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News:*I think I have the job, but we need to talk about details before I can announce this for certain. But that at least is looking up, and if I take a deep breath, I am not so overwhelmed by what a deep, dark financial hole I'm in that I can't see a way out.*San Jose is looking doubtful, and this is more crushingly sad than anything else, even not being able to buy ice cream or Guinness. I am still holding out hope, but.... it's not looking good. *I finished reading The Two Towers. Wow.*I have developed an organization plan for my entire apartment. It would be so nice if I could get it to a clean place that is easy to maintain.Exciting stuff, I know....
I didn't notice a rule that says lack of presence precludes costume.
Oh, you have no idea how much like a Poe character I'd be, then! I'd be in such depths of despair, all alone at home without my lovely friends to gallavant about with.
So... we're in agreement, yes?
*sigh* I don't mean to be all pathetic, really, but I just couldn't handle it.... and I'd at least like to know that I could pay you back for the materials.
BUT I might yet be able to swing it. I'll know more when I have an income, and have started to dig out of my hole. So.... *fingers crossed* ... in two or three weeks.
Marian wrote:*sigh* I don't mean to be all pathetic, really, but I just couldn't handle it.... and I'd at least like to know that I could pay you back for the materials.
Pardon me but...1) Yes, you do mean to be pathetic*2) You can handle itand3) When have I ever mentioned anything about paying for materials?* I'm working with your interpretation. I certainly do not consider you pathetic.
Well if you keep living the way you do know when you get your paycheck, you should be able to get out of the hole and possibly even save for SanJose! *crosses fingers for Marian to receive a good paycheck with lots of bonuses too*
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Yes, you do mean to be pathetic
I'm sorry if it comes across that way, but I'm just trying to be realistic. And the reality is, if I can't go to San Jose, I will feel very sorry for myself, but I would also feel worse if you had put extra work into a costume expecting me to be there. I haven't completely ruled out going, and it really is my priority after paying back my family. (And I also have a devious little plan on the side that might help me along....)But, truly, I wouldn't want a costume, as beautiful as they are and as much as I'd be sure to wow my pub friends, if I couldn't share the experience with you ladies. It would just make me feel worse.
sahi wrote:Well if you keep living the way you do know when you get your paycheck, you should be able to get out of the hole and possibly even save for SanJose!
Well if you keep living the way you do know when you get your paycheck, you should be able to get out of the hole and possibly even save for SanJose!
*smiles* Yes, I've gotten sort of used to not buying anything. It's the strangest feeling, but then I've also realized how much I buy that I just don't need.... and I don't consider myself particularly frivolous, either. The money - or the hours, rather - I'm being offered right now is not quite enough to cover bills, so I would probably have to give up my car. (Which would be a sad state of affairs; I am not sure I could get enough to pay off my loan.) I have another pending interview today that would be a 9 to 5 and is appealing because I would have steady pay, and it would be enough to cover bills and pay back my family and save for trips. (Ignoring things like, oh, car maintenance and dental care, but I've gotten used to that.) So I might be holding out to see if they would want me.And I would need to start soon. Yesterday, if that was possible!
*huggles Marian*Just wanted to say, I'll be jealous if you get to go to San Jose, and even if you don't, I'll still be jealous because you've been in Calgary. *grins weakly*Also, if anyone has any spare huggles lying around, send them over to the 'Gardens. Yes, I am pathetic. I hope I'll be better tomorrow.
Marian wrote:The money - or the hours, rather - I'm being offered right now is not quite enough to cover bills, so I would probably have to give up my car. (Which would be a sad state of affairs; I am not sure I could get enough to pay off my loan.)
The money - or the hours, rather - I'm being offered right now is not quite enough to cover bills, so I would probably have to give up my car. (Which would be a sad state of affairs; I am not sure I could get enough to pay off my loan.)
Oh, that would be awful!
Okay, I accepted the job with the nice family. $15 an hour, three days a week, with more hours after a few months. An upside is that there is a Tuesday afternoon position that will supplement my income sufficiently, so yay! I really think in the long-term this will be the best fit for me. Comfortable hours, plenty of time to do all the things I am hoping to do in my life, and kids who I am sure will be a complete joy to work with. I am happy, and a little excited, and I'll get all the financial stuff sorted out eventually.I don't start until Jan. 5, so... eventually!
Congrats Marian! *huggles*
So, are you relieved? Less worried now? San Jose looking more likely?
I am relieved that I for sure have a pending source of income, yeah... and I've been doing a lot of meditating and trying not to let myself freak out too much, so I'm feeling generally okay emotionally.I am also about $2200 in the hole (including next month's rent and first round of bills, but not including my credit card), so that's still overwhelming. I haven't completely ruled out San Jose, but only out of pure stubbornness. Maybe I can have some bake sales or car washes, like in college!
