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Stasera la falce di luna si è delicatamente appoggiata nel centro della costellazione del Toro, dove luccica l'ammasso stellare delle Iadi.
La brillante Aldebaran, l'occhio del Toro, si vede in basso a sinistra in questa foto... brilla 500 volte più del nostro sole e la luce che vediamo stasera è partita verso di noi nell'anno 1953.
In quell'anno, muore Stalin, Watson e Crick annunciano la scoperta del DNA, Edmund Hillary conquista la cima dell'Everest, a Semipalatinsk, in Unione Sovietica, viene fatta esplodere per la prima volta una bomba a fissione-fusione 20 volte più potente di quella di Hiroshima, finisce la guerra di Corea...
Mentre tutto questo succedeva sul piccolo pianeta terra, la luce di Aldebaran iniziava il suo viaggio nel buio... e stasera è arrivata da me, nel mio occhio, nel mio cervello, nella mia immateriale coscienza... io sarei nato 19 anni dopo.
Buona serata
#aldebaran #luna #toro #congiunzione #tamron #1953 #backinthedays #tempo #timemachine #universo #stelle #astronomy #sigh #hyades #iadi
Detail of one of 3 horse brasses on leather straps that hang on either side of our fireplace. See photo in the first comment of the whole thing in situ (the cockerel brass in question is top right on the right) HMM!
Once upon a time horse drawn carriages provided the main means of transport in many parts of the world & decorative horse brasses like this were common place. For Macro Mondays theme "Back in the day"
Back in the days when I was working (and not so long ago), part of my job was to select photos for travel guides, poring over thousands of slides in plastic sheets on a lightbox and peering at the details through a thread-counter. It wasn't so different from looking at pages of photos on flickr.
The slides in this yellow box date from 1995; they are mostly pics of my cat, but no. 13 is one of me in my office, see below.
For Macro Mondays.
Kodachrome processing ended in 2010.
Frames were plastic or cardboard - these plastic ones were easier to open (we had to remove the film for processing and then take care we didn't get them back to front).
The proper question is -
What can you NOT find in a Brooklyn Bodega?
Corner store near the Fort Greene Projects. Myrtle Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City 1988.
This must have been a beautiful house back in the day. It's sad to see this once beautiful house slowly deteriorate.
Posted for Macro Monday - The Theme: Back in the Day.
--- This is a Saline Transfusion syringe used in the 1890's. the little glass measure is for the 1 drachm of common salt needed to be mixed with 1 pint of boiled water.
A note on the cleaning after use: Quote: the sucker of the piston being of ASBESTOS may be placed over the flame of a spirit lamp"!!! Omgoodness!!! Can you imagine. :-))
Edit: Forgot to say -- this glass syringe is 12" (30mm) long and approx 1.5" diameter
The 4/2 topic for #MacroMondays is #BackInTheDay, and back in the day, say around 150 years ago, muzzle loading, percussion cap firearms, such as this .50 caliber pistol, were as far as firearms technology had advanced. To fire it, one had to pour a powder charge down the muzzle, run a patched ball down on top of the charge, slip a percussion cap onto the nipple, cock the hammer, and ready to fire. Then, repeat, repeat, repeat - far from the rapid fire technology available today.
Sometime in the 1980s, I built this pistol from a kit, and my young sons and I took it to the local firing range and had a great time sending billows of black powder smoke down the range and sometimes even hitting what we were shooting at. I haven't shot it in many years, and it now hangs on our memorabilia room wall.
This hammer measures 2 inches from top to bottom.
Immigrants who settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Back in the day.
I was given a whole bunch of old family photographs to use for découpage. Some how I've not been able to do that. Maybe some day.
#79/119 Old Fashioned: 119 Pictures in 2019
Making of for this week's MacroMondays
challenge "BackInTheDay"
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Ai piatti non c'era Robert Miles, ma ugualmente attorno ai grammofoni si riunivano le più diverse classi sociali per ascoltare ciò che noi tutti amiamo: la musica.
The pace of technology very quickly made the 1st generation iPod Shuffle obsolete. This was only released in 2005 and this had an impressive 512mb storage. Now all entertainment is contained within one pocket sized device, your phone!
An outlet from back in the day, the two-prong NEMA 1-15R receptacle commonly found in homes in North America and other facilities built before 1962.
