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Well i was attempting to make a new company... but I realized how much it looks like MPA. So im probably gonna scrap it. But anyways this is a .75 caliber killing machine. This particular one uses special "Sloth gas" round, which slow and stun enemies.
Every 10 weeks or so I need to come up with a new project for my continuing quilt students. This is the one I'll present tomorrow in class. It came from the Marcus Bros. fabric website.
The beginning students in my class make sampler quilts entirely by hand. The continuing students have the option of making the projects by hand or machine. This one was pieced on the machine and appliqued by hand. I plan to hand quilt it.
My first attempt at digitally compositing my Star Trek Micro Machines. This one is based on the Enterprise's first encounter with The Borg.
318254 arrives with an Helensburgh to Airdrie train, viewed from the station building at Singer which spans the tracks.
Singer station was named after the large factory next door which made the world famous sewing machines. This factory is long gone and is now a large business park, but the station retains its traditional name. Clydebank F.C.s old ground Kilbowie Park is also nearby - it is now a retail park.
Taken for Week 42, Starting Wednesday October 14th 2020, 52 Weeks: The 2020 Edition theme 'Machine'.
This is an old petrol pump so probably not in use anymore. We were going through Wargrave and were stopped at traffic lights next to it. This was taken on my phone through the car window.
I've been playing at the sewing machine this morning. The scanner really didn't do it justice. There's a lot of texture going on.
The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine was on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library in October 2015.
Visitors on Sunday, October 25 seemed to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this picture, as well are related photo albums such as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
Come see the slot machine this month! Our poetic oracle awaits you, to share words of wisdom about your life and future.
The exhibit is open one last day, Saturday October 31, 2015, from 1 to 5pm, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine was on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library in October 2015.
Visitors on Sunday, October 25 seemed to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this picture, as well are related photo albums such as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
Come see the slot machine this month! Our poetic oracle awaits you, to share words of wisdom about your life and future.
The exhibit is open one last day, Saturday October 31, 2015, from 1 to 5pm, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
Pima Air and Space Museum
FAIRCHILD A-10A THUNDERROLT II
Called the Warthog by its pilots for the plane’s unstreamlined aggressive appearance, the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II is the first fixed wing aircraft in the U.S. Air Force designed specifically for close support of ground troops. The plane was designed around the massive GAU-8 30mm cannon. Mounted in the nose of the plane and firing more than 4000 rounds a minute the Warthog's gun can shred even the heaviest armor. The Warthog's design also includes a titanium armored cockpit section to protect the pilot from ground fire. The A-10 was introduced into service in March 1976 when the first aircraft were delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. By the late 1980s the Air Force was actively seeking a replacement for the A-10 and was focused on developing the General Dynamics F-16 into a close air support aircraft. Plan changed in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait and the United States moved to defend Saudi Arabia and liberate Kuwait. The A-10 quickly proved itself to be the world's premier ground attack aircraft. Since the First Gulf War the Air Force has begun a program to upgrade and rejuvenate the Warthog and now expects it to remain in service until at least 2030.
In the 2009 post-apocalyptic motion picture "Terminator: Salvation" the Warthog is shown as one of the few aircraft remaining to the insurgent human resistance to the take over of the planet by robot killing machines. This actually makes sense as the A-10 is a rugged, easy to repair aircraft that could probably be kept operational when more high-tech aircraft would be impossible to keep in the air.
The cockpit section on display here was used in the production of the movie for scenes where the actress Moon Bloodgood and others were shown flying A-10s.
Technical Specifications
Wingspan: 57 ft 6 in
Length: 53 ft 4 in
Height: 14 ft 8 in
Weight: 50,000 lbs (loaded)
Maximum speed: 381 mph
Maximum Altitude: 30,500 ft
Range: 620 miles
Engines: Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans, 9,065 lbs. thrust
Crew: 1
U.S. Marines assigned to Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, deliver toys to children living in remote parts of Alaska as part of the Toys for Tots program, Dec. 12, 2018. After traveling to a hub of villages via aircraft provided by the 211th Rescue Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, the Marines journeyed to different villages on snow machines. This year three teams of Marines traveled to numerous villages in the vicinities of Kotzebue, Galena and McGrath. Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve with a goal of delivering, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive and patriotic citizens. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan Valdes Montijo)
Seen in the Gents toilets at the Urban Tap House, Cardiff.
