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Wansford signal box stands sentinel over the old Great North Road crossing, providing a warm refuge on a chilly January night.
04-01-2025
At 1.83 miles in length, Box Tunnel lies between Chippenham and Bath. Slowly being swallowed by trees, the 17:30 Paddington - Taunton HST emerges.
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dear dear box 'o mine
have you ever seen inside?
what you have
and
what you owe,
those desire that makes you glow.
glowing & glowing till the end
and then my love i put my hand.
yes my love! i felt the glow
creeping screaming that calm-sy blow,
then a whisper came to hear
told me- i know when it tears!!
pick me my dear 'o hand
and watch me doing magic again.
i picked and saw in the grab,
one was LUST & other was happiness.
so which i should go with now??
asked the magic box-
do you know how to feed me how??
magic box never spoke to me again
but YES!!
it was still glowing the same.
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Jorge wanted some help folding this, and I said I'd give him help, so here it is!
I hope this helps, Jorge!
BOX DATE: 2017
MANUFACTURER: Play Along
BODY TYPE: 2010
HEAD MOLD: 2010; pierced ears
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Mosi is the kind of dolly that would have tickled my younger self. I absolutely adore Native American dolls...I always have. Maybe it's because my dad always talked about how my Pepere had a relative who was Native American (a great great grandmother I believe). I also spent hours upon hours watching "Free Wily" as a kid, and Randolph from that film is Native American. I was captivated by his stories about Orca whales, just as Jesse was in the movie. My American Girl Kaya, who is Native American, was so special to me because Dad could always pick her out of a line up. It didn't matter if she was redressed in something modern...Dad knew which ones she was. He even chose an outfit from the catalogue for Kaya as a surprise, for my fourteenth birthday. She was the only American Girl he ever picked an outfit for (when my mom was alive, that was her job). Mosi is kind of like Kaya's little sister...perfectly proportioned to a Wellie Wisher! Of course, she is from modern times, hence the less literal ensemble. I also don't know what tribe she represents (Kaya is Nez Perce). I love that Mosi has an updated look, but you can still see that she's Native American. Normally, she'd have been my favorite of the four Hearts for Hearts dolls I was given in 2023. But the person who gave us the "Wondrous Wellie Wishers Lot" had fabulous taste. Shola, the girl from Afghanistan, is without a doubt the one who stole my heart. But Mosi and Consuelo (from Mexico) interchange depending on my mood.
Box from book "Fabulous origami boxes" p.30
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Paper's size: 2 units 18*18 cm, 2 units 17.5*25 cm
Height: 10 cm
Width: 9 cm
Joint: no glue
One of my favourite decorative items in our home. Andrew and I found an old wooden tool box at the recycling yard. We added more sections to the drawers and it's now a display case for our little treasures.
Blackpool & Fleetwood box car 40 seen here at North Pier on a heritage tour to Pleasure Beach 31/8/15.
A test for box development software.
Original pano was taken by Simon Sherwin: www.flickr.com/photos/simons/4524005292 .
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7DOS: Repetition, Anything goes Saturday
Photo trip to the Lonaconing Silk Mill, also referred to as the Klotz Throwing Company, is the last intact silk mill in the United States. It is located in Lonaconing, Maryland within the National Lonaconing Historic District and the site was nominated by the George’s Creek Watershed Association for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
It has puzzled me for a long time why so many Japanese superheroes (Ultraman, Kamen Riders, Voltron or Golion, Go-Onger, Gao-ranger, you name ‘em) have bug-eyes, unmoving mouths, or no mouth at all and have a strong connection with mime.
I now have a theory about the connection between Japanese superheroes and mime.
Japanese superheroes make many gestures (see image above), like mime artists. And more, in a sense they also speak. But their mouths are always immovable. Often they do not have mouths at all. And yet they do speak: They mime speech!
Typicaly, a group of young males and one female strike poses, press buttons, or contact someone in heaven on a magical mobile phone, and change ("hensin") into a team of superheroes wearing colour coded wetsuits. Why should then even need to change into a super hero suit? There is no secret made of their identity.
They then do stylised battle, reminiscent of badly choreographed pro-wrestling, with one or more wetsuited monsters, often with a conspicuously mobile jaw, in a car park.
As the superheroes fight they 'speak', or shout, encouraging each other. But where does their speech come from? Their mouths can not move, nor even open. They mime speech. They take out their magic mobile phones and put them to their motionless mouths. All eyes are focused toward the miming speaker.
In the mimicry of speech they are much like masked performers in the Noh Play. The body language of the players mimes speech to perfection, but the face does not move at all.
Nowhere is the mime aspect of Japanese superheroism more apparent than in the shows performed for children at Japanese festivals. Performers in bug-eye, multi-coloured mouthless wetsuits come on stage. Someone presses a button on a ghetto blaster, and off they go, miming their way through an ultra-man epic, never once saying a word, but all the while making it plain who is speaking.
The Japanese boys love it. They imitate the gestures, like the Ultraman laser beam pose above.
So why is miming speech so important?
According to Lacan the human self exists by virtue of two incomplete feedback loops: those provided by voice (or phonetic language) and vision.
