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Patricia came over and did a creative shoot the other night. We were experimenting with lighting and a fog machine. This was the result.
A suitably murky and cold 29th December 1981 sees 55009 ALYCIDON passing Clifton sidings as it arrives at York with 1G06 King's Cross - Hull, "The Deltic Executive" (via Harrogate). Sadly, this was the last time the outpost of Hull would receive a visit from one of these machines.
This was the last Deltic-hauled Special before the final run of all on January 2nd. As for ALYCIDON, there would only be three more service trains before withdrawal.
Zenit EM f/5.6 60th/sec Ektachrome 400
For everything you ever wanted to know about these magnificent machines, go to www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/
Rented a 1D X and 50 f/ 1.2 for an event I'm covering this weekend. Figured Times Square would be a Volatile enough environment to test out the camera. From there I walked to Grand Central, stopping at Bryant Park along the way.
To say the least, this is an amazing machine.
This shot was inspired by BeboFlickr's pic
Photography | Design by Adrian Cabrero
Week 24
On weeks 22 and 23, I tried to have an image with bubbles. So here I was, bubble stick in the left hand and camera on the right one…I failed miserably. So I decided to go with a bubble machine this time.
We went for another fashion theme photoshoot but this time on location. It was supposed to be a spring fashion photoshoot but the spring is not really here yet. We had the sun with us this time but it was pretty cold (around 6° C) and it was windy!
I've learned my lessons so this time I got my friend SinkEyeZzz who assisted me. He is holding the bubble machine on this one. Honestly without him, I wouldn't make it. The wind was so strong that it almost broke my Apollo…So for all the strobist stuff that will come after, I only used one light for most of them. Using another light with an umbrella without another assistant wasn't an option.
We had some interesting strobist shots but I wanted the bubble one so bad that's it's the one I chose!
Can't remember how many layers and adjustment curves I used here but the result is pretty close go what I had in mind.
Have a nice week people.
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Semaine 24
Lors des semaines 22 et 23, j'avais tenté d'avoir une image avec des bulles. Me voilà donc le bâton à bulles dans la main gauche, l'appareil dans la main droite en train d'essayer d'avoir unen photo potable…Échec cuisant. J'ai donc décidé de prendre une machine à bulle cette fois.
On est encore parti sur une session fashion mais cette fois en extérieur. C'était censé être une session mode printanière mais le printemps n'est pas encore bien installé. On avait du soleil cette fois mais niveau température il faisait assez froid (aux alentours de 6 degrés) et il y avait du vent!
J'ai retenu la leçon donc cette fois j'avais mon ami SinkEyeZzz qui est venu m'assister. Il tient la machine à bulle sur cette image. Franchement sans lui, ça aurait été pratiquement impossible de shooter. Le vent était tellement fort qu'il a presque bousillé mon Apollo…Du coup pour tous les extraits strobists qui suivront, j'ai juste utilisé une seule source de lumière pour la plupart. Utiliser une autre source de lumière avec un parapluie et sans autre assistant n'était pas une option.
Nous avons pris quelques prises intéressante avec un flash déporté mais je voulais tellement mon image avec des bulles que j'ai chosi celle-ci! Je ne sais même plus combien de calques et de courbes d'ajustement j'ai utilisé ici mais au moins le résultat est proche de ce j'avais en tête.
Passez une bonne semaine!
Model: Sandrine L.
Assistant: SinkEyeZzz
Strobist info
Key light: Ambient light.
Back light: Sun at dusk
Canon 5D MKII + EF 135MM F2 L | F4 | 1/200 | Iso 50
Your comments and favs are always appreciated!
Heres a little buil I put together just to basically show the new Brickmania Kublewagon and the panzer.
The Germans are about to take out the Russian War machines.
This is not an edited photo and I really like the background.
I added you for help.
This is not an elevator.
This is a time machine.
This is a teleportation pod.
This is an alien shuttle.
This is door between parallel universes.
This is science-fiction.
Ceci n'est pas un ascenseur.
Ceci est une machine à voyager dans le temps.
Ceci est une capsule de téléportation.
Ceci est une navette extra-terrestre.
Ceci est une porte inter-dimentionnelle.
Ceci est de la science-fiction.
Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Belgique
The other Fairburn on the line, early crested 42085 looks good - impressive machines. This loco sufferd the indignty of wearing Caledonian blue for some years. It was great to see the pair again - this time ,in their authentic colours.
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This is a sign for the Electric motor repair company in Miami, OK. An Armature is the power producing component of an electric machine.
This is located along Main St. in Miami, OK along Route 66. I'm not sure how old the sign is, but the company has been at this location since 1964 after 20 years at a prior location
... another for the Way Back Machine. This was shot by my grandfather in the 50s on the coast... many many years before my birth yet it's still inside me, this scene and is a memory that seems familiar enough to be real. Kodachrome slides also help it to feel that way.
In this pic we see another Cleanaway machine this time a Hornsby Shire truck collecting the many green lidded bins in the Monday collection zone of North Epping, on a cool sunny afternoon. SL642 is a 2009 Iveco Acco with a 23m SidePAK body, one of the 4 trucks permantely contracted to the greens collections in Hornsby and on this particular day completing a solid two loads, with also a third load done on the heavier days.
All green waste from Hornsby Shire is tipped at Kimbriki. The gun driver behind the wheel is of course Mitch doing his thing in his now permanent truck. Ive always wanted to video one of these Hornsby SidePAK's so its good to finally get it done; as there isn't much on YouTube of them, maybe Mitch being the driver gave me the extra motivation to actually go out there :P The video should be up very shortly on my YouTube channel.
Autum is knocking at our doors. So, we have created the Autumn Treats Gacha Set for The Epiphany : October 2019. A comfy place to enjoy all Fall offers.
In total the Autumn Treat Gacha contains 16 items to collect. Each play is set to 50L$ per pull.
Let'shave a look at the items included in the 22769 - Autumn Treats Gacha Set:
RARE
Autumn Gazebo LI 42 | 6,1 x 6,6 x 6,5 meters
COMMONS:
Autumn Beanbag LI 1 | 5 single sits
Fire Table* LI 4
Pumkin Pile* LI 2
Another Pumkin Pile* LI 2
Hot Chocolate* LI 1
Cookies* LI 2
Chocolate Apples* LI 1
Cinnamon Rolls* LI 2
Marshmallows * LI 2
Bellow* LI 1
Water Pot* LI 1
Ashes Bucket* LI 1
Wooden Owl* LI 1
Ceramic Owl* LI 1
Autumn Sign* LI 2
Next Owner Permissions on the items listed above are no-copy, mod, trans - used scripts and animation may have different permissions.
For all of you unfamiliar on how the Epiphany Works, with every item you won you can decide if you keep the item, or retire the item and collect Epiphany Points (Rare = 3 Points, Common = 1 Point) you can exchange to Epiphany Exclusive Items.
The 22769 Autumn Treats Exclusive Item:
Tea Set* LI 2
Next Owner Permissions: copy, mod, no-trans
Also, you get an item automatic delieverd you for every 1000L$ you spent at the 22769 - Autumn Treats Gacha Machine. This time you'll recieve as VIP Award:
Bowl With Gumballs * - LI 2
Next Owner Permissions: copy, mod, no-trans
All items in the 22769 - Autumn Treats Gacha Set (including the Exclusive and VIP Reward Items) are original creator mesh items, with original textures, materials enabled and Level of Details creator created.
All items marked with *(asterix) are decoration only items.
We provide the SLurl to The Epiphany : October 2019 below:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Epiphany/160/183/165
Epiphany Mirror Sim:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fuyumi/108/98/3162
** Gacha is a Game of Luck. For every pull (50L$) at the provided Gacha Machine, you get a random selected item in return. **
Edwin Tofslie created this visual. On his site, he says, "A visual I created to show the evolution of most all Apple products created over the past 30 years. This was created to show the evolution of the form factor and industrial design of the products, not to show every single model or upgrade Apple has launched."
I grabbed it and thought I'd use it to make a history of my Apple purchases. From left to right, top to bottom:
The Apple ][c I must have gotten this in 1985 or '86 (when I was 10 or 11). I remember wanting this computer *so bad* after using the Apple ][e in grade school. I remember going to the Apple dealer (er, excuse me, the Apple authorized reseller) in Olathe, Kansas—The Bottom Line—and drooling over the computers there. I was an overweight kid, so my parents made me a deal: Lose X many pounds, and they would buy the computer. I lost a little weight, but not the specified amount. Still, I think my parents were swayed by my argument that it was an educational tool and an investment in my future. I learned to type on this machine, using a program with a little wizard who did magic according to how well you did. I also discovered Zork (never did finish) and Wishbringer (finished, 'cause it was easier). A couple years later, I got into the Bard's Tale series. This was supposed to be a "portable" computer, hence the "c" for "compact." The machine itself had a handle on the back that folded down to prop up the computer or folded away into the body. You could carry the computer around, but the monitor was one heavy summbitch. Consequently, it never left the living room, where it sat on the desk toward the back of the room. I loved this little machine! I used it until about 9th grade (1989) and then didn't do much with computers at all in high school. By the time I got another computer, see below, they had (OMG!) something new called a hard drive. Hmm...
Macintosh Performa 6220CD: OK, the one pictured here is from the Performa series. I had a 6220CD, which was a pizza-box configuration. My parents helped me buy it, and we got it from Best Buy, of all places. Best Buy! Can you believe that? That was in, oh, 1995, maybe '96, during the dark Gil Amelio years. Anyway, at that time, I think Apple had a glut of products, and the 6220CD was one of the machines Apple made for the casual market—hence the Best Buy thing. It had a 75 MHz PowerPC 603 processor, 16 MB of RAM, a 1 GB hard drive, and a TV/Video card. It came with a little remote, and you could run cable or a broadcast antenna into the thing.
