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Nothing else as the 'peak' of a joystick from an old machine against a white (and photoshop cleaned) wall.
My first build for the Summer Joust competition, category Castle Interiors. I know I've built the pit of despair before, but this time I built the machine and did it all more accurately. This is also an entry for MAYnifigure 2016, enjoy!
York Street, Broadstairs, U.K.
It's so long since I saw one of these I had forgotten about them. Now I remember it was quite a pleasing experience to use one - the sound of the strip of stamps being fed out of the slot when you lifted the flap marked 'LIFT", and the crisp way your purchased stamps would tear off at the perforations. Quite often, the effectiveness of the perforations was deficient, and you would lose a corner of your last stamp to the benefit of the next purchaser. These machines were very convenient, being available when post offices were closed, and with the cost of stamps being around a half penny to tuppence they could be bought with the available coinage. Now, a stamp will cost you 64p (eqivalent to 153 old pennies btw) so you can see why stamp machines died out.
These are photos of my entry for the Singer and Craft Magazine "Sewing with Nature" contest.
I planned this skirt around the idea of re-using scraps from older projects (mostly felted wool twills). The main red fabric is a dead stock piece of yardage that had some damage I had to work around. Part of this was fulfilling the idea of "sewing with nature" by making the skirt green (reusing what may have otherwise been wasted materials) as well as using mostly nature fiber (since most of the fabric is wool, and the trimming is cotton).
My design features spotted toadstools, happy hedgehogs, clovers and white polka dots. I wanted to have a woodland story book feel to the final piece with out following a specific fairytale.
I used my Singer CG 500C sewing machine for the majority of the sewing, creating an outline and facial details on my 3 hedgehogs using a dense satin and narrow satin stitch. The rest of my appliques where outlined in a wide button hole stitch to imitate a hand sewn blanket stitch, to add to the story book feel.
The finished piece has the flare of two of my favorite styles: Japanese "zakka" crafts (zakka refering to "this and that" made from scraps) and the Japanese EGL sweet style.
I look forward to wearing this skirt, and I hope you all enjoy seeing my sewing machine art!
Thanks!
Please see this folder www.flickr.com/photos/30455929@N04/sets/72157613376348192/ for more detailed pictures!
So in the middle of June I noticed a bit more activity across the street with the Broadway Subway Project by Emily Carr University. They installed a massive crane back in May and they've now been dropping down some pieces of the first tunnel boring machine for assembly in the excavation by Great Northern Way. According to the Project's website each TBM weighs one million kilograms or the equivalent of 333 elephants. Each machine will also be 6 meters wide and 150 meters long. So they've got lots of work to do before they can actually start tunnelling. To get this shot I was just able to get my lens through some of the security fencing along what was once Thornton Street.
Pour terminer cette série sur cette belle petite ville de Honfleur, je vous invite à faire un petit tour de roue.
Merci à tous pour vos visites, commentaires et favoris.
A closer look at the interior of the Scary Laboratory.
I built the towers separately so they can be rearranged to suit different layouts.
The main section includes the operating table and 'Lightning machine' along with some potion vials and a small generator.
The West tower features the 'Test tube room' filled with odd, bulbous sickly green tubes containing the supposed remains of victims of the Mad scientist.
The East Tower features the generator and control panel for the lightning machine.
I’m thinking the design of the machines prevented price increases. I have seen 50¢ candy machines before, but both prices are locked in.
Multi chambered mining pump. Eureka, Juab county, Utah.
Eureka is an old mining town fighting hard to not become a ghost town and making progress in that direction.
I especially like the robotic / pneumatic neck!
Borrowed an LCA+ from m+b.
Lomo LCA+, Agfa Precisa, Xpro, Double Exposure
Whoop! Little bit early with my second post for the month, but you know what they say the early bird gathers no moss... or something 😉
This vintage Ransomes threshing machine was being demonstrated at the Heddington & Stockley Steam Rally and Country Fair. The old tractor behind was being started up to provide power to the machine via a long belt.
