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Kanohi Tallus - the Mask of Walking
The wearer of this mask is granted the ability to walk on any surface regardless of density and orientation. The more it defies physics, the more the user must concentrate to keep the power active.
This mask was a project I actually planned on doing a couple years ago, initially inspired by the mask maker contest, which I didn't find time to take part in. Back then I bought the Technic 24-hour race car for parts for the build, but the threshold to start such a project proved too high. Only a bit over a month ago did I actually start making the mask, and ironically it took only 7 hours over two sessions. I think it helped that I had been thinking of the design and color scheme for a couple of years.
The color scheme was initially meant to be black at the bottom, green in the middle and white at the top, but due to part limitations and the color of the eyes that changed to primarily green and black. I mainly used parts from the 24-hour race car and air race jet technic sets, with a couple extras from my bin. The blue was not initially meant to be included, but when I was running out of green to define the eyes, the blue turned out to give a great accent, so I went along with it.
I wore the mask at Pii Poo 2018 lego event last month and a lot of jaws dropped when the kids saw it. It was kinda priceless.
Ever since I spotted wonderful work of Akiyuky I thought it would be fun to have a go at creating a Great Ball Contraption. I've started simple, but hope to learn and develop it as I go - something to do in between greebling sessions. Here's how it stands now;
I've uploaded a video of the above in action here - please excuse the quality, I'm no cameraman it seems :)
This will definitely be a long term project, I can't drag myself away from sci-fi builds for long it seems :/
Seen operating a technical college contract is Hotspur Midland Red A215PEV a Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant 4 Exp C53F was this the last Domi 4 registererd, further down my stream i have an Areg Goldliner on a Leopard so maybe ex dealer stock ???
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POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN UNIVERSITIES in the Communist Countries:
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An example of a "Technical Drawing" Selection Test: the candidate was given five hours to produce an ink drawing, entirely in free hand, from a picture which he had to enlarge 1.5 times. The picture above is a genuine article (Romania 1959)
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There were only 60 places nation-wide for admission to the school of Architecture in Bucharest, in the "People's Republic (later the Socialist Republic) of Romania, a country of some 20 million inhabitants.
Each year the number of applicants were in the upper hundreds, an average of 10 to 15 candidates for each place.
After the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and during the peak of the Cold War an acerbate discrimination process was waged against children from a middle class background (the upper class by that time all but disappeared in the gulags and on the factory floors or rice paddies like during the Chinese Cultural revolution).
In practice the University entry selection had TWO phases or two rounds of admission exam:
The earlier round of admission exams was intended SOLELY for those candidates considered of coming from a "Healthy social class" that was the "politically correct" class (in today's parlance - call it workers and peasant's children, without the discomfort of competition of those children considered more gifted as they came from the "unhealthy social class" (origina sociala nesanatoasa) or the middle class of professionals (scientists, academics, teachers, office clerks, etc). furthermore, the "healthy class" progeny candidates who failed the first round of exams were allowed to compete again some two weeks later, in the second round, that is to be given a second chance to get in, yet this time having to compete against all other candidates...
The exams were structured in two groups: a first tier the "technical drawing test" such as this, where the applicant was given five hours to enlarge by 150% a picture showing a classical order(see above) and to draw it to scale in ink.
The second test involved also a classical drawing, this time from a plaster cast and it had to be drawn in pencil on a large piece of paper some 20 inches by 30 inches.
Those who would pass the first two tests were admitted to the second tier of tests which involved both written and oral maths and physics exams.
Furthermore to the above there was a quantum based on social and political positive discrimination in favour of the children from peasant and working class background and of those children whose parents were part of the communist party apparatus.
In addition, if for example you had a close family member in prison, or exiled in the West, or if your family had their house, land or business nationalised/expropriated, than you might just as well not have a hope in hell to become an architect in Romania!
NOTE that in secondary schools the national curriculum was not geared to the level required for admission to the School of Architecture in Bucharest, so parents had to pay "blood money" for private tuition, in order to improve their children chance at passing the disqualifying tests. Private tuition was nearly unaffordable in a communist society, where wages were at the survival level (except for the communist fat cats) and it was the privilege of a restricted circle of academics from the school of Architecture to profit financially from such a corrupt system by preparing the candidates for the exams!
The chances of any child whose parents were from the professional middle classes and were not communist party card-holders to be admitted at the school were absolutely NIL.
Finally the privileged few who were admitted to the school, selected on positive discrimination criteria, had later on, during their professional life, the opportunity, at best, to build chicken coops and silos for state farms, concrete tenements in the cities for the under dogs and especially the task of razing to the ground historical monuments, churches, city centres and villages in order to make room for the dictator's pharaoh ideas of planning architecture during the dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s.