I got this either during my junior year or first senior year of college (I had two senior years because I switched majors), after I discovered the internet in the auxiliary computer center in Strong Hall at KU. I remember bringing this thing home and having one of my roommates kinda freak out a little bit—"Oh man, Adam. I can't believe there's a computer in our house." He wasn't excited; he was a bit disdainful. At the time, he was kind of a hippie in a very minor way, and I think he saw computers as something evil. Sometimes, I think he was right; but mostly, I love computers. That roommate now is totally into computers and has a pretty nice top-of-the-line Powerbook.
Anyway, I got on the internet and thought it was the coolest thing ever! "Oh my god! You can look up Beastie Boys trivia on the web! This is *so* cool!" I discovered MUDs and MOOs with this machine and made my first webpage that probably had a URL like cc.ukans.edu/falcon/~tomodell. Tomodell was my username (self-chosen) and was after my old high-school history teacher, Tom O'Dell.
In May 1997, I brought this machine with me to Oregon, where I used it to keep in touch with friends back in Kansas and in Japan. It was on this machine that I created a short-lived collaborative humor site (now defunct) called lusciousjackass.com and also had a sort of short-lived group blog that some friends and I did. They'd send me emails, and I'd sit there in the common space of our loft, drinking PBR, and post them in reverse chronological order. I also took out the domain www.hatchback.net/ in '98 and have had it since.
This was also the machine that I created the proto version of Slice on. It was originally going to be a photocopied 'zine, and I laid out the mock-up pages in QuarkXPress on this computer.
iMac Rev B: After convincing my parents to buy an iMac Rev A, I liked theirs so much I bought the Rev B. This must have been in late '98 or so. I don't remember doing anything remarkable on this machine. I replaced it rather quickly with an ...
iBook (clamshell, in Tangerine): I bought this one in 2000, shortly before moving to New York City. I didn't want to lug the iMac cross-country, and I left it with my girlfriend at the time, who didn't have a computer. She used it so we could keep in touch as we tried the whole long-distance dating thing. That didn't work out, and the iMac made its way out east. I sold the iMac on eBay and continued to use the iBook. I remember doing freelance copy-editing on it in my Bay Ridge apartment, sitting on an inflatable mattress because I had no furniture and couldn't afford to buy any. Later, when I got a crappy chair from IKEA, I would sit and work at this lame console table–cum-desk that the previous tenant left in the apartment. I kept this this machine until 2003, when I bought my ...
iBook G3: I bought this one in late August or early September of 2003, shortly before creating Slice. I didn't buy it to build Slice, though. I bought it because I had recently gotten cable broadband and wanted a new machine that took full advantage of the fast connection! Little did I know I was getting a piece of shit. I got the last of the G3 Dual USB iBooks, the ones with the faulty logic board problem. I still own it, and it's on its fourth logic board(!!!!) and second hard drive. Apple was good enough to replace all my logic boards for free under a special program, but I had to eat the cost of a new HD for it. I'm letting a friend borrow this computer right now.
I have a certain fondness for this machine, as it fostered the creation of Slice and A Hamburger Today. It's been to San Francisco, where it left its cold machine heart; Kansas; Florida; the Jersey Shore; and Amsterdam, where it visited the Red Light District and picked up a virus (just kidding). It also has a cool In-N-Out sticker on it. I used it until February 2005, when its first hard drive crashed. After four logic boards, I gave up and bought an ...
iMac G5 (17-inch): Unfortunately, this was the first generation of the flat-screen stand iMacs, and it had a problem: excessive fan noise. This machine worked like a dream at first, but after a firmware update pretty early on, the HD cooling fan started running at top speed under the lightest of processor loads. Because of a lame fan design, the thing sounds like a DustBuster. It is highly unpleasant to work in front of for any length of time. I appreciated the large screen and the speed, but when it came time for me to visit Kansas for Christmas 2005, I had the iBook G3's HD repaired and went back to using it. But the iBook G3 was getting mighty sluggish, so it was great when I joined Serious Eats in October 2006 and the company provided me with a ...
MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: I'm typing this history on this machine now. It's loaded with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive—basically, it's maxed out. It's been a good little machine, except the white keyboard and casing get dirty. I would have liked the black MacBook, but the advisers setting us up with machines said they cost extra, so my boss, Ed, and I both got white machines. This one is missing the cool In-N-Out sticker, mostly because I don't want to gum up company property.
That's it for the Apple computers. But I also purchased ...
iPod 3rd Generation: Actually, my dad bought this one for me when he came to visit. (Thanks, Dad!) This is the one with the four buttons at top and fixed touch wheel. It worked well and I even developed "piPod" for it, a little set of files that rested in the Notes folder that told you where to get good pizza in NYC. That little "app" brought Slice a lot of attention. This iPod served me well until the day I was visiting my friend Janice, sitting up on her apartment rooftop on a weak chair. The leg broke, and I fell, cracking the LCD display. The pod still worked—I just couldn't see what it was playing. I got by for a while, then did without, then bought a ...
iPod Photo (60GB): This was the top-of-the-line iPod for, oh, about 2 months. Then the damn iPod video model came out. Ugh! Apple made such a big deal about how, with mine, they were all going to have color screens!!! Woo-dee-fucking-doo. They were probably just trying to get rid of all their small color screens before switching to the video iPod. Anyway, this is my iPod today. I haven't upgraded to video iPod or the iPhone—yet. I'm sure I'll move to the iPhone one day, but not until after the first generation. I've learned my lesson.
And, I forgot the peripherals! ...
Pro Mouse (White): Purchased pretty soon after it became available, to make laptop computing easier when using my iBook G3 at home. This mouse served me fine until the Mighty Mouse came out.
Mighty Mouse: I was lured by the 360° scroll wheel. The scroll wheel worked like a charm while it lasted. Unfortunately, it gums up with dirt pretty easily, and despite the suggested cleaning routine, mine never started working again. I liked the added two-button feature (finally, Apple! Took you fucking long enough to bow your head and admit that MS had something here). But it didn't work well. It never really did sense when I was applying pressure to the left or right sides of the mouse. I replaced it with a non-Apple product. A Microsoft Intellimouse. My MS mouse is AWESOME.
Airport Express: Works like magic! I love being wireless anywhere in my apartment and out in my garden on nice days. I like that I can stream music to my stereo. I only wish it could stream regular non-iTunes sound to the stereo as well.
Claire says I should now "add up all the money [I've] given to Steve Jobs throughout the years," but I just can't. I don't remember the retail price of some of these machines, plus, I'd be too depressed :(
[July 19]
UPDATE (In honor of Steve's leaving Apple) - 8/25/2011
Since I first posted this -- my most popular image on Flickr by a landslide -- I have used/owned even more Apple products...
Macbook Mid-2010: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo, 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM I can't remember exactly when I started using this one. It was probably shortly before or after my wedding. I think I had been complaining loud enough at Serious Eats about my previous MacBook's slowness and crashiness. One day a shipment of new laptops showed up and I got one. This machine served fairly faithfully and well but did get a bit slow before I finally left Serious Eats in May 2011. I've always had the experience that Macs work very well for a while but then seem to begin to slow down. Maybe because I gum them up with too much crap. Anyway, I turned this computer back in to the company on leaving and bought myself a ...
MacBook Air 11-inch, 1.6Ghz/4GB RAM/156GB SSD: The smallest MacBook Air maxed out on processor, RAM, and solid state drive. This machine is beautiful. When I look back at my old iBook, I can't believe the same company made both these machines -- or that that iBook itself was considered great design at one point. Frankly, I don't know how Apple can improve on the aesthetics of the current MacBook Air line. I suppose in minor ways, but as is, it seems almost perfect. So far, fingers crossed, I've had no problems with this machine. It's a little sluggish editing RAW photos, but that's to be expected. I bought it knowing I wouldn't be able to do HARDCORE photo- or video-editing. And that's fine. That's about all I need for the blogging I do these days.
iPod Nano, 3rd generation: I don't even remember why I bought this. At some point my iPod Photo must have died. I don't even remember how or why or what I did with its carcass. I loved the size and format of this Nano -- it's the squat one with the color screen. Before they switched back to the long, narrow stick. I still have it but don't use it. That's because in August 2009 I finally broke down and bought an ...
iPhone 3Gs: And, holy crap, did it change my life. For the better, for the worse. I love having all the information a truly smart smartphone provides at my fingertips. But I do have to admit that I am addicted to it. I'm not even making light there. I truly have a hard time not futzing with the device. I know it's rude to do so during dinner with my wife or out at the bar with friends, but I cannot help it. That is how it has changed my life for the worse. For the better, I absolutely love the GPS navigation app I downloaded for it, which I can't imagine driving without again. And I like being able to look up restaurant advice on the go. At some point, I got caught in the rain with this one, and that began its demise. I killed it the rest of the way by leaving it on the windowsill in the shower and then forgetting about it while turning on the water. (I was listening to NPR while trimming my beard in front of the grooming mirror in the shower ... then stepped out to put the trimmer away and clean up the tub before turning on the faucet... D'OH!) ... Even that didn't kill this iPhone dead, though. I was able to do the rice trick and revive it, but it slowly deteriorated until it started shutting off and asking for full restores. After restoring it 7 times in 2 days, it died.... NEXT!
iPhone 4, 16GB: Even though I had the 32GB 3Gs, I stepped it down to the 16GB for my current (8/24/2011) iPhone. It wasn't worth the extra money for the extra memory. I hadn't maxed out my previous iPhone anyway. LOVE the Retina display and the massively improved camera on this one. Other than that, not much of a difference over the 3Gs.
Thanks, Steve Jobs, for designing all these amazing products. Even though I have had some issues with some of them, they are beautiful, elegant machines that are intuitive and a pleasure to work with. I can't imagine having to use the alternatives (er, actually I can, because I use a shitastic PC at work).
Originally planned to be a flying war machine, this mech was equipped with the most powerful mechanic legs to gain take off speed. Eventually, the wing concept was abandoned, because of the high rate of crashes, leaving just two canons on legs. Soon, the nickname full metal ostrich was established by soldiers all over the world, making fun of this rather less efficient war machine.