We can look at ourselves in the mirror, but we can never see the minds eye. We can speak ourselves, but Lacan argues, the enunciated "I am" of my self speech, never quite coheres with the self that would be saying it.
However, with two ways back, two feedback paths, to the self, we play a shell game, or two card monte, always satisfied that when the word does not hit the mark, we can see ourselves in a mirror. And when the mirror seems empty, we can call ourselves by name.
The problem remains however, in convincing ourselves that our speech comes from the same place as our mouth. But we get used to it. Get used to thinking that sound and vision come from the same place. E.g. The people that we watch on television appear to be speaking the sounds, even though we know, if we think about it, that the sound is coming from the speakers at the side of the box.
Sound and vision never come from the same place, but we get used to thinking that they do, and the scumble that links the two together, that overcomes the contradiction of a picture that is attached to words, is paramount in the production of self.
Japanese boys watch their superheroes mime speech. They know that on the one hand their heroes are not speaking. All the people at the show, everyone knows that Ultraman is dumb, that emperor has no clothes. But the little boys also know that everyone loves the superheroes and assumes that the superheroes are speaking. They learn that if they take up the mime too, then no one will 'out them', no one will ever say "Hey, you are only miming." Superheroes and humans mime speech. It is important that they do so, and get away with it.
But why the bug eyes? For me, the bug-eyes of Japanese superheroes are seen but unseeing eyes. Their eyes are massive. Sometimes the Japanese superheroes face is all eye (Kamen rider Faizu/555). But they have no pupils, no in-eye movement to suggest that they see. Their massive eyes emphasise their visuality, but with their lack of inner eye detail, it is though they can not see at all. These eyes are, I suggest, the eyes that stare at us from out of the mirror. Our eyes as reflected mirrors fascinate us, they draw our gaze, we attempt even to look into them, but we know that they are sightless.
As I have argued elsewhere, the Japanese are permanently in "the mirror stage" in that, by virtue of their training in and ability to take multiple visual perspectives upon themselves, they continue to identify with self as reflected. Growing up in an world of uninterrupted and loving gazes, mirror identification presents little problem for the Japanese. But in order to develope a self they must also integrate the voice, attach those vocal symbols to this reflection, and hence all this heroic speech-miming.
Something similar should be going on in the West: there should be some attempt to link phoneme and imago being made. But in the West it is the identification with speech that is less fraught. So someone Western, admirable, and heroic should be 'speaking mime' rather than miming speech. I guess that this has something to do with the secret identities of Western Superheros, but for the time being, I don't know what "speaking mime" is.
Addendum. please see the next photo in my photostream. I think that "speaking mime" (the Western equivalent to the mimed speech we see Japanese superheros perform) is all the thought bubbles that we are able to see in Western superhero comics, and all the "hard boiled," coming-from-no-where, narrative that accompanies Western detective movies especially. In the West, the narrative pervades, it is the centre, the truth of the secret identity.
I think, therefore I am Batman.
Christmas Holiday Gift Box (HH0200)
Price : $ 59.50
- Plum Pudding themed soap
- Crispbread
- Camembert Cheese 125g
- Sundried Tomato and Fetta Dolmades 280g
- Celebration Chocolates 60g
- Candy Cane and Bon Bons
- Gift Wrapped in a carry box with Greeting Card
37402 preparing to depart Warrington Bank Quay working a delayed Warrington to Crewe Pathfinder charter. Delayed due to the Daventry to Warrington leg of The Clay Box where 37409 failed and had to be replaced by 37402. 37609 was on the other end.
This was just one of a number of 'mini' charters using the same stock that ran off Crewe on the 21st February, running over night to numerous lines that aren't possible to cover during day light due to service trains. Manchester Airport, Windermere & Blackpool South in the early hours of the 22nd then to Daventry freight terminal during the day, back up to Warrington then to Crewe via Birmingham New Street.
I saw this Red Box project candidate some time ago, when diverted of the dualled section of the A23. Life gets in the way, so it had to wait.
However a trip the Park Cameras (thanks for organising the Birds Day) to buy a new tripod, and so the oportunity presented.
Form the royal cipher, it is from the time of Queen Victoria of the type where a timber, fronted by cast iron, box is built in to the host's wall.
A fine example that is quite tricky to see.
The interior of a railway signal box for a freight siding
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Belgium 2021, thanks for exploration guys!
I was looking at some old photos over the weekend of Nemo doing silly things, and in a lot of them he was in boxes. I was thinking that he didn't do things like that anymore, and I realised that it was probably because we don't give him boxes to play with! I felt bad, and found a good Nemo-sized box from my tower of shoeboxes (yeah, I've got to do something about that, as it's almost reached the ceiling now), and he immediately went to sleep in it ^_^
I don't know why cats like boxes so much... They seem to like the feeling of being enclosed in something cat-sized. Maybe that's why they like sinks so much, too.
Paper: Octagon, Hexagon, Pentagon cutted from Wrapping Paper, 10 cm Square
Model: Paul Groom
I found the diagram for the triangle box in my last year's Origami Calender. After folding it, it was obvious that this works for any polygon. So I made some more. Most fun was the square box: Starting with a pentagon, just to end up with something square was kind of weird....
