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Mixed media on board
2009
Inspired by The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - It was 50 years ago today...
the purchase
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Walking into an old shop with relics and antiques in China Town, the old Chinese man handed the minipimp an umbrella.
"Ah yes, 'mbella you want? That be 5 dolla", said the man that seemed to be about 500 years old. The young girl handed the man her weekly allowance.
This was it thought the girl. The ad in the newspaper clipping she found on the city streets claimed that this umbrella was magic.
"Yes yes you see right here you just wave around like this kay? You do real good kay honey?", said the man in a very fast voice while waving around the umbrella. Minipimp assumed this was his way of giving instruction on how to use it.
"Seems easy enough", she thought to herself.
So the little girl walked outside and down to the end of the block. She twirled the umbrella around. She waved it up and down. She tapped it against a building. She shoved it into a hole made for recycled cans. She twirled it, waved it, and bounced it.
Nothing.
And just as she was about to give up, she looked over at the shop she purchased this umbrella. And inside the display she saw the Chinese man. And from she could make out, he kind of winked at her. She found this most bizarre because it was not the kind of expression you would typically get from an old Asian man.
But just as he did, he seemed to disappear. Or maybe he fell. Or maybe she wasn't seeing it correctly through the stained glass window. She wasn't sure.
But what she does know is that the minute the man seemed to disappear, something actually appeared on the umbrella.
to be continued...
Second rev of the activated charcoal getter for Sitelle.
The first revision of the getter, a double-sided, double-chambered design based roughly off the GL Scientific getter for the Polycold PCC cold head, wound up not fitting in the cryostat. The flex for the feed-through, which was already pretty close to the getter in the original design, wound up being longer than expected, and caused a thermal short. As an interim measure we machined off the lower chamber of one of the getters so we could get back on task.
But I still had to design a new one. I had all kinds of grand schemes of making another CNC-based design. But we hit a schedule crunch, and the CNC mill at work was busy cranking out new filter frames for another instrument. Sooo...
I designed this one to be made on conventional hand-cranked machines. The top and bottom plate are 2mm 6061 aluminum. The sides are 0.010" thick x 1" wide high purity copper strip. The lower plate has three 1mmx1mm grooves cut in it to take the copper strips. The top plate has a recess to match the outer and inner groove, and has a bunch of holes drilled through it to let gas pass. The three strips were coated with Stycast resin, and the cavity was filled with activated charcoal. The charcoal is capped with a 1-micron glass filter, and then with the top plate. The whole mess is sealed on all four seams with Stycast.
In the end I think this was a better design than the original, even though the original won hands-down on looks, and this one literally cannot be serviced. There's more volume for getter material in this one, so the getter has more overall capacity, even if the pump speed is a little lower because of the smaller aperture. Also, the materials are much thinner than in the original design, so this getter should cool down faster than the original. That helps to ensure that it starts pumping well before the rest of the camera gets cold enough to condense water vapor.
I won't be able to test the performance of this getter until next week.
This Big Horn Sheep Ram took an interest in me for some reason. He overcame some early concerns and walked straight to me. If I hadn't backed up (again and again) I'm not sure but what we may have had contact. He didn't act aggressive, but I've never seen one so curious.
Big Horn Sheep_0977
OK, important to remember: my camera was still on its absolutely widest setting here - 18mm, according to EXIF. So if I'm this close, this should tell you something. It's tough to tell how close underwater, but it felt like four inches. In reality, probably a foot.
That fish? Eating algae off his back.
this was not my intended post for the day, but I posted it due to a few (offline) comments. I won't be publishing it to any groups (not at first, at least), so only contacts & stream visitors get to see it. The real photo for today is still to come...
It took me a lot longer than I had expected to get these pictures up from last weekend, but it's been hard to find time between my job and volunteering. Taking pictures just has not been the most important thing for me at this point, but nevertheless I will continue squeezing the shutter whenever I can. Hopefully, we will all be able to see dramatic transformation of these areas back into their original beauty, but it is clearly a long road ahead.
If you live in the area and wish to help, please contact me and I will send you a list of volunteer centers throughout Miyagi as well as a list of important equipment to bring with you. If you do decide to volunteer, please go with an organized group and bring the necessary equipment. I don't mean to frighten anyone, but I was notified again today that there still are dangerous areas. Don't go alone, please.
