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The iPad is a multi-user device according to industry reports, writes Frank Spillers. But you wouldn't know it from picking up even the latest generation iPad, especially if you are a physician or business user handling sensitive data. The design approach of designing for lone users misses out on a fundamental nature of mobile devices: they are social. To design for the multi-user is to recognize this need for delivering a rich social user experience.
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Recently published Nielsen/Norman Group research shows that teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading levels, impatience, and undeveloped research skills reduce teens' task success and require simple, relatable sites.
BBC News has published a 5 minute video feature on Cambridge University's Design Centre where they test how elderly people use technology.
Must-have modern gadgets are designed by young people with young people in mind – that is the view of Ian Hosking, who works at Cambridge University's Design Centre.
This can mean that elderly people, who have much to gain from modern technology, feel excluded.
Mr Hosking's mission is to improve the accessibility of modern, mass-produced devices like smartphones and tablets. To this end, he conducts experiments with volunteers.
The Design Lab conducts tests on individual products, but the general findings that Mr Hosking discusses here apply to digital communication devices across the market.
BBC News also posted a longer article on the same topic.
The Design for Usability project, that researched how best to contribute to the development of usable products, published a book that provides the product development community with a comprehensive and coherent overview of the results of the project, in such a way that they can be applied in practice.
The book outlines the studies conducted in the project, and indicates how the individual research projects are related and which of them can be applied in a coherent mode.
The 150-page booklet provides links to the DfU website, where the reader can find a manual on how to execute the method or tool presented in the booklet, as well as templates that can be used.
'Design for Usability' was started by the three Dutch technical universities in 2007. About 15 people collaborate in this project, of which 5 PhD projects can be seen as the main component. This IOP IPCR project has been partially subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. The companies Océ, Philips, T-Xchange, Indes and Unilever are still closely involved in the project, by providing information and cases from their daily practice and serving as a sounding board for the project members.
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The latest issue of Interfaces, the quarterly magazine of the Interaction Specialist Group of the BCS, the British chartered institute for IT, is devoted to Slow HCI, or how to design to promote well-being for individuals, society and nature.
Here are the key articles:
Invisible stable interfaces
Kai A. Olsen, University of Bergen and Molde University College, and alessio Malizia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, explore the importance of maintaining stable interfaces for efficient workflow and ask companies to consider how to minimise disruption to experienced users when bringing out new versions.
Design for happiness
Anna Pohlmeyer, Delft University of Technology, translates positive psychology into positive design and outlines 20 opportunities to design for happiness.
Birds of a feather
Email is recognised as a major productivity disabler. Karen renaud, Glasgow University, and Judith ramsay, University of the West of Scotland, present a flighty perspective on emailers' behaviours.
Future HCI
Daniel Gooch and Ryan Kelly from Bath University reflect on a future for HCI where interactions are slow and reflective, more intimate, creatively and innovatively combining aspects of the physical and digital world to promote fulfilling experiences.
The ITT Group
Professor Lynne Baillie provides an overview of her team, the Interactive and Trustworthy Technologies research Group at Glasgow Caledonian University, and some of their current projects.
New centre, new challenge
Lorna McKnight, University of oxford, introduces a new research centre exploring assistive learning technologies and reflects on the difficulties and value of researching this area.
My PhD
Andrea Bellucci: Prototyping Natural Interaction
Massive Open Online HCI
Alan Dix, Talis and University of Birmingham, describes some of the inspirations and challenges he faces as he prepares to run a massive open online HCI course.
Other recent issues of Interfaces:
Interfaces 91 – Summer 2012 – Reviewing HCI (pdf)
HCI research in the UK: funding, reflection and the future
Interfaces 90 – Spring 2012 – Work, Rest and Play (pdf)
HCI crosses physical and digital boundaries
Interfaces 89 – Winter 2011 – What's Hot in HCI? (pdf)
It's difficult to get consensus from our multidimensional discipline
Here's the view of Ray McCune, managing partner at Flow, on some of the peaks we still have to climb if experience design is to become a mainstream business discipline.
It's quite excellent.
1. Targets and incentives within businesses must be aligned with long-term value
As long as business managers are incentivised only to deliver against short-term goals in narrow areas of business performance, companies will struggle to make significant improvements in their relationships with customers.
2. We need to stop designing experiences based on company structure
We're already seeing a rush by individual business units within large organisations to launch their own individual mobile offerings, often with little thought for the overall experience.
3. The User Experience community needs to get out more
We are talking to ourselves more than anyone else. [...] We need to seek out opportunities to speak with politicians, business owners, executives and managers on their own ground and use a vocabulary that resonates with them: tying UX to social benefit, improved business performance and new marketing opportunities.
4. Improve the user experience of boxed products
All too often the out-of-the-box experience offered by third-party products simply isn't flexible enough to create a valuable, differentiated experience for customers.
5. Most digital agencies are charlatans
Ten years ago, few digital agencies had any user experience offering, so it should seem like progress that today the majority of agencies make the vocabulary of UX central to their pitch and their proposition. Or perhaps not.
6. Pitches are a uniquely bad way of finding a good design agency…
…but they remain a very good way of finding a bad design agency. The traditional pitch process is flawed because it requires agencies to begin the process of making decisions about creative ideas and complex interactions in the absence of insight and understanding.
7. NPS is a blunt tool
While Net Promotor Score (NPS) is good at telling a company what is happening, it's less good at telling a company why. What influences advocacy is subtle, and NPS lacks the subtlety to help inform experimentation and optimisation of customer experience.
8. The cult of data
Even if data is infallible, the high priests interpreting the data are not. In almost every company we know, data analysts find patterns in the numbers and then guess at their meaning. That guesswork is passed up the line, sometimes to board level, but it masquerades as fact because its source is 'the numbers'.
9. Still not enough investment in solving basic usability issues
While companies have increasingly employed usability testing to improve their sales and service processes there is still a clear tendency to act only on the issues which are easiest to fix.
10. Too much disrespect for customers
Henry Ford still gets quoted by people who want to marginalise the opinion of customers. There's a lazy acceptance by many in business that user research is futile.
(via InfoDesign)
Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing
By Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Because user research studies peoples' behavior, the most effective research techniques involve observing participants doing things and talking about what they're doing. Research that focuses on opinions and discussions of behavior in the abstract isn't as useful, because it's difficult for people to talk about their behavior out of context or to evaluate a design without using it. Therefore, the best way to evaluate a new design is to create a prototype and give participants something concrete to interact with and react to. In this column, Jim Ross provides some tips that can make your usability studies more successful and help you to avoid problems when testing prototypes.
Are You Still Using Earlier-Generation Prototyping Tools?
