Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

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#fountains #technology #machinery #pulleys #levers #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

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Didn't realize #old pre-aero levers can be #recycled into flatbar #levers!

Happy #upcycling โ™ป๏ธ

I've been painting sharper 90-degree corners lately, and focusing on them using my reading glasses.

Painting the X's is taking much more time than before, like twice as much. But I continue getting better at it, hundreds of them later lol.

Painting this is very much like sign painting.

There are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of better sign painters out there than me, and all those calligraphy videos online, and the hyper-realistic painters, etc. I'm so jealous!

Notwithstanding, from a few short feet away, these corners are immaterial.

And! There are so many more hard edges to discover!! Just kinda thinking about it.

ATM, I'm using specialized brushes โ€” red sable, flat, size 3-4 from two different product lines. They are both very decent, but they do fall apart.

IDK, it's just kinda interesting painting like this, for now.

I am using linseed oil to lubricate the application, it's very very robot painting this way. Yet, I'm certain (theorizing) it pertains very deeply to the human experience (if there is one, also hypothetical lol).

Paintings, in general, covertly get very deeply into peoples' minds at times, and it can rattle some bells in there, pull some levers and turn some dials, even โ€” best case scenario.

Yes, more cowbell.

#painting #bells #dials #levers

Consortium Meeting in Ljubljana - Levers Project ๐ŸŒฑ

We had the pleasure of gathering in Ljubljana for two inspiring and productive days dedicated to the Levers Project, a European initiative.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Whatโ€™s on the agenda: insightful discussions, dynamic workshops, and a strong synergy to shape the next steps of this ambitious project.

We canโ€™t wait to share the progress made through this promising collaboration!

#Levers #climatechange #climate

โ€” Letโ€™s be clear: Being #gay is a perfectly #normal part of the human experience. Being a #Republican and/or #religious, however, is #dangerous, #harmful to #society, #abnormal, and utterly #immoral.

These practices hurt #society by promoting #unfoundedbeliefs, #discouraging #criticalthinking, and is used to #justify #harming others. Religion fosters reliance on #dogma over #reason, hinders #societalprogress, and #serves as #levers for the #exercise of #power and #control over #followers #lives

You know who I'd like to meet? Charlie Chaplin. I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin. Shall we do that? Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin? Shall we? Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chester. Charlie Brown. No, he's fiction. Friction, fiction, fixing, mixing, Rickston, Brixton
#DoctorWho #levers

"#Levers only work if you have gravity."

"The #moon can never be seen in the daytime."

"The shower gets hot because of #fusion"

"#Electricity cannot travel through air."

"#QuantumPhysics proves that all events are random and nothing can be predicted."

The phrases above are how ridiculous it would look if certain #writers wrote about physical science without consulting an actual scientist or even reading a couple of Wikipedia articles, like they do about behavioral science.

#BadWriting #AskAnExpert #DoYourHomework #wrong #science

THE POWER OF LEVERS COMPELS YOU

Got my fall crops started & moved a stump to a better location.

Also letting one of the dill volunteers hang out for a bit.

I think I'll do OK on the beets-- I love the greens so it's OK if I don't get good roots. The carrots are not going into ideal soil & I expect will protest accordingly.

#gardening #levers #simpleMachines #carrot #beet #dill #plants