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I still have some Iceland photos floating about which I haven't posted. Some, like this, are not of the great Icelandic landscape but just every day subjects like people and houses and horses and such. I loved Iceland and all things on it, so I'll keep doing this until I (or you) get fed up
I am not saying I am a great photographer now and I was even worse back then, so please excuse the quality
Minolta MD W.Rokkor 20mm 1:2.8, f/5.6
Bitte keine Awards und Bildchen!
- Please no awards and banners! -
Taken for the Crazy Tuesday theme of vintage technology. It is an abacus that we have had for years - absolutely no idea how to make it work!!
In 2013 gaven gemeente Amersfoort en het Mondriaanhuis drie kunstenaars de opdracht om een monument voor Mondriaan te ontwerpen, dat herinnert aan de kindertijd van de in Amersfoort geboren Piet Mondriaan. Het ‘telraam’ van Frank Halmans werd door het publiek verkozen als beste ontwerp en werd in 2015 gerealiseerd aan de voorzijde van het museum. Het monument van Halmans maakt slim gebruik van de omgeving door het te integreren met het hekwerk langs de Kortegracht en verenigt eenvoud, nostalgie en zeggingskracht in zich. Het kunstwerk herinnert volgens Halmans aan de kleine Mondriaan die mogelijk in zijn babybox met dergelijke kralen speelde. Daarnaast refereert het ‘telraam’ aan de school die eind negentiende eeuw in het Mondriaanhuis gevestigd was met de Piet Mondriaan senior aan het hoofd. De kralen zijn gekleurd in de drie primaire kleuren plus zwart en wit; voor bijna iedereen herkenbaar als het palet van de latere Mondriaan. Er is één kraal die in kleur afwijkt van de rest. Deze kraal is goudkleurig en heeft een inscriptie in het Nederlands en Engels met de tekst: Op 7 maart 1872 werd de schilder Piet Mondriaan in dit huis aan de Kortegracht 11 geboren. Hij heeft hier tot zijn achtste jaar (1880) gewoond. - The life of Piet Mondriaan began here at 11 Kortegracht on March 7, 1872.
This week’s theme for my Macro Mondays group is “In a Row” with a focus on smaller items. This abacus is slightly smaller than a credit card, so I think it meets the criteria.
I have not participated in Macro Mondays in a very long time, so it’s good to participate this week. Hopefully I won’t wait as long before participating again.
HMM!
MACRO MONDAYS
Theme: photographing something that starts with a vowel (the letter a, e, i, o, u).
This silver pendant in the form of a tiny ABACUS measure 4 cm.
This abacus can be used for calculations but you need a pin to move the beads because they are so tiny.
I posted a picture in the first commentbox with a ruler.
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Zilveren hanger in de vorm van een mini ABACUS.
De Abacus kan worden gebruikt voor berekeningen, maar je moet een speld gebruiken om de kralen te verplaatsen, omdat ze zo klein zijn.
Ik plaats een foto in de eerste commentbox met een liniaal naast de abacus.
Canon EOS 6D - f/10 - 3.2sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Jewelry
- dimensions of a cufflink: 2 x 1.2 cm
- My wife did buy the set of gold (14 crt) abacus cufflinks in Hong Kong during the early 1970's. The beads are all individual movable.
- I do wear these cufflinks only on the -now seldom- occasions when I wear a dinner jacket (tuxedo).
När man inte är så bra på matte kan detta vara ett perfekt tillbehör!
För Fotosöndag: attilralj
When math is not your strongest subject, the abacus can be really helpful!
For Photosunday: paraphernalia
This bracelet was my mom's and she got it from her brother. She is 79 now and her brother was about 10 years older than her. He brought it back from Japan in the 1940's while he was in the military. I don't remember much more history about it than that, but the bracelet always fascinated me as a kid, the charms were so small and detailed. A rickshaw, a sandal, a Japanese arch, an emperor, a guitar type instrument, a lantern, an abacus, an oyster with a pearl in it, and more. The abacus is most amazing to me because each little bead is separate and is on a little wire and they move. It is so detailed and beautiful.
I just recently found it while going through my mom's dresser because she does not live in her house any more due to Alzheimer's.
In the ancient world, abacuses were a practical calculating tool. Although calculators and computers are commonly used today instead of abacuses, abacuses remain in everyday use in some countries. The abacus has an advantage of not requiring a writing implement and paper (needed for algorism) or an electric power source. Merchants, traders, and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and Africa use abacuses.
Any particular abacus design supports multiple methods to perform calculations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square and cube roots. The beads are first arranged to represent a number, then are manipulated to perform a mathematical operation with another number, and their final position can be read as the result (or can be used as the starting number for subsequent operations).
Wikipedia
This store is great! Abacuses and so much more. The sidewalk is as close as it gets to being inside of the store (a lot like my garage). It is literally a store front nothing more, nothing less. The elderly owner and a client were sitting on the walk tinkering with a motorbike engine. He has a phenomenal location on the huge traffic circle surrounding Democracy Monument in the heart of central Bangkok.