Manufacturer: General Motors Company (GM), Cadillac Motor Car Division, Detroit, Michigan - USA
Type: Series 62 Model 56-6237 2-door Sport Coupé
Production time: October 1955 - October 1956
Production outlet: 26,649
Engine: 5981cc GM Cadillac V-8 365 valve-in-head
Power: 285 bhp / 4.600 rpm
Torque: 542 Nm / 2800 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 181 km/h
Curb weight: 2140 kg
Wheelbase: 129 inch
Chassis: GM C-body box frame chassis with cross-bracing and all-steel body (by Fisher))
Steering: Saginaw powered recirculation ball
Gearbox: GM Controlled Coupling Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic
Clutch: not applicable
Carburettor: Carter WCFB2370S downdraft 4-barrel
Fuel tank: 76 liter
Electric system: Delco 12 Volts 60 Ah
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: Hydrovac powered hydraulic 12 inch Bendix drums
Brakes rear: Hydrovac powered hydraulic 12 inch Bendix drums
Suspension front: independent wishbones, trapezoidal triangle cross bars, sway bar, coil springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: beam axle, longitudinal semi-elliptic leaf springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live semi-floating type
Differential: hypoid 3.07:1
Wheels: 15 inch steel discs
Tires: 8 x 15
Options: Power Pack (2x Carter WCFB2371 4-barrel carburettor (power 305bhp/4.700rpm - torque 542Nm/3.200rpm - top speed 185 km/h), air suspension, anodized gold grille, anodized-gold “Sabre Spoke” wheels (by alcoa/Kelsey Hayes and standard on the Eldorado model), whitewall tires, a gold finish grille, a four-way electrically power bench seat, a signal-seeking Wonderbar AM radio, electrically operated antenna, Air Conditioning, passenger seat belts, climate control system, remote-control trunk release, a Continental spare tire kit, (wide) whitewall tires, an Autronic eye, side-mounted spotlights, fog lamps, “E-Z Eye” tinted glass, two-tone colouring
Special:
- Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company when Henry Ford departed along with several of his key partners and the company was dissolved. With the intent of liquidating the firm's assets, Ford's financial backers, William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland to appraise the plant and equipment prior to selling them. Instead, Leland persuaded them to continue the automobile business using Leland's proven 1-cylinder engine. Henry Ford's departure required a new name, and on August 22, 1902, the company reformed as the Cadillac Automobile Company.
- The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.
- Cadillac was purchased by the General Motors conglomerate in 1909. Cadillac became General Motors' prestige division, devoted to the production of large luxury vehicles. In the United States, the name became a synonym for "high quality", used in such phrases as "the Cadillac of watches," referring to a Rolex. In English usage outside North America, other brands are used in such phrases - usually Rolls-Royce.
- The Cadillac line was also GM's default marque for "commercial chassis" institutional vehicles, such as limousines, ambulances, hearses, and funeral home flower cars. The latter three of which were custom built by aftermarket manufacturers: Cadillac does not produce any such vehicles in factory.
- The original Series 62 was designed by Harley Earl, inspired by the space program and the era of jet engines. For the ’55 models, he introduced its unique rear-deck styling and outrageous new “Shark Fin” tail fins usually called “Rocket-Ship” tail fins.
- The name "DeVille" is from the French "de la ville" or "de ville" meaning "of the town".
- It came standard with knobby, P-38 inspired tail fins, radio, electric windshield washers, heater, leather interior, full carpeting (also in the trunk area), power seats and power windows.
- This Cadillac was built for comfort and not for speed: it’s a real cruiser and could carry six individuals comfortably.
- The 1956 Cadillac Series 62, with its new gadgets like the head lights would turn on at dusk and were also capable of switching from high beam to low beam when they sensed oncoming traffic, was available as this 56-6237 2-door Sport Coupé, as 56-6239DX 4-door Sedan DeVillle (41,732 units built), as 56-6219 4-door Sedan (26,222 units built), as 56-6237DX 2-door Coupé DeVille (24,086 units built), as 56-6267SX 2-door Eldorado Seville Coupé (3,900 units built), as 56-6267S 2-door Eldorado Biarritz Convertible (2,150 units built) and as 56-6267X 2-door Convertible (8,300 units built).
One of our granddaughters received a bubble making machine a few years back.
It was an immediate hit.
Luckily this one had been deactivated for the holiday season. Ponsse timber logging machines are quite the beasts!
First walk out after Christmas and it felt good to be back out even though the weather was meh!
Another name released for publication. And another one...
The machine takes them systematically, one by one.
And the machine has no feelings. It doesn’t care.
As long as the gears keep grinding,
keep rolling.
But every machine has its operator,
the one who pulls the levers, directs it, and decides what it will do
and how it will function.
And I, just a small cog,
am waiting.
For my turn.
Dans la machine
Un autre nom autorisé à la publication. Et encore un autre...
La machine les prend systématiquement, un par un.
Et la machine n’a pas de sentiments. Elle s’en fiche.
Tant que les rouages continuent de moudre,
continuent de tourner.
Mais chaque machine a son opérateur,
celui qui tire les leviers, la dirige et décide ce qu’elle fera
et comment elle fonctionnera.
Et moi, juste un petit rouage,
j’attends.
Mon tour.