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The first of a few mechs/drones I built recently. I played with the contrasts a bit to achieve a more metallic look of the dark grey parts.
I recently traveled to Ottawa, Ontario and saw some cool machines; this is one of the top picks ! This awesome camper on a Toyota Land Cruiser frame sure is unique and well done. This was at a truck stop along the 401, near Windsor.
I left the plate as it's also interesting.
A Sanrio (Hello Kitty) gashapon machine. This one is particularly unique because of its all-Sanrio theme.
Miyajima is a sacred island a few minutes from the mainland which can be accessed by ferry. It is a short distance from Hiroshima and Iwakuni and makes for an excellent day trip. The highlight of the islands, besides the roaming deer and monkeys, is Itsukushima Jinja. The large torii there is one of Japan's three greatest views--I totally agree with this although I have never been to Amanohashidate. It also includes other temples, shrines, nature, and of course shopping.
Miyajima, Hiroshima.
The Central Feature at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed – the sculpture soaring 26 metres over Goodwood House, weighing 160 tonnes and measuring 90 metres in length – has been unveiled in spectacular style by Lord March and Head of Mercedes-Benz Classic, Michael Bock.
Created by artistic genius Gerry Judah, the sculpture is the most complex and ambitious yet conceived and is a fitting celebration of 120 years of motorsport heritage by Mercedes-Benz and its founding fathers.
Swooping over Goodwood House, the curve – which spans 45 metres – tested the artistic and engineering ingenuity of the team of specialists assigned to making Gerry Judah’s concept a reality.
Two cars spanning 80 years form an integral part of the sculpture – a replica of the 1934 Mercedes-Benz W 25 Silver Arrow, like that raced by Manfred von Brauchitsch to victory “first time out” at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, and a MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS F1 W04, the same chassis raced by Lewis Hamilton in 15 Grands Prix in 2013. The car forms a special part of recent racing history, having taken Lewis Hamilton to five pole positions, and to victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Together, the W25 and the F1 W04 show the first – and currently last – of the eight-cylinder Silver Arrows Grand Prix machines. This years’ car, the F1 W05 HYBRID, has a 1.6-litre V6 turbo PowerUnit, and is currently leading the F1 Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships.
Photographed at Goodwood House 2014
So today we had the pleasure of fitting the vinyls that we recently produced to Arriva The Shires and Essex all Leyland Olympian 5111 (G281 UMJ).
What a fine machine this is and we are very proud to be asked to do our work on her.
Another monster machine! :)
Autocorrect on that second word is just soooo annoying, It constantly changes it to machined. This was an interesting fly but unfortunately it would not let me get a decent photo of the back. It took off when I pushed it too hard to get a different angle.
18/365
I had a whole concept ready for this one and I kind of blew it, turning it into a good old portrait. Still. I felt it was time to put some paint on my face again.
In the absence of a real concept, though, I'll share with you something I realized today. My singing teacher is always telling me, and quite wisely, to take my ego out of the equation when I'm singing, to do it for the song itself. I think that I got to proof of how that works while listening to Florence and the Machine this afternoon. It's no secret I love them, it's no secret that Ceremonials is almost constantly on my playlist nowadays. But I have never tried to sing any of the songs, which is strange, for me — and that's what made me realize that what I get from listening, from going down the street and smiling to myself, or just closing my eyes and letting myself sway to the music, I am taking myself out of the equation and enjoying a moment of perfection. Because that's what it is for me, pure and unadulterated perfection, in the form of music.
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[+2 in the comments]
[Darkened for the protest against SOPA. I'll brighten it up again tomorrow, but the ones below are pretty similar, anyway]
I was in the British Car Meet of Van Dusen Garden this afternoon.
These vintage cars including Mini, Lotus, Morgan, Rolls Royce are great in appearance and colors.
When I left the garden, I found all the cars on street and the roads very ugly and so much lack of character.
The car owners on site are so curious that I was taking so many pictures and asked me what was so appealing to me. I explained that we are often attracted by the lines, curves and color of these beautiful machines.
This is the kind of auto show without sexy girls. These cars are sexy by themselves!!
Happy weekend everyone!
This is an old blue twin steer truck which has been retired for quite a few years now, being one of the spare units in the Cleanaway Sydney C&I fleet up until it was done with. If I recall correctly there were apparently two of these late 90s International front lifts with Tusk bodies... even got the Tusk logo in the bottom left corner there. I got to explore it a little bit and see it in action at one point when the Cleanaway subby in my area was using it in place of the regular truck. I actually used to see this truck (or the second one if it existed) when I did Sunday shifts at McDonald’s in my early teens, would see it coming up off the main road and I’d race out into the loading dock to ready the bin like a champ for the driver =] Quite a cool machine this one, no doubt one of the final Tusk machines to operate in Sydney, but I wonder if it was acquired by another business and used elsewhere.
The process of developing and creating the halter bra top.
1. Starting by ‘moulding’ the shape directly on the body using various materials. At this stage I decide on the direction of the seam too. Try to avoid any acute corners and it works best to follow the line of the body. I use sticky tape to attach the materials to the body. I sometimes create a toile in cotton fabric - I need to get myself some dressmaker’s muslin for this purpose because for instance the simple cotton I used here had too much stretch in it, which isn’t ideal. Paper towels can work too at a pinch.
2. Carefully remove the pieces and transfer the shape to graph paper then card (so it is easy to draw round on your fabric)
3. I created my pattern pieces according to my usual process: hairspray, heat erasable pen, diamond glaze glue in the seam allowance.
4. After sewing the pieces together I noticed the side bra section needed a small adjustment so I removed those tiny slivers and reshaped the underarm cup, remembering to make the same adjustment on my pattern piece.
5. I backstitch the curve on the cup by hand then SEW THROUGH the backstitch on the sewing machine. This results in maximum accuracy on the curve.
6. Having made up this bra the first time I discovered the slight ‘wiggle’ I had used in the strap and the fact the fabric of the strap was on the bias made the strap too long. So I had to set this first set of cups aside and go back to the drawing board.
7. I straightened and shortened the strap, checking the length using a paper pattern piece on the body.
8. I made up the revised pattern using the same process as before.
9. I used my new ‘straw’ technique to turn the thin straps inside out. The turned and pressed cups are finally ready to attach to the chest band.
Not shown here, I actually attach the neck button then pull the cups down tight and use my heat erasable pen to mark the line on the cups where I want to attach the chest band. Every fabric behaves differently so you never know how much it will stretch. I want my clothes to fit really snugly so to achieve this I sometimes need to adjust the fit while I am putting a piece together, rather than simply following the pattern line (which I otherwise do quite religiously!)
Republica Checa - Praga - Plaza de la ciudad vieja (Staromestské námestí) - Ayuntamiento Viejo - Reloj Astronómico (Staroměstský orloj)
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ENGLISH:
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.
The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock mechanism itself is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures—notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months. According to local legend, the city will suffer if the clock is neglected and its good operation is placed in jeopardy and a skeleton, mounted on the clock, was supposed to nod his head in confirmation. Based on the legend, the only hope was represented by a boy born in the New Year's night.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October 1410. Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
Formerly, it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš); this is now known to be a historical mistake. A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský (ca1500–1572), master clockmaker of Klokotská Hora, who also wrote a report of the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of this clock. This mistake, corrected by Zdeněk Horský, was due to an incorrect interpretation of records from the period. The mistaken assumption of Hanuš authorship is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in years 1470-1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times.
In 1629 or 1659 wooden statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1787-1791. During the next major repair in years 1865-1866 the golden figure of a crowing rooster was added.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans set fire from several armoured vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. After significant effort, the machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948.
The Orloj was last renovated in autumn 2005, when the statues and the lower ring were restored by Josef Manes. Wooden statues were covered with a net to keep pigeons away.
The astronomical dial is a form of mechanical astrolabe, a device used in medieval astronomy. Alternatively, one may consider the Orloj to be a primitive planetarium, displaying the current state of the universe.
The astronomical dial has a background that represents the standing Earth and sky, and surrounding it operate four main moving components: the zodiacal ring, an outer rotating ring, an icon representing the Sun, and an icon representing the Moon.
The background represents the Earth and the local view of the sky. The blue circle directly in the centre represents the Earth, and the upper blue is the portion of the sky which is above the horizon. The red and black areas indicate portions of the sky below the horizon. During the daytime, the Sun sits over the blue part of the background and at night it sits over the black. During dawn or dusk, the mechanical sun is positioned over the red part of the background.
Written on the eastern (left) part of the horizon is aurora (dawn in Latin) and ortus (rising). On the western (right) part is occasus (sunset), and crepusculum (twilight).
Golden Roman numbers at the outer edge of blue circle are the timescale of a normal 24-hour day and indicate time in local Prague time, or Central European Time. Curved golden lines dividing the blue part of dial into 12 parts are marks for unequal "hours". These hours are defined as 1/12 of the time between sunrise and sunset, and vary as the days grow longer or shorter during the year.
Inside the large black outer circle lies another movable circle marked with the signs of the zodiac which indicates the location of the Sun on the ecliptic. The signs are shown in anticlockwise order. In the photograph accompanying this section, the Sun is currently moving anticlockwise from Cancer into Leo.
The displacement of the zodiac circle results from the use of a stereographic projection of the ecliptic plane using the North pole as the basis of the projection. This is commonly seen in astronomical clocks of the period.
The small golden star shows the position of the vernal equinox, and sidereal time can be read on the scale with golden Roman numerals. Zodiac is on the 366 teeth gear inside the machine. This gear is connected to the sun gear and the moon gear by 24 teeth gear.
At the outer edge of the clock, golden Schwabacher numerals are set on a black background. These numbers indicate Old Czech Time (or Italian hours), with 24 indicating the time of sunset, which varies during the year from as early as 16:00 in winter to 20:16 in summer. This ring moves back and forth during the year to coincide with the time of sunset.
