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Yoko Ono interview - full transcript
Yoko Ono interviewed by Simon Harper for http://www.clashmusic.com
Artist, singer, wife, mother, loved, loathed, legend, survivor - Yoko Ono is many things to many people, but the little person behind the big name is buried beneath a mountain of myths and misunderstandings. Clash flew to New York to meet the real Yoko Ono.
For obvious reasons, it’s quite disconcerting walking into the Dakota building. The imposing nineteenth century apartment block, which overlooks Central Park, was home to John Lennon and Yoko Ono throughout the Seventies, and, as you pass through the gates of the main entrance, you realise you’re walking in the last footsteps Lennon ever took. That Yoko still lives here, still passes the place where her husband was murdered twenty-nine years ago, demonstrates the strong-will, bravery and resilience of a woman that has endured years of antipathy purely for marrying the man she loved.
These thoughts are hurtling through my head, overwhelming the nerves that were earlier festering in there and stretching down to the pit of my stomach, as I crossed the cobbled entry and into the lobby. I’m here to talk about Yoko’s new album, ‘Between The Sky And My Head’, and to focus on the pioneering spirit of the vivacious seventy-six-year-old, but the inescapable weight of her past looms large, and dominates my mind as I’m led through the winding corridors and, eventually, into her apartment - the former home of John Lennon.
Yoko Ono does not appear from a ball of flames, nor a puff of smoke. Instead, she humbly emerges from a doorway, dressed casually in a black tracksuit (and of course her ever-present shades), and walks meekly up to shake my hand. She commands your attention with only her presence.
‘Between The Sky And My Head’ is the first Yoko Ono album to be co-produced with her son, Sean (and the first release on his own Chimera Music label). It betrays her age by embracing the modern strains of garage rock, electro, dance and ambient classical, and, ironically, will be released in the wake of The Beatles’ latest explosion.
Sitting down at her kitchen table, I sneak a look around the room we are in - walls are decorated with Japanese prints, photos of John and Yoko, and a Lennon calendar; he still permeates her life, clearly. She asks for the air conditioning to be turned off - meanwhile I’m suffering, still recovering from the forty degree heat outside - and then the conversation begins to flow. With every answer comes a shy chuckle, she peers over her glasses and stares straight into my eyes. With just a look, I know if my line of questioning has strayed too far, and I change tack. We start, naturally, at the beginning...
You apparently became heavily involved with art and music while at college...
No, no, not really... Did I tell you this or did you read somewhere that...
I read that you’d...
About the fact that I went to school, pre-school; you don’t call it nursery, it’s called Jiyugakuen. Jiyugakuen is like a freedom garden - when you translate it it’s garden of freedom - it was a school in Japan. I’d say it was maybe still there. In the 1930s my mother put me in there. It’s a school where you get very early music education: perfect pitch, harmony, everything.
They start you young.
Yeah. It was very interesting thing that happened then - I didn’t think it was anything at the time, but one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of the day and transcribe it into music notes. Isn’t that amazing?
It’s very kind of New Age now, isn’t it?
New Age, yes. And in music you start to sort of develop a kind of ear that’s very different. For instance, they would just ask you to listen to the sound of the clock going ‘ding, ding, ding, ding’, and they’d say, ‘Well, how many times did it ring?’ And you have it in your head, so you have to repeat in your head, that sort of thing. It was a very, very interesting education I got.
You wrote a piece for Clash a couple of years ago - we asked you to do a New Year’s message, and you wrote about growing up in Japan after the bomb. We just marked the anniversary for Hiroshima bombing...
Oh, I remember it; I remember very clearly. It’s a very interesting thing: my father travelled a lot and he came to New York, and we came to New York and we lived in Scarsdale or somewhere like that, briefly, and then just before the war started there was incredible tension between the United States and Japan, and we were all warned that we should go back to Japan. So, we all went back to Japan, and then sure enough there was a war; it started. It was a very, very difficult time really.
Do you think that your generation that remember the bomb grew up with a different perspective on life?
Yes, and I’m very lucky that I had that experience because otherwise I would have been one of those kids, those prep school kids that are like, ‘Ha ha everything’s okay’, but no, it wasn’t okay at all. We were evacuated to some farm land, and the farmers were not very nice to us; they felt like, ‘This is our time, you city people’. So, we didn’t get very much food, for instance. I mean, that was a surprise; I’d never had an experience like that - of course, very few people have that kind of experience.
How do you mark the anniversary now? I know you Twittered a message on Hiroshima day. Do you think about it when the day comes round, or is it a day you try not to think about it?
Well, each time there was a message where they wanted to play my music or something, whatever it was... You can’t ignore it, but also I think it’s very good to bring it out and ask people to remember it, because it might just sort of discourage some people to again create a war like that. I don’t know, it seems like we’re just screaming in the wind or something.
Did the musical training of your youth teach you to write more instinctive, or is it more intellectualized?
Instinctively. I think that I’m trying to stick to spontaneity of my inspiration, and it’s an emotional accumulation or outburst; I think that’s more real. I was just saying in another interview, with this record especially, I felt there’s a hodge-podge element that I love. The thing is, when you put a classical music record out, in your head, just like when I was four-years-old, there’s so many different noises going in and out - you’re experiencing what is in the street or what is inside the house, and then at one point maybe you have jingles coming out - but you ignore that, you sanitise it, and you make sure that there’s just classical music only on the CD. Even just that is so boring for me, so with this, you notice with this record that I made, there’s so many different styles just jumping out; the first is the screamer, and then right after that there’s the dance stuff, and then you think it’s gonna be dance music but then there’s pop music or something. In other words, I was not scared to not streamline it, in terms of the forms of music.
As testament to your diversity, back in the ’60s you played with the jazz legend Ornette Coleman - and you just did the Meltdown Festival in London with him.
I was so amazed; it was exciting, because both of us survived in a way (laughs). There’s so many people that we knew that are not here anymore; it was interesting.
Is he a good friend to work with?
He was always a very gentle person, I think that’s how he survived maybe. I’m sure there’s some anger in him, of course - the racism and all that and how they were treated. And also jazz is not a very popular field, compared to rock and pop and all that, so he must have gone through all that and some pain as well, but instead of that, he’s always sort of gentle; it’s amazing.
Your reputation and acceptance from the general public and Beatles fans has become gradually more prevalent over the years. You’re finally being embraced...
Yes, I’m much more accepted now, thank God I’m sure, but when you go on the Internet, some people are still extremely upset with me! (Laughs)
How do you cope with that level of cruelty?
Isn’t it amazing? It’s a bit scary, so that’s why I’m always very careful; in that sense I’m not displaying my courage. (Laughs)
Having to continue your career after John’s death was a very brave move in the first place, and the fact that you’re still here with a new album is very admirable.
I was so surprised and interested in that film called The Pianist, where the pianist is that Jewish guy who’s always being banged around, but he’s always [mimes playing the piano] - in his head he’s always playing the piano. That’s how I survived. Many composers, like my first husband [composer Toshi Ichiyanagi]; we would be in a restaurant and he would be sitting there like, ‘da da dun da’ [mimes playing piano on table], and I’d be doing that too. We are not communicating, we are living in our heads; that was the reason I survived, I think - it was the music that made me survive.
Your previous album, ‘Yes I’m A Witch’, endeared you greatly with the indie scene - you gave your songs to some excellent artists to remix: Cat Power, Antony Hegarty...
Aren’t they incredible?
And it was a great album. Was it a good album to make? Did you have fun hearing what they did to your music?
I really respect Antony. Antony is an incredible artist, the way he sings and everything is fantastic!
It’s out of this world isn’t it?
You see, I think about sounds as an independent art from composition. In the ‘Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band’ [1970 album] , when we did [opening track] ‘Why’, I was interested in breaking the sound barrier with it. Breaking the sound barrier for the music world, like ‘Boom!’ And we did it.
Making an impact!
We did it! But of course instead of what we thought we did, I had a huge, huge trash can, saying ‘Yoko Ono’s record’, and everybody’s standing like this (throwing the record in), in Japan. John was like, ‘In Japan? It’s your own country!”
Were you aware of the artists who worked on ‘Yes I’m A Witch’ before you made the record? Did you trust them with your songs?
Well, it all just happened, like, ‘Well, what do you think about this one?’ I was not aware of them, but I immediately became aware of him [Antony] especially.
So, this album is co-produced with Sean.
Yeah, isn’t that great?
What’s your working relationship like?
I was very nervous - well, at first I was not nervous... When Sean said, ‘We should do an album - your album...’ Now I say, ‘Don’t say “your album”: it’s a Chimera [Sean’s label] album, okay? Don’t say “your album” like it’s something you want to push outside.” And he said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’ So I said, [sheepishly] ‘Okay...’ I had no concern about it. I thought it was great; we’d have the chance to be together. I don’t know how you feel about your parents - there’s a point where you just want to ignore your parents, and just call when you need money! (Laughs) ‘Hello, do you have any cash?’ The thing is, I thought, it’s not just that I’m gonna get a call - I’m gonna be with him. That was my concern; that was the reason why I wanted to do it initially. And then a few people said, ‘Are you sure you want to do this? Because mother and son can be very difficult.’ Maybe, but I didn’t really think that. There was something instinctive about it; I didn’t think it was gonna be bad, and it wasn’t bad - in fact, we sort of like discovered each other - well, maybe Sean would say that he didn’t discover me... (Laughs) I discovered the fact that he knew so much of my music; that was a real surprise. And so, as a music director, first of all he got the best studio for me, that was the best thing - it’s not known to be the best maybe, but he said, ‘It’s good and it has this funky sound; this will be the best.’ It just makes you comfortable being in there, too. It’s not a state-of-art kind of place. And then he collected all those musicians.
He chose a combination of Japanese and American musicians...
Well, the Japanese ones, it’s a very strange thing. Sean wanted me to come to Tokyo to join him in this concert he was doing. He said, ‘Why don’t you come to this concert? I’d like you to be a part of it.’ And I said, ‘You mean I’m gonna go all the way to Japan just for this one concert? That sounds crazy!’ But then I thought, ‘Okay, it’s my son, it’s my son.’ So, I went there. I started to sing, and there was a point that - this was a song that was like a constructed song and they probably knew it - but in the end I was just going for the spontaneity kind of thing, spontaneously going to vocal modulation - I’m not using the word ‘scream’ because you’re going to use that anyway! And it just went up and up, and I thought, ‘They can’t follow this - they won’t know when I stop it.’ And I just went, [raises hand] ‘Uh’, and they just stopped. I thought, ‘Oh my God, who are these people?’ I just looked back and it was the Japanese trio [Yuka Honda and members of Cornelius’ band], and I thought, ‘Hmmm, okay!’ So, when Sean said we should make a record, I said, ‘Okay, well get those two or three.’ So that was the main character, the main sort of people.
