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If you didn’t have a coffee table and end tables in the 90’s with the beveled glass inserts…where were you?! I picked these up for $25 for all three on Craigslist. They were sturdy, good lines, but the glass tops were very outdated, and blah and the wood finish was shot. I removed the glass, cut Hardiboard for the new base, and gave them a rainbow mosaic makeover. 13 different colors. They were donated to my daughter’s school for their art gallery lobby.
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 09: Paul Drinkhall of England competes in his match against Ning Gao of Singapore during the Men's Team Table Tennis Bronze Medal Match on day five of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Oxenford Studios on April 9, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
Table grapes? Not this year, and please don't write in about blister mites. Mites are the least of my worries right now.
This is an old black muscat, and had started Spring with the vigour of a much younger vine.
Have you ever caught the scent of grape leaves? It's the elusive taste in dolmades, something you discover if you make your own: first collect leaves, blanch, stuff, roll and cook. That blanching step has the same scent I'm smelling as I photograph this scene. As an aside, I wouldn't use leaves from this variety for dolmades. They'd be alright to donate their tannins to a batch of dill pickles, but too coarse for eating. The leaves of the purple cornichon vine further up the row; they're the ones for dolmades. Not now I suppose, and I'm not going to look.
Without leaves, I guess those mites are doomed too. Good!
Focusing in on the Table Rock viewing area... as always, a bit better large. Still trying to figure out this tilt shift effect... that tree poking up in the middle was a pain.
The frickin' awesome booths & tables at Rice To Riches, the rice pudding joint on Spring Street (btwn. Mulberry & Mott). I'm not a big rice pudding fan, but theirs is pretty tasty -- unfortunately I can't eat more than a few spoonfuls without getting kinda sick of it. Oh well, the decor's fun to look at.
converts to a round dining table 28.5 inches high. Presto..chango... like a superhero. ***UPDATE*** Thank you Wyatt 8/16/11
Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870-1956)
Table Lamp, 1904
Manufacturer: Konrad Schindel for the Wiener Werkstätte
Nickel silver (alloy of copper and nickel), glass
Josef Hoffmann designed this lamp when the shift from gas to electricity was challenging designers to effectively utilize the new technology. He chose not to shade the light source. Instead, he drew attention to the naked bulbs by echoing their shape in the suspended glass spheres, which, like the shimmering hammered surfaces, catch and reflect the light.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC
this weekend I painted over a blue Ikea table that we had -- I used a cheesy graphic and the stump of a stick to hand-paint every dot. Yes, I AM a loser.
update: 9/6/07 this table was featured as part of an article about DIYers in the NY Times: (read here), and included with it was this picture of lil' ol' me. (to see the whole slide show of all the Hackers, click here)
My neighbour started making this mosaic table top a couple of years and has now finished it. Lovely fishy theme, so appropriate for our waterfront location.
www.1001pallets.com/2015/02/table-basse-en-bois-de-palett...
I completely dismantled 2 pallets to get the size I wanted. Then I planed and sanded them and, I applied a white cottage cheese-based paint with natural pigments and then a layer of the same paint but with blue. Casters under the table, 2 drawers still with wooden pallet wood and voila.
J'ai désossé complètement 2 palettes pour en obtenir une aux dimensions que je voulais. J'ai ensuite tout raboté et poncé puis, j'ai appliqué une peinture blanche à base de fromage blanc et de pigments naturels et ensuite une couche de la même peinture mais avec du bleu. Des roulettes sous la table, 2 tiroirs toujours en bois de palette et le tour est joué.
I'm dancing on top of the picnic table in my shiny burgundy dress. I have to be careful where I place my feet to avoid falling off, but luckily the table is strong and quite large so it's not really an issue. Let's twist and turn and have a bit of fun! It's so nice to make my petticoat and skirt rustle as I move and feel them gently caressing my legs. What a delight to be feminine in a pretty dress and feel totally free outside in such beautiful surroundings.
