Morning Linkage (Mar 10)

Trans­porta­tion

Ply­wood pad­dler for the junior set. Funny how much the logo looks like Harley David­son from a dis­tance. Cute though.

1923 BMW fac­tory floor. Lots more vin­tage in the Vin­tage Motor­bikes Flickr pool but beware of bad cap­tions, and wild ass guesses as to makes and models.

Scroll down once for hot girl in short skirt on a real rocket of a bike. And I love how the cape stays fully extended while she’s sit­ting still on the desk. Yeah — it’s a Japan­ese super­hero toy. (SFW)

1937 Harley bob­ber. Another fab Dan­ish builder, Cus­toms from Jamesville.

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Sci­ence and Technology

A look at what’s under Nia­gara Falls. In 1969 the Army Corps of Engi­neers stopped the water flow over the falls in order to be able to inspect and but­tress up, if nec­es­sary, the rock face. In the com­ments look for Bla­tanville he’s got more info. Bitchin’ pics.

If you’ve got a stream with decent flow (7.5 ft/sec) you can have 500 watts of elec­tric­ity from a device that weights 25 pounds. Very use­ful. (7.5 ft/sec is about 8 miles/hour — which is pretty fast for a big river but not so fast for a creek or stream.)

Test­ing struc­tures and new designs for resis­tance to earth­quakes at UNC’s Con­structed Facil­i­ties Lab. Cruise the gallery for a look at cur­rent reasearch and projects. Lots of big (red) machines.

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Art. Images, and Design

Creepy lit­tle hand-made char­ac­ter dolls. In that quaint Dick­en­sian night­mare vein.

I’m claim­ing this is art. Scan­ning micro­scope images of the grooves in an LP. Images 2 and 3 look like the geog­ra­phy of memory.

These are hys­ter­i­cal. Old pho­tos with mod­ern goofy, think Car­toon Chan­nel kid’s show, char­ac­ters pho­to­shopped in. Rel­lano de Mono from Chile. (His per­sonal web­site is down. Not sur­pris­ing. I hope he is safe.)

A friendly reminder that it’s not about the gear or the jar­gon or even the tech­ni­cal prowess, but the see­ing. A medi­a­tion on what it means to be a pro­fes­sional (pho­tog­ra­pher) or an ama­teur. Applies to all artists.

that is all

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