I like these traditional, solid looking machines.
This style of dryer featured on TV recently..."How It's Made", or similar.
Not only do they look pretty cool, they chuck out enough warm air to actually dry your hands!
Complete with the drunken lamp-post and newly installed palisade fencing, Network Rail 'Stoneblower' passes along the old GC section of the Mexborough to Woodburn junction section of double-track line just outside Rotherham Central. This unit was expected to be a Track Unit but the working was a bit odd in that it appeared to 'sit' at Woodburn Junction for around 6 hours without doing much. It has come along the GC section of track through Thrybergh from the Doncaster D.C.E. (Departmental, Carriage & Engineers?) sidings and is making its way to a stop at Woodburn Junction; the daily, this week, 6U37 working. Some details of one of the class of Network Rail 'on-track' machines, this one a 'Stoneblower', can be had from the Harsco website-
Length32.2m(106ft.)
Weight113 tonnes(124 tons) carried on three bogies
Travel Speed100km/h(60mph) max
Average Output440m/hr(1,400 ft./hr)
Measuring Speed16 km/h (10 mp) max
Track Lifting & Slewing0 to 80mm(0 to 3.2 in.)
Stone Capacity16tonnes(18 tons)
Stone Size20mm(0.8 in.)
and here, a Youtube video shows one of these units in action on the line, clearing out the ballast, cleaning and replacing it-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9gFKgheSU
Some other on-track machines in the family of Network Rail's repertoire of units to minimise disruption on the line when maintenance needs to be undertaken, can be found here-
www.docbrown.info/docspics/ArchiveSteam/OnTrack1.htm
PAssing by on a local service at about the same time is a Northern Rail class 142, 142028 2R11, on the Lincoln Central to Adwick service. Someone needs to remove that blo*** post; looks as if its already had a 'nudge'. The second picture now shows the change since the old line-side concrete section wall was replaced as few weeks ago with tall, 7foot. palisade fence; the Booth advertising signs being re-installed on the new fence. Hearing a distinctive sound behind the camera, a quick whizz round revealed this fine looking 1955, Packard Clipper Custom Constellation hardtop coupe, rolling along through the continuing roadworks on centenary way; a more modern version of comfortable traction approaching the camera on the left in the form of a jet-black Land Rover. In front of the Packard Clipper a car of complete opposite style and reminiscent of another 50/60s classic, in the form of a minuscule Fiat 'bubble car'... sorry!
We think that we're the ones
We're the bright unconquered suns
Wait a while
We'll watch the light grow stale
And we smell so very clean
But we're the oil in this machine
And this machine, this machine is going wrong
The New Jersey Antique Engine & Machine Club had a pavilion at the fair. A bunch of machines were running, which was awesome--you usually just see them still. Here's a washing machine!
This is the last photo of my Appalachian Trail and State Fair day.
When July is ending, make your plans to go to theNew Jersey State Fair
More about the New Jersey Antique Engine & Machine Club
Started in the late 80s, this lingered unfinished for close to 15 years -- primarily because I was determined to hand-quilt it. I finally finished the quilting on the machine. This is a wallhanging.
Another look at Bedroom #1, on the second floor, of the Hamilton House. Here you see the furniture that makes up this room. Also near the window is a vintage sewing machine. This appear's to be a woman's room. The color of the furniture and the wallpaper blend perfectly. Located in the Turn of the Century section at the Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Road (George Street) in Mumford, NY.
We made some cool 'pataphysical talismans and time machines this week in Geo Monly’s amazing woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley.
Howard Rheingold (a.k.a. Dr. Rindbrain) and Jean Bolte (a.k.a. Dr. Figurine) have been building a Time Machine model, which is coming along very well. It is a modular structure with five walls, which can house a wide range of interactive art works. It could grow into a 'collection of time machines’, featuring different artist's views of events that impact us all.