Did he tend to boss you around in the studio?
No, he didn’t. Well, alright, so he tried probably! (Laughs)
Your stature and your fame means that you could probably work with anybody, so why did you choose these Japanese and Americans, and what did you hope they would do together?
I’m probably arrogant to the point of unbearable! (Laughs) The idea of Plastic Ono Band was that anybody can be the band. Before I met John - the name Plastic Ono Band was named by him, so we didn’t have the name at the time - I was asked to go to a university or something in the United States, pre-John Lennon, so I go, and they of course want me to perform as well. So I just said, ‘You, you and you, why don’t you just come and play?’ In other words, I didn’t check their credentials, because I thought I can just do it and it will be beautiful. And so, with this group too - the three Japanese musicians were very good - then Sean invited all these other people; they were all very good. I think in terms of the spirit of things, not credentials.
The art is in the spontaneity.
Yeah.
You were, and still are, a great symbol and crusader of women’s rights.
Yes!
Now that you’re in your seventies, do you think you’re leading the way to defy the expectations of septuagenarians?
(Laughs) Well, I’m not that conscious of it. If I am conscious of it, whether I’m conscious or not, if I can’t make it I can’t make it. But it happens to be, you know, I’m not feeling old; I’m feeling very excited about life every day.
That’s good, and it’s reflected in the vitality of the music.
Well, after I finished that one, it was like, ‘We have to do a second one, Sean!’ And he was saying, ‘Yeah, yeah, we have to’, because I got some ideas, of course; when you’re making music you get more inspired.
Talking of improvisation, I read that most of the lyrics on the album are improvised. Do you think that it makes them less ripe for studying, or that since they came from your subconscious, they are much more of a window into your true thoughts?
Oh, definitely. For instance, some critics have criticised John for his lyrics being too personal, that his songs are personal. So? That’s why it’s good! (Laughs)
What else are you gonna write about?
You know what I mean? It’s crazy to think that if we create a fictional situation it is more legitimate. We don’t think that; I don’t think that. I’m giving my guts; I’m giving myself.
Are you aware of the lyrics when you’re making them, or afterwards, when you listen to what you sang, do you go, ‘Wow, where did that come from?’ Do you know where the lyrics are coming from when you sing them?
I don’t know, and even when I listen to it after I don’t know. I don’t think about it that way. It’s very interesting, one of the CDs - we call it CD now, but LP - somebody in this building, actually, said, ‘You know, on your album, your voice sounds very much like the Spanish when they dance...’
Flamenco?
Yeah. I said, ‘Oh, really?’ And, you see, I never connect those things, but then I thought maybe I was a Spaniard one day a long time ago, who knows?
There are a number of references to water throughout the album - is that of any significance to you?
Water’s very important. I created a song called ‘We Are All Water’, remember, a long, long time ago, and the reason is because we are 90% water.
We’re tidal.
We are water - we better be very careful. Oh, this is another thing that I just learned - it’s a new thing I learnt, and I really think it would be good if you can just put it in... You know, we know, and we keep saying as hippies or yuppies or zippies (laughs), that what we do or what we think affects the whole world - you, me, anybody. So then now, two scientists discovered that - they were checking how the waves are made in the ocean - just anything that gets into the water, whether it’s a tiny acorn or a little boy splashing, affects the whole ocean. Isn’t that amazing? But you know what that means? It’s not just on land, but it’s in the ocean - both ways we’re all together; we’re just one.
It’s the same on land as well.
Yeah, of course. The land one, we always said whatever we think or whatever we say affects everybody.
My favourite songs of the album are perhaps the most poignant ones, ‘Memory Of Footsteps’ and ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’.
Oh, really? Oh, that’s so sweet of you.
What do those ones mean to you? Are they poignant to you as well?
Yeah. ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’ made me cry, of course.
It made me cry as well!
(Laughs) At Meltdown I just couldn’t sing it. I just thought, ‘Okay, I better sing it with the lyrics in front’. It was a disaster in that sense - it wasn’t a disaster, but it’s just very difficult. Like, ‘Walking On Thin Ice’ is a very difficult song for me to sing because there are so many memories. It’s that kind of thing. That’s one that’s very difficult for me to sing. The other one, ‘Memory oO Footsteps’, yeah, that one too, but not as much as ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’. After I wrote ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’ and recorded it, I thought I better put the end bit in, you know, [the final line] “I’m alive!”
Yeah, it’s a defiant spirit right at the end. I didn’t know whether it was a happy statement or that you were surprised to be alive.
It was not a surprise. There’s a certain anger in that: ‘You think I’m dead, right? I’m alive!’ The reason is because we’re at the time when... it’s a very difficult time - all of us are scared shitless in a way - and of course the economic shock and some people thinking there’s a Doomsday coming or something, so it’s really good to sort of hammer things and say, ‘I’m alive!’ (Laughs)
People must presume that a lot of your songs about John. Is he still your main inspiration behind your music?
I never thought about that one.
I saw the Lennon exhibition at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Annex in New York... I’m so glad. It was the last time I was in New York. I was here for a day, and I thought, ‘What do I want to do? I’m here for a day what should I go and do?’
I’m so glad. Isn’t it great?
Yeah, it was fantastic! What were your plans for that exhibition? It takes you on a journey doesn’t it?
Well, it’s the New York City (years), and to focus on that period, which was a very important period: he was in love in New York City, and that’s where he was killed. So it’s a very, very important point in his life, I thought.
I found it very moving. It’s only a small space, but when you start you see the performances and the lyrics, and John is alive and well, and then it comes to the end, and it’s almost like in the space of this room you’ve been on that journey. You got criticism for including John’s bloody glasses and the clothes he was killed in.
I know. I thought I would get criticism. The point is, you can’t help it; if you want to do something good creatively, there’s always gonna be somebody saying there’s something wrong. That was a creative effort. I mean, the point is to put that in there. I knew that some people would be very upset, but I thought it was very important to do that, and you were sharing my extreme, extreme sadness that I felt at the time.
How much of your time is dealt with business affairs of The Beatles and does that detract from your own creativity or your own art?
I don’t know. It seems like a suitcase that you can fill more than you think, you know? (Laughs) It’s that kind of thing.
When you make decisions on John’s behalf, for what John would do, are those made personally by you or do you have people to give you advice?
Depends. Most of the time I get like twenty requests a week and then I have to sort it out; ‘This is a good one.’
Just to touch briefly on the new Beatles things that are coming out, the re-masters and the Rock Band, in terms of the Rock Band, what did you think when you were approached by that, did it excite you?
Yeah, it did excite me. John was like that and I am like that too, but we always just jump on a new media, and this is great. I even went to Boston when they were making it: fifty people, all young generation computer experts - they have to be young to understand it! (Laughs) They’re all there making the images, you know? It was very exciting.
It looks fantastic. It looks like it’s all gonna kick off in September
Isn’t that great?
It’s a good date, because John was a fan of the number nine.
Yeah, it’s great. I love it.
It’s 09/09/09.
Well, it’s a very strong thing, 090909, yeah.
And in terms of the re-masters, have you heard the new music, the re-mastered albums? They sound fantastic.
Which one?
They’ve re-mastered all the albums.
Isn’t that great?
I got to hear them in Abbey Road, and it was incredible.
You went to Abbey Road?
Yeah. You’re an active Twitter user, what do you make of the new kind of social network thing?
Listen, I’m into everything, right? (Laughs) It’s really great. I don’t answer [messages from] everybody, but some people are very into that step into future. For me it’s a very good education.
You’re very dedicated to humanitarian causes - what role do you think Twitter and getting your message out there can play?
Well, I’m glad that I can get new messages out there, because if I wrote a book or something nobody’s going to read it! (Laughs) What I mean is it’s always good to go with the new media, where they’re all there, so you can really talk to them. I think Twitter’s very good. How did Twitter become Twitter?
As in the name? I don’t know...
It’s a nice name, Twitter. (Laughs)
It’s almost as flippant as the act of Twittering itself. So, you’ve been advocating for peace for most of your life - do you think the world has become more aware of the plight?
Yes, yes, yes! When John and I were doing it, it was sort of like Salvation Army kind of people standing on street corners, handing out pamphlets or something, and nobody wanted to know. We did the Bed-In [in Amsterdam and Montreal] - we thought it was pretty good, but at the time they didn’t think it was pretty good! (Laughs) But I think the humour of it, I thought surely they get the humour of it? We’re in bed! (Laughs)
Yeah, ‘Come on, keep up!’
Yeah, but they didn’t; so funny.
With everyone that reads your Twitter updates or any message you put out, if you could inspire them to do something, what would you hope that they did?
Well, I think that together we’re getting wiser and wiser, and if I can contribute to that in some way I’m very happy, because becoming wiser is almost synonymous to getting this world into a peaceful place.
We’ll get there eventually.
Yeah, we’re getting there.
Do you see this album as a competition to the latest releases by young bands, or are you competing on a level with your contemporaries?
I never thought about those things. When you make an album, you make an album that you think is good and great - most artists are narcissists, and they have to be if they want to survive! (Laughs) So, you make an album as best as you can, and what are you gonna do, check who’s gonna listen to it? I never know what’s going on in that sense. You keep saying ‘young people’, but I never ask their age, first of all; they might be fourteen or they might be fifty, I don’t know! (Laughs)
You said earlier about the patchwork quality of the songs.
Yeah, I love that.
Were you worried that it wasn’t gonna fit, that people might think it doesn’t work together?
I couldn’t care less. Maybe that’s why I was slow in being appreciated, because I don’t care about those things. But the first song, ‘Waiting For The D-train’, some people were saying, ‘Don’t put ‘Waiting For The D Train’ first, because they’re all gonna think that the whole thing is gonna be a screamer.’ I said, ‘This is selectivity, we select the people.’ If they don’t want to hear about this album after that, then go to another album.
I don’t think it matters nowadays anyway - people don’t listen to albums anymore, they listen to songs. If you get a good song, people will download the song or buy the song. Sean has obviously come into his own as an artist...
Did you know that? The point is, it seems that before, before I recognised it or started to understand or appreciate it, it seems like everybody knows that. He’s a very good, talented musician.
Yeah, obviously he’s forged his own career.
I don’t know, he could get crushed by the history of it all. (Laughs)
It’s commendable that he isn’t!
Yeah, he just survived, you know?
When you see him working in music, who do you see more of in him, is it you or his dad?
His dad, definitely, because I was making [music] with John and I remember that experience, so I have to - it’s bad, maybe - but I just compare it; I can’t help it.
Yoko Ono interviewed by Simon Harper for ClashMusic.com
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It is with great pleasure that devening projects + editions announces The Lodger, an exhibition of new work by Peter Otto. The show will feature new paintings, works on paper and editions.