Wieder mit dem Sigma bei offen Blende gemacht( 30/1,4EX DC/HSM ), muss ja den Kommunionstisch meiner kleinen ablichten, denn morgen wird ein streßiger Tag für den Vater und den Fotografen.
Wünsche Euch allen noch ein schönes restliches Wochenende.
Also made ​​with the Sigma at open aperture (30 / 1.4 EX DC HSM), must photograph the communion table from my little daughter, for tomorrow will be a more stressful day for the father and the photographer.
Wish you all a nice rest of weekend.
Möge das Licht mit Euch sein. May the light be with you
Demolition of the Majestic Theatre has started. On my walk around the city to see what is happening, May 16, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
Opened on 1st March 1930 The Majestic Theatre was built for John Fuller & Sons and was leased to Christchurch Cinemas Ltd. Billed as ‘The Showplace of Christchurch’, the exterior was an Art Deco style containing three floors of offices, known as Majestic House.
In 1946, it was sold to the Kerridge-Odeon chain, and later that year, it was badly damage by a fire. It was renovated to the designs of architect Harry Francis Willis. In the 1960’s, live stage shows became popular at the Majestic Theatre, with ‘Startime Spectacular’ running for quite some time, and also appearances by pop groups from Great Britain, including The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five and Manfred Mann. In 1964 The Beatles played their only concert in Christchurch at the Majestic – this was their final New Zealand concert.
The Majestic Theatre closed on 28th August 1970, and was converted into a nightclub, named Moby Dick’s Nite Spot. Six years later it was again badly damaged by fire and the night club closed. It was later owned by the Christchurch Revival Fellowship Church. For More Info: www.highstreetstories.co.nz/stories/93-the-majestic-theatre
Cape Town is a real beauty. It ranks with Hong Kong, Vancouver, San Francisco and Rio as one of the world's cities with the most spectacular natural settings, and Table Mountain can take much of the credit for that. The city sits in its lap.
- "Table Mountain is in the unique position of being the only terrestrial feature to give its name to a constellation - Mesa, meaning The Table, which is seen in the Southern Hemisphere, below Orion, around midnight in mid-July. It was named by the French astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille during his stay at the Cape in the mid-1700s."
- The '12 Disciples' can be seen stretching away to the left here.
- Again, I was taken to see Cape Point on this visit (the tip of the Cape of Good Hope where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet), past which flies the Flying Dutchman on its own schedule, and where the seabed is covered in wrecks. (I'll upload a photo) We arrived in the afternoon and stayed until just after sunset. The Point is at a height on a plateau or bluff that extends and curves SE, and from above its cliffs great views are had east, south and west out over both oceans.
- There were wild Chacma baboons there right by the road at the Point. capepoint.co.za/cape-of-primates-cape-points-chacma-baboons/
- And we saw a replica of a 'padrão' at the Cape, a limestone pillar surmounted by a cross erected there by the Portuguese on their voyages to signify Portuguese and Christian sovereignty (I'd see something similar at Cape Cross in Namibia a couple of weeks later), to serve as a navigational aid ("when lined up, [this and another padrão commemorating Bartolomeu Dias and his arrival in 1488] point to Whittle Rock, a large, permanently submerged shipping hazard in False Bay" [Wikipedia]), and to commemorate Vasco de Gama, the first European explorer to sail @ the Cape and on to India in 1497. capepoint.co.za/the-cape-of-pioneers/ The replica dates from 1965.
