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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
location : Solapur.
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This is a bathing chair to put the baby in while having a bath together, so the parent won't have to sit and freeze in a half full tub.
Designed and folded by me from a 40 cm square of Lokta paper.
I designed this model for a duel challenge against Gachepapier, on the French origami Forum. The theme was "Magritte", so here is my model, inspired by the paint "L'invention collective".
Well, it's exactly the opposite of the mermaid : fish body with human legs. I made big lips to bring a cartoon aspect and also because I didn't succeed in making attractive female legs :)
Round one of my invention for nancy. Please excuse the ugly black fabric- that's all I had at the moment that was black. Once I get the design right, it'll all be made out of sweatshirt knit. See my "large format camera" there? And see how I'm wearing a hoodie with a hood so big that it doubles as the little fabric that you need to drape over your head? voila: my invention for nancy. It keeps her warm and helps her see the image all in one. It needs a catchy lil name though....Any suggestions?
The theme for this issue was fashion history between 1900-1900. To illustrate the history, we added close up images of items that were invented at that time as a backdrop to the fashion clothes.
Photography by Mads
Styling by Paul
Make-up by Huan
Hair by Crazy Nhoc
Modelling by Kat (Anh Thu)
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#6 Sir William Armstrong ~ The 110 ton gun
"Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre, dans la séance publique de l'Académie des sciences, du 19 août 1839", illustration de Yan d'Argent in Louis Figuier, "La Photographie", Les Merveilles de la Science, vol. III, 1867, p. 41.
Not an "invention", per se, but a diagram. This was drawn when I was 8 years old and in the third grade. I *loved* drawing diagrams and schematics of all kinds.
This is a picture of a bike I actually had; I remember being obsessed with the hand brakes and was very careful when drawing this to show them and the wires that connected to them. However, I apparently managed to draw the chain floating in mid-air and not actually connecting to the pedals.
Cibils Beef Extract "Inventors & Their Inventions" issued in 1900.
Johannes Gutenberg ~ The Printing Press
My friend, Jim Davis, invented the self start system used today for all top fuel motors. In the early 70's Jim was building dragster chassis in his Concord,CA shop. A top fuel driver himself, the practice at the time was to push start the dragster from the starting line, make a u-turn on the track (no reverse yet) and return to stage and race. As the chassis grew in length making a u-turn on track became more difficult. Jim invented the blower drive starter using P-51 12 volt aircraft starter motors from WWII which he purchased in bulk from military surplus dealers. When NHRA mandated self start systems others copied Jim's invention which he never bothered to patent. Bob "Mun" Munroe worked for Jim at the time and recalls Jim eventually giving the molds and tooling to a friend and fellow racer as gift. About this same time in the early 70's is when a biker named Arlen Ness approached Jim about modifying Sportster frames. Jim Davis was a World Record Holder in NHRA drag racing and drag boat racing. At the end of his life he was still driving front engined nostalgia top fuelers. Here is a link to YouTube video of Jim in 1983 at Fremont Raceway in California www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbjZk4o-dY
Hill's Cigarettes "Inventors & Their Inventions" (series of 20 issued in 1907)
#17 Robert Stephenson ~ bridge building and railway engineering
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
#6 is an ironing board that folds out from the kitchen work bench.
#7 is a pram curtain
#8 an "åkpåse" (don't know the english word for it, "pram bag") that covers the baby's shoulders
#9 a duvet cover with jokes printed on it (this was thought up by my son who was around 5 years then)
#10 a special kind of cloth diaper
#11 a feeding bottle with built-in thermometer
Found these sketches while cleaning out before moving - some inventions I dreamed of when the kids were babies.
This is a telephone cord that automatically rolls back when not stretched.
Fourth-grade inventors are knee-deep in Invention Convention preparations. A recent student-parent workday brought inventions several steps closer to finalization. Here is a sneak peek of the work that is going into these inventions. They will be on display at the Invention Convention on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.