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Week 09 2011,
from February 28th

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Garry Winogrand



Heavy Weather indeed, painted by Herman Henry op der Heijde,
a ship on which the helmsman has great difficulties to manoeuvre with
sails that billow in a direction of their own choice.
Christie's momentarily.





"Sitting in the sun, with a sherry, waiting for you."





Billy and Holly.

Momentarily in Morren Galerie.
MORREN GALLERIES Contemporary Art
Guy





"No, this certainly isn't hopeles, or is it?"
Guy





"You forgot that you promised us to go to the Beekse Bergen?"
Guy





"Today it already was holiday weather!"
Erik





Sunday.
Granny's Day in France.
The clouds were cold.





Le Viaduc de Milau, France.




Photo Aernoud Witteveen

Gaat hier en daar te snel. De Duitse luchtmacht deed in Frankrijk weinig terzake. De Maginot-lijn stelde aan de Belgische grens te weinig voor. De Fransen vonden het niet correct om tegenover een bevriend land een zware fortenlijn aan te leggen. Vandaar de gatenkaas waar de Wehrmacht geen hinder van ondervond.
De Atlantikwal deed wat hij moest doen. Niet meer dan een handvol Duitse soldaten hield de geallieerde invasiemacht tegen op het strand. Dat het de geallieerden toch lukte om door te breken lag eraan dat de Duitsers door hun munitie heen raakten. Luchtmacht, paratroepen achter de linies en het vlootbombardement haalde weinig uit tegen de bunkers. In een documentaire van de VPRO vertelden Duitse soldaten hoe ze tot hun eigen afschuw de Amerikaanse jongens op het strand neermitrailleerden. Ze waren kansloos kanonnenvlees. Pas toen de Duitsers geen kogels meer hadden lukte het de landingstroepen om de bunkers te veroveren. Maar ik ben niet zo'n soort kenner. Ook niet bijzonder geïnteresseerd in oorlogsverhalen. Aernoud




Checker Marathon from Live and Let Die,
with built-in Endurance for hard N.Y. traffic.





The Citroën HY and the older TUB which it succeeded.





Not gone in 60 minutes.
Guy





Still top up today.





Daffodils, 3 bundles for €2.50.





Tesla, plugged in.





Saturday.
HUH!





In the end nothing worked effectively.





Naar aanleiding van de twee foto’s van Arnoud van de Blockhäuser in de Maginot-linie
wil ik daar iets dieper op ingaan. Misschien ook aardig voor Arnoud.

Een minder bekend aspect van de Maginot-linie is, dat deze linie ook in de Franse Alpen is aangelegd; niet om Frankrijk tegen de Duitsers te verdedigen alswel tegen de Italianen, want daar hebben de Fransen in de loop der eeuwen ook van tijd tot tijd ook mee overhoop gelegen. Inderdaad bleek dit noodzakelijk in WOII, op grond van het verdrag tussen Hitler & Mussolini. Je weet, dat de laatste een goede vriend van me was...

Toen ik dat huis in Airole had, heb ik me behoorlijk verdiept in de geschiedenis van dat alpine gedeelte van de Maginot-linie, want het lag bij mij in feite om de hoek! De Maginot-techniek was veruit superieur aan de Italiaanse stand van zaken. Mussolini durfde Frankrijk wel binnen te vallen toen hij hoorde dat Hitler naar Parijs oprukte en liet Hitler snoevend weten, dat hij hem wel zou treffen in Parijs. Maar dat werd een compleet fiasco om allerlei redenen, waaronder de effectiviteit van de Maginot-linie in de Franse Alpen. Zie mijn monografie daarover, met name de paragraaf 'Boem is ho!' - als je het interesseert ten minste... Aan mijn onderzoekje daarnaar heb ik destijds (1999) enorm veel plezier beleefd. Het is een van de vele, maar minder bekende, mini geschiedenisjes (petits-histoires) in WOII.

