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2024-10-11

{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"I took Caltrain for the first time in years this week. The electric service is a huge improvement, not just from the faster and quieter trains, but also from the scheduling.","formatting":[{"type":"link","start":117,"end":142,"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain#Electric_multiple_units"},{"type":"link","start":162,"end":172,"url":"https://www.caltrain.com/timetable?active_tab=route_explorer_tab"}]},{"type":"text","text":"The diesel-hauled locomotive service only had one train every hour off-peak and at weekends. The new electric service has two, and they're every half hour- so it's easy to remember when the trains leave (especially for 22nd Street in San Francisco, heading southbound, where those times are :00 and :30)."},{"type":"text","text":"There are also power sockets at each seat, which was useful when I realised I hadn't charged my phone before heading out."},{"type":"text","text":"One final note: the electrification effort for the Caltrain line is deeply connected to California's High Speed Rail project. 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It's by the slimmest margin, but it took an incredible amount of work to get to \"under an hour.\""},{"type":"text","text":"The new trains are called \"electrical multiple units\" (abbreviated \"EMU\") and a lot of that speed up is due to the fact every wheel is motorized, and the all start and stop together instead of getting jerked around from the pushing and pulling of the locomotive at the end."}],"layout":[{"type":"rows","display":[{"blocks":[0]},{"blocks":[1,2]},{"blocks":[3]},{"blocks":[4]},{"blocks":[5]},{"blocks":[6]}]}],"post":{"id":"764058478187888640"},"blog":{"name":"jamisonwieser","title":"jamisonwieser.blog","description":"","url":"https://jamisonwieser.blog/","uuid":"t:zTo4IuBRo1PbFU5rJiqNPA","updated":1729394621,"blog_view_url":"https://www.tumblr.com/jamisonwieser","key":"KdZxJ0OW5","theme":{"header_full_width":1400,"header_full_height":1119,"header_focus_width":837,"header_focus_height":471,"avatar_shape":"circle","background_color":"#FAFAFA","body_font":"Helvetica Neue","header_bounds":"327,939,798,102","header_image":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/82962b99dce3bedf8e05060bd7ebf45d/550b1f69ad6cb691-d0/s1400x1119/2ad0127d4681738557214cb159b571ec9d888f36.jpg","header_image_focused":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/82962b99dce3bedf8e05060bd7ebf45d/550b1f69ad6cb691-d0/s2048x3072_c7286,29223,67071,71314/fd6ff7abf80a285fb32ca8af880aadf5ca3f06ad.jpg","header_image_poster":"","header_image_scaled":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/82962b99dce3bedf8e05060bd7ebf45d/550b1f69ad6cb691-d0/s2048x3072/c492df844b3ae1ebfa913d4371c0ad7146cdc8ba.jpg","header_stretch":true,"link_color":"#0c4bdd","show_avatar":true,"show_description":false,"show_header_image":true,"show_title":true,"title_color":"#444444","title_font":"Gibson","title_font_weight":"bold"},"can_message":true,"share_likes":false,"share_following":false,"is_nsfw":false,"is_adult":false,"can_be_followed":true,"placement_id":"","avatar":[{"width":512,"height":512,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/f816c92251145ce2fe2cbc2a3e117d2f/550b1f69ad6cb691-df/s512x512u_c1/5b927e6a772f49c1c4f33adf5b7c95102ab48dff.pnj","accessories":[]},{"width":128,"height":128,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/f816c92251145ce2fe2cbc2a3e117d2f/550b1f69ad6cb691-df/s128x128u_c1/3ff1fec96ece7616e2f3df5ae51d3e2371b12288.pnj","accessories":[]},{"width":96,"height":96,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/f816c92251145ce2fe2cbc2a3e117d2f/550b1f69ad6cb691-df/s96x96u_c1/6be2f2cfbdb9c1b1d858d358682c71173ff4d326.pnj","accessories":[]},{"width":64,"height":64,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/f816c92251145ce2fe2cbc2a3e117d2f/550b1f69ad6cb691-df/s64x64u_c1/c28a4ffdd23894c7eca11f2425100a562461b528.pnj","accessories":[]}],"tumblrmart_accessories":{},"can_show_badges":true,"active":true,"show_follow_action":true}}]}

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jamisonwieser:

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Caltrain is the commuter rail line on the San Francisco – started full electric service last month.