By Ritch Macefield, Owner of Ax-Stream, London UK
Given that we can now choose from a variety of fourth-generation prototyping tools, why is it that so many organizations are still creating second- or third-generation prototypes?
The Many Hats of a Usability Professional
By Rebecca Albrand, Design Researcher at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sometimes it seems as though usability professionals need to have superhuman multitasking abilities to conduct usability test sessions. As a usability professional, you have to wear the hats of a facilitator, a consultant, a conversationalist, a note-taker, a technologist, and a psychologist. In this article Rebecca Albrand describes some objectives for each of the roles you'll need to take on, as well as provide some tips that you should remember to help you wear each hat successfully.
Demystifying UX Design: Common False Beliefs and Their Remedies: Part 1
By Frank Guo, Founder of UX Strategized, San Bruno, CA, USA
In debunking common UX design myths, Frank Guo shows that they're just half truths that don't fully account for the complexity of user experience and that there are better alternatives for achieving your design objectives.
Product Review: Mobile Prototyping and Testing with Justinmind
By Afshan Kirmani, Information Architect at Global Dawn, London UK
Justinmind Prototyper supports requirements gathering, wireframe creation, application simulation, and usability testing. You can use it to create interactive prototypes of both Web and mobile applications. As a bonus, Prototyper lets stakeholders and users provide feedback on your prototypes of mobile and Web applications. Thus, it incorporates all of the features that are necessary for a prototyping project.
We are entering a new age of Web design and development where this concept is apparent now more than ever," she says. "It's not enough to have any old website – it must communicate your goals seamlessly to your audience through its rich content. When you take into account the diversity of methods used to access a given website – such as mobile devices – the result is a more dynamic and engaging web that must respond to the end users needs as quickly as possible."
"In designing websites with the end user in mind, it's important to take into account principles such as simplicity and clarity, with a focus on accessibility and customization. By tailoring your website to the individual, they'll feel more appreciated and less like a faceless user who chanced upon your website. This translates into a positive experience for them as well as your business, brand, or service."
"Usability is a narrower concept than user experience since it only focuses on goal achievement when using a web site. By contrast, user experience is a "consequence of the presentation, functionality, system performance, interactive behaviour, and assistive capabilities of the interactive system". This essentially means that user experience includes aspects such as human factors, design, ergonomics, HCI, accessibility, marketing as well as usability. An alternative way to look at this relationship is by subdividing user experience into utility, usability, desirability and brand experience. "
"Children are becoming an increasingly important target group on the web. Good usability and high user experience are crucial aspects for a successful website. Early and repetitive user testing is the way to go. If we address children on our website, we need to focus on what they want. We need to include children as a target group in our user testing. In this post I'd like to take a look at usability testing with different age groups."
(via InfoDesign)
and that we need to come back to some basic HCI realities in the design of gestural user interfaces.
"In a recent column for Interactions Norman pointed out that the rush to develop gestural interfaces – "natural" they are sometimes called – well-tested and understood standards of interaction design were being overthrown, ignored, and violated.
Recently, Raluca Budui and Hoa Loranger from the Nielsen Norman group performed usability tests on Apple's iPad, reaching much the same conclusion. The new applications for gestural control in smart cellphones (notably the iPhone and the Android) and the coming arrival of larger screen devices built upon gestural operating systems (starting with Apple's iPad) promise even more opportunities for well-intended developers to screw things up. [...]
There are several important fundamental principles of interaction design that are completely independent of technology:
· Visibility (also called perceived affordances or signifiers)
· Feedback
· Consistency (also known as standards)
· Non-destructive operations (hence the importance of undo)
· Discoverability: All operations can be discovered by systematic exploration of menus
· Scalability. The operation should work on all screen sizes, small and large.
· Reliability. Operations should work. Period. And events should not happen randomly.All these are rapidly disappearing from the toolkit of designers, aided, we must emphasize, by the weird design guidelines issued by Apple, Google, and Microsoft."
User research Is unnatural (but that's okay), Part I
by Jim Ross
From the perspective of a participant, user research is not very natural. We ask participants to try to act naturally in the artificial environment of a lab, or we impose ourselves on their environment and hope our presence doesn't affect their behavior. We often forget how unnatural user research can be and what effect it can have on participants.
Part II: Making user research more natural
To minimize the negative effects of these unnatural aspects of user research and get more realistic results, there are many things we can do to keep user research as natural as possible.
There should be limits to usability
by Peter Hornsby
People generally regard improving the usability of products or systems as a major part of our role as UX designers. While there are tradeoffs in all aspects of design, our assumption has generally been that products and systems that are easier to use are preferable to those that are harder to use. However, despite what seemed to be a common understanding, a number of articles have recently reported on research that suggests increased ease of use can be detrimental. This column examines the research underlying these conclusions and looks at some lessons UX designers can learn from them.
The UX of data
By Scott Jenson / February 17th 2011
Data storage in the cloud enables user experiences that would be impossible with only local storage, and creates a new facet of design: the UX of data.
2016: the user interface revolution underway
By Peter Eckert / February 24th 2011
New interfaces are not going to be uniform; devices and applications will not possess common protocols. For users, each interaction will have to be learned, so despite the improved usability of products, individuals will find themselves learning the quirks and standards of more and more technologies just to get the functionality they seek.
It has taken the opposite approach of Wikipedia and crowd-sourcing: all entries are written by leading figures who either invented or contributed significantly to each topic.
The new encyclopedia also features video interviews shot at different universities around the world.
The materials available for free, because the Interaction-Design.org people believe in the value of knowledge democratisation, where all can can get free access to world-class educational materials.
"Many of today's industrial products, with their ever-growing feature sets, have become too complex and difficult to use, leading to increased training costs and lost time, and in some cases, even robbing manufacturing companies of the very benefits that the features were intended to produce. But more vendors are beginning to take notice. Increasingly, as a way to differentiate their products and help customers become more productive, automation suppliers are stepping up their efforts to reduce complexity in their products and make them easier to use."
Video message by Experientia's Michele Visciola at World Usability Day 2010 in Japan
Michele, who is also European Regional Coordinator for the Usability Professional's Association, spoke on the event's theme of communication, and the relationship between communication and usability in research and design activities.
In this short video (with Japanese subtitles), Michele explains how both communication and usability practices boil down to gaining the trust of the customer.
"Some in the technology industry believe that a better alternative would be to simply replace the remote with smartphone apps like the one Mr. Lavoie uses. If you create a specialized smartphone app to control a TV or set-top box, you can pack the phone's touch screen with virtual buttons in any configuration you like. [...]
