初八戸でしたが、東京から新幹線で日帰り。 今度もっとゆっくり行きたいな〜 My first trip to northern Japan, alas it was a day trip on the bullet train from Tokyo. I definitely want to come back again… #Japan #Aomori #Hachinohe #cold #snow #ocean #steelmill #fishmarket #whale #shotoniphone #vsco #travel #businesstrip #daytrip #日本　#青森　#八戸　#寒い　#雪　#海　#製鉄所　#魚市場　#鯨　#旅　#出張　#日帰り　#ハードスケジュール (at Hachinohe, Aomori) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDTfFzP1dg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I took some photos of the remnants of the Bethlehem Still Mill in Bethlehem, PA. I’ve always gone to the casino and the Arts Center for the past decade, and never checked this out. This is my first time around the rustic decay of an old steel mill. . . . . . . . #Steelmill #bethlehemsteel #bethlehempa #pa #bethlehemsteelstacks #windcreek #pa #windcreekcasino #bethlehemsteelmill https://www.instagram.com/p/CftVOxAOcdO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

NIEL FOR STEEL MILLS (DC Motors) part -3

Part 3

If your Steel factory has a capacity of fewer than 5 Million tons/year and is located near an Industrial hub then AC Motors with AC drives would be a good choice. 

However, if you are located away from an industrial hub in a remote location then i would recommend choosing DC Motors & DC drives. 

Here thinking of serviceability in event of a breakdown. Steel manufacturing is a continuous operation. Cannot afford long delays in serviceability. 

DC motors have been in use in Steel making actively for more than 40 years. Finding service engineers for them is easier. 

So if am staying in a remote town, I would prefer to buy a Maruti car over a new 5/6-year-old brand. My car can be serviced more easily & economically if it's a Maruti. 

I rest my case

Pittsburgh PA, RA Clayton #steelmill #industry #photogallery

Richard Serra, who has died aged 85, was a remarkable cultural figure – a sculptor who belonged to the generation of American minimalists, was associated with process art and made experimental films, yet evoked something of an earlier, more heroic age. The critic Robert Hughes described him as “the last abstract expressionist”.

Although this statement stretches the point, Serra’s interest in the processes of sculpture led him to some extravagant gestural acts that belie the severity of his grand public commissions. Weight and Measure, made in the early 1990s for what is now Tate Britain, exemplified his austere side, with its massive steel forms designed to counter the building’s overbearing classicism. However, some of his other works, such as the twisting, “torqued” structures installed at the Guggenheim in Bilbao in 2005, are positively baroque.

Curled around an existing sculpture, Snake, that was commissioned for the museum’s opening in 1997, these steel works, dominated by ellipses and spirals, articulate spaces in which the gallery visitor can wander. They are monumental enough to take on Frank Gehry’s grandiose architecture, but, with their patinated surfaces and curved forms, also have an intimate, sensual quality. Above all, Serra’s sculptures create a remarkable interaction with the public and a strong experience of gradual discovery – hence the installation’s title, The Matter of Time.

His works have proved popular with curators, but are not confined to museums. They have appeared in settings as diverse as the Tuileries garden in Paris, the Federal Plaza in New York, and the Qatari desert, attracting responses from intense admiration to a public inquiry. One of his sculptures, Fulcrum, was put up in 1987 at Broadgate outside Liverpool Street station in London. It manages to combine monumentality with fragility, made of weathered steel plates that appear to support each other precariously.

He was born in San Francisco into a family that provided a foundation for his later career as a sculptor in metal. His father, Tony, who was from Majorca, was a pipe-fitter in a naval shipyard. His mother, Gladys (nee Fineberg), who was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Odessa, used to introduce her son as “Richard, the artist” and was, later, touchingly enthusiastic when he began to make his way in New York. Serra himself laboured in steel mills during his time as a student and subsequently, in 1979, made a compelling film, Steelmill/Stahlwerk, about German workers in the industry.

Serra began his studies in 1957 at the University of California in Berkeley, graduating from the institution’s Santa Barbara campus with a degree in English literature. He followed this in 1961 with a three-year course in painting at Yale University, New Haven – a period in which he also worked as a teaching assistant and as a proof-reader for Joseph Albers’s book Interaction of Color (1963). At Yale he encountered such luminaries as Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt and Frank Stella, before winning a fellowship that took him to Europe in 1964.

In Paris, Serra was profoundly impressed by the sculpture of Constantin Brâncuși, but in Florence the following year he continued to paint, producing coloured grids in timed conditions controlled by a stopwatch. It was only with his first exhibition, at the Galleria La Salita in Rome in 1966, that he made a definitive move away from painting, filling cages with live and stuffed animals.

