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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."
- Dr. Seuss
Brian Taylor (YYY) a few years ago gave me this picture of the Bad Brains playing in Toronto in the early 80's. I'm not sure if he couldn't remember the year and the name of the club, or whether he told me the specifics and I forget. Either way, a cool picture.
Weird, or what?
River chub (Nocomis micropogon) from Michigan.
Nikon F4
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Velvia slide film
Another random posting, this time taken in 2007 at Holyhead. Virgin 'Thunderbird' 57309 'Brains' awaits departure with a Pendolino drag to Crewe ... whence the electric multiple unit will continue to London under it's own power.
The once britsling Holyhead is seen here looking rather desolate and overly large for the sporadic visits it now receives by anything other than the occasional DMU. The location once handled huge amounts of passengers and freight in conjuction with ships to and from Ireland with its ideal location.
The class 57 was of course a re-working of the old Brush type 4, aka class 47 of the 1960s. The re-build included, amongst many other things, replacement of the Sulzer twin bank 12LDA with re-conditioned General Motors 'two stroke' engines. In order to haul the modern stock, whether it was in a rescue case or scheduled workings like these along the North Wales coast, their frontal aspect was somewhat disfigured by the need to accomodate the Dellner couplings.
The whole VT fleet went on to be named after characters and items from the hit 1960's British TV puppet drama 'Thunderbirds' in line with their intended rescue role.
:-)
I just found out what these things are. We have them in the park down the road from us where we take the dogs and yesterday we saw them in Valley Forge along the creek. Finally looked into it online and they are from a tree called the Osage Orange Tree. These fruit are called various things, Hedgeapples and horseapples among them.
I found this great article that covers all the basic information about them. I'm amazed! And my husband is about to go collect some from the park while out with the dogs this morning so we can try them out.
The brains of the operation! I love the mechanical aspect of camera building, but adding electronics to the mess is also a thrill. Here I have my previously-featured SLS shutter controller, which is an Adafruit Trinked microcontroller (running on the Arduino IDE), hooked up to a lithium-polymer batter for power, mini solenoid for shutter actuation, and some bits and bobs for user interface. The little white square near the left of the camera is a 10-position rotary DIP switch, which is used to control the shutter speeds. Unlike the potentiometer I was using before, it has obvious detents to show where each speed lies - it feels really nice. I used a binary weighted digital-to-analog circuit to interface with a single pin on the Trinket - really simple stuff, but I'm proud as a mechanical engineer for figuring out that little bit of EE nonsense!
More info and part files here:
kadookacameraworks.com
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Lux is my proof-of-concept platform for my new electronic shutter (see SLS, single leaf shutter). A secondary goal for this camera was to make it completely homegrown, meaning no parts from existing camera manufacturers, with single-element lenses from Anchor Optics.
Type: Box Camera
Medium: 6x6cm, (56x56mm nominal), 120 film
Focusing: Unassisted, helical focus with distance scale
Objective: Single element 80mm(?), glass, MgF2 coated
Viewfinder: Waist-level brilliant finder
Diaphragm: Rotary aperture plate, f/6.3,8,11,22,32
Shutter: Electronically controlled single-leaf shutter (1/125s(?) - 1s + B & T)
Construction: 3D printed polyamide (nylon), laser cut stainless steel
Thank you to Wonderlandfan for my invite to BAD , unfortunately i feel i don't quite have the time at the moment , but i could not resist this !
Reposting an oldie from a trip to Wales when JustbBz's Travelling Val was a guest with us !
Brains Beer has been much loved in South Wales for many years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brains_Brewery
but very sadly has had to sell almost all of it's pubs and is now in severe financial difficulty following the pandemic .
A lady selling animal brains at the Bến Thành Market is picking her nose, while talking to someone.
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam; 2016
5520 stitches on 18-count aida. I've used green fluorescent floss for the letters, which is hard to photograph.
Assorted Jell-o Brains. They look a bit spookier when they're not on the flowery plates I used for the preparation. I like to water down a bit of food coloring and "paint" the sunken areas to give them a bit more definition :-)
Unfortunately I didn't get much further with this one, the closure had been announced but the brewery was still in production at the time of this visit. I was in Wales solely for Coal and Dinorwic, although I did pay a visit to Cardiff managing to fit in a little bit of English Electric Type 3 haulage from Llanelli to Cardiff with 37418. Sadly I never returned to Brains (or Cardiff infact as of yet) and so ended up missing out on this one, leaving just a few externals from that reccie as the place has been demolished recently.
Loving the old truck though, hope a new home was found for it...
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It's hard to believe that summer's almost done and these car events will start to wrap up. I got the great pleasure of going to a track event yesterday and though I don't have a car to run these events at the moment, taking pictures is a sport on its own with its own sense of adrenaline. One of my favourite cars that showed up yesterday was this Mercedes C63 AMG. It has the perfect blend of brains and brawn and it's definitely a force to be reckoned with. Oh man I can still hear that lovely V8 sound.
We got the mold for this from Educational Innovations Inc.
I think the little spots of unmixed gel food coloring add a nice gruesome touch!
www.teachersource.com/BiologyLifeScience/LifeScience/Brai...
It comes with a recipe for the jell-o which includes evaporated (or condensed- I don't remember) milk to make it opaque.
Virgin liveried Class 57/3 57309 'Brains' sweeps through the Lune Gorge, at Carlingill, Tebay on 2nd April 2007 with 6J37 Kingmoor SS to Chirk Kronospan
57309 was built as D1931 at Brush, Loughborough Works in 1966, works number BR693 of 1966. Delivered to British Railways Cardiff Canton depot. In 1973 under TOPS she became 47254. ETH conversion came in 1986, along with long range fuel tanks. Renumbering to 47651, she was sent to Gateshead, then Eastfield, then Bristol Bath Road as the new InterCity sector dallied over where there fleet should be based.
In 1989 InterCity opted to fit long range fuel tanks to the majority of it's locomotives, and number them 47801 - 47851. 47651 therefore became 47806. Upon privatization, she passed to Porterbrook leasing, and was leased to Virgin Cross Country. She remained in service until 2002.
Rebuilt at Brush Loughborough Works in 2003 with General Motors 12-645F3B power units and refurbished Class 56 alternators. Initially released without Delner couplers and the name 'Brains' in the Thurnerbirds theme adopted by Virgin West Coast. In 2012 she passed to Direct Rail Services, who took over the Thunderbird responsibility. and renamed 'Pride of Crewe'.