[Other] companies are not sold on the idea of the smartphone as the remote of the future. They are selling a range of remotes armed with full keyboards, touch screens and motion sensors."
In this article, the author takes a deeper dive into smartphone form factors and discusses how much the form factor impacts the phone's usability and the user's satisfaction (or lack thereof) with the user experience.
In the 19th century, if you needed to be able to accommodate sudden changes to layout caused by late breaking news, the easiest way to achieve this with physical type was to have interchangeable blocks of text with common widths. And thus we have the newspaper layout we know and, mostly, still love.
The web design of news is also deeply rooted in the technology of the time, with most major news websites optimised to work well in browsers that were released a few years ago, on desktop-shaped monitors. And most existing content management systems (CMS) are optimised around spitting out chunks of articles of broadly similar length, which are mostly displayed in the browser in broadly similar templates.
There might be the occasional dalliance with a different format, but broadly speaking, an article per page, with a strip of topic-based navigation on top is the de facto standard for delivering news online.
The growth of the smartphone market in the US and the emergence of a range of tablet devices are challenging this orthodoxy of digital news presentation.
Related to this is the report by Jakob Nielsen on the iPad usability in general, where he critiques iPad apps being inconsistent and having low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles, he says, cause further usability problems. See also this Guardian article.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We have much to be grateful for this year. While every year carries new challenges, we have weathered them exceptionally well this year. The strong network of support we have in the MDC family has made this possible and is one of the College's greatest gifts.
I am continuously moved by the dedication that our faculty, staff and students exhibit each day, both inside and outside our classrooms and offices.
I am especially reminded of all of the effort that went into the Amendment 8 campaign, and most recently, the 25th anniversary of the Book Fair. We are truly a tireless community, confronting each cause and special event with as much enthusiasm and grit as the last.
Our hard work and studies can often take us away from our home lives. I hope you will use this brief Thanksgiving break as a chance to reconnect with those who matter most to you.
You have certainly earned my gratitude and I wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving.
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New director of the Department for Cooperation and Development Research
Bjørn Tore Kjellemo took up his post as the new Director of the Department for Cooperation and Development Research this week.
Mr Kjellemo is coming from a position as the Deputy Director General of the Section for Education, Skills and IPR under the Department of Research and Innovation at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The section handles education-related issues of particular relevance for trade and industry, i.e. issues related to continuing and further education, knowledge-building in trade and industry and researcher recruitment. The section also has the responsibility for facilitating increased commercialisation of research results and for strengthening industrial development-related activities at the universities.
He worked at the Ministry of Education and Research for many years, holding the position of Deputy Director General under the Department of Higher Education, as well as serving as acting Assistant Director General of the Department of Policy Analysis, Lifelong Learning and International Affairs.
"What was your motivation for applying for this position at the Research Council?"
"I have worked some with international issues previously and quite a bit with research policy issues, and I think these are exciting areas. I also think the research topics addressed by this department are important and this was one of my main motivations," says the new Department Director.
Mr Kjellemo admits that cooperation and development is a new field for him. "I was heavily involved in establishing and following up the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU) and was somewhat involved in the formalised research cooperation between Norway and South Africa as well as several other countries. But I have got a lot to learn here."
Positive impression of Brussels
Mr Kjellemo served as a counsellor on educational matters at the Norwegian embassy in Brussels for two years (until summer 2008). He sums up his experience: "I had a positive impression of the EU and the European Commission. Once you get to know the people and the structure, the EU is rather transparent and the level of openness is often greater than what we are used to in the public administration in Norway."
"The number of Member States has expanded, and we cannot expect the same amount of attention as we have been afforded in the past," he continues. In his view, Norway is clearly noticed in Brussels. "We make ourselves heard in important areas for us. However, it is essential to be clear about what we want to achieve; otherwise it can be difficult to get attention. This is perhaps the greatest obstacle we face."
Clearer demands for results
Mr Kjellemo believes it is a bit early to start listing the challenges relating to the research fields and funding instruments for which he is responsible. Nevertheless, he points to the ministries' tendency towards micromanagement as representing one of the challenges.
"We have to expect that the ministries will make clearer demands for results when allocating funding for research. This is the new reality for the entire research system. However, we don't know for sure that numerous guidelines and detailed management will actually lead to the best results. The goal of our department should be to establish broad-based programmes while at the same time striving to satisfy expectations," he says.
He will start by immersing himself and getting to know his dynamic department and its exciting project portfolio.
Mr Kjellemo authored a book about the right to special needs education in primary school (Norwegian only), published in 1995, and co-authored an earlier book on the same topic. A look at his CV gives the impression that his background is in education, but the new Department Director actually holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, with a focus on administrative law. He only spent one year as a researcher before – as he puts it – he disappeared into the maw of the ministries.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A horizontal crosspiece over a door or between a door and a window above it.
- n. A small hinged window above a door or another window.
- n. A horizontal dividing bar of wood or stone in a window.
- n. A lintel.
- n. Nautical Any of several transverse beams affixed to the sternpost of a wooden ship and forming part of the stern.
- n. Nautical The aftermost transverse structural member in a steel ship, including the floor, frame, and beam assembly at the sternpost.
- n. Nautical The stern of a square-sterned boat when it is a structural member.
- n. The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the cross-ties or sleepers laid under the longitudinal sills of a permanent way for a street railway, or for any railway laid on this system, as in a mine.
- n. In architecture, a horizontal bar of timber or stone across a window; also, the cross-bar separating a door from the fanlight above it. See mullion.
- n. Same as transom-window, 2.
- n. A slat of a bedstead.
- n. Nautical, one of several beams or timbers fixed across the stern-post of a ship to strengthen the after part and give it the figure most suitable to the service for which the vessel is intended. See also cut under counter.
- n. In a saw-pit, a joist resting transversely upon the strakes.
- n. One of two beams of wood or metal secured horizontally to the side frames of a railway car-truck. They are placed one on each side of the swing-bolster.
- n. In gunnery, a piece of wood or iron joining the cheeks of gun-carriages, whence the terms transom-plates, transom-bolts, etc.
- n. In surveying, a piece of wood made to slide upon a cross-staff; the vane of a cross-staff.
- n. A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
- n. A horizontal dividing bar in a window.
- n. nautical Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
- n. nautical The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
- n. The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
- n. figuratively Items that have arrived over the transom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it.
Transom is the horizontal, asmullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. SeeIllust. of mullion. - n. (Naut.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also
transsummer . - n. (Gun.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
- n. (Surg.) The vane of a cross-staff.