The golden Sun moves around the zodiacal circle, thus showing its position on the ecliptic. The sun is attached to an arm with a golden hand, and together they show the time in three different ways:
1.The position of the golden hand over the Roman numerals on the background indicates the time in local Prague time.
2.The position of the Sun over the curved golden lines indicates the time in unequal hours.
3.The position of the golden hand over the outer ring indicates the hours passed after sunset in Old Czech Time.
Additionally, the distance of the Sun from the center of the dial shows the time of sunrise and sunset. Sun and hand of the sun are at the 365 teeth gear inside the machine.
The movement of the Moon on the ecliptic is shown similarly to that of the Sun, although the speed is much faster (due to the Moon's own orbit around the Earth). The half-silvered sphere of the moon also shows the Lunar phase. Moon is on the 379 teeth gear inside the machine.
The four figures flanking the clock are set in motion at the hour, these represent four things that were despised at the time of the clock's making. From left to right in the photographs, the first is Vanity, represented by a figure admiring himself in a mirror. Next, the miser holding a bag of gold represents greed or usury. Across the clock stands Death, a skeleton that strikes the time upon the hour. Finally, the Turk tells pleasure and entertainment. On the hour, the skeleton rings the bell and immediately all other figures shake their heads, side to side, signifying their unreadiness "to go."
There is also a presentation of statues of the Apostles at the doorways above the clock, with all twelve presented every hour.
SPANISH:
El Reloj Astronómico de Praga (en checo: Staroměstský orloj) es un reloj astronómico medieval localizado en Praga, la capital de la República Checa. El Reloj se encuentra en la pared sur del ayuntamiento de la Ciudad Vieja de Praga, siendo una popular atracción turística.
Los tres principales componentes del Reloj son:
•El cuadrante astronómico, que además de indicar las 24 horas de día, representa las posiciones del sol y de la luna en el cielo, además de otros detalles astronómicos
•Las figuras animadas que incluyen "El paseo de los Apóstoles", un mecanismo de relojería que muestra, cuando el reloj da las horas, las figuras de los Doce Apóstoles.
•El calendario circular con medallones que representan los meses del año.
El cuadrante astronómico tiene forma de astrolabio, instrumento usado en la astronomía medieval y en la navegación hasta la invención del sextante. Tiene pintado sobre ella representaciones de la Tierra y del cielo, así como de los elementos que lo rodean, especialmente por cuatro componentes principales: el anillo zodiacal, el anillo de rotación, el icono que representa al sol y el icono que representa a la luna.
El fondo representa a la Tierra y la visión local del cielo. El círculo azul del centro representa nuestro planeta y el azul más oscuro la visión del cielo desde el horizonte. Las áreas rojas y negras indican las partes del cielo que se encuentran sobre el horizonte. Durante el día el sol se sitúa en la zona azul del fondo, mientras que por la noche pasa a situarse en la zona oscura. Desde que amanece hasta que anochece, la mecánica del sol hace que esté siempre posicionado sobre la zona roja. A la izquierda del reloj (el Este), encontramos la aurora y el amanecer; mientras en el oeste encontramos el ocaso y el crepúsculo.
Los números dorados del círculo azul representan las 24 horas del día (el formato estándar), marcando la hora civil de Praga. Pero encontramos también la división de 12 horas, que se definen por el tiempo entre el amanecer y el anochecer y que varía según la duración del día dependiendo de la estación del año.
En el interior del círculo negro, se encuentra otro círculo con los signos del zodiaco, indicando la localización del sol en la eclíptica. Los signos son mostrados en orden inverso al sentido del reloj. En la fotografía que acompaña a este artículo, el sol se encuentra en la constelación de Aries y moviéndose hacia la de Tauro.
La disposición del círculo zodiacal corresponde al uso de la proyección estereográfica del plano eclíptico que usa el Polo Norte como base de la proyección. Esta disposición es común en cualquier reloj astrológico de este periodo. La pequeña estrella dorada muestra la posición del equinoccio de verano; de esta forma los números romanos también podrían servir para medir el tiempo sideral.
En el borde exterior del reloj, el número Schwabacher dorado se encuentra sobre el fondo negro. Estos números indican las horas en la antigua Bohemia, que empieza con el 1 del anochecer. Los anillos se van moviendo durante el año y coinciden con el tiempo solar.
El sol dorado se mueve alrededor del círculo zodiacal, describiendo una elipse. El sol se junta con el brazo que tiene la mano dorada, y juntos nos muestran el tiempo de tres formas diferentes:
1.La posición de la mano de oro sobre los números romanos indican la hora local de Praga.
2.La posición del sol sobre las líneas doradas indican las horas en formato de horas desiguales.
3.La posición de la mano dorada sobre el anillo exterior indican las horas después del amanecer según el antiguo horario checo.
Además, la distancia entre el Sol y el centro de la esfera muestra el tiempo entre el anochecer y el amanecer.
El movimiento de la luna en la elipse se parece al del sol, aunque es mucho más rápido. La esfera lunar (una esfera plateada) muestra las fases de la luna.
Las cuatro figuras que flanquean el reloj son cuatro alegorías. De izquierda a derecha son:
•La Vanidad representada por un hombre que sostiene un espejo.
•La Avaricia representada por un comerciante judío con su bolsa.
•La Muerte representada por un esqueleto matando el tiempo.
•La Lujuria representada por un príncipe turco con su mandolina.
Cada hora entre las 9 de la mañana y las nueve de la noche las figuras se ponen en movimiento. El vanidoso se mira en el espejo, el avariento mueve su bolsa, el esqueleto blande su guadaña y tira de una cuerda, el lujurioso mueve la cabeza para mostrar que acecha siempre. Las dos ventanas se abren y empieza "El Paseo de los apóstoles". Los doce apóstoles desfilan lentamente asomándose a la ventana precedidos por San Pedro, gracias a un mecanismo circular en el interior sobre el que están ubicados seis a cada lado.
En la ventana izquierda aparece San Pablo manteniendo y una espada y un libro, le sigue Santo Tomás con un arpón, San Judas Tadeo con un libro en su mano izquierda, San Simón mostrando una sierra pues es el patrón de los leñadores, San Bartolomé con un libro y San Bernabé con un papiro.
En la ventana derecha aparece San Pedro con una llave, pues guarda las llaves del cielo. Le siguen San Mateo con un hacha pues es el patron de constructores, carpinteros y herreros, San Juan, San Andrés con una cruz y Santiago.1
Cuando las ventanas se cierran un gallo añadido en 1882 aletea y canta, después suenan las campanas en formato de 24 horas.
El calendario fue añadido al reloj en 1870. Los doce medallones representan los doce meses del año. Son obra del pintor checo Josef Mánes. Las cuatro esculturas laterales son de izquierda a derecha:
•Un filósofo
•Un ángel.
•Un astrónomo
•Un cronista.
Según la leyenda escrita por Alois Jirásek el mecanismo del reloj astronómico fue construido por el maestro Hanuš (cuyo verdadero nombre era Jan Růže) y por su ayudante Jakub Čech en 1490. Los ediles cegaron al maestro Hanus para que no pudiera construirse una copia del reloj. Čech vengó a su maestro introduciendo una mano en el mecanismo, atascándolo e inutilizándolo, a costa de quedar a su vez manco.
La parte más antigua del Reloj es el mecanismo del cuadrante astronómico que data de 1410, cuando fue construido por el relojero Nicolás de Kadan2 y por Jan Šindel profesor de matemáticas y astronomía de la Universidad Carolina de Praga.
Sucesivamente, alrededor de 1490, fueron añadidos el calendario y las esculturas góticas que decoran la fachada. El Reloj se paró varias veces a partir del 1552, y tuvo que ser reparado tantas veces como fallos tuvo. la reparación de 1552 fue realizada por Jan Táborský, quien escribió un informe en el cual menciona al maestro relojero Hanuš como diseñador del reloj, cuestión que se demostró ser falsa en el siglo XX.
En el siglo XVII se añadieron las estatuas móviles de los laterales del cuadrante astronómico. Las estatuas en madera de los apóstoles fueron añadidas durante la reparación de 1865-1866.
El Reloj sufrió fuertes daños los días 7 y 8 de mayo de 1945, horas antes de la capitulación alemana en Praga, que fue forzada por el avance del Ejército Rojo. Los soldados alemanes dirigieron sus ataques de vehículos blindados y de antiaéreos a la Vieja Ciudad de Praga en un esfuerzo por silenciar la iniciativa provocadora de la radio por parte de la resistencia checa iniciada el 5 de mayo. El ayuntamiento y los edificios cercanos fueron incendiados junto a las esculturas de madera del Reloj y la esfera del calendario de Josef Mánes. Se reparó la maquinaria, y los Apóstoles de madera fueron restaurados por Vojtěch Sucharda un famoso constructor de marionetas. El reloj volvió a funcionar a partir de 1948. El actual relojero Otakar Zámecník realizó una reparación general en 1994.
El Reloj de Praga es uno de los numerosos relojes astronómicos que se construyeron en los siglos XIV y XV. Otros relojes astronómicos fueron construidos en Norwich, San Albano, Wells, Lund, Estrasburgo, y Padua.
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Also, here's the Oghma follower:
Final edit from a shoot a couple of weeks ago with my Cousin. Entering this into city and guilds competition. Love the contrast and the natural expression. Also got a bit of a side wind going where we were shooting so natural wind machine.
This is part of a project called natural light portraits. Used a reflector to fill in shadows on the face and the rest is soft shade from a building.
Really enjoyed the project and will look to build on it in future works
Such a stunning machine! This is the second SV on Dutch licenseplates. I never expected to see a car like this in my own little country, so that's why this is extra special.
Unfortunately, my battery was dead. Seger Giesbers let me take his camera to take some pics of this stunning Lambo, thanks mate!
Chequia - Praga - Plaza de la ciudad vieja (Staromestské námestí) - Ayuntamiento Viejo - Reloj Astronómico (Staroměstský orloj)
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ENGLISH:
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.
