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Portable phonograph from around 1899, after Thomas A. Edison.
At the historical Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
Taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200.
The trail of my thoughts veers at times to this mini-series of portable architecture kits, as I like to think of them. Being that architecture is about spatial concerns in addition to the structural ones, this may be pertinent.
The main theme of the mint atelier is not only smallness but also the lozenge shape that I love.
The Lozenge is very handy. It reveals itself here in the contents of my customized pen pouch.
1. Craig Mint Green Craig pen case (or camera bag too)
2. Digital Harinezumi camera (the 1st one, I'm not getting into the pixel-phase)
3. Cohiba Siglo VI humitube (huge cigar, but great fountain pen holder)
4. Tiny handcrafted notebook (Boku brand)
5. Toraya Yokan box with Seal stamp and ink case (lucky horseracing box, seal from HK)
6. Namiki Flexible nib fountain pen Red Namiki ink (finest pen I have ever used, and not expensive either)
Why have a little ultra portable computer when you could have a computer that transports itself?
What I find interesting is how the background reflecting off the glass used as a floor doesn't look much like a reflection. There is a whitish streak on the right side that is clearly a reflection, but the rest of the background highlights don't seem to match up. All the highlights were above the glass.
Product shot of a retro/vintage-styled portable cassette player/radio using only ambient light.
This portable, 1970s-looking tape deck, complete with VU meters, can convert tape cassettes to MP3 files on flash drives or micro SD cards and play back music recorded to or download to these digital media.
Photo taken with an Olympus O-MD EM-10 Mark II with a 50mm f/2 macro legacy lens.
Ian Fleming famously wrote one of his Bond novels on a gold typewriter in a hut in Jamaica, fueled by an abundant supply of martinis and cigarettes (much like Auden).
In a scene in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, Bond is offered more of what Col. Smithers (player by Richard Vernon, see links below) describes as "rather disappointing brandy." M asks what's wrong with it, and Bond replies, "I'd say it's a 30-year-old Fine, indifferently blended ... with an overdose of bon bois".
Col. Smithers then gives Bond a gold bar worth 5,000 pounds to deliver to Goldfinger, which Bond then uses as collateral to win a golf match.
As much as I would like to go back to say 1964, and become a Luddite, technology cannot be ignored.
Which brings elements of this Everyman 007 kit from an imaginary Q-branch, for the film essayist, architect, poet:
1. a silver hip flask with leather embossed Union Jack containing a day's supply of french brandy
2. a gold bar 8gb USB containing atelier ying's 245 design drawings
3. a Cohiba tubos containing a set of wooden golf tees, or a fountain pen and rolled paper.
Note: my design no. 139 for Richard Vernon can be seen in the following link:
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
The checkerboard can be folded with the game pieces locked inside.
You can find instructions on the AppStore for free.
As Listed Buildings go, this one is pretty unusual, as it was only ever in situ for a short length of time.
This structure at Farnborough was built in 1912 and designed to house airships, and could be moved as required. When in use, it would have been covered with some form of canvas.
However, by the end of 1913, this project was abandoned and the framework was recycled, with the lower portion being used in Building Q65 nearby (by 1917) and the upper part incorporated in Building R51 in 1914, also nearby.
Following the closure of the RAE Factory site in 1998, those components were saved and in 2004 re-assembled to show how they once were all those years ago, and now form a centrepiece in the modern business park immediately north of the airfield.
Farnborough, Hampshire
13th July 2022
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My old Game Gear still had some life left in it tonight. So I popped in a new game I hadn't played before, Portable Ninja. The goal of this game is to destroy as many time pieces (called 'minutes', you can even destroy 'hours' if you're good enough) as possible while traveling through a dark tunnel reaching out for a posing voice in the dark. It sounds pretty lame, but the reward for beating it is pretty cool.
I've heard there are tons of alternate endings in this game. Guess I'll have to play through again to see what different outcomes there are. I have other new games to try also, and I don't even feel that I played as well as I could've tonight.
Me on the hold, the circle and the settings.
J on the flash and the trigger.
DJJD as the Ninja
EOS 5D Mark III+EF 24-70mm F4L IS USM
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Seen in Brookfield Place atrium, downtown Toronto. Low overhead as this "road warrior" negotiates a deal over the phone from his "office."
class sample for 2010 proposals
Portable Smiles
(still needs a red / polka dot mushroom hanging down from bottom eyelet and wire at top to hang from a necklace or piece of art)
portable turntable cake, buttercream with fondant accessories, including a fully edible hand-painted velvet underground record sleeve
This is designed to be more handy and compatible in scale for playing with existing classic space sets.
Saw these when we stopped at the gas station yesterday. I was debating on using it for my 366 yesterday. I hope you know that I appreciate your comments and visits. I may not get back to you quickly but I will try my best.
We just happened on what turned out to be the Red Bull Knock Out 2015 race: 1500 motorcrossers on the beach in Scheveningen
Photogenic Powerlight 600 w/16" parabolic and DIY portable AC power supply tripped via Quantum radio slave. Canon 40D, 10-22mm. 1/160 sec @ f/29 - 12 feet. Total cost of DIY power supply - under $400. Girlfriend vacationing in Hungary so you are stuck with me for the model. See Notes for details on build.
Brand: PolyJohn
Model: PJ3
Company: BlueRoom Portable Toilets
Location: Pasco, WA
Date: September 2018
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not all carried at once... u can never have enough light... backup to the backup. all portable and battery powered. no gas generators here. oh, i forgot to include my light modifiers, snoots, gobos, grid spots... soft box. elinchrom octabank...
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Two sculptures by the British artist Julian Opie (b. 1958) inspired by the bell towers of the Aveiro Cathedral (left) and Estrela Basilica, Lisbon. Shown at Opie's exhibition at Galeria Diogo Sequeira in 2020.
Okay, before anyone freaks out, please don’t judge me too hard.
This dolly abomination absolutely saved my grade and my sanity.
Back in 200? (2007-2008?) I was pursuing a bachaelors degree in art at a local university. I was in an upper division Art History class with a professor notorious for high expectations and harsh grading. Like any other “400 level” class there was a very large research paper project that was going to be a major part of our grade in the class. Something like a thirty page research paper.
Now at the time my personal life was rocky, I was close to graduating but gradually taking fewer and fewer classes, and I was working more full-time hours at my retail job. (Burnout. In hindsight I was burning out.)
I didn’t realize I was burning out but I knew, I just KNEW that I didn’t have thirty pages of words inside of me to put on a page. Even though I really enjoyed the class and love the topic: History of Surrealism, I knew I didn’t have thirty pages in me so I had to come up with a creative solution. I needed a muse.
In lieu of writing a thirty page paper, I created this Portable Muse.
I turned in this Muse (and a hand bound book of surrealist art games we had learned about in the class. I had recreated the games and wrote little explanations of them.) I got a really good grade and passed the class.
(I did end up dropping out of school for real and never finished my degree. Oops.)
The muse herself is a Britney Spears head on a Ocean Toys Pamela Love torso mounted on an imitation squirrel paintbrush. She comes in her own labeled tin (a repurposed Surf Benders tin.)
(I have the original head for this torso and had been looking for poor Pamela’s body for a while… then I remembered what I had done to her and found this old Portable Muse in my studio.)