Fabrice Florin (a.k.a. Dr. Fabio) made hundreds of 'pataphysical talismans, using Tam High's laser printer, an Illustrator file created by Freddy Hahne (a.k.. Dr. Really). It only took a couple hours to print over 280 talismans, which are based on the symbol of unity, featured in stupas all over Nepal.
Our creative process is documented in this photo album: bit.ly/pata-photos
Come see the ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine at the Mill Valley Library this Saturday, Oct. 31, from 1pm to 5pm. Halloween costumes welcome :)
Learn more about our community-created poetic oracle: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
Learn more about Tam High technical classes: www.marinlearn.com/index.cfm?method=ClassListing.ClassLis...
I’m very proud to finally share my completed Obi-Wan saber. I machined this over the course of a year, fitting it in between life and work!
Apart from a Graflex clamp from @krsabers and bubble strip from @therealwannawanga, everything was made by me.
The components are aluminium, which I had anodised black. The neck assembly is brass with a 3D printed vane insert, and the pommel is hand-polished aluminium rather than chromed plastic as the original prop was. Cotter pins, D-ring and screws are all vintage, even if they aren’t 100% accurate.
I based this hilt mostly on the “Chronicles” saber, which refers to photographs of the prop as it appeared post-production. It’s more beaten up than its on-screen appearance, but I love the botched repairs with screw and pins.
Weathering was done both pre and post anodising, with lots of aluminium blackener from Birchwood Casey used to give a convincing gunmetal tone. Rust was done with acrylics, sealed with Hycote matte lacquer so that the prop can withstand handling.
This build was a fun technical challenge- but thankfully the final thing is so bashed up that it’s forgiving on any of my bad machining!
I've been following Rachel Maddow on Twitter and the TV machine.
This week, she talked about the NASA "LCROSS" moonshot to look for water.
She spoke of the Moon as a neighbor and questioned whether it was polite to bomb it.
See her Moment of Geek segment, here, which explains the mission in detail with beautiful computer graphic videos:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#31436012
Rachel has said that- if you email the show- ...'someone here will read it'.
So- for fun- I sent her this:
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The Moon is Us.
Hello, Rachel folks-
- i don't think of the Moon as a 'neighbor' that we have to be polite to and not bomb.
- it is Us, isn't it? especially, considering the giant impact theory that says it is made of us:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis
- to bomb the Moon for science is sort of like scratching your arm.
- then, there is the brilliance of the idea of the sequence: to shoot a bomb and test the radiance before the bombing-and-testing unit itself falls into the hole.
- pretty good use of the laws of physics. reminds me of the slingshot method of speeding up a spacecraft. ( but what do i know? )
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- while we're at it, you may enjoy a related page of geek.
- it discusses a scenario (of mine) where Phoebos came from the earth after our giant impact. geek out to your hearts content:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/326659217/in/set-720575...
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Upper NASA image:
The projectile is sent down to crash on purpose to create a debris cloud that the larger craft will analyze.
Source page for upper NASA image:
spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av020/080730delay.html
Lower NASA image:
The projectile creates a six-mile-high debris cloud. The larger craft analyzes it for water.
Source page for lower NASA image:
a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/060...
We made some cool 'pataphysical talismans and time machines this week in Geo Monly’s amazing woodshop at Tam High School in Mill Valley.
Howard Rheingold (a.k.a. Dr. Rindbrain) and Jean Bolte (a.k.a. Dr. Figurine) have been building a Time Machine model, which is coming along very well. It is a modular structure with five walls, which can house a wide range of interactive art works. It could grow into a 'collection of time machines’, featuring different artist's views of events that impact us all.
Fabrice Florin (a.k.a. Dr. Fabio) made hundreds of 'pataphysical talismans, using Tam High's laser printer, an Illustrator file created by Freddy Hahne (a.k.. Dr. Really). It only took a couple hours to print over 280 talismans, which are based on the symbol of unity, featured in stupas all over Nepal.
