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My City Bird Suitcase picture is used in The Travel Tips section on this website:
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Making it All Fit Together!
City Bird Logo Samsonite Special Edition Crew-Suitcase
City Bird Samsonite Worldproof Special Edition Epsilon Basic Green !NEW!***Crew-Suitcase*** with CTB Logo.
Suitcase made for and only used by CITY BIRD CREW, no more available. Stil new in Box.
Outside dimensions: 72 x 59 x 28 cm / Capacity: 75 l / Color: City Bird Green
Product Description:
• Durable polypropylene shells.
• Aerodynamic suitcases are equipped with a 2-4 Track wheel system for
Optimum flexibility. Turns soundless and stable 360° around.
• Three-point locking for maximum security.
• High gloss or silver hardware, which colour co-ordinates with the case.
• Deep rubber seal resists damp and dust.
• Numberlock with nameletters and info included.
• Includes pull-strap witch you can pull the Suitcase stable, without any problem.
• Inside: 2 sidebags, partition between 2 spaces, stretch-strap to keep clotes together.
• Produced according to the certified ISO 9002 Quality System.
Qualityproof:
• Handles/Straps: 5.000 cycles loaded.
• Droptest: Loaded.
• Wheels: 32.000 m loaded.
• Locks/Zippers: 7.500 x open/close
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
Macro Mondays: The Periodic Table
Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a lustrous transition metal with a silver colour, low density and high strength. It is highly resistant to corrosion in sea water, aqua regia, and chlorine.
Titanium was discovered in Cornwall, Great Britain, by William Gregor in 1791 and named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth for the Titans of Greek mythology.
The element occurs within a number of mineral deposits, principally rutile and ilmenite, which are widely distributed in the Earth's crust and lithosphere, and it is found in almost all living things, rocks, water bodies, and soils.
The metal is extracted from its principal mineral ores by the Kroll and Hunter processes.
The most common compound, titanium dioxide, is a popular photocatalyst and is used in the manufacture of white pigments. Other compounds include titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4), a component of smoke screens and catalysts; and titanium trichloride (TiCl3), which is used as a catalyst in the production of polypropylene.
This example is my titanium Breitling watch.
This watch has had nearly 15 years of continuous wear - even titanium is showing the signs when seen at macro.
Arcadia Lost Series
ink and James River Water on polypropylene vellum
17.5 x 35 inches
2018
Private collection
Milano Design Week
Euroluce 2023
A combo of a lamp I liked a lot, kalled "Kabuki" and designed by the Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani, conceived as a unique piece, produced with an injection mould, making possible to obtain a woven structrue with a notable filgree or embroidery look, a perforated surface through which the light is diffused, enlightening a great chiaroscuro effect.
(Produced by the Italian Company Kartell)
To the right of my diptych: a suspended Installation, sort of wasteland planet, artistically made by recycling waste litter of plastics, with an inner light producing a nice effect. This here has been seen outside the stand by Arper, presenting its headline "Find beauty in Reinvention", with a new line of chairs, preminently made with recycled detergent bottles in PP (Polypropylene) mixed with a bit of new PVC material and strenghtened with glass fibres.
(Created by the Italian Company Arper, best view by zooming it)
Sustainability has been one of the main keywords of this new edition of the biennial Fair and Exhibition EuroLuce.
This to the left is the first of a trilogy of photos that will illustrate the interior design items by Kartell that I liked the most and will be added in the next days at my new Album (in progress) entitled
"Anteprima Design Week" on my selection of the novelities and products/companies I liked the most while visiting the "Salone del Mobile" and the biennial Exhibition/Fair "EuroLuce 2023".
Entry at the Flickr Socialmedia TO on "Light and Shadows", May 2023 : www.flickr.com/groups/2684497@N24/discuss/721577219186248...
Ref._MG_9038-9040 SK Waste planet- Kartell PVC filigree Kabuki lamp_rev. B&W rendered_VM DEF
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Just another frame of Rhody's only operating first generation geep.
With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
Here they are working out across Roger Williams Ave. as they pull and spot the five stub ended tracks inside the facility. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
After crossing Roger Williams Ave. they are now inside the plant that features five stub ended tracks. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
Unknown artist, circa 2005.
Focus stacked, 12 images. Shot with two off camera Leica SF60 strobes placed at 45 degrees front left back right side of camera diffused through white corrugated polypropylene sides of a 24 inch Foldio light box. Triggered with Leica SF C1 remote.
Posted in The Flickr Lounge weekly challenge (metallic)
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, seen from Avenue Foch is bathed in the evening sun light.