The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock mechanism itself is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures—notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months. According to local legend, the city will suffer if the clock is neglected and its good operation is placed in jeopardy and a skeleton, mounted on the clock, was supposed to nod his head in confirmation. Based on the legend, the only hope was represented by a boy born in the New Year's night.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October 1410. Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
Formerly, it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš); this is now known to be a historical mistake. A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský (ca1500–1572), master clockmaker of Klokotská Hora, who also wrote a report of the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of this clock. This mistake, corrected by Zdeněk Horský, was due to an incorrect interpretation of records from the period. The mistaken assumption of Hanuš authorship is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in years 1470-1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times.
In 1629 or 1659 wooden statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1787-1791. During the next major repair in years 1865-1866 the golden figure of a crowing rooster was added.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans set fire from several armoured vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. After significant effort, the machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948.
The Orloj was last renovated in autumn 2005, when the statues and the lower ring were restored by Josef Manes. Wooden statues were covered with a net to keep pigeons away.
The astronomical dial is a form of mechanical astrolabe, a device used in medieval astronomy. Alternatively, one may consider the Orloj to be a primitive planetarium, displaying the current state of the universe.
The astronomical dial has a background that represents the standing Earth and sky, and surrounding it operate four main moving components: the zodiacal ring, an outer rotating ring, an icon representing the Sun, and an icon representing the Moon.
The background represents the Earth and the local view of the sky. The blue circle directly in the centre represents the Earth, and the upper blue is the portion of the sky which is above the horizon. The red and black areas indicate portions of the sky below the horizon. During the daytime, the Sun sits over the blue part of the background and at night it sits over the black. During dawn or dusk, the mechanical sun is positioned over the red part of the background.
Written on the eastern (left) part of the horizon is aurora (dawn in Latin) and ortus (rising). On the western (right) part is occasus (sunset), and crepusculum (twilight).
Golden Roman numbers at the outer edge of blue circle are the timescale of a normal 24-hour day and indicate time in local Prague time, or Central European Time. Curved golden lines dividing the blue part of dial into 12 parts are marks for unequal "hours". These hours are defined as 1/12 of the time between sunrise and sunset, and vary as the days grow longer or shorter during the year.
Inside the large black outer circle lies another movable circle marked with the signs of the zodiac which indicates the location of the Sun on the ecliptic. The signs are shown in anticlockwise order. In the photograph accompanying this section, the Sun is currently moving anticlockwise from Cancer into Leo.
The displacement of the zodiac circle results from the use of a stereographic projection of the ecliptic plane using the North pole as the basis of the projection. This is commonly seen in astronomical clocks of the period.
The small golden star shows the position of the vernal equinox, and sidereal time can be read on the scale with golden Roman numerals. Zodiac is on the 366 teeth gear inside the machine. This gear is connected to the sun gear and the moon gear by 24 teeth gear.
At the outer edge of the clock, golden Schwabacher numerals are set on a black background. These numbers indicate Old Czech Time (or Italian hours), with 24 indicating the time of sunset, which varies during the year from as early as 16:00 in winter to 20:16 in summer. This ring moves back and forth during the year to coincide with the time of sunset.
The golden Sun moves around the zodiacal circle, thus showing its position on the ecliptic. The sun is attached to an arm with a golden hand, and together they show the time in three different ways:
1.The position of the golden hand over the Roman numerals on the background indicates the time in local Prague time.
2.The position of the Sun over the curved golden lines indicates the time in unequal hours.
3.The position of the golden hand over the outer ring indicates the hours passed after sunset in Old Czech Time.
Additionally, the distance of the Sun from the center of the dial shows the time of sunrise and sunset. Sun and hand of the sun are at the 365 teeth gear inside the machine.
The movement of the Moon on the ecliptic is shown similarly to that of the Sun, although the speed is much faster (due to the Moon's own orbit around the Earth). The half-silvered sphere of the moon also shows the Lunar phase. Moon is on the 379 teeth gear inside the machine.
The four figures flanking the clock are set in motion at the hour, these represent four things that were despised at the time of the clock's making. From left to right in the photographs, the first is Vanity, represented by a figure admiring himself in a mirror. Next, the miser holding a bag of gold represents greed or usury. Across the clock stands Death, a skeleton that strikes the time upon the hour. Finally, the Turk tells pleasure and entertainment. On the hour, the skeleton rings the bell and immediately all other figures shake their heads, side to side, signifying their unreadiness "to go."
There is also a presentation of statues of the Apostles at the doorways above the clock, with all twelve presented every hour.
ESPAÑOL:
El Reloj Astronómico de Praga (en checo: Staroměstský orloj) es un reloj astronómico medieval localizado en Praga, la capital de la República Checa. El Reloj se encuentra en la pared sur del ayuntamiento de la Ciudad Vieja de Praga, siendo una popular atracción turística.
Los tres principales componentes del Reloj son:
•El cuadrante astronómico, que además de indicar las 24 horas de día, representa las posiciones del sol y de la luna en el cielo, además de otros detalles astronómicos
•Las figuras animadas que incluyen "El paseo de los Apóstoles", un mecanismo de relojería que muestra, cuando el reloj da las horas, las figuras de los Doce Apóstoles.
•El calendario circular con medallones que representan los meses del año.
El cuadrante astronómico tiene forma de astrolabio, instrumento usado en la astronomía medieval y en la navegación hasta la invención del sextante. Tiene pintado sobre ella representaciones de la Tierra y del cielo, así como de los elementos que lo rodean, especialmente por cuatro componentes principales: el anillo zodiacal, el anillo de rotación, el icono que representa al sol y el icono que representa a la luna.
El fondo representa a la Tierra y la visión local del cielo. El círculo azul del centro representa nuestro planeta y el azul más oscuro la visión del cielo desde el horizonte. Las áreas rojas y negras indican las partes del cielo que se encuentran sobre el horizonte. Durante el día el sol se sitúa en la zona azul del fondo, mientras que por la noche pasa a situarse en la zona oscura. Desde que amanece hasta que anochece, la mecánica del sol hace que esté siempre posicionado sobre la zona roja. A la izquierda del reloj (el Este), encontramos la aurora y el amanecer; mientras en el oeste encontramos el ocaso y el crepúsculo.
Los números dorados del círculo azul representan las 24 horas del día (el formato estándar), marcando la hora civil de Praga. Pero encontramos también la división de 12 horas, que se definen por el tiempo entre el amanecer y el anochecer y que varía según la duración del día dependiendo de la estación del año.
En el interior del círculo negro, se encuentra otro círculo con los signos del zodiaco, indicando la localización del sol en la eclíptica. Los signos son mostrados en orden inverso al sentido del reloj. En la fotografía que acompaña a este artículo, el sol se encuentra en la constelación de Aries y moviéndose hacia la de Tauro.
La disposición del círculo zodiacal corresponde al uso de la proyección estereográfica del plano eclíptico que usa el Polo Norte como base de la proyección. Esta disposición es común en cualquier reloj astrológico de este periodo. La pequeña estrella dorada muestra la posición del equinoccio de verano; de esta forma los números romanos también podrían servir para medir el tiempo sideral.
En el borde exterior del reloj, el número Schwabacher dorado se encuentra sobre el fondo negro. Estos números indican las horas en la antigua Bohemia, que empieza con el 1 del anochecer. Los anillos se van moviendo durante el año y coinciden con el tiempo solar.
El sol dorado se mueve alrededor del círculo zodiacal, describiendo una elipse. El sol se junta con el brazo que tiene la mano dorada, y juntos nos muestran el tiempo de tres formas diferentes:
1.La posición de la mano de oro sobre los números romanos indican la hora local de Praga.
2.La posición del sol sobre las líneas doradas indican las horas en formato de horas desiguales.
3.La posición de la mano dorada sobre el anillo exterior indican las horas después del amanecer según el antiguo horario checo.
Además, la distancia entre el Sol y el centro de la esfera muestra el tiempo entre el anochecer y el amanecer.
El movimiento de la luna en la elipse se parece al del sol, aunque es mucho más rápido. La esfera lunar (una esfera plateada) muestra las fases de la luna.
Las cuatro figuras que flanquean el reloj son cuatro alegorías. De izquierda a derecha son:
•La Vanidad representada por un hombre que sostiene un espejo.
•La Avaricia representada por un comerciante judío con su bolsa.
•La Muerte representada por un esqueleto matando el tiempo.
•La Lujuria representada por un príncipe turco con su mandolina.
Cada hora entre las 9 de la mañana y las nueve de la noche las figuras se ponen en movimiento. El vanidoso se mira en el espejo, el avariento mueve su bolsa, el esqueleto blande su guadaña y tira de una cuerda, el lujurioso mueve la cabeza para mostrar que acecha siempre. Las dos ventanas se abren y empieza "El Paseo de los apóstoles". Los doce apóstoles desfilan lentamente asomándose a la ventana precedidos por San Pedro, gracias a un mecanismo circular en el interior sobre el que están ubicados seis a cada lado.
En la ventana izquierda aparece San Pablo manteniendo y una espada y un libro, le sigue Santo Tomás con un arpón, San Judas Tadeo con un libro en su mano izquierda, San Simón mostrando una sierra pues es el patrón de los leñadores, San Bartolomé con un libro y San Bernabé con un papiro.
En la ventana derecha aparece San Pedro con una llave, pues guarda las llaves del cielo. Le siguen San Mateo con un hacha pues es el patron de constructores, carpinteros y herreros, San Juan, San Andrés con una cruz y Santiago.1
Cuando las ventanas se cierran un gallo añadido en 1882 aletea y canta, después suenan las campanas en formato de 24 horas.
El calendario fue añadido al reloj en 1870. Los doce medallones representan los doce meses del año. Son obra del pintor checo Josef Mánes. Las cuatro esculturas laterales son de izquierda a derecha:
•Un filósofo
•Un ángel.
•Un astrónomo
•Un cronista.