This is a huge deal because it cuts the travel time between San Francisco and San José (the 17th and 13th largest cities in the US by population) by 25%.

A local train making all stops went from 100 to 75 minutes, limited stops trains to a little over an hour and peak hour express trains from 75 to 59. It’s by the slimmest margin, but it took an incredible amount of work to get to “under an hour.”

The new trains are called “electrical multiple units” (abbreviated “EMU”) and a lot of that speed up is due to the fact every wheel is motorized, and the all start and stop together instead of getting jerked around from the pushing and pulling of the locomotive at the end.

I took Caltrain for the first time in years this week. The electric service is a huge improvement, not just from the faster and quieter trains, but also from the scheduling.

The diesel-hauled locomotive service only had one train every hour off-peak and at weekends. The new electric service has two, and they’re every half hour- so it’s easy to remember when the trains leave (especially for 22nd Street in San Francisco, heading southbound, where those times are :00 and :30).

There are also power sockets at each seat, which was useful when I realised I hadn’t charged my phone before heading out.

One final note: the electrification effort for the Caltrain line is deeply connected to California’s High Speed Rail project. I could (and perhaps should) write more about my complicated feelings about it, but I would much rather the state were trying to build it than not, and this is a concrete achievement that should be celebrated as part of that effort.

2024-10-01

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Top: San Francisco, August 16, 1988. Bottom: Primrose Hill, London, April 1993.","formatting":[{"type":"link","start":37,"end":50,"url":"https://iconicimages.net/photographers/kevin-cummins/"},{"type":"link","start":52,"end":55,"url":"https://iconicimages.net/photo/kc-bj008-bjork/"},{"type":"link","start":89,"end":95,"url":"https://iconicimages.net/photo/kc-bj007-bjork/"}]},{"type":"text","text":"Here's a bonus second image from the Primrose Hill shoot.","formatting":[{"type":"link","start":15,"end":27,"url":"https://iconicimages.net/photo/kc-bj004-bjork/"}]},{"type":"text","text":"I'm curious which exact San Francisco park this is. My guess is the Presidio, but it might also be Bernal Hill. The background trees aren't really enough to give it away, and although Getty Images have a colour picture from the same shoot, that doesn't really add anything.","formatting":[{"type":"link","start":204,"end":218,"url":"https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fdetail%2Fnews-photo%2Fsinger-bjork-of-icelandic-alternative-rock-group-the-news-photo%2F580485395%3Fadppopup%3Dtrue&t=M2I4YmZlNjRmN2NkOTE2Mzc3YjY1Nzg4MzA5M2ZiZDkyYTA0MTMwNyxkNzMyODU2NTQ3MWU4ZTY2NmM0OTc4MzBmODQxMWY1NTgyMzkwZDMy&ts=1729440884"}]}],"layout":[],"trail":[]}

post/763178880902283264

text 16:08:17
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Björk on benches- two photographs by Kevin Cummins. Top: San Francisco, August 16, 1988. Bottom: Primrose Hill, London, April 1993.

Here’s a bonus second image from the Primrose Hill shoot.

I’m curious which exact San Francisco park this is. My guess is the Presidio, but it might also be Bernal Hill. The background trees aren’t really enough to give it away, and although Getty Images have a colour picture from the same shoot, that doesn’t really add anything.

2024-09-10

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post/761273533396631552

text 15:23:36
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An Airbus 380 and Boeing 747, from Tom Hagen’s Lockdown Series, later a book called simply Airports:

During the lockdown time in March, April and May, I took photographs of the largest German Airports and their resting runways. It was a historic moment and a unique opportunity to get these images.

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post/761273177000247296

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An untitled image from Frankfurt Airport, April 2020 by Marc Krause, as featured in Hunger Magazine.