Our creative process is documented in this photo album: bit.ly/pata-photos
Come see the ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine at the Mill Valley Library this Saturday, Oct. 31, from 1pm to 5pm. Halloween costumes welcome :)
Learn more about our community-created poetic oracle: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
Learn more about Tam High technical classes: www.marinlearn.com/index.cfm?method=ClassListing.ClassLis...
Ah…. Memories….. This is one of the most memorable military kits I used to make as a kid – God knows how many of the same kits I bought over the years, played with, be serious about model building, painting, building dioramas and so on in the 70’s and 80’s. When I was a young lad I just slapped them together with glue and played with them straight away in the battlefield but as I grew older I got serious about them and the fun changed from playing battle to building and painting and reading about the history. Mountains of kits have passed in my life and this is one of the reminder kits of my past plastic kit history.
What I love most about the Tamiya military (AFV and Aircraft) kits is the figures! Just about all their kits come with at least a figure or more and as a kid those figures were the main attraction for any kits. Now there are lots of manufacturers of finely detailed AFVs such as Dragon and Trumpeter but they normally don't include figures and somehow even modelers don't do the figures... For me, it is always man before machines!
This was a cheaper set to enhance my military power although it was mostly German weapon and soldiers but Allied Army always could made use of them!
Brother BES 1260C is a six- head, 12-needle embroidery machine. This 6- head machine comes with 12 needles and is capable of doing cap, tubular and flat embroidery. For more information or for a complete listing of our embroidery equipment please visit TheEmbroideryWarehouse at www.TheEmbroideryWarehouse.com or call us at 817-346-7691 sales@tewh.com. We also BUY USED embroidery machines and embroidery equipment.
This fine Italian coffee maker looks to date from the mid 1960's or perhaps slightly earlier. Marked 'Torino' there can be little doubt this machine was manufactured in Turin- just a short distance from Milan. This comes as little surprise as the Milan area is the heartland of classic Italian coffee machine design. However this machine made in Turin has its own unique merits. The styling is modernist with nods to of the Italian futurists, Detroit automotive streamlining, and art deco lines. The little handle on the head of the machine looks like a small coffee portafilter, however it is a lever that can operate an ingenious valve incorporated into the head of the machine. This almost seems like a comical touch...
However it is far from just funny:
The operator can use the lever to control a 3 way valve. The flow of water through the coffee can be allowed or stopped, and steam can be directed to the steam arm for frothing milk when the coffee has been made. The mechanism that controls the valve is very well made, and operates very smoothly. Unlike most atomic type machine the Rapida does not come with a coffee jug: the portafilter has a traditional T junction spout and the operator can use their own demitasses espresso cups to catch the nectar as it is produced.
The quality of the manufacturing on this machine is extremely high. This alone indicates manufacturing in the early 1960's when Italian design was in it's golden age. Today these machines seem to be very rare.
After being designed and built for 13 years, the boat lift was completed in 2016 and is the largest on earth. It lifts boat below 3000 tons up to the max. height of 113m (equivalent to 40 floors in a building) to the upper part of Chang Jiang. The lifting process takes approx. 40 minutes. Slow but extremely stable! You can't feel it without looking at the cable and machine.
This video was recorded and edited by Eva Chan. Music is the Last Carnival by Acoustic Cafe, from the Album of The Last Carnival. Not HDR for faster uploading. Sometimes it was blur and off-focus in the video since my camera and lens were not suitable for night-time video shooting.
Enjoy!
NIKOLAI, Alaska -- U.S. Marines assigned to Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, deliver toys to children living in remote villages of Alaska as part of the Toys for Tots program, Dec. 8. After traveling to a remote hub of villages via aircraft provided by the 144th Airlift Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, the Marines journey to different villages on snow machines. This year three teams of Marines traveled to numerous villages in the vicinities of Kotzebue, Galena and McGrath. Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve with a goal of delivering, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive and patriotic citizens. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alejandro Peña)
Most of Stewart Home's books in English (note only one copy of each despite some being in multiple editions with variant covers - and House of Nine Squares not included as it is of a very different size to all the others - four are anthologies edited by Home, the rest written solely by him). Presented as part of Book Works’ ongoing and evolving project ‘Again, A Time Machine’ this is the first US retrospective of Home’s work and features a selection of artwork, including Art Strike Bed, Vermeer II and Becoming (M)other, publications and ephemera and a live performance with Kenneth Goldsmith. Curated by Matthew Higgs. White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10014.
