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Our Hadley hub and Fusion rim wheelset turned out to be poorly built. Several spokes on the rear wheel loosened up as we put the miles on them. We had our Chris King wheelset overhauled at Chris King and put them back in action. This image is of the bike the day before leaving for MTR 2024. The bike weight is 33.33 lbs with the 700x28 GatorHard Black tires.
Matchbox no55 - Mercury Commuter Police Car with Superfast wheels from 1971 and behind that the Matchbox King Size no. K-23 Mercury Police Car from 1969 to 1970.
The King Size version has opening doors and steering front wheels. Both have original paint but the larger car has had a lot of touch-up and re-painting in a variety of shades of off-white at various times. The smaller car has reproduction decals replacing the missing original paper transfers.
Taken With:
Canon 1D
Sigma 24-70 F2.8
Settings:
1/100th
F4.0
ISO 100
Flashes:
Two Wirelessly Trigged
One to the left side of the G4
One behind the G4
White door used to reflect some of the light back onto the right side.
Today's story and sketch "by me" you see the newest Quicksilver Flyer out of the
"Flying Lawn Chair Design Laboratory" at the campus of "FSU" Flying Stuff University,
Hidden here in the Rolling Hills of Anaheim. Today you see Mardick Gofish
Senior Test Pilot, (currently the only test pilot, until Rescue Randy the worlds
most famous test pilot and crash test anatomically correct Dummy, returns from, well,
no one actually knows where Randy Goes, but he always returns). Today Mardick is flying
the Quicksilver 8 another Doris kagler designed flyer, built at the Design
and fabrication shop, this bold flyer features the "RGAGIT" Radon Gas Anti Gravity
Intergalactic Transport Drive,
which is still in the testing stage, and of course a very nice beach chair Doris picked
up for five bucks at a yard sale in Norco, (Norco a town near the "FSU" campus), And
you probably noticed the odd Baseball stitched Leather covering the flyer, which brings
us to a bit more history about Doris, seems she became a fan of the LA Dodgers baseball team
when she was a law student at "UCLA" before she transferred to FSU, she has been a baseball
fan for many years, seems her mother Sloopy Salendra, was married for many years to a Man named
Alexander Gofish Spalding, (half Earthing and half Lipponian, and Doris's real father,
oh we may not have mentioned Doris is a tad over 176, but little grey aliens never show
their age), Her Dad also invented the modern day baseball back in the 1800's.
he was making all of the baseballs for the American and National
Baseball league teams, until 1976 when he lost the contract to Rawlings Balls inc.
Doris always looking for a deal, just happened to visit her Dad Mr. Spalding at his
boarded up baseball manufacturing facility in Cudahay. Well Doris saw the stacks of
unused baseball hides (very strong will take a lot of big league hits),
and it seems also make a wonderful skin for anti gravity flyers, and the Baseball stitch
really looks cool. But more on the test flight another time, until then taa ta the Rod Blog.
There are seven Oxford Diecast Boniface recovery vehicles in the Quicksilver fleet but none retain their original cabs. The latest is the most drastic conversion, having an extra axle and a crane for those tricky jobs. Several modellers have built such vehicles by grafting the front of the Scania crane lorry to the rear of the recovery vehicle, a fairly simple job although some sawing of hard metal is needed on the front section.
Dug this old pic out PIL7917 was part of the SDT Fleet and initially alocated to Kilwinning depot for use on the Kilmarnock - Ardrossan. When these routes were withdrawn the vehicle was allocated to reserve. After limited use the vehicle was traded in to Aldenham PSV where it stayed before joining Quicksilver Coaches recently
A fascinating find in Trinity Bus Sales stock, this is a Westward whitemetal kit Scania-MCW Metropolitan in a livery seemingly inspired by West Midlands PTE. Look at the fleetname though! I have done nothing to the model and this is exactly how it arrived, complete with Quicksilver names despite never having been part of my fleet. I'm not aware of any other model fleets using that name and the registration XOX 656N is fictional so can anyone shed any more light on it?
An unusual addition to Quicksilver's heritage fleet is HYT 868, a Commer Commando/Park Royal deck-and-a-half airport coach, which is popular for weddings due to its memorable shape. Over 300 of these were ordered by the British government after World War 2 and split between the RAF and civilian airlines, and the type has recently been modelled by Oxford Diecast. I had bought one of the initial RAF releases intending to repaint it but plans changed when the silver and blue Australian National Airways version was announced so this is a simple modification of that livery.
Last year we discovered problems with our rear Chris King hub. We set out in search of a new set of wheels but found that we were limited to an inexpensive pair of Shimano wheels, or a wheelset built with Hadley hubs. We chose 32 spoke Hadleys paired with Velocity Fusion rims. Current weight in the pictured configuration is 33.44 pounds.