2024-09-09

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Two illustrations from the story “Who Controls Cyberspace”, by Frank Broughton, in i-D Magazine issue 136, January 1995, “the future issue”.

Scans via PaperPosts by Murray Grigo-McMahon.

2024-09-04

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In fact, the software used internally at Arup started to be sold externally three years after the completion of the building, and the piece's author works for the software company."},{"type":"text","text":"Once more quoting from the article: \"The SOH kickstarted the digital revolution in structural engineering.\""}],"layout":[{"type":"rows","display":[{"blocks":[0]},{"blocks":[1]},{"blocks":[2]},{"blocks":[3,4]},{"blocks":[5]},{"blocks":[6]},{"blocks":[7]}]}],"trail":[]}

post/760729408838500352

text 15:14:58
The east elevation of the Sydney Opera House as designed in Jørn Utzon's competition entry © ArupALT
A set of diagrams showing the evolution of the Sydney Opera House's architecture / engineering from 1958 to 1963 © ArupALT
An isometric view of the roof erection of the Sydney Opera House © Arup/Yuzo MikamiALT
FEA model of SOH rib under construction, including the support framework © ArupALT
West elevation of the major SOH hall superstructure © ArupALT

The five figures from Sydney Opera House 50 years on, a retrospective on its fiftieth anniversary by Peter Debney for The Institution of Structural Engineers.

I hadn’t realised how much the engineering design of the SOH involved “electronic digital computers” (as the article says, it has to use the term to “differentiate the work from human and analogue computers”). In fact, the software used internally at Arup started to be sold externally three years after the completion of the building, and the piece’s author works for the software company.

Once more quoting from the article: “The SOH kickstarted the digital revolution in structural engineering.”

2024-08-22

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post/759529579875532800

text 09:24:12
image

Kawaguchiko by Asako Narahashi.

From the series half awake and half asleep in the water, 2003. Seen on the Guardian’s gallery 70 years of Japanese female photographers – in pictures.

2024-08-09

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The Wachowski's flair for visuals was there right from the start."},{"type":"text","text":"Later, they go on to examine how this continues in their following films, including their unfairly reviewed science fiction epic:"},{"type":"text","text":"This is not a cinema where a minor wrong has to be redressed to restore law, order, and harmony. In Jupiter Ascending (2015), we will get an entire universe based on extraction and exploitation, and a heroine who saves just a single planet from it.","subtype":"indented","formatting":[{"type":"italic","start":99,"end":118}]},{"type":"text","text":"However, in examining the themes of falseness, reconciliation, and solidarity, Wark barely mentions The Matrix series, and skips perhaps the starkest example of this themes in one of their mainly overlooked works: Speed Racer (2008).","formatting":[{"type":"link","start":214,"end":232,"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Racer_(film)"}]},{"type":"text","text":"Told in a style that's a dizzying montage-plus from the start, with skips and loops in space and time as dramatic as those on the courses (like Fuji's impossible loop-the-loop), the central plot of Speed Racer is appropriately simple for a work based on a manga (and anime). The Racer family lives for automotive competition, plucky independents who still score wins. Up-and-coming middle child Speed scores a famous victory at his home-town circuit, and is then courted by E.P. Royalton, head of Royalton Industries."},{"type":"text","text":"During this, Royalton makes clear to Speed that the entire sport is rotten. The famous races of the past which the Racer family find almost mythical? Fixed, just to cause profits from stock manipulation- \"sending Iodyne into the gains record book, the only record book that matters. … That's what racing is about - all that matters is power, and the unassailable might of money.\""},{"type":"image","media":[{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":1280,"height":544,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s1280x1920/f2cf2b46ee564684061ee8a2e291b0d6fb2732a8.png","has_original_dimensions":true},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":640,"height":272,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s640x960/7c7b39beb4bc8fdffd12836f36c0a1d9abcd06be.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":540,"height":230,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s540x810/49da4bb9851c023c55a7ab416e286101e16f1632.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":500,"height":213,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s500x750/72b8f4b959de18ed01a6244a58362b1f1a2255c5.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":400,"height":170,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s400x600/0b6aacf0a021f86a97acf1a3c7c388d82affbd1f.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":250,"height":106,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s250x400/3cb33f3b05bd1be07392a6e10619c8c848ef2852.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":100,"height":43,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s100x200/0a4544c1dd5655a22e7ab477f8e3be6a16b63a8a.png"},{"media_key":"d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9:f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5","type":"image/png","width":75,"height":75,"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/d4cce51758ed34ceac176ef11dee9bf9/f921b822dc2b4a9b-b5/s75x75_c1/42313617f248b40f5a52a662cc764101cb96860d.png","cropped":true}],"attribution":{"type":"link","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811080/mediaviewer/rm3666182145/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_76"},"colors":{"c0":"010101","c1":"1f160e","c2":"502626","c3":"63493d","c4":"fffff6"},"alt_text":"A.P. 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post/758356897127694336

