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Just another item of marine salvage--the stern deck cleat gleaned from "El Viento"--the 30-foot wooden Tahiti ketch I lived on in the early 80s.
She sank, and this bit of nautical salvage did not surrender it's post easily. I ruined a saw chain surgically removing this bit of bronze, and if I hadn't been demolishing the sunken boat, it would have been impossible to remove this hardware, it was so permanently bound to the deck of the boat.
It was covered in beige paint, and not so compelling. Look on the side, and you'll see a few nicks where the saw teeth made their mark. But now, with a bit of cleaning and shining, the cleat stands in all her glory. It reminds me of a "Torii" the gate you see at a Shinto shrine.
The "torii" marks the transition from the profane to the sacred, and may be built as an expression of gratitude for success, a tribute to industry and good fortune.
This one is large, (wider than my laptop and heavier than a gallon of water). It will be placed as a cleat, to follow a function, not for it's symbolism as "torii". But likely the result will be the same--stationed at a portal, the first contact when docking, and the last touched when casting off. I always through-bolt my cleats with a hard wood backing beneath the dock, and bedding on a sheet of copper above. And the cleat is always a telltale of the seamanship of any crewmate--"making fast" to a cleat is a simple looping wrap, leaving two lines married together and secured with a single wrap across--resulting in a an easily released "knot" with the cleat inside of it. Simply doing figure eights around the ears of a cleat won't do the job, at least not for very long.
Similarly, obsessive multiple knot-tying ensures no added measure of security and results in a "hatchet knot" (that can only be untied with a sharp tool).
And the cleat is a reminder of wakefulness and awareness as well. Get pre-occupied, stumbling about in your flip-flops, and it will bring you back to reality with a painful toe-stubbing! making fast to a cleat
The Tofana de Meso (Middle Tofana) is a 3244 m (10,643 ft) high peak in the Dolomites, West of the Anpezo valley (Ita: Cortina).
What we can see here is the so called Buso de Tofana, a hole in the ridge created probably by a mix of corrosion and rock falls. The screes under the walls are a clear indicator of degradation processes running on the rocks, mostly because of ice action.
The storm moves across highway 71 north of Kimball, NE. Commentary provided by some excitable storm chasers from a nearby tour. People come from all over the world to view our storms! A group I chatted with at the gas station had members from Australia, France, and some country called New Jersey...
PS. I'm always amazed that people just continued to drive right underneath the storm - one that dropped 18 tornadoes and grapefruit-sized hail throughout the day. Common sense would dictate that you would look up through your windshield and decide, Nope!
[CAT] La 440 131M després de molts mesos d'haver marxat, va a tornar a trepitjar la que durant molts anys va ser la seva línia. Al setembre de l'any 2008, aquesta veterana tornava a les andanes de l'estació de Vic, però en aquest cas per una feina ben diferent a la que havia fet fins feia temps enrere. La seva nova tasca durant aquella època va esser la de fer proves de Tren Terra fins a Ripoll, i més endavant al Transpirinenc. La llàstima és que la seva sempre agradable presència va durar poc i després ha acabat on tots ja sabem i com sabem. Cal dir que aquesta unitat ha sigut sotmesa a un exhaustiu procés de neteja, el seu estat exterior aleshores ja era desolador, i només feia 5 mesos que l'havien pre-jubilat.
[ESP] La 440 131M después de muchos meses de haberse ido, volvió a pisar la que durante muchos años fue su línea. En septiembre del año 2008, esta veterana volvía a los andenes de la estación de Vic, pero en este caso por un trabajo bien diferente al que había hecho hasta hacía tiempo atrás. Su nueva tarea durante aquella época fue la de hacer pruebas de Tren Tierra hasta Ripoll, y más adelante en el Transpirenaico. La lástima es que su siempre agradable presencia duró poco y después ha acabado donde todos ya sabemos y como sabemos. Cabe decir que esta unidad ha sido sometida a un exhaustivo proceso de limpieza, su estado exterior entonces ya era desolador, y sólo hacía 5 meses que la habían pre-jubilado.
[ENG] The 440 131M rests in the platform 4 of station of Vic, in september 2008. Making a test train soil to Ripoll.
Who Wants to be a Self-driving Car? is a data driven trust exercise that uses augmented reality to help people empathize with self-driving vehicle systems. We built an unconventional driving machine that lets people use real-time, three-dimensional mapping and object recognition, displayed in a virtual reality headset to navigate through space.
Credit: tom mesic
The Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
The Rietberg Museum is a museum in Zürich, Switzerland, displaying Asian, African, American and Oceanian art. It is the only art museum focusing on non-European art and design in Switzerland, the third-largest museum in Zürich, and the largest to be run by the city itself. In 2007 it received approximately 157,000 visitors.
The Rietberg Museum is situated in the 17-acre (69,000 m2) Rieterpark in central Zürich, and consists of several historic buildings: the Wesendonck Villa, the Remise (or "Depot"), the Rieter Park-Villa, and the Schönberg Villa. In 2007 a new building designed by Alfred Grazioli and Adolf Krischanitz was opened – the addition of this largely subterranean building, known as "Smaragd", more than doubled the museum's exhibition space.
FOTO: ROSER VILALLONGA - BARCELONA / 16.09.2018 -
CONCENTRACIÓ AL BORN PER DEMANAR L'ALLIBERAMENT DELS JORDIS QUE PORTEN 11 MESOS EMPRESONATS I DELS PRESOS POLITICS, AIXÍ COM EL RETORN DELS EXILIATS.
L'ACCIÓ QUE S'HA DUT A TERME, CONVOCADA PER L'ASSEMBLEA I ÒMNIUM, HA ESTAT ESCRIURE CARTES ALS PRESOS POLITICS.
Rex amb quatre mesos
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A tribute to Mesonak from the TTV Podcast. Read more at: board.ttvpodcast.com/t/mesonak-master-of-absolute-certain...
Who Wants to be a Self-driving Car? is a data driven trust exercise that uses augmented reality to help people empathize with self-driving vehicle systems. We built an unconventional driving machine that lets people use real-time, three-dimensional mapping and object recognition, displayed in a virtual reality headset to navigate through space.
Credit: moovellab
RAEchel Running's Visual Odyssey
Suenos de Aztlan
Flagstaff Photo Center Aug 6 - Sept 17th, 2010
www.centerforcasasgrandesstudies.com
A sample of the images from the current exhibit. RAEchel's visual images are a combination of documentary, illustrative collages and portraiture. She takes us on a journey to a time before borders . This is a different view of the current border debate; it's purpose is to engage people to learn about the people on the other side of the fence.