Yay for jobness! Looks like 2009 will be a kinder year (it had better be!)I dreamed I was starting a new job tonight. Scary. I don't like places I don't know.
Thanks, Magpie!That's funny, I had a dream I went back to my old job. It was awful. They had this super-efficient corporate feel, and my old boss was talking about my replacement, and saying, "I'm sure she'll knock it out today." She was always using that phrase, "knock it out," it was awful. And everyone was super on-top-of-things and made me feel slow and incompetent and out of the loop, which I really did toward the end.... not in quite such an exaggerated way, but not too far off, either.Then I went to check my e-mail, and as I was entering my password, one of the assistants came out of her office and held up a piece of paper and said, "According to your contract, you can't use the Internet." I might still have some anxiety. :)
I had strange dreams last night too, but can't remember them now. Also, I'm still hoping you'll make it to San Jose, it wouldn't be the same without you!
Congrats Marian!!! I'm really happy for you!
*sets up a small tree in the corner and hangs lights and ornaments*I'm a little late with that. My main decoration so far has been all my lovely cards on my door. So.... I've been very blue. I think maybe for a long time. Obviously not every minute of the day, but when I look at the symptoms of depression, and my family's (long and glorious) history of mental illness, I am concerned. I am currently assuming I am clinically depressed, and since I can't go to a psychiatrist, I am trying other "treatments" studies show can help: yoga, meditation, exercise, eating better, affirmations, general self-nurturing. One of the symptoms I hadn't really considered until I took an online test yesterday was the sense of failure and of being a burden. I cried when I got to those two, because until then, I just thought that it was true. I failed at the one job I've ever had that provided financial security. I failed at being a grown-up. I failed at planning my job transition so that I'd be provided for. I am a burden to the people that are helping me. I am a burden to the people I complain to about how bad I feel, and am bringing them down.It wasn't until I took that test that I even considered it wasn't actually true. (Or that the setbacks and less-than-wise decision making could be true, but that it doesn't necessarily make me a "failure." And I don't need to sit and have my faults looping through my head all day.) Just a symptom. Something about that is comforting. Also, looking back, I am presented with a puzzle I haven't quite figured out. Did the job make me depressed, or did I dislike the job so much because I was depressed? It's a little like the chicken-or-the-egg question. I don't think I would have gotten depressed if it weren't for the stress and situational effects of the job, but maybe the negative environment became more exaggerated in my head because of some kind of misfiring in my brain.
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Aw, Marian. *hugs*I wish I had any grand advice to offer. But all I can do is to remind you: whatever the reason you quit your job, and whether or not it was a good decision - don't beat yourself up over it. It's done, and none of us can go back and change the past. It's something that took me years to learn, to accept the stupid things I've done and just look ahead, but it's the only thing we can do. Look ahead and go ahead, even if it's hard sometimes. *hugs again*
At the risk of sounding selfish, I find your story inspirational Marian. I to quit a job that, despite great coworkers, ultimately made me miserable. I chose instead to go back to school. I got massively in debt doing it and then ultimately ended up in a city after I graduated where I essentially knew no one. I also had the unfortunate timing of being in said city looking for a job during a massive strike. I had multiple temp agencies and I was applying everywhere, including places like Borders (close enough to Barnes & Noble I think). Any way, a long story short, I ended up being unemployed for three months, only surviving because my family was kind enough to help me out financially. The good news is I have a job now, and in the field of my choice. The bad news is it pays nothing. The end result being I live paycheck to paycheck, scrambling to simply pay my bills and make ends meet. Now I have buyers guilt if I buy anything that isn't considered necessary. On the flip side Ive become quite the cook since my limited budget has forced me to really budget at the grocery store. But back to the main point. I find your posts inspirational because there are many times I doubt myself, even ask what's wrong with me and why couldn't I simply have been ok, like normal folks, with a random, well paying job and a roof over my head instead of dropping it all to put myself in such a precarious position financially simply because "I want to like what I do".Reading your posts has provided reassurance that I'm not alone in those types of choices and maybe I'm not crazy after all.I don't know if that makes any sense, but I'm rooting for you. I wish you success in your new adventures and may you make it to San JoseOh, and p.s., the whole failure/burden thing. Ive felt the same thing many times and I can safely say its all in the head.