After moving to New York in the same year, Serra initially survived by setting himself up as a furniture remover, together with his friends, the composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Serra’s artistic development at this time was rapid, moving from experiments with rubber, fibreglass and neon tubing to the metal sculpture for which he became renowned. He soon began his long-term association with the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, in whose Warehouse annex he was photographed in 1969 throwing molten lead at the wall with a ladle.

In the same year Serra refined this procedure by splashing the metal against a small steel plate stuck into the corner of Jasper Johns’s studio. The “castings” produced when the lead cooled down were rough, expressive forms, but this project also inspired Serra to create more impersonal pieces, in which metal sheets were wedged into the angles of rooms, leaned against each other or pinned to the wall by lead pipes. His emphasis on objective phenomena – mass, gravity and other physical forces – can also be seen in his remarkable experimental films.

In Hand Catching Lead (1968), the hand is in fact the artist’s but it is shown disembodied, trying to grasp rather than cast pieces of falling lead, which it drops or misses altogether. The repetition of this fundamentally pointless act gives the film a serial quality, akin to the celluloid process itself.

Serra’s engagement with the cutting edge also led him to work with the land artists Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt. In 1970 he assisted them with Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake in Utah and, after Smithson’s death in 1973, Serra helped to complete Amarillo Ramp in an artificial lake in Texas. His own site-specific sculptures included Spin Out: For Bob Smithson (1972-73), in the park-like surroundings of the Kröller-Müller Museum at Otterlo in the Netherlands. Here the three converging steel plates interacted with each other and their environment, exemplifying Serra’s aim that “the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture”.

The 1970s was a difficult decade in Serra’s life. In 1971 a worker was killed in an accident during the installation of one of Serra’s sculptures outside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His five-year marriage to the artist Nancy Graves ended in 1970, and his mother’s suicide in 1977 was followed two years later by the death of his father. However, in that decade he also met his future wife, the art historian Clara Weyergraf, with whom he collaborated on Steelmill/Stahlwerk. Clara was also to play a vital role in shaping his sculpture, as well as giving her name to Clara-Clara, a powerful, curvilinear work that was installed in the Tuileries garden in 1983. The history of this piece exemplifies Serra’s problems in making site-specific art, since it was originally intended to feature in a show at the Pompidou Centre, but at a late stage was deemed to be too heavy.

Clara-Clara’s travails were minor in comparison to the controversies surrounding Tilted Arc, a sculpture 36 metres long, set up at the Federal Plaza in Manhattan in 1981. Condemned for being intrusive, a magnet for graffiti artists and even a security risk, it was eventually removed in 1989, four years after a public hearing in which a majority of witnesses had advocated its preservation.

Despite this setback, Serra’s career continued to flourish. He had two retrospectives, in 1986 and 2007, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also devoted a permanent room to his monumental work Equal (2015), as well as major exhibitions at home and abroad. He showed frequently with his gallery, Gagosian, in London, New York and Paris, most recently in 2021.

In 2001 he received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale, in 2015 the Légion d’honneur in France and, three years later, the J Paul Getty Medal.

During his latter years, Serra became heavily involved with public projects in Qatar, above all the four steel plates, rising to over 14 metres and spanning more than a kilometre, erected west of Doha in 2014. Known as East-West/West-East, the work engages spectacularly with its surroundings, the gypsum plateaux of the Brouq nature reserve in the Dukhan desert. Serra himself described it as “the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done”.

He is survived by Clara.

🔔 Richard Serra, artist, born 2 November 1938; died 26 March 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

i still  draw btw i just dont show anyone 

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Rolling Thru Aliquippa PA with Bro in the turbo VW passat . Shit's clapped like the corrado, about 4 different colors, forced induction whine, shit's a Hoot to drive. Riding around Real Slow listening 2 eyehategod & Flipper blaring with the windows down. Western PA : God's Holy Land? Where you Go outside and look at your neighbor the Steelmill or Cracker Plant or Junkyard and the air smels like diesel & it makes your eyes bleed . Godbless

Stormspire Politics

The Stormspires, as you might infer, are mostly run by Stormlords; Magi whose powers concern electricity, air, and magnetism. There are three broad trends in their society; Traditionalists, Liberals, and Radicals.

The Traditional spires are effectively monarchies - an autocratic ruler who must be a Stormlord inheritor to the role. If no scion of the main dynasty is a Magus - and in some Spires, even if a Magus of another Pattern - a Stormlord from a cadet family may be elevated to rule. Cadet Magi are afforded positions of bureaucratic oversight for Spire territories, or military roles. Non-Mage kin are given enchanted arms and armour, and serve as knights. Traditional militaries tend to be smaller than their peers, but make up for it with a deep armoury of potent enchantments and raw magical might. Stormknights are not merely capable warriors and battlefield commanders; they are also puissant Magi.