De eerste exploratie van het fort Monte Grosso zal ik nooit vergeten. Het was magisch. Toen ik er voor de eerste keer in doordrong in mijn eentje met een zaklamp, dacht ik: wat is dit voor waanzin. Een trap rond een liftschacht naar boven, waar geen eind aan kwam (60 m). Afijn, later is dit uitgelopen op excursies die ik ging organiseren voor Nederlanders die ook in dat dorp woonden, inclusief 4 gaslampen, luchpakket en een verbanddoos. Op YouTube kun je inmiddels filmpjes vinden van fortofielen, maar indertijd kreeg ik de indruk dat nog aar weinig mensen dit fort hadden ontdekt. Wel de koperdieven, die leidingen e.d. hadden gesloopt. Het is me altijd bijgebleven. Die reusachtige zogenaamde tourelles a eclipse kun je weliswaar ook bekijken in museum-forten in de Elzas, maar ik kende dat toen nog niet. Je moet je voorstellen, dat je dit met je gaslampje ontdekt. Zoiets als de grotten van Lascaux.

Pieter Klop







Streetcar 5.





A little quiet later in the afternoon.





Scenic route.





Something happened.





Economy.





Trattoria.





Missing.





Joep Bertram (right) stops contributing to the renowned daily Het Parool as an artist.
Commemorating his departure a mini exposition of his work of the past 23 years,
will be held on Saturday March 5 and Sunday 6 in Galerie Metis, Lijnbaansgracht 316.
Starting March 9 Joep will start submitting a weekly drawing to De Groene Amsterdammer.
Celebrating both these milestones his colleague Peter van Straaten (left) dropped by.
http://www.yoopdeloop.com/
Guy





Hilfiger Paradise.
Guy





Law & Order.
Guy





Law & Order.
Guy





Friday.
Without an official route following the Maginot Line,
and without a detailed map, you wouldn't find the next blockhaus,
for they are not connected by a footpath.
Aernoud





And still colder.





Meanwhile it's becoming colder.





Always jolly on the way.





Gruter in the sun.





Haarlem, unexpected the Goddess.





A fascinating example of Joost Guntenaar's time-lapse photography.
12 hours later.

The whole story.





Standing by.
Guy





A brick pattern would have been more sufficient.
Guy





Graffiti on the floor is removed.
Guy





Some fine photos.
Guy





If not on the walls in the virtual archives.
Guy





Municipal Museum temprorarily open.
Guy





Another blockhaus in the Maginot Line.
Aernoud

Een foto van een Maginot-fort brengt meteen herinneringen naar boven. Ik was in de jaren 90 als gids voor de medebewoners van mijn Italiaanse dorp Airole indertijd kind aan huis in het grootste Maginot-fort van de Franse Alpen: Monte Grosso', een complex met 4 trappenhuizen annex liftkokers van ca. 60 m diepte en met een zgn 'tourelle a eclipse', een enorme constructie om te schieten, die kon verzinken in het dak. Zie Google Afbeeldingen onder dit trefwoord als je er wat meer van wilt weten. En dat lag daar zo maar onder de grond, met het vet nog op de diverse onderdelen, dat er 70 jaar geleden was opgesmeerd. De enige toegang die ik indertijd heb kunnen vinden was een schietgat met een diameter van een Spa-fles. Destijds had ik de indruk dat geen sterveling daar kwam, maar tegenwoordig hebben veel meer Maginot-vorsers het fort ontdekt, zo werd me duidelijk op YouTube. In bijgaand filmpje zie je het bewuste schietgat. (Ik heb wel eens een Nederlander na een lange klimtocht achter moeten laten, die niet door het gat kon.) Pieter Klop




Thursday.
The PVV has promised to give Friesland back to the Friesians.
Pieter Klop





Ain't she nice?
Guy





My kingdom for a solid chair I said.
Guy





My kingdom for a scooter.
Guy





Break.
Guy





Spring?
Guy





Not numbed?





Sunny mood.





It's getting late.





The flight of 12:17:52, to which destination?





Tuesday.
Marja F. Nightingale was as always on time.





These fantastic jets in the photo in a flash brought back memories of the Motorama show that GM organized at the time when across the street the national auto expo was held in the old RAI exhibition hall in Amsterdam. Must have been in the mid fifties.
The
General Motors Firebird is a series of three concept cars designed by Harley Earl, and built by General Motors for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows. They were very much inspired by innovations in fighter aircraft design at the time. None of the designs were intended for production, but instead were to showcase the extremes in technology and design that General Motors was able to achieve. The cars still make regular car show appearances. General Motors had done research on feasibility of gas turbine engines in cars as early as the 1930s. It wasn't until the early 1950s that they began building an actual engine.