Grinth, thanks for stopping by; it is really nice to know sharing my trials and tribulations is good for more than just myself! Hearing your story makes me feel better, too. I guess, just knowing it's not the end of the world, that we'll land on our feet and things will work out one way or the other. Thank goodness for supportive family, huh?I am working really hard to get myself straightened out again. I had a few lovely moments of peace last night after a long hot bath and meditation, just feeling like, it really is going to be okay. It'll even be okay if I don't get to San Jose. (I still really want to, but it won't kill me if I don't, either.) I felt like I could find a sense of comfort and well-being in the life I'm going to create for myself, and even though it will mean cutting back a lot, I will also probably be able to live more true to myself, more authentically. Which is why I parachuted from that job, in the first place.I do think we should at least aim to be able to like our jobs, if not love them. We spend so many hours of our lives there, and if there is an option where we can make less money and enjoy our jobs even a fraction more, I truly believe that is the best choice. Life is too short.I'm sure I'll feel that way even more once I actually have a paycheck coming in again!Anyway, thanks for your support, Grinth. *hugs*
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[cross-posted to you-know-where]The weather is amazing today. It is warm and windy. I put my convertible top down on the way home from the gym, and the wind pulled my hair into a happily manic fray, and leaves swirled around my car as I drove down still-autumnal streets. I am treating myself to an hour on the balcony, with coffee and a bagel, which seems the biggest luxury. I am alternating between reading the paper and writing my blog-entry-to-be by hand.The wind threatens to pull the comics away. The leaves are organized today, swirling in elegant circles. I think of the fairy book, and try to remember which country has the idea you should not look directly at such swirling leaf-forms, or the impish fairy within will follow you home and cause trouble.I have been writing (almost) my entire life, and yet I still am figuring out how to write. I want to follow the wisdom of getting as many words on paper as possible and then editing heavily, some days. On other days, I think I am happiest with the thesis and outline, what worked so well for me in college.Today, I think I write better with pen and paper, the old-fashioned way. Thoughts roll out, paced by pen, and I like the lolling rhythm. I could see myself writing portraits of moody landscapes, of the earth and of the soul, this way.Philip Pullman writes his books on legal pads, three pages a day. Three pages: no more, no less. Then he goes for walks in the woods behind his cottage. This all appeals to me: the pages, the cottage, the woods.Slowness appeals to me, more and more, as I age into the summer of my life. My yoga class is slower than everyone else's at the gym, and I can tell who likes it and who does not. I think it is good to encourage ourselves to slow down, to enjoy the process.The idea of writing a book slowly is scary. I want to write a book now. I want it there, in front of me, finished. But if I could write a good book slowly, rather than a so-so book quickly, I would take the slower path. I would enjoy the lingering exploration of the language, the nuance of rhythm, the way I enjoy my breath in a forward fold, instead of rushing into the next pose. The wind comes in gusts now. It has brought along a sky full of bruised-grey clouds, as well as a chill edge to the earlier warmth. Someone is trying to fly a kite at the school field across the street. They do well for a while, until the air grows suddenly still, or a violent gust pushes the kite to the ground.
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The official listing of processes and their grouping is shown by Figure 1., the AWS Master Chart of Welding and Allied Processes. The welding society formulated process definitions from the operational instead of the metallurgical point of view. Thus the definitions prescribe the significant elements of operation instead of the significant metallurgical characteristics.
The AWS definition for a welding process is "a materials joining process which produces coalescence of materials by heating them to suitable temperatures with or without the application of pressure or by the application of pressure alone and with or without the use of filler material".
AWS has grouped the processes together according to the "mode of energy transfer" as the primary consideration. A secondary factor is the "influence of capillary attraction in effecting distribution of filler metal" in the joint. Capillary attraction distinguishes the welding processes grouped under "Brazing" and "Soldering" from "Arc Welding", "Gas Welding", "Resistance Welding", "Solid State Welding", and "Other Processes."
The welding processes, in their official groupings, are shown by Table 1. This table also shows the letter designation for each process. The letter designation assigned to the process can be used for identification on drawings, tables, etc. Allied and related processes include adhesive bonding, thermal spraying, and thermal cutting.
The carbon arc welding (CAW) process is the oldest of all the arc welding processes and is considered to be the beginning of arc welding. The Welding Society defines carbon arc welding as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a carbon electrode and the work-piece. No shielding is used. Pressure and filler metal may or may not be used." It has limited applications today, but a variation or twin carbon arc welding is more popular. Another variation uses compressed air for cutting.
The development of the metal arc welding process soon followed the carbon arc. This developed into the currently popular shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a covered metal electrode and the work-piece. Shielding is obtained from decomposition of the electrode covering. Pressure is not used and filler metal is obtained from the electrode."