Made famous by the "back To The Future" movies, where Marty McFly's DMC was a time machine.
This DMC had some of the internal features of the movie car such as the flux capacitor!
NIKOLAI, Alaska -- U.S. Marines assigned to Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, deliver toys to children living in remote villages of Alaska as part of the Toys for Tots program, Dec. 8-14. After traveling to a remote hub of villages via aircraft provided by the 144th Airlift Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, the Marines journey to different villages on snow machines. This year three teams of Marines traveled to numerous villages in the vicinities of Kotzebue, Galena and McGath. Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve with a goal of delivering, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive and patriotic citizens. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alejandro Peña)
Warrington Guardian on local industry 1920.
PARTINGTON STEEL AND IRON CO., LTD.,
Compared with other partners in the combination, viz., the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company, Ltd., and Rylands Bros., this company may be called a young company.
The original layout of the plant was only begun in 1910, and the first ingot was cast one year before the war, but youthful though it may be, the company's methods and organisation are as perfect as enterprise can make them, as the following narrative will abundantly show:
Many thousands of tons of coal, ores and limestone, which are the chief raw materials required for the manufacture of steel, are received and handled at the works daily.
Coke Oven Plant, - This plant consists of 280 coke ovens, together with their caol washery and by-product plant, the make of coke per week being 7,500 tons. The trucks containing the slack are brought on to inclined sidings and lowered by gravity to underground hoppers.
Here the trucks are tipped into hoppers by means of hydraulic rams, the slack being conveyed from this point by means of belts and discharged into the washery.
At the washery the slack is cleaned, from thence elevated into storage bunkers of a capacity of 1,500 tons, and is taken as required from these bunkers for feeding to the ovens, where it is coked. This process occupies about 40 hours, after which the coke is pushed out by means of a powerful electricity-operated ram. During the process of ejection the coke is quenched and falls upon a sloping hearth, from whence it gravitates to conveyors. These conveyors carry the coke to the loading station, which consists of shaker shoots and a special loading machine.
This machine is capable of picking up one of the special coke skips, revolving it, and at the same time weighing and registering, automatically, the weight of its content coke on a card.
The coke skips when loaded are taken and discharged into the blast furnaces. The by-product obtained from the coke ovens consists of concentrated ammonia, muriate of ammonia, crude and rectified benzol, and tar. The tar is redistilled, the resultant products being light and middle oils, creosote, anthracene, naphthalene salts, the residue being pitch.
Blast Furnaces, - There are six blast furnaces, each capable of making 1,000 tons of iron per week, and almost all this product is used to feed the steel furnaces which in turn convert the iron into steel.
As a rule one sees a small army of men around a blast furnace plant, some unloading ore, coke and limestone, others loading it into hand barrows, and so on, but here men are conspicuous by their absence. All the hard work is done by machinery, and the only human labour is that which is required to control the machines.
Steel Furnaces, - Here are twelve steel furnaces and two mixers: eight of the steel furnaces are of 50 tons capacity, four are of 50 tons capacity (typo maybe on article?), and the mixers are 500 and 400 tons capacity, and the melting shop is capable of turning out 750 tons of steel ingots per week.
Soaking Pits and Mills, - The soaking pits consist of six pits, four of which will accommodate and heat 96 ingots and tow which will accommodate 40 ingots.
Mill, - The mill consists of a 40-inch centre cogging mill, and a Bloom shears, which cuts 16-inch by 18-inch hot blooms.
The roughing and finishing mills are 32-inch centres (or 82-inch centres, difficult to read). Trains of live rollers couple all the mills together, and there are two five feet diameter pendulum hot saws, together with a hot bank. The mill is provided with finishing and rail banks.
