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Experimenting in the production of pottery by the blind.
“To them, their fingers are eyes”
From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, a former curator at Sunderland Museum, organised several handling sessions for the blind, first offering an invitation to the children from the Sunderland Council Blind School, to handle a few of the collections at Sunderland Museum, which was ‘eagerly accepted’.
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Friends have asked for holiday suggestions for nutella, so I have designed an experiment that produced good holiday results.
1. similar to experiment #2, select a suitable oatmeal raisin cookie
2. pipette 30 grams of nutella carefully onto the cookie. whatever you do, don't use a spoon, because the nutella doesn't want to spread-- it wants to cling. to spoons, cookies, taste buds-- it's all very lovey-dovey and, perhaps, a trifle needy.
3. Also similar to the previous experiment, carefully place exactly no baconsalt, whatsoever, on the nutella
4. pour egg nog
5. play some holiday-themed music
6. swish the egg nog and enjoy its heady vapors. oh, did i mention the rum?
7. enjoy responsibly
8. make a setting for a friend
Connectivity and readymade.
Experimenting, manipulating and combining daily life objects in order to attempt, to force or to mystify a workable connection between them, at least to make it visible and/or possible. This exercise is to be considered as a warm-up, a first step towards a further installation or project.
Erg (École de Recherche Graphique), Brussels, Arts Numériques-Atelier (New media art), 2016-2017.
Professors : Marc Wathieu.
Esperimento: ho desaturato il cielo e agito sui contrasti e toni per renderlo inquietante. Ho schiarito l'erba e aumentato leggermente la saturazione.
Desatured the sky and maked hi contrast.
Experiment in (on) the kitchen table studio with new led lights mixed with all that heaven gives thru the window. WB setting is 'auto'.
I am curious to see what kind of hits a pic can get just with tags. One of four posted, none will be included in any of my sets, not posted to any groups. I also made sure that they didn't show on the current photo on my site too long, as I added a dozen flower shots right after. I think this should prove interesting.
If you like this shot, you should check out what my friends post in MiRea's Realm
Nikon FA MC Kalejnar 5N 100/2.8
Unknown Fuji B&W film@ 100 ISO.I think it is orthochromatic motion picture or technical film (there are any markings near perforation).
Rodinal 1:100 per 1hour.
Experimenting illumination on my small office.
You can comment what is the colour you like most.
Enjoy…
In this experimentation I wanted to try observational drawing and experiment with different watercolours. (17.01.2017)
that were supposed to be a bowl of cherries
i was shooting with my macro lens for holga
but it somehow turned out into shapeless form and only the colors remained
sigh!
Starring Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf, Philip Van Zandt, and William Schallert. Directed by Herbert L. Strock.
When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test chamber, seemingly by an experiment gone awry -- Dr. David Sheppard (Richard Egan) is sent out from Washington to investigate. Sheppard mixes easily enough with the somewhat eccentric team of scientists, though he always seems in danger of being distracted by the presence of Joanne Merritt (Constance Dowling), who serves as the aide to the project director Dr. Van Ness (Herbert Marshall) but is, in reality, another security agent. Sheppard is as puzzled as anyone else by the seemingly inexplicable series of events overtaking the installation -- properly operating equipment suddenly undergoing lethal malfunctions, and the radar tracking aircraft that aren't there -- until he puts it together with the operations of NOVAC (Nuclear Operated Variable Automatic Computer), the central brain of the complex. But the mystery deepens when he discovers that NOVAC was shut down during one of the "accidents" -- and even the computer's operators can't account fully for the whereabouts of GOG and MAGOG, the two robots under the computer's control.
"...and then without warning, the machine became a frankenstein of steel," says the sensationalist poster text. This is the third story in Ivan Tors' OSI trilogy. His first "Office of Scientific Investigation" story was Magnetic Monster in early 1953. The second was Riders to the Stars in early '54. With Gog the loose trilogy is complete. Unlike the Star Wars trilogy in which the stories build upon each other, each of the three OSI stories are separate tales which have nothing to do with each other. The common thread is the idea of there being a sort of Science FBI agency whose job it is, is to check out the scientifically strange. In that regard, Tors' OSI is a bit like a foreshadowing of the X-Files TV series, but without any of the New Age paranormal focus.