Automatic welding utilizing bare electrode wires was used in the 1920s, but it was the submerged arc welding (SAW) process that made automatic welding popular. Submerged arc welding is defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc or arcs between a bare metal electrode or electrodes and the work piece. Pressure is not used and filler metal is obtained from the electrode and sometimes from a supplementary welding rod." It is normally limited to the flat or horizontal position.
The need to weld nonferrous metals, particularly magnesium and aluminum, challenged the industry. A solution was found called gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) and was defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a tungsten (non-consumable) electrode and the work piece. Shielding is obtained from a gas or gas mixture."
Plasma arc welding (PAW) is defined as "an arc welding process which produces a coalescence of metals by heating them with a constricted arc between an electrode and the work piece (transferred arc) or the electrode and the constricting nozzle (non-transferred arc). Shielding is obtained from the hot ionized gas issuing from the orifice which may be supplemented by an auxiliary source of shielding gas." Shielding gas may be an inert gas or a mixture of gases. Plasma welding has been used for joining some of the thinner materials.
Another welding process also related to gas tungsten arc welding is known as gas metal arc welding (GMAW). It was developed in the late 1940s for welding aluminum and has become extremely popular. It is defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a continuous filler metal (consumable) electrode and the work piece. Shielding is obtained entirely from an externally supplied gas or gas mixture." The electrode wire for GMAW is continuously fed into the arc and deposited as weld metal. This process has many variations depending on the type of shielding gas, the type of metal transfer, and the type of metal welded.
A variation of gas metal arc welding has become a distinct welding process and is known as flux-cored arc welding (FCAW). It is defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a continuous filler metal (consumable) electrode and the work piece. Shielding is provided by a flux contained within the tubular electrode." Additional shielding may or may not be obtained from an externally supplied gas or gas mixture.
The final process within the arc welding group of processes is known as stud arc welding (SW). This process is defined as "an arc welding process which produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a metal stud or similar part and the work piece". When the surfaces to be joined are properly heated they are brought together under pressure. Partial shielding may be obtained by the use of ceramic ferrule surrounding the stud.
A braze is a very special form of weld, the base metal is theoretically not melted. There are seven popular different processes within the brazing group. The source of heat differs among the processes. Braze welding relates to welding processes using brass or bronze filler metal, where the filler metal is not distributed by capillary action.
There are four distinct processes within this group and in the case of two of them, oxyacetylene welding and oxyhydrogen welding, the classification is based on the fuel gas used. The heat of the flame is created by the chemical reaction or the burning of the gases. In the third process, air acetylene welding, air is used instead of oxygen, and in the fourth category, pressure gas welding, pressure is applied in addition to the heat from the burning of the gases. This welding process normally utilizes acetylene as the fuel gas. The oxygen thermal cutting processes have much in common with this welding processes.
The oldest of all welding processes forge welding belongs to this group. Others include cold welding, diffusion welding, explosion welding, friction welding, hot pressure welding, and ultrasonic welding. These processes are all different and utilize different forms of energy for making welds.
Date Published: Mar-2002
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The Bradley
19 Royal Parade, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham 0.5 miles away
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Detmore House
London Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham 2.3 miles away
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Westhill House
Cricklade Road, Highworth 24.3 miles away
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Dorchester House
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By the late 18th century the city of Edinburgh was well established as the centre of Scotland's flourishing publishing industry. Indeed many of today's publishing houses can trace their origins back to the city. However, it was in the specialised field of cartographic publishing that Edinburgh gained a worldwide reputation for quality and excellence, and without doubt, one of the company's responsible for this enviable reputation was John Bartholomew & Son. From humble beginnings the Bartholomew firm became the world's pre-eminent publisher of maps and atlases, an enviable reputation it maintained throughout its existence, and one which its present reincarnation in the form of Collins GEO still maintains with great pride to this day.
It was George Bartholomew (1784-1871), an engraver for Daniel Lizars of Edinburgh that initially set the Bartholomew family on the road to cartographic fame and fortune. He was the first of five generations in the Bartholomew map making dynasty. However, it was his son John Bartholomew (1805-1861) that really established the reputation of the Bartholomew firm. Setting up in business as a map engraver in 1826, he soon gained recognition as a skilled cartographer and businessman and by the 1840's with the company's reputation going from strength to strength, the order books were full.
By the 1860's they were publishing under their own name rather than simply producing maps for other firms, and over the years there have been many cartographic milestones, including: the first half-inch to one mile Reduced Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland published in 1875, the introduction of hypsometric layer colouring in 1880, the Survey Atlas of Scotland in 1895, receiving the Royal Warrant in 1910 as suppliers of maps to King George V, and in 1922 the publication of the monumental Times Survey Atlas of the World.
