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Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
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Bandarpunch Range includes the Garhwal peaks north and west of the Bhagirathi river. Its eastern limit is the Chor gad, the Jadh ganga and the Bhagirathi river. The western limit is the Tons river. The northern limit is the Lamkhaga pass and Borasu pass in Himachal Pradesh.
The Bandarpunch Glacier is unique among others as it feeds both Ganga (through Bhagirathi) and Yamuna (through Tons).
Writeup Courtesy : H. ADAMS CARTER
The photograph has been clicked looking south-east from Mashobra, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India on a pleasant winter morning. From higher locations such as Choordhar in Himachal, a grand view of peaks further north-east and into Uttarakhand has been viewed. These may include peaks such as Chirbas, Trishuli, and Sri Kailash. Towards south can be anticipated the Yamnotri mountains.
Elevations:
Swargarohini I : 6252m
Swargarohini II : 6247m
Swargarohini III : 6209m
Kalanag (Black Peak) : 6387m
Bandarpunch : 6316m
Lamkhaga Pass : 5300m
Swargarohini translates as : Swarga (Heaven) + Arohini (Ascent)
Mahabharta emphasizes that Pandavas ascended to heaven through a peak named Swargarohini.
© Anshul Soni, All Rights Reserved.
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Friday April 16th
It was too late to post last night and I was too busy to do the write up today.
Woke up and went for a walk with Isobel (I think, I may be getting days confused). Went to work and Brandi met me at work and we went to Kick Ass with Cynthia, Karla, Amy and Bram. It was awesome! We went out for dinner at Joey's and got home after midnight. Hence my late posting and writeup.
Images from OOAK designer Matt Sutton party. writeup available at insidethefashiondollstudio.com/2018/07/10/2018-nbdcc-matt...
Pictures from an overnighter on Bainbridge Island mid-October 2014. For a complete writeup check out this post on my blog.
The Atlantis loaded for this expedition. This is my most minimal setup - pretty amazing how carrying almost no food and clothes can reduce your load.
These are my favourites from my shoot with my grandfather, Olaf, yesterday.
Strobist:
Profoto ProB-head with 46" Softlighter high camera right. I used a Profoto B2r pack set at minimum power that I triggerd with a PocketWizard Plus II.
Apparently doesn't want to display these in the order I wanted to. Oh well..
Full writeup of how I shot these
More photographs from this shoot can be found on my blog.
Tutorial for fused plastic will be blogged 5/20: Writeup (5/20): www.dabbled.org/2009/05/tutorial-fusing-plastic-or-how-to...
1. Fused Plastic Owls, 2. I'm no Pin Up girl..., 3. Brown Edged Caution Wallet
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
comparison between my LEGO Transformers creation first and later version of the same character. For more photos and writeups on this journey , click on my blog link below. thank you!
Writeup in the Lifestyle section of the Sun-Sentinel... August 20, 2007
www.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/sfl-0909kitsch,0,21432...
Quick Sketch: Kitsch as kitsch can
Above a comic shop, a Lauderhill gallery owner makes high art of the lowbrow.
By EMMA TRELLES | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
At Bear and Bird Gallery, the art begins its ribbon wind from the foot of the stairs; paintings and prints of antlered boys and enchanted ingenues usher visitors up each step and into a 700-square-foot loft.
The venue is of the punk-lowbrow-comix-pop-and-subculture variety; the space is portioned between thoughtfully curated art shows and a small shop, selling delightful inessentials such as robot pencil sharpeners and thumb-sized music boxes.
There are sepia postcards of well-dressed circus freaks, lingering from a past exhibit, and dreamlike watercolors from another, grouped stylishly in squares or strips. The floors are planked with wood, as are the ceilings, and one corner of the room is framed with gold velour couches and a marble-topped table. It's the kind of place where you can drop dollars or simply sit for a while, and look.
