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Signal box staff stand and watch Stanier 'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 no.46100 'Royal Scot’ with the RYTC Crewe-Whitehaven-Carlisle-Shap-Crewe “Scot Commemorative” tour as she passes though the small village of Foxfield onher way up the Cumbrian coast.
This was a quick shot, as we hadn't expected to catch her. Just saw people waiting at the station, so knew it hadn't gone though. A bonus shot.
The K4 box incorporated a post box and stamp vending machines. In production 1930-35 only 50 were made and only 5 still survive. Whilst the stamp machines are long out of use, this one in Frodsham, Cheshire, still functions as a phone and post box.
Top view of this antique hand-painted document box, circa late 18th to early 19th Century. It was originally Chloe Scranton’s (Bushnell) box. We have a picture of her at flic.kr/p/SbCgS5.
Learn more about this wonderful box at www.shorelinetimes.com/articles/2014/02/25/news/doc530d11....
See other museum items at flic.kr/s/aHskgxX9We.
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
tiffin box or pimbrera, as it is locally called (comes from spanish word fiambrera for lunch box), is a stacked food container that originated and is popularly used in india and spread to other southeast asian countries.
fitbridges, here you go!!
it is the side of a box of wooden kitchen matches-- the place where you strike the match to set it aflame.
cigar boxes. A big stack! at 'Madam Tojo's' in Labrador
lots of weird odds & ends in this coffeeshop.
A fantastic handmade and hand painted vintage wooden box that is a one-of-a-kind find. The painted hearts, birds, and flowers very much give it a Scandinavian folk art feel.
Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).
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The surpise box.
Experimenting a bit with my new toys.
The shot
Strobist info : Canon 430EX II Flash inside the box, remotely fired with Cactus V4 trigger.
Taken with the 50mm 1.4 lens at f/1.4 and 1/200s.
First lesson learned : Gotta keep a notebook with the flash settings I used, the remote flash does not have any communication with the camera to be able to store the settings. If I recall correctly I set the flash to -3EV.
Photoshop
° Adjust the exposure, blacks, fill light in Camera raw.
° Sharpened the box with the highpass filter ( See here for description )
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
A new box design based on Propellers Tessellation molecule. The molecule is depressed, meaning that the layers of paper forming the sides of the box are above it.
While the molecule itself is quite simple, I think this model is interesting due to the way the side walls are constructed, resulting in edges which are not straight and decorated with the color-change triangle.
Vintage card. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.).
Gene Kelly (1912-1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955).
Eugene Curran Kelly was born in 1912 in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He was the third son of James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and his wife, Harriet Catherine Curran. By the time he decided to dance, he was an accomplished sportsman and able to defend himself. He attended St. Raphael Elementary School in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and graduated from Peabody High School at age 16. He entered Pennsylvania State College as a journalism major, but after the 1929 crash, he left school and found work in order to help his family financially. He created dance routines with his younger brother Fred to earn prize money in local talent contests. They also performed in local nightclubs. In 1931, Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics. His family opened a dance studio in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 1932, they renamed it the Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance and opened a second location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1933. Kelly served as a teacher at the studio during his undergraduate and law-student years at Pitt. Kelly eventually decided to pursue a career as a dance teacher and full-time entertainer, so he dropped out of law school after two months. In 1937, having successfully managed and developed the family's dance-school business, he finally did move to New York City in search of work as a choreographer. His first Broadway assignment, in 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's 'Leave It to Me!' Kelly's first big breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Time of Your Life' (1939), in which, for the first time on Broadway, he danced to his own choreography. In 1940, he got the lead role in Rodgers and Hart's 'Pal Joey', choreographed by Robert Alton. This role propelled him to stardom. Offers from Hollywood began to arrive.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in Hollywood when Gene Kelly arrived in town in 1941. There he made his film debut with Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkeley, 1942). The film was a production of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM and it was one of the big hits of the year. The talent pool at MGM was especially large during World War II, when Hollywood was a refuge for many musicians and others in the performing arts of Europe who were forced to flee the Nazis. Kelly's film debut was followed by Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady (Roy Del Ruth, 1943) with Lucille Ball, the morale booster Thousands Cheer (George Sidney, 1943), Cover Girl (Charles Vidor, 1944) opposite Rita Harworth, and Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, 1945) with Frank Sinatra. MGM gave him a free hand to devise a range of dance routines for the latter, including his duets with Sinatra and the celebrated animated dance with Jerry Mouse—the animation for which was supervised by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Anchors Aweigh became one of the most successful films of 1945 and Kelly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire, for whom he had the greatest admiration, in 'The Babbitt and the Bromide' challenge dance routine. He co-starred with Judy Garland in The Pirate (1948) which gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism. It features Kelly's work with the Nicholas Brothers—the leading black dancers of their day—in a virtuoso dance routine. Now regarded as a classic, the film was ahead of its time but flopped at the box office. Kelly made his debut as a director with On the Town (1949), for Arthur Freed. Stanley Donen, brought to Hollywood by Kelly to be his assistant choreographer, received co-director credit for On the Town. A breakthrough in the musical film genre, it has been described as "the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood."
