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My wife recently was given a wooden box containing 7 wood mounted, glass, hand painted, hand-cranked, geared, magic lantern slides depicting astronomical images for teaching purposes. Each slide was projected in a magic lantern projector. When the crank was turned the gear or gears moved the world or planets or the zodiac. I have placed examples of this in the following sequence of images. We have not been able to assign a date to these slides but they were popular in this form from 1860 to 1890's. Each slide has a hand printed address label of 197 State Street, presumably Chicago. To the best of my knowledge only one firm made scientific lantern slides of this type and that was in London beginning around 1870 through 1890.
We are lucky to be surrounded by music. 4 of us play instruments and my house is filled with the sound of the piano every day. Our piano teacher helped us out with this theme and found some very old sheet music for me to photograph.
Again with the pattern blocks... you'd think I work in a school or something... oh, wait. Here is a quick design I made playing with the pattern blocks before school started.
Random Fact: I find the hexagon to be a pleasing finished shape. Probably because so much of the build up to fractions relies on students realizing that two of the trapezoids fit into the hexagon, 3 rhombuses fit into the hexagon and 6 of the triangles fit into the hexagon. Only 1 hexagon fits into the hexagon though.
Day 161 of 365
Just a simple shot today as I didn't have too much time to think out pictures today. Here is a large mess of pattern blocks in the classroom that I work in. I like pattern blocks. It's fun to just sit and make designs with them... Also, you can teach with them. Of course, playing with math manipulatives is always fun.
Random Fact: I've always wondered why green is put with the three primary colors. Like in food coloring, you get red, yellow, blue, and green. What makes green so special? Why is it considered the essential secondary color? What about purple? Or orange? I think it's a horrible practice and purple and orange should be given their due.
The Akoitchaou primary school is located near Kandi, in the north of Benin. It has about 51 students from kindergarten to 5th grade.
Benin, December 2018
Credit: GPE/Chantal Rigaud
Learn more: www.globalpartnership.org/where-we-work/benin
famine by rowan gillespie 1997
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_infestans
I'm not a great fan of the isolated colour thing but it did seem ok here. I used a paint shop pro "hue/saturation/lightness" adjustment layer to desaturate everything and upsaturate yellows. This is the sculptor's colour, the flaky yellow is an important impact factor.
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