Amanda Magnetta-Ottati, 31, opened the gallery in February, above Tate's Comics in Lauderhill, with an exhibit of Munny dolls, chubby 7-inch pop art toys made of hard vinyl. A Munny is purchased as a blank, big-headed baby of sorts and is then transformed by its owner with anything: paint, glitter, a top hat, a set of wings. Amanda chopped off the head of hers and potted it with a succulent. More than 200 artists, most of them local, displayed their own versions. About 1,500 people showed up to see the dolls at the opening reception.
"I've always been a collector," says Amanda, "and I ran out of room in my house. The gallery is a way for me to still find art, but I bring it to everyone now, instead of keeping it all for myself."
Q. For someone who's never run an art space before, you're quite organized and precise about your curating ideas and overall vision for the gallery. Where does that come from?
A. This is my art, in a way. To make all this, how stuff is laid out on a wall or to know when something is in the right place. My mind just works that way; it looks at space and color. When I was a kid I made magazines and I had a little store. I painted rocks and toys and made my brother buy them with his allowance money. It's in my blood.
Q. How has attendance been?
A. I'd say they average a couple of hundred or less on opening night. It depends on the weather too. It's been raining so much. Except for the Munny show; that was ridiculous. There was a very orderly line winding down the stairs. I couldn't believe everybody waited. We had the bar downstairs, so that didn't hurt.
Q. What kind of patron does the gallery attract?
A. It's anywhere from tattoo artists to a cross section of Gen X and Gen Y, to regular moms and dads, to musicians. What I really like is that people who want to can buy from emerging artists that are still affordable. I'd like to create new collectors, maybe people who collect toys and books and have never bought a painting in their life.
Q. So what kind of art work could they buy at Bear and Bird?
A. I say it's mostly contemporary, representational art because that's what I like right now. That's a fancy way of saying illustrative, or stuff that tells a story, whether it's enigmatic or really obvious. It can be anywhere from folk art to photography - but with a lean towards the unusual.
Q. There is a dearth of subculture galleries in Broward. Miami-Dade has Wynwood, the Design District. Why are there so few venues here to fill the void between museum exhibits and posh, fine arts galleries?
A. Part of it is that you have to have inexpensive real estate for these kinds of galleries to open up. For a fledgling gallery, you have to first be able to afford the rent. It's a difficult thing to make a viable business; we had Tate's to work with, and it's been open for 14 years. That definitely helps. We're like an island, but we're trying to build it up here with the stores around us. The skate shop next door does art shows once in a while.
Q. Where did you come up with the name for the gallery?
A. It's named after my parents. That's their nicknames for each other. My mom's "Bird." It's a family-run business; my mom works at the store and my dad runs the register. We like to make it welcoming, kind of homey and eclectic. There really is love in everything we do here. Definitely.
Q. What about your name? Magnetta sounds like a slice from Color Wheel Pro.
A. It's an Italian name, from my dad.
Q. Tell me about the upcoming "Sex and Science" show. What made you connect the two?
A. When you think of the '50s, you think of technology and the future, but it was the pretend future. Bikini girls going into space. Everybody loves pretty girls and rocket ships. I really don't know what the artists are going to come up with; it's exciting to wait and see what they're going to send me or what they're going to paint. It's like Christmas.
Emma Trelles can be reached at etrelles@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4689.
Information: 954-748-0181 or bearandbird.com
July 16, 2009 Miami Edition New Times Magazine writeup referring to Bear and Bird Gallery's "Stitch Wars" exhibition in Lauderhill, Florida. Exhibition runs July 18 - August 29, 2009, for more information visit our website www.bearandbird.com
"coffee and a smoke."
Today was an interesting Saturday, not only did I put in 10 hours at work BUT I worked the PM shift vs the AM for the first time in over a year and a half. A different crowd was defiantly had on this overcast gray day that was Saturday morning, and my subject matter was lacking interest. I found myself outside of Osteria Papavero (Poppy Tavern) on East Wilson snapping photos of the place settings through the glass. I heard a voice speak "If you want to take one from the inside you're more then welcome too!"