Según la leyenda escrita por Alois Jirásek el mecanismo del reloj astronómico fue construido por el maestro Hanuš (cuyo verdadero nombre era Jan Růže) y por su ayudante Jakub Čech en 1490. Los ediles cegaron al maestro Hanus para que no pudiera construirse una copia del reloj. Čech vengó a su maestro introduciendo una mano en el mecanismo, atascándolo e inutilizándolo, a costa de quedar a su vez manco.
La parte más antigua del Reloj es el mecanismo del cuadrante astronómico que data de 1410, cuando fue construido por el relojero Nicolás de Kadan2 y por Jan Šindel profesor de matemáticas y astronomía de la Universidad Carolina de Praga.
Sucesivamente, alrededor de 1490, fueron añadidos el calendario y las esculturas góticas que decoran la fachada. El Reloj se paró varias veces a partir del 1552, y tuvo que ser reparado tantas veces como fallos tuvo. la reparación de 1552 fue realizada por Jan Táborský, quien escribió un informe en el cual menciona al maestro relojero Hanuš como diseñador del reloj, cuestión que se demostró ser falsa en el siglo XX.
En el siglo XVII se añadieron las estatuas móviles de los laterales del cuadrante astronómico. Las estatuas en madera de los apóstoles fueron añadidas durante la reparación de 1865-1866.
El Reloj sufrió fuertes daños los días 7 y 8 de mayo de 1945, horas antes de la capitulación alemana en Praga, que fue forzada por el avance del Ejército Rojo. Los soldados alemanes dirigieron sus ataques de vehículos blindados y de antiaéreos a la Vieja Ciudad de Praga en un esfuerzo por silenciar la iniciativa provocadora de la radio por parte de la resistencia checa iniciada el 5 de mayo. El ayuntamiento y los edificios cercanos fueron incendiados junto a las esculturas de madera del Reloj y la esfera del calendario de Josef Mánes. Se reparó la maquinaria, y los Apóstoles de madera fueron restaurados por Vojtěch Sucharda un famoso constructor de marionetas. El reloj volvió a funcionar a partir de 1948. El actual relojero Otakar Zámecník realizó una reparación general en 1994.
El Reloj de Praga es uno de los numerosos relojes astronómicos que se construyeron en los siglos XIV y XV. Otros relojes astronómicos fueron construidos en Norwich, San Albano, Wells, Lund, Estrasburgo, y Padua.
In November 1919 BSA launched the first of their long series of side-valve vee-twin machines. This was 770cc - the model E. With chain drive, 7 plate clutch, 3 speed gearbox with kickstarter, cantilever forks and quickly detachable and interchangeable wheels it was a bargain at £130. It set the pattern for the family sidecar machine which was to be a feature of the British motor cycling scene for the next 20 years.
A lineal descendant was the Model G14, two early examples of which set out in 1926 on a two-year world tour, covering 20,000 miles of some of the toughest going on Earth and visiting 24 countries. The success of the trip was a great tribute to both men and machines and the resulting publicity was used to good effect by the company. In fact, the letters W.T. formed part of the designation of the Model G14 until 1934.
Very few changes took place during the long life of the model and it was probably the last British motorcycle to use a Pilgrim oil pump and a total loss lubrication system.
This 1937 BSA 1000cc Model G14 combination, AMB 983, was seen at the National Motorcycle Museum, near Birmingham Airport, on 10th January 2025.
The queen had cut his supply of gold, but still he had to make another expedition down below, that Dragon, That gold and those mysterious cave-crystals it was just to teasing for his mind...
...of cause he did make some money from selling his sleazy books mostly to women of the upper class, (since the lower classes coudn´t read) still, that was a small market and the work of writing every single letter in a book was far to much hard work under dim candle light, it took ages and ages and add a few more ages, time he could have spent to experimenting in his lab, reading his ancient book or go out and explore...
How, could that simple woman (Esmeralda the Queen) not pay for his expeditions any longer, then he had two genius ideas at once, he was thinking of books and women...
The first idea was an idea on how to press letters in books all at once with a machine, this Idea soon faded in his misty ancient head...
The second idea was even better, Women, He had a charming nature that worked on these strange creatures...
...He started making two commercial boards full of heart-shaped he made out of an invention he called plastacine a rubbery substance easily shaped in to different forms when heated the right way...
Then he collected all his musical instruments a flute, a lute, and a strange bellow-sack with weird pipes sticking out of it at random, he had gotten this exotic instrument from one of the queens Highland Guards, the one who was wearing a skirt and ate deep-fried intestin voluntary on his day off and zipped a brown liquid he called the water of life...
(some time later)
it is early morning about four o´clock outside the city quarters of the women who had lost their husbands in battle a strange sound woke the inhabitants it sounded like someone had blown air in to a pig and then let it go to fly by it self in the air...
then these was a almost silent flute playing, then some poetry read from a raspy ancient voice!
"Thau woman, you besutten up on ye window, how much of a rose you smell, make your rosy parts open and squirt into mine direction a stream of gilded gold as bright as Mother Sol herself!"
Then it was lute music and romantic tunes sung...
all this in the early mornings when the lonely women was still in their beds, when the looked out of their windows, the sawthe make standing in his "special romantic" wizards-hat and beside him plaques with a written text:
I the town-mage, is in need of your support, if you like my poetry, verse and music, take a groat from your keep and trow it on the ground, if you hit my chart you get to get a piece of impromptu poetry read for just you, if you hit the rug I will play a tune for just you...
if you hit the pot I will share you bed the rest of the morning for a small fee...
The mage´s plan worked out quite well, he managed to collect quite a lot of money, which was later confiscated by the sheriff and his bailiffs, also the old man got to spend some time in the jail, once again!
Up until a couple of years ago Brian owned and ran a successful dry cleaning business. Unfortunately, Brian suffered a stroke that affected his mobility. Since his stroke he can be seen around town riding a number of different machines. This is his latest but he's not sure he likes it.
Despite looking more Hot Wheels basic Mainline than premium collector grade M2 Machines, this cheapo 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS is actually copied from the latter rather than the former! Part of a sizeable line of M2 Machines copies made by Rong Xing but bizarrely also made by other Chinese toy makers to the extent I did wonder whether one factory was producing them for others with different wheels and logos to differentiate them! Closer inspection reveals they are all different despite initial appearances and if you struggle to tell the difference theres always the RX emblem to remind you its a Rong Xing product!
Part of a six vehicle set sourced directly from China.
Mint and boxed.
PORU glides through MPR2 on its way up to the mills in Jay and Rumford. The Verso mill in Jay has been limping along a while but in somewhat recovery as other mills have folded around it, opening up some production capacity filled by their more-efficient machines. Rumford has been under ownership of ND Paper LLC, a Chinese company (Nine Dragons) that plans to export Maine virgin pulp, install new tissue as well as packaging machines.
This good news comes as previous owner Catalyst is looking to reorganize their house and in much need of cash sold the mill after only four years of ownership. With Catalyst came the big red SRY boxcars from their operations out west, and we noticed a large cut of RBOXs coming in on this train, likely to replace those Catalyst F Plates.
In any event, we see PORU here coming by the Pike Industries Quarry in Greene (or is it Wales?), ME. Tom pointed out the uniqueness of the switch in the middle of the crossing, surely they could have found better placement back in the Maine Central days.
I do not know what make of machine this is, any help in identification would be gratefully received. Now I know it is an Avelig-Austin 99H
It was a very grey, damp, cold, winters day when I took this shot but that gives it some gritty atmosphere.
This is at Utley near Keighley, West Yorksire in the early 1960s when the then new bypass was being constructed. This was the early stages when the groundworks were starting.
This bypass connected Skipton Road to Bradford Road past Keighley Rugby League club long before it became Cougar Park.
Taken on my old Kodak Retinette 1A camera.
Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"The Lady Luck opened in 1964 as Honest Johns. The property is located one street north of the famous “Fremont Street” on Ogden Ave. It was originally a small newsstand/smoke-shop with 20 slot machines and a few pinball machines. This was the Honest John’s located downtown and not the other one located on Las Vegas Blvd. and Sahara Ave. But, in 1968 it was renamed Lady Luck. In 1972, it expanded from its small beginnings to engulf the whole block as a full-fledged casino with restaurants and shops.
On February 6, 2006 the Lady was closed. 7 years later, on October 27, 2013, the hotel and casino reopened as the Downtown Grand." [source: www.lasvegas360.com/3118/on-this-date-february-6-2006-lad... ]
This is around the middle point of Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. The bookshop Marks and Co., immortalized by Helene Hanff in her book "84 Charing Cross Road", was on the far side of the circus, and the sign bearing the name can just be made out next to the shop awning to the left of the main traffic light pole (To enlarge the photo click on "ACTIONS" and then "all sizes" above this photo).
This photo, and others in my photostream, were taken on the exact date - 5 November 1955 - to which the lead character in the movie "Back to the Future" was transported in the time machine.
This and many other of my photographs are featured in my book "London, Portrait of a City, 1950 to 1962" (Allan Hailstone, publ. Amberley Publishing), together with the story of how I came to photograph them and my memories of past London.
Cambrai, 8 June 2003.
The 2013 airshow at Cambrai had a special Tiger Meet static with some nicely painted machines.
This is E47 (code 7-PJ). It was written off in January 2015 after a horrible accident at Albacete (Spain). A Greek F-16 crashed on take off and struck several aircraft on the flightline. 11 people were killed.
This is my jackal fursuit, Jack!
This was taken in our garden using a ground fog machine. This is done by using a lot ice and cooling the fog so its dense so sinks. I cleared out two local shops of ice to fill the machine.
To give you an idea, I did this without any help at all. All the set up, lighting, controlling the fog, taking the picture was all done by me including being in Jack!
The ride home.
Photo from Lunar Module Orion. And from the transcript:
176 59 38 Duke (LM): You look brighter than any star or planet I've ever seen. Against that black sky.
176 59 53 Young (LM): Either that or we're rendezvousing with Venus.
176 59 55 Duke (LM): Yeah, we're coming to Venus. (Laughter)
177 08 57 Duke (LM ): Boy, you are beautiful, Ken.
