Engineering?
An essay in comic book format by Mel Chua. A PHd candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University.
Title: The Rock: ”Finally…”
Artist: Art Rotondo
Medium: 20” x 30” original acrylic on canvas
Year: 2012
Title: STAND OUR GROUND
Artist: Leon “Tes One” Bedore
Medium: screen print
Year: 2012
“Laws should be designed to protect the innocent, the unarmed, the child walking back home from the corner store. Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law (and similar laws in 31 states) does the opposite by giving license to any aggressor with a gun, and allowing them to claim self-defense as their reasoning to shoot and kill another person.
I created “Stand Our Ground” for people – regardless of race or gender, to stand in solidarity against the injustice this law allows. Adding awareness to the Trayvon Martin tragedy, and aiding his family in their pursuit of justice.
All proceeds from the release of “Stand Our Ground” will be donated to the Justice for Trayvon Charity and their advocacy efforts.” - Tes
via YouTube - Video of the reconstruction of Triadic Ballet made by Margarete Hastings in 1970. The full video lasts 32 minutes. This version was advised by Ludwig Grote and Xanthi Schawinsky (students of Schlemmer at the Bauhaus) and Tut Schlemmer, Oskar Schlemmer’s widow.
Oskar Schlemmer. (German, 1888-1943) painter, sculptor, choreographer and stage designer.
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Jesse W. Smith, saddle maker. Lives in Pritchett, Colorado and has been making saddles for 47 years. Jessie teaches and shares this fine craft with students in a saddlemaking class back at his ranch.
Check out some of his saddles at www.jessesmithsaddlery.com and also a resource list for cowboy culture such as a glossary of terms and cowboy lore.
David Rees has perfected the technique of pencil sharpening and is now teaching his pencilship to others in his how to sharpen pencils book for anyone who has ever wanted to use a pencil but was afraid to because of the intimidating skill and effort it takes to sharpen one, or for those who use pencils but have yet to attain the perfect point.
Aerodynamics meets cabinet making, a union that resulted in this beauty, a 1938 avante-garde deco-inspired car, the Hispano Suiza H6C Xenia Coupe designed by Andre Dubonnet and Jacques Saoutchik.
More sources:
Pony H 54” L 49” W 27” via Boing Boing
Who made this? It’s like a cross between a creepy carriage from a Ray Caesar painting and a Meret Oppenhiem sculpture.
Handbag designed by Leonardo Da Vinci circa 1497 and made in 2011 by Gherardini.
via History Blog
Percy Aldridge Grainger, composer and pianist, was born in Brighton Australia in 1882 and died in White Plains NY in 1961. A highly eccentric individual with a broad range of musical and other interests, he is remembered on three continents for various aspects of his musical achievements. In Europe he is best remembered for his popular arrangements of English folk tunes such as the ‘evergreen’ Country Gardens . In America many people will know him as a composer and arranger of brass band music. In Australia he is remembered chiefly for his musical innovations and for what he called ‘Free Music’.
- by Rainer Linz at The Free Music Machines of Percy Grainger
Percy Grainger’s own words on his ‘Free-Music’: “In this music, a melody is as free to roam thru tonal space as a painter is free to draw & paint free lines, free curves, create free shapes…” continue reading
Photoplay
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s.
Phototplay, Jan-Jun 1929. Vol 35-36 via Media History Digital Library
Uncle Billy McCrea, Age 89. Voices from the Days of Slavery, former slaves tell their stories. Audio interviews recorded in the Southern states between 1932 and 1975.
American Memory from the Library of Congress Collection.
Sweet voice. Sad.
