"Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.... Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power."
The writings of a savage
French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born #OTD in 1848.
I love the carvings set into the pavement of Langlands Road in Govan. Created by the artist Kate Robinson, they're part of The Govan Timeline, a pictorial history of the local area. This is one of my favourites, featuring what I presume is the now-lost Fairfields Titan crane and the hull of a ship.
Stylized 3D illustration for a 2001 article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about the Code Red worm, which was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.
Details of the relief sculptures at the top of the 'Tower of the Winds' of the former Prince's Dock Hydraulic Pumping Station in Glasgow. Believe it or not, this isn't the only copy of this ancient Greek building in Glasgow. There'a another on the cupola the top of the old Athenaeum Theatre on Buchanan Street.
The octagonal chimney of the former Prince's Dock Hydraulic Pumping Station on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. It's shape and the decorative freize around the top appear to be based on the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora in Athens, which dates back to at least 50 BC. The chimney was originally 172 feet tall, but was cut down to just 55 feet in 1927.
I love this Art Nouveau style version of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on one of the buildings of the old Lambhill Street School in the Kinning Park area of the city.
Aurelius by Malcom Robertson. Positioned on the line of the Antonine Wall behind the Lambhill Stables, this giant head looks out from the site of a former fort across what was once the northern frontier of the Roman Empire and into the barbarian terrritory beyond.