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…and how they got that way. Curated contemporary art /// jacob hashimoto. Jacob hashimoto Sigh… I don’t know very much about this tranquil installation by New York based artist Jacob Hashimoto, but I do know that I want to go to there.

curated contemporary art /// jacob hashimoto

Life has been crazy lately, and I think that a quiet afternoon with a few hundred sailboats suspended from the ceiling might be exactly what I {ie everyone everywhere} needs to slow things down a little. Lovely. And in action, it’s even more lovely. Watch this! *I hear enya playing in my head {aaaand now so do you!} This Cleverly Designed Box is Hiding a Whole Room Inside. Looks can be deceiving… so make sure to never underestimate someone’s creativity.

This Cleverly Designed Box is Hiding a Whole Room Inside

Take this box for example. It seems like it’s just a normal chest, albeit a cool one, right? What it really is will leave your jaw on the floor. You won’t see this one coming. I didn’t. It starts out as a normal box, just looking all boxy. Créer un cachet de cire pour faire-parts de mariage. Après notre petite expérience sur les enveloppes de nos faire-parts, je vais t’expliquer comment mettre toutes les chances de ton côté pour faire de beaux cachets de cire.

Créer un cachet de cire pour faire-parts de mariage

Pour faire fondre la cire, il y a plusieurs solutions. La plus simple est d’utiliser un pistolet. De notre côté nous nous sommes compliqués la tâche et avons préféré la cire traditionnelle. La technique pour la faire fondre te sera utile même si tu te sers d’un pistolet : cela servira pour refondre les cachets ratés afin d’en faire de nouveaux. La flamme directe d’une bougie ou d’un briquet brûle et noircit la cire. What are Isometric and Axonometric Projections.

Isometric and Axonometric Projections are fairly simple ways to approach 3D drawing.

What are Isometric and Axonometric Projections

These can be used for sketches or to draw to a predetermined scale. If a scale is used, every part of the drawing can be measured with accuracy. Unlike perspective drawing, lines in Isometric or Axonometric drawings do not converge. In fact they only go in 3 different directions. Vertical and 30 degrees left and right in Isometric Projections, vertical and 45 degrees left and right in Axonometric projections. Often, Axonometric projections may appear to be distorted but they are very useful to show as much as possible of, for example, the inside of a room.

Although it is possible to quickly produce projection drawings using a drawing table, parallel motion and either a 30 degrees or 45 degrees angled set square, it can be even easier if a grid is placed underneath the paper. Axonometric. ‎www.si.edu/mci/downloads/RELACT/time_capsule_read.pdf. Your Body Ruler - A User's Manual. (Now part of A View from the Back of the Envelope.)

Your Body Ruler - A User's Manual

The idea: you can measure with your body. Length, angle, time, etc. This page deals with length. And... you will never forget to bring your bodyruler with you. :) Though sometimes I forget my calibration... Your Body Ruler A User's Manual Congratulations on being a human ruler! An example How big is the screen/paper in front of you? Calibrating Yourself A first step is to choose your measures, and measure your choices.

Many body distances can be used as measures, but you dont need all of them. Before using any new measuring instrument, one needs to calibrate it by comparing it with something else, something of known measure. Here are some measures you might use. Stuff Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) writes of Roman architect-engineer Vitruvius Pollio (1st century B.C.): "... Angle See also Measuring angle & distance with your thumb. The visual height of your fist, held out in front of you, is about 10 degrees. A journey round my room.