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Philip Catherine & strings
@ Roma
Antwerp (B)
Philip Catherine - guitar
Philippe Aerts - double bass
Hans van Oosterhout - drums
Nicola Andrioli – piano
Nicolas Fiszman – guitar, bass guitar
Orchestre Royal De Chambre De Wallonie
conducted by Frank Braley
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the headlining band had strings with parts written out and arranged and everything. what i always wanted. but what i have (improvisation) is nice, too.
BOX DATE: 2012
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Operetta; Lagoona; Frankie
BODY TYPE: 2008; molded panties; articulated elbows, wrists, & knees; bolts on neck; painted stitches on neck, arms, & legs
HEAD MOLD: 2008 "Frankie"; pierced ears
PERSONAL FUN FACT: I always knew that Picture Day Frankie would find her way into my collection sooner or later. I remember how Colleen and I drooled over this line of Monster High dolls when they were in stores in 2013, around the time I got into collecting them. Colleen was particularly fond of this Frankie and always vouched for her. But somehow, I never ended up finding this doll on a good enough sale, and at some point, I needed to forbid myself from buying any Monster High dolls brand new, because let's just say I had become addicted to purchasing them (luckily I've learned self control since then). I saw another Picture Day Frankie at our local Salvation Army a few months prior to getting the girl pictured here. But this first Frankie was nude, in horrifying condition, and was missing her arms. While I do occasionally buy limbless Monster High dolls, for the sake of buying them replacement parts online (which is something a lot of people wouldn't do), I had to pass up Miss Frankie. I had recently splurged on several limbless Monster/Ever After High dolls, and what with the limbs being fairly costly, I couldn't afford to keep purchasing dolls that required parts. And so little Frankie was left behind, although she tugged at my heart strings. It all worked out though for the better, because this Frankie and I crossed paths not long after. She was at my local flea market during the summer of 2017, and was stuffed in an open Barbie case. At first, I thought that the sellers weren't selling the dolls individually, and since most of the other dolls in the case didn't intrigue me (and since I had so much bin luck earlier that season), I really didn't want to buy all the dolls. Plus there were some dupes and limbless dolls I didn't "need." Not that I wouldn't have been happy to hoard more homeless dolls. Anyways, it turned out that the sellers were in fact selling these dolls off individually for $3 each. So Picture Day Frankie and Zombie Shake Meowlody were rescued that day! This Frankie is even more adorable than I gave her credit for. Once I fixed up her squalid appearance (she was one of the most disgraceful looking Monster High dolls I had ever seen), I was able to better appreciate her adorable face. I LOVE her yellow eye shadow, and how it pops against her blunt bangs. Plus her red lipstick really completes her school girl look!
Hand made jewelery. Shot this for a friend of mine who makes these lovely delicate yet very beautiful pieces of hand made jewelery.
Simple wintery scene from the harbor.
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Taken with a 200mm zoom + 2x extender. I a little blurrier than I would like, but for reasons I can't explain, I like this photo.
The above photograph was inspired with a theme of conformity. Often in life we feel like we are being controlled in everything we do just like a puppet on strings. We are then lead to believe that we need these strings to survive in society. I've used the colour red on her shoes and lips to symbolise unity and individuality. I have then enhanced the colour red on her lips and the lighting to help strengthen my ideas and hence fit the manipulated category.
After sleeping on it for a night, I changed my mind... I like this photo better than this guitar photo so I swapped them.
Feb 4th - Day 35 of 366. Theme 6: Solo
Hand held image...timer..lights strung between two cabins...at night. also moving my camera around.....September 2014.
These will be the first nylon "gut" strings with which I have ever strung a guitar. A different procedure at the base and bridge than with steel strings, which I have been doing for more than half of my life now. We shall see how it goes. ;-)
Thank goodness for these "how to" YouTube videos people post. So many things are much easier to figure out if you can watch somebody do it, for sixty seconds. :)
So...I've been trying to get the second prototype happening enough to send out to one of our fine Fools here who plays in an AC/DC cover band. He's got a casino gig later this month and has graciously offered to let me use some footage in the Kickstarter demo.
So I was originally just planning to use epoxy to hold the old bushings in place. Not a good fix, but workable in the short term. Then I saw these bridges, which aren't as tall as the Badass knockoff that came on the prototype.
You want the pull as straight as possible, which is why it's important for the top height to work with the neck angle. It's also problematic with the Badass design that the saddles ride so high over the tension line of the bridge. I call it the, "Mauser Effect," because I'm a nerd.
Heh...the "Broomhandle" Mauser that was used for Han Solo's blaster (you knew this was a sci-fi analogy before I even started, right?) is kind of famous for the grip being so low (Solo?) that, when fired, the recoil attempts to spin the firearm out of your hand. I mean, Winston Churchill carried one and they were apparently reliable German-engineered hardware, but the idea is for the force ("Use the Force!") to be transferred to the anchor point (meaty grip) in as straight a line as possible, so's it don't turn into a pinwheel and fly out of your hand.
Same thing with guitar bridges. You want all the loading to be as linear as possible for a whole variety of reasons and the Badass wraparound is like the Mauser of the guitar world in that respect.
So I got this flatter, better designed bridge...and it's a couple of millimeters too wide to ride the existing span of the anchor studs.
HOWEVER...the new studs and bushings are fatter than the ones that came with the prototypes. I could pull those out and push them in by hand. This pair of bushings required me to get out my Tiny Whacker...which sounds like a terrible thing to have...at least if you want to get dates. Heh...anyway, these may do the trick. They seem to be in there really tight now. Even tighter than with the shims.
This had a set of 9-46 strings on it. I think I'm going to go out tomorrow and get some 9-42s. Maybe a little less tension and the new hardware will make this work well enough for the demo.
BTW, I am super-psyched to get footage of the Malcontent being played by an AC/DC cover band. I mean, that's perfect, right? Thanks go out to our intrepid Fooligan!