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They weren't even in the background in any shot; I CLONED THEM IN.
I post this because I did several clone attempts (FOUR separate setups) today and while this one is overly dark and has some obvious gaps--like left of center, foreground--I am "interacting" at least in two of the pairs, and I wanted Laura to see it.
After half an year far away from my bricks, I finally got my hands back on them. Hope I can finish this futuristic BMW i8 powered and enlighted by sBrick soon
October 2015 JConcepts Indoor Nats
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Date: 2015-10-11
Just a little bit of magic for ya...
I really wanted to do this much better and include some motion streaks around the remote, but the crap version of PS i'm using didn't have all the right settings for the tutorial I got from Gooner. Plus, trying to draw cool curvy lines with a mouse ain't easy. So this is what you get...
For FGR and "Show Some Remote Control".
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Could there possibly be ten things that I can share with you guys that I haven't put on the Interwebs already? Well, I'll try, since several of you asked.
1. I am constantly resisting the urge to shoplift or pickpocket. Most of my idle thoughts while shopping or standing on a crowded subway are about how to lift things. I have never done it . . . yet.
2. I was the editor of my high school yearbook for two years (and a "section editor" the year before). So to people I knew in high school, my current career as an editor is no surprise. However, to those I went to college with, it wasn't a natural next step, given that I was a physics major and took all of two English courses.
3. My Chinese grandparents lived with us for five years, from when I was in 8th grade until I graduated from high school. It actually took one of my friends in high school months to realize they lived there, despite all the time she spent at my house.
4. I don't like the texture of pork chops or pork tenderloin. Shredded pork is great, cured pork products are awesome. Deli meat ham squicks me out. I don't think I've ever eaten deli ham, actually.
5. From 1985-1990, we lived in Taipei, Taiwan (3rd grade-7th grade). And actually for a year when I was a baby--1978-1979?--we lived in Taichung, Taiwan. This is unrelated to the fact that I am half Chinese--it was dad's job that took us there. It means I sometimes don't know cultural phenomena from the US at that time, but it means I've been to several countries in Asia.
6. I am really, really, REALLY ticklish, but it's not some funny thing that makes me laugh. It actually hurts, in a way that is impossible to describe. I HATE it. Tickle me, and we are no longer friends.
7. I cry at everything. TV commercials, the Olympics, certain songs, books where animals die, when I'm startled too suddenly, when I'm tickled too much. . . . People are always surprised when they learn this about me. I'm not made of stone, people!!
8. I snore.
9. When I need to "motivate" myself to do something, I clap three times in rapid succession. Then I usually say something like "Ok Erin! Let's ____!" (Sidenote: I talk to myself a lot, and I do refer to myself by first name.)
10. This isn't all that unknown, but exactly 2 years ago today, I quit my job with nothing lined up. I spun it as my desire to "pursue freelance," but honestly that wasn't a fully formed plan when I gave notice. It was the scariest but best thing I've done in my life.
October 2015 JConcepts Indoor Nats
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Date: 2015-10-11
Revised version of the classic 6989-1: Mega Core Magnetizer set. This one is fully remote-controlled via SBrick.
I am at my son's house and no doubt each of these remote controls has a function – but I've no idea what it is 😳
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Remote control group today.
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October 2015 JConcepts Indoor Nats
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Date: 2015-10-11
LEGO model of MAN Lion's City DD bus, as operated by BVG (Berlin public transport) in minifig size (6 studs wide) with full remote control. A BuWizz Bluetooth receiver powers drive, steering, lights, and horn.
Project HaHa by RemoteControl Theatre is like taking an said trip inside the mind of a depressive clown. Absolutely fantastic.
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
Ashley may be getting old but she hasn't forgotten her obedience - at least not when I am holding a tidbit!
I used a texture by Kim Klassen just to cover up a chair in the background.
I've been sitting on the sofa all afternoon doing nothing much😳
The one in my left hand only turns the tv on now; the one in my right hand does all the channel selection etc.
Voll ferngesteuertes Meccano-Modell
Mein zweites Hobby: Modellbau mit Metallbaukasten. Das Bild zeigt den Oldtimer-Kranlastwagen "Meccalorry 2 x 3CSD (2 x 3-Kanal-Syncro-Drive). Eigenentwicklung mit einer Bauzeit von 1500 Stunden. Besonderheiten: 6 Motoren, Geräuschgenerator, automatisches Getriebe mit hoher Anfahrzugkraft u.s.w.
Fully remote-controlled Meccano model
My second hobby: Model building with metal construction kit. The picture shows the oldtimer crane truck "Meccalorry 2 x 3CSD (2 x 3-Channel-Syncro-Drive). In-house development with a construction time of 1500 hours. Special features: 6 motors, noise generator, automatic transmission with high starting tractive effort, and so on.
