The new Pier 14 gate, reflecting in the bay water. This was taken a week or so back before Passage appeared at the entrance to the pier.
The pier itself is built on top of a breakwater added to protect the ferry terminal. It was numbered 14 since its location is closest to the old pier 14. It will finally open to the public on June 16, 2006, along with Passage. While Passage will only spend 6 months there, one hopes the pier will last longer.
The metal woman is in fact the Passage, by Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito. She is the mother of a mother and child pair that debuted at Burning Man 2005.
The pair will be located at the entrance to Pier 14 in San Francisco for six months. The pier and the exhibit will open June 16 this year.
Interestingly, one of the crew on the production of the passage was none ofther than Simon Barber, one of Devicescape‘s founders and its current Chief Scientist.
More photos of her, and her currently headless, child in my Flickr stream.
Getting off the ferry this morning at the SF Ferry Building, I noticed a metal “sculpture” on a flatbed truck next to the Amtrak offices.
This evening, she was being assembled right there on the water front. I can’t believe that is her final location though as she is currently just standing on steel frame. Perhaps she will be moving to the end of Pier 14?
You can see a couple more photos of her in Planet Vicster’s photostream (one, two). I will take my real camera tomorrow and see if I can get some better shots of her – she might also be completed by tomorrow evening.
Following my last reply to Kodak Gallery’s customer support I received a reply that actually contained information (reproduced below). I am not sure whether it was posting the article on the blog or copying their PR department that prompted a response that was both more informative and much quicker than before.
The upshot is that the OfotoExpress tool was broken for people who have more than 100 albums by the recent site updates. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to know when they will have a fix for it. Read the response from Kevin C. after the jump.
Want to know how to wreck a pioneering web service in three easy steps? Kodak knows, and they’ve executed the plan perfectly with what was once the premier internet photo sharing and printing service, formerly known as Ofoto.
Back in 1999 Ofoto appeared as one of the first photo sharing and printing services. Snappy name, simple business model, and simple to use thanks to upload tools which avoided the problems of trying to upload multiple files through a web browser.
In June 2001, Kodak bought Ofoto. At first not much changed. A small icon appeared on the site denoting that it was a Kodak company, but nothing else changed. Then, in 2005, they started to destroy the service:
A morning shot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge; the morning mist making the port of Oakland look somewhat ghostly under the span of the bridge.
Coming out of the Phnom Penh restaurant in Oakland (which is an excellent Cambodian place in case you’re interested), I saw this bird sitting on a commercial bin. He let me take one shot relatively close up with my Nokia phone camera, then jumped down onto the road where I got this not-so-close shot.
Anybody got any idea what it is? There are three more photos on Flickr, but two are “in flight” shots where it jumped just as I was pressing the shutter release.
One of a number of shots of the crimson bottlebrush flowers that are in bloom all over the bay area at the moment. This one was outside my apartment.
The crimson bottlebrush, sometimes also called lemon bottlebrush because of its citrus aroma, is Callistemon citrinus. A native of Australia, but very common in the San Francisco bay area too it seems.
An unusual subject! I walked over to Encinal high school to take a photo of their sign. On the way back, I noticed this combination padlock attached to a chain link fence. Depending on the angle, the background was either a reddish wall (seen here) or green (in the other photo in my Flickr stream).
The fine strands of a spider’s web, carefully strung under the overhang of a garden shed roof. This one proved too challenging for the camera’s AF system (I guess the fine strands of web were not significant enough for it to consider them the subject of the photo). With a simple flick of a switch though, control is regained and the web came back into focus (or close to it anyway).