During the war years (1939-45) the company was heavily involved in the production of maps for the military, which was just as well, for the war had seen restrictions placed on the production and sale of medium and large scale maps.
The post-war years saw the company returning to commercial map publishing on a scale that they could not have imagined just a few years previously. By the late 1940's and early 1950's the number of motorists on Britain's roads was growing rapidly and motoring maps and atlases were purchased in huge numbers. These good times were made even better by the growing number of people escaping to the country at weekends to cycle and walk, and the popularity of walking, cycling and youth hostelling in particular meant that Bartholomew maps were being consumed as quickly as the company could print them.
History of the Bartholomew Mapmakers
I: GEORGE – (1784 - 1871) Engraver
The Scottish Enlightenment brought about a sudden increase in publication of scientific, technical and other books needing high quality illustration for which steel engraving was the best medium. George Bartholomew was the first direct ancestor of the famous Edinburgh family to enter the engraving trade. Apprenticed in 1797 to Daniel Lizars, the well known engraver (at "The Backstairs", behind Parliament House) George thus succeeded to the tradition handed down from Andrew Bell, and before him by Richard Cooper, and his predecessors of the graver.
Following experience in botanical illustration, he turned his skills to map-engraving, notably identified with Lothian's Plans of Edinburgh (1825) and of Leith for Wood's Town Atlas (1828)
II: JOHN (Senior) – (1805 - 1861) Map Engraver
On his father's advice, John chose his independent status as a map—engraver, after completing his apprenticeship with William H. Lizars in April 1826. He worked from home, but many of his works for Lizars are only identifiable from his surviving work-books, until he realised that his reputation as an industrious young engraver would be enhanced if he displayed his name as advertisement to his craftsmanship. Besides Lizars, other regular customers included A. & C. Black, Blackie, Blackwood, Chambers, Collins and W. & A. K. Johnston. He also engraved town plans: GPO Directory Plan of Edinburgh (1832), and World atlases: Lizars – Edinburgh General Atlas (1835), and Black's General Atlas (1846).
III: JOHN (Junior) – (1831 – 1893) Geographer & Map Engraver, FRGS
Having trained as an engraver with his father, John Jr. gained experience of other map-making processes by spending 2 years in Germany with A. Petermann of Justus Perthes in Gotha. Realising the romance and potential of map making he installed 3 new steam presses in extended premises at North Bridge for lithographic printing of multi-copies in colour. He also travelled to North America to create new businesses, thus widening his reputation for accurate and painstaking cartography. His major works included: Black's Tourist Map of Scotland (4 mls./in.) (1862).Fullarton's Royal Illustrated Atlas (1863) 6-inch Directory Plan of Edinburgh (1868). District Maps of Scotland (2 mls./in.)(1876). Baddeley's Lake District Guide (1880). First layer-coloured map Edinburgh, Large City Plan (15 ins./mile)
IV: JOHN GEORGE – (1860 – 1920) Geographer & Cartographer Royal – LLD. FRSE. RGS Victoria Medal. Hon. Sec. RSGS (1884-1920)
John George joined his father in the early 1880's while studying at Edinburgh University, succeeding him in 1888 (age 28), when the business was moved to shared premises in partnership with Thomas Nelson at Park Road. He named his office "The Edinburgh Geographical Institute", and shaped the future of the firm with foresight and boldness. He issued a wide range of unique and remarkable productions, and the business prospered with its rising status. John George's sense of colour harmony was appreciated in the innovative layer colouring of the "Reduced O.S.' of Half-Inch Map of Great Britain, and by the scientific works which he produced in collaboration with academic colleagues: The Survey Atlas of Scotland (1895), Geological Map of Scotland (1893), Physical Atlas: Meteorology (1899), Zoogeography (1911) Bathymetrical Survey of Scottish Fresh-Water Lochs (1907) Chronological Map of Edinburgh (1919)
V: JOHN (1890 – 1962) Geographer and Cartographer Royal – CBE. MC. MA. LLD. FRSE. FRSGS. RGS Founder's Medal. Hon Sec /President RSGS (1920-54)
His years of study in Leipzig, Paris and Edinburgh were followed by distinguished war service, but not without lasting damage to his health. He inherited the task of completing and updating, for post –war changes, his father's edition of The Times Survey Atlas (1922). He subsequently designed and edited a wide range of world reference atlases, regional maps and road maps. He took advantage of modern technical advances, and the installation of offset litho printing presses. He devised several innovative projections to show improved spatial relationships for air-age geography and modern geopolitics: "Nordic", "Atlantis", "Regional", and the "Lotus" projection for ocean distributions.