This outlet style was infamous for requiring an adaptor to plug in anything with a grounded (earthed) plug, short of snapping off the ground prong. In order to achieve grounding, a lug on the plug end of the adaptor had to be secured to the outlet with the cover plate screw, but that's assuming metallic conduit or armored cable was used in the building. The problem was that either some buildings (like part of my 1961-vintage house, for example) were wired with non-metallic cable without a ground wire or, most likely, the user didn't even bother to secure the lug, defeating the intended purpose. Because of that, such adaptors are now illegal in many areas.
Even though these obsolete outlets are still available strictly for replacement purposes, a ground-fault-circuit-interrupter outlet (GFCIs, also known as residual-current devices, or RCDs) can be used as a replacement to provide a safety ground without additional wiring; a ground wire is required for equipment, such as computers, requiring grounding for equipment protection.
Oh, one other thing...the solid oak outlet plate, kind of a relic of 1960s and '70s interior design trends, fell out of style long ago, recently superseded by sleek plastic faceplates and matching devices available in a wide variety of colors, many with hidden fasteners for a clean appearance.
This is my tribute to the once mighty mixed tape.
There is just something about making a mixed tape that you don't get today with burnt CDs and MP3 players. The amount of work it took in finding the songs, aligning them and planning the tape so that you could get the most music on both sides. Not to mention, the recording was done in REAL time! For those who've never made one...it would take a couple hours to plan and make a good mixed tape.
Then there was that first listen once it was finished that made all the hard work totally worth it.
Strobist:
SB-900, bare camera right, zoomed to 200mm, triggered via CLS
Long since gone, this post once hosted a block and tackle that hoisted many fish into the Battery. Near St.John's, NL.
Brothers chilling on the corner sometime in the winter of 1989. Bedford Stuyvesant. Brooklyn before the gentrification. / Fuji Neopan 400 / Canon A1 camera
Macro Mondays-Back In The Day!
I dug up this antique jar in an old homestead dump on Manitoulin Island in Canada.
George Weyman opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh in 1822. He was the inventor of “Copenhagen” snuff. The company became Weyman & Bros. in 1870, so your jar was probably made before then. There were several changes in name and ownership until it became the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. in 2001. That company is still in business. Your Weyman’s Snuff jar is worth about $25. www.kovels.com/collectors-questions/weymans-snuff-jar
This Ilford Sportsman Camera (circa 1960's) belonged to my Dad who passed away 6 years ago now. This camera has been in a cupboard for some years and yesterday afternoon I brought it out to show to my Father-in Law. Whilst fiddling around with the camera, I fired the shutter and then rolled the film advance lever a couple of times and fired the shutter again. Then I noticed that the film spool was also advancing and I realised that there was still a film in the camera. There was only possibly 4 or 5 shots left on the film, so I finished it up, rolled the film back into the cartridge and opened the camera back and sure enough, this 35mm 24 exposure Kodacolor Gold film was still inside.
Working things out, I reckon this film has quite likely been in this camera since around 1986-87 or possibly earlier. Maybe even has images of myself and my brother as teenagers. So now nostalgia has really set in, as not for many years have I had to send a film off to be developed & printed and to eagerly await for it to return in the post to see what the pictures look like. In this case a true time capsule, as this film was exposed over 30 years ago and I have no idea what is on it.
Although a bit slow, Brian's natural flare for the slide rule enabled him to perform calculations with a grace and elegance that were the envy of his fellow science classmates with their electronic calculators.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Back in the Day'.
No snails or slide rules were harmed in the making of this photograph.
two letters i didn't use/post for the macromonday's theme on 4/2 of "back in the day"... i think this one might have been handcarved
#MacroMondays and #BackInTheDay
Once everywhere now gone and obsolete.
How fast technology moves on. 15 years ago, these were commonplace and essential and 1.44MB still seemed reasonably big!
We don’t have a computer in the house or at work that can accept one of these old floppy disks now. But they still keep appearing at the bottom of drawers and storage boxes.
For MacroMondays theme #BackInTheDay – things that were once popular but which are now nearly extinct.
Amsterdam Toen en Nu.
Bron oude foto: Beeldbank Amsterdam.
Eerste indruk lijkt het dat er weinig is veranderd. Maar als je kijkt naar de ramen, deur en andere details is er toch wel veel veranderd.
First impression it seems that little has changed. But when looking at the windows, door and other details a lot has changed.
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While exploring the Battery Park City landfill, I came across this view. I still clearly recall how that area reeked of a unique mix of diesel exhaust from construction equipment, raw sewage and the general scent of the Hudson River. I kind of miss it in today's totally gentrified city.
By the way, that's the old 1920s West Side Highway crossing in front of the World Trade Center. By this time, it was already closed and abandoned.
This is a crop of a sharpened square-format Kodachrome 126 film slide.