Two musicals secured Gene Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film. First, he directed and starred in An American in Paris (1951) with Leslie Caron. The highlight of the film is the seventeen-minute ballet sequence set to the title song written by George Gershwin and choreographed by Kelly. The sequence cost a half-million dollars (U.S.) to make in 1951 dollars. Kelly's many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. In 1952, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements, the same year An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Probably the most admired of all film musicals is his next film, Singin' in the Rain (1952). As co-director, lead star, and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force and unforgettable is Kelly's celebrated and much-imitated solo dance routine to the title song. Kelly continued his string of classic Hollywood musicals with Brigadoon (1954) with Cyd Charisse, and It's Always Fair Weather (1955), co-directed with Donen. The latter was a musical satire on television and advertising and includes his roller-skate dance routine to I Like Myself, and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey that Kelly used to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope. Next followed Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls (1957), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. It, too, sold few movie tickets. Dale O'Connor at IMDb: "Kelly was in the same league as Fred Astaire, but instead of a top hat and tails Kelly wore work clothes that went with his masculine, athletic dance style." He finally made for MGM The Happy Road (1957), set in his beloved France, his first foray in a new role as producer-director-actor. After leaving MGM, Kelly returned to stage work.
After musicals got out of fashion, Gene Kelly starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960) with Spencer Tracey and Fredric March, and What a Way to Go! (1964). In 1967, he appeared in French musical comedy Les Demoiselles de Rochefort/The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) opposite Catherine Deneuve. It was a box-office success in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture. Kelly directed films without a collaborator, including the bedroom-farce comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and the musical Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand and Matthau. The latter was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He appeared as one of many special narrators in the surprise hit That's Entertainment! (Jack Haley Jr., 1974). The compilation film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 50th anniversary. The film turned the spotlight on MGM's legacy of musical films from the 1920s through the 1950s. Kelly subsequently directed and co-starred with his friend Fred Astaire in the sequel That's Entertainment, Part II (Gene Kelly, 1976). It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire—who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired—into performing a series of song-and-dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film. It was later followed by That's Dancing! (Jack Haley Jr., 1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan, 1994). Kelly received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Gene Kelly passed away in 1996 at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. His final film project was the animated film Cats Don't Dance, not released until 1997, on which Kelly acted as an uncredited choreographic consultant. It was dedicated to his memory. Gene Kelly was married three times: yo actress Betsy Blair (1941-1957), Jeanne Coyne (1960- her death in 1973) , and Patricia Ward (1990- his death in 1996).
Sources: Dale O'Connor (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Box, from a rectangle, is a variation of triangular box.
Lid is my rhombic box from square.
They work well together.
Bear boxes have various designs. All require that you have at least one person in your party with fingers and who is smarter than a bear.
I haven't seen this kind of lock elsewhere.
Dune Creek Camp, Great Sand Dunes National Park. The camp is nestled in some cottonwoods along Sand Creek, facing the end of the dune field. It's altogether serviceable but not a "destination" site like Aspen.
Canning Street North signal box seen from Rendel Street footbridge in November 1983. Much has changed in this scene. The signal box remains today, but is a burnt out shell surrounded by bushes. The new looking building behind the box was demolished and the steelworks in the background is now home to Wirral Metropolitan College.
Hexham signal box, which is a Grade II Listed building, is located to the east of Hexham station and is an overtrack, gantry signal box, built in about 1896 for the North Eastern Railway (NER). It is one of two surviving signal boxes of this design on the Newcastle to Carlisle line; the other being to the east at Wylam.
NBCR Lantern box - subject of an article in January 2016 ICCC Newsletter! Do you have one? - Let me know if so!!
Worth noting that this lantern (11/63 220F) - while a fairly common lantern does have some interesting things
First - it is an EARLY 220F - and does not any transitional pieces from the 220E model that preceded it - AND Second - the collar is a mis-stamp in that the work "Coleman" should be on the left side of the knob - but should also be right side up! Wonder how many came down the line with this issue before it was fixed - and Coleman never threw away usable parts - so I am pretty sure that they are out there!
Former NB box at Lochmuir in Fife. This box controlled a loop on the down line at the summit of a climb from Thornton.
In steam days northbound freight, and in particular coal, workings were banked to the summit. The bankers would drop off and return over the crossover back to Thornton.
In the diesel era, the loop was used to allow freights to be overtaken and also as a means of reversing an early morning dmu service from Markinch to Edinburgh. As freight declined the box basically became a block post and was closed from 14th July as part of the Markinch resignalling. It was demolished a few weeks after the pictures were taken.
2nd August 1980
Otaru is famous as the "Venice of Japan" and for music boxes. Here are some of the Western, Victorian inspired ones. They were all very pretty.
"beep boop maggots"
long ago i was working in the team fortress 2 style classes, now some hats.
the idiot box
the original head here
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A few Box Turtles, Doing What Box Turtles Do. This little guy is eating an earthworm that was nearly as big as he is.
The Planetary Nebula NGC 6445 is aptly named the “Box Nebula”. I found the top and bottom of the box brighter than the elongated sides, but it still was very “box-like” in the eyepiece. I also found the nebula easier to see than I had expected based on its published magnitude. The whole nebula appeared knotted with the central area slightly darker than the sides, but still lighter than the black sky outside of the nebula. I could not make out any color in the Planetary Nebula. The central star was far below the range of my little refractor (19th magnitude).
The Box Nebula was the big surprise of the evening. NGC 6445 should be visited more often than it is by amateur astronomers. This Planetary Nebula is located 2 degrees southwest of the famous Open Cluster M23. So, the next time you are in the M21, M20, M23 and M24 area of Sagittarius, sneak a peek at NGC 6445 – you will not be disappointed.
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