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Wanted to end the day today with some tutorials of Photoshop..I really need to brush up on this...Took an hour or so to tighten up my skills...
Disk Brooch
Date:
7th–8th century
Geography:
Made in northern France or western Germany
Culture:
Frankish
The dress of Frankish women generally consisted of a tunic, cinched by a belt from which hung an array of pendants. A wrap or cloak went over the tunic. Shoes and hosiery, fastened with buckles, covered the legs. Earrings, necklaces, and hairpins completed the ensemble.
Aspects of this dress changed from the 300s to the 600s, and brooches in particular convey changes in taste. From the 300s to the 500s, pairs of small brooches, in an array of inventive shapes, held the wrap in place. By the 600s, a single large disc brooch, usually elaborately decorated, served the same function. No other piece of jewelry is more characteristic of Frankish dress than the brooch, and no other better demonstrates the virtuosity of Frankish metalworkers.
the rounded radius on the fin/disk interface ensures long fatigue-free life. made by japanese and american foundries that /do/ know their business.
As is clear from this picture, a zip disk is a glorified floppy. The white circle is soft paper. The grey disk on the bottom is the media disk.
Scientific Name: Aspicilia cuprea
Common Name: Sunken Disk Lichen
Certainty: positive (notes)
Location: Southern California; San Gabriel Mts; Mt Gleason
Date: 20081015
Gold with garnets and glass, gypsum paste, and niello
Anglo-Saxon, found at Teynam, southeastern England
Made early 600s, probably in Faversham, southeastern England.
I am holding the magnetic disk (the actual media) from a zip-100 disk. It's an extremely thin, very flexible plastic circle. I don't know for sure if this damages the disk; I didn't try to put it back together after.
So I was trying to sort all of my disks, so I knew what needed to be installed on the new computer.
I have too many disks. And it took several hours for me to find the #%!@ camera disks, which Canon, just to make sure that I got great customer service, did NOT have on their website.