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
This bright orange polypropylene rope was the ideal subject for the theme 'synthetic'.
Also known as poly rope or poly hemp, it is widely used in boat yards as it floats and is does not rot or swell. It is used here for fastening boats to a silver painted bollard in Port Erin harbour, Isle of Man.
Trying out a new photo setup using a polypropylene sheet and a plastic storage box. Back of scene is towards window, with a white card to bounce light onto the model.
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
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L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, een tijdelijk kunstwerk voor Parijs, was van zaterdag 18 september tot en met zondag 3 oktober 2021 16 dagen te zien. (...) Het was verpakt in 25.000 vierkante meter recyclebaar polypropyleenweefsel in zilverblauw en met 3.000 meter rood touw.
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L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
Victor Vasarely [Stina Lanneskog], Supernovae [Pipig], 1959-61, Signed VASARELY | SUPERNOVAE | 152 x 242 | 1959–61 [IKEA] on the reverse, Oil paint on canvas [Place mats in polypropylene], 60 x 37 3/8 [14 ½ x 14 ½] in - 152.5 x 96 [36.8 x 36.8] cm, Victor Vasarely Múzeum, Pécs
Focus stack 4 images. Shot with two off-camera flashes (Leica SF60/Leica SF C1 trigger). Flash A positioned above subject, modified with modified with MagMod MagGrid. Flash 2 behind polypropylene scrim, modified with blue filter.
Amie Oliver, Ink wash on polypropylene vellum, 23 x 35 inches, 2018
original art or prints are available via www.saatchiart.com/Amieo
Taken on 1 May 2006 and uploaded 29 January 2025.
I don't remember taking this photo or the reason(s) for taking it...I do remember reading, more recently. at least 2 books featuring blue rope, because it was "note-worthy"...probably crime novels, with the rope standing out in the investigation and being a factor in the (dramatic) resolution of whatever mystery was at hand.
Of course, the length of rope will have been wound and knotted innocently, until it is proven otherwise. Indeed, is it even rope, if it is made of polypropylene ? Can rope know doubt ? Who knows, not me.
[6651a]
A polypropylene mesh orange bag. Through the mesh is a print on the other side of the bag of a Valencia Orange slice.
Polypropylene "is a thermoplastic polymer, meaning it can be repeatedly melted and reshaped, making it a versatile material for various applications. Polypropylene is one of the most commonly used plastics worldwide."
Image measures 2 1/2" across
Nikon D5500 with Helios 44-2 58mm and 12mm extension tube.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: Plastic
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
Last preparations on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris yesterday morning.
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a temporary artwork for Paris, was on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. (...) It was wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped était visible durant 16 jours, du samedi 18 septembre au dimanche 3 octobre 2021. Le projet fut réalisé en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) et en coordination avec la Ville de Paris. Il reçoit aussi le soutien du Centre Pompidou. L'Arc de Triomphe était empaqueté dans 25 000 mètres carrés de tissu recyclable en polypropylène argent bleuté et avec 3 000 mètres de corde recyclable en polypropylène rouge.
source: christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/arc-de-triomphe-wrapped/
Found in front of the grocery store about a year ago. This is clear, transparent, colorless. I like it more than this year's twine, which is red.
Probably polypropylene.
The lady who works in that department said a Christmas tree baler is like a hay baler. I told her maybe I'd seen a hay baler on Lassie.
For Macro Mondays, String.
Conrail OIPI (Oak Island, NJ to Conway/Pittsburgh, PA) pauses at the Kyle switch before working in Manville Yard. A scale test car occupies the track next to the main. The track occupied by OIPI is now a siding and a new main track has since been added to left of the train. The storage tracks in Manville yard include several cuts of cars destined to Union Carbide in Piscataway. It was not unusual to see 2-3 tracks full of covered hoppers and flat cars carrying Union Carbide's unique hopper vans and van boxes which hauled various grades and blends of polyethylene and polypropylene.
Conrail OIPI-5:
CR 5639 SD60I
NS 7117 GP60
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Wrapping of the Reichstag, a light installation lit the building for ten days.
The Wrapped Reichstag was an art project by artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude. As part of the project, which took from 1971 to 1995 to complete, the Reichstag building in Berlin was completely covered in aluminium-coated polypropylene fabric from 24 June to 7 July 1995. It is one of the most famous works of art in public space.
The wrapping of the Reichstag was also ‘the biggest event since the fall of the Berlin Wall’ in terms of tourism. Gerhard Buchholz, then spokesperson for Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH (BTM).
Just a wide view of this scene that is close to home but had long been on my 'to do' list.
