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This shot is messed up in all kinds of ways. But it's still a geeky thrill for me--the first time I managed to leave my yard with the complete 4x5 view camera kit.
This is a crazy lash-up based on a cranky old Graflex monorail camera, with a weird $10 projection lens off eBay, and a 50-year-old Packard shutter you operate with a squeeze bulb. The film holders were loaded with sheets cut down from a long-expired spool of 5-inch wide perforated stock manufactured for aerial mapping cameras. (Thanks to Matt for that!)
Exposure and development times were wild guesses--which turned out to be way too conservative; but my scanner did a reasonable job of rescuing a severely blocked-up negative.
What species of spider makes this web?? I call them zig-zag spiders because of the patterns in the web.
We get a number of these spiders in our yard every year. They love making their webs outside of obscure objects where they can easily hide. The web is exceedingly sticky; the spider is a uniform dark grey.
I have never managed to get a decent picture of the actual spider; when I drop a fly on the web, the spider quickly scrambles out, grabs the prey, and races back out of sight. They are roughly the size of common backyard wolf spiders, and are a very plain dark-grey color, but I've never been able to get a more detailed look than that!
Later note: based on BugGuide.net notes, I believe the spider is Badumna longinqua (Brown House Spider). If so, it is not exactly aptly named; she requires direct sun for her nesting sites... I've never seen one indoors.
Alexander Wu, piano, Francisco Roldán, guitar, Danny Mallon, percussion and Hilliard Green, bass
Alexander Wu, piano, Francisco Roldán, guitar, Danny Mallon, percussion and Hilliard Green, bass
All done! Top fabrics from canadianquiltshop.com, backing is an Ikea duvet cover. Binding is Painter's Canvas in Lime.
This hollowed out globe ornament was turned from English holly, redwood burl, and gaboon ebony. I created the zigzag effect using the same method used in the pepper mill and salad bowls previously shown.
ZigZag flower pot by Spanish designers Ana Mir and Emili Padró of Emiliana Design Studio. The pieces making up the ZigZag collection are inspired in angular geometrical lines. The volumetric play of sombre profiles, together with the generous size of the pieces, gives them an almost totemic appearance.
The particular use of materials like rope, porcelain or aluminium rods, applied to crafts techniques used in their manufacture also provides a differentiating added value to the collection.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
From my childhood I always craned my neck out of the car window to catch a glimpse of this 4-storied building with its dizzying mosaic pattern on the walls of its 3 verandas on the upper levels that formed the main facade of the building. Each wall had its own uniquely shaped and colored bands of zigzags, visually separated by horizontal grille rails with lightly interspersing yellow flowers, which reminded me of lace borders.
Till last year 2 of 3 levels were still visible from the Mohakhali flyover, but now only the middle level survives. I had shot this "just-like-that" from a moving car.. had I known I would miss those crazy zigzags I would've stopped the car and rolled down the glass...