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All parts are LEGO elements. Some of them are the main reason of doing this vig. Do you know which one?
Someone in the police department had complained that the Detective smoked too much.
"You know why that man smokes so much?" the Commander demanded, "It's because he's seen some shit that would make you go insane. The things that crawl in the night, your very nightmares... he has met them with a rifle in hand. He smokes because if he didn't, he'd go crazy."
No one ever asked again.
The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, near Leeds. The museum includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.
The Grade II* listed building housing the museum was once the world's largest woollen mill. The current structures were built in 1805 by Benjamin Gott and closed as a commercial mill in 1969.
regression, according to Sigmund Freud, is a defense mechanism leading to TEMPORARY reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than facing a stressful situation in a more adult way.
assuming fetal position is a sign of regression. its a form of going back to the time when the person felt safer because an all-powerful parent would protect him, and where in all stresses were not known. its a way of the mind to get rid of the stresses to protect ones psychological integrity.
i got home late today, i fell asleep the moment i tapped my bed. ten minutes later, i woke up and realized i was assuming fetal position. interesting huh ~_~
happy friday!!
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Good use of the Monopods & U-Clips.(?)
I thought I'd show you guys the kind of things I do to mount my miniguns, RPG launchers, rocket launchers, etc.. on my figures shoulders.
While it may look a little messy, I don't really notice it when I play with them, or even showcase-- I usually try to keep the back of the figure out of the photo, so that it comes out nicely. ;)
Any feedback or suggestions on this would be much appreciated!
Jake
This is the gearbox the powers the motorized conveyor belt. It uses for redundant gear trains to avoid ripping itself apart.
Bronze Gallery, National Archaeological Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
When we first decided to go to Greece, there were two things on my must-see list: the Acropolis and this thing. It is an ancient computer of fantastic complexity and the only object of its kind that has been discovered. In the foreground is fragment B, which shows about a third of the Metonic (lunar calendar) spiral from the back dial face and one gear from the Games dial.
The mechanism, dating to the second or early first century BCE, was found by sponge divers in 1901 in a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera (which sits opposite the island of Kythera) and has been gradually decoded over the decades. From the outside it reveals only corroded lumps of bronze with enticing hints of gears and wheels. But X-rays and CT scans starting in the 1970s -- the object was too fragile and valuable to travel, so scientists assembled a room-sized early CT scanner in the museum -- have enabled people to accurately count gear teeth (crucial to decoding function) and even read fine-print inscriptions.
On the front was a large dial indicating the positions of the sun, moon and planets and phases of the moon. It used an eccentric mechanism to accurately model the motion of the moon, which speeds up and slows down as it travels its elliptical orbit; showed the phase of the moon with a half-black, half-white rotating marble; and is believed to have used epicycles (extra gears) to model the irregular motion of the planets. This device's forerunner the planetarium of Archimedes was said to have had similar capabilities.
On the back, the top main dial was a 19-year (Metonic) lunar calendar. The right inset dial told when the Panhellenic athletic games (Olympian, Nemean, Isthmian, and Pythian, as well as 2 minor games) were due to take place. The left inset told where one was in the 76-year Callippic cycle (i.e., which of the four turns of the 19-year Metonic cycle one was on).
The bottom main dial indicated the dates of future solar and lunar eclipses, with time of day and other details. The dial covers an ~18-year period (the Saros cycle); however, the actual repeat cycle takes three times that. The inset dial, divided into 3 sectors, tells where one is in this ~54-year (exeligmos) cycle and thus whether one needs to add 0, 8 or 16 hours to the predicted time of day.
A shout out to the Clickspring YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RX..., which documents a step-by-step re-creation of the mechanism -- using only tools and materials that would have been available at the time.
An illustration I made in Photoshop (trying to perfect some techniques- still have a ways to go! :P )
Starting with Pullip Cheshire Cat, Pullips have a new feature that allows them to have partially open eyes instead of just opened or closed. I opened up Pullip Lupinus to rechip her and took pictures of the mech for anyone curious. The only difference appears to be the new blink levers.
Shot of a wristwatch, lit using a constant light source underneath and bounce card on top for fill light. Manually focused, edited in lightroom