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atelier ying, Mongkok, HK
After 7 days of continuous rain, this is the best outfit I can recommend for the would-be wandering designer.
A heavy-duty ziplock bag not only
keeps moisture out, but with a silica gel beads packet keeps my Moleskine reporter dry so pages don't stick together. The bag folds conveniently after you squeeze the air out and can be tucked into your pants pocket or carried like a purse or held like a furoshiki bag. A Ricoh GRD can be shoved in additional and would still fit well.
Inside are:
1. a see-through ruler
2.Muji pens in my indispensable Asian red and black inks
3. my Chinese seal in a portable plastic case with ink well. $15 custom made in Mongkok or $200 in Tokyo, take your choice but the one in Japan includes the design work and carving of an elderly craftsman on stone. I can design my own logos so I paid the $15.
4. Moleskine Reporter notebook with perforated pages.
5. Traditional soft jelly candies from HK. These candies were a part of my childhood, decades ago. The company now only makes melon and orange flavors but during my entire childhood and adolescence the flavors were banana and coconut which came in a pink box with the soft candies two levels deep and wrapping papers inside to keep them fresh. The banana candies had the most fragrant smell, as strong as sniffing glue.
Would someone please, please post a photo of a box of these candies?
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo
Created with Microsoft Designer AI image creation tool.
PolyJohn PJN III Portable Restrooms
Basin Disposal Inc.
"BlueRoom Portable Toilets"
Kennewick, WA
July 2016
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
I really wanted to build a cute MOC for Eurobrick's X-Mas raffle about "my ideal Christmas Gift" but when I checked my schedule I've noticed I can't. But at least I know what is my ideal gift! 10 minutes speed build, don't take it too seriously :>
The checkerboard can be folded with the game pieces locked inside.
You can find instructions on the AppStore for free.
A vintage fantastical drawing from "A Portable Feast: Picnic, Lunch Box and Knapsack Fare," a 1970s boho cookbook.
Tree Ring (2006), paper mache, plastic tree, astro turf, acrylic and a pebble
+ Untitled ring and bracelet (2006), also paper mache, plastic, astro turf and acrylic
From the Portable Landscape Series (2004-2006)
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.)
Toilettenkabine - 02
Temporary toilet typically used in locations ranging from construction sites to large gatherings such as open air music festivals.
Eglise Saint Jean Baptiste, Chaource, France
Detail of Retable de la légende de Saint Hubert, XVIè s.
For the whole story on this freedom-less fellow, click here:
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Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
This was inspired by the wickedly sarcastic "despair" series ( www.despair.com ) which is, itself, inspired by the famous Motivation posters.
(NOW AVAILABLE AS A CALENDAR!!)
if you have an original de-motivational creation of your own, please consider adding it to the 'De-Motivational' group: de-motivators
Portable Strobist Lighting Gear.
Since the company I work for provides me with enough studio lights for my photo assignments I decided to sell my own heavy 20 year old Norman strobes and power packs last year and go light and portable with Strobist lighting gear for my personal work.
I recently added another Nikon SB-24 and a few homemade grids to my set.
The set was lit with an old Vivitar 285HV bounced off a silver umbrella on a light stand.
Some days you just need a hug and some of those days you have to improvise with whatever works. Cheers to warm blankets and horror flicks to get us through.
All but five minutes of it was waiting in our car for two hours and waiting for the results for another half hour. The word, “WAIT” is my embellishment to a sign with rotating messages. Please note the line of cars on the other side of the boulevard. At this point we’d already waited well over an hour. The test was in the parking garage at the top right.
RCA "Personal Portable" 8" B&W TV, dating from 1956. Weighs a ton. Metal feet ready to scratch any table. Part of Chuck the radio restorer's private collection.
Night, totally dark room natural and red-gelled flashlight.
Toilettenkabine - 06
Temporary toilet typically used in locations ranging from construction sites to large gatherings such as open air music festivals.
A large number of such mobile shops are in business in Dhaka city. They specialize in selling products to housewives in desperate need of vegetables for cooking,
These shop owners pull their cart from door to door and advertise with bare yet loud screams.
Toilettenkabine - 05
Temporary toilet typically used in locations ranging from construction sites to large gatherings such as open air music festivals.
Make an easy to build portable softbox
- cut a backing frame from a 1/2 gallon plastic milk jug
- shape the plastic to fit the rear of your flash, like a bounce card, narrow at the bottom and more flared out at the top
- line the front of the plastic with a reflective material. I used the shiny mylar material from a package of Nabisco oatmeal cookies. I attached the mylar using double-sided tape.
- tape down the edges of the mylar to the plastic using gaffers tape
- Attach the reflector to flash using rubber bands
- make a "flip down" diffuser using simple tissue paper or other diffusing material
The flash and portable softbox can be used on-camera or off-camera, One Light Strobist style.
See the test shot here.
See my Homebrew Portable Softbox set here.
I don't actively collect typewriters, but I get them when they are a good deal. They are fun to work on and type on.
These are my portables. The big boys are just to heavy for me to lug out and take shots of..lol
PolyJohn PJN III Portable Restrooms
Basin Disposal Inc.
"BlueRoom Portable Toilets"
Kennewick, WA
July 2016
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
Before the iPod and other portable digital / MP3 players came on the scene, the first portable music player was the Sony Walkman. It became an instant "hit" and many people could be seen walking and listening to music at the same time ... for the first time!
I found my Walkman while scrummaging through my storage unit. I also tested photographing my Walkman in my new lightbox which produced the pure white background.
A short video showing how we service portable toilets around the country with our fleet of well equipped service vehicles.
I'm moving soon so all my stuff is getting packed up. Fortunately I can still listen to tunes without a sacrifice in sound quality.
Thinkpad X220: Nice speedy laptop that suits my weekly travel needs well.
Audioquest Dragonfly: Great little dac that outputs up to 24/96 lossless audio files.
Ray Samuels SR-71B: Super powerful balanced amp capable of powering the most difficult loads.
Audeze LCD-2: Fantastic Orthodynamic headphones. Addictive sound that is unlike most headphones you've ever heard.
Thursday morning I took a walkabout around my 1942 Alma mater which was built in 1912.
That be what is now Oaklands School & Community Centre which was formed in 2000.
Looking online, I could not find any references to the time of my tenure: 1942-48
Mr. McKinnon was principal during most of those years and before I left for S.J. Willis High School in 1948, Horace R. Dawson (1913-2008) became principal. Horace first became a school principal in McKenzie Elementary School at age 17yrs. in 1931. He was a brilliant scholar.
Mr. Dawson (1913-2008) he was 94yrs 11 months
Horace is an Irvine descendant borne from the Mary Ann (nee Irvine) Laing family line. Mary Ann was the second-born, Irvine child in Victoria BC in 1853.
One can see from this missal that Oaklands is more than just a school to me.