Comments on: So, games… that’s a thing, right?

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:40:59 +0000

@Oakstout I love bridges. They are both literal and figurative crossings — from one side of a river to another, from one age back to another. These people, our ancestors, were as smart as any 21st century person, as savvy, as sophisticated, and they considered these bridges the height of ingenuity and proud markers of progress.

We don’t dream that big anymore.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:38:36 +0000

The truss bridge was a product of America’s need for rapid expansion, combined with the peak of the Industrial Revolution and new techniques in iron and steelworking. England and Europe have been done with expansion for centuries and wouldn’t need so many bridges — and everything else — all in one fifty year period.

Since so many bridges were needed, lots of bridge designers were needed, and they would more often than not tweak existing designs a bit so they could patent them and shop them around. This sparked a revolution in bridge design, and all of New England — a center of industrialization — is covered with what still remain of bridges of dozens of different designs.

My job: find them and photograph them :)

I never went anywhere. But me and gaming is something I need to write a whole post about.

By: bhagpuss

bhagpuss — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:35:43 +0000

I wondered where you’d gone.

Added your bridge blog to my Reader. I’m not sure I’ll be reading all the bridge facts in detail but the pictures are fantastic.

I can give you an immediate and current MMO connection, too. I’ve been running through virtual closed bridges exactly like some of those pictured on your blog in Kingsmouth and The Savage Coast in the Secret World beta. (Ye gods, that’s an ugly sentence). I’ve never seen a bridge like that in real life – not sure we have them much in Europe, let alone in England. I thought they looked weird in game – they look even weirder in actual photographs.

By: oakstout

oakstout — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:06:56 +0000

I like your choice of subject, bridges. In college I did a 2 projector slide show with music and dissolves and my subject of choice was churches. I was just amazed on how many there actually were on my 45 min ride into university that I decided to just photograph them and the show ended up getting me a “B” in the class. I should convert them to actual pictures at some point.

Basically I like your bridges too. lol Course I also like your gaming blog as well.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:05:10 +0000

I would love to see those :)

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:07:35 +0000

For what it’s worth… I really like your bridge photos. I keep thinking I should go to local ghost towns and take photos. I will, when I can make the time.