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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.
The 1/6-scale character of Cloë started out with the stage name Khloë K. Koffiny as a drummer for Yasmin, Sasha, and Jade's garage band, "Vagabonds' House." But this head sculpt and the bodies I was pairing it with didn't really work for me, and the looks of the character didn't mesh well with Yas and the gang.
The head sculpt has bounced around among a number of incarnations. Recently I ended up with an "extra" Jiaou 10E body, which I purchased for another project but, duhhh..., I purchased the wrong color.
I tried pairing the misfit body with mistfit Cloë's head and it worked. Well, it worked in an over-the-top (and over-developed) kitschy-cartoonish sort of way.
I didn't really need another "adventure girl" figure, but here she is -- Machine-Gun Cloë!
Cloë is much happier as a stand-alone character -- who totes a Tommy-gun -- than she was as a background member of a girl band.
Head: SuperDuck SDH-019B
Body: Jiaou 10E WS "white skin"
Introducing a new arch: the Sewing Machine. This little arch, probably with a 5 foot opening or more, sits on a bench in Tongue Valley below West Tongue Viewpoint. Cute, isn't it? This is probably the first photograph of it. Laurent Martres saw it first, then I got closer to take a picture. The slight telephoto makes it look closer than it was.
If a neighborhood establishes itself as an art community shouldn't it's entire space, with all of the contents, be art? Including the ATM's??
Here's one of several "enhanced" ATM's located in the Alberta Arts District of Portland, Oregon.
Wellington Street, Ottawa. July 2017
La Machine's Long Ma - a half dragon/half horse as it slowly makes its way down Wellington street in the Parliamentary Precinct.
I think that there were more people present tonight than on any Canada Day celebration.
Tag team giant jackhammer machines tearing out the old Walterdale bridge footings on the North Saskatchewan River.
My custom Ultimate Machine (also known as a useless machine) built using the new Mindstorms EV3. You really have to watch the video to see what it does, otherwise it's just a pretty black box with a switch on it.
Building instructions and the Mindstorms project file can be found on my website: www.truedimensions.com/instructions
The LuuMa EV3 is a bit more elaborate than the typical ultimate machine, featuring 6 different responses for turning the switch off and 2 evasive maneuvers for trying to prevent the switch from being turned on in the first place.
I had a blast building this one, and programming the different responses. Not to mention playing with it once it was complete. I can't wait to put it out at a show and watch people interact with it.
I've been pretty impressed with the EV3, although I have encountered the odd glitch or two with both the hardware and software. Hopefully these get ironed out in future updates.
September 2013
D18033. With the prospect of a war against Nazi Germany becoming more and more likely during the late 1930s, it was decided that a place of safety needed to be found where the Government and military leaders could carry out their vital tasks in the event of an aerial bombardment.
Storage rooms in a London basement under some Government buildings were therefore hastily converted into office and living accommodation where the Prime Minister and his staff could work in safety. These became known as the Cabinet War Rooms and they are now open to the public as a permanent museum and memorial to wartime leader Winston Churchill.
Amongst the many artefacts on display is this German four rotor Enigma cipher machine.
Monday, 26th March, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
This is not my usual sort of thing to photograph but last September I had trekked to the head of Loch Tarsan to photograph an old croft (the ruins can be seen in the background) and found this old, rusted piece of equipment. I'm assuming that it is an old agriculture machine but I suppose that it could have been left over from the dam construction (Loch Tarsan is formed by a hydro-dam) or maybe forestry uses.