- n. (Railroad) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
- n. a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- Probably an alteration of Latin transtrum ("crossbeam"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English traunsom, probably alteration of Latin trānstrum, cross-beam, from trāns, across; see trans-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"The transom is available in heights of 15 or 20 inches, and total weight for either version is less than 250 pounds."
"Getting over a reader's transom is hard, and your best ally in the task is a friend of the reader you're trying to woo: if you can get someone to read and love your book and then make it easy for her/him to email it to a Hugo voter, you're further along than if you'd posted a physical copy of the book right to the door of the reader."
"In the first three lights below the transom is the Ecce Homo; in the centre three, Pilate washing his hands, the final moment in the trial."
"Below the transom is a second inner set of mullions supporting"
"But the breast-hooks forward and crutches aft, the deck transom, which is the foundation for the deck abaft as well as the assemblage of timbers uniting the stern to the body of the vessel, with all the other parts that make up the ends, cannot be more than mentioned here."
"A transom is a small window directly above the door"
"For those unfamiliar with the ink-smudged, glory-filled days of the newspaper game, a "transom" is the piece of wood forming the top frame of a door, that also forms the bottom frame of the little rectangular window above that door."
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"Everything that was coming over the "transom" at night was telling me that I was on the right track."
"This really wasn't a letter TO me, it kinda came in over the transom."
"I used a scraffito tool to scratch branches in the center of the rectangle, and a small figure in the transom arch."
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Unleash your inner designer with Constrvct, a first-of-a-kind three-dimensional design app that allows just about anyone to create original clothing designs using their favorite photos and graphics. Don't mistake this for some mall-quality iron-on transfer job, however. Constrvct uses U.S.-sourced double-knit organic cotton jersey and industrial digital textile inks to create its vibrant, photo-quality prints, which are then professionally stitched together in a garment facility in New York City. The best part? We're giving a custom dress worth $350 to the Ecouterre reader with the most creative, knock-our-socks-off design. Start sharpening those virtual pencils and enter now to win!
1. SIGN UP FOR THE ECOUTERRE NEWSLETTER. (This is important because we'll be announcing our winners there.)
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3. LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW BY FEBRUARY 12 with a link to your design. We'll pick our favorite.
We'll announce the winner in our newsletter on Wednesday, February 13. The deadline to enter is 12 midnight ET Tuesday, February 12, so ENTER NOW for a chance to win!
Constrvct is the world's first open fashion label, where everyone can be a designer. Create beautifully unique designs from your photos, and order them custom made to your exact measurements. With its beautiful 3D design interface, you get a wonderfully accurate render of your dress design as well as a live size preview. It's instantaneous style backed by solid engineering. Fashion for the digital age.
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148 Responses to "LAST CHANCE: Win a "Constrvct" Dress Featuring Your Favorite Photo (Worth $350!)"
Crazy good website!! I used a photo I took of Paris' famous "Deux Magots" cafe.
This is such an awesome website.
I designed a dress with a brightly coloured firework design on it.
http://constrvct.com/designs/3642I am also signed up to the Ecouterre newsletter.
I love Constrvct! When I first read about it I didn't think I'd have a chance at owning one. Thanks so much for the giveaway. Spectacular!Love that its sustainable/no waste and of course forward creative design concept. http://constrvct.com/designs/3743
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I looooove my design!
Made out of a painting called "Little Autumn".
This is so much fun! I used a photo that I took of an old shed.
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Link to my design
My print is from a art project I did two years ago involving water and alot of candy floss.
This was so much fun, I can't believe I never have heard of this company before! http://constrvct.com/designs/4070, I used a photo I saved to my laptop ages ago with doves :)
I can't tell you how fun this way to make! Will definitely save up for one of these if I don't win the contest. http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4099
My favorite Mediterranean town turned into a painting that turned into a photo that became this dress! AnneliT
What a great website…I couldn't stop designing, but here's one of my favorites: http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4171 It's from a photo of a grate that I took at the main branch of the Seattle Public Library. (I also signed up for your newsletter) – Thanks for the great giveaway!
I think this is a fantastic idea. I chose an image from the Lascaux caves in France. I reminder of how we once revered our Earth.
Fine Artist as well as designer and color addict I'm excited about this contest! All of my designs are from my original paintings and photography.Enjoy!!!!!!!
First submission: 70′s Love comic inspired…..
http://constrvct.com/designs/4337Love this way to use my favorite photos with fashion! Found a great use for a picture I took at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris!
Love it!! Great way to combine my love of photography and fashion!
ModernMuse : now has a place to combine her fine art and photography in design. Blast from my past having been in PD/DESIGN for twenty years to have opportunity to feature my own painting and mixed media as textile for garments.Now focusing 100% on my art and design….thanks ecouterre and constrvct!
ELECTRIFY ME is first submit.
http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4346I WANT YOU TO SEE ME TEE
http://constrvct.com/designs/4341I hope you enjoy my "Boston at Night" dress! I used a photo that I took on my way back home :)
Great website, enjoyed making the dress. Inspiration-my art classes at my University:)Thanks!
some Polish winter trees, enjoy ;) http://constrvct.com/designs/4373
here´s my dress … i hope i win…. http://constrvct.com/designs/4410
Absolutely love this website, so innovative!
Wow! That was so much fun. I'm going to work on some more designs, soon :)
http://constrvct.com/designs/4446fractal design vol. 1 :
This was fun! I used a close up picture of a marble flower in the ruins at the Roman Forum.
http://constrvct.com/designs/4463This was SO much fun! Here is my design, a mirrored image of an Aurora Borealis http://constrvct.com/designs/4517
my yummy dress
fractal design vol 2: http://constrvct.com/designs/4489
fractal design vol 3: http://constrvct.com/designs/4483
I made mine and had a good time doing so! I love it and I hope I win! http://constrvct.com/designs/4477
That was WAY too much fun! http://constrvct.com/designs/4516
And, for fun, here's another: http://constrvct.com/designs/4541
http://constrvct.com/designs/4497The Mosscatraz series is based on photographs I took in San Fran at Alcatraz. The walls surrounding the prison are actually quite lush and natural….just beautiful. I took to use as inspiration for paintings but love how they look in the constrvct garments.
http://constrvct.com/designs/4500MOSCATRAZ MINI
Very fun! Great giveaway.
Such a great website!! Here is my design
very interesting website!
I used a sketch we made for a landscape architecture competition!my outer space dress!
http://constrvct.com/designs/4526great giveaway! Heres my design.
This is my design:)
http://constrvct.com/designs/4519This is based on photographs taken at Alcatraz … architectural area in the rain.