I looked over to find a man with a friendly smile and a lax attitude towards my strange photo addiction. I smiled and informed him that the glass created a nice barrier between myself and the subject, muting colors and other such random photography things. Then I asked "You must work here, I take it?" He nodded and informed me that he was in fact a cook, and was starting the day out as he usual does with a "coffee and a smoke." As the weather gradually warms up, I'm sure that he doesn't get many breaks so it's best to start the day off on the right foot.
At this point I felt comfortable asking if I could take his photo for inclusion in my 100 more strangers project. He didn't care so we continued on our conversation, as I snapped away and adjusted my settings. As I explained my 365 project as my form of relaxation and meditation I was happy to find out that Matt had his own bit of freedom he looks forward to each year. After a few more weeks of work, and a little more rain Matt will venture out into the forest to hunt for mushrooms (morel to be more specific). As being outside let's him clear his head and just explore and enjoy, it's defiantly a good feeling to have freedom.
I didn't ask for great details but he did inform me that a bulk of his time is taken up a newborn, when he is not working. He and his wife wed in Italy (which makes me wonder if her family has some sort of stake in the restaurant). Having the wedding in Italy was a must as that was the one thing that she (Matt's wife) was not willing to budge on. More family on her side lives there, and thus more cost efficient for them to travel locally for a ceremony then flight/hotel/all other things. While I've never eaten at Osteria Papavero, I think it's worth a shot. If the service is as friendly as Matt was this fine Saturday morning, It'll be on my list of places to dine at this summer.
When I do, I'll probably take my camera and snap photos of the food and refer back to this image. I wonder if I'm the only one who does such a thing who contributes to the 100 Strangers group. If you have an experience like mine, please don't hesitate to comment or private message me. Matt and I parted ways as he went inside to start his shift, and I hope to try the food soon (even if I hadn't gotten his suggestion as to what I should try!)
060/100
You know, I could do a full writeup about Bruce Wayne's life, or analysis of Batman, or I could ask, "Why didn't I post a picture of Batman before?"
To be able to have an E-locker in the rear I need a full floating rear axle. Land Cruisers (40 series) came factory with one on the FJ45 pickup only. The issue is of course that the axle didn't have an e-brake since it was located on the back of the transfer case. The BJ42 doesn't have that, so I needed to add an e-brake to the FJ45 axle. Not a simple task. The two backing plates are completely different, have different spacing and a different mounting pattern. This required a bit more work. A full writeup will be available soon. In the meantime, here are some pics that give you an idea of what needs to be done.
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This is a study tool that I came up with while thinking about zonohedra awhile back. Just as planar rhombus tilings can be generated by grids of lines (see this article for more info), convex zonohedra seem to have a relationship with great circles placed on a sphere. I've no idea what makes it work, but just by playing around with some a racquetball and some rubber bands, I made some pretty cool shapes and generated a (hopefully complete) list of all combinatorially distinct 6-sided and 12-sided convex zonohedra, so I'm pretty sure it works.
The reason I'm bringing it up now, instead of waiting until I finish folding the model and do a writeup, is that this maquette also happens to be useful in an explanation I posted in response to a question by Byriah Loper.
From the Silicon Valley Biz Journal writeup on the evening: "Honoree Jurvetson's successful big venture bets have included Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX, among others.
"In many ways I feel like an imposer on this evening," he said. "We work for visionaries every day. We invest in people who look towards the future and do incredible things. As investors, the best we can hope for is to be an enthusiast and cheerleader of the right visionary leaders and find the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk out of thousands and tens of thousands of others."
Jurvetson said venture investing has changed dramatically since he started doing it 20 years ago. Technology has made great leaps.
"When we started the venture business back then, there were semiconductor companies, software companies and biotech," he said. "You could invest in other sectors but you would lose all your money, like in automotives. Many tried, they all died. Until Tesla."
Today, there are many, many areas to invest in successfully, he said. "Cars, rockets, satellites, agriculture companies. Companies are engineering new life forms and chemicals. Everything in the world is becoming an information technology business," he said."
SV Forum pre-interview.
