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A 1950`s Plymouth Belvedere.
Left in a workshop near Dyal Singh mansion, The Mall Road, Lahore Pakistan.
new photo from the 'lime plant'
www.out-of-memory.eu/Abandoned_Tour_14/LimePlant_Building...
more from my ABANDONED places tour '14:
www.out-of-memory.eu/Abandoned_Tour_14/Abandoned_Tour_201...
more on my URBEX page:
Machines & Macchiatos is run by the Sydney Machina Social Club in Sydney, New South Wales.
It's a modern motoring club, for all types of Machines, Vintage, Classics, Customs, Rods, Modern Exotics, Motorcycles & more. If you love Ford Mustangs, Porsche 911, Ford GTHO Falcons, Corvettes, Ferrari then head down.
www.sydneymachinasocialclub.org/
For more photos go to www.flickr.com/photos/behindthesteeringwheel/albums
We're down in Coney Island for the usual reasons: it's time to ride the Cyclone, and eat hot dogs and fries from Nathan's, and walk along the boardwalk - which is completely falling apart, what's up with that? - and to see Starshine Burlesque's installment of Burlesque on the Beach at the Freak Show.
As night falls, the landmark Parachute Jump is a skeletal dark tower by the sea. It's painted bright red, but you wouldn't know that in this light.
MGK is open about his use of cannabis and he has claimed in many interviews that he smokes daily, describing it as a "source of happiness and a way people can feel a little more love" He has frequently mentioned cannabis references within sources of his music and rap persona, making it a forefront of both his rap and personal character
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The Sky, QLD, Australia.
I watched as this rainbow grew from a spec to a full bow within 10 minutes. I was going to head out tonight for a sunset, but stayed home and snapped many pics of this beauty from my back yard.
Enjoy.
- Canon 50D.
- ISO 100, f8, 1/8=500 seconds, 35mm.
- Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L Lens.
Processing
- Saturation and Contrast in Photoshop 6.0 and Lightroom 2.2.
About Rainbows
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch.
First sketches and models for the Time Machine, a new interactive art project created by Pataphysical Studios.
In this brainstorm session, each team member sketched out their own ideas, then discussed them with the group, to design our upcoming time travel experience together.
Next, we plan to create a composite design with some of these ideas, to integrate them into a single blueprint.
To be continued ...
View more 'Pataphysical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157623637793277
View our Time Machine slides:
docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y-0SCKxvIOaM8wnz6h9TRl1Ek...
View more Time Machine photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659761749014
Learn more about Pataphysical Studios: pataphysics.us/
Kraków
A tamping machine or ballast tamper is a machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks more durable. Prior to the introduction of mechanical tampers, this task was done by manual labour with the help of beaters. As well as being faster, more accurate, more efficient and less labour-intensive, tamping machines are essential for the use of concrete sleepers since they are too heavy (usually over 250 kg (551 lb)) to be lifted by hand. Whilst also available as a plain tamper with no lifting or lining function this article will focus on the multi function machines.
Early machines only lifted the track and packed the ballast. More modern machines, sometimes known as a tamper-liner or tamping and lining machine, also correct the alignment of the rails to make them parallel and level, in order to achieve a more comfortable ride for passengers and freight and to reduce the mechanical strain applied to the rails by passing trains. This is done by finding places where the sleepers have sunk from the weight of the passing trains or frost action, causing the track to sag. The tamper lifts each sleeper and the rails up, and packs ballast underneath. When the sleeper is laid down again, the sagged rails now sit at the proper level. In cases where frost action has caused adjacent rails to rise higher, ballast tampers can raise rails above their original level to make the line level again. "Lining" rails doesn't involve ballast tamping, it merely ensures the rails are perfectly parallel and straight as possible. Combining tamping and lining into a single machine saves time and money, as only one machine needs to be run over the track to perform both functions.
Canadian artillery crewman holding the custom built Bren Machine Gun that I made for the Sexton II.
Yeah it's a pathetic attempt but honestly it's been a very long time since I worked on weapons (good old days of GW).
Pataphysical Studios is building a Time Machine for our next art exhibit. On a balmy spring afternoon, Drs. Rindbrain and Fabio created more visualizations of what the Time Machine might look like.
We sketched out several ideas for the inside and outside walls, for discussion purposes. On each side of the main screen, we designed round portholes through which we could interact with our guests -- or show scenes from the past or future. Behind each porthole would be a magic box that could feature artifacts from distant times -- or the head of a historical figure, projected onto a ‘life cast’. The rest of the inside walls would be used for other interactive artworks such as the Crazy Clock, which sings quotes about time when you press its big green button.
On the outside walls, we sketched out a Face Box that you could stick your head in to get your picture taken. It would include an Infinity Mirror made of LED strips cycling through the colors of the rainbow, with a camera at the end of this light tunnel. We also sketched out where time wonderboxes could be placed on the side walls, proposing that the left wall focus on the past and the right wall on the future. A graphic timeline across both walls could support that idea.
It was a productive meeting and we look forward to presenting these ideas to our fellow doctors at the next Time Machine meeting.