Finally got my new 9 x 12 Guerrilla pochade box in and I am totally stoked about getting new work (oil & watercolor) underway. This thing is top rate construction and I highly recommend it if you're looking for something compact with plenty of storage for almost everything you need. It also holds 4 wet panels easily and I have about 15 tubes of paint in it, plenty of brushes, containers for thinner and etc. I was amazed at how much it holds and the overall thought that went into building it. "Like" my Facebook page
Altered Altoid tin and art doll. Mixed media collage. Made for KarenM. Traded.
Thanks to Suzee Que for vintage photo.
A cake for a friends 50th birthday. The shoe box is 12x6 and was a challenge for me to gananche and cover. Will stick to round cakes!!
Shoe, pearls and flowers all edible- except diamante button on the bow, nylon thread through the pearls and there is a bamboo skewer in the heel of the shoe.
The attractive ex-Great Central Railway signal box that was originally at Blind Lane, Wembley. Next to it is a lamp hut that came from Whetstone, south of Leicester on the GCR.
The 'bobby' (in his hand the cloth used for pulling the levers - sweat from your hands rusts the steel) looks on as Andrew our guard (and also a signalman, Rothley stationmaster and the railways operations manager) converses with another railway employee.
Beneath the bridge, the Rothley Down section signal (the top arm) is at danger. Under that is the Swithland Down distant arm. This implies that the Swith Down home signal is at danger, although the box is actually 'switched out'. But the lower arm can't be 'off' when the top (stop) arm is 'on'. When the signalman clears his section signal for us when we return from Leicester, the lower distant arm will also rise to the 'off' position.
Great Central Railway.
BOX DATE: 1982
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Barbie; Ken (dated 1983)
BODY TYPE: 1966; Twist 'N Turn waist; straight arms; bend & snap legs; small defined toes
HEAD MOLD: 1971 "Steffie"
IMPORTANT NOTES: This same Barbie doll was originally sold as 1975 Hawaiian Barbie, wearing a different style bikini and wrap. The 1982 dolls were manufactured in the Philippines (this is the way you can distinguish your doll's date without having her original outfit).
***My doll is wearing 1978 Fashion Favorites Summer Romance #2785.
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Ever since I got "The Ultimate Barbie Book" in 2010, I've coveted this beautiful Hawaiian Barbie. She caught my eye right away, as I skimmed through the pages of the 60s and 70s Barbie section. She was made during a time when Barbie was almost always Caucasian. She has one of the most beautiful faces I have ever seen on a 70s/80s Barbie doll, and I seriously couldn't believe my luck when I found her. She was one of the 86 dolls that my sister and I adopted from the "Ken Suitcase lot" of 2016. When my sister and I first spotted the luggage filled with Barbie dolls, we only intended to purchase a handful of dolls (being that the seller wanted $2 per doll). While scouring the entire suitcase for particular dolls, I came across this wonderful lady! I immediately knew who she was--I could envision her picture from my Barbie book. Even though she was pretty beat up looking, and her body was a tad loose, I knew she'd have to come home with me. She was one of the ten dolls that my sister and were first going to purchase. Even though we ended up being able to come home with the entire suitcase loaded with almost 100 dollies, this Hawaiian Barbie was still one of the greatest finds. In fact, she's easily one of my very favorite, most special dolls from the 1980s. Owning her is a dream come true! The first Hawaiian Barbies like my doll have box dates of 1975 (and were reissued with slightly altered packaging and leis in 1978, but still dated 1975). Interestingly enough, I know that my doll is actually from 1982, based on what I've read in collector's books. My gal was manufactured in the Philippines, which is the last country these Hawaiian Barbies were made in. So while she's the same doll as a 1975 Hawaiian Barbie, her country make indicated she is in fact a later version!
Many of us spend most of our days sitting in an office. While many of these offices are a series of "cubicles", much like boxes, there has been a trend towards offices that have no vertical separation between staff. The open concept office has seen a resurgence in popularity. The expressed motivation for all staff occupying a single room has been that it promotes increased shared learning across the entire team by increasing team member interaction and face to face communication.
There is a growing body of research that has concluded that the open concept office has not been successful. It seems that many (perhaps not all) are more productive working in individual boxes.
Sign at entry to the Box Office at the Cincinnati Music Hall.
Memory box stem and border dies. Check borders dyed by HeroArts Neon Daubers. Butterfly by Penny Black. TFL!
Brown box car, one of three I have made. The others are light gray and (not finished yet) sand green. I decided the third one will be sand green to make it cool and fashionable ;-)
Collection of post boxes at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center at SMU.
Just press L on your keyboard to get a larger view on black.
UPDATE: This photo was selected as the Art & Seek Flickr Photo of the Week for January 11, 2012.
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Photo Details: 3 exposure (+/-3EV) HDR using Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens. Tonemapped using Photomatix 4 details enhancer option. Processed in Lightroom to increase clarity, reduce vibrance, add vignetting, and crop.
All comments or criticism are, as always, welcome.