Modeled after the Beachcombers' Club in Miami, Treasure Island was a nightclub on K Street near Farragut Square that opened in August 1942. Nightspots boomed in D.C. during the war years with the surge of servicemen either assigned here or passing through. The club {"a big and handsome spot holding around 400") featured singers, stage acts, and dancing late into the night. In fact, for its Fall Opening in September 1943, the club threw a party where "If you wish to (and have the stamina) you and your gal can literally dance the whole night through," according to a writeup in the Post. The Chinese-American format for the cuisine was typical of the era; the Casino Royal and Lotus clubs on 14th Street were also Chinese American. Treasure Island lasted until 1947, when it was rechristened The Fiesta.
Another sample from the Polaroid microscope camera pinhole. As promised, there's a writeup over at SIlverbased with the geeky details.
It was pretty easy to find and patch that light leak, but I have to say that for a while it was fun owning a magic camera that made visible the alien mind-control rays emanating from the spillway below Argo Dam...
Behind the Scenes/Writeup on my blog:
-Canon 1dsmk2, 24-70 2.8L
-Sigma DG500 Triggered by Optical Slave cam right full power
-Nikon SB600 Triggered by PT04 cam left full power
comparison between my LEGO Transformers creation first and later version of the same character. For more photos and writeups on this journey , click on my blog link below. thank you!
Knackstop MAN A95 Die-cast bus model (1:76 scale)
landtransportguru.net/man-a95-bus-models-launched-by-knac...
The Land Transport Authority (LTA)-affiliated retail arm Knackstop released MAN A95 die-cast bus models in June.
As a limited edition collectible, only around 500 pieces have been produced. All were sold out last month.
More pictures and detailed writeup:
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The actual bus:
if you are trying to get from thailand to angkor wat in cambodia, make sure you have either:
1) a lot of time (to weather all the inevitable obstacles), or
2) a lot of money (to take the ridiculously overpriced flight straight there)
we, of course, had the luxury of neither, opting instead for secret option:
3) patience, humor, and this essential writeup.
having been adequately warned of all the scams, schemes, swindles and shakedowns we were about to encounter, we set off on our adventure armed with a positive attitude and, most importantly: lots of snacks. our warning came in the form of one of the most exhaustively thorough explanations of anything i have ever encountered: a web page written by a westerner living in bangkok who has made the overland trip from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet, over the border to Poipet and continuing forth to siem reap over 130 times for business. his outline details everything from which number of which window at the bus station to buy your ticket from, to how much you should pay for a bribe to the front of the line at the border, and everything in between:
www.talesofasia.com/cambodia-overland-bkksr-self.htm
a few pointers (all of which happened to us):
1: do not take a bus from khao san road. they are extra superdupercheap for a reason, often slowing down to stretch the travel time an agonizing extra several hours (which is not so bad considering the one road now boasts proper pavement. but still, a waste of time), ensuring that you are so tired upon your arrival that you check into whichever guest house they pull up to (invariably the one that has paid the bus company the heartiest commission).
2: the border opens at 7am and closes at 8pm. don't make arrangements that'll put you there after 8pm or you'll have to stay in poipet, which is scarytown (or to put it the way the author did: "Simply put, Poipet more or less rhymes with toilet and the two are virtually indistinguishable.")
3: after your bus ride to aranyaprathet you'll need a tuktuk to take you to the border. don't let anyone else get into the tuktuk with you. don't let anyone tell you anything about anything and if they do, don't listen to them.
4. the tuktuk will take you to a FAKE BORDER where they'll want you to pay for your "visa". i shit you not, it is amazing. but don't get out there. we firmly told our driver to take us to the border and after saying this three times, without a word, he pulled out and continued on to the actual border.
5: once you arrive at the actual border, you'll be forced to walk through some wacky medical area. something having to do with swine flu. people will scream at you that you won't get your visa unless you fill out the forms (and pay a fee?). it's a lie. just walk through. be careful no to show so much as a sniffle though, we heard a horror story from another traveler about her friend who had been told at teh border that she had swine flu. which of course she didn't. she wasn't even sick. but they threw her in a truck and took her to a "hospital" full of people who DID have swine flu. so of course, she got sick. and had to be quarantined for weeks until she got better.