For Traditionalists, old-fashioned enchanted gear, raw magical skill, and bloodline count for everything. Ordinary humans in their territory are little better than serfs and in this way our next subject diffuse their wickedness further.

Liberal Spires are ruled by a democratic committee... of Stormlords, other resident Magi, and owners of large businesses. Only Magi and their relatives have a vote or can run for a seat, with major trade partners effectively buying seats.

Liberal Spires defray a lot of admin to private enterprise; the Stormlords maintain the overall tower infrastructure, maintain law, collect tax, liaise with other powers, but anything else is largely left to businesses.

This is how business owners buy votes and seats; they procure food, raw materials, and so on from Trad Spires where workers are practically slaves, or exploit their own employees in territories with no labour protection. They buy land to mine or farm from the Liberal Spire councils and baffle attempts at regulation or inspection (bribery is as good as forging documents).

Then they sell their produce to the Liberal Stormlords at knock-down prices, or buy permits to sell to Liberal Spire inhabitants. In this way the Liberal Stormlords can claim to be enlightened democracies where non-Magi enjoy freedom of opportunity. They have a choice of merchants to buy from! They can start their own business!

"Where does Rybis Ironworks source their ore? Why, that's not our concern. Rybis simply ensure Valdis Spire's steelmills remain fed at a very reasonable cost, which in turn ensures all Valdis citizens enjoy the amenities of the Spire in peak condition."

Where Trad Stormlords like being old-school wizard-kings, Liberal Stormlords tend to be technocrats - they like working with manatech and theoretical thaumics over flashy displays of raw Magic or enchanted swords. In terms of military, they split their forces between private companies, small standing armies of Dims armed with manatech weapons, and powerful skyfleets of heavily armed airships.

Finally, there are the emerging Radicals. Stormlords born outside the Spire hierarchy, disaffected cadets, rebellious nobles. They spike their hair, pierce their tails, build their tools from scavenged parts, hang out with Dims in the lower decks smoking imported herbs and drinking exotic teas.

So far the ruling powers of the Spires don't take them seriously; arrogant and misguided youths who will return to the fold when they mature a bit. But the Radicals take manatech a step beyond the failsafes of the Liberals; they build it so you don't have to be a Mage to use it or need a Magus to power it.

One day, a Spire King is going to be very confused when he can't disenchant or break the strange tube that treasonous Dim is carrying, and then promptly nothing at all when a magnetically propelled slug ventilates his enchanted breastplate.

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I took some photos of the remnants of the Bethlehem Still Mill in Bethlehem, PA. I’ve always gone to the casino and the Arts Center for the past decade, and never checked this out. This is my first time around the rustic decay of an old steel mill. . . . . . . . #Steelmill #bethlehemsteel #bethlehempa #pa #bethlehemsteelstacks #windcreek #pa #windcreekcasino #bethlehemsteelmill (at Wind Creek Event Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CftU_zSuvEv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

visited a steelmill and i think it might have been a bit like sex

NIEL FOR STEEL MILLS (DC Motors) part -1

PART -1

One of the oldest and most pertinent questions that Mill owners and Engineers ask me is, should we choose AC motors or DC Motors to run our plant ?

The answer is different for different applications, and different installations in different conditions.

Typical Possibilities:

New plant - Small

2. New Plant - Large

3. Integrated Steel Plant

4. Old plant upgrade

5. New Plant remote location

6. Technical strategies are different for different types as above.

Another set of criteria can be:

Cost of Power

2. Quality of Power Supply

3. Availability of Skilled Labour

4. Availability of Capex and so on...

Each of the above calls for a deeper study.

Over the last 50 years, we have been one of the largest suppliers of Motors to the Steel Sector across 45 countries. This experience has given me a rather rich insight into this industry and its many challenges.

In one sentence, if you are setting up a large capacity STEEL unit higher than 5 Million Tons Per Year (5 MT/Y), with a good quality power supply, located near an industrial hub then go for AC Motor & AC controls, else choose DC Motors and DC Controls. Over the next few weeks I shall try to explain myself in more detail.

Will be Happy to take any questions to answer to the Best of my knowledge.

