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A view from the spinning room at the ropery, Chatham Dockyard. this is the spreader or first scutcher where the bales of fibre (Here it is polypropylene) are opened and placed on the machine, the bundles of fibre are pulled and made into parallel lines by the pins. It goes through a number of machines, and eventually is spun into yarn. the pins are about 16cm long, and are sharp. The fibre does jam, when the safe shear pins shear, and all comes to a stop. As can be seen someone has to get up there to clear the stoppage! Is there dust? Oh yes!!
folded from one sheet - this is the other side of the tiled scallops
More sculptures by Polly can be found at www.polyscene.com
Many modern hoopers make their own hoops out of PVC piping, or polypropylene tubing (known as polypro). The polyethylene hoops, and especially the polyvinyl chloride hoops, are much larger and heavier than hoops of the 1950s. The size and the weight of the hoop affect the style of the hooper. Heavier, larger hoops are more often used for beginner dancers and easier tricks, while lighter, thinner tubing is used for quick hand tricks. These hoops may be covered in a fabric or plastic tape to create more of a visual image and distinguish between the hoop and dancer
The Monobloc chair is a lightweight stackable polypropylene chair, often described as the world's most common.
Based on original designs by the Italian designer Vico Magistretti in 1967, variants of the one-piece plastic chair went into production with Allibert Group and Grossfillex Group in the 1970s. Since then, millions have been manufactured in countries including Russia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Morocco, Turkey, Israel and China. Many design variants of the basic idea exist.
The Monobloc chair is named because it is injection moulded from thermoplastic polypropylene, the granules being heated to about 220 degrees Celsius, and the melt injected into a mold. The gate of the mould is usually located in the seat, so ensuring smooth flow to all parts of the tool. The chairs cost approximately $3 to produce, making them affordable across the world.
Social theorist Ethan Zuckerman describes them as having achieved a global ubiquity:
The Monobloc is one of the few objects I can think of that is free of any specific context. Seeing a white plastic chair in a photograph offers you no clues about where or when you are.
Wikipedia
We had a trip to London in January (yes I know I seem to be behind as usual) with some friends. Main purpose was to see the Ansel Adams exhibition at the Maritime Museum and William Klein ' / Moriyami at Tate Modern. The Adams was outstanding, the Klein I thought provoking and the Moriyami missable!
These were taken around Canary Wharf, I didn't know what the boat (or are they ducks - see comment) invasion is all about. However Shurlee has investigated and found this:
Playing with a toy boat in the bathtub as a kid is an activity that has stood the test of time. So, it's no surprise that media architect Claudio Benghi and artist Gloria Ronchi, of Aether & Hemera, joined forces to develop this awesome take on such a simple concept. Voyage is an extensive journey of illuminated 'paper boats,' floating across the surface of London’s Canary Wharf. The artists say that their artistic vision is to "provoke memories, explore aesthetic interactions, and to elicit feelings of connective human experiences in a required-to-participate audience."
Passers-by can't help but notice the watery landscape filled with the vibrant rainbow rows, which is unusually organized for a fleet of 300. To master the shape, which is formed out of polypropylene sheets, Benghi and Ronchi planned out the perfect geometry and structure by using special computer software. They maintained an organized installation by connecting the boats, with threads, to the ones nearby, and several threads are also anchored to the riverbed. Finally, each design is weighted so as to not tip over in a blur of sinking ships.
Illuminated by LED lights, the lighting creates an enchanting atmosphere where the artists say everyone is invited to "make the transition from reality to imagination." The site-specific installation encourages viewers to think back on those bathtub days when pirates roamed the soapy seas and to experience the freedom of traveling anywhere their imaginatiosn will take them.
I churned out (at least, that is what it felt like) 25 new photos this afternoon, all taken at the Leonabelle Turner Birding Centre on 22 March 2019. This was such a great place to visit - would recommend it to anyone! We were so lucky to have sunshine while we were there, too.
Day 4, 22 March 2019, was a day of birding and also driving from Rockport, where we had stayed for three nights, to Kingsville, where we were going to stay for two nights at the Hampton Inn. All of these 25 photos were taken at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Centre, on the edge of the Port Aransas Nature Preserve. We really enjoyed this birding centre and their new boardwalk and tower. Lots of birds; even a huge Alligator.
From an article published on 2 January 2019:
"Work on a new boardwalk is underway at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center. The old structure was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. A 700-foot replacement will connect the birding center to the Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie’s Pasture. It’s the first new construction to take place in the preserve since the hurricane.
