sorry!!!). But it still looks top dollar, especially from a little further away.
And I think I saw Paul, but it was as I was legging it back to work. And I’m sort of shy…
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Great. I’d hate to be any non-archeire readers down there taking photos at lunch (and wondering why they’re getting “knowing looks” from complete strangers).
I’ll keep my eyes on the spar if I’m down around one, but it might be just a little later…
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Jeez – I was going to look out the rear window of my gaff today and see if anything had happened, but just figured I wouldn’t bother (I was already late for work). A mistake it seems…
I’ll be down at lunch again. I’ll try and get a picture of Paul as well!!! 😉
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Didn’t see the top section, though I certainly looked for it. All photos were taken through the railings with no extra access privelages…
3am??? Hmm. Still though, cool if it just went up all of a sudden.
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Hurray!!! New spike photos for our far away friends!!!
click here for thirteen new shots (then scroll down)…
Points of interest include the interior photos (ending with “int”). They show some mechanical stuff, some electrical stuff, and (most amusingly) the interior ACCESS LADDER!!!
Now then – I have to to disagree with Graham’s comments on the surface finish. I think it looks fantastic, and will use once again words like “creamy” and “silky” to describe the way in which it reflects light. It’s a very interesting finish which looks totally surreal from even a short distance away. So I’m all for the current finish, and the attention to detail also seems withour fault (sorry).
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I keep thinking that a small army of people with walkie talkies at every single junction would actually work better than the current system. There’s no pint in changing the light if no-one’s getting anywhere, and you could just talk to the guy at the next junction and see what’s going on…
old skool
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