But, his ultimate task was to mastermind the "Mid-Century Edition" of The Times Atlas of the World 95 volumes, 1955-60), which achieved pre-eminent status as a reference atlas, - a fitting memorial to a life of dedication.
VI: JOHN C. (1923 - 2008) Cartographer MA. FRSE. FRSGS
PETER H. (1924-87) Chairman MC. CA
ROBERT G. (1927 - ) Robert – Production
After war service and Edinburgh studies, this generation had developed complementary skills, which enabled them on joining the firm in the early 50's to provide a strong support team for the 5-volume Times Atlas, leading to the subsequent production of its Comprehensive and Concise editions for a wider market. The conversion of the "Half–Inch" to the 1:100 000 National Series was an important design task, and the Atlas of Europe and Family Atlas were innovative productions. Under Peter's caring leadership, collaboration with "Reader's Digest" in the Great World Atlas led to their eventual buy-out of the firm in 1980.
Postscript: In 1985 control passed to "News international", who were responsible for setting up the International publishing group of "Harper Collins" Incorporating Bartholomew. At this time the "geographic information system" was developed to produce The Times Concise Atlas (7th Edition, 1995) from the digital database. In October 1995, the Edinburgh operation was moved to Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Today the business continues as the award winning Collins Geo, part of HarperCollins Publishers, upholding the authority quality and excellence, so highly regarded by 'Bartholomews'.
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Scapes is a room-sized 3D grid of lights that can be controlled in real-time. Interaction with the installation is based on several speakers and microphones. As sounds are played through the speakers and simultaneously recorded by the microphones, the audience can alter the visuals by making their own sounds.
The installation was created by Squidgroup. "Squidsoup is a digital arts group specialising in immersive interactive installations within physical 3D space. Their work combines sound, light, physical space and virtual worlds to produce immersive and emotive headspaces. They explore the modes and effects of interactivity, looking to make digital experiences where meaningful and creative interaction can occur."
Scapes – Tenderpixel Gallery from squidsoup on Vimeo.
Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers go to "sleep", the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
The sheep evolve, as it is possible for the users to "vote" for the designs they like by pressing up or down on the keyboard, when a particular sheep appears one the screen. Popular sheep will live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience.
It is also possible for you to design your own sheep and if your sheep is popular, they will breed with the rest of the flock and produce even more sheep. By mutating and crossing the genomes, variations of your sheep will appear and evolve.
SAXO Reactive Ceiling is an installation made by Kollision in collaboration with Martin Professional and Taintec. The installation is an expressive and reactive light installation for SAXO Bank's headquarters in Hellerup, Denmark. The installation was made in dialogue with architect Christian Lund, who was in charge of designing new meeting facilities for the Bank. The meeting rooms and the organically shaped passageway was the basis of the assignment, which aimed at creating a colorful and spectacular 'light source' integrated in the architecture.
Upon entering the passageway you are immersed in a total light experience. Waves of light slowly wash over the ceiling and render the complete space into an expressive composition. 2,400 LED light sources, distributed in 18 rows with 133 light sources on each, constitute the installation. Emphasizing the architectural form, the light sources run the length of the passageway in curvy lines. On closer inspection, the individual radiances are the light sources propagated by acrylic tubes that protrude through precisely cut openings in the ceiling. The light is distributed throughout the opaque end caps of the acrylic tubes, which emerges as bright and color intense points hovering just below the ceiling surface.
In this organic layout various light designs are brought to life. Expressions like 'Aurora Borealis', in different colors and speeds. Moving lines of light in different tones and speeds turn into 'Snakes', slithering along the ceiling. In addition visitors encounter reactive aspects as meeting room doors are opened and closed, sending 'pulses' of light that grow and spread on the surface of the ceiling.
SAXO Reactive Ceiling from Kollision on Vimeo.
Kollision is the primary light designer of the installation and was in charge of the physical layout of the LEDs. In addition Kollision developed the player software running the setup. The software generates real-time graphics in multiple combined and blended layers and also maps the content to the physical layout.
Kollision also developed an app for the iPhone, which can activate and control the various light designs. The app takes advantage of the iPhone's full functionality and interactive features. The iPhone's touch screen turns the ceiling into a canvas. Simply running your fingers across the screen paints a flow of colors across the ceiling. Another mode lets you control the position of a large light spot by tilting the iPhone in the direction you want the spot to move.
SAXO Reactive Ceiling / iPhone Interaction from Kollision on Vimeo.
More info can be found on Kollision's website.
In March 2010 the Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum opened the exhibition "I Love You". In relation to the upcoming opening, Kollision presented curator Pernille Taagaard Dinesen for an installation concept for doing interactive doodles. As the exhibition takes on a broad perspective on love, the Love Doodles concept was a suitable platform for communicating fun, serious, and kinky statements in one frame. Kollision has developed the installation as a sponsorship to Aros.