Power House, - In order to supply power to the works, a large central power house has been built in the middle of the works. This produces 10,000 K.Ws of electric energy all from surplus blast furnace gas.
Slag Works, - Another feature of the works is the preparation of blast furnace slag for commercial purposes. This slag is crushed in large Blake crushers and afterwards screened to various steps. It is disposed of for various purposes, the chief of which is to provide ballast for railways. Another of its uses is as aggregate for concrete, it is also used in ferro-concrete work.
New uses foe slag occur every week, and the works are in a position to meet all demands, there being already in existence a tip that contains 1,000,000 tons.
Like all progressive concerns the Partington Steel and Iron Company pay careful regard to the welfare of their employees. A canteen has been erected where 1,500 meals are served daily in a large hall which accommodates 900 people. Lectures and exhibitions are also held in this hall, and during the winter months, evening technical classes are conducted.
The firm is perfectly equipped and run on the most enterprising lines, and in a word, can challenge favourable comparison with similar undertaking in any part of the world.
Poulton Signalbox was demolished over three days in February 2018. On Monday and Tuesday 19th and 20th February the interior and roof were dealt with by hand to salvage reusable items and to separate small waste.
On Wednesday 21st February 2018 the structure was demolished by machine.
This series follows the Wednesday operation.
During the April 2025 Spring Work Weekend, a WW&F Museum Shop Crew member carefully tests the fit of a bearing block on the wheel set for the new Locomotive #11's pilot truck. During the fit check pictured here, it was discovered that the machined area on the axle where the bearing will ride was not quite wide enough and would need additional machining. This was not a huge surprise since this wheel set was actually built more than a dozen years ago, before many of the highly detailed CAD drawings for all of the locomotive's components were available. The day after this image was captured, this wheel set was placed on a massive lathe at the other end of the shop building, and the necessary machining was completed.
Model: Melanie Sautereau
Photographer: Unico Solo of cStar Skins
She has arrived! However, this time we are doing things a bit different, shaking things up a bit hehe! The lucky chair is hibernating while we bring in the gacha machine. This skin is now only available on the gacha, as you can see in the info on the image, you can win the skins at a starting price of only $10! This is a great deal because it saves you the HOURS and DAYS of having to camp out at the lucky chair waiting 10 mins at a time. With the gacha machine, there's no wait, you just grab and go!
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Honey%20Bee/145/250/24
hair by LeLutka // JOLIE
jewels by Finesmith Designs // Mimmi
Thank you Unico for this amazing opportunity! <3
The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine is on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library this month. Visitors to this unique art project seem to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this photo album. Overall, the slot machine seems to have a positive social impact: it makes people happy, gets them inspired -- and can help some of them become art makers.
Come see the slot machine this month! Our poetic oracle awaits you every weekend, to share words of wisdom about your life and future.
The exhibit is open from 1 to 5pm every Saturday and Sunday in October, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Pataphysical Studio members will be on hand to demo the Slot Machine and share what they have learned while building this interactive art project.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
View more photos of the exhibit: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
If we're all pieces of a giant machine, this is the piece I want to be. It's huge, cool looking and right outside the front door of a great coffee place in Maui. What more could I ask for?
Here's something you don't see anymore ... a Cigarette Machine. This was in a public park in Berlin and was in full working order.
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Here's my beamish boy
during another of our
recent summer trips in
our new time-machine -
this time to New York
for the May 24, 1883
official opening of the
Brooklyn Bridge - the world's
longest suspension bridge -
over a mile long between
Brooklyn and Manhattan,
started by John Roebling
and completed by his son
Washington
here on the site where
George Washington led
one of the most fierce battles
of our revolutionary War,
its twin towers now -
in this year of 1883 -
the tallest
structures in
New York,
and America.
I used my paper piercer and an Amy Tangerjne template to make the camera, and then I stitched around each 6x6 by hand (wish I had a sewing machine!)
This is the story of a friend who just needed a little looking after so would come crash at our place from time to time.