In this exhibition, as throughout most of his career, Otto makes the task of facing untenable cultural truths only slightly easier by persuading us with a system of delivery almost impossible to ignore. Otto’s work reports on the constituent factors of a human condition continually shifting between beguiling and highly disturbing. He reveals the state to which humanity—ever tested by social, cultural and political forces—bends, breaks and at times collapses. These paintings and sculptures show a reality emerging from the darkest moments. Evidence of the ways culture and society impose will and exert power is revealed on the surfaces of his verdant canvases and in the sculptures made from clay, plaster and bronze.
The themes are somber; the work though is delicately formed and teeming with graceful facture. It’s a difficult balance to strike, but Otto is able to bring forth stories of how cultural ruptures created by wars, famine, natural and man-made disasters form the basis from which that same culture is ultimately shaped. His paintings and drawings express a highly personal relationship with historical and contemporary events but always leaves the narrative open to evoke sensations interpretable from varied positions.
One thinks of Philip Guston when looking at Otto’s work. An acknowledged influence for the artist, Guston is a model for how to bridge the political and the formal. An example in Otto’s work is a regular use of stacked or hanging objects. Macabre associations are unavoidable, but one can never be sure. These “things” might also suggest built structures raised from a destroyed place or re-presented from an emergent culture. One might consider Guston’s piles of shoes and find a strong link to Otto. The concerns addressed in Otto’s most well-known paintings can also be seen in occasional large-scale public works in Holland such as Twisted Totem in Den Haag. This monumental work is a aggressively fragmented totem made from disparate parts. The sculpture, like the paintings, asks us to face difficult and challenging revelations about our culture and brings awareness to the ways in which we process trauma.
In one of several essays in Votive/Totem, the 2006 book on Otto, Rob Smolders writes: “Peter Otto juxtaposes his own malicious imagination with the imagination of society. He tightens pieces of string, erects crosses and gallows, puts up doors and fences, has a ball with junk he finds in his way: swastikas and Christmas trees, feet and heads, flowers and walking sticks. No dances in this world for it is inhabited by monsters and crutches.”
Of his painting and process, Smolders writes: “… Meanwhile, Peter Otto remained the painter he was. Magician when glazing, alchemist when patinating. The pictorial language of the paintings dating from the past five years is often acrid yet playful. Colors that are sometimes reminiscent of blood, tar or flesh, suddenly give way to the ripe color modulations of overblown flowers in an exuberant representation. References to war and violence that are too literal have been forced back. The tenor of the work is more general, even if the prevailing mood remains somber.”
Otto, who lives in Arnhem, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe including projects at Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Boÿmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Galerie Reuten and Galerie Swart in Amsterdam, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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MODEL # VS-50705
WORKS GREAT AND IS READY FOR YOUR LIVING ROOM, HOME THEATER OR OFFICE.
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FACTORY SPECS:
Features:
•Black Diamond Gray finish
•Active AV Network?
•1-event program timer
•5 AV memory presets
•AV memory by input
•120 minute sleep timer
•IRIS brightness/contrast control
•High/middle/low temperature control (6500?K)
•64 point digital convergence adjustment
•Parental control: V-Chip lock by time with TV lock by time
•2 language ViewPoint? on-screen operating system
•Languages: English/Spanish
•Menu Description: icon/half tone
•Time/channel display
•Presets for rename the input
•Name the channel
•Caption Types: CC 1-4, Text 1-4
•Closed captioning when muting
•2-tuner Picture-In-Picture (PIP) with TV still, moveable, and PIP exchange; Sizes: 5 (1/4, 1/6, 1/9, 1/12, 1/16); POP, split-screen, and channel preview; V-Chip controlled
•Video Type: NTSC
•3D Y/C comb filter
•Aperture control
•Dynamic beam forming
•Velocity scan modulation
•Wide band video amp
•Wide band VIF
•Dynamic gamma compensation
•Peak white ACL
•7" CRT
•4-element hybrid multi-coated lens system
•Electrostatic Dynamic focus system
•DiamondBright screen
•Thin Fresnel lens
•0.72mm fine pitch screen
•Front reflective surface mirror
•Mirror Type: Glass
•Multi-step focus
•Dynamic black level expansion
•110? horizontal viewing angle
•34? vertical viewing angle
•QuickView?
•Super QuickView?
•MTS/SAP reception
•181-channel FS tuner
•Automatic channel memory
•2 internal loudspeakers
•Surround (simulate/hall)
•Level sound (volume limiter)
•Bass/treble tone control
•2 antenna RF inputs
•1 front A/V input with S-Video
•2 rear A/V inputs with S-Video
•1 component video YCrCb input with stereo audio
•Cable loop (RF) output
•1 monitor A/V output (fixed/variable audio)
•1 Active A/V Network output
•Multibrand remote, Active A/V Network cable, "AAA" batteries, owner's guide with warranty, and product registration card included
Specifications:
•Output Power : 10W/channel
•Resolution : 850 lines horizontal
•Screen Size (diagonal) : 50 inches
•Accessories (included) : Diamond Shield remote
•Aspect Ratio : 4:3
•Contrast Ratio : 27:1 bright room - 250 lux
•Speaker : 5" round
WE ARE LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE VALLEY IN MIDVALE, JUST 1 BLOCK FROM I-15. PLEASE CALL OR TEXT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE TV AT 801-706-2918
Title: Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort
Other title: Concha
Creator: Toro, Osvaldo 1914-1995; Ferrer, Miguel, 1915-2004; Salvadori, Mario George, 1907-1997; Marvel & Marchand Architects
Creator role: Architect
Date: 1958 (original) 2008 (renovation)
Current location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Description of work: Renaissance Hotels tasked architect Jose R. Marchand and interior designer Jorge Rossello with renovating and saving this beachside landmark. "[B]y the mid-1990s the venerable La Concha hotel had been shuttered, abandoned and left to rot...Originally designed by Osvaldo Toro and Miguel Ferrer, with an eccentric but utterly loveable seashell-shaped restaurant by Mario Salvatori [sic], La Concha was a beautifully massed, expertly sited, vividly inventive building perfectly in sync with its time. Closely attuning the hotel to its sun-swept setting, the architects created deep-shading overhangs, open corridors, windows and doors that gave onto lush interior courtyards and provided cross ventilation, and beautifully lacy quiebra-sol (their take on a brise-soleil) for further modulation of the light and heat" (Frank, Michael. "La Concha Revival". Architectural Digest. Aug 2009, p. 103-104. Print).
Description of view: View of the outdoor shower and spa area by the beachfront pool.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Modern: International Style
Culture: Puerto Rican
Materials/Techniques: Concrete
Plants
Trees
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 13, 2008
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2010-0281 Concha.JPG
Record ID: WB2010-0281
Sub collection: resorts
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
+BEST BEFORE UNU +
¬Best Before Unu
UNU (Antonis Anissegos)
and BESTBEFORE (Andreas Karaoulanis) met in March 2010 on stage at a Festival in Thessaloniki, following the invitation of the festival director to perform together.
The match was instant and after the success of their performance, they decided to form the duo best before unu.
Since then they produced together many short audio/visual pieces, and performed often in Greece and in Germany.
The intensive electronics of unu found a visual counterpoint in the moving images of bestbefore, generating complex sonic-visual formations. While audio frequencies are analyzed and passed into image motions, which in turn feed back to the music, a never ending circulation of influence travels in both directions.
As an enrichment of the collaboration, best before unu appears also with live piano, adding an acoustic dimension to the creative process. A journey through morphing landscapes and imaginary organisms, stimulating the audience to continuously perceive new associations.
vimeo.com/channels/bestbeforeunu/
bestbefore.gr/blog/category/best-before-unu/
+PARABELLES+
Its a jodeling nonjodeling elektronic duo .
+JAGUAR+
Jaguar is a collective formed by Oscar Martin (noish) and Constanza Piña (corazón de robota) focused on noise exploration and creative electronics sound devices. Jaguar is devoted to ride by bike around the city and look for old TVs to transform them into spices synthesizers and no logic machines.
+AME ZEK+
Ame Zek is an electronic musician, sound artist, and composer based in Berlin. To electronic music enthusiasts, he is a producer of sound waves and an LFO modulator. The music of Ame Zek is constructed from modulation chains to create a platform for building evolving sound structures.
+ ANACONDA BOY+
AnacondaBoy
Am Electronic music producer from Bangladesh
∆∆condadrums∆∆
Cracked voices, broken noises and the realm of the stage provokes the transformation of a human electronic music producer into the electronic beast that is Anacondaboy Using synthesizers, analog recordings and crash sounds the anaconda boy is in love with beats and broken noises. Crash melodies catch the attention of the audience taking their attention and bringing them into a land of pop metal beat music that is like a flash. This transformation from human to electronic beast brings a stroboscopic, psychedelic music where the voice can be analog and the audience can dance.
+PANI K.+
Visuals and electronic cakes. Origin coming from video and filmart, she studied in Poland, Pani K. is also interested to let a kitchen sing and performs her own language of beautiful music.
+YVES YANOMAMI+
+ DJ KIM KONG-IL
Screature
live at Witch Room in Sacramento
For the last few years, Screature has been one of our city's best bands both live and on record. Singer Liz has imperious command of her voice which she can deepen and flatten with amazing sustainability like a young Grace Slick or Siouxsie Sioux. The all-lady drum-organ rhythm section creates a deep, lush, velvety pocket for Liz's voice and Chris' guitar which achieves a killer mindmeld of Helios Creed's psych-punk snarl and Geordie's deft modulation.
On this night, they scrapped their entire songbook which has been their live staple since their first show, also heard on their excellent and only LP (so far). They debuted an entire batch of new songs, and OMG....they're even better than the first! Now they're about to take 'em on the road. If they come near you, you oughta go!
This was probably their biggest hit with audiences so far...
"Siren"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvFEtRtdj8
8/25 - Salt Lake City, UT - Diabolical Records
8/26 - Denver, CO - Lion's Lair
8/27 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
8/28 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
8/30 - Cincinnati, OH - Comet Bar
9/1 - New York, NY - Grand Victory
9/2 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
9/4 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
9/6 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
9/10 - New Orleans, LA - Mudlark Public Theater
9/11 - Austin, TX - Elysium
This is a performance module designed to be used in a skiff. The module has four gate generators (The arcade buttons) which can be used to trigger oscillators and modulation. The gate generators can then be combined with the 6 attenuators or the 2 waveshapers for great performance controls.
