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after a long absence, i picked up my microns and started tangling. you can tell i'm out of practice though!
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Chisel conquers all.
I completed the painting of my kitchen over the weekend. The next stage of my renovation project involves removing the existing tiles and laying down newer, much nicer ones.
And man, the old tiles are hard to remove. However, they don't stand a chance against the hammer and CHISEL that I purposely brought from Home Depot to exterminate these suckers.
The chisel has been doing a great job; my wrist, on the other hand, has not. My right wrist tires after the third or fourth tile, requiring constant breaks to recover is hp. I still have maybe 150 tiles to remove. :( If there is any consolation, I expect my wrist to be that much stronger after this ordeal. I hope it will be able to last 10 tiles after some more practice.
My badminton buddies better watch out for my smash! :P
P.S. My walls are done in the background. :)
The trend for our little 52 photo project is for the photos to be B&W, or nearly so, at least. I thought I'd mix things up by taking a shot of something that already IS B&W, but in color!
However, that didn't look as nice as I expected. For one thing, the walls and ceiling in this room are a dark tan/terra cotta plaster. So, the bounced flash was really picking up that color - in particular in the background.
Additionally, in color, the foreground showed a lot of little splashes of various pastel nail polishes due to a horrible accident involving a bucket full of nail polish, and a small child.
The stained wood door of the bathroom STILL has splash marks!
That wasn't exactly the look I was going for, so back to B&W for me!
This is the tile floor of our bathroom - one of my favorite features in our house. Interestingly, if you were able to see the entire floor, there is one or two areas where the small black and white tiles are in the wrong place - reversed. It's like a little beauty mark for the floor!
Taken with my trusty 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 kit lens on a Nikon D60. Sb600 flash, bounced off the ceiling. Edited slightly for color (or lack of color) in GIMP.
We are about to start remodeling parts of our house and these are the tile options that the wife brought home today from a vendor. This would go inside our 1/2 bath floor and some of the wall. I instantly liked the bubble patterns, but we're still going to have to shop around a bit more before we make any solid decisions.
Picture of the Day: 52/366
Location of two Toynbee tiles at 34th and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia, PA. [View close-up] [View close-up]
For more information, see "Resurrect Dead: Uncovering What Lies Beneath," my review of Jon Foy's film Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, and the Wikipedia article "Toynbee tiles."
This is a detailed photo of one of the many mosaics in the NYC subway system. I took it about a year ago and now that I am going through old photos, I think it looks kind of cool
What's left of the entryway on the Pacific Avenue side of the former Luzon building, which has become exposed with the dust clearing.
What was amusing to me was that at some point they tried to make this entry ADA-compliant, so they poured concrete over the tiling to make more of a smooth transition to the doorway from the sidewalk. The concrete apparently didn't hold onto the smooth tile very well (or after all the demolition work and equipment was across it) so it just plucks right up, leaving the tile more or less preserved... so I guess that wasn't such a bad thing afterall. The tile itself is embedded in its original concrete so taking a chunk would require a bunch of work and tools. A craft project using this pattern will be underway...? Another corner of this.
A primeira pedra foi lançada em 1900 pelo rei D. Carlos I, no local onde antes se encontrava o antigo convento de S. Bento de Avé Maria. O projecto inicial foi do arquitecto Marques da Silva, denotando no seu traço exterior influências da arquitectura que se praticava em França na época.
É notável e merece ser visitado o interior do amplo átrio, forrado com vinte mil azulejos pictóricos da autoria de Jorge Colaço, que representam sugestivos quadros históricos e etnográficos.
O friso colorido que se encontra a toda a volta do átrio conta a história dos meios de transporte por ordem cronológica, dos primórdios até ao aparecimento do comboio. Por baixo, grandes painéis historiados representam cenas da História de Portugal.
No lado Norte, o quadro superior descreve um momento do Torneio de Arcos de Valdevez e o quadro abaixo, o cumprimento da palavra de Egas Moniz.
Do lado sul, o painel do topo permite imaginar a entrada solene de D. João I no Porto, com sua noiva, D. Filipa de Lencastre e o inferior, cenas da Crónica de Ceuta. Outros painéis de menor dimensão têm por assunto quadros da vida da região.
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bathroom renovation - day 14:
most of the floor tile was installed -- except for the plumbing access panel, which will be done after the tub is hooked up. dan spent the entire day with the tile guy, to make sure the black circle designs went in the right place. (and it's a good thing he did.) 04.19.09
Pattern after a set of 4 ceramic tiles made in Portugal around 1650 and offered for sale in Holland. The original portuguese tiles are in blue and yellow on white.
Patroon naar een groep van 4 keramiek tegels afkomstig uit Portugal en te koop aangeboden in Nederland door Mark van Veen. Die tegels zijn beschilderd in geel en blauw op wit.