Fire in the hole!
View more Time Machine photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659761749014
See our brainstorm notes for the Time Machine:
docs.google.com/document/d/1rM9kjOu83Qewh1HwaA2nkzbGdmHb9...
Here’s our overview for the Crazy Clock:
docs.google.com/document/d/18h8uK5v-H3fvonbvJaTYOyvuiDDfv...
View more 'Pataphysical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157623637793277
Learn about Pataphysical Studios: pataphysics.us/
Pataphysical Studios is building a Time Machine for our next art exhibit. On a balmy spring afternoon, Drs. Rindbrain and Fabio created more visualizations of what the Time Machine might look like.
We sketched out several ideas for the inside and outside walls, for discussion purposes. On each side of the main screen, we designed round portholes through which we could interact with our guests -- or show scenes from the past or future. Behind each porthole would be a magic box that could feature artifacts from distant times -- or the head of a historical figure, projected onto a ‘life cast’. The rest of the inside walls would be used for other interactive artworks such as the Crazy Clock, which sings quotes about time when you press its big green button.
On the outside walls, we sketched out a Face Box that you could stick your head in to get your picture taken. It would include an Infinity Mirror made of LED strips cycling through the colors of the rainbow, with a camera at the end of this light tunnel. We also sketched out where time wonderboxes could be placed on the side walls, proposing that the left wall focus on the past and the right wall on the future. A graphic timeline across both walls could support that idea.
It was a productive meeting and we look forward to presenting these ideas to our fellow doctors at the next Time Machine meeting.
Fire in the hole!
View more Time Machine photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659761749014
See our brainstorm notes for the Time Machine:
docs.google.com/document/d/1rM9kjOu83Qewh1HwaA2nkzbGdmHb9...
Here’s our overview for the Crazy Clock:
docs.google.com/document/d/18h8uK5v-H3fvonbvJaTYOyvuiDDfv...
View more 'Pataphysical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157623637793277
Learn about Pataphysical Studios: pataphysics.us/
The minisuper in La Máquina, a town outside Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica. The town is called The Machine because it was home to a huge coffee mill where family growers processed their crops.
La minisuper de La Máquina, un barrio en las afueras de Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica. Antes el pueblo tenia una gran molino de cafe, y por eso se llama La Máquina.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Bognor on Thursday the 22nd. September 1904 to:
Miss G. Moore,
c/o Mrs. Tanner,
Royal William Yard,
Stonehouse,
Devon.
The brief message on the divided back was as follows:
"just arrived here.
A lovely stay.
With love,
N."
The Bathing Machine
Note the bathing machines on the beach.
The bathing machine is a Victorian device that declined in popularity in the first decade of the 20th. century when mixed gender bathing became acceptable.
The machine allowed people (especially women) to enter the water without being seen in their bathing costume by the opposite sex. How times have changed!
There are two modern close-up coloured views of a preserved bathing machine on the pepandtim photostream - if you do a tags search, the codes 54BML98 and 34EAS32 will get you there.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, 55.5 miles (89 km) south-west of London.
The resort was developed by Sir Richard Hotham in the late 18th. century on what was a sandy, undeveloped coastline. It has been claimed that Hotham and his new resort are portrayed in Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon.
The resort grew slowly in the first half of the 19th. century, but grew rapidly following the coming of the railway in 1864.
In 1929 the area was chosen by advisers as a suitable place for King George V to recuperate, which led to its regal suffix, by royal consent.
Butlin's has been present in the town since the early 1930's when an amusement park and zoo were opened. A holiday camp followed in 1960, and this has more recently moved towards hotel accommodation with modern amenities.
The First Female Flight Attendant
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 22nd. September 1904, Ellen Church was born in Cresco, Iowa. She became the first female flight attendant.
After graduating from Cresco High School, Church studied nursing, and worked in a San Francisco hospital. She was a pilot as well as a registered nurse.
Steve Stimpson, the manager of the San Francisco office of Boeing Air Transport (BAT), would not hire her as a pilot, but did pass along her suggestion to put nurses on board aeroplanes to calm the public's fear of flying.
In 1930, BAT hired Church as head stewardess, and she recruited seven others for a three-month trial period.
The stewardesses, or 'Sky Girls' as BAT called them, had to be registered nurses, 'Single, younger than 25 years old; weigh less than 115 pounds [52 kg]; and stand less than 5 feet, 4 inches tall [1.63 m]'.
In addition to attending to the passengers, they were expected to, when necessary, help with hauling luggage, fuelling and assisting pilots to push the aircraft into hangars. However, the salary was good at $125 a month.
Church became the first stewardess to fly. On the 15th. May 1930, she embarked on a Boeing 80A for a 20-hour flight from Oakland/San Francisco to Chicago, with 13 stops and 14 passengers.
Death of Ellen Church
The innovation was a resounding success - the other airlines followed BAT's example over the next few years, but an injury from an automobile accident terminated Church's career after 18 months.
A horse riding accident ended her life on the 22nd. August 1965.