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Crown XLS2000 DriveCore Series 2100W Amplifier Description:
Crown's XLS 2000 power amplifier is a premiere portable PA system with unmatched performance, technology and affordability. It includes multiple inputs so you can plug in anything and play anywhere, along with several system setup configurations. This high-performance power amp provides enormous power and flexibility thanks to the integrated DriveCore Technology, PureBand Crossover System and Peakx limiters. Weighing less than 12 pounds, the Crown XLS2000 power amp is much easier to set up and move from show to show.
A Power Amp with Integrated DriveCore Technology
Class D amplifiers are notable for extraordinarily high efficiency and being well suited for driving difficult reactive loads such as subwoofers. However, their performance can suffer impaired performance on marginal and unstable AC line supplies. To overcome this obstacle, Crown engineers developed DriveCore Technology—a proprietary hybrid analog-digital integrated circuit (IC) developed with Texas Instruments that drives the "front end" of the Class D output stage. Over 60 years of Crown's design knowledge and experience went into developing this technology resulting in truly remarkable benefits. The DriveCore Technology in this Crown power amp provides an extremely wide tolerance with regards to sagging or "dirty" AC line conditions, providing consistent performance without affecting audio quality. This means the XLS2000 power amplifier will not compromise your performance by fluctuating generator power, or overload from lighting rigs, backline gear, etc. In addition, DriveCore Technology's patented feedback and PWM modulation circuits enable fast recovery on peak transients, accurate reproduction of low-level detail, and precise tracking of low frequencies at high-power levels for maximum subwoofer output.
Advanced Switched-Mode Power Supply
This advanced power supply in the Crown XLS2000 power amp is highly efficient and optimized for maximum power transfer from the AC line through the Class D output stage to the loudspeakers. A benefit to this is substantial weight reduction when compared to older 60Hz transformer-based power supplies.
PureBand Crossover System
The PureBand Crossover System in the Crown XLS Series adds an enormous amount of flexibility and performance to any system. With this system, the crossover frequency is completely variable allowing the choice of any crossover point between 50Hz and 3kHz on 1/12 octave centers. The use of 4th order Linkwitz-Riley filters provide steep slopes for a seamless transition between high and low drivers. And with four crossover modes to choose from providing the ultimate in flexibility, all of your system needs are covered.
Peakx limiters
Peakx limiters provide the ultimate in performance and protection for your entire system. This advanced algorithm was specifically developed and tuned to work with this amplifier and power-supply to achieve higher SPL will less audible artifacts. This means less distortion, less shutdowns, and maximum safe power delivered to your speakers. The Crown power amp's Peakx limiters can be easily turned on or off by channel right from the front panel eliminating the need to be digging around in the back of the dark rack.
The XLS is a leader in portable amps, with DriveCore Technology, PureBand Crossover System, and Peakx limiters
XLS High Performance, Lightweight Class D power amp weighs less than 11 lbs.
Integrated PureBand Crossover System for better performance and control
Peakx Limiters provide maximum output while protecting your speakers
XLR, 1/4", RCA inputs provide outstanding flexibility
1/4" Inputs can be used as loop-thrus to distribute signal to additional amplifiers Efficient forced-air fans prevent excessive thermal buildup
Electronically balanced XLR inputs; touchproof binding post and Speakon outputs
Precision detented level controls, power switch, power LED, and six LEDs indicate signal, clip and fault for each channel
Three-Year, No-Fault, Fully Transferable Warranty completely protects your investment and guarantees its specifications
Minimum Guaranteed Power per channel, both channels driven: 1050W, Stereo, 2 Ohms (per ch.); 650W, Stereo, 4 Ohms (per ch.); 375W, Stereo, 8 Ohms (per ch.); 1300W, Bridge-Mono, 8 Ohms; 2100W, Bridge-Mono, 4 Ohms
Sensitivity (for full rated power at 4 ohms): 1.4 Vrms
Frequency Response (at 1 watt, 20 Hz - 20 kHz): +0 dB, -1 dB
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Rated as dBr to full rated 8Ohm power output (A-Weighted): XLS2000 > 103 dB
Damping Factor (8 Ohm): 10 Hz to 400 Hz: > 200
Crosstalk (below rated 8Ohm power): At 1kHz: > 85dB; At 20kHz: >55dB
Input Impedance (nominal): 20 kOhm balanced, 10 kOhm unbalanced
Load Impedance: 2 to 8 Ohm per channel in Stereo; 4 to 8 Ohm in Bridge Mono
AC Line Voltage and Frequency Configurations Available (± 10%):120 VAC 60 Hz; 100 VAC 50/60 Hz; 220 and 240 VAC 50 Hz
Ventilation: Flow-through ventilation from front to back
Cooling: Internal heat sinks with forced-air cooling for rapid, uniform heat dissipation
Air Volume Requirements (per minute per unit): 80.15 ft (2.27 m )
Integrated Processing: PureBand Crossover System; Crossover Filter: Linkwitz-Riley 24dB per Octave; Crossover Frequency Range: 50 HZ - 3 kHz: Crossover Mode: Crossover (CH1=LPF, CH2=HPF), LowPass (both channels LPF), HighPass (both channels HPF), Bridge (LPF or HPF); Peakx limiters: Channel independent clip limiter designed to provide maximum output while protecting your loudspeakers
Input/Output: Input Connectors: XLR (one per channel), 1/4-Inch (one per channel), and RCA (one per channel). 1/4-Inch connectors can be used as loop-thrus to distribute signal to additional amplifiers. Output Connectors: Two 4-Pole Speakon Output Connectors accept 2-pole or 4-pole Speakon connectors. The top Speakon connector is wired for both channels so it can be used for bridgemono wiring or for stereo wiring of two speakers to a single Speakon connector. One pair of back-panel binding posts per channel; accepts banana plugs or bare wire. (European models do not accept banana plugs.)
Dimensions: 19"W x 3-1/2"H x 10-3/4"D
Weight: XLS2000: 10-3/4 lb.
Some of my guitar pedals. Top row is for fuzzes, second row is for distortions and overdrives, third row is for modulation effects (chorus, flanger etc.) and bottom row is for tonal effects.
Bluetooth Keyboard For iPad 2 with Black Aluminum Docking.The aluminum bluetooth keyboard case for the iPad 2 has a thin, eye-catching design.Made from aluminum with a high-grade finish, matching the design, look and feel of today's hottest tablets. A built-in physical keyboard allows for fast, responsive typing.
Sleek and stylish design with unique and useful features makes it an essential accessory to buy for your iPad2.Special function keys for music control, volume control, slideshow, home, search, etc.
Please note, this is an after-market item, it is not manufactured by Apple.
Feature:
Bluetooth standard: V2.0
Type: 82 keys
Operating distance: 10m
Modulation system: GFSK
Operation voltage: 3.0-5.0V
Working current: <5mA
Standby current: 2.5mA
Sleeping current: <200uA
Charging current: ≥100mA
Standby time: 60 days
Charging time: 4-5 hours
Charging input: DC 5V mini USB
Battery capacity: 1600mAh
Battery life: 3 years
Continuous working time: 55 hours
Key strength: 80 +/-10g
Key life: 5 million times
Operating temperature: -10-55℃
Size: 24.5cm (9.6") x 19cm (7.5") x 1.3cm (0.45")
Weight: 298g
Two colors to choose, Black and White ( Review White Bluetooth keyboard for iPad 2)
Package Content:
1 x Bluetooth iPad 2 keyboard
1 x Charging cable
1 x English manual
Note: Last 100pcs at this promotion price, pls confirm your order soon before it out of stock!
www.dealmelody.com/bluetooth-keyboard-for-ipad-2-with-bla...
Messier 3 (also known as M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Charles Messier on May 3, 1764, and resolved into stars by William Herschel around 1784. Since then, it has become one of the best-studied globular clusters. Identification of the cluster's unusually large variable star population was begun in 1913 by American astronomer Solon Irving Bailey and new variable members continue to be identified up through 2004.
Many amateur astronomers consider it one of the finest northern globular clusters, following only Messier 13. M3 has an apparent magnitude of 6.2, making it a difficult naked eye target even with dark conditions. With a moderate-sized telescope, the cluster is fully defined. It can be a challenge to locate through the technique of star hopping, but can be found by looking almost exactly halfway along an imaginary line connecting the bright star Arcturus to Cor Caroli. Using a telescope with a 25 cm (9.8 in) aperture, the cluster has a bright core with a diameter of about 6 arcminutes and spans a total of 12 arcminutes.
This cluster is one of the largest and brightest, and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 8 billion years old. It is located at a distance of about 33,900 light-years away from Earth.
Messier 3 is located 31.6 kly (9.7 kpc) above the Galactic plane and roughly 38.8 kly (11.9 kpc) from the center of the Milky Way. It contains 274 known variable stars; by far the highest number found in any globular cluster. These include 133 RR Lyrae variables, of which about a third display the Blazhko effect of long-period modulation. The overall abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium, what astronomers term the metallicity, is in the range of –1.34 to –1.50 dex. This value gives the logarithm of the abundance relative to the Sun; the actual proportion is 3.2–4.6% of the solar abundance. Messier 3 is the prototype for the Oosterhoff type I cluster, which is considered "metal-rich". That is, for a globular cluster, Messier 3 has a relatively high abundance of heavier elements.
Telescope: WO 110mm Megrez ED Doublet with WO 0.8 FF Ver. II
Mount: Atlas EQ-G controlled with EQMOD
Camera: Canon 350D Modified with Baader-ACF
Filter: Astronomik CLS filter
Guide Telescope: StellarVue AT1010 78mm Achromat
Guide Camera: Orion StarShoot AutoGuider using PHD Guiding software
Lights Frames: 13@120 seconds with in camera noise reduction & 10@300 Seconds ISO800
Calibrated with dark, flat and bias frames and processed using ImagesPlus 3.80
architecture.arqhys.com/architects/antoniobonet-biography...
ANTONIO BONET. In 1942, Bonet participates in the constitution of the Organization of the Integral House in the Argentine Republic. The idea of the formation of its work ties it with the ideas suggested by Him Corbusier throughout the process of preparation of the Plan of Buenos Aires. "the routine servitude of conception submissive the outsider does not exist any worthy of consideration argument seriously nor even in that some Argentineans live" So that the initial note of a universal modulation does not take place in our country, whose hope appears in the immediate perspective of the world: on the area in catastrophe of the cities martyred by the war, the genius of the man already begins to project the new forms of the human coexistence. On the contrary, the essential circumstance of our historical youth and the one of our adventurous peace, locate to us in the moral obligation to create new forms of life anticipating us to whatever of project and of dream it even subsists in a world of towns in flames and ruins. This thought of Bonet, is taken from the N° Notebook 1 of OVRA, titled Study of the Contemporary Problems for the organization of the integral house in the Argentine Republic. Without a doubt, the text gathers part of the optimism of the Austral Group. But while this one was directed to the architects and its problems, in the OVRA manifesto the horizon is ampler, next to certain discovered nonfree of messianism of the American, coincident with other similar initiatives in other places of the continent.