The new boardwalk, which will cost about $670,000, is more than a replacement, according to officials. It will be the first leg of future boardwalks designed to link sections of the preserve for better wildlife viewing.
It is being built of fiberglass-reinforced polypropylene grating rather than wood, which will make it stronger and less likely to be damaged by future storms. Because it is not buoyant, waves will crash through it and not lift it. At 7 feet above the surface, the new boardwalk is 2 feet higher than the previous structure."
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A once in a life time experience!
Location: Place Charles de Gaulle (Étoile) corner Avenue Foch, Paris 16ème quartier Chaillot.
Coordinates: Click on the link to see the exact location:
Reason: 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.
I visited the Arc de Triomphe "Wrapped" two times in this period. This was during an early evening.
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 ]
Weather: Mostly sunny, 18° C
To Listen ♫: Joe Dassin - Aux Champs Elysées (Youtube)
Self-portrait technics: 'Stretched arm' method without self-timer. ("SPAAL")
Después de varios intentos fue que conseguí la toma que titulé "Experiment... and... o..." esta serie fue lo que conseguí en el proceso.// After several attempts I was got it the picture titled "Experiment ... and ... o ...". This series was what I did get it through the process------
Strobist info: Flash Yongnuo YN-560 to 1/4 power, to left side in a DIY softbox( flic.kr/p/qwRrfn ) and 45 degree angle. Reflector of polypropylene white behind the glass and angled 45 degrees to the camera, but parallel to the softbox. +//+ flash Yongnuo YN-560 a lado izquierdo a 1/4 de potencia dentro de un softbox de bricolaje( flic.kr/p/qwRrfn ) y en angulo de 45 grados. Reflector blanco de polipropileno detras del vaso y en angulo de 45 grados con respecto a la cámara, pero paralelo al softbox
Nikon CF Achromat 10X NA 0.25 160/-
Nikon PB-6 Bellow, 93mm (150mm from base lens to sensor plane; with K2 adapter)
--mm, 1/60s, f/--, ISO 100
Flash with diffuser, SB-80DX, manual mode, 1/4 output level and SB-23 manual mode
Diffuser consisting of six sheets of opal polypropylene 5mm thick and 45cm x 62cm.
Focus Stacking: 60 slices, step≈0.007mm / 0.4mm of total step size, Zerene Stacker with PMax method
47330 starts its train of polypropylene bogie tankers away from Partington Junction bound for Baglan Bay on the 28th November 1984. The train would recess into the loop at the nearby Skelton Jn. where the loco would run round before taking the 'branch' line to join the former MSJ&AR to Altrincham and onwards towards Chester.
A colourful trade advert for the many different wrapping films produced by the British Cellophane Company in 1961 - and a reminder of how a proprietary trade mark has entered the language as name for generic uses as in 'cellophane wrapped'. The British Cellophane Company was a joint venture between the French Cellophane SA and British comapny Courtaulds in 1938 to manufacture wrapping films based on viscose technology that had been initated in the late 1890s and that the French company had successfully commercialised in the years before WW1.
BCL set up business in Bridgwater, Somerset, and the factory grew to be an important employer in the town. With other plants in Bristol and Barrow in Furness, BCL also moved into associated film and wrapping materials and processes.
In the late 1990 the company was bought by Innovia and the inevitavle happened with the Bridgwater plant closing in 2005 and the site cleared apart from the Listed Sydenham House, the grounds of which had formed the location for the works.
A recent arrival from Norway, a bendy 2x4 brick (Polypropylene?)
The material looks to be the same as the old bendy trees, there were two kinds, the tough breakable and the bendable ones.
I have known about this brick for a long time, but never had one of my own.
Btw, the other brick I know bends like this is a 1xA brick......
Thanks Fabian!
Polymer Clay, Sterling Silver Wire, Aluminium Tubes, Patinated copper Tubes, Repurposed Plastic - Polypropylene.
