No 7 drawing in my goals for 2016

Annas Art - FärgaregårdsAnna

The dancing through days and night ends and what to do then?

This is the seventh drawing in a long series of drawings I’m planning to make. I will tell you more about the project when I get a little bit further 🙂

What’s your goals? Do you have projects? Let us know about them 🙂

Anna

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Love and Rockets and Politics

Wide Awake But Dreaming

Here I am back earlier than I’d imagined.  Shopping done and a lot of money spent, probably more than I should have spent.  I was considering going out for lunch but I think I’ll keep it indoors for today and relax and catch a nap.  But I will get all my writing in today.  And some tomorrow.  But I will get it in.  After that nap ’cause I can feel yawning coming on.

Yesterday Kerry was going on about the defenses that used to be around San Francisco, and while he touched on the big guns there he left off one thing that Annie remembers to bring up:

(The following excerpts from The Foundation Chronicles, Book Three: C For Continuing, copyright 2016 by Cassidy Frazee)

“And what is this Nike base you mentioned?”

“Oh, that.” He once more pointed off to his right. “They had missiles there from the 1950s…

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June 1944 (4)

Pacific Paratrooper

Tanapag, Saipan, June 1944. Image by Life photographer W. Eugene Smith

19-20 June – the second stage of the naval battle in the Philippine Sea, the Japanese fleet finally had come within range of Adm. Spruance and his carrier aircraft went airborne. [between the Spruance fleet and Mitscher’s, there were 956 aircraft]  Even as the enemy retreated, the aircraft, running low on fuel, engaged in an even larger “turkey shoot”. [differences claim conflicting numbers, but to estimate: Japan had 450 carrier planes and 300 land based – with a loss of 550-645.  The US lost 123].  The Japanese carrier IJN Hiyo sank after 2 torpedo hits and bombs damaged the Zuikaku and the Chiyoda.  Night rescues for US aircraft crews went out for the survivors.

Battle of Saipan, June 1944

A third wave of attacks caused more losses for the enemy and on the fourth wave Adm. Ozawa barely…

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Make Your Own Spot Welder, A Let’s Build Project.

The Arts Mechanical

When I was working on the sheet metal post, I had forgotten this article in Make Magazine on how to make a spot welder. Having a spot welder is very useful when working with sheet metal and small parts. It’s also a good start project to develop skills that will help you later.

Upcycle a Microwave into a Spot Welder

Here’s a more detailed blog post.

Scrap Microwave Spot Welder

He links to a some tutorials.

http://www.avdweb.nl/tech-tips/spot-welder.html

Microwave oven spot welder

Here’s another one.

The fun part building your own spot welder is that the tool yo make will probably be as good, if not better as the tools you can buy.  All the spot welders I’ve used or seen in various shops have had sort of that unfinished hacked together feel to them even if they had all the badges and manufacturing of a product.  None of them really worked very well…

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Ivo Neame // Strata

Jazz You Too

Ivo Neame: piano, accordion, synths
Tori Freestone: tenor sax, flute
Jim Hart: vibes
Tom Farmer: bass
Andrea Di Biase: bass
Dave Hamblett: drums

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Custom Delivery At Scale

When is a commodity not a commodity? When each individual item is made to order. Not just made for the P.O. but to the specifics of the customer’s requests. With traditional supply chain practices it’s easy enough to get the order right for the specified number of items in the package. But when that package count is 1, there is literally no margin for error.

And when the delivery is made through any of a variety of channels the process of making custom products can explode into seemingly unmanageable permutations. This isn’t conjecture. The custom-made model is fast approaching as technology accelerates and provides more options and more automation.

We’re already seeing customization of household items like rugs made to match colors and patterns supplied by the customer. These can be purchased at physical stores that manufacture in the back room, or ordered online and produced either at the store or some remote facility. In some cases orders can be shipped the next day.

http://ec-bp.com/index.php/articles/editors-blog/11771-custom-delivery-at-scale

Bird Of Paradise

The Inspiration Shots

iPhoneOgraphy – 25 Aug 2016 (Day 238/366)

Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae. The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower / plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower and is featured on the reverse of the 50 cent coin. It is the floral emblem of the City of Los Angeles; two of the species, Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae, are frequently grown as house plants.

The species S. nicolai is the largest in the genus, reaching 10 m tall, with stately white and blue flowers; the other species typically reach 2 to 3.5 m tall, except S. caudata which is…

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