Finally got round to cleaning the Dell XPS 720 I bought from one of my colleagues. A friend of mine helped me disassembling the beast of a machine. This is the CPU cooler with a 120mm fan and shroud attached. Again, I cleaned everything under the water faucet.
An entry for the Challenge Group 115 pictures in 2015 No.99 Modern
Long gone are the days of the washing dolly and soap board. Today, every housewife would be lost without the modern convenience of an automatic washing machine. This shot is of the inside of the stainless steel drum of our automatic washing machine. The colouring is the result of a very small red/blue flashing LED light positioned at the bottom of the drum and just out of camera shot. I also used another small LED light positioned inside the drum (out of shot to the right) to illuminate the interior.
first use of the proto-pads area: lm7805 5v regulator chip. the input comes from the other side of the board, via a 2 pin molex header. the output (bottom 2 pins) of the 7805 chip are going to the board's 5v supply rails, thus the voltage regulator is now supplying clean power for the whole board.
also of note is the orange electrolytic at the top of the picture. that's straddled across analog-in-0 and ground and provides a smoothing effect on the LM35 temperature sensor, inside my espresso machine. this is not needed for audio (!) but only for when you load the ESPRESSOmaster firmware on this device.
The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine is on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library this month.
Visitors to this unique art project seem to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this photo album: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
Come see the slot machine this month! The exhibit is open from 1 to 5pm every Saturday and Sunday in October, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Hawkwell, London*. Here are the details of the project
The clients , Jon and Karen, have lived at the property for over 10 years. Whilst they have done some minor landscaping with the addition of decking in the last few years, they feel that the space has more potential. They called Earth Designs as they felt no-one locally to them could deliver the sort of look they are after. They require the space to be multi functional with an adult area and somewhere for their son to have some fun. Whilst they don’t want the garden to be ‘kiddie-centric’ they do want Jazz, their son, to be able to engage with the garden. To this end they would like a ‘grow-your-own’ area. They currently have a out building in the garden which they use infrequently as a bar area. This also houses a running machine. Whilst they are keen to retain the option of having an indoor bar, the size of structure does not justify the amount of garden wasted, so we need to find an alternative solution. They prefer calm colours and plan to spend a lot of time in the garden.
This design divides this small sub-urban garden into several distinct functional areas. Attractive, amber-coloured Yellow Balau hardwood decking will be laid directly adjoining the house to create a stylish and durable entrance to the space. Two eye-catching paths lead from either side of the decking up the garden to a small artificial lawn in the right hand corner. The paths will be constructed from 35cm squares of toughened recycled glass panels set into a sea of coloured glass mulch.
The main seating/dining area will be in the bottom left of the garden. An L-shaped rendered block raised bed constructed along the left and rear boundaries will enclose a rectangular decked patio, which will house a freestanding decked table and matching cube stools . Ample seating will be provided by an L-shaped decking bench fixed to the side of the raised bed walls.
Bespoke timber pergolas will enclose the lawn, seating area and glass mulch pathways. Constructed from 90mm x 90mm Yellow Balau posts and beams, these structures will feature a variety of ’alcoves’ in the sides, some of which will also boast coloured Perspex ‘windows’ for that extra ‘wow’ factor.
A bespoke log cabin summer house will be installed along the sideway to house the client’s bar and running machine. This will be built to exact specifications to fit the dimensions of the sideway, with full length windows and double louvre doors at the garden end and a door at the opposite end. This door will act as a gate to access the garden from the front of the house.
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Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
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The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine is on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library this month. Visitors to this unique art project seem to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this photo album. Overall, the slot machine seems to have a positive social impact: it makes people happy, gets them inspired -- and can help some of them become art makers.
Come see the slot machine this month! Our poetic oracle awaits you every weekend, to share words of wisdom about your life and future.
The exhibit is open from 1 to 5pm every Saturday and Sunday in October, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Pataphysical Studio members will be on hand to demo the Slot Machine and share what they have learned while building this interactive art project.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
View more photos of the exhibit: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
A friend was kind enough to walk me through the process of using a sewing machine. This is my second project.