M/V Pacific Leader
Brake Horsepower 10,616 BHP
Clear Deck Space 912 m2
Deadweight 5,000 - 5,258 tonnes
Deck Cargo Capacity 2,500 tonnes
General Information
Built: JMU Japan, April 2014
Flag: Singapore
Call Sign: 9V7283
IMO No.: 9648362
Classification: DNV +1A1 Fire fighter(I) Offshore service vessel(Supply) SPS Clean
DYNPOS(AUTR) E0 SF
Dimensions
Length, overall: 97.29 metres
Length, BP: 86.552 metres
Breadth, moulded: 20.00 metres
Depth, main deck: 9.00 metres
Design draft: 6.40 metres @ 4500 DWT
Maximum draft midship: 6.80 metres @ 5263 DWT
GT: 5179 tonnes
NT: 1554 tonnes
Capacities
Deadweight (maximum): 5258 metric tonnes
Clear Deck Area: 912 m2 (57m x 16m)
Deck Strength: 10 t/m2 Aft of frame 30, 5 t/m2 Fwd of frame 30
Deck Cargo: 2500 tonnes
Ship Fuel: 494 m3
Cargo Fuel: 825 m3 @ 100%
Potable Water: 732 m3
Ballast Water: 1146 m3
Drill Water: 382 m3
Brine / DMA / Glycol / Liquid
Mud:
1799 m3, Sg 2.5 t/m3 flash point above 60°C.
NLS(Noxius Liquid Substances)
Drilling Brine: 1034 m3
Dry Bulk: 340.8 m3, Sg 2.6 t/m3 - 5 tanks
Ship's Stores: Freezer (-25°C.) - approximately 31 m3
Cold Room (+4°C.) - approximately 26 m3
Provisions store - approximately 52 m3 ~ 12°C
Machinery
Main Engines: 4 x 1,980 kW = 7,920 kW (10,616 BHP) @ 720 rpm, MAN Diesel & Turbo
6L27/38 TIER II compliant
Propulsion: 2 x 2,500 kW (2 x 3,351.21 BHP) Inovelis POD GE, Azimuth
Bow Thrusters: 3 x 965 kW (3 x 1,294 BHP) electric motor driven tunnel type, CPP, frequency
controlled
Emergency Generators: 1 x 365 kW @1800 rpm / 450V / 3ph / 60Hz (also harbour generator), TIER II
compliant
Deck Machinery
Tuggers: Rolls Royce Brattvaag 2 x 10 t @ 0 - 20 m/min, capacity 240 m of 20 mm dia.
wire each , electric drive
Capstans: Rolls Royce Brattvaag 2 x 10 t @ 0 - 15 m/min, vertical type warping head,
electric drive
Windlass: Rolls Royce Brattvaag 2 x combined mooring winch/anchor windlasses
Cable lifter, mooring drum and warping end electric drive
Duty on cable lifter nominal 11.9 t @ 0 - 12 m/min, max pull 17.8 t
Mooring drum, declutchable rope drum with band brake, dia. 530 mm, flange
dia. 1360 mm, drum length 600 mm, stowing capacity 270 m of 52mm dia
polypropylene 8 strand rope, duty on 1st layer 12 t @ 0 - 12 m/min, light line @
0 - 40 m/min
Fixed warping end on drum shaft, dia. 560 mm, length 500 mm, approximately
11 t pull
Bow Mooring: See windlass. Roller type chain stopper with lashing arrangement for dia. 50
mm K3 chain cable.
Smit Towing Bracket: 1 x 200 t
Crane Capacity: Heila 1 x 5t @ 15 metres radius, knuckle boom crane
Electronics
Main Radar: Furuno FAR-2837S-D ARPA Radar, S Band, 23.1"
Auxiliary Radar: Furuno FAR-2817-D ARPA Radar, X Band, 23.1"
Auto Pilot: Tokyo Keiki PR6344A-22
Gyro Compass: 3 x Tokyo Keiki TG-8000/8500 Type S
Magnetic Compass: Tokyo Keiki SH - 165 A1 Reflector Type
Echo Sounder: Furuno FE-700, dual frequency 50Hz and 200Hz
DGPS : Furuno GP-150
Anemometer : 2 x Gill WindObserver 2
Speed Log: Furuno Doppler Speed Log DS-80
Communications: Furuno MF-HF (SSB) Transceiver integrated with DSC/Watch Receiver.
Furuno Inmarsat-C (no.1) - Felcom 18 (Integrated with EGC)
Furuno Inmarsat-C (no.2) - Felcom 18
Watch System: Furuno BRR-500
Navtex Receiver: Furuno NX-700A
Weather Fax: Furuno FAX-410
Satellite Communication: FBB: Sailor 500
VSAT: Sailor 900
AIS: Furuno FA-150
Satellite Navigation: Furuno GP150
Voyage Data Recorder(VDR): Furuno VDR VR-3000
VHF: Furuno FM-8900S Semiduplex VHF
Electronic Chart Display: 1 set - Furuno FMD-3300
VRU: SMC IMU-007
BNWAS: Furuno BR-500
I have found a way to fold a lot of different patterns with hexagons,octagons,triangles, etc. If you see my latest works you'll understand what I want say.