RainReflect : based on photos taken at Alcatraz.
http://constrvct.com/designs/4531I love this idea and it was tons of fun to do! I took a picture of jellyfish with great blues and purples to make a very pretty dress! Here it is:
Fractured Not Broken Sheath
http://constrvct.com/designs/4527I LEFT MY HEART SHEATH
http://constrvct.com/designs/4551CHILHULY STAR
http://constrvct.com/designs/4444Beautiful colors of the red rock at Petra, Jordan
I really really want this dress!
Photo from Chilhuly exhibit taken in Dallas Oct 2013.
http://constrvct.com/designs/4469More designs based on photos taken at Alcatraz…these next are from inside….
http://constrvct.com/designs/4562This is made with a photo I took – http://constrvct.com/designs/4612 would love to see it made.
http://constrvct.com/designs/4538Painter's Palette Mini
http://constrvct.com/designs/4558So addicted to this, but gotta go work!
Beautiful concept and site! http://constrvct.com/users/2974
Check it out, Red Door, abstracted car door http://constrvct.com/designs/4618
Graffiti Eiffel Tower at http://constrvct.com/designs/4645
here is my link, thanks, I'm having so much fun…http://constrvct.com/designs/2993
…this is really my favourite
http://constrvct.com/designs/4682great concept; used some of our designs from a recent art exhibition here:
http://constrvct.com/designs/4706Abstracted Red Car Door, check it out http://constrvct.com/designs/4618
Wow! What great website! I used one of my father's paintings in my design: http://constrvct.com/designs/4728
Hope to win this stunning dress :)This is my design
http://constrvct.com/designs/2993I hope you'll like it.
Created a beautiful dress using a photo I took in Hawai'i of the Center for Korean Studies building. This is a neat idea and fun process!
I constructed a 'woodland buddha' dress from a photo I took at Philly's Magic Gardens last fall.
http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4751Fabulous idea, I used a photo I took from a temple in Shangrila, Yunnan, China http://constrvct.com/designs/4760.
So cool! http://constrvct.com/designs/4763
I have too many photos! Here is a photo I took from the Yi Torch Festival in Daliangshan (Greater Cooler Mountains) of Sichuan, China http://constrvct.com/designs/4755.
My design!
A souvenir from the ruins of a church in Bahia http://constrvct.com/designs/4778
Merging a weaving from the Dulong River Valley in China http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4799
It's so much fun to play with designs at Constrvct. I made a few designs here. http://constrvct.com/designs/4745 and here http://constrvct.com/designs/4811
This is an amazing concept…. wish i'd found your site sooner so i had more time to practice but here's my entry for this contest…. V8 mini: http://constrvct.com/designs/4756
Thank you for the contest. I love ecouterre and constrvct is a great idea! I had so much fun uploading my drawings and playing around with how they might work on a dress or t-shirt. I hope that you pick my Monarch Clusters: http://constrvct.com/designs/4734 or Monochrome Jungle: http://constrvct.com/designs/4721.
I think this is and amazing idea and would love to have my rescue dog all over the dress as I love wearing dresses. the innovation of this company is amazing- and I will be shopping as I save for a special dress- perhaps a trapeze design !
My design!
http://constrvct.com/designs/3754Another design is "Like Plants"
bright and happy – perfect afternoon dressMy design: "Dutch Tree"
When a tree was meant to be a dress. http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4030cosmic bull
This design is based off of a pencil and ink sketch I did for a series called "barnacles." It would be so great to have a dress constructed out this drawing!i created this dress using a graphic image that i took of the underside of a water reservoir. http://constrvct.com/designs/4765
I'd love to wear this! http://constrvct.com/designs/4856
I love constrvctions!
My design is a collage of constrvction machines. The way the collage it's wrapped around it both feminine and exciting!This is such a great contest! Thank you! My design is from a photo I took in Cairo, Egypt in Al-Azar park. If I win I will wear this at my wedding! http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4873
Super fun! Now I want my design. Very Flowery! http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4906
Geoffery bawa, the famous Sri lankan architect created this enchanting ceiling inspired by the native batik textiles. i photographed this ceiling on my trip to Sri lanka and it has now inspired a graphic print for this dress. From textile to architecture to photograph to textile!! http://constrvct.com/designs/4910
Okay, I might like it better in the silk sheath style: http://constrvct.com/designs/4911
An abandoned piece of furniture in an abandoned haunted colonial hotel makes for a haunting photograph and an equally impactful graphic print on this dress. would love to wear it! http://constrvct.com/designs/4897
My design based on my painting:
http://constrvct.com/designs/4913i love graphic prints and unconventional designs! i created this one out of a photograph i took of the underside of a water reservoir http://constrvct.com/designs/4765
An abandoned piece of furniture in an abandoned haunted hotel makes for a dramatic picture and an equally dramatic graphic print dress. would lovee to wear this baby http://constrvct.com/designs/4897
My proposal is dress designed by using my digital art.
Thank you for a lovely competition.
rough and tough, ready to partyfrom natural print to digital print, how cool is that. I couldn´t stop making. Here is one of the collection talking leaves
http://www.constrvct.com/designs/4951I was inspired by the intricate ceiling of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. In the source photo taken recently by my husband, I noticed the affinity of its geometry and structure to the human body. I love the customization of the clothing from constrvt!
What a pity – upload there is not working anymore…
I'm not able to see my design :( but I Love my picture :)…
http://constrvct.com/designs/5004Thank you Ecouterre for leading the way for sustainable fashion! And much gratitude to CONSTRVCT for creating this beautiful technology. I have already spent hours and hours on it (oopsies!)
Please look closely at my design, there is a hidden image in it that even I couldn't see until I used this design interface. There are also many forest devas (or nature spirits). I took this photo of a sacred Banyan tree while traveling in India. Looking at it helps me to stay grounded and connect with nature:
Amazing contest! Followed all the steps would love to win!
This dress is amazing and I love ecouterre!so much fun to play designer with this! love it!
Here is my favorite picture and you'll see why…
http://constrvct.com/designs/5022When I first read about CONSTRVCT, I thought it would fit perfectly my aspirations about using fashion design to communicate to people my research into the good applications of fungi and the beauty of these organisms. I have used one of their images to create this dress: http://www.constrvct.com/designs/5018
Here is my dress:
LizSo happy to be introduced to Constrvct and Ecouterre!
My design is from the Seattle Public Library- designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA.
Another design from the Seattle Public Library- designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA.
This is my design based on one of my paintings. Wow, loved doing this! http://constrvct.com/designs/5027
Michelle Buchananand if anyone wants to see some of my other artworks on dresses: http://constrvct.com/users/3106
Too much fun.