6: once you get to the booth to buy your visa, they'll ask you for 1000 baht. it's not 1000 baht, it's $20US (which is a little bit less). make sure your $20 bill is brand new and crisp, with no tears or folds or signs of damage, or they might not take it. cambodians love crispy new money, and they won't accept anything less. keep in mind that if there is a long line, those paying the slightly inflated fee of 1000 baht will be processed first.
7. get ready to stand in line at immigration. certain times of the day/month/year see outrageously long lines. luckily for us it was a slow day, so we only had to wait for an hour or two. days or times when the line snakes out of the door you may want to jump at the opportunity to bribe someone and accept the inevitable offer from some random dude on the street who offers to run your passport up to have it stamped so you can skip the line. this actually seems like it might be a good idea. once we got to the window we had to wait around for the official to finish stamping the passports brought in the back way before he'd deal with ours. it seems like a common system but be forewarned: this involves handing your passport over to some random dude on the street who may run off with it and never come back, for all you know.
8: you'll might be told there is an immigration fee. there isn't. a stamping fee. there isn't. any other kind of fee: all lies.
9: you'll be told that you are required to change $100US into cambodian riels upon arrival. this is a lie. don't do it. you'll be treated to a scam-o-riffic exchange rate. plus, i don't think anyone even accepts riels. all the ATMs spit out american dollars. weird but true. don't change any money.
10: crazy violent taxi mafia that accosts you immediately after you exit the immigration building. they'll tell you the price is one thing but charge you another, will make a "stop" where you are "supposed" to switch to the bus since "no cars are permitted into town" which is, of course, a crazy lie. don't get on the bus. the taxi is "supposed" to cost $45. good luck on getting that price and getting the driver to take you all the way to town. just be calm and firm.
11: if you've already booked accommodation, be prepared for a ride first to every guest house that pays a commission, where they'll try to convince you that this was the place that you booked. either that or they'll pretend not to speak english or understand you. if you get out of the car and try to walk away there have been reports of violence. stay in the car and firmly tell your driver to take you where you want to go (took our large, loud american cowboy-hatted friend pointing and bellowing "YOU ARE A VERY BAD MAN") till he turned around. i think our insistence on not dealing with any of the tricks finally just wore him out.
but we got there. unscathed and unscammed. whew!
Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
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Here's a picture of me and (just about) every book I finished reading in 2015. (Some of the books were on my Kindle, so the stack should be a little higher. Also, there are links to the podcasts I did with the authors of many of them.)
Go read my gigantic writeup about it!(and also check out my writeups from 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014)
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - Sarah Bakewell • podcast coming someday!
Third Rail - Rory Flynn • Download our podcast
Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
Happy are the Happy - Yasmina Reza • Download our podcast
The Tourmaline - Paul Park • podcast coming someday!
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - Prue Shaw • Download our podcast
Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) - Matthew Farber • Download our podcast
La Ronde - Arthur Schniztler
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language - Clive James • Download our podcast
Falling Towards England - Clive James • Download our podcast
May Week Was In June - Clive James • Download our podcast
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Walter Kirn • Download our podcast
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit - Witold Rybczynski • Download our podcast
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s - Brad Gooch • Download our podcast
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China - Michael Meyer • Download our podcast
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers - Edward Mendelson • Download our podcast
How Sweet It Is! - Thane Rosenbaum • Download our podcast
Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes • Download our podcast
Chronicles - Bob Dylan (r)
Where Women Are Kings - Christie Watson • Download our podcast
Muse: A novel - Jonathan Galassi • Download our podcast
James Merrill: Life and Art - Langdon Hammer • Download our podcast
Orient: A Novel - Christopher Bollen • Download our podcast
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella - David Gates • Download our podcast
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel - Amanda Filipacchi • Download our podcast
Our Brothers at the Bottom of the Bottom of the Sea - Jonathan Kranz • Download our podcast
Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Available Dark - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History - Rhonda K. Garelick • Download our podcast
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Lionel Asbo: State of England - Martin Amis
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Katherine Carlyle - Rupert Thomson • Download our 2014 podcast and our 2015 podcast
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The editor over at Turtle Time Magazine back in Uglyworld had send an email via the intergalactic interweb about their latest magazine, which had an open slot for another story from the galaxy's most famous travelling turtle.