Very quick mockup of how a Coverflow/HUD hybrid UI for Quicksilver could look as you move through the items in the results list.
A [6,4] Hyperbolic Tiling created with the Fractal Science Kit fractal generator. See www.fractalsciencekit.com for details.
A Hyperbolic Tiling replicates a polygon over the hyperbolic plane represented by the Poincare disk in such a way as to form a hyperbolic tiling pattern. The Poincare disk is a model for hyperbolic geometry that maps the hyperbolic plane onto the unit disk. A [p,q] regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane maps a hyperbolic polygon with p sides over the hyperbolic plane such that q polygons meet at each polygon vertex.
Gorgeous bonde model goddess modeling the new Sony AR7 ! With the black 45surf surfboard and some light beach reding! Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess Shooting Stills (Sony AR7 withSony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* Lens!) & Video (Sony NEX6) at the same time with the 45surfer philosophy bracket! I use it on every shoot, as there is so much beauty in the world and so little time! :) Writing a book on it! :)
The awesome news is that 2014 will bring us all the 45SURF goddesses and pro surfers Kelly Slater & Alana Blanchard in 4K Motion thanks to the new Sony 4K Handycam FDR-AX100 announced this week at the CES! 4K video is gonna rock:
As I’m headed down to Australia to shoot the men’s and women’s Pro Surfing Quicksilver Pro, Roxy Pro, and Ripcurl Pro, I’m psyched that Sony will be releasing their new 4K camera–the Sony 4K Handycam FDR-AX100! The Sony 4K FDR-AX100 will be replacing the 1080p camcorders and NEX cameras in the below configurations, shooting 4K vidoe alongside my Sony A7r and Nikon D800E’s which I use for stills:
45surfer.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/extreme-stills-motion-s...
The clear image on the new Sony 4K camcorder rocks, as it will be at 18x at 4K resolution or 24x at HD resolution. Now as I will be shooting stills with the the new Tamron 150-600mm (Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon) on my Nikon D800E or Sony A7r, the zoom will be approximately 20x for the stills, so 4K video at 18x zoom is ideal!
Here's some video shot at the same time as stills using a Sony A7R for the video camera--in a couple months this will be 4K video as soon as they ship the Sony 4K Handycam FDR-AX100 to me:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOMrZIEzg8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gq_gCk0jE
Shot with the Nikon D800E and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens with the B W 77mm XS-Pro Kaesemann Circular Polarizer with Multi-Resistant Nano Coating filter. I always, always shoot with a CP filter--even on cloudy days!
Enjoy the pretty goddesses and all the best on your epic hero's journey!
Modeling the black & gold & American flag "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
The goddess was tall, thin, fit, and gorgeous beach goddesses! A blond and a brunette with long, long silky hair! Poseidon would approve! If he were shooting them, he'd want to capture simultaneous photographic stills and video at the same time too.
Best on your hero's journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! :)
Falling in love with the full frame 36 megapixel e mount Sony A7R! The models make pretty photographers. :)
Nikon D800E photos shot in RAW as I always shoot raw!
The books behind the pretty goddess on the Malbu bluff and surfboard are The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick! My favorite books! Will have some video of the pretty model reading them beside a campfire soon.
They're all collectors editions! My books cost as much as my surfboards!
Since I have no purist Head that fits him, I used a custom Printed (Digital UV) Head from another project.
Today's story and sketch "by me" you see the newest model Quicksilver Flying Machine, designed by Doris Kagler, the 176 year old freshman from Mars, she has become the top designer at the "FSU" Lawn Chairs Division which includes, chairs as simple as the low seat sand chair, the high backs, or beach lounges, the portable back pack beach chair, the padded beach chair for long flights, and a favorite sling beach chair, or porch glider for two, and the always popular Adirondack style casual chair, the only one so far Doris has not tried to build a flying machine around is the face Down Beach Chair, (Probably because she hasn't found one at a yard sale), and not a good chair for a flying machine. This new Glider you see is the Quicksilver #17 built around a low back beach chair with a quality canvas seat and back, the airframe is constructed from Santa Ana Riverbed Bamboo that was removed before last winters rainy season, The city crew let Doris take all she wanted, which she cleaned and stacked and will surly be used on many machines in future. The Anti Gravity drive, is the "RGAGIT" Radon Gas Anti Gravity Intergalactic Transport drive. The beautiful multi colored outer skins are Mylar Party Balloons which Doris bought for pennies on the Dollar, when the Santa Ana party supply store closed it's doors. Today's test pilot is Mardick putting the number 17 through a rigorous test flight, as Limpy watches from below, and of course JB is in the FSU JB Chase chopper with a couple of the female EM Ts in case things Go bad. Everything seems fine so far, and I need to sharpen my pencil so Till next time taa ta the Rod