text 10:44:55

Or: the Wachowskis vs the World

With the Criterion release of the Wachowski’s debut film, Bound, came an essay by McKenzie Wark: Bound: Be Gay, Do Crime. In it, Wark writes

The Wachowskis’ cinema never asks us to believe in the restoration of order to the world. It’s the world itself that’s wrong, that’s false, in its totality. Their cinema never asks us to make femininity the scapegoat for the falseness of the world. Theirs is a cinema of the art of surviving the wrong and the false, by any means necessary. 

Jennifer Tilly as Violet in Bound, watching - literally - laundered money dry. The Wachowski's flair for visuals was there right from the start.ALT

Later, they go on to examine how this continues in their following films, including their unfairly reviewed science fiction epic:

This is not a cinema where a minor wrong has to be redressed to restore law, order, and harmony. In Jupiter Ascending (2015), we will get an entire universe based on extraction and exploitation, and a heroine who saves just a single planet from it.

However, in examining the themes of falseness, reconciliation, and solidarity, Wark barely mentions The Matrix series, and skips perhaps the starkest example of this themes in one of their mainly overlooked works: Speed Racer (2008).

Told in a style that’s a dizzying montage-plus from the start, with skips and loops in space and time as dramatic as those on the courses (like Fuji’s impossible loop-the-loop), the central plot of Speed Racer is appropriately simple for a work based on a manga (and anime). The Racer family lives for automotive competition, plucky independents who still score wins. Up-and-coming middle child Speed scores a famous victory at his home-town circuit, and is then courted by E.P. Royalton, head of Royalton Industries.

During this, Royalton makes clear to Speed that the entire sport is rotten. The famous races of the past which the Racer family find almost mythical? Fixed, just to cause profits from stock manipulation- “sending Iodyne into the gains record book, the only record book that matters. … That’s what racing is about - all that matters is power, and the unassailable might of money.”

A.P. Royalton, played by Roger Allam, posing by the "burnt and twisted lump of metal" that reminds him of the "true heart of racing" - race fixing.ALT

Speed is horrified, and rejects a deal, but Royalton’s power is proved in subsequent events. After much racing and intrigue, though - and this is maybe a spoiler - Speed and his allies finally get the win at the Grand Prix, allowing them to prove Royalton’s corruption, bringing the sport back to its ideals (or at least, saving the Racer team and family).

Perhaps Wark isn’t as much of a fan of the hypersaturated, admittedly cartoony, CGI festival as I am (although it seems I’m not alone), but the film fits their argument as well as the rest of their work. Now, when’s the Criterion Edition of Speed Racer coming out?

2024-08-05

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Naked except for wrappings that he wound about his head to keep in place pads of buttered lint he had plastered over his ears, to protect them from high water pressure, he would plunge to the bottom of the Channel, weighted down by bags of flints and trailing a long safety line attached to his body, and a red distress line attached to his left arm, from a rowboat occupied also by a Channel pilot, a young assistant, and his own daughter, who went along to keep watch over him.

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Indirectly via Peter Keeling’s essay Liberal Visions and Boring Machines on the early history of the tunnel, which mentions Gamond’s dives and encounters with conger eels.

2024-08-02

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