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These are propellers for windmills lined up and stationed at the old Greyhound Racetrack in Waterloo, IA .
Each is a blade, the blue end the spokes that attach to the towers. They are lined up each blade running the opposite direction. There must be well over 100 blades. There are about 6-7 rows like this.
I would love to have photograph the rows from above but no one was around to ask permission to get to a high point.
Further information provided from a contributor:
– the bolts on the blades are generally attached to the rotor assembly on site. They require a special torque wrench to fasten and lock each nut into place.
These are generally mounted on the ground and then lifted up to the Turbine and axel on which was previously mounted to the upright stack. It would look like a “Y” being lifted into the air with a crane or helicopter.
In some cases they will lift each blade after they mount the rotor. The rotors are large enough for a man to stand inside; it is a more difficult process; because they line up from the air lift to the matching bolts but then the bolts are on the rotor. But it is easier to lift one blade rather than 3 at a time (weight wise) and requires a smaller crane lift.
Here is an interesting fact most people don’t know is that the vibration the blades cause is tremendous and unless torqued they will vibrate the nuts loose. They also have to balance the blades at times with weights like a fan blade. The most costly part of the blade is the constant up keep of the blade. Today they can be turning at over 100 - 124 miles an hour at times (angular speed – measured in the center) and the edges wear out and have to be replaced or refinished while up on the units. The length of the blade will also determine the RPM. Think how the bugs, dust, rain, hail and sun affect the wear on the blades.
Today they have variable speed controls and controls that turn the windmill in the direction of the wind sensor detects for more efficient use. It will also turn away or shut off and lock a mill it he wind is too strong; thus saving the blade from vibration damage.
Cinecitta', Rome, Italy. The head is a prop from the opening scene of the film Il Casanova di Fellini, by Federico Fellini.
This old palm has bent over ever closer to toppling onto the beach and some thoughtful people have provided it with a couple of props to keep it alive.
Photo: Original Cin Photography
Model: Anna Psy ARTist
Hair/make-up/props and costume by Anna
Assistent: Kosta Portanger
Morgan Kneisky gets a kiss from a loved one, after winning the Madison world title, along with Bryan Coquard. Day 5, 2015 World Track Cycling Championships. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
While it's fairly common knowledge G1 Megatron was originally Takara's Microman Micro Change Gun Robo MC-13 Walther P-38 Uncle Type, MC-13's origin may not be as straightforward as it may seem.
The Japanese Micro Change line consisted of 1:1 scale toys of household objects and in the Microman storyline, these transformed into robots which aided the Microman in their battles against the dastardly Acroyear. (Thus, Megatron was originally on the side of angels.)
This did raise an interesting question that's never been satisfactorily answered: what kind of Japanese household had a World War II-era German handgun complete with silencer, extended barrel, scope and shoulder stock just lying around?
The "Uncle" in "MC-13 Walther P-38 Uncle Type" provides a major clue. MC-13 was nearly identical to the heavily customised Walther P-38 seen on the Sixties television series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It's also worth noting the Japanese company MGC produced a replica of the television prop in 1966. Curiously, however, MC-13 lacked the extended magazine clip seen on the television prop and the Japanese replica.
There was another possible candidate for MC-13's inspiration closer to home. The Japanese television series, Seibu Keisatsu, a cop show set in a highly-combustible Eighties Japan, had merchandising tie-ins by Yonezawa and among these was an U.N.C.L.E-inspired Walther P-38 airsoft gun. Colours aside, it's a dead ringer for MC-13. The problem is the timing is awkward. The third series of the Japanese show started airing in April 1983, the Walther P-38 apparently appeared in episode 21 which aired in September and Takashi Matsuda applied for the MC-13 patent in June. Intriguingly, however, Yonezawa's 1982 toy catalog showed the Walther P-38 Uncle Type and the toy was copyrighted in 1982. It's highly likely MC-13 and the other Gun Robo in the Micro Change line were toys based on Japanese airsoft guns, which is how they fit the "toys of household objects" concept of Micro Change.
Toy companies are understandably wary of selling realistic-looking toy guns like MC-13/Megatron these days given kids wielding them have been accidentally shot by law-enforcement personnel. More to the point, a 1988 US law prohibited anyone "to manufacture, enter into commerce, ship, transport, or receive any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm" without "a blaze orange plug inserted in the barrel of such toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm."
The Transformers toy designers have, on occasion, produced sly workarounds. The Titans Return Sixshot figure, for example, had a submarine mode which bore a striking resemblance to Sixshot's G1 gun mode when flipped upside down. As Sixshot's gun mode was, to be generous, gun-shaped rather than a realistic model of a gun, this was less a deliberate attempt to circumvent the toy gun law than a token attempt to avoid controversy.
