Beit Ha-Model

In the basement of the Jerusalem Municipality building, is a model of about 18km2 of the city. It's 1:500 scale, over 28 years in the making, and still being developed. City planners and policy-makers use this device as a reference point and an elevated arm allows the model unit to take precise images throughout the model for further reference. It's open to the public a couple of hours a day, although photographs are not really allowed.

"A big man is really just a small man with a good map" (Bruno Latour)

There's piped music in the corridors of the Municipality building. While I was waiting to get into model room it started to register. Soft synth and atmospheric effects. And then, in English, very gently - "and relax those knees, that's right.... and one, and two, and one..." Hmmm.

FlapJack

I'm concluding with the cat-themed material today. Probably. Fittingly, I am sitting but metres away from Maneki Neko, who is surrounded by perspex swans. And some karaoke is occurring too. (Father and Son - Boyzone's version... how does that work anyway? surely in a karaoke situation, a cover looses its purchase on the material, no?).

This footage was taken randomly; its not a normal routine, so far as I know, but every time i watch it I'm impressed by Jack's total lack of conviction. Maybe someone who knows him will find it equally amusing.

Right, that's it for soft and silly stuff. From here on in, its going to get real. Til then. And if anyone knows how to get rid of those annoying white borders...?

Sheeptease

I'm safely installed now within walls and under roof in my comfortably furnished salon, but outside, things remain relentlessly out of control...

And in some quarters it has come to this.....

The Roof

Cool roofs are defined as roofs with both high reflectivity and high emissivity. Some building styles, for example, geodesic and A-frame, blur the distinction between wall and roofs.

The Wall

Mortar is a material used in masonry to fill the gaps between blocks in construction. The blocks may be stone, brick, breeze blocks (cinder blocks), etc. Mortar is a mixture of sand, a binder such as cement or lime, and water and is applied as a paste which then sets hard.

The Chair

The modern movement of the 1960s produced new forms of chairs: the butterfly chair, bean bags, the egg-shaped pod chair, and the urethane foam filled Foof chair formerly known as the "Poof chair". Technological advances led to molded plywood and laminate wood chairs, as well as chairs made of leather or polymers. Massage chairs are now sold and used in homes all over the world.