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Two days later. Most things are healing quickly. My leg road-rash is nearly gone. I was able to remove the head bandages today. The left ear is still mighty-swollen, and the stitches provide an odd sensation.
We'll see. I've been canceling job interviews because I don't quite think I'm "presentable" at the moment.
I was told that until now, people notice that my face has gotten sharper by losing weight :) so I thought I'd put the first and the last week together ...what do you think? (8 kg until now = -10%)
Forest Hills, Queens
Development and urbanization of Queens progressed slowly during the nineteenth century. When the area became the Borough of Queens after consolidation into the City of New York in 1898, the population was only 152,999 people, due in large part to its inaccessibility. Although the first train line between Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and Jamaica, Queens began as early as 1836, and a few other routes were established through Queens to other parts of Long Island in the 1850s, 60s and 70s, train travel was limited.
The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased the Long Island Railroad in 1900 and electrified the trains through Queens in 1905-08. However, they all had to connect by ferry to Manhattan until 1909 when the Queensborough Bridge opened. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its tunnels under the East River, making Queens an attractive location within easy commuting distance to Manhattan, and its population soared to 284,041.
Many of the towns and buildings in Queens were developed after the turn of the twentieth century, as a result of the improved mass transit system and a dramatically enlarged road system. St. Albans and Bellerose, followed closely by Auburndale, Beechhurst, and Forest Hills were among the many residential areas developed during the early years of the century.
In 1906, developer Cord Meyer who had previously been active in the Elmhurst section of Queens, purchased 600 acres (comprising the land of six farms) in the area known as the Hopedale section of Whitepot. Changing the name to Forest Hills because of its high ground and its proximity to the beautiful terrain of Forest Park, he began to lay out streets, install utilities, and construct the first houses. To encourage sales, Meyer's company ran horse-drawn stages to Forest Hills from the closest train station in Elmhurst.
By 1908, the Long Island Railroad was running three steam-driven trains a day with a local stop at Austin Street and Roman Avenue. This spurred the sale of 160 acres south of the railroad line to the Russell Sage Foundation, a philanthropic institution founded by Sage's widow, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage to improve the social and living conditions of the poor. Despite the foundation's interest in low-income housing, it developed the Forest Hills property as a revenue-generating venture, hiring architect Grosvener Atterbury and the landscape architecture firm of the Olmstead Brothers to create a picturesque enclave of homes, schools, churches, and businesses.
The electrification of the Long Island Railroad in 1909 and the opening of the Queensborough Bridge that same year further advanced the development of Forest Hills. With the widening of Queens Boulevard in 1913, Cord Meyer began the improvement of his remaining acreage.
Meyer's first apartment building was constructed in 1917, followed by others in the twenties. By 1921, his company had constructed 200 homes, some designed by architects Robert Tappan and William Patterson. The world famous West Side Tennis Club, home of the U. S. Open Tennis Tournament for many years, was constructed in Forest Hills in 1923. The opening of the Independent subway line with a stop at Queens Boulevard and Continental Avenue in 1936 was another major improvement which stimulated growth in the area, reflected in new businesses opening here.
While cleaning out some of my old stuff at my parents' house I found my old personal stereo - I think I must have got it around about 1985 or 1986. The iPod's 8GB memory will hold about 4 days worth of listening; that's 64 C90 cassette tapes.
New art and our leather chair. The plaid is a blanket over Sharky's crate. I plan on making a cover for the crate in the near future.
Yay! I'm making progress on my wake board for the wake art show. The board will be on display at the 2013 RED BULL WAKE OPEN at the Tampa Convention Center - Friday, July 5, 3pm - 8pm • Saturday, July 6, 12pm - 6pm. www.redbull.com/wakeopen
PEDRO THE LION - "Progress"
Here we have our dust free dining set
We guarantee it won't collect a spec
Freeing up the children to instead
Grow into your molding
Heed more of your scolding
Go early to their new self-making beds
It seems like you'd be tired of losing face
Like you'd want to put the children in their place
The more you have to tell them to do their chores
The more you run the risk of being ignored
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your father drank a little
You're on liver number two
Progress has a way of feigning ease
Convenient new inventions bait the tease
For, though it is impossible to cure
A husband bent on cheating
The oxygen's depleting
A child who's always bragging
A wife's persistent nagging
We're equipped to live as though it were
If you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
You tell them that they're good kids
But you know that it's not true
Your father drank a little
You're on liver number two
If you can see progress anywhere in Rotterdam, it's here on the Wilhelminapier, where many high rises go up. Taken from the Erasmusbrug.
Stained Glass artist and Flickr member kdeleeuw is assembling a stained glass Luther Rose in a Jerusalem Cross for the church Reformation Monument.
Crew for the Panzer...not really the appropriate uniforms ( hats) for 1939...but I think they will do.
Sculpt progress on the Derelict Corridor Diorama - ALIEN 79 - 1:18 scale. Still building the surface of the corridor and began to build the opposite wall per the design they used in the production build. The top and bottom sections of the new wall are held with aluminum rods and will be sculpted over and gaps filled with Aves FIXIT sculpt. Unfortunately I ran out of casting material so I'll have to wait to complete the entire casting of the bones needed to finish the build. #alien #derelict #nostromo #giger #biomechanicalart #corridor #sithfire30
The damaged parts are repaired and sanded. Now she just needs a light coat of primer, and I can start on my molds again!
Work in progress. Texture paste, paint, stamping and tape. Includes a gel transfer from a large print word search in the background. The birds were all one stamp that I put on tissue paper and cut out. Not sure what to do next on this one but it was fun experimenting with the texture paste and stencil. The idea to stamp on the texture paste came from a youtube video but I forget who's. Another page in my newspaper flyer journal
Title: Summer Street: Progress
Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department
Date: 1945 November 1
Source: Collection 5010.004, Bridge and Ferry photographs
File name: 5010004_068_008
Rights: Public Domain
Citation: Bridge and Ferry photographs, Collection #5010.004, City of Boston Archives, Boston