There has been a surprising amount of controversy over the years. There were protests over toy guns as far back as the Thirties when mothers feared kids playing with toy guns would grow up to be gangsters. However, matters became exacerbated in the Eighties after the toy companies took full advantage of Reagan-era deregulation of television to promote their wares. Toy guns along with war-themed toys and cartoons became the frequent target of finger-wagging activists and scientists-turned-activists constantly on the lookout for simple solutions for complex societal issues.
''The message of toy guns is that you solve problems by pulling a trigger," proclaimed a professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics. A Vietnam War vet went further and blamed war toys for conditioning kids to kill in battle as adults. A man was arrested for placing stickers on G.I. Joe figures in a store with the message: ''Warning - Think before you buy. This is a war toy. Playing with it increases anger and violence in children. Is this really what you want for your child?'' Protesters even held demonstrations against G.I. Joe at Hasbro's headquarters.
Others opted for a scientific approach in order to convince the public of the danger posed by toys. In 1985, Dr. Thomas Radecki conducted a study of play involving violence-themed toys and announced, "The evidence is quite strong that we are transmitting an unhealthy message encouraging children to have fun pretending to murder each other.'' The toy in question was He-Man, the study was conducted on preschoolers and the study size was 20.
A founding member of the National Coalition on Television Violence, Radecki had a more personal reason for taking a stance against violent entertainment. He revealed he had a violent fantasy after watching "A Clockwork Orange" and became so convinced violent entertainment could lead to real violence he warned "we are taking a serious chance of causing the end of the world."
(Depending on your familiarity with the history of moral entrepreneurs, you may or may not be surprised to learn Radecki was later imprisoned for illegal prescriptions of drugs under his somewhat unsuccessful "Doctors and Lawyers for a Drug-Free Youth" programme.)
The toy companies did push back by claiming they were only supplying what the consumers wanted. "If the consumer doesn't want to buy, trust me, the consumer doesn't buy," said a spokeswoman for the Toy Manufacturers of America. The G.I. Joe brand, which went out of fashion after the Vietnam War and returned to popularity during the Reagan era, was cited as an example.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, then-president of Axlon, the makers of Techforce toys, made the not unreasonable point kids would engage in aggressive play even without war toys and toy guns. "Take away their toy guns and they still have (the finger gun gesture): bang, bang," Bushnell said.
(Bushnell would undoubtedly be nonplussed to learn a 10-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days for doing just that in 2014. Zero tolerance policies in schools have resulted in even more absurd examples: an 8-year-old was suspended for three days for brandishing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and going, "Pow, pow, pow" and another 8-year-old was suspended a day for using a 2-inch-long G.I. Joe gun "in a threatening manner.")
Bushnell also rightly noted toys and cartoons are not the only source of violent imagery. He asked, "Can we require our kids not to read the front page when we bomb Khaddafi?" Some forms of real-world violence are clearly culturally approved, encouraged and celebrated. (Go Patriots!)
Tara Woodyer raised another interesting point, "War scenarios are often passionate expressions of detailed knowledge about particular characters and fantasy worlds depicted in books, TV and films. As play is an important means through which children learn to deal with uncertainty, assess risk and develop resilience, is it right to seek to restrict forms of play that we, as adults, might on the surface see as more troublesome?"
Dr. Helen Boehm, a psychologist, admitted she simply didn't like toy guns but conceded "children don't learn values from toy guns and G.I. Joe. It's parents and other role models who have the most important influence on a child's behavior."
Despite all the handwringing over them over the years, toy guns are still being sold in the millions these days. It's just that they are neon-coloured and futuristic rather than realistic, shoot foam darts instead of BB pellets, and are called "blasters" instead of toy guns. Hasbro's Nerf brand dominates the blasters market and is expected to make over half a billion dollars in wholesale sales this year.
If there's been a distinct paucity of outrage over toy guns, violence-themed toys or violence on television in recent years, it's because the moral entrepreneurs have predictably moved on. As Kirsten Drotner pointed out in her 1999 study of media panics, "The intense preoccupation with the latest media fad, immediately relegates older media to the shadows of acceptance."
Patrick Markey and Christopher Ferguson wrote, "Over the past four decades, American pundits and politicians have blamed violent games for just about every societal ill: school shootings, racism, obesity, narcissism, rickets (a skeletal disease), self-control problems, and drunk driving. Violent games have been held responsible for homicides, carjackings, and rapes, for causing limbs to fall off (seriously), for learning disabilities, and even for the terrorist attacks on September 11th."
