Film projectors (as well as film cameras, processing equipment, etc.) use a special mechanism called a Geneva drive to ensure one whole frame is advanced at a time, instead of simply spooling a film continuously. Wikipedia:
The name derives from the device’s earliest application in mechanical watches, Switzerland and Geneva being an important center of watchmaking. The geneva drive is also commonly called a Maltese cross mechanism due to the visual resemblance.
In the most common arrangement, the driven wheel has four slots and thus advances for each rotation of the drive wheel by one step of 90°. If the driven wheel has n slots, it advances by 360°/n per full rotation of the drive wheel.
The device itself is beautiful in its simplicity. There are two variations on the drive (external and internal). More at wikipedia.
Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce
Seeing the weekly diet of families all around the world gives an insight into how much we and our diet are affected by economic, social, and political factors. Reasonpad blog:
Come see What The World Eats. A few years ago photographer Peter Menzel and his wife Faith D’Aluisio started to photograph what family’s around the globe eat and wrote down what their weekly expenditure is. In 2005 they published an award winning book called Hungry Planet: What The World Eats.
This project turned out to be so educational that he’s currently still giving lectures at universities about this very subject. A current exhibition is held until May 9, 2010 is hosted by the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota.
As you look at the photographs and see what they spend per week, you can draw a lot of different conclusions about their dietm their surroundings, their personal/economic circumstance and how globalization has influenced what people eat.
Reasonpad have put all the images from this Time article on one page, and provided the info for how much was spent, where the families are from, etc.
I enjoyed this segment on Channel 4 news a couple of days ago and noticed just now that some lovely person has uploaded it to YouTube. Illustrator Ronald Searl has turned ninety and has some stories to tell us over a glass of champagne.
On a night-time drive recently with my father I was struck by what a different mood and sense of space was given to the otherwise familiar country lanes in the dusk light. More intimate, peaceful… they had an entirely different character.
Henri Le Sidaner had a knack for capturing this phenomenon of light and mood in his paintings. And not just dusk light.
French painter and pastel artist Henri Le Sidaner (Eugéne Augustin) began academic training at the l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, briefly studying under Alexandre Cabanel, but soon rejected that pursuit in favor a fascination with the paths into broken color and light being blazed by the Impressionists.
Le Sidaner is best known as an Intimist painter. Intimism is one of the less familiar of the “isms”, whose primary proponents were Pierre Bonnard and édouard Vulliard. Other practitioners include Edmond Aman-Jean.
It was essentially a form of genre painting that in some ways bridged Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, borrowing the broken color and flurry of almost Pointillist brushstrokes from the former, and the emotional content from the latter.
The name refers to the frequent subjects of quiet room interiors, intimate garden scenes and small views of landscape. Le Sidaner often portrayed table settings in gardens, soft nocturnes, and almost tonalist scenes of canals and waterways.
Unlike the Impressionists, who sought to portray light with fidelity to nature, La Sidaner and the other Intimists put their intense strokes of color in service of the emotion or mood with which they wished to infuse the scene.
Mihyang Kim, Self-Portrait in October 2009. Acrylic on canvas | 2009 | 61 x 71 cm
My work is about nature and the human body. Painting nature and the human body is the easiest way to express my ideas because I grew up in the countryside and I am a nurse. I am inspired by nature and organic shapes and vivid colors that can be found in the outside world and biological bodies. I think nature and human bodies live in co-existence with each other. My work has common themes of balance and co-existence. The balance found in nature and also the fight for balance and co-existence in human life or political struggles.
Biological clock affects the daily rhythm of many physiological processes. This diagram depicts the circadian patterns typical of someone who rises early in morning, eats lunch around noon, and sleeps at night (10 p.m.). Although circadian rhythms tend to be synchronized with cycles of light and dark, other factors – such as ambient temperature, meal times, stress and exercise – can influence the timing as well.
Martine Franck (born 1938) is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson after his divorce with Ratna Mohini, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate. (from wiki)
In this mindboggling video, photostock magnate Yuri Arcurs gives a tour of his vast studio in Denmark. There he knocks out stock images on an industrial scale, selling pictures for as little as 20c each — devastating the competition.
The video offers a fascinating insight into his whiter than white, faker than fake world! (via growabrain)
As the cap matures it deliquesces into an inky black fluid. This specimen was found by the side of a path in deciduous woodland.
It deliquesces!
1. to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts.
2. to melt away.
3. Botany. to form many small divisions or branches.
There is a collection of similarly unique mushrooms (such as the “scarlet waxy cap” — poetry! — and the aptly named “turkey tail mushroom”) at Matador.
Making a movie completely inside a computer has its quirks. In any pixar movie, the colour palette is worked out before the animation begins. This planning takes the form of a “colour script”.
Pixar has released several images from the colour script of Toy Story 3, and they’re rather pretty. I wouldn’t mind seeing an entire animation in this impressionistic, sketchy handpainted style! Beautiful light and colour in these sketches.