177 09 00 Mattingly: That's the nicest thing anyone's said.
177 09 01 Duke (LM): Casper ...
177 09 02 Young (LM): What a rendezvous machine this is.
177 09 07 Duke (LM): Casper is really beautiful.
This thing has everything you want in a SuperSuite®. A self sustaining jetpack system including thrusters on hands and feet. Plus plasma cannons in its palms. It also has diamond edged claws and pneumatics strong enough to rip just about anything apart, it flies at speeds of 700mph and runs at speed up to 160mph.This is the ultimate war machine
This was inspired by RIXBRIX and Garry.
All the pics are to show how it is built,and are best viewed in original size. Enjoy!
The Vickers Vimy G-EAOU aircraft was flown from England to Australia in 1919 by Ross Smith and Keith Smith, South Australian born pilots.
For some time the aircraft was placed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra: however it is now enclosed in this protective pavilion located at the Smith brothers’ home town.
Sir Ross Macpherson Smith KBE, MC & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AFC was an Australian aviator. He and his brother, Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, were the first pilots to fly from England to Australia, in 1919.
The brothers were born on 20 December 1890 in Adelaide, and on 4 December 1892 at Semaphore, Adelaide, sons of Scottish-born Andrew Bell Smith, station manager, and his wife Jessie, née Macpherson, born in Western Australia. In 1897 Andrew Smith became the manager of the Mutooroo Pastoral Co. and Mutooroo station, a property of some 3000 sq. miles (7700 km²). Both Keith and Ross were educated at Queen's School, Adelaide (as boarders), and for two years at Warriston School, Moffat, Scotland, their father's birthplace.
Ross Smith had served in the cadets and the militia before World War One when he left Australia as a sergeant with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment in October 1914: he was at Gallipoli the following year. He was later commissioned and was at the battle of Romani (in the Sinai) in August 1916. The next year he volunteered for the Australian Flying Corps.
Flying with No 1 Squadron AFC, Smith took part in attacks, aerial photography missions, and bombing raids on Turkish forces. On one occasion he landed in the face of the enemy to rescue a downed comrade. During his extensive war service he was twice awarded the Military Cross, received the Distinguished Flying Cross three times, as well as the Air Force Cross.
A gifted flyer, Smith became experienced in flying his squadron’s twin-engined Handley Page 0/400 bomber: on occasion Lawrence of Arabia was his passenger. While still with the flying corps, he made pioneering flights from Cairo to Calcutta, and from Calcutta to Timor.
On 12 November 1919, assisted by his brother Keith and two mechanics, Wally Shiers and Jim Bennett, he set out to fly from England to Australia in a large Vickers Vimy bomber. It was an epic 28 day flight, completed at an average speed of 137 kilometres per hour, but not without mishap. On their arrival, the pioneering flyers were welcomed home as national heroes. The brothers were knighted. Their mechanics were commissioned and awarded Bars to their Air Force Medals. The £10,000 reward offered by the South Australian Government was divided into four equal shares.
In a Vickers Vimy (a type similar to the 0/400 bomber), supplied by the manufacturer, and with Keith as assistant pilot and navigator and accompanied by two mechanics, the attempt began from Hounslow, England, on 12 November 1919. Flying conditions were very poor and most hazardous until they reached Basra on 22 November. From Basra to Delhi, a distance of 1600 miles (2575 km), they spent 25½ hours in the air out of 54. A poor landing-area at Singora and torrential rain almost brought disaster on 3 December. Disaster again almost came at Sourabaya where the aircraft was bogged and had to take off from an improvised airstrip made of bamboo mats. By 9 December, however, they were at Timor, only 350 miles (563 km) from Darwin. The crossing was made next day and at 3.50 p.m. on 10 December they landed in Darwin. The distance covered in this epic flight was 11,340 miles (18,250 km). It took just under 28 days with an actual flying time of 135 hours at an average speed of 85 mph (137 kmph).
SIR ROSS SMITH'S ARRIVAL
According to the latest official information Sir Ross Smith and his party are expected to arrive in Adelaide on Thursday afternoon next, assuming that the overhaul of the aeroplane proves to be satisfactory. After the aviators have flown over the metropolitan area, including Malvern, Hawthorn, Unley, Henley Beach, Port Adelaide, Woodville, Norwood, and Goodwood, they will soar above soar above Gilberton and Prospect, and thence proceed to the Northfield aerodrome, escorted by whatever aeroplanes may be able to meet them.
At the aerodrome they will be met by their parents and the official party, including the members of the Welcome Committee—the Premier (Hon A H Peake), who is Chairman, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide (Mr F B Moulden), the District Commandant (Brig-Gen Antill CB CMG), the Director of the Tourist Bureau (Mr V H Ryan), the secretary of the committee, and the secretary of the Aero Club (Captain Matthews).
The Premier has asked that the time of the arrival of the aviators shall be as nearly as possible 2.30pm.
The District Commandant, with the aid of the police and members of the Australian Army Reserve, will keep the enclosure at Northfield clear.
After the greeting and formal introductions there the party will proceed to the city. From St Peter’s Cathedral they will be escorted by mounted police, and on arriving at Parliament House, where the Returned Soldiers' Association Band will be in attendance, addresses of welcome will be delivered by the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir George Murray) and the Premier.
In the evening Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith will be entertained by their old comrades of the 3rd Light Horse at the Town Hall: on the following day there will be a civic reception by the Lord Mayor. The Welcome Committee desires particularly to warn the public against the danger of crowding the enclosure at Northfield, and points out that the machine will not come to a full stop immediately it reaches the ground. [Ref: Journal (Adelaide) 13-3-1920]
SIR ROSS SMITH IN ADELAIDE
Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith were given a civic reception this morning. The Lord Mayor (Mr F B Moulden) said that in the Smith family there were three sons, and all enlisted: in the Shiers family six sons, and five enlisted, while the other mechanic, Sergeant Bennett, was an only son. The Lord Mayor handed to Sir Ross Smith an address of welcome and congratulations from the inhabitants of the Northern Territory. [Ref: Argus (Melbourne) 25-3-1920]
ROUND of FESTIVITIES
Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith spent a quiet morning, although the telephone to their home has been ringing almost continuously with messages of congratulation from friends and strangers.
They spent yesterday afternoon inspecting the Vickers-Vimy at Northfield, where a military picket of 12 men is posted to protect the machine.
This afternoon the aviators are being entertained by the Commonwealth Club. A tremendous crowd was present, and the reception to the guests lasted for several minutes. Tonight their friends are giving them a private dance in a large city hall.
Mr F B Moulden, the Lord Mayor is arranging a party in their honour at the Town Hall on Monday.
On Saturday afternoon Sir Ross Smith will lay the foundation stone of the War Chapel at St Peter's Church, Glenelg.
Sir Keith Smith goes to the races on that day. [Ref: Herald (Melbourne) 25-3-1920]
THE ROSS SMITH SEASON
The Adelaide Town Hall has been too limited in capacity for intending patrons, many of whom have been unable to gain admission to hear the story and see the films of “The Great Flight”.
The programme is divided into two sections, the first being from Darwin to Adelaide, photographed from the Vickers-Vimy by Captain Frank Hurley. In the second half Sir Ross Smith relates his experiences in racy vein between the 'story' with screen illustrations.
No one returning to Adelaide has ever been given a more enthusiastic ovation than Sir Ross Smith received on Monday night. [Ref: Register 10-5-1920]
Sir Ross Smith will make his final appearance in Adelaide at the St Peters Town Hall, on Thursday night prior to leaving on Friday for Tasmania. The story of the flight will be told for the last time in South Australia, and as Sir Keith and Sir Ross will be leaving for England early in August there is no likely return visit of the flight pictures in Adelaide.
The plan of reserve seats [is] at Dorling’s Sweet Shop, next to the Town Hall, St Peters. [Ref: Daily Herald 26-5-1920]
SHY AUSTRALIA FLIERS. Two rather shy-looking young men, bronzed and smiling (states The London Daily Mail of February 24), yesterday received endless congratulations from unknown people, autographed menu cards, and made two speeches— “more dangerous” they said, 'than flying to Australia’.
They were Sir Ross Smith and his brother, Sir Keith Smith— both of Adelaide— who flew to Australia in 1919 and were entertained at luncheon yesterday by the Overseas Club and Patriotic League at The Hyde Park Hotel. Memories of their romantic 11,000 miles journey were recalled when they spoke. With hardly a reference to their difficulties, both of them spoke in the first breath of their two mechanics, and avowed they would never have “got through” without them. When Sir Keith Smith mentioned his father and mother, who were waiting for them in their own home at the end of the journey, applause drowned the rest of the sentence.
Major-Gen Seely, who presided, recalled that the Air Ministry classified the day on which the brothers left England (November 12 1919) as “Class 5” which meant it was totally unfit for flying. [Ref: Register 5-4-1921]
ROSS SMITH MEMORIAL. THE UNVEILING ON SATURDAY
The Ross Smith Memorial in Creswell Gardens perpetuates a nation's admiration for South Australia's "most distinguished son," as the Lieutenant-Governor termed Sir Ross Smith on Saturday.
As the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir George Murray) was unveiling the memorial, the drone of circling aeroplanes recalled the deeds with which Sir Ross Smith won distinction as the first Australian air pilot in Palestine during the war, and carried the thoughts of the spectators back to the 12,000 miles pioneer flight with which the Smith brothers and their mechanics placed the seal of achievement on an audacious ambition.
With the face of Sir Ross Smith's figure to the rising sun, the statue is placed between the pathway to the Adelaide Oval entrance and the bank of the Torrens. To a large crowd of people the Lieutenant-Governor told how Sir Ross Smith had his mind turned to aviation from the time he landed in Egypt, and how he became the most famous pilot and observer in the East. His was the only aeroplane to take part in Lord Allenby's triumphal march into Cairo after the war.