Reflections of Antonio Bonet on the architecture: "the architectonic elements that will form the new city will be formed by a series, numerous, of structures little systematized. Those structures will be able to arrive to the maximum from their aesthetic, technical perfection and economic, since besides to be placed in free lands, its study must be based on the progressive improvement of such types, so as it has become in the great architectures of the past. Within those structures, that will be the expression of the effort of the social man, to obtain the order and the harmony of its time, never will be obtained to a freedom reached after the development of the life of the man like individual, and the one of its institutions. It is well certain that we are even far from that stage, But does not fit doubt that once demonstrated that the modern buildings can be developed in simple structures, more and more seemed to each other, it will make the importance powerful of this system. Those buildings will be used and the equipped for but diverse uses, without aging with it, although they will have to work at a time whose social programs, industrial, etc., are in permanent evolution. I am going to finish with the confession of my conviction of which to group the programs for the unification of the structures, is something enormously difficult, but some is no doubt that it is the way that will take us forms to the true architectonic of our time. in that the diverse social programs will be developed freely, cultural hygienic, etc., that must form the structure of the new society.
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Musikvideo 01:30 min. [1982–2008]
POOR CAT – Die erstaunliche Verlagerung einer künstlerischen Perspektive
Die Flash-Animation »Poor Cat« (1982–2008) synthetisiert unterschiedlichste künstlerische Ansätze der digitalen Produktion zum audiovisuellen, siteübergreifenden Webclip.
Zur Mechanik des Clips:
Eine Lead Story – die »Lyrix« des Songs – wird grafisch comixartig und textbasierend rhythmisch dargestellt. Neben der Musik erhält der Clip durch Wiederholung und Modulation der reduzierten Zeichen– und Schriftsymbolik seine eigenständige visuelle Grundstruktur. Die primäre, lineare Erzählerebene – durchaus poetisch – wird durch das Anlegen einer zweiten, kontroversiellen Kommunikationsebene inhaltlich und emotional gebrochen. Die Kombination von Zeichen/Körper/Schrift/Text/Bild/Zeichnung/Symbol/Stimme des audiovisuellen Primärstreams – die persönliche Zeichensetzung – wird einer distanziert geführten (medien)theoretischen Auseinandersetzung gegenübergestellt. Auf dieser Ebene werden Aussage, formale Gestaltung und Anordnung des audiovisuellen Hauptstrings subversiv kritisiert, persifliert und mittels dynamisierter bildlicher und interaktiver Versprechung wird zum Verlassen des aktuellen Geschehens aufgefordert und auf andere, interessantere Themen und Sites (auf ein ganzes Universum) verwiesen.
Texte und Anweisungen im Clip:
POOR CAT – die erstaunliche verlagerung einer künstlerischen perspektive
der weg zur kunst
variation über selbstreferenzielle systeme
keine philosophische theorie?
nur leere und abstraktheit
keine politische wahrheit?
nur mathematische struktur
sozial nicht relevant?
nur ein synästhetisches kontinuum
nur eine visuelle erfahrung?
elegant
charmant
präzise
erregend – spektakulär
nicht korrupt?
nicht elitär?
ein kleines lied
zu einfach?
zu wenig action?
ein kurzer film
ein blauer himmel
less action?
analogie : kontrast
nur die erinnerung
an freundschaft
fast wie im richtigen leben
tricky world
eine metapher für den träumenden sozialen geist
zu wenig visionär?
dann
wählen sie amok
die geschichte über eine reise in die anonymität des leeren raums
tableau [1] japan eins
tableau [2] cluster der panik
tableau [3] museum of private arts
tableau [4] der schlaefer
tableau [5] translokation
ein ganzes universum?
wähle amok
oder bleib!
amok – schnelle server leben im geist der dekonstruktion
poor cat
1982-2008
interested in another space?
if it?
do it
now!
click!
verpasst!
Text, Grafik, Animation, Video, Performance, Komposition, Instrumente, Stimmen, Programmierung, Produktion und © GRAF+ZYX – Wien : all rights reserved.
POOR CAT : WEBCLIP
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video clip 01:30 min. [1982–2008]
POOR CAT – the prodigious shift of an artistic perspective
Different artistic approaches to digital production are synthesised in the Flash animation “Poor Cat” (1982–2008), an audiovisual and interlinked webclip.
On the mechanics of the clip:
A comix-like graphic design and text-adapted rhythms make up the storyline – the “lyrix” of the song: Next to music it is the composition and repetition of a minimised symbolism of signs and characters which constitute the clip's individual visual structure. The primary – rather poetical – narrative level is emotionally broken and disrupted in content by a second controversial communication level. The audiovisual storyline – the personal message – a combination of sign/body/text/image/drawing/symbol/voice is confronted with a conceptional media-theoretical examination. Statement, formal design, and composition of the audiovisual narrative are subversively criticised and satirised. It is the clip's dynamic visual and interactive assurance which prompts the viewer to leave the actual storyline, and refers to more interesting issues and sites (a whole universe).
The clip's script and directives:
POOR CAT – the prodigious shift of an artistic perspective
a path to art
variations on self-referential systems
no philosophical theory?
only emptiness and abstractness
no political truth?
only mathematical structure
not socially relevant?
only a synaesthetic continuum
a visual experience only?
elegant
charming
precise
exciting – spectacular
not corrupt?
not élitist?
a little song
too simple?
too few action?
a short movie
a blue sky
less action?
analogy : contrast
only a memory of friendship
almost like real life
tricky world
a metaphor for the dreaming social mind
not visionary enough?
then
they choose amok
the story of a voyage into the anonymity of empty space
tableau [1] Japan one
tableau [2] cluster of panic
tableau [3] museum of private arts
tableau [4] the sleeper
tableau [5] translocation
a whole universe?
choose amok
or stay!
amok – fast server live in the spirit of deconstruction
poor cat
1982–2008
interested in another space?
if it?
do it
now!
click!
missed!
Script, graphic design, animation, video, performance, composition, instruments, voices, programming, production © GRAF+ZYX, Vienna : all rights reserved
(translation: Simone von der Geest)
1950-1970
Naamseingever
morsecode keyer.
indien veelvuldige gespreksdicipline overtredingen zijn geconstateerd
werd deze naamseingever geplaatst in de radiotelefonie zenders van Nederlandse (visserij)schepen
hier met het naamsein " IM " ( .. __ __ ) in morse code.
wanneer de zender in de lucht komt (wordt gesleuteld)
gaat het twee-letter naamsein altijd mee in de uitzending of er gesproken wordt of niet..
identificatie van de zender is daarmee gemakkelijker voor de toezichthouder, de luisterdienst
van de inspectie Kust en Scheepsradio. (PTT/KSR)
fabrikaat:
Centrale Werkplaats PTT te Den Haag
type 3-65 nr. 40
primaire 24V=
output naamsein "I M" in morse code
modulatie toon 2000Hz
Microchip announced its new SST11CP22 5 GHz power amplifier module (PAM) for the IEEE 802.11ac ultra high data rate Wi-Fi® standard. This PAM delivers 19 dBm linear output power at 1.8% dynamic EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) with MCS9 80 MHz bandwidth modulation. Additionally, the SST11CP22 delivers 20 dBm linear power at 3% EVM for 802.11a/n applications, is spectrum mask compliant up to 24 dBm for 802.11a communication, and has less than - 45 dBm/MHz RF harmonic output at this output power, making it easier for the system board to meet FCC regulations. To learn more about Microchip’s RF power amplifiers visit: www.microchip.com/Power-Amps-031715a
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio,better known as Titian, was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. Recognized by his contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.
During the course of his long life Titian's artistic manner changed drastically[ but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.
Manchester Cathedral.
St Mary Window, 1980.
By Antony Hollaway (1928-2000).
In 1963 the stained glass designer and craftsman Tony Hollaway was introduced to the Manchester architect, Harry Fairhurst. Eight years later, after they had worked together on commissions in Cheshire and Liverpool, Fairhurst sought Tony's advice about a plan for five large stained-glass windows in Manchester Cathedral.
Thus was Tony asked to design and make the first window, the St George in the inner south-west aisle. It was completed in 1973. Further windows followed in 1976 and 1980 and the final window, Revelation was installed in 1995.
Detail: The St Mary Window. Designed by Antony Hollaway, 1980. (This is in the Tower.)
The circle, which dominates the window, is the ancient Christian symbol of perfection. It is marred by the death of Jesus in the form of a shart of leight or the sword. This is a direct reference to the prohecy of Simeon to the Blessed Virgin at the time of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. (“A sword shall piee through your own Soul also”. Luke 2: 35).
This destoryed the perfection of the circle which is compensated for visually the the arcs of red and yellow. “And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven: a women clother with the sun, the moon under her feet …” (Revelation 12:1). These radii restore the symmetry required for formal and design purposes.
These are seven shades of blue within the circle, blue being a colour traditionally associated with St Mary the Virgin. The circle contains a serpent. This is a multiple image best understood under the following headings:
The circle placed upon these blocks of colour are letter forms both upper and lower case which are essentially to create a pattern. However, they may be re-assembled to read verses from the Magnificate: left to right. The act of re-assembling the letters is intended to concentrate the mine on the text which would not necessarily result from ‘easy reading’.
The above details are intended to present:
1. A suitable light modulation for this part of the building.
2. A relationship with the two adjoining windows.
3. A monumentality and dignity appropriate to the Architecture and to the special place of this window in the Scheme, and of the Virgin Mary among the Patron Saints of the Cathedral.
All the teaching elements of the window are subordinate to the formal design requirements expressed in (3).
Shown here is an image from the exhibit "Open Minds: An Exhibit of Psychology Department Faculty Publications," on display in the Bright Gallery on the second floor of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. The exhibit features publications from faculty in the College of William and Mary's Department of Psychology. The exhibit is on display from March 26, 2012-January 18, 2013.
The following is a transcription of the label text presented on this label:
Selected Publications
Professor Burk
Fadel, James and Joshua A. Burk. (2010). Orexin/hypocretin
modulation of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: Role in
attention. Brain Research 1314, 112-123.
Burk, Joshua A., Matthew W. Lowder, and Kathleen E. Altemose.
(2008). Attentional demands for demonstrating deficits
following intrabasalis infusions of 192 IgG-Saporin. Behavioural
Brain Research 195(2), 231-238.
Professor Galano
Galano, Joseph and Lee Huntington. (2011). Healthy families
Virginia FY 2007-2011: Statewide evaluation executive report.
Richmond: Prevent Child Abuse Virginia.
Galano, Joseph. (2007). The healthy families America initiative:
Integrating research, theory and practice. New York: Haworth
Press.
