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Here's a little post van I made in Digital Designer and rendered with Bluerender. I'm not sure why it hovers slightly above the ground, but I can't fix it...
I'm am currently on a four-month work placement at LEGO in Billund, so I'm living the dream right now! :DDD If you want to read a bit more aout it, go to my blog here: hardingco.tumblr.com/post/148805088036/dream-come-true
Anyway, I hope you like my little build and as always, I appreciate any feedback!
The interior of the typesetting room at the Galesburg Post newspaper. Pete Creighton, left, and mother Mary Creighton, unknown, can be seen.
File name: N-B195
Date: 1937-09-11
Genre: Negative
Rights: No known copyright
Preferred citation: Courtesy Galesburg Public Library
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Paste-ups und Poster von Künstlern aus aller Welt, präsentiert an den Wänden des Kunst- und Kulturverein Metzgerei Schnitzel e.V.
Vernissage: 1. Juni 2012 ab 20:00h
Ausstellung: 1. Juni bis 30. Juni 2012
Brause / Metzgerei Schnitzel Kunstverein e.V.
Schickt eure Paste-ups in beliebiger Größe gefaltet im A4-Umschlag (bitte keine Rollen!!!) mit eurem Künstlernamen unter Angabe eurer Heimatstadt per Post bis zum 31. Mai 2012 an:
Metzgerei Schnitzel e.V.
Stichwort: World of Paste-ups
Bilker Allee 233
40215 Düsseldorf
more infos here:
Finally got off my lazy ass to do some pasting at Post Alley.
Saw a lot of familiar faces (teeth, hands, birds, flying daggers etc.) down there
Took this one in the alps some days ago. The cows are back in the valley, the wires are removed from the fences. Everything ready for the first snow.
A small draft of an environmental protection poster. Ideally, the finished version will have a small-run sale of 50 giclee prints on Hahnemuhle W. Turner Watercolor paper, with all proceeds above cost and shipping going to the Sierra Club.
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My Daily Post
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A Post Office B size wall letter box on Holyhead Road in Llanfairpwllgwngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch near the junction with Lôn Graig. Monday 10th January 2011
Note, the letter box was manufactured for the Post Office by W.T. Allen & Company
Ref no Canon EOS50D 3rd series - IMG_1944
Research Thing - Remote Research
Blog post: makaylalewis.co.uk/2015/07/20/sketchnotes-the-research-th...
#TodaysDoodle (No. 269)
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The 2.7 mile Old Post Trail starts from its north trailhead off Shelby Road, turns west after 100 yards at its junction with the Ridge Trail, and continues for .4 miles, then turns south. The end of the Carroll Canyon Trail is intersected .1 miles later. The Old Post curves west, gradually ascending with nice views to the north. It tops out, turns south and descends for .4 miles to its intersection with the other end of Carroll Canyon Trail. The Old Post bears right, goes west a short way on level ground, then descends to the south. As the trail bottoms out, it meets the end of the Herkenham Trail. There are good views of Cathedral Rock and Courthouse Butte. The trail ends after another .6 miles at the Chavez Road trailhead.
For more information about Carroll Canyon trails: www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coconino/recarea/?recid=72089
Photos taken 2/20/23 by Danika Thiele. Credit: US Forest Service, Coconino National Forest.
Decal is from Fine Clonier Hitman's chest. Carrying three Smith & Wesson 1917, chambered for .45. (Gun from Indiana Jones)
The smoke-belching Trabant, affectionately known as the "Trabi" to people who never had to drive one, debuted in East Germany in November 1957. Initially, the car was not a disaster, at least not entirely. In fact, it had some enviable attributes for its era. Its much-mocked duroplast body was an innovation at the time of its introduction. The vehicle’s front-wheel-drive transmission system and independent suspension were also modern advancements, one Trabant driver notes.
That, however, is where the vehicle’s virtues stop and its problems begin.
It wasn’t that the Trabant had a weak two-stroke engine, though it did. It wasn’t just that the Trabant was made with recycled waste (usually from wool or cotton), though it was. It wasn’t that Trabants topped out at 60 mph and “smoked like an Iraqi oil fire,” as one writer put it.
