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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 1
Every Sunday for a year and a half, starting in October 1997, a group of Pittsburgh metal artists sneaked into the abandoned Carrie Furnace site, along with their tools and equipment. They used materials found on site to create a 45' tall deer head. The group - Industrial Arts Collective - is currently working on a large scale sculpture on the former Jones and Laughlin and LTV mill sites, on the South Side of Pittsburgh. More projects by IAC: http://www.geocities.com/~js_iac/pages/site_work/site_projects.html http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5641 More Gigapans and information about Carrie Furnace: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36933/ exterior http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36914/ furnace & pouring house |
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Every third Saturday in August the community of Rankin, PA, 8 miles out of Pittsburgh up the Monongahela River, everyone steps up and celebrates the day with a parade, concerts by local musicians, art show, food, contests, and food.
http://www.rankinborough.com/ |
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This is a closer-up view of the Rankin Bridge near Pittsburgh. It's scheduled for rehabilitation in March 2008. It really needs fixed, as we say.
See if can find any places in the structure that the engineers will say have to be replaced. Snapshot it, compare with the actual job in a later gigapanorama. |
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Taken from a bluff in Rankin, this is one of those places that built America. Furnaces 6 and 7 still stand to become a monument to the industrial might and Mon Valley melting pot, inspiring books such as Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace and even a John Wayne movie. The Pittsburgh-based Industrial Arts Cooperative made several large sculptures from materials found on the site after its abandonment by US Steel.
This site is to become a 21st century walkable, multi-use riverfront community connected to adjacent neighborhoods and the region through its many transportation facilities and the draw of the steel Industry Heritage National Historic Site park. More information is available at http://www.tbdfconnects.org, http://www.riversofsteel.com, http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/0606riverssteel.aspx Click around the panorama to see various details of the plans for the site. |
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The old Carrie Furnace on the left and the new, Waterfront shopping area, on the right. |
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Shot a day later than the previous, but around the same time (6:45 PM EST, GMT-5). Canon G5 in Av mode and using AEB +/-2. Jpegs were shot because in RAW the buffer filling/emptying is a little slower. Used 2 second on the shutter servo and 12 seconds between shots. |
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Rankin is nestled above the Monongahela River in the historic Steel Valley near Pittsburgh. |