Galano, Joseph. (1989). Poetry. Journal of Primary Prevention 10(1),
63-65.
Professor Barnet
Spaeth, Andrea M., Robert C. Barnet, Pamela S. Hunt, and Joshua A.
Burk. (2010). Adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts context
conditioning in adulthood in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry
and Behavior 96(4), 501-506.
Barnet, Robert C. and Pamela S. Hunt. (2006). The expression of
fear-potentiated startle during development: Integration of learning and response systems. Behavioral Neuroscience
120(4), 861-872.
From the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. See swem.wm.edu/scrc/ for further information and assistance.
A Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (VCA) made from three BC549 NPN transistors and three BC214 PNP transistors. It's a Gm Cell with variable current followed by a simple op-amp.
The four traces shown on the Tek 5440 are the input (1kHz), the two intermediate signals and the output. The control or modulation voltage was a triangle wave in this case.
22nd March 2013 at Jazz Café Posk, London W6 (Maria Muldaur gig).
Effects Pedals modify the sound of a musical instrument such as an Electric Guitar by means of changes like distortion, modulation, and feedback. They are often found on the floor on a pedalboard, and are operated with the feet.
The photo shows (left to right) a Boss Blues Driver BD 2, an Ibanez TD 9 Tube Screamer, a Guyatone VT-X Vintage Tremolo, plus a Boss TU 2 Chromatic Tuner.
The PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752. The PIC16F753 offers all the key features of the PIC12F752, such as the integrated Complementary Output Generator (COG) peripheral that provides non-overlapping, complementary waveforms for inputs such as comparators and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) peripherals, while enabling dead-band control, auto shutdown, auto reset, phase control and blanking control. Additionally, the PIC16F753 offers an Op Amp with 3 MHz of Gain Bandwidth Product (GBWP), and a slope compensation circuit to help in Switch Mode Power Supply applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/FL6L
Domenichino (eigentlich/aka Domenico Zampieri) , Bologna 1581 - Neapel 1641)
Sibylle, Ausschnitt / Sibyl, Detail / Sibilla, dettaglio (1616 - 17)
Galleria Borghese, Rom
Chromatic modulations characterize the Sibyl by Domenichino, who was also an expert in music. The figure is depicted with a viola da gamba and a music book, because traditionally in antiquity sibyls sang their prophecies to the accompaniment of musical instruments.
Source: Web Gallery of Art
Microchip announced its new SST11CP22 5 GHz power amplifier module (PAM) for the IEEE 802.11ac ultra high data rate Wi-Fi® standard. This PAM delivers 19 dBm linear output power at 1.8% dynamic EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) with MCS9 80 MHz bandwidth modulation. Additionally, the SST11CP22 delivers 20 dBm linear power at 3% EVM for 802.11a/n applications, is spectrum mask compliant up to 24 dBm for 802.11a communication, and has less than - 45 dBm/MHz RF harmonic output at this output power, making it easier for the system board to meet FCC regulations. To learn more about Microchip’s RF power amplifiers visit: www.microchip.com/Power-Amps-031715a
Jamis Cyclocross On/Off Road All Purpose Models Price Drop on These all purpose Gravel Griding Touring bicycles for all round use. Adventure Cycle 2464 Dufferin Street 416 787 4998
Over the barriers, through the mud, to the podium we go. On a Supernova of course. The carbon fiber Team and Elite versions of this perennial CX winner are guaranteed to have you reigning in the wet and muddy stuff. Then there’s our aluminum Nova Pro, Race and Sport, possibly some of the most versatile bikes we’ve ever built. They’re as ready for Monday morning’s asphalt commute as they were at the local gravel race last Saturday. And they’re just as ready to be loaded up with panniers for next month’s adventure tour.
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/cyclo...
2014 Jamis Nova Race $1082 regular price $2899 Gravel Grinder/Cyclocross Red
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2013 Jamis Nova Pro $1994 regular price $4589 Matt Black
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We also have Gravel Grinder Adventure Bicycles- Longer Wheel base and wider tires and rims:
The Renegade is ready for any adventure, no matter which Renegade you ride. The long and tall endurance geometry is designed specifically to ride comfortably all day on the road or in harsh conditions off-road. The smooth ride of the full carbon fiber Expert and Elite bikes set the bar for how we designed the steel Exploit and Expat and aluminum Exile to ride. With disc brakes and the ability to mount up to a 40c tire, these bikes are ready to go just about anywhere. All you need is the desire to push, pedal and explore.
/m_editable
Securing the rear wheel to the frame by threading it into the rear dropouts is not only safer, it's stiffer. Increasing the rear axle diameter from 10mm to 12mm provides a stable platform for the disc braking forces and allows us to tune the rear seat stays for more compliance/comfort
Tubeless and wider rims across the range provide great benefits on any terrain. The tubeless benefits are to help prevent flats with sealant as well as being able to adjust your tire pressure for the perfect ride. For example on dirt roads you may want to reduce the tire pressure to increase your contact patch for better grip without the worry of pinch flatting. The beauty of the 23-24mm wider rims effectively gives you a constant and wide tire surface yielding better handling, stability and confidence with plenty of surface grip for control
Just in case you want to continue to push the boundaries, we added cable routing capability for a 27.2mm dropper post. Carbon-made Elite and Expert models have routing for an internal post while the Exploit is fitted for external.
After two years of testing and research we are able to provide even more comfort by reducing the seat post diameter on the carbon Renegade to 27.2mm. Through the combination of a new frame seat cluster and clamping configuration we were able to accentuate the benefits of top-down 27.2mm seatpost comfort while not compromising on side-to-side flex
Starting with a wide and consistent stack and reach range, we set out to design a frame that could handle on or off road conditions while maintaining a comfortable ride. As you start to review the geo chart you will noticed we have 3 different fork offsets, BB drops and rear center measurements. Add size specific tubing and 2 different sized rear triangles and you have what we feel is the perfect endurance geo for all sized riders. The reason for this is that we wanted the 48 and 61 to fit the rider correctly and make the geo changes needed to provide the perfect ride.
Size Specific Tubing
Size Specific Design (SSD) is the Jamis design philosophy and technique used to create the best possible riding bike for each size rider. Rather than limiting frame size variations to just different length top, seat and head tubes lengths, we take an all-inclusive look at each frame’s total configuration. Every SSD frame will also feature size-specific BB drop, rear center, fork offset/trail and SST technology.
ACE is our Internal Cable Guide System that is companionable with mechanical or Di2 shifting as well as hydraulic or mechanical braking. To keep shifting and braking performing best in any & all conditions, we’ve routed all cables internally on the new Renegade and designed a completely enclosed BB guide to keep cables clean, assuring precise shifts and sure stops in all conditions. And if you want to shift electronically, we’ve got you covered. Incorporated into our internal cable guide system are a few extra cable fittings that make the Renegade Di2 compatible
To make life easier we have repositioned each mount externally in a variety of easy-to-use locations. With a wide collection of fork and frame mounts you can now choose to mount fenders, rear carrier, low-rider front carrier (or two cages for water bottles/ storage) and three front triangle water bottles. This will open up the options wherever and whenever you chose to ride. Bad weather, commuting, trekking, touring – anything is possible.
Disc Brakes
With endurance geometry designed to go anywhere the only choice was disc brakes. Now the Renegade Elite, Expert and Exploit all come with hydraulic brakes. With hydraulic disc brakes you will have the most consistent and confidence-inspiring braking available. Just think about jamming down hill on a rutted out fire road with your hands all over the hoods…the power & modulation benefits of hydraulic disc brakes become readily apparent
Thru Axles
The 12mm Thru-Axle on our Renegades offer the benefit of increased stiffness and a quick release system without any downside. Designed specifically to counter-act the stress and pull of disc brake tourque, these forks won’t drift when brakes are applied.
Jamis 2016 Renegade Exile $883 regular price $1285 Grey Aluminum
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2016 Renegade Expat $1,290 regular price $1877 Black Steel
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2016 Renegade Exploit $1,872 regular price $3,018 Grey Steel
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2017 Renegade Exile $1,171 Blue Aluminum
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2017 Renegade Expat $1,774 Grey Steel
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This is the vehicular mounted version of the BC-659A Manpack radio set. It looks pretty big to carry on your back, if you ask me. It operated on 27-38.9 MHz with about 2 watts output. The modulation was REALLY wide band FM, +/-75 KHz deviation, the same as used today in hi-fi stereo commercial FM broadcasting. Just for reference, North America is in the process of transitioning to +/- 2.5 KHz modulation for voice communication grade FM, or 1/30th of the bandwith used in WWII military gear. This unit was built by Galvin Manufacturing Company, later known as Motorola.
This morning we made the valentine cards for her preschool class, and she colored some hearts that Wave Of Modulation gave her.
I did not ask her to pose this way.
March 7 - April 9, 2010
Opening reception: March 7, 4-7pm
It is with great pleasure that devening projects + editions announces The Lodger, an exhibition of new work by Peter Otto. The show will feature new paintings, works on paper and editions.
In this exhibition, as throughout most of his career, Otto makes the task of facing untenable cultural truths only slightly easier by persuading us with a system of delivery almost impossible to ignore. Otto’s work reports on the constituent factors of a human condition continually shifting between beguiling and highly disturbing. He reveals the state to which humanity—ever tested by social, cultural and political forces—bends, breaks and at times collapses. These paintings and sculptures show a reality emerging from the darkest moments. Evidence of the ways culture and society impose will and exert power is revealed on the surfaces of his verdant canvases and in the sculptures made from clay, plaster and bronze.
The themes are somber; the work though is delicately formed and teeming with graceful facture. It’s a difficult balance to strike, but Otto is able to bring forth stories of how cultural ruptures created by wars, famine, natural and man-made disasters form the basis from which that same culture is ultimately shaped. His paintings and drawings express a highly personal relationship with historical and contemporary events but always leaves the narrative open to evoke sensations interpretable from varied positions.
One thinks of Philip Guston when looking at Otto’s work. An acknowledged influence for the artist, Guston is a model for how to bridge the political and the formal. An example in Otto’s work is a regular use of stacked or hanging objects. Macabre associations are unavoidable, but one can never be sure. These “things” might also suggest built structures raised from a destroyed place or re-presented from an emergent culture. One might consider Guston’s piles of shoes and find a strong link to Otto. The concerns addressed in Otto’s most well-known paintings can also be seen in occasional large-scale public works in Holland such as Twisted Totem in Den Haag. This monumental work is a aggressively fragmented totem made from disparate parts. The sculpture, like the paintings, asks us to face difficult and challenging revelations about our culture and brings awareness to the ways in which we process trauma.