NOTE: after the so-called 'revolution' which put down the Ceausescu couple in a coup-de-palais, the same crop of architects who were selected on the basis of positive discrimination to qualify professionally benefited from the spoils of opportunities to demolish historic buildings and replace them, wantonly with glass and steel structures in the best tradition of Cultural Terrorism
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Shot on expired Kodak Technical Pan ASA25 with a Fujica ST750W in Bodie, CA
Photos from the photo exhibition Arrested Decay
That which is made by man is ravaged by exposure – the lash of the wind, the blinding sun.
Ghostly beautiful, an echo of their utility is all that remains.
The retaliation of nature is abundant and bold;
Deep, soft grasses whispering green and gold;
And the dark and terrible sky, ready to swallow us whole.
Lego Technic MOC - Mad Max War Rig. The scale is 1:20,8. Total length – 120 cm; total weight – 5120 g. Remote controlled functions: all-wheel drive, truck tractor steering, fake engines under the hood, blade height control, the winch, truck tractor coupling, large tank support, large tank steering. So we can drive without truck tractor :)
Additional functions: opening doors for LiPo turning on and off, highly detailed exterior, wheels protection, working harpoon on the small tank, flame-throwers (not working).
Video: youtu.be/xgyIzWcXvPM
Preset Style = “It's Technical”
Format = 10" (Giant)
Format Margin = Small
Format Border = Sm. Rounded
Drawing = Technical Pen
Drawing Weight = Medium
Drawing Detail = Higher
Paint = Natural
Paint Lightness = Auto
Paint Intensity = Normal
Water = Tap Water
Water Edges = Medium
Water Bleed = Minimal
Brush = Natural Detail
Brush Focus = Everything
Brush Spacing = Wide
Paper = Graph
Paper Texture = Medium
Paper Shading = Light
Options Faces = Enhance Faces
Just remembered a project I did at school a few years ago. We were in Graphics class and had to model a mechanical function. The theme I chose was gears and was there any question how I'd portray it?
Another WIP. Usually I don't. I even think I shouldn't. However, this took long enough.
As interesting as the Tumbler's design is, it makes for very frustrating building.
The fun part? It's only two studs wider and four studs longer than Lego's own attempt at a Tumbler.
"While golden and blue hours bring beautiful lighting, shooting in twilight opens up a new way of seeing the world. Capture a "scape" that isn't
dominated by darkness. Show the light and textures that can be found under the stars, in city lights, or a moon filled sky."
Release: January 2016
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BattleMech Technical Readout
Type/Model: Takahe J
Tech: Clan / 3067
Config: Biped OmniMech
Rules: Level 3, Custom design
Mass: 40 tons
Chassis: Endo Steel
Power Plant: 240 XL Fusion
Walking Speed: 64.8 km/h (6 Hexes)
Maximum Speed: 97.2 km/h (9 Hexes)
Jump Capacity: 180 meters (6 Hexes)
Jump Jets: 6 Standard Jump Jets
Armor Type: Ferro-Fibrous
Armor Factor: 134 pts (97%)
Heat Sinks: 16 Double [30]
Max Heat Buildup: 30
Armament:
2 ER Medium Lasers
1 Adv. Tact. Msl. 3
1 ER Large Laser
1 Targeting Computer
Ammunition:
Adv. Tact. Msl. 3: 40 reloads (2 types of Ammo)
CASE II Equipment:
Manufacturer: (Unknown)
Location: (Unknown)
Communications System: (Unknown)
Targeting & Tracking System: (Unknown)
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 9,010,750 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,839
Eighteen-year-old Richard Bernardo from conflict-affected Mindanao, Philippines now works at the ERM Automotive Shop in Zamboanga City after completing a two-month automotive servicing course offered by USAID/Philippines’ EQuALLS2 Project for out-of-school youth in the region. USAID/Philippines provides skills trainings for out-of-school youth in Mindanao to help them gain access to income opportunities.
Photo Credit: Rojessa Tiamson-Saceda (EQuALLS2 Project)
NASA astronaut Victor Glover speaks with students about his time aboard the International Space Station, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, at Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, DC. Students from Cardozo Educational Campus, Friendship Technology Preparatory High School, McKinley Technical High School, Phelps High School, and Wilson High School heard NASA astronauts Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Shannon Walker speak about the Crew-1 mission, the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program and the 168 days they spent in space across Expeditions 64 and 65. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)