Thankfully Turtle had already anticipated the possibility of him getting to write another travel entry for the magazine and decided that this one would be centered around the great sights of the 3 Sisters which are located in the Southern half of the Cascades Mountain Range in Central Oregon.
Here's an excerpt from his writeup that the editor of Turtle Time allowed us to share:-
"...When you finds yourselfs in an area of wildernesses thats you simply didn't expects to find it's all too easys to crawls back into your shells (after alls we are turtles), but it's at times likes these that us Turtles must stays out of our shells, stands tall and soaks in the wonders of not onlys Uglyworld, but alsos the planet Earth and alls the other places we may visits in our lifetimes.
Takes the 3 Sisters Wildernesses area in Oregon as a prime examples, I expecteds to find snows and terrains which would be hards for me to hikes over and progress pasts, but when I dids get to such places did I retreats into the warmths of my shell, no way, I could nevers do this, as if I dids I wouldn't be able to brings such stunning stories and images to yous all..."
He's quite the journalist and I love his style of writing, in some ways he seems to remind me of myself - not quite sure why though...anyway, here's the shot I took of him with the 3 Sisters Range in the background to accompany his story in the magazine
From the Uglydoll blog at adventuresinuglyworld.blogspot.com/
My photo from the 5 October 2022 Air Tahiti Nui launch of a new route from Tahiti to Seattle & back. Simple Flying writeup up at bit.ly/ATNSEA .
All photos can be used with attribution.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe Kunzler | Simple Flying, Joe.K@simpleFlying.com
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
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Parvez says its GHO-MO ..
Writeup pending.
Read the notes over the frame for some interesting details
July 3, 2010: Corner of Woods Lane and Main Street - East Hampton, NY
I can't find any writeup about this place being used for receptions so I'm assuming it's just a house in the neighbourhood.
Here's a picture of me and (just about) every book I finished reading in 2015. (Some of the books were on my Kindle, so the stack should be a little higher. Also, there are links to the podcasts I did with the authors of many of them.)
Go read my gigantic writeup about it!(and also check out my writeups from 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014)
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - Sarah Bakewell • podcast coming someday!
Third Rail - Rory Flynn • Download our podcast
Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
Happy are the Happy - Yasmina Reza • Download our podcast
The Tourmaline - Paul Park • podcast coming someday!
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - Prue Shaw • Download our podcast
Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) - Matthew Farber • Download our podcast
La Ronde - Arthur Schniztler
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language - Clive James • Download our podcast
Falling Towards England - Clive James • Download our podcast
May Week Was In June - Clive James • Download our podcast
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Walter Kirn • Download our podcast
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit - Witold Rybczynski • Download our podcast
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s - Brad Gooch • Download our podcast
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China - Michael Meyer • Download our podcast
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers - Edward Mendelson • Download our podcast
How Sweet It Is! - Thane Rosenbaum • Download our podcast
Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes • Download our podcast
Chronicles - Bob Dylan (r)
Where Women Are Kings - Christie Watson • Download our podcast
Muse: A novel - Jonathan Galassi • Download our podcast
James Merrill: Life and Art - Langdon Hammer • Download our podcast
Orient: A Novel - Christopher Bollen • Download our podcast
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella - David Gates • Download our podcast
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel - Amanda Filipacchi • Download our podcast
Our Brothers at the Bottom of the Bottom of the Sea - Jonathan Kranz • Download our podcast
Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Available Dark - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History - Rhonda K. Garelick • Download our podcast
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel - Irvine Welsh • Download our podcast
Latest Readings - Clive James • Download our podcast
Lionel Asbo: State of England - Martin Amis
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books - John Carey
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Joseph Conrad
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books - Michael Dirda • Download our podcasts: 1, 2, 3
Everyman - Philip Roth (r)
Katherine Carlyle - Rupert Thomson • Download our 2014 podcast and our 2015 podcast
Under the Poppy - Kathe Koja • Download our podcast
Memory Theater - Simon Critchley • podcast coming soon!
