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American Motoring Memories is a classic car restoration shop in Culver City Calif. The owner Jeff Reade concentrates primarily on early Corvette restorations but is known to do total & partial restorations and update maintenance on many of the Big Three (GM, Ford, Chrysler) classics from the '50s to early 70's.
LOAD Day 1. Prompt today was to find a picture that inspired. The prompt arrived right at midnight, and tired and lazy I went to the pile of pictures I printed almost 2 years ago. I love this picture, it's not pretty, but it sums up a period in our lives. At the time it was too raw, but time has passed and perspective has been added. Sometimes it's great to be so far "behind".
BTW, in general I'm a 12x12 scrapper, but when I signed up for load I decided that I'd give 8.5x11 a try - (A)because it's easier to just scan and go, and (B) I bought an album a while ago and it has about 4 layouts in it. It feels awkward today?? Hopefully I'll get more at home with it. :)
Inside the tree is built music box that plays the melody Memory and be wound with the supplied key up. Melody, the principle of the clockwork and the tree itself can be viewed on this video.
Flowers, head and tentacles creatures in the hollow, round insert into creature on the chair, the tips of chair and round legs - from fluorescent clay (glow in the dark). Unfortunately did not manage take pictures of this effect.
Inside the hollow behind the creatures is a mirror, which is also decorated with shapes of fluorescent clay.
Height - 93cm, length between the ends of the longest branches - 83cm, base diameter 23cm.
Papier-mache, fluorescent and regular clay, iron wire, old plastic horse, mirror, iron frame, musical box.
This is a photograph taken for about ten years ago. That time, we traveled from Bangkok to Singapore through Malaysia and Penang. She is younger than me and was one of my best friend.
Today I had bad news about her.
She died of sickness yesterday. I just can not believe.
Ayutthaya Thailand
About 10 years ago
Nikon Zoom 310 AF / film compact camera
This box was a gift from my Grandma Jeanne to my Grandfather Daniel in December of 1924, when they'd been married a few years. It's always been on my mother's desk, and in Cairo, she had it fitted with a wrought iron frame. When we moved here to Brooklyn, she gave it to us and now it's got all our wedding memories in it.
It is, needless to say, very precious to me. I never met my grandfather but I remember Grandma Jeanne well - and the spidery, neat handwriting dedicating the box on the inside reminds me of her.
today morning i was looking for some scenes from Kovasznai's short films.
if you don't know him: www.kovasznaigyorgy.hu/en/
John as been tidying our cupboard full of american football memories.. from both the Seattle Seahawks.. also the Northants Stormbringers here in Britian...
Inside the tree is built music box that plays the melody Memory and be wound with the supplied key up. Melody, the principle of the clockwork and the tree itself can be viewed on this video.
Flowers, head and tentacles creatures in the hollow, round insert into creature on the chair, the tips of chair and round legs - from fluorescent clay (glow in the dark). Unfortunately did not manage take pictures of this effect.
Inside the hollow behind the creatures is a mirror, which is also decorated with shapes of fluorescent clay.
Height - 93cm, length between the ends of the longest branches - 83cm, base diameter 23cm.
Papier-mache, fluorescent and regular clay, iron wire, old plastic horse, mirror, iron frame, musical box.
A wall quilt hand embroidered, appliqued and quilted with hand-dyed fabrics. The apron has a real pocket. An original design, the first quilt I designed myself.
This is an older photo. I have flat bars, different wheels (one wore out and the other was stolen), a 48t instead of the 46t here, Shimano 959 SPDs, a better seatpost (this one pictured came out in small pieces), a comfy and light Serfas seat. Lastly, the bike is set up as a single speed with FR (Shimano 105) brakes and a freewheel.
I have the flat bars because I couldn't figure out where to put brake levers on these handlebars because of the numerous hand positions - none of which are good for brake levers. I didn't want the silly cross levers.
As it turns out, working as a messenger in NYC with a single speed is faster than a fixed gear. As the traffic and congestion worsens and the j-walking pedestrians and NYPD become stupider, the need to carve through everything like tight New England single track becomes more apparent.
There is a certain glamor to high speed sprints through one of the busiest cities in the world on a very simple and lightweight bike with no brakes. On many days I miss it but on many days I don't.
At some point I would like a real road fork to improve the handling of this thing with brakes. With a new road fork (Easton carbon if I can) I would love a new stem and bars (Easton XC90 and Monkey Light) as well as a shiny new, red Chris King headset.
It will be hilarious to have such high end parts on a welded, Chinese-made track frame that's been through absolute hell. I figured I should keep the frame as long as it holds together, just as an experiment.
Of course that can change with my finances.
In this photo and the ones near it, I was visiting my long-time friend Stacey in her little apartment "across the street from the Long Island Sound" in Stratford, CT. She was in and out of the hospital in neighboring Bridgeport, CT for a serious blood clot in her leg. I would take the train from Grand Central Terminal to Stratford with my big red messenger bag and my bike. I rode from the train station downtown to her apartment a few miles away. From there I would borrow her car to drive to the hospital if she was there or just visit and help her with things in her apartment.
I took the time to go to the beach (which I miss) and just relax.
About a month ago I went through my aperture library and did a massive redesign on the approach I use to keyword my images. I'm really glad I did that because last week I wanted to find an image of my dog littlebear who passed away a few months ago to give to my stepdad Matt for Christmas (he was Littlebears favorite). Well after doing a search for Littlebear in aperture it pulled up this image - one I never knew I really had and really liked. I applied a few small contrast edits to the image. Glad I found it, He was a wonderful dog/friend.
Image was taken when I was down in Southern Oregon for a wedding and had rented a 5d Mk2 and a 85 f1.2 lens.
My memorial, dedicated to the memory and honor of the FDNY, NYPD and PAPD emergency
personnel who were murdered on September 11, 2001 during terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center, New York City, NY. ~Lest We Forget~
"old" times´ pix revisited
southern Crete (greek island in the libyan sea), beach between Kalamaki and Timbaki: the locals call it Kalives
at least these days (2010) it has been a very quiet beach even during the "high season" - perfect not only for dog-walks ;-)
Mustang Memories 2012
August 12, 2012
My 2004 40th Anniversary Crimson Red GT Convertible and my daughter's 2005 red Power Wheels GT Convertible. Great show, huge turnout compared to last year with the threat of rain. My rear tires and rev limiter got three great workouts. Thanks to MOCSEM for a great car show.
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