An analogue drawing and photo machine
Many Danish museums are currently struggling to rethink themselves as well as develope their own ways of communicating and presenting content. Most often these new ways are based on a technologically web 2.0 approach, assuming that visitors are eager to comment the exhibitions – but are they? As a reaction to this approach Kollision developed a simple concept in which the visitor can become part of an interactive graphic installation by writing or drawing with a white board marker on a piece of glass, place himself in relation to the doodles, press a button and here after appear in a large mosaic of other visitors and their love statements. It is quick, open, playful and animates to the construction of numerous comments and compositions.
A mobile recorder
Love Doodles is constructed as a cubic box. The front consists of a piece of glass, a 7" display, and a button. Behind the glass a camera is located capturing the visitor and his doodles. When the visitor is satisfied with the composition pressing the button captures an image, stores it in a database and displays it in the dynamic mosaic. This setup can be useful in many other settings to gather simple playful comments from users – all it takes is electric power and internet.
More than 3,000 images where collected and displayed in a Mosaic during the exhibition period. Visit the project site here: http://kollision.dk/?lovedoodles.
Love Doodles from Kollision on Vimeo.
Biennale 2010 is an installation made by Kollision in collaboration with BIG and CAVI and is curated by DAC. The installation is an experience-oriented narrative of Copenhagen's past, present and possible future exhibited at the 12th international architecture exhibition in Venice. The installation is referred to as "1947-2047: From Finger Plan two Loop City" and is a seven minutes visual tour the force of diagrams, fly-through on 3D projected scenarios. Kollision has primarily been responsible for the 3D workflow and production, BIG for the content and CAVI for programming and technical implementation.
As a visitor at the exhibition you will experience dynamic pictures, movies, and texts brought alive by projecting them onto the walls of the installation, as well as 3D content, 3D projected on a podium and a centrally placed scale-model of a section of a bridge. The physical surfaces of the walls and the scale-model are illuminated by three Full HD projectors. The precise match and calibration between the projection and the physical setup, results in an optical 3D illusion of the scale model slowly becoming alive by having details added to it and in combination with people and cars moving around the bridge together with water running in canals, trees, and buildings popping up, etc.
The Danish pavillion
The installation is part of a larger exhibition in the Danish pavilion – "Q & A: Urban Ques _ Copenhagen Answers" which discusses Copenhagen as an answer to new urban challenges.
The storyline and content of the installation is based on "Loop City" a vision developed by BIG, Tom Nielsen, ReD Associates and ARUP. The 3D fly-through sequence is conducted by Glessner Group and the very installation is sponsored by Realdania.
See more at http://kollision.dk/?biennale
Calm, stoic, almighty – the statue of Holger the Dane seems almost intimidating as he just sits there sleeping – somehow awaiting for something to happen. When visitors stand in front of the two metres tall concrete statue it's not hard to imagine how Holger the Dane will one day come to life a day when needed. Through technology developed by CAVI (Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction) it is now possible to bring Holger the Dane to life using advanced mapping of 3D graphics.
According to the legend, Holger the Dane is sleeping in the casemates below Kronborg Castle and will only wake up if enemies threaten the Danish nation. But what happened to Holger the Dane before he fell asleep?
The staging of The Journey of Holger the Dane will let visitors get a glimpse of some of the experiences that Holger the Dane is said to have experienced in his fabled life. With projectors and camera tracking the story of Holger the Dane's life is told through 3D animations, illusions, and sound.
To activate the story, the audience need to interact with the installation. As you move closer to the statue, blazing embers projected onto the statue will light up more and more until the story eventually begins. If a visitor uses the flash on a camera during the show, it will cause the installation to react in a surprising manner by manipulating both the visuals and the sound.
CAVI has profound experience with projects in the cultural sphere where advanced technology is used to present and augment physical objects. In 2009 an interactive staging of a 1000-year-old runic stone was created using some of the same technologies.
The Journey of Holger the Dane was created by CAVI, TEKNE Produktion, and DUL at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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- and with this DIY Design Electrinics kit I've found online you can make all sorts of games and gadgets using the components in the box and the matching guides telling you how to get going on a particular project:) I would say it's a new and more exciting version of a puzzle that gets your creativity going.
http://www.vimeo.com/1115966I just come from a leture in Experience-Centered Design, where I was shown Jayne Wallance's art project: Digital Jewellery. She inprents stories and relationships in art pieces combining different materials and technology.