Things did improve over time. "The fact that most scientists discount the notion that violent media causes real-world violence is a relatively new phenomenon. Surveys of media scholars conducted thirty years ago revealed that 90 percent of psychologists felt that media violence was among the primary causes of behavioural aggression," they wrote.
"Although society's mistrust of video games seems to be ebbing, people will undoubtedly find something new to fear. Perhaps it will be the dangers of virtual reality, the rise of YouTube stars, or maybe it will be a technology we have yet to imagine," Markey and Ferguson cautioned. "We're already seeing the beginning of a new panic around social media, with concerns that it is isolating and 'brain draining.' People have even tied these fears to those of gun violence …"
As Drotner wrote, "All panics are united by a firm belief in rational argumentation: if people only know about the dangers of the media, if only their tastes are elevated, or if the media mechanisms are properly revealed, then they will change their cultural preferences. But this belief is facilitated by, indeed founded on, an intrinsic amnesia. Every new panic develops as if it was the first time such issues were debated in public, and yet the debates are strikingly similar."
this Bass has been a favorite prop for me it belongs to my son who is kind enough to give his mom lessons
Prop 8 protest - Portland, Oregon 11/15/08
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Title: Convair turbo prop
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984)
Date: 1955
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I love buying new photo props, I buy lots of them from local places like Theatrics. I wasn't gonna buy anything when I went in this time, since I am having a hard time finding creative people to help fulfil my picture gatherings. And it don't know seem to be changing anytime soon, since winter is coming.
Replicas of props from "Battlestar Galactica". From top, casting of the Second Season pistol (based on the FN FiveSeveN), a Regens lighter similar to one given to Apollo by Commander Adama, pilot's wings and insignia pins, a Nixon skateboarder's watch similar to the one worn by Apollo, a knife similar to the one used by Admiral Cain in Razor (later given to Starbuck).From the collection of Karl Tate.
Trademark props: the Magic School Bus all shrunk down and Liz (actually a Beanie Baby with some extra horns added on :) )
For this image, I was inspired by the Frida Kahlo portrait, Self-Portrait with Braid. I kept my model very natural and chose to not use any props because I wanted to emphasize the aspect of femininity that Frida was regaining and emphasizing in this portrait. I dressed her in organic colors and kept her jewelry minimal in order to keep the focus on her natural, most feminine state. I also kept her hair very natural as well (partially because neither one of us could figure out how to make any sort of braid look good), but also to keep along with the natural look I was going for. I also traveled home to Tallahassee to use the greenery in my backyard like Frida incorporated in her portrait.
Frida's portrait was a representation of her regaining her femininity after cutting all her hair off following her divorce. For my image, I wanted to touch on the subject of being a woman and what that looks like. I really wanted to keep my model very natural and didn't have her put on any makeup because I felt like she was being her most natural, female self. I didn't want to try to completely copy her portrait, but tried to incorporate the same color palette and the same greenery as well.
Just a fun selfie of my granddaughter and myself in the chrome dome on a wood propeller. Evergreen Museum, McMinnville, Oregon.
A food photographer's crazy passion - PROPS. I am guest blogging over at Lucullian Delights this weekend and I am talking props and food styling. Hope you'll join us!
Replica of the "First Season" Battlestar Galactica pistol. Resin casting, built on top of an Airsoft gun (non-firing). From the collection of Karl Tate.
by Doug Kline
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I sculpted these replica Star Trek props out of plasticine and then cast them in rubber moulds out of Fastcast two-part plastic. I really like Fastcast. It has a five minute curing time, and is exceptionally strong. It also sands and machines well after it has hardened.
The finished props are painted in acrylic then sealed with an oil based gloss finish. I've used Letraset rub on lettering to add a bit of extra detail, such as the DEEP SPACE NINE legend as well as (Unseen from this angle) the name MAJOR KIRA NERYS and a serial number 199301-A. Come to think of it, 1993 was probably when I made these pieces. Although this prop is non-functional I did embed a red L.E.D in the business end just for effect.
The hand phaser is a direct descendant of the small weapons used in the original Star Trek series, which were designed by artist Wah Chang. These Next Generation/Deep Space Nine era variants were designed by Rick Sternbach.
PHASER stands for PHASed Energy Rectification.
The large insignia is a Bajoran Communicator badge, the smaller one is a collar pin. Both have pin and gripper attachments embedded in the backs. I made this particular set for my partner, Gail, to go with her Bajoran costume, but also turned out a couple to go with my Federal Marine outfit as well.
The phaser is authentically scaled (the picture above is roughly actual size) and sits very sweetly in the hand, though I have to admit I'd much prefer to have at least a pistol grip between me and than much raw energy if it were a real weapon!