No, the Trabant’s biggest problem was that it never really improved. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the 1957 Trabant had no tachometer, no turn signal, no seat belts or fuel gauge-(the fuel gauge was a dipstick), no trunk liner, and used an oil/gas mix. When the last Trabant was produced in 1989 it still topped out at about 60 mph, which it took 21 seconds to reach from a stop. The Aston Martin Virage, which debuted the same year, took 6.5 seconds.
Perhaps just as shocking is how much a Trabant cost. The P601 model, which hit production lines in 1963 and was the most heavily produced Trabant, was listed at 7,450 eastern marks by the state ($1,862 USD in 1963, $15,600 in 2019). The average monthly income of an East German in 1960 was 558 marks, which means a Trabant cost more than an entire year’s wages for a typical worker, and it was paid in advance.
Trabants, however, were actually even more expensive. Because of automobile scarcity, on the second-hand market, a used Trabant sold for more than double the price of a new one, says Eli Rubin, an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University. Why were people paying so much for such a junky vehicle? Well, there wasn’t anything else.
East Germany's other car, the Wartburg, a steel beast (well, critter, anyway) with twice the horsepower as a Trabant that went for thrice the price, was produced for export (and Party VIPs). Indeed, despite its few amenities and poor reliability, East Germans considered themselves lucky just to get a Trabant. The average waiting period was 10 years.
When the Wall Fell-
Despite its many problems, a total of 2,818,547 Trabant 601s were produced—all of which became obsolete on November 9, 1989.
On that day, the Berlin Wall fell. With the grotesque scar that had marred Germany removed, the poor Trabant’s days were about over. Richard Leiby, a longtime editor at The Washington Post who wrote a book on the unification of Germany, says with its puny engine and lack of pollution controls, the Trabant was “clearly inferior to just about any automobile manufactured in Europe.”
Many Trabants were sold for as little as a few marks. Others were simply given away or abandoned as families fled to Western Europe. One reason for this was that European nations didn’t want them. Trabants spewed four times as much pollution as typical European vehicles, the historian Victor Sebestyen notes in Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, which meant they did not meet emission standards in other European nations. But that didn’t stop thousands of Germans from using them to migrate westward on what some remember as “the Trabi Trail.” (In Czechoslovakia, the event was dubbed the Trabi Invasion.)
The Trabant’s Legacy-
Despite being a dreadful automobile, quite possibly the worst ever produced on a mass scale, the Trabant holds an important place in history. It is the car that “gave Communism a bad name,” a vehicle so inferior to automobiles produced in Europe and America that few could deny the system’s failings. It became, in short, a joke. Some 33,000 Trabants are still in existence today.
PES Secretaries General meeting, 8 November 2013
Photos by SLD Poland www.flickr.com/photos/108376208@N03/
The Scotland County Scots of Laurinburg, North Carolina defeated the Hoggard Vikings of Wilmington, North Carolina 47 - 46 in the NCHSAA Class 4A state semifinal game at Pate Stadium in Laurninburg, North Carolina.
State Street looking west. The Hartford Post Office is in the background, and the American Hotel is on the left.
Date Created: 1888
Source: Connecticut State Library, State Archives, PG 448, The Blizzard of 1888
Medium: black-and-white photographs
Physical Size: 8 x 10 in.
Location: Hartford
Longitude: -72.67162
Latitude: 41.76603
Frame: *CRUST BIKES* wombat
Wheel : *VELOCITY* cliffhanger rim × *PAUL* track hub
Headset:*FAIRWEATHER*
Tire:*SCHWALLBE* super moto
Handle: *THOMSON* titanium back sweep bar
Stem: *PAUL* boxcar
Grip:*OURY* lock-on grip
Saddle:*SELLE ITALIA* flite 1990 saddle
Seat post: *KENT ERIKSEN* titanium seatpost
Pedal:*CHOUCHIN CYCLE×BLUELUG* MKS BM-7 next pedal
Brake lever: *DIA-COMPE* mx-2 brake lever BL special
Crank:*BLUE LUG* RMC-Ⅱ multi speed crank
Brake housing: *NISSEN*
Cog:*EURO ASIA*delux steel track cog
Secret #15.
For this I used a picture which I took a couple weeks ago. I took it through a window in which was some water..
You may start to wonder on what I shouldn't have given up. If you do start to wonder that I ask you not to try to figure it out. If I want you to know, if you are supposed to know, I think you already know.
Thank you.