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New tool testing!! think it needs a bit of work!!. Didn't manage to get out till gone 10 tonight so was only able to get an hour down the beach!! But it was nice to spend a bit of time winding down before work. ha ha!!
(taken on one exposure, no additions after the exposure. I use aperture3 as a RAW converter and will adjust levels, saturation, white balance, brightness and some minor cropping if required.)
Having the fantastically fun job of getting paid to be a makeup artist, my tools of the trade involve hair of the natural and synthetic kinds...
Challenge #2 - 02/25/07
This week's challenge has a HANDS theme. You are to take the following photos:
1. "Winner" and "Loser" self portraits. Make a "W" with your hands on against your forehead for "Winner". Make an "L" with your hand against your forehead for "Loser". Bonus points if your "L" is backwards. That takes a real loser!!
2. someone (you or anyone) doing "the claw".
3. a stranger making a Vulcan sign with their hand. Extra points for telling them to live long and prosper when they leave. We're just gonna have to take your word on that one.
4. someone (you or anyone) using sign language to make the first letter of their (or your) name.
5. someone holding a tool
Tool my chiropractor is using to try to break up scar tissue on nerves in my back. After a lubricant is applied to my back, the longer, curved edges of this tool are used to vigorously scrape along the nerves that run alongside the spine, and then cross over to my hip.
I've been able to feel a lumpy, bumpyness to those areas for several years, and just thought the bumps were bone spurs. But apparently, they're built up scar tissue, which is impeding the proper circulation of blood around my nerves.
One of the small touches that really illustrates that someone really thought this through is the inclusion of a rare earth magnet.
Adding this to the smaller allen wrench makes installing your board MUCH easier.
Knee pad, Hand rake, Kogama (Japanese very sharp weeding knife), Bamboo broom (This is Nimbus 2006. I have from Nimbus '96. LOL), Suede glove, Twine, pruning clippers, Scissors.
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Image made on the layout of the Miami Valley Modular Railway at the Dayton Train Show. Yes, the Illinois Central is my favorite railroad.
Tools and materials to make a necklace display, a T ruler, foam core, sand paper, marking pen, xacto knife, plastic tub lid, white glue.
This is my finest plane and it works as no other, the plane is bought at the fleamarket at queens day in Amsterdam for 3 years ago.
Aside from her tools of trade, a vendor must have the guts, patience and perseverance to survive the competition in the streets.
Taken at "Old Missouri Town 1855" in Flemming Park. Located just east of Lake Jacomo, Missouri Town 1855 encompasses mid-19th century life through its museum, buildings, crops, animals and interpreters in period dress. The Jackson County Parks & Recreation introduced the park and experience to visitors in 1963. Ever since then, families, schools, church groups and individuals have come to relive the early years by learning about blacksmithing, education, farming, archery, trapping, woodworking, cider making and other arts and crafts.
Long Island Tool Swap - June 22, 2022 - This is a series of tool swap meets that I've been promoting.
I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.