Bokeh in a photograph from a religious festival in pakistan. turned into a gorgeous print http://constrvct.com/designs/5037
As an architect, I love to play with scale. Using a photo I took of the Sydney Opera House, the geometric tile pattern looks almost like a natural animal skin when mirrored and placed on the dress. I tried to align the slight building curvature to flatter the female figure. It would look great styled with nude patent pumps or a pop of fuschia!
Constrvt is simply an awesome concept with great execution! I was obsessed with the Continuum duo's D.Dress and admire this new line just as much. Keep up the amazing work!
Working with a little more color, the structure of the Perth Maritime Museum is placed to structure the lines of the dress and flatter the figure: http://constrvct.com/designs/4944
I also happen to be a sucker for any chevron ;)Thanks again for hosting this great competition!
So fun and simple! Great idea for a website!
I absolutely love this concept and for my design I chose a picture from one of my favorite places in the entire world, along the Yarra river bank.
(not sure which link is the best)My dress is allows you to be in the forest everyday.
http://constrvct.com/designs/5072This is the dopest web application ! Thank you for excising !
http://constrvct.com/designs/4992I can't stop applying my design on dresses! I'm in love with CONSTRVCT!
http://constrvct.com/designs/5045Check it out Zipper http://constrvct.com/designs/4994
I had a blast making my designs! I had to finally force myself to stop after five. I had a tough time choosing one, but finally picked a picture I took of a friend's band. We all had such a great night, and I'd love to immortalize it with a dress! http://constrvct.com/designs/5094
As an architect, I love playing with scale. Using a photo I took of the Sydney Opera House, the geometric patterning of the tiles looks a bit like a natural skin or animal print. The slight curves of the building are placed to to be figure flattering. I'd love to style it with nude pumps or a punch of fuchsia!
I've been a fan of the Continuum girls since the d.dress and would love to see my hours playing with their amazing applications come to life. Can't wait to see what they come up with next!
I designed this dress with one of my Plein Air Paintings. You can see my blog about the painting here: http://photographerpainterprintmaker.com/2011/05/28/plein-air-at-the-amherstburg-navy-yard/
I loved how many different looks I could get from this one painting. I think this dress would look awesome for Easter! I can't wait to try more of my paintings and photos as dress designs.
So much fun! Thank you for hosting this wonderful competition !!!
http://constrvct.com/designs/5111This is so much fun ! It's overwhelming how many ideas I have right now.Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful contest!
http://constrvct.com/designs/5111This is so much fun ! It's overwhelming how many ideas are in my head right now. Thank you for hosting such a wonderful competition !
http://constrvct.com/designs/5111I love personalised products. Every little detail in the design has so much meaning.
This is a photo i took of my small town on the first snow day :)
soooo, i played with this image i took of the capri landscape on photoshop. Voila!
I've always loved the intersection of design and technology, so I couldn't resist using an image of a responsive sculpture I designed and built alongside two classmates.
It's overlayed with two shades from pantone's spring 2013 colors to give it a punch of colorblocking in the background!
Thank you for the wonderful opportunity ! As an artist/designer I've always wanted to be able to experiment with making my own printed fabric. It was interesting to utilize the different options, to create such strikingly different effects. Love CONSTRVCT's and Ecouterre!!!!
I'm in love with street art, hence my design from a photo I took in the Netherlands. I call it AmsterDAMN! http://constrvct.com/designs/5172
That is a great site.
http://www.constrvct.com/designs/5167It's so cool,I can't control myself and I just found out about CONSTRVCT this morning! Can't think of how many more I would've done if I knew in advance….
http://constrvct.com/designs/5202This was fun! I used a layered marker drawing that has a watercolor look, entitled "Lilypad".
http://www.constrvct.com/users/3130This was so much fun. Good Luck everyone.
My design is called AimieHalo Amaxing Buddha333
I would like to close my entries with " City lights" print
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Be sure to sign the guest book and let others know about your wonderful stay!
Comfy, cozy great room with wood burning fireplace, dvd and ihome.
Buffalo Bill, just one of the many animal artifacts in Dogwood Cabin!
Master Bedroom suite features plush queen bed, tv/dvd, full bath, access to deck
Second bedroom suite features a full/twin bunk bed, tv/movies and full bath.
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Welcome to Dogwood Cabin! This beautiful log home is impeccably clean, feels warm and inviting and features all the comforts of home! The cabin decor is inspired by the great outdoors where the home is hidden away! Spend the day boating on Tablerock Lake with public beaches and marina just 2 miles away, fishing and horseback riding at Big Cedar Lodge, having fun at Silver Dollar City or seeing the shows, sights or shopping in Branson (all no more than 15 minutes away) and return to Dogwood Cabin for a feeling of being far away from it all!
Cross over the covered wooden bridge into the cozy, secluded area of Branson Cedars where you'll enjoy the great outdoors with walking trails, greenspace, playground area, pond, pool and new for 2012, volleyball and horseshoes! Light up a cool night with a fire in our beautiful stone fireplace or retreat to the spacious deck that is accessible from either bedroom or the main living area.
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Chynna Brown did something she had never done in her time at Tech: score 23 points. She also grabbed 12 rebounds to go along with her career-high in points.
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Weigh in motion systems aid safety, reduce costs
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Complete in every detail:Intercomp's new WIM testing facility
Highway maintenance costs are only one reason to increase overweight vehicle enforcement. Increased safety and reduced highway repair downtime can also be achieved using a WIM system that can pay for itself in overall reduced highway maintenance costs, says
, which has been designing and manufacturing electronic weighing systems for over 33 years.
The cost to the public of an overweight vehicle, as compared to a legal vehicle, is significant.
A study conducted in 2006 by the state of Arizona, USA, concluded that uncompensated damages to roadways are between US$12-53 million/ year. The benefit/cost ratio for increased enforcement expenditures is between 100-500%, according to the study, Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways (Sandy H. Straus and John Semmens, Arizona Department of Transportation, January 2006).
Intercomp's WIM system consists of two main components: the selection stage and the precision measurement stage, says the company.
In the selection stage the vehicle's weight and height are measured to determine if the vehicle is legal. (Loop sensors in the pavement keep the readings of closely spaced vehicles separated). If either test is failed, traffic lights will direct the vehicle to the precision measurement stage.
The precision measurement stage consists of a very precise scale that meets or exceeds all government standards. The precise scale determines the weight of each axle and sensors determine if dual or single wheels are on the axle being weighed.
An additional height detector determines if the vehicle meets regulations, while an electronic licence plate reader automatically reads and stores the licence number of a vehicle that does not meet regulations. (An image of the licence is also stored.) "Customisable software allows the user to interpret and display the data in a way that best suits their application," says Intercomp, which is ISO 9001:2008 registered and which has facilities in the US and UK to serve its worldwide customer base.
