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Ye Olde Toolbox
26 March 2013 -- 85/365
North Providence, Rhode Island
Since my car is getting a pedicure (i.e tire balancing and rotation) at Town Fair Tire today, I went rummaging through my basement for something interesting to photograph. I found my grandfather's old toolbox filled with bottles and jars containing rusty nails, nuts, bolts, and staples. The toolbox dates back to the 1930s and ultimately came to me when my grandfather passed away in '79.
To setup today's shot, I simply arranged a couple of sawhorses in front of the door to my furnace, placed the toolbox on the sawhorses, and lit the scene with a single 40 watt Phillips natural light incandescent bulb. The clamp light was placed to create those deep shadows to the left of the box. I wanted a very gritty and grainy image, so that played heavily into the post processing.
Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, boost black, boost white, and contrast. The detail slider was pushed pretty far and that's what emphasized the grit and grain. A sepia photo filter in darker color blend mode followed by a levels adjustment was added in PSE.
Birthday cake for a man who can fix anything - toolbox is buttercream frosting w/details made out of molding chocolate; tools are rice crispy treats covered in molding chocolate
I built this box last night as a way of developing my understanding of a traditional Japanese tool box. It's just balsa wood: not really serious woodworking at all. But the more often I build these projects, the easier it is to think in three dimensions. And the easier it is to build these boxes again in full size, full-weight materials.
All of this is training for the Kavad, of course.
Experiments require not just scientists and engineers with vision but also countless construction workers, tradespeople, mechanics and technicians whose hard, and often unacknowledged work brings these visions to reality, such as the Short Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab.
Inside the toolbox:
- multimeter
- cable ties
- back full of left over nuts and bolts
- binoculars for spying on neighbours
- regulator instruction manual
- bag with tools
I’ve got a Husky toolbox for my wrenches and other tools but it seemed a crime to put wood tools in it. So I decided to build my dream toolbox. To keep with the wood theme, every component is wooden, the box, hinges, latches, and handle. The wood is honduran mahogany and the finish is lacquer.
6 June 2017 - OECD Forum 2017: BLI: Sharing Tools for Empowerment, session with Johan Richer, Digital Tools Co-ordinator, Open Government Partnership Toolbox
Photo: OECD/ Salome Suarez
Confusion is for wimps.
A development of my previous photograph 'Business Studies.' Growth can be a relative perspective Rachel.
Brackets completed and painted - just need paint to dry and bolt on the toolbox. Thinking I'll need a matching one on the other side now!
here are my drawing tools of choice. usually i have a sharp razor blade in this set too, which helps sharpen the tikky eraser or make quick cuts to sheets of paper. these days i take the blade out when i travel.
pair these essentials with a small watercolor set and my loose leaf paper binder (photos forthcoming), and i'm good to go.