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World - David Jaher • Download our podcast
Montaigne - Stefan Zweig
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime - Harold Bloom • Download our podcast
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories - Bruce Jay Friedman • Download our podcast (there may be another episode in 2016!)
Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig
Drawing Blood - Molly Crabapple • Download our podcast
[Full writeup here.]
Plungercam 2 keeps in the spirit of the original plungercam by using of cheap plumbing equipment and affixing it to precision optics. This iteration eliminates the need for glue altogether, so all the optical components can be easily taken out and re-used elsewhere.
The main component is a rubberized pipe coupling, which I got for $7 at the always awesome Center hardware. The two adjustable steel bands will be used to hold the mount and lens securely in place. This particular one is two inches on the narrow end, and three on the wider end.
To fix the problem with the body cap mount teeth fraying, I decided to replace it with a T-mount T-mount adapter. I picked up the one I'm using for $3 from one of the closing Ritz camera stores.
I'm re using the $12 (from ebay) Zenza bronica medium format lens that was in plungercam 1. Since this was only held in place using a metal clip, it was easy to take it out and re-use it.
Total cost: $22 :)
Kitano Herb Garden in Kobe offers one of the best views of the Kobe City. A quick ride on the ropeway near the Shin Kobe Shinkansen station takes one into a serene location, beautiful herb garden, glass house cafe and much more.
See the timelapse video at my Youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1wyptXDZGc
Writeup for Japantourist : japantourist.jp/view/shin-kobe-ropeway
Visiting Engine Peter Pan on the temporary narrow gauge railway in the Beamish Colliery Yard.
For more images and a writeup of the event visit the Beamish Transport Blog.
Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
For more photos and writeups on this LEGO creations:
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Two Fantastic cars from Honda, owned by one person. This is a 2004 Acura NSX and 2009 Honda S2000. More pics/writeup @ www.jdmchicago.com
Oh man, I don't even know where to start. This weekend was absolutely epic. I guess i'll share my 3 day long adventure with all of you flickr folks.
My weekend started Friday afternoon when I decided to drive down to Patrick's (Quickworks Photo) house, 2 hours south of where I live. I got there around 8pm due to traffic. At Patricks I met up with Mike (TokenMediaGroup) and Carlos (Quickworks). Originally we had planned on leaving Saturday morning around 4am but then we said why not just leave tonight? Shortly after, it was 1AM and we were on our way to Wek'Fest LA. With tens of thousands of dollars worth of camera gear in the trunk, we proceeded to instagram our road trip. Yes, we did instagram our way down.
I'm starting to realize if I keep explaining my weekend in this much detail i'm going to have to write a book so i'm going to make this more brief starting meow.
When we arrived at Patrick's cousins house at 5:30am we started sleeping, only to wake up up for Wek'fest 3 hours later. Fuck yeah! sort of. Once we woke up for Wek'fest we realized everybody had tooth brushes, but no toothpaste was nowhere to be found so we ended up buying toothpaste and brushing our teeth in the Mens Target bathroom. Except for Kreayshawn, she went to brush her teeth in the Womens bathroom.
Upon arrival to Wek'fest I met some awesome people and i'm going to try to list them all right now but i'll probably fail. John Zhang (1013mm) Courtney Michelle Wingfield (I<31013mm) David Do (Mayday Garage) Antonio Alvendia (Motormavens) Joy Abdalla (Super cool SEMA STi Driver) Katie Smith (Ruble Wagon, I know you know this car! She owns it) Laura Keller, Vinnie Nguyen, Kevin Sang, William Joon Lee, Alex James, Steve Demmitt, and Luke Munnell. If I missed you which I may very well have, I apologize in advance.