"Pra frente e pra trás só na sua cabeça
E antes que eu me esqueça
"honey darling"
É melhor desligar"
* "Thinking that I was the remote control
For forward and backward only in your head
And before I forget
"Honey Darling"
It is better to turn off"
When I was the remote control...
When I was a young boy I was the remote control for the television in our household: “John, change the channel;” “John, fix the rolling;” “John, turn the volume up.” Anything to do with the TV and I was the remote control; voice-activated, no less.
(Many people today will have no idea what “fix the rolling” means. TV’s would have both a horizontal and vertical control, because periodically the picture on the TV would begin to slowly “roll” up or down the screen over and over and you would have to adjust the controls until the “rolling” stopped.)
And no QVC on television.
We had 2 or 3 channels for awhile, and when we got cable we received 13 channels and we thought we had lived all there was to live!
I was in my early thirties before I had a TV for which I was not the remote control.
When I was a young boy there were no cordless phones, much less cell phones. We had one phone, with a cord. We dialed numbers with a rotary dial...push buttons were not yet the norm. At times lines would “get crossed” for lack of a better explanation and we were cursed with a “party line,” where we would hear two other people having a conversation when we picked up our phone to use it. And there were actual party lines, and if someone else was having a conversation you had to wait to use your phone until they were through, or, if it was an emergency, you’d politely break into their conversation and ask them to hang up so you could use the phone. (Today’s cell phone users: think of a conference call using speakerphone.)
There was no 911 system. You kept the individual numbers of the ambulance service, the police department, and the fire department by your phone and called the appropriate number for the emergency at hand.
There was no caller ID and no call tracing, which made telephone pranks easy and relatively anonymous: Me to grocery store: “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” Grocery store: “Yes, we do.” Me: “Well, you better let him out! He’s gonna suffocate!” (Prince Albert: a popular brand of pipe tobacco.)
Oh yes...no answering machines, either...much less voice mail. If you weren't home...you missed the call. Just like TV: no VCR's or DVD recorders...you weren't home...you missed the show, and you would have to ask your friends what happened on your favorite show.
Just think: no computers and no Internet. If I wanted greater knowledge of something other than what was in the dictionary or the encyclopedias I drove to the public library or the university library, looked through their card catalogs, and read...real books; actual paper and ink.
Just think: no e-mails, no social media of any kind such as Facebook, and again, no cell phones; if you couldn't locate an old friend you made phone calls to mutual friends and hoped that someone had heard from the old friend and perhaps had a phone number or address for them. Failing that you could go to the library and request the phone books of cities on microfilm in hopes of discovering your friend’s phone number. That’s how I found my biological family.
(Oh, yeah: the no e-mail thing...you wrote a letter by hand, mailed it, waited for 3-5 days for it to arrive at its destination and then waited for a reply. Communication between friends or family could take weeks.)
Even when I was a young man cell phones were not in everyday use: I used to bicycle great distances on my bicycle, 300-400 miles a week including rides up to 100 miles long at a time. I remember flatting out with no spare tube and no patch kit (which I rectified soon thereafter) and walking a mile in my biking shoes (no easy feat because they had cleats on them to grip the pedals of my racing bicycle) while pushing my bike until I found a business with a phone that would let me use it to call for help.
Film cameras were state of the art.
Newspapers, TV, and radio were the breaking news.
Music CDs came into being after I'd been married for five years and had a kid.
I had a state of the art writing instrument: a portable manual typewriter that eventually got upgraded to an electric, and then wonder of all wonders, an electronic!
There were no iPods; a Sony Walkman with AM/FM radio was state of the art and if you really got fancy you bought one which also played cassette tapes.
I had an 8-track tape player in my car and a portable 8-track player in my house. The 8-track tapes would stop working properly and we had all kinds of tricks to get a little more life out of them, including whacking them forcefully with our hands and blowing forcefully into the opening of the housing. Heads for both 8-track and cassette players needed to be cleaned frequently using a long handled cotton swab and rubbing alcohol to get rid all of the accumulated grit and debris the tapes would leave behind as they played.
Wow...I look at how far we’ve come and it’s truly amazing. I remember each little improvement we enjoyed and were overawed with, but now the improvements come daily, sometimes hourly, and today’s kids grow up with a plethora of goodies that we could never have even imagined. I wonder if it makes it hard for them to become aware of some new device or gadget or function and for them to go “Wow!” in response. I hope not.
(Oh...the Funk and Wagnalls dictionary the remote is resting on? It’s from 1977...held together with tape and with many of its pages falling out. On the popular TV sitcom “Laugh-In” they used to say: “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.” I still do.)
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Catching the golden hour light of this afternoon’s setting sun.
Shot with the DJI Phantom 3 Professional in 4k @ 24 fps using the Polar Pro ND 8 filter
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