- I spent the better part of a day touring 'the Castle of Good Hope', aka the 'Kasteel de Goede Hoop', "a bastion fort built in the 17th cent. ... considered the best-preserved example of a Dutch East India Co. fort" anywhere. Built by the Co. /b/ 1666 & 1679, it's also the oldest existing bldg. in the country. "It replaced an earlier fort ... built from clay and timber by Jan van Riebeeck upon his arrival at the Cape in 1652." Capetown had been founded at that time as "a replenishment station for ships plying the treacherous coast @ the Cape on long voyages between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). In 1664, tensions between Great Britain and the Netherlands rose amid rumours of war. Commander Zacharias Wagenaer was instructed by Commissioner Isbrand Goske to build a pentagonal fortress out of stone. The first stone was laid on Jan. 2, 1666. ... In 1682, the gated entry replaced the old entrance, which had faced the sea. A bell tower, situated over the main entrance, was built in 1684. The original bell, the oldest in South Africa, was cast in Amsterdam in 1697, weighs just over 300 kg.s. ... [and] could be heard 10 km.s away. The fortress housed a church, bakery, various workshops, living quarters, shops, and cells," etc.
- "During the 2nd Boer War (1899–1902), part of the castle was used as a prison, and the former cells remain to this day. Fritz Joubert Duquesne, later known as the man who killed Kitchener, and the leader of the Duquesne Spy Ring, was one of its better-known inmates. The walls of the castle were very thick, but night after night, Duquesne dug at the cement @ the stones with an iron spoon. He had nearly escaped one night, but a large stone slipped and pinned him in his tunnel. The next morning, a guard found him unconscious but alive." (all Wikipedia) Today the Castle houses 'the Castle Military Museum' and is the scene of ceremonial activities by traditional Cape Regiments.
- I best remember the inside of a wooden door to one of the old, narrow prison cells on which the profile of a sailing ship had been carved by a prisoner. (I'll scan and upload a photo). commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_of_Good_Hope_carve...
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYtWQfPKOOA
- There are museums in the former city hall and some old colonial houses (from 1701, 1755 & 1839) that I would've toured if I'd had more time (and if I'd done my homework), and the old 'South African museum', with its stuffed animals, etc. I didn't take a wine tour day-trip to Stellenbosch, Paarl (home to the largest wine co-op anywhere), or Franschhoek (centre of a wine region founded by Huguenots who arrived in the 1690s, and home to a Huguenot memorial museum), with their Cape dutch houses on wine estates. (I'm not big on wine tours.) But I would've liked to have seen the huge, brutalist and photogenic 'Afrikaanse Taal monument' to the Afrikaans language above Paarl (1975, but straight out of Star Trek: www.sa-venues.com/attractionswc/afrikaanse-taal-monument.htm www.reddit.com/r/brutalism/comments/6a0q4y/afrikaans_lang... ) if I'd known about it. The BIG miss wasn't a thing yet, or not for tourists, a 'Great White Shark cage dive'. !! I earned my scuba license only the summer before at Sharm-el-Sheikh, so I would've been game. "South Africa [had] passed national legislation in '91 [only 1 year earlier,] protecting the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from all fishing exploitation." www.oceans-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/johnso... The cape has the highest concentration of Great whites anywhere, in particular at 'shark alley' near Dyer Island, home to @ 60,000 cape fur seals. (There are only @ 3,500 Great whites world-wide). This was filmed there.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzxy3GtSzt0
- I did a fair bit of walking @ Capetown. I recall the harbours, incl. the 'Victoria and Albert waterfront' (where I took the next photo of a Cape fur seal on a platform by the pier).
- I had a discussion with a local who ran a sushi restaurant in town or had some connection to it, just as I was about to head out to hitch north up the N7. I expressed interest (I love sushi, who doesn't?) but was mindful of my budget. He said "You'll never find better sushi for the price anywhere else" (i.e. in the world) and he seemed sincere. A miss.
We had custom joinery made to house 8 bats, 20 ping pong balls and a new touch screen TV for scoring.
A less traditional view of Cape Town's famous Table Mountain. We were on the slopes when I saw this great view with the Fynbos in the foreground. The mountain's vegetation types form part of the Cape Floral Region protected areas. These protected areas are a World Heritage Site, and an estimated 2,200 species of plants are confined to Table Mountain - more than exist in the whole of the United Kingdom, according to Wikipedia.