In keeping with the previous two stories, Gog is more of a detective murder mystery movie. Tors was a huge fan of "hard" science, not fanciful fiction fluff, so Gog, like the other two movies, is chock full of reveling in sciencey stuff in an almost geeky way. This reverence for real science keeps things from getting out on shaky limb, as many sci-fi films to. The events are much more plausible, less fantastic.
Synopsis
At a secret underground research facility, far out in the desert, scientists working on preparations for a manned space mission, are getting murdered mysteriously. Two agents from the OSI are dispatched to solve the mystery and keep the super secret space station program on track. The scientists are killed in various ways, mostly through equipment malfunctions. The facility director and the agents suspect sabotage. Small transmitter/receiver boxes are found within equipment in different parts of the facility. They suggest that someone on the outside is transmitting in the "malfunctions" in order to kill off the program's scientists. Occasional alarms indicate some flying high intruder, but nothing is clearly found. One of the base's two robots, named Gog, kills another technician while it's mate, Magog, tries to set up an overload within the base's atomic pile. The OSI agents stop Magog with a flame thrower. Meanwhile, interceptor jets scramble and find the highflying spy jet and destroy it with missiles. Once the trouble is past, the Director announces that they will be launching their prototype space station the next day, despite the sabotage attempts to stop it. The End.
The time spent reveling in techno-geekery has a certain Popular Science charm to it. There's an evident gee-whiz air about space and defense sciences which is fun to see. People were fascinated with things rockety and atomic. For various fun bits, see the Notes section.
Gog oozes Cold War from every frame. First is the base's underground location to make them safe from A-bombs. Next is the mysterious killer trying to stop the space station program. The high-flying mystery plane is "not one of ours." (that leaves: Them, and we all knew who they were.) The space station is to be powered by a solar mirror. Even that benign mirror has sinister possibilities. While demonstrating the mirror, the scientists use it to burn a model of a city. "This could happen...if we're not the first to reach space," says the Director. Space is the next "high ground" to be contested. At the end of the movie, when discussing the launch (despite the sabotage attempt) of the prototype space station, the Director says, "Through it's eye, we'll be able to see everything that goes on upon this tired old earth." The Defense Secretary says, "Nothing will take us by surprise again." An obvious reference to Pearl Harbor.
B-films often re-used props and sets from prior films in order to save on their budgets. Gog, even though shot in Eastman Color, was no exception. Two old prop friends show up in Gog. One is our venerable old friend, the space suits from Destination Moon ('50). Look for the centrifuge scene. The research assistants are dressed in them, and as an added bonus, they wear the all-acrylic fish bowl helmets used in Abbot and Costello Go to Mars ('53). Our second old friend is scene in the radar / security room, (the one with the annoying tuning fork device). Check out the monitor wall. It's been gussied up a bit, but it is the spaceship control panel wall from Catwomen of the Moon and Project Moon Base -- complete with the empty 16mm film reels on the right side. It's fun to see old friends.
B-films often include stock footage of military units, tanks, jets, battleships, etc. to fill things out. Gog is no different, and even commits the common continuity error of showing one type of plane taking off, but a different kind in the air.
What amounts to a small treat amid the usual stock footage of jets, some shots of a rather obscure bit of USAF hardware -- the F-94C Starfire with its straight wings and huge wing tanks. In 1954, the Starfire was one of America's coolest combat jets, yet we hear little about it. The swept-wing F-86 Sabers (which we see taxiing and taking off) were the agile fighter which gained fame over Korea. They're common stock footage stars. The F-94, with its onboard radar (in the nose cone) was deemed too advanced to risk falling into enemy hands. So, it didn't see much action , and therefore little fame. The heavier, yet powerful F-94C (one of the first US jets to have an afterburner) was 1954 America's hottest Interceptor -- designed to stop high flying Soviet bombers. It's blatant cameo appearance in Gog, intercepting the high-flying mystery plane, was a fun little bit of patriotic showing off.
The very name of the movie, Gog, is charged with meaning to American audiences of the mid 50s, though virtually lost on viewers of the 21st century. The names of the two robots, Gog and Magog, come from the Bible. More specifically, from the prophecies of Ezekiel (Chapter 38) and the Book of Revelation (chapter 20). While just who they are (nations? kings?) has been debated for centuries, their role as tools of Satan in the battle of Armageddon is clear. Mainstream American patriotic Christendom had settled on the idea that the Soviet Union was the prophesied "nations from the north" who would join Satan to oppose God. This gives the title of the movie a special Cold War significance. It also puts an interesting spin on the Dr. Zeitman character for having named the two robots in the first place. Since they were tools of the mega-computer NOVAC, what was he saying about NOVAC?