"If the vehicle is legal, it will be directed back onto the highway. If in violation of height or weight regulations, traffic lights will direct the vehicle to a holding area.
"A traffic control arm, which is controlled by the software, is also used to prevent vehicles that exceed weight or height regulations from returning to the highway." Additional weighing sensors are located in the highway to alert the authorities of vehicles attempting to bypass the weigh station.
Intercomp's WIM system uses electronic strain gauge load cells, and these are used for many reasons, says Intercomp.
"They are the most accurate, are effectively temperature compensated, are low profile and are the most reliable." The company's products are developed and tested on a complete private onsite WIM test station, which is complete in every detail and includes stop lights, dual wheel sensor, licence plate reader and even a traffic control arm to test WIM systems in a real-world application.
"Intercomp's electronic weighing products are used extensively in the transportation industry including a full line of measuring devices for law enforcement.
"Based on the data from the Arizona study, the Intercomp WIM system will pay for itself in reduced highway maintenance costs," added the company.
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also points to the damage caused by some heavily overloaded trucks, which it claims are doing over 300 times the damage to the road of a correctly loaded truck.
"It is vital for any government to have access to this kind of data in order to tailor enforcement to reduce the problem, thus conserving valuable financial resources for other essential programs such as health and education," says the company, which has been among those at the forefront of slow-speed WIM technology for nearly 30 years and has some 3,500 installations worldwide.
A weigh station in Pakistan showing Central Weighing's SUPAWEIGH System
It has now developed two new products for launch at the
2011 exhibition [Birmingham, UK from 29-31 March].
Working in both the fleet management and law enforcement markets, the company says it has developed the hardware and software to meet the requirements of both demanding markets, and with tremendous growth in the international road tolling markets it has developed the new products for Traffex.
The SUPAWEIGH 5000 is an advanced, medium speed WIM system "giving the high accuracy of a slow-speed weigher at speeds of 10km/hour, which makes it ideal for the tolling application weighing trucks of any size in less than ten seconds."
The company has also developed and integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Automatic Vehicle Classification (AVC) systems to offer a total solution for toll operators and enforcement agencies alike.
"The software is plug and play design, enabling new features to be added at the touch of a button," says Central Weighing.
"Vehicles arriving at the new high-technology tolls are classified in accordance with local regulations and weighed axle by axle in a matter of seconds. By the time they stop at the toll booth the data is already processed and a comprehensive report on the overload status of all axles, axle groups and both gross and train weight is available to the toll operator." The system also calculates any applicable fines and for offending vehicles the vehicle image and/or the licence plate number are recorded on the weighing document.
Importantly for road concessions, the system also calculates the equivalent standard axles for each vehicle weighed, which clearly shows the level of road wear for all trucks, enabling concessionaires to estimate the life expectancy of the road and budget accordingly.
In many countries portable systems are preferred to fixed locations such as toll locations and this is an area in which Central Weighing has invested heavily in new product development, resulting in the launch of the new CHEKLODE Freeweigh, which is designed for use in all climatic and operational conditions.
"Heavy duty, aluminium weighpads that can withstand well over 15,000kg per wheel have been linked to an advanced weighing console using both Bluetooth and Ethernet technology, enabling totally cable-free operation. The weighpads can be located at around 10m from the weighing terminal, which can be situated in an adjacent vehicle to take advantage of the vehicle power supply to offer continuous, uninterrupted operation. Where no vehicle is available, the internal rechargeable batteries give over eight hours of operation from a single charge," says Central Weighing.
The new design features are, however, concentrated in the console and pc-based software.
Vehicle weighing data can be processed in the terminal and a multi-copy print out is instantly available for the driver but simultaneously the data is transferred either to a USB memory stick for subsequent download and analysis in an office based PC or directly in to the new Freeweigh Live System, which enables operation in any language directly through the pc.
"This overcomes any language problems and the operator can switch from English to the local language, producing operational instructions, weight tickets and reports in any language.
"Like the fixed products, CHEKLODE Freeweigh can be preprogrammed to automatically calculate overloads and fines as applicable in any country, removing any doubt about human errors when entering data or calculating penalties. Also like the fixed systems, the new CHEKLODE Freeweigh can be connected to a camera and large driver weight display for the ultimate in portable weight enforcement." According to Central Weighing, over 15 countries have already placed substantial orders following worldwide demonstration tours throughout the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions undertaken by the company's managing director Richard Stokes.
Mongolian contract
Late last year, International Road Dynamics (
) was awarded a new contract in Mongolia by MCS Electronics, which will act as the contractor for the project, scheduled to be commissioned in early 2011.
The project involves the supply and installation of IRD's WIM and toll collection systems along the Tavan Tolgoi-Gashuun Sukhait toll road, a crucial route being used to enhance mining development and expansion in the Gobi region bordering China. The toll road is built to transport coal to China from the Ukhaa Khudag coal deposit, a high quality coal deposit in Mongolia.
The contract involves the supply of a toll system at four plazas as well as four pre-selection slow-speed WIM sorting systems to keep overloaded trucks off the road.
All overweight trucks will be prevented from using the toll road.
Terry Bergan, president and chief executive officer of IRD, said: "We are extremely pleased to be extending our presence in Asia with this important new contract. Our installed solution will ensure proper asset management of the toll road and provide suitable monitoring and screening to assist with proper operations and management of this important transportation link between Mongolia and China."
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As promised, I am blogging you from Brazil. I traveled to Rio de Janeiro last week. More than thirty years ago, my sister, Charlotte, married a Brazilian. They were both on the rodeo team at Colorado State University. They moved to a remote area in the state of Sao Paulo to manage a corporate ranch.
Years went by, they moved to Rio, and eventually divorced. She was by then, through and through, a Brasileira. She would visit us yearly, but always returned to her home, her business and her son.
Last winter, I was on my way to Elko for the Gathering when I received a call from my nephew that Charlotte was in the hospital. Luckily, I had a valid Brazilian visa, so I called my son who met us in Vernal, Utah with some summer clothes and my passport. I traveled the next day to Brazil, and stayed for two weeks. (My father--84 then--, his 83-year-old cousin, my husband and son went on to Elko for the festivities,) My sister was gravely ill, but recovered. I returned home to twenty below weather—the only person in my community with mosquito bites and sunburn under my Carharts!
Charlotte planned with great excitement her summer trip to visit us, looking forward to the new baby, her 40th high school reunion, and the wedding. She entered the hospital (seizures) the day Seamus was born, July 3rd.