Am 12. Januar erscheint das neue Magnum Werk "Here Comes The Rain"

Magnum veröffentlicht neues Studioalbum "Here Comes the Rain" am 12. Januar 2024 Es gibt nur wenige große Bands auf unserem Planeten, die man innerhalb der ersten paar Takte eines ihrer Songs unfehlbar identifizieren kann. Ihr einzigartiges melodisches Können, ihre geschmackvolle Instrumentierung, die richtige Mischung aus Tiefgang und Eingängigkeit und dann natürlich diese charismatische Stimme: Magnum sind Magnum! Das gilt auch für ihr neuestes Studioalbum Here Comes the Rain", das am 12. Januar 2024 als CD + DVD, Doppel-Vinyl-LP, als Box-Set und als digitaler Download erscheint und einmal mehr beweist, dass klassische Rockmusik kaum stimmungsvoller klingen kann. Die Band um Frontmann Bob Catley und Gitarrist & Songwriter Tony Clarkin wird außerdem am 22. November 2023 ("Blue Tango") und am 3. Januar 2024 ("The Seventh Darkness") zwei Leadsingles veröffentlichen und Anfang April 2024 eine Tournee starten. Das höchst inspirierte Artwork des Albums stammt wieder von dem großartigen Rodney Matthews, der bereits eine Reihe von Magnum-Hüllen für die atmosphärisch dichte Musik der Band entworfen hat. Sagt Tony Clarkin: "Die Rückseite des Covers zeigt eine Art Vogelbataillon im Angriffsmodus, was ich für eine großartige Allegorie halte"! Neben den typischen Trademarks von Magnum hält "Here Comes the Rain" auch einige durchaus angenehme Überraschungen bereit, wie etwa "Blue Tango", eine echte Riff-Rock-Nummer, die Lust macht, die Füße zu bewegen. Oder "The Seventh Darkness" mit einigen tollen Bläsersätzen der Gastmusiker Chris 'BeeBe' Aldridge (Saxophon) und Nick Dewhurst (Trompete), die dem Song Glanz und Form verleihen. Daran gibt es keinen Zweifel: Mit "Here Comes The Rain" ist der Magnum-Besetzung, bestehend aus Catley, Clarkin, Keyboarder Rick Benton, Bassist Dennis Ward und Schlagzeuger Lee Morris, einmal mehr ein außergewöhnlich buntes, abwechslungsreiches und inspiriertes neues Studioalbum gelungen. "Jeder hat seinen Part gespielt, ohne dass ich irgendetwas diktiert habe", schwärmt Clarkin, "jeder hat einfach instinktiv das gespielt, was seine Inspiration ihm sagte". Wie gut, dass sich diese hervorragenden Musiker auf ihre Intuition verlassen können. "Here Comes the Rain" wird am 12. Januar 2024 über SPV/Steamhammer in folgenden Konfigurationen veröffentlicht: - CD+DVD ("Live At KK's Steel Mill") DigiPak - CD Jewel Case Version - Limitiertes Box-Set - 2LP Gatefold, 140 g, stabiles babyblaues Vinyl, bedruckte Innenhüllen - Herunterladen / Streaming - Exklusive CD/LP Bundles mit einem Shirt nur im Steamhammer Shop - 2LP Gatefold exklusive farbige Edition nur im Napalm Shop Nur für UK: - Exklusive CD/LP-Bundles mit einer signierten Fotokarte nur im Townsend-Shop Tracklist: 1. Run into the Shadows (5:22) 2. Here Comes the Rain (4:37) 3. Some Kind of Treachery (4:28) 4. After the Silence (4:34) 5. Blue Tango (5:26) 6. The Day He Lied (4:34) 7. The Seventh Darkness (4:41) 8. Broken City (4:39) 9. I Wanna Live (5:29) 10. Borderline (6:16) European & UK Tour Dates 2024: 04.04. DE-Mannheim – Capitol 05.04. DE-Bochum – Christuskirche 06.04. DE-Neuruppin – Kulturhaus 08.04. DE-Berlin – Metropol 09.04. DE-Hannover – Musikzentrum 10.04. DE-Hamburg – Fabrik 12.04. DE-Memmingen – Kaminwerk 13.04. CH-Pratteln – Z7 14.04. DE-Regensburg – Airport 16.04. DE-Munich – Ampere 17.04. DE-Nürnberg – Hirsch 19.04. DE-Markneukirchen – Musikhalle 21.04. SE-Malmö – Babel 22.04. NO-Oslo – John Dee 23.04. SE-Uppsala – Katalin 25.04. SE-Gothenburg – Pustervik 26.04. SE-Stockholm – Fryshuset Klubben 29.04. UK-Bristol – SWX 30.04. UK-Southampton – Engine Rooms 02.05. UK-Holmfirth – Picturedome 03.05. UK-Wolverhampton – KK’s Steelmill 04.05. UK-Nottingham – Rock City 06.05. UK-London – Islington Assembly Hall 08.05. UK-Glasgow – The TV Studio SWG3 09.05. UK-Manchester – Academy 2 Weblinks: www.magnumonline.co.uk www.facebook.com/groups/MagnumOfficial Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

Steel mill, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 1984, RA Clayton #steelmill