Looking Forward to a New Clay Bottom!

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A digitally manipulated photograph of the bottom of Victoria Lake in Hagley Park. The photographer comments, "After the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011, Victoria Lake suffered some cracking which broke the previous clay seal. The lake has now been excavated so that the new clay seal can be spread out and flattened ready to be filled again with water. The red pile is the clay and in the background is the grey silt or liquefaction that spewed into the lake from cracks in the lake bed".

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 1

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A photograph of CPIT students constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 2

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A photograph of CPIT students constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 3

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A photograph of CPIT students constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 11

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 9

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 4

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 8

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 5

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 7

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 12

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 10

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A photograph of CPIT students and members of the public constructing an outdoor pizza oven for Gap Filler out of clay and bricks. The public workshop was part of FESTA 2012.

Butterfly Gap Photograph 6

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A photograph of volunteers creating objects out of clay for the Gap Filler Butterfly Gap project.

Butterfly Gap Photograph 3

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A photograph of volunteers creating objects out of clay for the Gap Filler Butterfly Gap project.

Butterfly Gap Photograph 1

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A photograph of volunteers creating objects out of clay for the Gap Filler Butterfly Gap project.

Dino-Sauna Photograph 4

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A photograph of a clay tablet reading, "Triseatasaurus by Andrew Lyons. On load from Ali Begg.

Dishing the Earth: Pizzeria earth building workshop Photograph 6

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A photograph of a participant at an outdoor pizzeria earth-building workshop. The event was part of FESTA 2012.

Photograph of New Zealand's first laser

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A scanned copy of a black and white photograph of the He-Ne Continuous Gas Laser used in David Lockwood's MSc research at the University of Canterbury. David says, "The experiments in the Thesis were aimed at examining the effects of sound waves on colloids, which are very small particles that are found in clays for example (for more details see page 181 of http://www.cap.ca/PiC-PaC/static/downloads/1efdc1f3784b85c1a1b33e396b91ee8aef2072c5.pdf ). In fact, I was looking at nanoparticles of matter, which preceded the emergence of nanotechnology as a field of research by more than two decades. I needed a suitable light source to probe the alignment of the nanoparticles in the ultrasonic sound field. At that time the laser had just been invented and I realized that this was the ideal light source for my experiment. I then proceeded to construct the first home-built laser in New Zealand. This laser - a He-Ne continuous-wave gas laser - operated at 632.8 nm (in the red). This laser, over a metre long, is shown in the black-and-white photo. There were lot of problems to be overcome, but eventually, with invaluable help from Dr. Tom Seed (my MSc supervisor) and Dr. Rod Syme, I had it working".