Photo taken in the home and co-founder of Award winning Tasmanian architecture firm, Room11 http://www.room11.com.au/
.... and a great Australian tradition.
June, 2008
Thursday 31 July 2008
Tasmanian architecture / culture
Photo taken in the home and co-founder of Award winning Tasmanian architecture firm, Room11 http://www.room11.com.au/
.... and a great Australian tradition.
June, 2008
Louise Lumiere worked for the Navy
I'm reading an interesting book at the moment called 'Polar Inertia' by Paul Virilio (2000). I thought this was interesting: (p 9)
Louise Lumiere, at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 the French Navy lent him its most powerful searchlight to project his films on a large screen, in the famous Gallery of Machines. And in 1948, shortly before his death, he was still working to improve lighthouses for the Navy.
The birth of cinema was itself inseperable from the development of artificial light...
Louise Lumiere, at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 the French Navy lent him its most powerful searchlight to project his films on a large screen, in the famous Gallery of Machines. And in 1948, shortly before his death, he was still working to improve lighthouses for the Navy.
The birth of cinema was itself inseperable from the development of artificial light...
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