The bottom bracket vice block is designed to hold a frame sideways in a vice, clamped down at the bottom bracket. Having the frame held this way is handy for accessing hard-to-reach areas during clean-up, such as the shoreline at the bottom bracket and chainstays. It is much easier to file this area when the frame is on its side.
It simply consists of two cylindrical aluminium blocks, each stepped down in diameter to fit inside a bottom bracket shell. This was turned to 33.50 mm to fit in an English BB shell and also will fit everything larger. The larger diameter sits flat against the face of the shell. One of the blocks has two opposite flats so it can be held in a vice. The two blocks are clamped together by a 12mm allen socket head screw which is threaded into the lower block with the flats. A stainless steel washer at the head of the screw prevents the screw head biting into the upper block.
The idea for this block was taken from Geoff Scott(3rd picture), whose design varies in that a threaded rod is fixed into the bottom block, and both blocks are clamped together with a nut. Our version looks a bit more elegant with the allen screw - in theory a less durable design as the aluminium block's internal threads would be more prone to getting worn out from repeated threading in and out compared to tightening a nut against a fixed steel threaded rod. In real life, the difference is negligible and would take tens of thousands of uses over decades before any damage is done.
Quang machined this block from aluminium offcuts at work, done manually on a lathe and mill.
Visit our blog villaveloframes.wordpress.com and our Instagram @villaveloframes for more!
The ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine is on exhibit at the Mill Valley Library this month.
Visitors to this unique art project seem to really enjoy the experience: their faces tell the whole story in this photo album: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
Come see the slot machine this month! The exhibit is open from 1 to 5pm every Saturday and Sunday in October, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Learn more: pataphysics.us/join-the-unveiling-of-the-slot-machine
NIKOLAI, Alaska -- U.S. Marines assigned to Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, deliver toys to children living in remote villages of Alaska as part of the Toys for Tots program, Dec. 8-14. After traveling to a remote hub of villages via aircraft provided by the 144th Airlift Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, the Marines journey to different villages on snow machines. This year three teams of Marines traveled to numerous villages in the vicinities of Kotzebue, Galena and McGath. Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve with a goal of delivering, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive and patriotic citizens. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alejandro Peña)
Faces of Love – Art Craft Centre, Murmansk, Russia
“The Murmansk Art Craft Centre presents a unique collection of quilts inspired by the paintings of the renowned Russian artist Anatoli Aleksandrovich Sergjenko.
In 2007 a group of quilters consisting of Irina Sopina (art director), Anatoli Sergjenko (project consultant), Nadeschda Markina and Tatjana Ischkaraeva set out to create a collection of 17 quilts, to be shown at Russian and major international quilt exhibitions. They took as their inspiration characters from a picture by Anatoli Sergjenko. Although they did not set out to make an exact resemblance, many of the quilts became almost exact replicas of the artists’ pictures – even though they were created in an entirely different medium. It was as if the artist always intended that his pictures should be re-created using textiles. The breath-taking pictures – beautiful depictions of love and eroticism – leave a great impression on the spectator, an impression which inspired the “Faces of Love” project.
The 17 quilts, completed in only nine months, demonstrated the artists’ great talent and innovative approaches to quilt art. Moreover, many of the manually demanding pieces were crafted by complete beginners who had limited quilting experience.
At the 6th Russian Festival for decorative art, “Quilt-Mosaics Russia” in Moscow in 2007, the group was honoured by the Association of Quilting in Russia and received a special prize from the main sponsor, BERNINA International AG of Switzerland.
In 2008, Wolfgang Eibisch of BERNINA International AG, asked Tatjana Ischkareva’s club to reproduce six of the quilts from “Faces of Love” using new techniques and materials.
In 2009 the group continued their work on the Northern-Sea topic and created six more quilts based on the paintings of A. Sergjenko. All 12 quilts were crafted on Bernina Aurora 440 sewing machines.
This became a new exhibition, which will be on display at The Festival of Quilts 2010.”