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Die Geburtsstadt von Hermann Hesse mit ihren wunderschönen Fachwerkhäusern - The native town of Hermann Hesse with its wonderful framework houses.
Well, the articulated tail failed. It got too heavy for the hinges to handle, no matter how much I doubled them up. I simplified the sections and mounted them on framework of lift arms.
One battle lost, but I’m moving forward. Tomorrow I’ll build a lid and some flippers. Only three days left!
Lab2014 students presented their final design explorations for Benjamin Bratton's Critical Frameworks section, "2 or 3 Things I Know About The Stack" at The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD. The group visited an immersive 3-D projection "CAVE", a 4K digital theater and the nanotech cleanrooms on campus, as well as The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The former J Pick & Sons Knitwear Factory which has been converted into up-market living accommodation on Wellinton Street, Leicester, Leicestershire.
John Pick, the founder of J Pick & Sons, was born in 1820 into a Barrow on Soar family of framework knitters. As a young man he foresaw the demise of the hand frame and went to Derby to learn the new 'factory' methods of production.
His business was established around 1856 in rented premises in Friday Street, Leicester, and by 1863 it was listed as a Fancy Scarf and Hosiery manufacturer. In 1868 he moved to his own factory in Paddock Street. After a very short time the firm was concentrated entirely on the production of knitwear. There was a later move to Wimbledon Street where the firm, by now J Pick & Sons, manufactured the cardigan that became popular during the Crimean war. Later they added polo neck sweaters, which were popular as sportswear at the turn of the century.
The firm prospered and from 1913 was based in an attractive purpose built factory in Dover Street. The years between the two World Wars were the most successful. The firm was dedicated to the production of knitwear bearing its own brand name, Pick. This was promoted through the UK wholesale trade to the thousands of independent stores then in business throughout the country and through agents in the British Empire and the Mediterranean area. This era was successful for the family who lived in the then fashionable St Peters Road and later in a large house in Knighton Rise. There was a Humber car and later a Daimler with a chauffer. J Pick & Sons reached a high-point in 1939, just before World War Two.
The war was a setback for the knitting industry with many workers leaving to join the forces or going into other occupations. After the war the firm did not repeat its former success. There continued to be a shortage of knitting yarn and workers and clothes rationing continued for some time. Under the fourth generation managing director, David Pick, the firm remained loyal to its own brand and the independent retailers. Significantly, it did not embrace an opportunity to deal with Marks & Spencer. Picks had always concentrated on menswear but in a break with tradition they also supplied British Home Stores with a range of boy's and women's knitwear. A venture in supplying cut price merchandise to Poland proved less profitable. However, Picks did achieve success as a supplier to Tesco, Littlewoods, and C&A and gained large contracts from the Ministry of Defence.
In the period between the wars the industry had benefited from a rise in the popularity of knitted products and a substantial degree of government support in the form of tariff protection. In contrast, this level of tariff support was not followed up after the Second World War much to the chagrin of David Pick who unsuccessfully lobbied the government for stronger protection for the industry.
In the early 1980s the firm, in common with many others, found business very tough. The demise of the small retailers and increasing low-cost imports affected the firm and there were major job losses in the industry at that time. From 1973 to 1983 the industry lost thirty three thousand workers. A short-lived increase in Ministry of Defence orders accompanied the Falklands War but ultimately Picks shared the fate of hundreds of other manufacturers and after a long hard struggle closed for business in 1991.
Information source:
www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/specialcollections/exhibitions...
Tucked beneath the Transamerica Pyramid, this wall reads like a visual index to a way of thinking. Books, photographs, furniture, graphics, landscapes—each square holds its own, yet the grid binds everything into a single, legible system. Nothing is ornamental. Everything is intentional.
At first glance, it feels almost playful: saturated color blocks, familiar chair forms, pastoral scenes from the Eames Ranch, fragments of process and personality. Stay longer and the discipline reveals itself. The grid enforces equality. A molded plywood sculpture carries the same visual weight as a paperback cover or a black-and-white portrait. Ideas, not objects, are the organizing principle.
This is design culture presented without nostalgia. The wall doesn’t romanticize midcentury modernism so much as explain it—how curiosity moved freely between furniture, filmmaking, architecture, publishing, and education. The transitions are seamless because the method was consistent: observe carefully, reduce intelligently, communicate clearly.
Photographically, the composition rewards restraint. Even light keeps the whites honest and the colors dense but controlled. The concrete edges of the gallery and the faint industrial texture of the floor anchor the image in San Francisco—modernism lived inside a city that values systems as much as spectacle. At thumbnail size, the image reads as pure geometry and color. Up close, it becomes a map of relationships.
Seen here, the Eames legacy isn’t a style. It’s a framework—one that still fits comfortably beneath a building that has always believed structure can also be humane.
Daughter of a Panchmura Artisan
Kanyashree Prakalpa - a big step in the right direction
West Bengal Government’s flagship programme, Kanyashree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme for the promotion of girl’s education and prevention of forced child marriages. It is a unique child sensitive social protection scheme launched in October 2013 with technical assistance from UNICEF.
The scheme includes an annual scholarship of Rs.500 (£5) for girls between the ages of 13-18 years to continue with their studies from upper primary up to higher secondary levels, and provided they are not married off before the legal age of 18 years. A one-time grant of Rs.25,000 (GBP £250) is also provided to the girl, once she reaches the age of 18, to pursue higher studies.
Between October 2013 and March 2015, 2.22 million girl students of the state have enrolled in the scheme with a budget of GBP £100 million. The scheme's enrolment pattern is in line with its equity focus - girls from Scheduled Castes are 23.55% of the total beneficiaries while religious minorities are 23.45%, other backward classes are 8.69%, the Scheduled Tribes are 5.71% and from general castes are 37.51%.
The Kanyashree Prakalpa is run by the Department of Women Development and Social Welfare as nodal agency with convergent support of over 13 departments of Govt. of West Bengal besides other partners including the state's leading banks. The project is becoming popular because of its 'simplicity of design, easy accessibility, targeted- communication strategy, convergent implementation and focus on raising the financial, social and self worth of the girls'.
West Bengal Govt. has been given international recognition for this scheme by DFID (Department for International Development, UK) and UNICEF in 2014. UNICEF has supported the state Govt. in the preparation of the scheme Guidelines, its implementation and monitoring framework, its communication strategy, the scheme MIS and has supported an all-district baseline survey on key indicators. It is also technically facilitating regular assessments of the scheme to strengthen its governance, implementation and coverage.
See more at: unicef.in
Die Geburtsstadt von Hermann Hesse mit ihren wunderschönen Fachwerkhäusern - The native town of Hermann Hesse with its wonderful framework houses.
I'm taking Genevieve Crabe's Mandala class on www.craftartedu.com; and this is my first one, drawn with a ruler, compass, and protractor. (I know! SCARY, huh, except NOT! She takes all the mystery out of the little bit of math and makes it easy. Way easy! This is the first template she walks you through, there's one more, which I will do, and then I will make my own. Such fun! BTW, mine is different than hers by the tangles in the sections.
More HP5 pushed to 800 in microphen, pushing to 1600 next keep your eyes peeled!
Chinon CE-4s
Ricoh 50mm f/2 + Vivitar MC 28mm f/2.8
Ilford HP5+ rated @ 640 dev'd @ 800
Microphen 1+1 @ 22°C 12m 30s
A week ago I had a dream and in the dream there was this set. I woke up and it wasn't even 5 a.m. yet but I was far too exhilarated to sleep. Within that day I had make the framework and after that I've added layer after layer of papier-mache to give it texture and from.
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