#Building Excavation

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Excavation for the development of Rockefeller Center, January 26, 1932.

Photo: NY Daily News

[beskote]

i love the duality of hayden christensen like

anakin: fuck i LOVE causing chaos lets just do everything in a way that makes 0 sense and causes the MOST possible stress for everyone around me

darth vader: everyone betrayed me and i am so sad and angry lets just cause mass extinction and mass suffering

hayden: ...i love building ponds :) yeah...it attracts so much life :) i love ponds

like imagine he had said this back before the clone wars was written and rex was his captain, like would filoni and lucas have assigned him ponds in stead of rex just for shits n giggles like?? that'd be so funny

[luckyllobster]

Baustelle

[jensownzoo]

Okay. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally got all the back, sides, and top of the long raised bed in the back covered in hardware cloth. Yeehaw.

Thanks to a 12 foot long 2x4 I picked up by the dumpster yesterday (someone had obviously used to to level a newly poured concrete pad or driveway), I came up with a new idea on how to do the front which will be easier. Theoretically.

I'm going to put a new crossbeam halfway up down the length of the bed and attach hardware cloth to the upper portion. Then I'll do two doors for each section (four sections) on the lower half. This way the doors are (a) much lighter and (b) will use shorter lengths of scrap lumber, which I have much more of.

This plan has mostly resolved that feeling of project dread so hopefully it won't be so slow going?

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

A building cannot stand without understanding the foundations. This is a season of waiting. No more building up, but rather, digging down to discover what lies beneath, excavating what must go and watering what gives strength. Here on the ground, you wait with soil-soaked knees, hoping in this earth there is still hope to be found. Trust that no matter what is revealed, Light will meet you there.

Morgan Harper Nichols - How Far You Have Come

[itsfullofstars]

SOURCE: NASAKennedy https://flic.kr/p/2r8LiEZ

[skrubu]

Hospital Construction Site 10 by Pekka Nikrus Via Flickr: In album Of Man and Environment

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

As someone who has lived in the south where the water trough is anywhere from mildly annoying to actively terrifying, who has lived on a fairly decently sized island where it is indeed absolutely terrifying to be cut off from the mainland suddenly with little to no help from the government for an extended period of time--

After No Man's Land and all the issues that arose then, I'd like to propose the new way of interring their dead would be mausoleums. Possibly especially with Gotham canonically existing on a system of caves. An island made of caves on the East Coast that gets battered by hurricanes almost every year is just asking to get sunk a la Atlantis but its fucking Gotham and i think the Gothamites would raise it from the sea floor again out of sheer spite.

But with mausoleums you:

Dont have your son crawling six feet through packed dirt after inexplicably coming back to life

Dont have long buried coffins and corpses getting flooded/shaken/otherwise disturbed and shunted into the water system/streets/underground reservoirs (or Lazarus Pits, since there's one of those down there too, as if Gotham didn't have enough things wrong with it)

Continues the Gotham aesthetic

Have more places for various characters to have a private mental breakdown in

Have more places for various characters to find ominous warnings etched or graffiti'd on the walls

Have more places for things much older than the mausoleums have been En Vogue™ for to inexplicably appear and send shivers down the spine

The Gothamites are very firm about not really being part of the US. The US kind of looks at the South like we're really fucking strange, and the South looks at New Orleans like they've taken the South and concentrated it, carbonated it, and shook it really hard.

I want the same vibes for Gotham. This is their home. They are weird and stubborn to a fault and everything is on fire and the government is corrupt and the people aren't always good but nobody else understands. No one else ever could. Who else has seen the lights for rescue appear on the horizon only to see the light of death on the waters, ensuring no help would ever come? They are resourceful and violent and resentful but the gods won't help you if you cross one of their own.

[2000ghosts]

april 3, 2008

[anon-e-has-a-tmblr]

Ubeidiya Prehistoric Site, October 2021.

Work on this international heritage site has begun a year later, on 2022, in order to preserve it and make it accessible for the public. Many things were written on this site and its importance, and in regards to its shameful state of neglect since the majority of research was concluded on it in the 1970s.

A fun fact about Ubeidiya: There was a heatwave during the excavations in the 1960s, so many volunteers and students dressed down to their swimming attire. This moment was forever mesmerized as a background picture to an info-graphic poster that's hanging in the department of prehistory in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This was the inspiration of the most famous saying by the late professor Ilan Sharon, when he was describing non-academic sources: "a picture of diggers in bikini".

[ist-das-kunst-oder-kann-das-weg]

[stargod]

Get this man on Sesame Street YESTERDAY

[jefkphotography]

An excavator on a building site.

Photo.

[cowardlycowboys]

something about seeing construction equipment in action makes me want to jump up and down I'm so excited

[constructionestimatingservice]

[1o1percentmilk]

THEYRE TEARING DOWN A BUILDING ON MY BUS ROUTE I LOVE WATCHING THAT!!!!! FUCK !!!!