In one of several essays in Votive/Totem, the 2006 book on Otto, Rob Smolders writes: “Peter Otto juxtaposes his own malicious imagination with the imagination of society. He tightens pieces of string, erects crosses and gallows, puts up doors and fences, has a ball with junk he finds in his way: swastikas and Christmas trees, feet and heads, flowers and walking sticks. No dances in this world for it is inhabited by monsters and crutches.”
Of his painting and process, Smolders writes: “… Meanwhile, Peter Otto remained the painter he was. Magician when glazing, alchemist when patinating. The pictorial language of the paintings dating from the past five years is often acrid yet playful. Colors that are sometimes reminiscent of blood, tar or flesh, suddenly give way to the ripe color modulations of overblown flowers in an exuberant representation. References to war and violence that are too literal have been forced back. The tenor of the work is more general, even if the prevailing mood remains somber.”
Otto, who lives in Arnhem, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe including projects at Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Boÿmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Galerie Reuten and Galerie Swart in Amsterdam, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Devening Projects & Editions
3039 West Carroll
Chicago, IL 60612
Tel.: 312-420-4720
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Jamis Cyclocross On/Off Road All Purpose Models Price Drop on These all purpose Gravel Griding Touring bicycles for all round use. Adventure Cycle 2464 Dufferin Street 416 787 4998
Over the barriers, through the mud, to the podium we go. On a Supernova of course. The carbon fiber Team and Elite versions of this perennial CX winner are guaranteed to have you reigning in the wet and muddy stuff. Then there’s our aluminum Nova Pro, Race and Sport, possibly some of the most versatile bikes we’ve ever built. They’re as ready for Monday morning’s asphalt commute as they were at the local gravel race last Saturday. And they’re just as ready to be loaded up with panniers for next month’s adventure tour.
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/cyclo...
2014 Jamis Nova Race $1082 regular price $2899 Gravel Grinder/Cyclocross Red
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/2014-...
2013 Jamis Nova Pro $1994 regular price $4589 Matt Black
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/2013-...
We also have Gravel Grinder Adventure Bicycles- Longer Wheel base and wider tires and rims:
The Renegade is ready for any adventure, no matter which Renegade you ride. The long and tall endurance geometry is designed specifically to ride comfortably all day on the road or in harsh conditions off-road. The smooth ride of the full carbon fiber Expert and Elite bikes set the bar for how we designed the steel Exploit and Expat and aluminum Exile to ride. With disc brakes and the ability to mount up to a 40c tire, these bikes are ready to go just about anywhere. All you need is the desire to push, pedal and explore.
/m_editable
Securing the rear wheel to the frame by threading it into the rear dropouts is not only safer, it's stiffer. Increasing the rear axle diameter from 10mm to 12mm provides a stable platform for the disc braking forces and allows us to tune the rear seat stays for more compliance/comfort
Tubeless and wider rims across the range provide great benefits on any terrain. The tubeless benefits are to help prevent flats with sealant as well as being able to adjust your tire pressure for the perfect ride. For example on dirt roads you may want to reduce the tire pressure to increase your contact patch for better grip without the worry of pinch flatting. The beauty of the 23-24mm wider rims effectively gives you a constant and wide tire surface yielding better handling, stability and confidence with plenty of surface grip for control
Just in case you want to continue to push the boundaries, we added cable routing capability for a 27.2mm dropper post. Carbon-made Elite and Expert models have routing for an internal post while the Exploit is fitted for external.
After two years of testing and research we are able to provide even more comfort by reducing the seat post diameter on the carbon Renegade to 27.2mm. Through the combination of a new frame seat cluster and clamping configuration we were able to accentuate the benefits of top-down 27.2mm seatpost comfort while not compromising on side-to-side flex
Starting with a wide and consistent stack and reach range, we set out to design a frame that could handle on or off road conditions while maintaining a comfortable ride. As you start to review the geo chart you will noticed we have 3 different fork offsets, BB drops and rear center measurements. Add size specific tubing and 2 different sized rear triangles and you have what we feel is the perfect endurance geo for all sized riders. The reason for this is that we wanted the 48 and 61 to fit the rider correctly and make the geo changes needed to provide the perfect ride.
Size Specific Tubing
Size Specific Design (SSD) is the Jamis design philosophy and technique used to create the best possible riding bike for each size rider. Rather than limiting frame size variations to just different length top, seat and head tubes lengths, we take an all-inclusive look at each frame’s total configuration. Every SSD frame will also feature size-specific BB drop, rear center, fork offset/trail and SST technology.
ACE is our Internal Cable Guide System that is companionable with mechanical or Di2 shifting as well as hydraulic or mechanical braking. To keep shifting and braking performing best in any & all conditions, we’ve routed all cables internally on the new Renegade and designed a completely enclosed BB guide to keep cables clean, assuring precise shifts and sure stops in all conditions. And if you want to shift electronically, we’ve got you covered. Incorporated into our internal cable guide system are a few extra cable fittings that make the Renegade Di2 compatible
To make life easier we have repositioned each mount externally in a variety of easy-to-use locations. With a wide collection of fork and frame mounts you can now choose to mount fenders, rear carrier, low-rider front carrier (or two cages for water bottles/ storage) and three front triangle water bottles. This will open up the options wherever and whenever you chose to ride. Bad weather, commuting, trekking, touring – anything is possible.
Disc Brakes
With endurance geometry designed to go anywhere the only choice was disc brakes. Now the Renegade Elite, Expert and Exploit all come with hydraulic brakes. With hydraulic disc brakes you will have the most consistent and confidence-inspiring braking available. Just think about jamming down hill on a rutted out fire road with your hands all over the hoods…the power & modulation benefits of hydraulic disc brakes become readily apparent
Thru Axles
The 12mm Thru-Axle on our Renegades offer the benefit of increased stiffness and a quick release system without any downside. Designed specifically to counter-act the stress and pull of disc brake tourque, these forks won’t drift when brakes are applied.
Jamis 2016 Renegade Exile $883 regular price $1285 Grey Aluminum
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2016 Renegade Expat $1,290 regular price $1877 Black Steel
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2016 Renegade Exploit $1,872 regular price $3,018 Grey Steel
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2017 Renegade Exile $1,171 Blue Aluminum
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
Jamis 2017 Renegade Expat $1,774 Grey Steel
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/adventure/...
www.rbinc-sports.com/jamis-factory-outlet-store/cyclocros...
The Dirty Carter Electronic Sound Generating Instrument was designed by John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Chris Carter from legendary Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It was produced for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble in 2010. It was originally designed as a touch controlled instrument with the player's skin resistance completing the circuit. This hard wired modification by A.S.M.O. gives more control and predictability by wiring all to the touch contacts to pots and switches. An additional low pass resonant filter has been added, LFO and an external CV socket for filter modulation.
The case is made of stained ply and the front panel is covered with black leatherette.
Screature
live at Witch Room in Sacramento
For the last few years, Screature have been one of our city's best bands both live and on record. Singer Liz has imperious command of her voice which she can deepen and flatten with amazing sustainability like a young Grace Slick or Siouxsie Sioux. The all-lady drum-organ rhythm section creates a deep, lush, velvety pocket for Liz's voice and Chris' guitar which achieves a killer mindmeld of Helios Creed's psych-punk snarl and Geordie's deft modulation.
On this night, they scrapped their entire songbook which has been their live staple since their first show, also heard on their excellent and only LP (so far). They debuted an entire batch of new songs, and OMG....they're even better than the first! Now they're about to take 'em on the road. If they come near you, you oughta go!
This was probably their biggest hit with audiences so far...
"Siren"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvFEtRtdj8
8/25 - Salt Lake City, UT - Diabolical Records
8/26 - Denver, CO - Lion's Lair
8/27 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
8/28 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
8/30 - Cincinnati, OH - Comet Bar
9/1 - New York, NY - Grand Victory
9/2 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
9/4 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
9/6 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
9/10 - New Orleans, LA - Mudlark Public Theater
9/11 - Austin, TX - Elysium
I found this chart after purchasing the lens, in a Voigtlander forum! Seems the Rolleinar 2.8/35 is the same lens as the Voigtlander Color-Skopal 2.8/35, both made by Mamiya in Japan. For anyone unfamiliar, Mamiya lenses are legendary.
Actual shots confirm the MTF charts: except in real life, my lens appears to render IQ better than the charts would indicate. The charts above are for the very early lenses: mine is a later, improved, Japan version. Overall, the lens compares favourably with today's f2/8/35mm lenses, and provides excellent contrast and resolution.
How to read an MTF chart?
[MTF= Modulation Transfer Function]
[lppmm= line pairs per millimetre]
* The chart displays 2 lines for different lppmm at different f stops.
* The solid lines measure 'sagital lines", running diagonally from lens left bottom corner, through centre, to right top corner.
* The dotted lines measure "meridonial lines", running perpendicular to sagital.
* The solid and dotted lines are grouped in pairs and displayed for 10, 20, 40 lppmm.
10 lppmm relates to contrast.
40 lppmm relates to resolution.
* In general: the higher the curves show on the chart, the better; the flatter the curves, the better; the closer the solid and dotted lines are to each other, the better.
* The number on the X axis is the diagonal distance from lens centre. Thus, 10 indicates a 20mm circle diameter imposed upon the centre of the 36x24 frame, for about 50% coverage overall.
* Due to inherent limitations of glass and design, lenses are optimised at a specific aperture, usually f8 for legacy. Thus, most charts show the curves progressing flatter as the lens is stopped own.
* Many factors determine the overall performance of a lens, more than MTF can measure. MTF serves objectively as a starting point.
Is contrast more important than resolution for general photography? Yes. Sharpness. Our eyes perceive sharpness as a function of contrast between items photographed: example, foreground against background..
Is resolution important? Yes. Without resolution, fine details are not visible. But how much is enough or too much? This answer depends entirely upon the photographer. Portraits require 'pleasing' resolution, and most top lenses provide more than enough to show clearly facial wrinkles and blemishes. Spy satellites require ultra resolution, and never have enough.
Jamis Cyclocross On/Off Road All Purpose Models Price Drop on These all purpose Gravel Griding Touring bicycles for all round use. Adventure Cycle 2464 Dufferin Street 416 787 4998
Over the barriers, through the mud, to the podium we go. On a Supernova of course. The carbon fiber Team and Elite versions of this perennial CX winner are guaranteed to have you reigning in the wet and muddy stuff. Then there’s our aluminum Nova Pro, Race and Sport, possibly some of the most versatile bikes we’ve ever built. They’re as ready for Monday morning’s asphalt commute as they were at the local gravel race last Saturday. And they’re just as ready to be loaded up with panniers for next month’s adventure tour.
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/cyclo...
2014 Jamis Nova Race $1082 regular price $2899 Gravel Grinder/Cyclocross Red
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/2014-...
