Free art in the underpass
Free art in the underpass, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
I passed this on the way to work yesterday. I picked up a smaller piece of art than there two as I wouldn’t have been able to carry them.
Monthly archives: March 2011
Free art in the underpass, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Daily Blog 03/09/2011
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Since 1852 the Derringer Pistol has been a favorite conceal carry choice of gun men and law men alike. It was created by famed gunsmith Henry Deringer and instantly became a hit from the years he produced it 1852 – 1868. The Derringer Pistol was such a hit that it produced a host copy cat designs who dubbed theirs the “Derringer” adding another “r” to the name of the pistol (so named off it’s creator Henry Deringer) but basically using the same exact design. So many companies copied the design that the the “double r ” name for this poplar pistol stuck over time. Today the Derringer line of pistols is still being made by a host of companies and the basic design has remained the same with some minor changes in barrel length, chambering ranging from .22 cal all the way up to the big bore Derringers in .38 Special, 9mm and even the .357 Magnum
Sounds of Soldiers is listed at Spalding’s Racket today
Sounds of Soldiers made it onto Spalding’s Racket today. The Racket is a good blog to bookmark if you’re on the lookout for new, and good value, ebooks.
Daily Blog 03/08/2011
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A massive cannabis farm worth an estimated £100,000 on the street has been uncovered and seized by police.
A haul of around 1,000 plants was discovered by officers who carried out a raid on a vacant industrial unit in Hillkirk Street, Beswick, at 7am today.
Wingsuits!
Exploring the Sky – Wingsuit Flying 2011 from Richard Schneider on Vimeo.
Just wow.
via Wired
Daily Blog 03/07/2011
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GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life – tech – 06 March 2011 – New Scientist
Signals from GPS satellites now help you to call your mother, power your home, and even land your plane – but a cheap plastic box can jam it all
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How to generate a viral hit in five steps (Wired UK)
Last week, Wired.co.uk attended an event run by MusicTank, entitled “It Started with a Click: How to Spawn a Viral Hit”. Chaired by MusicTank’s Keith Harris, a panel including Beggars Group’s head of digital marketing David Emery; The Viral Factory’s strategy director Matt Smith; PIAS Entertainment Group’s head of digital marketing Darren Hemmings; MUZU TV’s European head of marketing Rob Gotlieb; and filmmaker Dan Nixon discussed how best to ensure that your music video achieved viral success.
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A MILE high spinning column of cloud will rise above the River Mersey by the end of 2011 the artist behind the ambitious project revealed today.
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BBC News – Bristol engineers invent nylon bicycle strong as steel
Bristol-based engineers have built a lightweight bicycle from a new form of nylon as strong as steel, a substance they hope could revolutionise British manufacturing.
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Anticuts squatters occupy RBS bank in West Didsbury | Inside the M60
Anticuts campaigners squatted a flat above a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland on Lapwing Lane last weekend, in protest at government spending cuts and high bankers’ bonuses.
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ebooks on borrowed time | Books | The Guardian
HarperCollins says US libraries can lend its ebooks only 26 times as print books have to be replaced after that
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The Idea behind this page is double :
1° to supply modellers with informations (often coming from separate sources) enabling them to venture into unusual scratch-building projects;
2° to show that French technology is as inventive as other countries when it comes to design futuristic (and mostly improbable) weapons or vehicles. Most of the designs presented here never went beyond the prototype stage…lucky the ones which actually reached it. -
English Russia » Kiev’s Tank Graveyard
Pictures of tanks cemetery located somewhere in Kiev.
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English Russia » What’s Inside An Air Defence Bunker?
The Bryansk region of Russia is full of former air defence objects. Let’s explore these concrete boxes, as they may seem such at first sight.
Blue Angel 2
He studied the blue angel, as if staring at it would make it give up its secrets.
White angels he was familiar with. He’d been documenting them for over a year. The first couple had been on his bike route to work, larger than the stencil art he usually photographed and in white, not a common colour. They were traditional looking angels- wings spread, arms reaching skywards and a halo about their head- somewhat stylised by the restrictions of cutting a pattern from paper. He photographed them, uploaded them and later tagged their locations.
More angels appeared over the following weeks, but he didn’t blog them. Same design, different places, he felt the artist was becoming lazy. Until he made a connection. At least two of the angels marked the sites of murders- the kid who was gunned down in the park because of mistaken identity and the boy shot in a chippy several years ago. A little research confirmed that other angels commemorated other deaths.
Each angel signified a life cut short. Usually murders, most since the bad days of Gunchester, though a couple dated back to grisly 19th and early 20th century events and a few marked accidents and fires. When the “Angels of remembrance” tag became a series he started getting tips. Text and multimedia messages would arrive, alerting him to angels in areas he normally didn’t visit or avoided, giving him names and dates. They all came from two numbers, whether the senders were a tagging team, one up memorialists or the same person with two phones he didn’t know. Where possible he cycled out to the site and got a photo. Occasionally he had to use the tiny multimedia image.
