I enjoy things that require a response and mingle in the mind.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The day winds down as we watch the sunset in our workshop. Happy Friday, everyone.
We designed our Square Register Stand to make collecting payments even easier. A precisely milled rail surrounds the Square reader, creating a track to swipe credit cards with minimal alignment. It’s our solution to collect payments confidently and professionally events—wherever we are!
Philographics.
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Organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds.
Just…awesome.
Richard Feynman, No Ordinary Genius
A 95-minute documentary on the famous physicist now available in its entirety on YouTube. Treat your brain to the story of a great man and a great mind.
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Via the Musee d’Orsay website: On 22 October 1895, there was a particularly spectacular railway accident at the Gare de l’Ouest, later re-named the Gare Montparnasse. The 26 October issue of L’Illustration reported the event as follows: “The No.56 train arriving from Grandville hurtled into the station at a speed of 40 to 60 kilometres an hour, and, unable to stop, ploughed through the buffers at the end of the platform. Its engine crashed through the façade of the station building, […] and fell down on to the Place de Rennes. […] The only fatality was a newspaper vendor on the square, who was killed by a piece of falling masonry”.
For several days, gaping onlookers crowded around the locomotive, stranded in the middle of Paris. Among them were many photographers, both professional and amateur. Here they found an opportunity to use their cameras to prove that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Musée d’Orsay print, which has no professional stamp on the back, is undoubtedly the work of one of these amateurs.
The sensational nature of the accident ensured a wide distribution for this image, in many versions. Even today, a postcard of the Railway accident at the Gare de l’Ouest is an absolute must for tourists in Paris.
L. Mercier (in Paris um 1895 tätig)Accident at the Gare de l’Ouest, 22 October 18951895AristotypeH. 22.6; W. 17.1 cm© RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07vnuzMoD1qegasto1_500.jpg)
Via the Musee d’Orsay website: On 22 October 1895, there was a particularly spectacular railway accident at the Gare de l’Ouest, later re-named the Gare Montparnasse. The 26 October issue of L’Illustration reported the event as follows: “The No.56 train arriving from Grandville hurtled into the station at a speed of 40 to 60 kilometres an hour, and, unable to stop, ploughed through the buffers at the end of the platform. Its engine crashed through the façade of the station building, […] and fell down on to the Place de Rennes. […] The only fatality was a newspaper vendor on the square, who was killed by a piece of falling masonry”.
For several days, gaping onlookers crowded around the locomotive, stranded in the middle of Paris. Among them were many photographers, both professional and amateur. Here they found an opportunity to use their cameras to prove that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Musée d’Orsay print, which has no professional stamp on the back, is undoubtedly the work of one of these amateurs.
The sensational nature of the accident ensured a wide distribution for this image, in many versions. Even today, a postcard of the Railway accident at the Gare de l’Ouest is an absolute must for tourists in Paris.
L. Mercier (in Paris um 1895 tätig)
Accident at the Gare de l’Ouest, 22 October 1895
1895
Aristotype
H. 22.6; W. 17.1 cm
© RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
—Stanley Kubrick, 26 July 1928 – 07 March 1999
CB750 custom by Portland builders Crowe & Tarantulas
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Le Corbusier in His Cabin, Cap-Martin, 1951 | photo: Lucien Hervé