For example she made a flower of post stamps, that blossoms only once. This is controlled by a rain detector placed in a family's garden. The focus lies on the relationship between the observer and the art work, and the history this holds. Wallance challanges the material and the way we use technology. She reminds us to become closer in a world that seems fragmented and impersonal.
Digital Urban Living is a project group here at CAVI. They focus on lots of different issues concerning the integration of new technology in the urban sphere. One project developed a few years ago was The Climate Wall. An interactive projection that made it possible to construct sentences on a building facade. A fun and social way to make people aware of the clime, and have everyone taking responsibility.
CAVI is a research centre specializing in 3D projection. In 2008 we made the rune stone of Mejlby come alive, using 3D projection on the original stone to tell the story behind it. A great way to educate children, giving them a fun and interactive experience. This gives them a hands on experience as we integrated the historical knowledge in the physical space. It also encouraged the children to work together, and suddenly the learning experience seems more like a social and fun activity. Have a look.
SPIDER is part of this year's (2010) new attraction The Fox Hole in Fårup Sommerland, a large Danish amusement park. The installation is based on the idea that after closing time the animals of the surrounding forest is invading and riding the theme park. The Fox Hole is staged as an underground world in which the visitor is met by fun, challenging, and scary obstacles, making it difficult to find the fox.
The floor installation is situated in a dark narrow alley. An old wooden floor is projected onto the light concrete floor. While overlooking the floor a few spiders will crawl up from the cracks and wander around for a while before disappearing again. When the visitor steps onto the floor, hundreds of small and large spiders will appear from all sides and chase you. If there are multiple visitors on the floor the spiders will team up in groups and leave no visitors unchased until everyone has left the floor surface.
The installation is running on a tracking library, developed by Kollision that analyses a video stream from an IR-camera mounted in the ceiling along with an IR-emitter. Hereby a computer placed with a projector above the ceiling is calculating the positions of people on the floor and spawning spiders according to the activity on the floor. The spiders behave after basic flocking behavior similar to schools of fish and flocks of birds causing their movements on the floor to appear quit scary and realistic.
Read more about the project (in Danish).
Interactive Spider Floor from Kollision on Vimeo.
Just found this design project on rAndom International's website. It's a modern canvas that engages the observer(s) taking a photo of them and exposing the result. The interesting thing about the project is that the photo fades away as you observe yourself on the canvas, transforming the traditional painting from being everlasting to a portrait dissolving as you observe it.
http://www.vimeo.com/12690772I've just foud an example of the future playground. This is one amazing video demonstrating an interactive forest where children learn about the nature. The children discover how they influence their surroundings using their bodies as metaphors for rocks or logs. A great way to teach children about their environment.
http://www.vimeo.com/3872687I just love Google for their wild ideas and never ending motivation. I've come across this game, that is a mashup between different online tools such as Google, Youtube, Twitter etc. The game challanges your speed on the internet constantly shifting between cool youtube clips and small apps. So how fast will you get through the Internet? Find out here.
New York is a great example of a city with billboards and flashing lights all over facades, busses and magazines. It's not always a pretty sight, and it's not the best way for a given company to advertise anymore. We don't really notice one particular advertisement as we're constantly being overloaded with information.
The artvertiser gives companies the opportunity to add an extra layer to the city, combining art with commercials. A layer only to be seen if one looks through digital binoculars and laptops with web cameras, which detects individual advertisements and then creating a hybrid and somehow secret space.
Take a look at this interesting way to make the city more alive and interesting here:
New York is a great example of a city with billboards and flashing lights all over facades, busses and magazines. It's not always a pretty sight, and it's not the best way for a given company to advertise anymore. We don't really notice one particular advertisement as we're constantly being overloaded with information.
The artvertiser gives companies the opportunity to add an extra layer to the city, combining art with commercials. A layer only to be seen if one looks through digital binoculars and laptops with web cameras, which detects individual advertisements and then creating a hybrid and somehow secret space.
Take a look at this interesting way to make the city more alive and interesting here:
New York is a great example of a city with billboards and flashing lights all over facades, busses and magazines. It's not always a pretty sight, and it's not the best way for a given company to advertise anymore. We don't really notice one particular advertisement as we're constantly being overloaded with information.
The artvertiser gives companies the opportunity to add an extra layer to the city, combining art with commercials. A layer only to be seen if one looks through digital binoculars and laptops with web cameras, which detects individual advertisements and then creating a hybrid and somehow secret space.
Take a look at this interesting way to make the city more alive and interesting here:
Artvertising Berlin, Transmediale 2010 from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.
Digital experience inspires a lot of people, showing exiting, interessting, innovative or even odd uses of new technology in an experience-oriented context. If you have a good example that we haven't already covered, we would appreciate your suggestion.
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