Inspirational quotes In From up North’s inspiration galleries we present the latest of our findings from the wonderful world of design. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe. Personality gets the heart – Submitted by Vik West Geneva drive Animation showing a six-position external Geneva drive in operation The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel advancing it by one step. The drive wheel also has a raised circular blocking disc that locks the driven wheel in position between steps. Background[edit] The name derives from the device's earliest application in mechanical watches, Geneva, Switzerland being an important center of watchmaking. Because the mechanism needs to be well lubricated, it is often enclosed in an oil capsule. Uses and applications[edit] One application of the Geneva drive is in movie projectors: the film does not run continuously through the projector. Internal Geneva drive[edit] Internal Geneva drive. Animation showing an internal Geneva drive in operation. An internal Geneva drive is a variant on the design. Spherical Geneva drive[edit] Dwell cam
Calvin and Hobbes - Stars and Infinity (Comic Strip) Karma Jello Cannabis, Psychedelics, Comedians, Astronomy, Philosophy, Photography, Art, MMA Karma Jello » Universe » Astronomy » Calvin and Hobbes – Stars and Infinity (Comic Strip) Calvin and Hobbes – Stars and Infinity (Comic Strip) POSTED BY CARLOS PIMENTEL | Astronomy, Philosophy Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on pinterest_shareShare on stumbleuponShare on google_plusone_shareShare on emailMore Sharing Services Calvin and Hobbes Look Out Into the Stars and Ponder Infinity. Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.Hobbes: How so? Tags: Awareness, Comic Strip, Infinity, Social Commentary Related Posts Today Week Month All Snowflakes on the Verge of Melting (Photo Gallery) The Beautiful World of Crop Circles (Photo Gallery) Psychedelic Astronomy Compilation, Adult Swim's Off The Air (Video) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Aliens Don't Respect Human Intelligence (Video) The Perils of Dairy (Video) karmajello.tumblr.com Back to Top Random Post
Unusual Night in Nature | Worldwide Travel Two French hotel/camp, Attrape Reves in Bouches-du-Rhone (near Marseille) and Sky River near Loir-et-Cher, are the places where you can sleep under the stars. Concept of sleeping in balloons are designed by French designer Pierre Stefan, wanting to create an environmentally friendly space: when a plastic bubble pack, the area remains almost intact. Balloons are small and cozy, their diameter is about four meters. Some are completely transparent, while others provide a little more privacy. Of course, if you want comfort that provides, for example, “Ric”, these unusual balloons are probably not for you. But if you want to fully protected sleep surrounded by nature and watch the stars from bed – go to this travel destination. Sleeping under the stars gets a new meaning in the unusual “camps” in France – visitors are accommodated in nature under the open sky.
Stone Telling: The Magazine of Boundary-crossing Poetry by Shira Lipkin the girl's voice the changeling voice I have studied so hard to pass as one of you. I've spent a lifetime on it. I have tells. When I was little, I asked my alleged mother,what's a girl? She saidyou,you're a girl, and she laced me into dresses (that I tore off in the school parking lot, in line for the bus). My dancing was different. And everything is about containment is about being delicate and pretty laced into corsets whalebone stays digging into your ribs because it's not beauty if it doesn't hurt. But I studied. None of it is in my nature. I am something larger, more fluid, less constrained. Shira Lipkin is a writer, activist, mother, and nexus. Read Shira's discussion of this poem over at the Roundtable! If you enjoyed this poem, please consider donating a few dollars to help Stone Telling continue, and showcase many more fantastic and diverse voices! Photography:Untitled, by Graham Blackall.
EL Wire EL Wire, also known as Electroluminescent wire, is a stiff wire core coated with phosphor and then covered with a protective PVC sheath. When an AC signal is applied to it, it glows an aqua (blue green) color. Sometimes its covered with a colored plastic shell to make it appear another color. It looks a little like thin neon. It's often used for costuming, decoration, accent lighting, safety vests, bicycle/motorcycle/car/boat/home decoration, signs, etc. We have two EL project tutorials - the TRON-inspired bag and the EL wire party couch ! You can pick up some high-brightness, long-life EL wire and inverters at the Adafruit shop EL is 'cold' - the wires generate no heat! Please note!
Dear Photograph Dear “Dear Photograph”, Thank you for your beautiful blog and for inspiring me to make my own ‘Dear Photograph’ book for my parents as a gift this Christmas. In the process of taking over 400 pictures in the style of your blog, I visited the battered post-Hurricane Sandy New Jersey shoreline where I grew up. I visited preschools,bridges, churches, and grammar schools. I visited the homes and backyards of aunts, uncles, and grandparents. So Dear Photograph,Thank you for reminding us of who we were, who we are, and who we are going to be. Sincerely, Alyssa
100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) - Page 2 Shape the Hive What are humans, really, but so many bees, buzzing away? That’s the question (we think) asked by Shape The Hive, a visual “experiment in digital collaboration.” In more concrete terms, Shape The Hive is a massive, color-coded hex grid, where anyone can use a sort of virtual kaleidoscope to fill in hexes with distorted images or videos. Get The Glass We’re not the biggest fans of blurring the line between advertisement and gaming, but we’re willing to make exceptions in two instances: 1) When it comes to frosty, delicious milk. 2) When the game in question is a beautifully imagined and well thought-out virtual board game, with graphics that still look amazing three years after the fact. And what do you know—Get The Glass succeeds on both of those counts! The Wilderness Downtown False.jp What we have here is a collection of simple visualizations (most respond only to the movement of your mouse cursor, and the left mouse button) from a Japanese graphic designer. Pretty Loaded
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