When Wek'fest was over, Patrick, Carlos, Mike and I went to Rachaels house in Long Beach to meet up with Heather (Mah Girlfran). We met up with the majority of the people mentioned above to go out and about in Downtown LA until 3AM.
Well, it's a good thing I didn't post this as a facebook status. I think I would have been befriended by every friend I have on Facebook.
All in all this weekend has been an absolute blast! It was a pleasure meeting everyone and I look forward to seeing you guys at future events.
If you have read this far, I congratulate you. :D
5D2 | 16-35L
Here's a picture of me and (just about) every book I finished reading in 2015. A few of them got cropped out. (Also, some of the books were on my Kindle, so the stack should be a little higher. Also, there are links to the podcasts I did with the authors of many of them.)
Go read my gigantic writeup about it!(and also check out my writeups from 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014)
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - Sarah Bakewell • podcast coming someday!
Third Rail - Rory Flynn • Download our podcast
Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
Happy are the Happy - Yasmina Reza • Download our podcast
The Tourmaline - Paul Park • podcast coming someday!
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - Prue Shaw • Download our podcast
Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) - Matthew Farber • Download our podcast
La Ronde - Arthur Schniztler
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language - Clive James • Download our podcast
Falling Towards England - Clive James • Download our podcast
May Week Was In June - Clive James • Download our podcast
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Walter Kirn • Download our podcast
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James • Download our podcast
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit - Witold Rybczynski • Download our podcast
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s - Brad Gooch • Download our podcast
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China - Michael Meyer • Download our podcast
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers - Edward Mendelson • Download our podcast
How Sweet It Is! - Thane Rosenbaum • Download our podcast
Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes • Download our podcast
Chronicles - Bob Dylan (r)
Where Women Are Kings - Christie Watson • Download our podcast
Muse: A novel - Jonathan Galassi • Download our podcast
James Merrill: Life and Art - Langdon Hammer • Download our podcast
Orient: A Novel - Christopher Bollen • Download our podcast
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella - David Gates • Download our podcast
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel - Amanda Filipacchi • Download our podcast
Our Brothers at the Bottom of the Bottom of the Sea - Jonathan Kranz • Download our podcast
Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Available Dark - Elizabeth Hand • Download our podcast
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America - Elizabeth Samet • Download our podcast
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History - Rhonda K. Garelick • Download our podcast
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel - Irvine Welsh • Download our podcast
Latest Readings - Clive James • Download our podcast
Lionel Asbo: State of England - Martin Amis
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books - John Carey
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Joseph Conrad
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books - Michael Dirda • Download our podcasts: 1, 2, 3
Everyman - Philip Roth (r)
Katherine Carlyle - Rupert Thomson • Download our 2014 podcast and our 2015 podcast
Under the Poppy - Kathe Koja • Download our podcast
Memory Theater - Simon Critchley • podcast coming soon!
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World - David Jaher • Download our podcast
Montaigne - Stefan Zweig
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime - Harold Bloom • Download our podcast
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories - Bruce Jay Friedman • Download our podcast (there may be another episode in 2016!)
Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig
Drawing Blood - Molly Crabapple • Download our podcast
Quote by Gene Tierney
A Paan shopkeeper on the way to Bhimashankar from Pune, India. I was charmed by the multitude of novelties he had in his petty shop apart from paan( and it's friends); including, but not limited to, imported cigar(ette)s of the brands like Marlboro, 555, etc., insence sticks, a wide gamut of key chains, perfume, talc powder, shampoo and even bread.
The cap he wears, which looks identical to Jawaharlal Nehru's, is called the Gandhi cap, made out of Khādī, is part of the ethnic dress of Maharashtra; started during the pre-independence era in Mahatma Gandhi ji's Khādī Movement, it became a symbolic tradition for freedom activists to wear it in independent India.