Here is a video that I took of the area the same day I took these pictures:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CazswZd454o
The area that these pictures were taken, was utterly obliterated by the tsunami. After a few hours of hauling items back and forth between my friends' destroyed home, I started to get a headache and feel sick from the fumes. In my last post, I also mentioned that I had heard of people setting off explosions and starting fires from trying to light their cigarettes.
We worked amidst pure devastation for about 5 Hours, however we were only able to salvage a handful of their things. Sometimes it was hard to know what was theirs, since the tsunami had swept a whole city worth of belongings through the first floor of their home.
Surprisingly, the four-year-old house was in pretty good shape despite the fact that it was blown back off of its foundation about 200 feet and sat about 10-15 degrees off of level (in the video I said 60 feet, but I meant to say 60 meters. The distance and angle is still a total guess, but you can judge for yourself in the pictures/video). The structure of house was in such good condition, that we were able to walk up to the second floor and salvage most of the dry, smaller items. Their daughter was just given a brand new bed and desk-set as an elementary graduation present, but we unfortunately could not take it out.
The reason we needed to go and salvage what we could as quickly as possible was because the house, although it did not look like it, was sitting in the middle of a road. The city and self defense force had given them only a few more days to clear out before they would have to bulldoze it down.
I asked the family if they had tsunami insurance, but apparently there is no tsunami insurance. They will receive a small amount of money from the government, but it will not even come close to covering the damage they sustained.
The most dumbfounding part of that day for me was not surreal experience of walking through the total destruction of an entire town, but rather the laughing and smiling that came from a family who just lost everything- everything except each other. Items and worldly possessions are of little value against the people we hold dear. I tried to reciprocate the smiles, laughter, and healthy conversation (especially in light of the children), but it wasn't easy fighting off the grim emotions lurking below the surface.
This last weekend, I was able to volunteer for a short time in Downtown Ishinomaki and also take a few more pictures/video The downtown area seems to be getting a lot more attention, and about half of the roads seem traversable. Downtown also felt incredibly safe during the day time due to the dozens of police and military (both Japanese and US) walking the streets and distributing food and water at the camps. I will post those pictures later this week.
I know my website is in shambles right now (I just have not had time), but I'm hoping to have it looking nicer as soon as possible. I've never really sold anything from my website, but I'm going to donate all of the money I earn from ANY of the pictures I sell (not just the quake photos) to Red Cross Japan for at least the next year. Please take it into consideration. Here is my site:
In addition, I contributed many of my pictures to QUAKEBOOK.org, and if you have never heard this organization, PLEASE check them out as well. All of Quakebook's revenue will also go towards the Red Cross Japan.
Lastly, you can contribute directly to Red Cross Japan here:
www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html
Thank you very much for facing this tragedy with us. With cooperation, strength, and perseverance, we can accomplish anything.
Take care,
Carsten Knoche
Scout has a passion for Cheez-its! If I get out a box he will jump right in my lap and try to steal them out of my hand on the way to my mouth. When the box empties he sticks his head all the way in and licks the crumbs off the bottom. It doesn't seem to bother him that he can't see. I grabbed the camera which was set up for some other type of shooting as usual and snapped away. When I realized what I had done he was done with the box. I figured "next" time I will be better prepared. So naturally they stopped printing "Get Your Own Box" on the packages. So this is the best of what I got.
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Ritchie Burdett fires home the opening goal in Epworth Town Colts' 7-1 Carrside Playing Fields victory over Central Midlands League Division One North rivals Selston reserves. Striker Burdett netted in the ninth minute then added three more. Colts, newcomers to the Central Midlands League for the 2019-20 season, had the points in the bag after just 23 minutes, when they led 3-0.
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Epworth Town Colts versus Selston reserves
Central Midlands League, Division One North (2pm)
Admission: free. Programme: £1.50 (12 pages). Attendance: 26. Epworth Town Colts 7-1 Selston reserves (half-time 4-0). Scoring sequence: 1-0 (9mins); 2-0 (11mins, penalty); 3-0 (23mins); 4-0 (33 mins); 5-0 (57mins); 6-0 (59mins); 6-1 (80mins); 7-1 (89 mins). Referee: Adrian Seward.