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an anual gift for my best friend Lydia, ~a planter with 3 different Geranium transplants from Kenny & my back yard. It's ready now to go home with Lydia, in the coming week!
From AL11, an Album belonging to Frank Clarke, who was a famous stunt flyer in Hollywood in the 1920s. PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
actually, it probably isn't all that old. I think it most likely has endured a few summers in Phoenix.
I finally finished another shadow box. I was running into a roadblock with the background paper. I really wanted brick, but I couldn't find any. I think, after asking around and getting answers from some helpful flickr people, that I would need to either print it out myself or buy it online. I hate to pay shipping for, effectively, a piece of paper, so I probably would've been going the 'print it out' route. But I don't have a printer. So that was holding me up too. In the middle of all this, I ran across this green 'incredible hulk' scrapbook paper on sale - so I just used that. It's... actually not bad, in a weird way.
Anyway, it's not the most innovative scene ever, but I kind of like it. I'd worry about using that older tamae in the box, but my room doesn't get any sunlight anyway (sigh) and I may change her out at some point if I want to use the pieces...
Must remember to take my photograph in daylight!
Too busy being swept along doing things during the day I keep forgetting to take my camera out and grab my photograph.
My tiny brain will remember soon hopefully.
(Day 85)
:) okay so yesterday was a very very very crazy day and i didnt even think i was gonna have time to upload but i did and guess what. i got a whole one comment. was it really that bad?? i guess it was. ohh well live and learn.
so i named my monkey. i chose fernando. i thought it was fitting! i dont love this shot its okay. . . i was supposed to upload this on friday but like i said i didnt have enough time.
Not the best picture, I am hoping to get better ones at the birthday party. The gumball bowl is not edible but everything else is. Cake board is hand painted fondant. Now my 5 year old son wants one for his birthday...on Tuesday...tomorrow...go figure
Bridget needed to get some Christmas shopping done at the actual physical mall, so we did that and then I took her out to dinner.
Taken during a Flickr outing at MacAlpine's restaurant and soda fountain in Phoenix, Arizona. This is a long exposure (1 second at f/8) of the contents of a gumball machine just inside the entrance to the restaurant.
Today is Day 200 of my 365 Days of Clones series. Here's something a little different to celebrate!
I had been waiting for Day 200 to arrive to create this shot, but while I was waiting EJS93 created something similar. I would be amiss if I did not mention her creation. Please go check it out!
Enjoy!
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The Ball Globe Beaver is the durable Round Beaver vending machine with an over sized globe that really makes a statement.
Find the Ball Globe Beaver Vending Machine @ Gumball.com!
When I was a kid, I loved these machines because the bubble gum sold here was the best for making huge bubbles. But even in Rethem, a small town on the Aller River, there are now not enough young customers for these once wonderful machines.
The gum ball machine:
Vintage 1960's Ford gum ball machine was supposed ot be another fish tank gum ball piece. That is, until I actually got the machine. Seems Mr. Ford was a very clever man. He was a carpenter & grew tired of searching for employ during the winter months, so he decided to get into the "new gum ball machine craze", then new at the time.
He cleverly noticed most of the gum sold in the machines was horrendous, so he decided to make his own. This gum was licensed & trademarked & its square shape with "Ford" imprinted on it was instantly recognisable. In addition to its uniqueness, the gum was actually good. It did so well he eventually went into the business full time. The machine you see is also an original Ford invention & is the only continuous glass globe without a bar running through its center.
In order to fill the machine, one must very carefully tip the entire machine upside-down (can see why there aren't too many of these left now), remove the bottom, fill, then tip back over. It can be a sticky wicket, but is doable. However, as a fish tank, it's a no-go. Everyone suggested I send it back, but I love this iconic piece so much, I've included it in the decor. When people ask, I make certain they know the money collected is part of my retirement fund! You know times are tough when one's counting on a single 10 cent gum ball machine to retire!
photography: a.golden, eyewash design: April, 2008
When I was a kid I loved these machines, as the gumballs sold here, were the very best for bubblegum bubbles. Unfortunately my parents neither liked bubblegum nor these vending machines...
Though chewing gum is still popular, these vending machines are only rarely seen meanwhile. They should be on the "Red List of Threatened Dream Machines", in case this list does exist already.
Found at a highway oasis somewhere in the Greater Chicago Area.
Taken with my Chaika-2 -- it takes two separate frames in the space of one normal image.