It is interesting that the base's radar could not detect the mystery plane (which was beaming in the 'kill' instructions to NOVAC) because it was made of "fiberglass" which rendered it invisible to radar. Now, fiberglass itself isn't sturdy enough for high-speed jets, and it would take until the 1990s before composite materials advanced to make the dream of a stealth aircraft a reality. Nonetheless, the dream (or nightmare) of stealth aircraft was on-screen in 1954 in Gog.
The super computer, NOVAC, controlled everything on the base. Even though the machines were not really killing scientists on their own, but following human orders from the mystery plane, there was the on-screen depiction of machines having a murderous mind of their own. (all pre-Steven King) In the techno starry-eyed 50s, it was fairly uncommon for the technology itself to be turning on its masters. This idea would gain traction later in the 50s, and especially in the 60s, but in '54, it was unusual.
A cautionary subtext to Gog is the danger of trusting in a supercomputer to manage defenses and a whole base. NOVAC doesn't go bad on its own, as the computer will in The Invisible Boy, Hal in 2001 or Colossus in The Forbin Project. In this movie, it was the nefarious "others" who hacked into NOVAC to make it do the killing, but this just demonstrates the danger. People were getting a little nervous about letting machines take over too much responsibility. We were starting to distrust our creations.
Until Gog, robots were fairly humanoid.
They had two legs, two arms, a torso and a head. Audiences had seen the mechanical Maria in Metropolis ('27), the fedora-wearing metal men in Gene Autrey's Phantom Empire serial ('35). The water-heater-like Republic robot appeared in several rocketman serials. There was the gleaming giant Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still ('51) and the cute left over fedora-dudes in Captain Video ('51). The metal giant in Devil Girl from Mars ('54) was also humaniod, in a chunky way. Gog and Magog were a departure from the stereotype. They were noticeably in-human, which was part of the mood.
Bottom line? Gog seems a bit bland, as far as sci-fi tends to go, but it has a lot in it for fans of 50s sci-fi.
experimenting with a ten minute exposure as a westbound BNSF grain train crosses the rock creek trestle on the UP canyon subdivision through the feather river canyon
An experiment we decided to replicate from Mythbusters....you drop five mentos candies into a 2-litre of Diet Coke and split seconds later you get this....
With the wig frustrations I've had with my Puki, I try something I read Spampy do. I've done this before with my tinier elfdoll but directly to a spare head cap. I didn't think it would work - peeling the plastic wrap off from the inside but it works. My top isn't great but this is the first time my Puki has had a wig that fit and fit her face.
No worries, you wig makers - No way would I try to sell these - you guys make amazing wigs and I have enough to do and I'm betting these fall apart with a good dose of water. The mohair I use is also for cloth dolls and such, nowhere near the quality mohair wig makers use so cutting hair from it isn't painful at all.
Voigtländer Avus 6x9
Fomapan 100 Rollfilm
Caffenol R-S 12min
Experiment die Voigtländer Avus 6x9 als "point& shoot" Kamera zu nutzen. Diese wurde im Prospekt von 1921 ja als "Handkamera" beworben. Entfernung immer geschätzt, hier gab die Hundeleine von 5m eine Orientierung. Belichtung per smartphone gemessen.
Experiment the Voigtlander Avus 6x9 to use as a "point & shoot" camera. This was indeed advertised as "Handheld" in the prospectus of 1921. Distance always appreciated here was the leash 5m orientation. Exposure measured by smartphone.
The Foucault pendulum of the Griffith Observatory.
The pendulum swings independently of the Earth's rotation. As the Earth rotates, the pendulum's direction will slowly change relative to the ground, here causing pegs to be knocked down one after another. This experiment demonstrates that the Earth rotates, and was devised by Léon Foucault in 1851.
I wanted to experiment with light in the dark, since there was barely any sun this week. I also played around with the levels on photoshop to really bring out the colors against the background. This shows my community because I like to surround myself with positive people, no matter what the situation is. In this picture the bright colors represent the positive people in my life, and the black background represents the bad situation.