2013 Jamis Nova Pro $1994 regular price $4589 Matt Black
www.rbinc-sports.com/catalog/bikes/jamis-bikes/road/2013-...
We also have Gravel Grinder Adventure Bicycles- Longer Wheel base and wider tires and rims:
The Renegade is ready for any adventure, no matter which Renegade you ride. The long and tall endurance geometry is designed specifically to ride comfortably all day on the road or in harsh conditions off-road. The smooth ride of the full carbon fiber Expert and Elite bikes set the bar for how we designed the steel Exploit and Expat and aluminum Exile to ride. With disc brakes and the ability to mount up to a 40c tire, these bikes are ready to go just about anywhere. All you need is the desire to push, pedal and explore.
/m_editable
Securing the rear wheel to the frame by threading it into the rear dropouts is not only safer, it's stiffer. Increasing the rear axle diameter from 10mm to 12mm provides a stable platform for the disc braking forces and allows us to tune the rear seat stays for more compliance/comfort
Tubeless and wider rims across the range provide great benefits on any terrain. The tubeless benefits are to help prevent flats with sealant as well as being able to adjust your tire pressure for the perfect ride. For example on dirt roads you may want to reduce the tire pressure to increase your contact patch for better grip without the worry of pinch flatting. The beauty of the 23-24mm wider rims effectively gives you a constant and wide tire surface yielding better handling, stability and confidence with plenty of surface grip for control
Just in case you want to continue to push the boundaries, we added cable routing capability for a 27.2mm dropper post. Carbon-made Elite and Expert models have routing for an internal post while the Exploit is fitted for external.
After two years of testing and research we are able to provide even more comfort by reducing the seat post diameter on the carbon Renegade to 27.2mm. Through the combination of a new frame seat cluster and clamping configuration we were able to accentuate the benefits of top-down 27.2mm seatpost comfort while not compromising on side-to-side flex
Starting with a wide and consistent stack and reach range, we set out to design a frame that could handle on or off road conditions while maintaining a comfortable ride. As you start to review the geo chart you will noticed we have 3 different fork offsets, BB drops and rear center measurements. Add size specific tubing and 2 different sized rear triangles and you have what we feel is the perfect endurance geo for all sized riders. The reason for this is that we wanted the 48 and 61 to fit the rider correctly and make the geo changes needed to provide the perfect ride.
Size Specific Tubing
Size Specific Design (SSD) is the Jamis design philosophy and technique used to create the best possible riding bike for each size rider. Rather than limiting frame size variations to just different length top, seat and head tubes lengths, we take an all-inclusive look at each frame’s total configuration. Every SSD frame will also feature size-specific BB drop, rear center, fork offset/trail and SST technology.
ACE is our Internal Cable Guide System that is companionable with mechanical or Di2 shifting as well as hydraulic or mechanical braking. To keep shifting and braking performing best in any & all conditions, we’ve routed all cables internally on the new Renegade and designed a completely enclosed BB guide to keep cables clean, assuring precise shifts and sure stops in all conditions. And if you want to shift electronically, we’ve got you covered. Incorporated into our internal cable guide system are a few extra cable fittings that make the Renegade Di2 compatible
To make life easier we have repositioned each mount externally in a variety of easy-to-use locations. With a wide collection of fork and frame mounts you can now choose to mount fenders, rear carrier, low-rider front carrier (or two cages for water bottles/ storage) and three front triangle water bottles. This will open up the options wherever and whenever you chose to ride. Bad weather, commuting, trekking, touring – anything is possible.
Disc Brakes
With endurance geometry designed to go anywhere the only choice was disc brakes. Now the Renegade Elite, Expert and Exploit all come with hydraulic brakes. With hydraulic disc brakes you will have the most consistent and confidence-inspiring braking available. Just think about jamming down hill on a rutted out fire road with your hands all over the hoods…the power & modulation benefits of hydraulic disc brakes become readily apparent
Thru Axles
The 12mm Thru-Axle on our Renegades offer the benefit of increased stiffness and a quick release system without any downside. Designed specifically to counter-act the stress and pull of disc brake tourque, these forks won’t drift when brakes are applied.
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Microchip announced its new 5 GHz, 50 ohm Matched WLAN Front End Module (FEM)—the SST11LF04—for high data rate mobile device applications. The SST11LF04 features a transmitter power amplifier, a receiver low-noise amplifier with bypass and a low-loss, single-pole two-throw antenna switch for 5 GHz WLAN connectivity into one integrated, compact 2.5x2.5x0.4 mm, 16-pin QFN package, making it ideal for high-data-rate mobile device applications. With its small footprint, high linear output power of up to 16 dBm and 17 dBm, at 3.3V and 5V Vcc respectively—for 1.75% dynamic EVM using MCS9-HT80 modulation and 80 MHz bandwidth along with 18 dBm and 19 dBm linear power for 3% EVM at 3.3V and 5V, respectively—the SST11LF04 extends the range of IEEE 802.11a WLAN system while providing exceptional transmit power at the maximum 11ac high-data–rate modulation. The receiver has a 12 dB gain and a greater than -6 dBm input (1 dB) compression level. In LNA bypass mode, the receiver has a 2.5 dB noise figure and an -6 dBm input compression level. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/K6WW
March 7 - April 9, 2010
Opening reception: March 7, 4-7pm
It is with great pleasure that devening projects + editions announces The Lodger, an exhibition of new work by Peter Otto. The show will feature new paintings, works on paper and editions.
In this exhibition, as throughout most of his career, Otto makes the task of facing untenable cultural truths only slightly easier by persuading us with a system of delivery almost impossible to ignore. Otto’s work reports on the constituent factors of a human condition continually shifting between beguiling and highly disturbing. He reveals the state to which humanity—ever tested by social, cultural and political forces—bends, breaks and at times collapses. These paintings and sculptures show a reality emerging from the darkest moments. Evidence of the ways culture and society impose will and exert power is revealed on the surfaces of his verdant canvases and in the sculptures made from clay, plaster and bronze.
The themes are somber; the work though is delicately formed and teeming with graceful facture. It’s a difficult balance to strike, but Otto is able to bring forth stories of how cultural ruptures created by wars, famine, natural and man-made disasters form the basis from which that same culture is ultimately shaped. His paintings and drawings express a highly personal relationship with historical and contemporary events but always leaves the narrative open to evoke sensations interpretable from varied positions.
One thinks of Philip Guston when looking at Otto’s work. An acknowledged influence for the artist, Guston is a model for how to bridge the political and the formal. An example in Otto’s work is a regular use of stacked or hanging objects. Macabre associations are unavoidable, but one can never be sure. These “things” might also suggest built structures raised from a destroyed place or re-presented from an emergent culture. One might consider Guston’s piles of shoes and find a strong link to Otto. The concerns addressed in Otto’s most well-known paintings can also be seen in occasional large-scale public works in Holland such as Twisted Totem in Den Haag. This monumental work is a aggressively fragmented totem made from disparate parts. The sculpture, like the paintings, asks us to face difficult and challenging revelations about our culture and brings awareness to the ways in which we process trauma.
In one of several essays in Votive/Totem, the 2006 book on Otto, Rob Smolders writes: “Peter Otto juxtaposes his own malicious imagination with the imagination of society. He tightens pieces of string, erects crosses and gallows, puts up doors and fences, has a ball with junk he finds in his way: swastikas and Christmas trees, feet and heads, flowers and walking sticks. No dances in this world for it is inhabited by monsters and crutches.”
Of his painting and process, Smolders writes: “… Meanwhile, Peter Otto remained the painter he was. Magician when glazing, alchemist when patinating. The pictorial language of the paintings dating from the past five years is often acrid yet playful. Colors that are sometimes reminiscent of blood, tar or flesh, suddenly give way to the ripe color modulations of overblown flowers in an exuberant representation. References to war and violence that are too literal have been forced back. The tenor of the work is more general, even if the prevailing mood remains somber.”
Otto, who lives in Arnhem, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe including projects at Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Boÿmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Galerie Reuten and Galerie Swart in Amsterdam, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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Blacktron Gold - Listening and Assault Unit
Spacecraft equipped with:
- stereo cockpit
- optoechoic head
- white noise generator
- modulation metronome
- dual megabass cannon
- large aperture antenna with phrase scanning
- dual IR (iridium) jam-session-er
- powerful pro-tone torpedo
- dual frequency Hi-Fi-per sonic missiles
Violating this synth in ways it never imagined... Poor thing... ;)
Yes, the synth is sitting on top of an iMac G3. heheh
Perhaps linking a hospital car park with medieval chain mail is not such an outlandish idea, especially if it’s a Cambridge University teaching hospital. It certainly didn’t seem so for Allies and Morrison and Devereux Architects, who were commissioned by Addenbrooke’s to design one on for the expanded Rosie Maternity Hospital’s campus. The D&B proposal they came up with is lavished with playfulness and delight. The twisted yellow-painted aluminium facade that runs the full length and height of the building draws its inspiration from the rape seed fields that used to stretch away on the site, the twist creating a weaving modulation that imposes even while it dematerialises the mass.
The judges pronounced the design vision and detailing excellent throughout, along with rigorous and clear approaches to accessibility and way-finding – all-important in this medical environment.
The altitude motor that does work is driven with a steady roughly-square-wave shape with peaks at +8.5V or -8.5V depending on direction. At full speed you simply get 8.5 V DC. I imagine the pulses are a poor man's way to control the average voltage by controlling how long the level is low or high.
[Looking around the Internet, this is called Pulse-Width Modulation or PWM, which is a standard way to control the speed of a DC electric motor -- The motor can't respond to this 20 kHz oscillation in voltage because its mechanical inertia acts like a low-pass filter so it essentially “sees” a lower constant voltage equivalent to the temporal mean voltage of the signal]
The period of about 51 microseconds suggests the PIC is controlling the motor in periods of 1024 steps at 20 MHz (1024/20000000=51 us). There is a 20 MHz crystal on the PIC circuit board. Alternatively, it might be something like 256 steps at 5 MHz.
In the azimuth motor that doesn't work you see the same pattern, but the teeth of the wave widen over time until the signal is always high (at Rate 1 it takes many seconds, at Rate 9 it immediately jumps to always high). I imagine this happens because the encoder isn't moving, so the PIC thinks it has to raise the average voltage to get the motor up to speed.
I bought one used GT motor on eBay which is already on its way here (visually it looks the same, but I'm not sure it will actually work with the SLT circuitry and mount). I also ordered two new SLT motors, model SLT-F00-1A (instead of SLT-F00-1), from telescopes.net that may take a bit longer to arrive.
He's been out of his crib for almost 2 months; I just hadn't celebrated the milestone with a photo yet.
Piggy blanket by Wave of Modulation.