Amelia's photos with the keyword: Contest Without Prize

The Contest Without Prize this month is 'Business Signs'. Most, if not all, folks in the UK will know for which shop this is the sign.

Contest Without Prize (2021/05CWP) "Old or vintage" The best example of bronze age rock carvings in the Stavanger area is Fluberget at Revheim, a few kilometers west of Stavanger. It is thought that the site was a religious meeting place, with the carvings dating from 1800 to 500 years BC. This archeological site is a low south-facing cliff about 200 metres from Hafrsfjord, and was discovered in 1879. The ship or boat symbols are common in Scandinavian rock carvings and many are found here. The hand symbols represent Gods who should not be directly portrayed. The meaning of some of the carvings is still not known.

The River Harp is a sound sculpture comprising two large silver balls, one on either side of Drammenselva. The sculpture creates river music through variations in water flow and oscillations of the Ypsilon suspension bridge near the sculpture, which acts as a gigantic harp. Sensors capture footsteps crossing its hundred-yard span, and hidden computers relay them – mingled with river-sounds and the wind in the wires – to resonate inside two steel balls. In the sphere one can see Fabbrikgata, part of the Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge (University College in Southeastern Norway) and the lights of the Ypsilon Bridge over Drammen's River. The 'music' blends with local voices singing to appease the legendary Nøkken, a shape-shifting water spirit. To women, Nøkken appears as a beautiful young man with a violin, enchanting them with sweet river music, drawing them ever closer until they fall in and drown. River Harp