With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
After crossing Roger Williams Ave. they are now inside the plant that features five stub ended tracks. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
Inspired by our friend Morrie Piersol’s description of surviving a nautical disaster on the Icelandic Sea. He was on watch when a weather event flipped the yacht they had sailed around the world. An Icelandic research teach rescued them after forty hours of bailing water from their vessel.
Ink wash on polypropylene vellum, 2012, from the Heaven, Earth and Sea Series, signed and dated at lower right, inscribed with title in pencil to upper center, framed below glass.
Private collection
Monochrome Monday - Rhody Geep Edition
For the first snow of the season that finally stuck I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
After crossing Roger Williams Ave. they are now inside the plant that features five stub ended tracks. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
Arcadia Lost Series
(For Santa Rosa)
ink and James River Water on polypropylene vellum
11.5 x 35 inches
2018
An occasional traffic on the Manchester Ship Canal is liquified propylene gas for the polypropylene plant at Carrington. This is normally delivered from Stanlow refinery by pipeline, but when that has a maintenance shutdown the gas comes in by ship.
Here LPG tanker 'Sefarina' passes Cadishead with the first shipment for 15 months.
Petrochemicals have been produced on the Carrington site since 1949. The main output from this plant was polypropylene and polyethylene .
Formerly operated by Shell the Carrington site is part of the LyondellBasell Industries Group of Companies which was formed at the end of 2007 by the combination of Basell Polyolefins and Lyondell Chemicals. The majority of the chemical plant here has subsequently been demolished with the LyondellBasell presence vastly reduced.
Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped" 18/09/2021 20h08
One of the biggest projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude they both ever made. The Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped" could be seen from September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Photo taken on a Saturday evening of the car-free weekend.
Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped"
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is an artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 2021 that wrapped the Parisian Arc de Triomphe in a silver-blue fabric.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their wrapping of public monuments, including Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and The Gates in New York. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, one of their largest works, will use 25,000 square meters of silver-blue fabric fastened with 3,000 meters of red rope. Its polypropylene fabric.
Christo first thought of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe when he lived nearby in 1961. Actual planning began in 2018 in preparation for a Pompidou Center exhibition. While the show will display documentation of the artists' The Pont-Neuf Wrapped, Christo wanted to work "beyond the exhibition". Governmental approval came easily in comparison to the waits for their prior projects. Initially slated to run for two weeks in April 2020, the work was first delayed until September to accommodate the nesting of kestrel falcons who nest in the monument during the spring and then delayed until September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The work will be self-financed through sales of project documentation, including drawings and models. It will be the first work in their signature style since Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009.
On May 31, 2020 France 24 announced, the project in Paris will be - in accordance with Christo's wishes - continued.
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.
[ Wikipedia 2021 ]
KeepCups are an Australian made re-usable coffee cup.
There is enough plastic in 28 disposable cups to make one small KeepCup!
KeepCups come in many sizes, this cup measures just under 3".
Since June 2009 over eight million KeepCups have been sold.
In this time approximately 5 trillion disposable cups have been made and discarded to landfill !!!
"The KeepCup and all its components are BPA and BPS free! The cup itself and the lid are made from polypropylene. Polypropylene #5 is the safe food grade plastic."
"KeepCups mission is to encourage the use of reusable cups. We do this by delivering sustainably made products that are fit for purpose in the context of a positive global campaign that strives to make a difference to how we think about convenience culture.
KeepCups are now sold in 65 countries around the world."
Contest being held at
Fashion Doll Collector Photo Contest Group .
The theme for the 8th round is: From Head to Toe
Show us your doll(s) in a full body color look. Your doll(s) have to wear one color (this can be in different shades) from head to toe. I want to see a full body photo this time.
Whom better to model a head-to-toe blue outfit than my blue haired Sersi? ;)
From # 8002 locomotives of this seria were designated as the TEM2U (U means improved).
The long story of TEM2 locomotives started when a small number of the ALCO RSD-1 were obtained by USSR as the Lend-Lease shipments during WW2. They were designated as Da20 (Да20) type of locomotives of Soviet Railways. TE1 (ТЭ1), the first Soviet diesel locomotive built in big series at 1947-50 (298 ones) was in fact the non-lycensed copy of the american ALCO RSD-1 locomotive but in metric scale. TE1 were not excellent as the mainline locomotives, so its next variation, TEM1, were intended to use as shunting locomotives. They were developed on the base of TE1 locomotive and still had many elements of original ALCO RSD-1 design, but with modifications - bogies were significantly improved (especially the technology of its fabrication), also the D50 diesel (metric variant of the ALCO 539T used in TE1 and TE2) was modified to 2D50 (2Д50) version. TEM2 was developed as upgrade of the TEM1 with some modifications made including improved 1200 hp diesel PD1M (ПД1М) - further development of the 1000 hp. 2D50, further modernized bogies with additional coiled springs included etc.
