Broken Column Challenge Taken

photo from Gard Karlsen webpage
(the one we have yet to get a close-up of)

November 12, 2008 Challenge was given to find them all?!
May 29, 2009 Challenge accepted & half-way done thru the list of 23...

How many others before us have tried & failed we don't know...
Could be many a local school project as well, but find no webpages as proof...

There's only 1 local webpage to be found, besides the Rogaland's Museum webpage (they do own it all afterall) & their link to a Broken Column map...

Here you can see one attempt at finding them all & the photographs...
(except they didn't go into the private house, while we were allowed--but then we still have to get a boat to go out to rock awash off an island near Hundvag for a close up photo, so I guess we're even) www.gardkarlsen.com/broken_column.htm

Ours will be another successful attempt, started today - very successfully - were granted access to more than imagined (15 done) & we'll find a boat yet to make it to the island for the rock awash one at close range...

To be finished sometime next week (8 to go) - then we'll proudly post it all on Facebook followed by a link on the Rain in Stavanger Blog soon after...

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Here following is from Gard Karlsen's page...

What is Broken Column?

According to http://www.stavanger-web.com/

23 iron sculptures, all 1.95 meters tall, have been placed in and around Stavanger's City Center. Some have been erected outdoors and some inside shops, schools and even a private home.

The artwork is made by Antony Gormley, a London-based sculpter also known for Another Place.

It took 4 years to decide whether or not to place the figures in Stavanger.
The project is financed by the Municipality of Stavanger, Stavanger Art Society and Rogaland Art Museum.
Each sculpture is fitted 1.95 meters lower than the previous.

The first iron man is placed at the Art museum some 40 meters above sea level. The last sculpture is found in the sea just outside of Natvigs Minde downtown Stavanger.

I first encountered Mr. Gormley's work at the Sola beach when Another Place took place. Another Place was 100 sculptures (similar to the ones that are described above) placed on the beach and out in the water at Sola...

But now, similar sculptures are back in Broken Column and I will present som pictures of the various statues below.

The sculptures' are all 1.95 tall and they all face 10° west.

The 'Fish Market' sculpture is the one that has given the direction for the rest of the sculptures. It is loacted in the harbour and it is looking out at the sea.

Each sculpture is also placed in a specific height. Sculpture no. 1 is located at Stavanger museum of fine arts and it is located at 41.41 meters above sea level.

Sculpture number 2 is 41.41 - 1.95 = 39.45 meter above sea level and this continues until the last one located 1.23 meters below sea level at Natvigs Minde.

Please check out Mr. Gormely's page (http://www.antonygormley.com/) for more pictures of previous work.

On this page I will present pictures that I have taken of the different sculptures. I have not been able to take pictures of all of them yet but this page will be updated as soon as I take more pictures.

Please click on the Stavanger map to move to the different sculptures or just scoll down to see the photos. Click on each thumbnail to get a larger picture.

Map kindly provided by Kevin Paul Scarrott, cartographer, http://www.stavanger-guide.no/

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Or this link will take you there directly, from Home to Other Practical Maps to Broken Column Antony Gormley (Map & Views PDF)

or www.stavanger-guide.no/maps/maps_other/broken_column.pdf

2009 Swatch - FIVB World Championships

Beach Volleyball at Pulpit Rock in Norway May 25

Photo Credit:
Beach Volleyball: 2009 FIVB WCh features something unique
2009-05-15 28:00
http://en.olympic.cn/news/sports_news/2009-05-15/1796087.html

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Stavanger Norway Grand Slam Beach Volleyball

For a week in June - July the FIVB World Tour beach volleyball event comes to Stavanger, for the Norway Grand Slam event.


Conoco Phillips is the main sponsor of the event, which brings people from all over the world - and hundreds of tons of beach sand to Vaagen - the main harbour in Stavanger, with volleyball courts all around the harbour, plus a stadium built each year for the event.


In the first couple of years it was just the men that competed here, but now it is both men and women.It brings a great atmosphere - and Stavanger is popular with the players - made even more special by the visits of large cruise ships in the harbour most days. It also has one of the biggest prize-money purses.


In the days before the beach volleyball tournament a ship arrives in town carrying sand, which is then placed half a metre deep around the harbour, where the courts (about 10 of them) will be.In 2006 there was a barge in the harbour with 2 courts and a beach-bar - a nice addition.It takes about three weeks to build the main stadium, which closes the road on the north side of the harbour.


When: Thursday 25 June - Sunday 5 July 2009
Where: Vaagen harbour in central Stavanger
Website (norsk): http://www.vmstavanger.no/

Borrowed From StavangerTravel.com write up of 2007 event
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See Also Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Beach_Volleyball_World_Championships


The 2009 SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is an upcoming beach volleyball event, which is scheduled to be held from June 26 to July 5, 2009 in Stavanger, Norway. The Swatch FIVB World Championships are organized every two years, and Norway is the first Northern European country to host the event. The city of Stavanger has earlier hosted ten Open and Grand Slam events at the SWATCH FIVB World Tour.

Prize Money - US$1Mil

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Another article & mention of special events for the event - Beach Volleyball on Pulpit Rock (that's surreal?!) http://en.olympic.cn/news/sports_news/2009-05-15/1796087.html

Here the original article (Norsk): www.vg.no/sport/artikkel.php?artid=572749

Ida, Missing Link, in Oslo

The Norway Post, Doorway to Norway

May 21, 2009 Thursday

In New York, an international team of scientists, led by Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo on Tuesday unveiled a well preserved fossil of what they claim to be "the Missing Link".

The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature was unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, by the city's mayor. It has been named Ida, after Jorn Hurum's daughter.

Ida was discovered in the 1980s in a fossil treasure-trove called Messel Pit, near Darmstadt in Germany. For much of the intervening period, it has been in a private collection.

The investigation of the fossil's significance was led by Jorn Hurum, who said to BBC that the fossil creature was "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor" and described the discovery as "a dream come true".

He said the team concluded that she was not simply another lemur, but a new species. They have called her Darwinius masillae, to celebrate her place of origin and the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin...

But Dr Hurum believes that the missing link is exactly what Ida is.

He told BBC News that the key to proving this lay in the detail of the foot. The shape of a bone in the foot called the talus looks "almost anthropoid".

The fossil will now be put on display at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. NOK 2.2 million has been granted to upgrade security at the museum, NRK reports.

(NRK/BBC)
Rolleiv Solholm

Read more of this article at... http://www.norwaypost.no/

Read more about the UNESCO world heritage site of Germany's "Grube Messel" or Messel Pit at... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messel_Pit

Note: Anyone read "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin? Then you'd really have perked up at not just the mention of "missing link" but also the detail of the "foot" on this fossil in particular...if you're in the Yahoo Book Group in Stavanger then you would of read this book for the 200th Anniv. of Darwin's birth & about 150 yrs since the publication of his famous theory & you'd understand more about the why & how fossils tell us so much more about ourselves than you'd ever imagine...even better this one is in our own backyard nearly, to Stavanger, just over in Oslo--Road Trip?!