This fold with some more iterations (angled waterbombs) added
or a neater nested girder
From one sheet. Just folded, no cuts or glue
more paper and origami sculpture here: www.polyscene.com
This KAPSA box camera was made in Brazil by DFV starting in the early 1950s, based on many box designs produced all around the globe since the 1930s. Initially made of compression molded Bakelite, the material was replaced by the late 1950s by Polypropylene, like in this example. It looks very much like Bakelite, but is shatterproof.
It measures about 10 x 8 x 12 cm.
English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) Class 37/7 1,750hp Co-Co diesel No. 37895 (ex-D6819, 37283, blt. English Electric Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns, Darlington, Co Durham, 06/62)
6V20 Humber Oil Refinery-Baglan Bay Polypropylene tanks with Class 59/1 No. 59102 Village of Chantry on an empty iron ore service to Margam
Newport station, Monmouthshire, South Wales
October 26th, 1998
1600 x 1050
Playmobil was designed in 1974 in Germany by Hans Beck, looking for an economic range of toys to face the 1974 oil crisis. The solution? Small toys! Although a toy, it was designed in a rationalist manner proper to Modern design, considering aspects as modularization, standardization and interchangeable parts. So was the color pallete. Originally produced by the Brandstäter Group in Germany, this specimen was made by Trol in Brazil. Made of ABS and Polypropylene (hair) plastics.
Doesn't time fly when you are having fun, and this week I'm celebrating April 1972 when I started off in business on my own and continued till I retired in 1990. At one time I had two drivers and three trucks but it was hard to make money as I did a lot of fluctuating seasonal work and continued to pay my staff. My biggest customer was NVT Motorcycles at Shenstone where I delivered mostly Easy Rider Mopeds but did some Norton Commando 850's as well. I also delivered for GEC Measurements and then when they moved to Stone GEC Meters. Also did agri-chemicals for RHM at Fradley to the farms, but what started me off was a contract delivering polythene and polypropylene bags for GSP Packaging in Fancy Walk which was mostly for Marks and Spencer and which took me around all those on the corner victorian red-brick hosiery mills especially in the East Midlands. We did a lot to Scotland too and you can see from the job slip I filled in that one day it was a whopping 676 miles in one day but I bettered that with a 720. No log-book of course and it was hard work and very long days as the Diesel Yorke engined Ford Transit only did 52 mph. Maybe had I been more business-minded I could have made a decent success of it but instead of buying a second van straightaway I treated myself to something I had always dreamed of owning and that was an E-Type Jaguar 3.8 which was quite something at 24 and I'm not kidding you it did a lot more than 52 mph.
The slip on the right to Widnes, Liverpool and Nelson was my first as a contractor and it was a nice easy day.
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Check out some of my favourite items below!
Bonsoni Kendall Orange Lampshade Made of Polypropylene with Marbled Stone B+ase
Bonsoni Kendall White Lampshade Made of Polypropylene with Marbled Stone B+ase
Bonsoni Kendall Lampshade in Chrome Steel with Base in White Marbled Stone and Floor Protection
Bonsoni Kendall Orange Lampshade Made of Polypropylene with Marbled Stone Base and Floor Protection
Bonsoni Kendall White Lampshade Made of Polypropylene with Marbled Stone Base and Floor Protection
Done. Cut and scored on a Craft ROBO “Jr.” The cardstock was much more difficult to insert together because the friction of paper is significantly higher than the polypropylene.
Next, Phillip…
OOAK London Mist Imogen wearing LIPSTICK "Ribbon Dress" created by Yuko Stevens. You can visit her lovely etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/yukostevens. Great doll items at great prices. :)
This scene from around 1989 shows a “Sinclair C5” road vehicle parked outside a branch of “Woolworths” at the corner of St. Luke’s Lane and Newhaven High Street - a sight unlikely to ever be repeated.
WOOLWORTHS
The Newhaven branch was built new in 1952 and ceased trading at close of business, 5.30pm, on Saturday 3rd January 2009. The brand went into receivership in December 2008. The owners claim that it failed due to falling sales figures linked to a worldwide credit crisis.
SINCLAIR C5
The Sinclair C5 was a single occupant, low slung, open cockpit pedal-powered electrically assisted tricycle. It was mass produced at the “Hoover” factory in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales alongside their washing machines. The C5’s brief manufacturing period ran from March to August 1985 when production ceased due to low sales. The bodywork, made from polypropylene, is usually white in colour but the one seen here is blue, so quite unusual.