Firebird I
By 1953, the research team had produced the Firebird XP-21, later referred to as the Firebird I, which was essentially a jet airplane on wheels. It was the first gas turbine powered car tested in the United States. The design is entirely impractical, with a bubble topped canopy over a single seat cockpit, a bullet shaped fuselage made entirely of fiberglass, short wings, and a vertical tail fin. It has a 370 hp (280 kW) Whirlfire Turbo Power gas turbine engine, which has two speeds, and expels jet exhaust at some 1,250 °F (677 °C). The entire weight of the car is 2,500 lb (1,134 kg).
At first, Emmett Conklin was the only person qualified to drive it, and he tested it up to 100 mph (160 km/h), but upon shifting into second gear the tires lost traction under the extreme engine torque and he immediately slowed down for fear of crashing. The car was later test driven at the Indianapolis Speedway by race car driver Maury Rose. The car was never actually intended to test the power or speed potential of the gas turbine, but merely the practical feasibility of its use. The braking system differs from standard drum systems, in that the drums are on the outside of the wheels to facilitate fast cooling, and the wings actually have aircraft style flaps for slowing from high speed.

Firebird II
The second prototype, the Firebird II in 1956, was a more practical design: a four-seat, family car. It is a low and wide design with a large dual air intakes in the front, a high bubble canopy top, and a vertical tail fin. Its exterior bodywork was made entirely of titanium. The engine output was 200 hp (150 kW), and to solve the exhaust heat problem it was fed through a regenerative system, which allowed the entire engine to operate at nearly 1,000 °F (538 °C) cooler, and also power the accessories. Another innovation on the car was the first use of four wheel disc brakes, with a fully independent suspension, as well as a sophisticated guidance system which was intended to be used with "the highway of the future", where an electrical wire would be embedded into a roadway to send signals that would help guide future cars and avoid accidents.

Firebird III
The third design, the Firebird III, was built in 1958 and first shown at Motorama in 1959. It is another extravagant prototype with titanium skin, and no fewer than seven short wings and tail fins that were tested extensively in a wind tunnel. It is a two-seater powered by a 225 hp (168 kW) Whirlfire GT-305 gas turbine engine, and a two cylinder 10 hp (7.5 kW) gasoline engine to run all the accessories. Its exterior design features a double bubble canopy, and more technical advancements to make it more practical, such as cruise control, anti-lock brakes, and air conditioning. It also featured "space-age" innovations, such as special air drag brakes, like those found on aircraft, which emerged from flat panels in the bodywork of the car to slow it from high speeds, an "ultra-sonic" key which signaled the doors to open, and an automated guidance system to avoid accidents and "no hold" steering. The steering was controlled by a joystick positioned between the two seats. This gave the car a more futuristic feel and simulated the experience of flying a plane.

Wikpedia.




"Yes, I belong to very special minority."
Guy





A closer look?
Guy





After the party is over.
Guy





Stacks of second hand books.
Guy





Who would suspect this fashionable Mazda
parked in the middle of the road to be a speed trap?





At 4 kilometres from our house you may hit upon a mulish section
of the Maginot Line, which is called the blockhaus,
a surprisingly awkward German word in the French language.
Aernoud





Tuesday.
Driving South we see that we enter France
when the parasites, as we call them, appear in the trees.
Aernoud, who shot the photo, calls them
Maretakken.





The last mile of the trip to Amsterdam was made on a flatbed.
Guy





Steaming down the river Amstel to the Hiswa Motorboat Show,
Guy





Jodenbreestraat today.
Waar staat je ouwe fiets?
Guy





Something wrong with the saddle?
Guy





A bit chaotic, a demo of what?
Guy





09:55 The bike was still standing against the lamppost,
blocking the pedestrians onto the zebra.





08:25 While they parked their car in a bothersome way on the corner
of the crossing, the police officers tried to move the bicycle which was parked
in a disturbing way almost blocking the zebra.





Monday.
At 7:45 it was still quite dark, but we readily recognized
the pianist Wibu Soeradji on the poster.



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