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For some time now, I've been looking for something more secure than the standard cold shoe setup for my strobes and triggers. I never had confidence on the little cold shoe holders, especially when a using a flash mounted on a hot shoe mounted trigger. I saw a few solutions commercially but they seemed a little expensive for something so simple. I talked it over with my brother and we came up with this.

We started with a plastic kitchen cutting board. It's a very strong material and easy to work with. Once the plates were cut to the desired size, he cut spacers to give room for the thumb screws. Holes were drilled for the various mounts. The version seen here is mounted to a standard umbrella swivel with the cold shoe removed. The plate was secured to the swivel using the original cold shoe screws and holes. Loctite was added to make sure the screws stay in place. The Velcro strap was sandwiched between the top plate and spacer. A layer of dense neoprene foam cut from a gardening cushion was then adhered to the plate. The second version is mounted to a standard brass spigot so that it can be used on any standard swivel.

This feels so much more secure now! There's less stress on the hot shoe of flash and trigger. It just feels more solid. It also places the flash closer to the center of the umbrella for a more even spread of light.

Total spent was about $30 for 4 mounts (two on swivels and two on spigots). All parts were sourced locally except for the swivels which I already had. The ready made ones run about $40 each so it was worth the effort. They are definitely more solid on the light stand then before.

Glocal Image Breeder Interface by Jer Thorp

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www.glocal.ca/breed

The Glocal Project is a massive contributive artwork. Two months before the launch of the project, we already have upwards of 8,000 submissions from more than 2,000 participants around the world.

One of the most challenging questions has been: how can we make sense of such a large collection of images?

These 'phylogenies' imagine how an anthropologist might attempt to build relationships between images in the Glocal Pool.

Through image analysis technology, each image in the pool is assigned a 'signature', which can be though of as the image's genome - the colours, composition, symmetry, etc. that define the image.

In these phylogenetic trees, pairs of images are 'bred' to produce offspring which could conceivably have been born from these parent images.

The result is a 'family tree' of images which attempts to invent a history inside of the large project pool.

For more information, check out my blog - http:blog.blprnt.com, or the Glocal website at www.glocal.ca.

Also, please consider joining the Glocal Project Pool - www.flickr.com/groups/glocal.

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Flash by Erell.B

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Flash Gordon by pisupaints

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FLASH by Jon Gavin

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Well theres nothing flashy about this knackered silent duffer with broken tones lol but clearly the driver likes to put his reg plate on show! Unsure about that headboard too but its a bit big to edit out.

Either way it will be the last time anyone see's her doing out this weekend before withdrawal so i managed one pic of it here quietly drifting past at Townsend Fold.

47830 TNT 20066 & 70014 at East Lancashire Summer Diesel Gala 28/06/2024

Flash... by alexphoto08

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Flash by Christian K

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Flash by Alex Ellison

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Flash Comics #35 by Michael Studt

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Flash Comics / Heft-Reihe

Hawkman

cover: Sheldon Moldoff