The C5 is widely regarded as one of the worst conceived and least successful British inventions of all time. Its success was hampered by many factors including its miniscule size and lack of detectability on roads used by large lorries, a maximum road speed of around 12 mph, poor range of about ten miles between needing to recharge its battery power source, and the fact that it had no reverse gear. Instead of reversing you had to stop, dismount, pick up the vehicle by hand and turn it around to face the opposite direction. The owners claim that it failed mainly due to adverse publicity from consumer organisations.
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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' is about to tie up at the Carrington wharf, bringing the first shipment for 15 months.
Found just off Route 304 (Yarmouth Bar Road) on the way to a visit to Cape Forchu Lighthouse. Here's a large mass of single monofilament net being stored in a larger knotted polypropylene net. The larger net makes transporting the mono net much easier. The flashy float several dozen yards off the road caught my eye and a short walk revealed the net within a net.
This is another photo taken with my first digital camera, a Kodak DC4800, 3.1MP job that gave me great service until it died after a few years. Moisture penetrating into the electronics through small cracks that developed over time radiating outward from screws in the plastic body caused by stress in the molding process eventually killed it.
DCP-6693-L
Our paths crossed as I was leaving the drug store and she was arriving. Who could resist complimenting her on her sense of style and her cheeky COVID mask? Not I.
She was clearly pleased to have been noticed and readily agreed to a quick street portrait against the windows of the drug store where we were standing. Meet Kya.
Not surprisingly, there was a story behind Kya's mask. I told her about my international Human Family project and she was glad to have me share her photo and story with the project.
Kya is a seamstress and had just acquired a good supply of fabrics when COVID hit, locking down most people's activities. It didn't take her long to realize that she could use her skills and her fabric to contribute to the COVID fight by designing and making masks to keep people safe.
She created a mask design that used 5 layers of spun polypropylene as a virus barrier. She had plenty of this fabric which is used in the health care field but also in protecting seedlings in the community garden where she volunteers.
Soon Kya had her design perfected and began visiting women's shelters to give the masks to women recovering from abusive relationships. "I was a victim of domestic violence myself so I understood many of the issues these women were facing."
Kya, who was protected with transparent gloves and opened her purse to show samoles of her masks, each protected in a ziplock bag. She also had a bag with cards to give out with the masks, explaining what they are made of and how to launder them with organic lavender castile soap.
The quirky moustache? "Oh, I did that for fun. I found it at a children's birthday party store and put it on with Velcro so it can be removed for laundering. I hope it's on straight!" It was.
I invited Kya to share a message with the project. She thought for a moment and said "Give what you can, when you can."
I thanked Kya for using her talents for the good of others and doing it with a cheerful note of humor. The world needs more Kyas.
This is my 873rd submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
You can view more street portraits and stories by visiting The Human Family at www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily
Lots of people ask me what method of diffusion I use for macros lit with the Canon MT24-EX Twin-Lite flash. I regularly change the setup as I experiment with different arrangements, but this is what I'm using at the moment (with the MP-E 65mm).
Each of the two flash-heads is fitted with a Stofen-type diffuser. I then have an additional piece of flexible polypropylene sheet. This is held in place with a couple of elastic bands, to form a slight curve. I cut this from a box that I had some printed stationery delivered in. I have a range of different sizes that I'm experimenting with, but it needs to be large enough to cover the Stofen diffusers.
Undoubtedly, superior diffusion can be obtained with an off-camera speedlight-type hotshoe flash, used with a mini-softbox type arrangement. This needs to be connected to the camera's hotshoe with a cable and held in place over the lens, with a bracket. I have considered this, but as many of my photographic subjects are in foliage or "awkward" locations, I'm sticking with this at the moment.
The other important factors are the camera settings. I always recommend the camera's Manual mode for macro photography with flash. Typically, I would set ISO to between 100 and 200 and shutter speed at around 1/200th of a second or a little slower. Aperture would be at around F11 for 1:1 macro.
I generally use the flash in E-TTL mode. I further control this using the camera’s flash-exposure compensation (FEC) controls. For subject on dark backgrounds, this will generally require up to -1.0 EV and for pale backgrounds, up to +1.0 EV. For “bright white” backgrounds; up to +2.0 EV or a little more may be required. The important thing is to supply just enough flash to give the level of illumination required for the "subject". ISO and shutter speed can be juggled to adjust the background/ambient light levels.
This is the curvetesstwist realised in paper - contained in a box (thanks Gila) and backlit
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