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NOTE: Only the Sten Gun, U-Mag and Retro Raygun were received from GI Brick, The others were a gift from Will & Badger.
Well, My GI Brick order arrived today. Fast shipping to the UK as usual and I had the anxiety of wondering what proto I would receive. I was so happy when I saw a Sten & U-Mag in a little plastic baggie waiting for me. Also, I had a great Mystery Pack too, A GITD Retro Raygun.
Anyway in short, I just gathered all my GITD together for once and lit 'em up.
Thanks GI Brick, My Sten collection is slowly growing! :)
Bricks, Reflection. San Francisco, California. May 29, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Bricks and water reflecting urban sky.
Walking up Market Street in San Francisco I was watching out for anything that could be photographically interesting — architecture, people, vehicles, light — when I looked down and saw this little vignette of... not much at all really. Perhaps someone had been cleaning the street earlier, and now a puddle of water covered some sidewalk bricks and flowed over the gaps between others.
I stopped, more or less in the middle of the sidewalk, likely forcing a few people to take a path around me or perhaps just wonder what I was photographing with my camera pointed straight down. What I saw was, first, the water itself. Then I saw the narrow vertical band of lighter tones, where there was a break between reflected buildings. I only paused for a moment to make a couple of exposures, and then I continued on.
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LEGO Technic Summer Sets 2013
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Con người trong xã hội thì rất nhiều. Nhưng mỗi người thì lại có kiểu cách sống khác nhau. Vuông góc, rạn nứt hay tróc vỡ...?
[People in society are many. But each person there are different types of lifestyles. Perpendicular, crack or peel break ...?]
My town is known as being the birthplace of brick streets. I don't know if that's actually true or not, but that's the story anyway. My father loved bricks. Especially paving bricks. I'm not sure why, but he had a whole lot of them, and was always watching for a street that was being torn up so he could get more.
Having more wasn't necessarily his ultimate goal, though. Making sidewalks and patios and platforms for garbage cans to sit on and stuff like that... that was his ultimate goal. And to do that required that they be moved. First they would be moved from the bed of the pickup truck, to a pile placed somewhere near the house. Then, at a later date, they'd be moved closer to where he planned to place them. Then, at a later date, we'd dig out a place to put them, lay down a bed of sand, and start to put the bricks down to make whatever it was we were making. That's if things went well. They rarely did.
Usually, we'd move the bricks to where he thought he wanted them, and then he'd think about it for a while and change his mind. Then we'd eventually have to move them again, to the next place he thought they might go. That process could go on for a number of moves. Ultimately, he'd figure out where he really wanted them and we'd lay them out, there.
He had very little visualization ability. To visualize what something would look like after it was done, before he started it, was not his strong suit. So once we'd built it, or laid down the bricks, in this instance, then he'd actually be able to see what he had thought to build. This would lead to adjustments (hopefully) or full-scale tear down and redo, or even abandonment (rarely).
I was a piano player. I still am, actually. As such, I was rather sensitive about my hands. Needless to say, moving bricks was hard on them, at best. At worst, I'd have a smashed finger and be unable to play for a few days, or a couple of weeks. Add to that the sheer work of moving all those bricks that many times, and it's easy to understand how I, as a teenager, despised bricks. I loathed them. I wanted to blow up brick factories. I dreamed of a world with no bricks.
I never had my way. Eventually he lost interest in them, or perhaps just didn't have the energy to gather them up anymore, or maybe they ran out of streets made of bricks to tear up. At any rate, finally I had moved my last brick.
Now I live in a brick house. I think brick streets are quaint. I don't mind moving a few bricks every now and then, and I've learned how to do it without tearing up my hands, or complaining bitterly about it. He would probably laugh about it now, if he were alive to see it.
Most of all, I treasure the memory. The bricks are still in the sidewalk at the old house, where I grew up. He and I put them there. My hands survived.
Taken in Flint, Michigan.
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This is my current stash of BrickArms. I'd like to give a huge thanks to G.I. Brick fo the awesome prize, and to BrickArms for making such great weapons. As you can see, my Combat Shotgun collection has gained some new members :P
Almost everything in my stream is for trade, you just have to offer. My main wants are Combat Shotguns (in colors and camos that I do not already have) and Stens, but I will listen to all offers.
I had to upload this on my mom's iPhone, because my computer is being repaired, so in addition to not being able to edit the crummy photo, I also cannot note, which is why I will describe my means of obtaining each one below.
ValenCamo ARC & Cobalt & Black Swirled JFLRs - Prize from Julie (thanks again!) for a Specter code giveaway
DOG-ish MiniGun, Trans Blue & Titanium Ray Guns, Gunmetal & Silver Combat Shotguns, Brass Tac Sword, & Trans Orange Grease Gun - Order from G.I. Brick
Jungle Camo Combat Shotgun - Trade with Silenced_pp7
Trans Clear Needler & Christmas Camo & Trans Green Combat Shotguns - Trade with A Civillian
NOT PICTURED: Snakeskin Camo ARC - Trade with n7mereel
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Clay preparation at the Shepshed works of Charnwood Forest Brick Ltd which is a component of Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC. The Company was producing approximately 3 million facing bricks and special shaped bricks per annum.
In 1921 Walley & Alsop purchased the brick and tile works formerly run by John Nash Peake in Cemetery Road, Silverdale which were known as Rosemary Hill Tileries. T E Walley took sole control in 1926 and by 1937 the works was run by T E Walley Ltd. G.H. Downing & Co. Ltd. bought the business in 1975 but this only lasted until 1981 when the works was sold to Steetley and then closed, with production transferred to Knutton.