TEM2 (ТЭМ2) shunting locomotives were built routinely at 1960-90 yy primarily by the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant (JSC BMZ located in Bryansk, Russia; Брянский машиностроительный завод). With 6225 total production, 1000 were built in Soviet Ukraine by the Voroshilovgrad Locomotive works, (Ворошиловградский тепловозостроительный завод, ВЗОР, now the Luhansk Locomotive works).
The logo "СИБУР" on this locomotive means it is privately owned by the Petrochemical transport company (ООО «Нефтехимическая транспортная компания»; ООО «НХТК»), that is joint venture of the SIBUR Holding and SG-Trans. The SIBUR (СИБУР Холдинг; PJSC SIBUR Holding) is the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia founded in 1995 and headquartered in Moscow. The company purchases hydrocarbons and processes them into plastics, rubbers and other high value added products. The Group sells its petrochemical products on the Russian and international markets in two business segments: Olefins & Polyolefins (polypropylene, polyethylene, BOPP films, etc.) and Plastics, Elastomers & Intermediates (synthetic rubbers, EPS, PET, etc.).
... ink jet printed on Yupo "paper" (polypropylene) and allowing the ink to run,
then rephotographed.
Braunschweig, Germany
[File Photo: Saturn's orange moon Titan peeks from behind two of Saturn's rings. Small, battered Epimetheus, another of Saturn's 62 moons, appears just above the rings.]
Story details: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan.
This is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than Earth.
A small amount of propylene was identified in Titan's lower atmosphere by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). This instrument measures the infrared light, or heat radiation, emitted from Saturn and its moons in much the same way our hands feel the warmth of a fire.
Propylene is the first molecule to be discovered on Titan using CIRS. By isolating the same signal at various altitudes within the lower atmosphere, researchers identified the chemical with a high degree of confidence. Details are presented in a paper in the Sept. 30 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
"This chemical is all around us in everyday life, strung together in long chains to form a plastic called polypropylene," said Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and lead author of the paper. "That plastic container at the grocery store with the recycling code 5 on the bottom -- that's polypropylene."
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Arcadia Lost Series
(Baltic Sea Series)
ink and Baltic Sea Water on polypropylene paper
6 x 15 inches
2018
Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped" 18/09/2021 19h48
One of the biggest projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude they both ever made. The Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped" could be seen from September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Photo taken on a Saturday evening of the car-free weekend.
Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped"
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is an artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 2021 that wrapped the Parisian Arc de Triomphe in a silver-blue fabric.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their wrapping of public monuments, including Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and The Gates in New York. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, one of their largest works, will use 25,000 square meters of silver-blue fabric fastened with 3,000 meters of red rope. Its polypropylene fabric.
Christo first thought of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe when he lived nearby in 1961. Actual planning began in 2018 in preparation for a Pompidou Center exhibition. While the show will display documentation of the artists' The Pont-Neuf Wrapped, Christo wanted to work "beyond the exhibition". Governmental approval came easily in comparison to the waits for their prior projects. Initially slated to run for two weeks in April 2020, the work was first delayed until September to accommodate the nesting of kestrel falcons who nest in the monument during the spring and then delayed until September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The work will be self-financed through sales of project documentation, including drawings and models. It will be the first work in their signature style since Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009.
On May 31, 2020 France 24 announced, the project in Paris will be - in accordance with Christo's wishes - continued.
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.
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I'm really proud to introduce my full Vanessa & Ursula dolls collection (The Little Mermaid Walt Disney).
Really long work to have this full collection, and lot of patience.
Vanessa 17" (The Little mermaid) in classic dress is full repaint by the amazing artist Lulemee and reroot by Laurie Lenz.
Vanessa Wedding dress 17" (The Little Mermaid) is full repaint by the amazing artist and friend Verirrtes Irrlicht. Vanessa Wedding dress is full reroot by me (Vanessa Ariel Wonderland) with Devil's food Nylon Hair.
Vanessa 17" in Dark mermaid is full repaint by Verirrtes Irrlicht and full reroot and restyle by me with Polypropylene Tortured and Exotic hair (Vanessa Ariel Wonderland). I really would love since long time ago to have this Vanessa version :)
Vanessa 17" (The Little Mermaid) in pre-wedding dress is full repaint by the amazing artist and friend The Ugliest Wife. She is full reroot with Chocolate Fudge and Tinsels in nylon Hairs. She has a really tiny curls...
