A massive structure
of wooden poles festooned with colorful ribbons by the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow is the first work one encounters when visiting the 2013 Carnegie International, the quadrennial (or thereabouts) show at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art that stands as the oldest global contemporary art exhibition in the United States.
The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA, has outlawed the use
of wooden poles for electricity installations in the power sector.
Asherah reference
of wooden poles images or trees that represented the canaaite goddess asherah.
Not exact matches
Despite all this panic, it was easy to assemble the frame — the only problem we had was fitting the
wooden poles through the fabric walls
of the cot.
Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect
wooden electric
poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such
poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect
of collapsing the
poles and disrupting power distribution.
The Yendi Divisional Police Command has arrested five persons for causing the destruction
of wooden electricity
poles after they lost control
of bushfires they started.
Japanese fishermen shoved three - foot
poles through the backs
of their heads and then pushed
wooden dowels into the wounds.
Their glossy bulk looks out
of place as they squeeze between the electricity
poles and cramped bars, ramshackle
wooden offices and tiny shops that line the street.
One area
of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension
pole, perhaps while teetering at the top
of a rickety three - meter
wooden ladder, the base
of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.
Thanks for being the best Mum, You taught me how to thread a needle, how paint and draw, how to sew in straight lines and how to make brooches out
of old
wooden curtain
poles, you encouraged me to go to art school, fashion college and then St.Martins.
In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist
of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by
wooden poles, on a small plot
of land.
School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah
poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants
of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other
wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.
«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display
of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous
wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.
They wore high boots
of soft, brown leather, and were armed with jeweled dirks in their belts; in the left hand some carried sharp pikes on six - foot
wooden poles.
At each end
of the pit they set up a short wall
of cinder blocks with a heavy
wooden plank on top, looking like the head and baseboards
of a giant bed, where the long
wooden poles onto which the baby lambs had been lashed would rest.
That's because the wearisome
wooden dowels and plain plastic
poles of yesteryear have been replaced by exciting new materials and designs intended -LSB-...] Read More →
This is a skinny
wooden boat, powered by a noisy motor at the end
of a long
pole.
In a narrow quiet lane behind busy Jalan Raya Seminyak, a gathering
of carved
wooden totem
poles guard the round thatch - roofed entrance to Blue Karma, suggesting that this is not your run -
of - the mill hotel.
And her neighbors a floor below make a short totem
pole of stacked
wooden blocks look daringly haphazard, dark, and handmade.
Installation View, Missing Truffaut, 2014 Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Wooden pole, electric light, laser print on paper 25 x 4 x 2 feet Courtesy
of Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Photography © Fredrik Nilsen
Blue Tree Grey has a 5ft
wooden stand, I designed it and my dad made it, he's an old school master carpenter, I painted the stand indigo blue, made 6 long grey droopy branches for it, tied a grey velvet egg baby to its central
pole with a blue ribbon, because oh dear what can the matter be, Johnny's so long at the fair, he promised to buy me a bunch
of blue ribbons to tie up my bonny brown hair, and there's 6 midnight blue velveteen «heads» tied to its branches, I see them as mourners, watchers, protectors, and they're my version
of my all time favorite sculpture: Nature Study (Velvet Eyes) by Louise Bourgeois.
From the late 1960s into the 1980s, Grossman carved heads from the hard wood
of discarded telephone
poles, overlaid them with leather, and then adorned them with zippers, lacquered
wooden noses, spikes, and straps.
Made
of castoff
poles and other random pieces
of wooden debris, the sculptures are improvisatory and informal without yielding to chaos.
And if you found yourself wanting one
of their
wooden totem
poles in a metal box, well... tough titties!
«In the darkened gallery space a round
wooden platform with textile walls and an iron
pole is spinning around its own axis, reminiscent
of both, a merry - go - round, a cinema theatre and a mobile war tent... the merry - go - round is spinning so fast that the spectator's gaze can not fully grasp what's inside the tent;» (PR Klosterfelde gallery).
Up above, Miles Greenberg had arranged for naked bodies to lie splayed out between
wooden poles on sheets
of transparent plastic, in corpse - like repose.
Featured are a series
of tall
wooden poles covered in woven cord emblazoned with various geometric shapes, words and symbols called Cetros, resembling scepters or staffs.
1) A bamboo or giant grass
pole, or
wooden dowel (about the full length from your toes to the tip
of your fingers if you hold them above your head).
This unique handmade
wooden bicycle, made in the UK from sustainably - harvested local hardwood
poles, demonstrates a potential opportunity for sustainable woodland products using the traditional technique
of coppicing.
With reference to the close - up photo you cite: notice the day - glow red
poles attached to the leading edge
of the
wooden stairs: those are plow guides, used to show snowplow operators where low - lying objects may be concealed under snow.
A
wooden pole that had been driven into the ice the year before now stands exposed as the Aletsch glacier melts and sinks at a rate
of about 10 - 13 meters per year near Bettmeralp, Switzerland.
When large, heavy cranes and high - up pieces
of scaffolding, complete with
wooden plans and metal
poles, come crashing down, they can cause serious injuries — and fatalities.
This was a symbol
of the way he criticised, assembling his arguments like a huge
wooden pole, heaving the thing up on his shoulder, running and then letting it fly until it thudded into the ground with a mighty impact.
Any old
wooden pole will do, you could use an old curtain
pole or parasol stand as long as the diameter
of the
pole is small enough to fit a roll
of washi tape.
The trick here is to anchor a
wooden pole inside a concrete filled pot and fasten a hook to the top
of the
pole.