The trip to Brazil entailed first a journey to Los Angeles, home of the Brazilian consulate. Due to increased red tape after 9/11, it now takes about two weeks to get a visa. After numerous phone calls and armed with a letter from the doctor, her friend Lexie and I descended on the consulate. By then they knew my voice, and I think gave us the visas just to get us out of their hair. "It's the crazies from Wyoming again! Get them out of here!"
In the Beverly Hills neighborhood where the consulate is located, we learned two things. Nobody has heard of the La Brea tar pits (which we visited) and it is possible to run into Paris Hilton. Really.
Now we are here, and I don't know what to say about that. Charlotte's condition worsens by the day. My fantasy of her rising from her sick bed at the sound of my voice has not come true. The visiting hours are so limited that Lexie and I have a lot of "down time."
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In fact, things are so flush out here in Oak Grove that we are taking bids to install car elevators (one for the 99 Jeep and one for the 98 Ranger). Got the idea from Mitt Romney and his palace remodeling project.
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A second interview with Motor City Madman, bowhunter/legendary rocker Ted Nugent for bowhunting.net. Most readers are now familiar with my "Celebrity Interviews" on Bowhunting.net, and Ted Nugent was one of the first interviews I conducted when these all began. Rich Walton and I had decided to do this a few years ago. Ted Nugent is outspoken about just about everything but that's not the only reason for a second interview. I am sure he could easily fill up a book with his knowledge, thoughts and opinions. And most are right on target. However, Ted will appear in an upcoming movie with country superstar Toby Keith. In the movie Ted plays a law officer that has a bow & arrow and isn't afraid to use it. Howard Hill did some archery work on the "Robin Hood" movie starring Erroll Flynn. The Burt Reynolds movie Deliverance featured Reynolds shooting a Bear recurve. The Dukes of Hazzard also featured archery on their weekly TV show in the 1970's. I can also remember the buzz about archery that the movie "RAMBO: First Blood II" created. My father was a Hoyt dealer and we sold over 600 Hoyt bows that year. We even hung a Hoyt Rambo in the lobby of the local movie theater along with an Addington's sign. A few years ago one of the Charlie's Angels movies featured archery.
It seems that every time Hollywood features one of the stars with a bow and arrow, archery gets a boost. I expect no less from Uncle Ted. As a matter of fact, this could be HUGE for our sport. Afterall, Ted has a huge following already. So I thought I'd be one of the first to get the word about his new role "from the horses mouth".
Here we go... FA: Ted, tell me about how this all came about.TN: Toby and I bonded as BloodBrothers over in Iraq and Afghanistan on the USO tour with our US Military heroes, and subsequently toured the US together and become friends. Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington & I play deputy sheriff's in Jackson County, OK where we are raising hell with drugrunners and bad guys. When we take a Mexican drug czar's brother prisoner, the drug cartel kidnaps Toby's girlfriend & we go to war with the gangs in Mexico. FA: Did you have any previous experience with movies?TN: I guest starred on the #2 Miami Vice TV show & did cameo's on various other TV shows & the movie State Park. FA: What's the movie titled and when can we expect it to be released?TN: Beer For My Horses in theaters late August '08 FA: What's your character called?TN: I'm Skunk Tarver, a longhaired, smartass, defiant,overgunned, rock-n-roll bowhunting deputy sheriff dedicated to bagging bad guys. FA: Who's idea was it to have you star in the movie? Who's idea was the bow & arrow?TN: Toby wrote the character of Skunk around the real me, therefore the bow & arrow was a gimme. FA: Did Hollywood know what to expect when they unleashed Uncle Theo with a bow and arrow on the set?TN: I share with you the celebration that the more than 100 technical crew and all the cast literally loved the mystical flight of the arrow and many of them spent time with me seeking advice on how they could get into this thrilling sport/discipline. FA: Did you have anyone else shooting a bow and arrow on the set?TN: Just me. FA: Who in the world did they find to be your stunt double?TN: A fellow Michiganiac professional stuntman named Dan who did a grand job when the jumps, falls and leaps were a bit too much for Ol' Nuge. FA: Do you sing or play guitar in the movie?TN: No, but there will be some throttling Nuge rock in the movie FA: What's your opinion of Toby Keith?TN: A great man, a great entertainer and great American, dedicated to become a great bowhunter.
FA: What type of bow do you use in the movie?TN: I used both my MARTIN FireCat and my new Sims DZ32. FA: What does ole' Skunk do with his bow and arrow?TN: I shoot a stuffed donkey in the ass during a huge drug bust and zap a few bad guys with arrows, including one very exciting flaming arrow utilizing the same technology I use for my concert stage arrows each night using my signature Gold Tip zebra Nuge arrows. FA: This promises to be huge for archery. I'd like to thank you for promoting archery Ted, 24/7 wherever you go. Any last words of advice for our readers?TN: Clearly America is in a culture war facing huge, evil powers dedicated to ban hunting, trapping, guns and other perfect American lifestyles. We all must educate everyone in our lives at church, school, the workplace, social gatherings and everywhere as to the perfection of conservation, hunting, fishing, trapping and self defense. We need to simply initiate the dialog and sincerely express how these self evident truths are imperative for a quality of American life and environmental upgrade. We must not let the antis out speak or out vote us.JOIN THE NRA! FA: Any new tours/albums coming up? What's a website where folks can get more information?TN: At TedNugent.com you can see our tourdates for summer 2008 and all the various projects, events and hunts that we have scheduled, as well as the Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild Outdoor Channel schedule. My LOVE GRENADE CD came out last fall and we are very proud of it. FA: Do you think you were picked for this role because of your rock and roll star status, your rugged outdoor persona, your prowess with a bow, your friendship with Toby or a combination of all?TN: As writers of the script, Toby and Rodney made it quite clear that they enjoyed my musical career and my entertainment style, and that Skunk would add some intense energized fun to the movie. We have hung around together here and there and they like what I stand for and how I stand up for it.
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New pics coming?!? We had waves like all this month. Gettin slack Cass. Maybe you got a girlfriend...
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Just got back from a 10 day trip sponsored by a local college in conjuction with the travel company "EF". Read more
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Good day.
This is our first visit to Italy.(We are no expert nor seasoned travelers). Our latest plan is
Rome - 7days(22nd to 29th July)
Tuscany- 3 days (29th to 2nd August)
Venice - 3 days(2nd to 5th Read more
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The Swiss city of Basel is getting ready to host to the who's who of the art world yet again, with the... Read more
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Life in this small Swiss city has its fair share of fondue and chocolate, not to mention cleanliness.... Read more
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Springtime always brings jaunts to Europe to the forefront of travel wishlists, but if you've hit the... Read more