In time the local papers caught on to the host of stencilled angels. He got mentions as their chronicler. There was even talk of a book. He sent messages to both his contacts about this. Would they come forward, or at least send him their manifesto, did they want any of the money or would they like to name a good cause? The tip offs had kept on coming but there was no response to his questions. He went ahead and signed the deal. It wasn’t a huge advance, but the publicity would knock on as increased traffic for the blog. All good.
He knew a lot about white angels. Blue angels were another matter. There had never been an angel any colour other than white. So why this unnatural colour?
And why right outside his house?
The Creationists are coming to town
Harun Yahya, something of a name amongst Creationists, is touring the UK, with a stop off at the Manchester Metropolitan University on Wednesday. The question is, could I bear to put up with them if I went along to find out how convoluted their arguments are?
Daily Blog 03/05/2011
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Richard Peppiatt’s letter to Daily Star proprietor Richard Desmond | Media | guardian.co.uk
Dear Mr Desmond,
You probably don’t know me, but I know you. For the last two years I’ve been a reporter at the Daily Star, and for two years I’ve felt the weight of your ownership rest heavy on the shoulders of everyone, from the editor to the bloke who empties the bins.
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SCALE MODEL NEWS: 75th ANNIVERSARY SALUTE TO THE SPITFIRE
Today’s the day, 75 years ago, when the Spitfire took to the skies on its maiden flight. The designer, RJ Mitchell, had already built up experience with high-speed aircraft through his Schneider Trophy seaplane racers, and for the Spitfire, Mitchell sketched a design with unusual elliptical wings that could be armed with no less than eight machine guns. There was a closed cockpit, with oxygen supply for the pilot at high altitude, and a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that made it faster than any other British aircraft.
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The Tension Table has developed out of my now fully fledged obsession with wine bottle furniture! Only this time I was sure there was a way to build a table that supports itself on only two bottles in compression, with the required tension coming from a network of wire. The aim was to hold the whole structure in tension using one hook and eye strainer, that is visible through the table’s upper glass surface. I was going for an eerie, that-shouldn’t-stay-up feel for this one which was a surprise success of the kitchen shelves – many people were confounded as to how they stood up!
Frank!
Frank!, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
On Oldham Street.
Daily Blog 03/04/2011
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Helmet camera captures high-speed Chile bike race (Wired UK)
A Vimeo user named Changoman has uploaded a video, shot from a helmet-mounted camera, of a precipitous mountain bike race in Chile.
Captain America was here
Captain America was here, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
There’s not much left of the Captain America on Dale Street, apart from these signs.
What hair removed from where?
What hair removed from where?, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Okay, so I’ve heard of a Brazilian, but what’s a Hollywood?
An architectural wander around my childhood
I’m not sure what inspired today’s little journey, but some time over the weekend I decided I should head out to the place my family lived between 1972 and 1976- Halton. Part of it was the memory of crossing a narrow bridge to get there.
The bike and I hopped on a train to Lancaster and then I got my bearings and headed out of town toward the M6. A little way the other side of the motorway along the A683 there’s a narrow road which might be easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Down here, after a few twists and turns, you come to a single track bridge across the river Lune.
After watching the canoeists for a while I crossed over and wandered around Halton, trying to remember which road we used to live on. (I think I narrowed it down to two possibilities, I’ll have to ask my parents.).
I headed back to Lancaster along the northern side of the river, stopping to look at work being done on the Lune Aqueduct. I didn’t get a decent picture of it, but I must have been doing that thing where I look like I know what’s going on, because people kept asking me what was being done to a structure I’d only just (re)discovered.
Nearer to Lancaster there’s a really big weir across the river. I found an interesting looking, but inaccessible, little footbridge near it.
I crossed back over the river on the Millennium Bridge. The light was against me and I didn’t get a picture of the whole of the structure.
Then it was into Lancaster centre to get a coffee and take a few pictures before catching a train back to Manchester.
Watch this now: Horizon- Are We Still Evolving?
A fascinating look at human evolution and differing views on whether/how/how much civilisation is affecting its speed and direction.
Plus, I think I have a crush on Dr Alice Roberts, the presenter.
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
25 years of my life and still
I’m trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this
Brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
So I cry somethimes when I’m lying in bed
To get it all out what’s in my head
Then I start feeling a little peculiar
So I wake in the morning and I step
Outside I take deep breath
I get real high
Then I scream from the top of my lungs
What’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
And I say hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
I said hey what’s goin’ on
And I try, oh my God do I try
I try all the time
In this institution
And I pray, oh my God do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution
So I cry sometimes when I’m lying in my bed
To get it all out what’s in my head
Then I start feeling a little peculiar
So I wake in the morning and I step outside
I take a deep breaththen I get real high
Then I scream from the top of my lungs
What’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
And I say hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
I said hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
And I say hey what’s goin’ on
And I say hey…
I said hey what’s goin’ on
25 years of my life and still
I’m trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