Vanessa The little Mermaid Classic doll wears Maleficent Designer dress and she is full reroot by me with Chocolate Fudge Nylon Hairs.
Ursula designer doll by Disney Store is full reroot by me (Vanessa Ariel Wonderland) with Diamond Nylon Hairs.
Ursula Fairytale Designer doll By Disney Store
Vanessa is full repaint by Verirrtes Irrlicht, she wears Ursula Designer dress.
Vanessa (The Little mermaid) Classic doll set.
History
The use of ropes for hunting, pulling, fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to prehistoric times.
It is likely that the earliest "ropes" were naturally occurring lengths of plant fibre, such as vines, followed soon by the first attempts at twisting and braiding these strands together to form the first proper ropes in the modern sense of the word. The earliest evidence of suspected rope is a very small fragment of three-ply cord from a Neanderthal site dated 50,000 years ago.
This item was so small, it was only discovered and described with the help of a high power microscope. It is slightly thicker than the average thumb-nail, and would not stretch from edge-to-edge across a little finger-nail.
There are other ways fibres can twist in nature, without deliberate construction.
A tool dated between 35,000 and 40,000 years found in the Hohle Fels cave in south-western Germany has been identified as a means for making rope.
It is a 20 cm (8 in) strip of mammoth ivory with four holes drilled through it.
Each hole is lined with precisely cut spiral incisions.
The grooves on three of the holes spiral in a clockwise direction from each side of the strip.
The grooves on one hole spiral clockwise on one side, but counter-clockwise from the other side.
Plant fibres have been found on it that could have come from when they fed through the holes and the tool twisted, creating a single ply yarn. Fiber-making experiments with a replica found that the perforations served as effective guides for raw fibers, making it easier to make a strong, elastic rope than simply twisting fibers by hand spiral incisions would have tended to keep the fibres in place.
But the incisions cannot impart any twist to the fibres pulled through the holes.
Other 15,000-year-old objects with holes with spiral incisions, made from reindeer antler, found across Europe are thought to have been used to manipulate ropes, or perhaps some other purpose.
They were originally named "batons", and thought possibly to have been carried as badges of rank.
Impressions of cordage found on fired clay provide evidence of string and rope-making technology in Europe dating back 28,000 years.
Fossilized fragments of "probably two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm [0.28 in] diameter" were found in one of the caves at Lascaux, dating to approximately 15,000 BC.
The ancient Egyptians were probably the first civilization to develop special tools to make rope.
Egyptian rope dates back to 4000 to 3500 BC and was generally made of water reed fibres.
Other rope in antiquity was made from the fibres of date palms, flax, grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair. The use of such ropes pulled by thousands of workers allowed the Egyptians to move the heavy stones required to build their monuments. Starting from approximately 2800 BC, rope made of hemp fibres was in use in China.
Rope and the craft of rope making spread throughout Asia, India, and Europe over the next several thousand years.
From the Middle Ages until the 18th century, in Europe ropes were constructed in ropewalks, very long buildings where strands the full length of the rope were spread out and then laid up or twisted together to form the rope.
The cable length was thus set by the length of the available rope walk. This is related to the unit of length termed cable length. This allowed for long ropes of up to 300 yards (270 m) long or longer to be made.
These long ropes were necessary in shipping as short ropes would require splicing to make them long enough to use for sheets and halyards.
The strongest form of splicing is the short splice, which doubles the cross-sectional area of the rope at the area of the splice, which would cause problems in running the line through pulleys.
Any splices narrow enough to maintain smooth running would be less able to support the required weight.
Rope intended for naval use would have a coloured yarn, known as the "rogue's yarn", included in the layup.
This enabled the source to be identified and to detect pilfering.
Leonardo da Vinci drew sketches of a concept for a ropemaking machine, but it was never built.
Remarkable feats of construction were accomplished using rope but without advanced technology:
In 1586, Domenico Fontana erected the 327 ton obelisk on Rome's Saint Peter's Square with a concerted effort of 900 men, 75 horses, and countless pulleys and meters of rope.
By the late 18th century several working machines had been built and patented.
Some rope is still made from natural fibres, such as coir and sisal, despite the dominance of synthetic fibres such as nylon and polypropylene, which have become increasingly popular since the 1950s.
Nylon was discovered in the late 1930s and was first introduced into fiber ropes during World War II.
Indeed, the first synthetic fiber ropes were small braided parachute cords and three-strand tow ropes for gliders, made of nylon during World War II.