In a letter to his mother during the war he spoke of the joy he would experience in flying straight to Australia to take Mr P Waite for a flight to Mutooroo Station, probably the germ of the famous enterprise.
Dr A A Lendon related Sir Ross Smith's desire, expressed to his mother during his last visit to Adelaide, that a monument to the Third Light Horse should occupy the place chosen for his own. The doctor went on to point out how fitting it was that the Ross Smith memorial should be placed there, and associated that gallant corps with it.
Sir George Murray was also filling the position of Lieutenant-Governor when Sir Ross Smith reached Adelaide after the flight, and at the time the aviator was killed while preparing for a flight around the world and his performance of the ceremony on Saturday was a natural completion of such notable coincidences. The time of the ceremony was an inconvenient one, but the crowd which assembled testified to the place Sir Ross Smith occupied in public esteem. At the conclusion of the ceremony there was a general movement inward to inspect the statuary, admiration of which was openly expressed. A guard of honour was provided by Queen's School, the present pupils of which were thus linked with a former scholar, whose name has become imperishable. [Ref: Register 12-12-1927]
Flight of 1922
The next proposal, to fly round the world in a Vickers Viking amphibian, ended in disaster. Both brothers travelled to England to prepare for the trip and on 13 April 1922, while Ross and his long-serving crew member Bennett were test flying the aircraft at Weybridge near London, it spun into the ground from 1000 feet (305 m), killing both. Keith, who arrived late for the test flight witnessed the accident. The flight was abandoned. The bodies of Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant Bennett were brought home to Australia.
SIR ROSS SMITH
BODY TAKEN TO ADELAIDE
Wednesday—The Commonwealth liner ‘Largs Bay’ has brought home the bodies of Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant Bennett. Sir Keith Smith was present at the Outer Harbor to watch the landing of the casket containing his brother's remains. Both bodies were conveyed from London in the forward hold of the vessel, but were kept separate from the cargo.
The casket holding the embalmed body of Sir Ross Smith was encased in a lead coffin, on the outside of which was a wooden case to prevent damage. Both coffins were under the direct care of the ship’s officers.
There was a large gathering on the wharf when the ship's siren gave a salute as the casket was lifted from the hold. As it came into the view of the crowd, draped with the Australian flag, every head was bared, and silence prevailed as it was lowered to the wharf. A band of sailors from the ship bore the coffin to the conveyance which was to take it to St Peter's Cathedral.
The first floral tribute to the dead hero from this State was a bunch of red geraniums, which was put on the coffin as a mark of respect from the sailors at the Outer Harbor. The flags on all the vessels and buildings at the harbor were at half-mast. No ceremony was attached to the conveyance to Adelaide of the coffin. After it had been removed from the case it was transferred to a hearse and was taken to the cathedral.
Although the public had been notified that there would be no admission to the cathedral until three o'clock in the afternoon a number of people had collected in the vicinity.
The Dean of Adelaide met a small official procession at the cathedral gates. Inside the building the precentor (Dr Milne) and Archdeacon Bussell preceded the coffin to a position between the choir stalls, where trestles had been placed to receive it. The coffin is of oak, lead lined and sealed, and bears the following inscription:
"Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC, DFC, AFC died at Brooklands, 13th April, 1923 aged 29 years."
Nearly 30 airmen will participate in the funeral. [Ref: Recorder (Port Pirie) 15-6-1922]
THE LATE SIR ROSS SMITH
FUNERAL IN ADELAÏDE TODAY
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND
Adelaide. Thursday.
General Leane represented Lord Forster, the Governor-General, at the late Sir Ross Smith's funeral in Adelaide today. Thousands of people viewed the body lying in state at the Cathedral yesterday, and thousands watched the funeral procession today The city was deserted. The public offices, business places, and hotels were closed. The Town Hall bells were tolled, and flags were at half-mast. Mr Bickersteth, headmaster at St. Peter's College, delivered a brief address. Seventy Australian airmen participated. An aircraft trailer was used to carry the coffin and another carried the flowers.
The firing party at the graveside consisted of 40 men.
Three military aeroplanes flew over the route as the procession was making its way to the cemetery.
The interment was in the North-road cemetery, the grave being dug in a plot of green lawn close to the entrance of the picturesque little chapel. [Ref: Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 15-6-1922]
LAID TO REST
SIR ROSS SMITH'S FUNERAL
The remains of Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, aviator and soldier, were laid to rest this afternoon in soil of his beloved homeland. Enormous crowds of sorrowing people assembled in the vicinity of St. Peter's Cathedral and thronged the route to the North Road Anglican Cemetery, desiring to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of the illustrious airman. At the Cathedral the solemn service of mourning was held, immediately after which the body was borne from the edifice by members of the Royal Australian Flying Corps and placed on an aeroplane trailer at the head of the State Funeral cortege, which was of unprecedented dimensions.
From an early hour this morning a continuous procession of thousands of people filed quietly and sadly past the body as it lay in state in the Cathedral, draped with the British colours and guarded by members of the RAFC with arms reversed.
At the Cathedral the service, which was of a most impressive character, was conducted by Dean Young, and was attended by Mr and Mrs Andrew Smith, parents of Sir Ross Smith, and also by Mr and Mrs John Fordyce, of Melbourne (uncle and aunt of the deceased), and Sir Keith Smith and Lieutenant W Shiers, who flew with Sir Ross and Lieutenant Bennett to Australia in the Vickers Vimy. There was a fine muster of Sir Ross Smith's former comrades in the Third Light Horse, and other branches of the AIF.
We are not unmindful of his comrade, Lieutenant Bennett, who died with him, and whose body is to be laid to rest on Saturday, in Melbourne. [Ref: Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 16-6-1922]
CB&Q E8A 9976 E8A was built in September 1953, rebuilt May 1976 as BN E9AM 9906 with HEP, retired July 1992 and found a new home with MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) as 92.
In Lisle, IL on April 4, 1964. Note the depot was on the outbound side and the shelter on the inbound side had a stove for heat. The depot has been renovated and moved to a nearby park. Metra has totally redone this scene.
During the summer of 1965 I was the agent at this depot substituting for the on-vacation regular agent. The only task was to sell tickets for the Dinkys. The depot had no adding machine. This was before credit cards, so I handled quite a bit of cash each day. After I moved on to the next job of substituting for a vacationing agent or operator or leverman, I received notice that the agency was short $5 and some odd cents. I was not surprised since I had to add long columns of numbers each day to keep the books and had to make change for customers. And that amount was subtracted from my next check.
"The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it."
(Leonardo da Vinci - Italian Renaissance polymath, 1452–1519)
This blueish tone of light green is called turquoise, the name comes from the French for Turkish.
This friendly and happy color is worn by many people in India.
In color psychology, this shade controls and heals the emotions creating emotional balance and stability.
It is a combination of blue and a small amount of yellow and it fits in on the color scale between green and blue.
It radiates the peace, calm and tranquility of blue and the balance and growth of green with the uplifting energy of yellow.
Turquoise recharges our spirits during times of mental stress and tiredness, alleviating feelings of loneliness.
Focussing on the color whether on a wall or clothing allows to feel instant calm and gentle invigoration, ready to face the world again...
Being the mid color between the extremes of red and violet, it is the color of balance, for the emotions, thoughts and speech.
Turquoise is calming yet invigorating, restoring depleted energies, it enhances the ability to focus and concentrate, assisting with clear thinking and decision-making, and the development of good organizational skills.
This shade also represents open communication from and between the heart and the spoken word.
It relates to the electronic age and the world of computers, and communication on a large scale.
This picture was shot in a little workshop in Varanasi (Benaras) held by a Muslim family who manufactures several fabrics for Red Halo.
Those turquoise threads are used in order to weave a traditional silk brocade on a handloom machine.
This traditional artcraft transmitted from generation to generation contributed to the fame of the oldest living city in the world.
RED HALO is a collection of household linen based in Benaras (Varanasi - India) providing work to people who were living with difficulties and education to children.
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The sprawling old district of Guangzhou is of course punctuated here and there by new apartment blocks, but for the most part appears to retain a sense of community, dotted with little markets, restaurants, kiosks selling coconut milk and groups of people playing cards. The majority of it can hardly be called a slum either, as most parts, though crowded, are fairly sanitary and without too many of those smells common to many other big tropical cities in Asia. Clean water supply however, seems to be a problem, and every alley sports a machine this the one here, to cater to thirsty residents.
Great Sunday car show in Bellingham, nice day and beautiful machines. This wooden Boat-Tailed Hudson was my favorite!
Built by Tom Peterson of Bellingham from a car without a body being used as a tractor.
"WOW.......what an Aircraft!!"
Today saw me witness a very small piece of Aviation history.
Airbus very kindly arranged for their latest airliner, the all NEW A350, to make a whistle stop tour of the European factories, which help assemble this amazing new aircraft.
So from Toulouse it travelled via Nantes, Filton, Chester and several locations in Germany, so the staff at Airbus Industries could see that all their hard work has paid off and helped produce what looks to be another wonderful machine.
This will give Boeing some direct competition for the Dreamliner, looking at this new Aircraft, I think looks wise, it has the slight upper hand over the 787!
A fantastic Morning at Filton (north Bristol), just a shame the Runway is now closed, but to witness this new piece of Aviation history put a huge smile on my face.
However I will apologise for the quality of the picture, it was a grotty, dismal, cold and very grey morning. Not a lot of light to play with, even with a low light lense!!
Another green machine, this time 66603, passes through Ashley on 19 April 2018 with the 09:11 Redcar High Level to Fiddlers Ferry coal.
Antique Afghan Kuchi tribal ethnic ring. This ring has been welded all around with filigree design kuchi beads and jeweled with Lapis Lazuli Stone. The carved design is a typical kuchi art of carving. With beautifully perfected banding and welding on the ring, the has been hand inlaid with blue and red beads. It becomes difficult to imagine that these mountain dwellers could create such art with little access to modern technology. Most of the work is done by hands with little help from manually operated machines. This kuchi lapis ring is ideal for bohemian styling and music festivals.