We did a mural once inside a post office lobby. it depicted large colorful or just plain cool stamps down through the years. Came out pretty good.
then, abut 6 or 7 years later an out of control truck jumped the sidewalk and crashed into that post office demolishing the mural….all we have of it now are some photos of it
Ok, I don’t have a good camera with a macro lens.
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This is cotton and polyester sewing thread… I happened to have a color similar to the other photo.
Taken with my phone camera, with no flash, as close as I can get it.
Even so, you can tell it wouldn’t be like the other picture, even if I had better equipment. I’m wondering what that other thread is made of.
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BTW, Happy³… You might want to get some needles like this one. They have packs of them at most fabric shops.
They’re called self-threading. The eye is double.
The lower eye, which I managed to use just now, is normal.
The top one has a slit you can pull the thread through from the top, sideways, without poking the end through the eye. I use it when my hands won’t cooperate.
I think it’s steel. The choice of color is deceiving, since it’s not the real color of the object. Steel doesn’t necessarily look like steel at those magnifications.
Bogie was 5’8″… Bergman considered very tall in that era, at 5’9″.
And if course the rule in Hollywood was that the man had to be at least an inch taller than the woman.
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That rule may seem sexist and quaint… But how often do you see it broken today?
A lot of male stars are short, but the camera loves 5’11” model-like women.
Yet you don’t see many movies where the female lead towers over her love interest.
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A few guys, like Michael Fox, Kevin Hart, and especially Danny DeVito, play up their short stature. Peter Dinklage doesn’t have much choice.
But some guys still wear lifts… usually more subtle than these… and the women wear flats, interspersed with occasional shots of just their feet in heels.
A lot of fancy camera angles, a lot editing done in post production….
All so you can’t tell that Tom Cruise is only 5’7″.
I never thought Bogie was taller than Cruise…..the selection of Cruise to play the main character in the Reacher books caught a lot of flak from fans of the books because the character Reacher is 6’6′ or something and they considered ol Cruise as too small…but movie magic makes him much larger than his stature
My 4’10” female friend is certainly not tiny… She wears a size 12, but she’s not at all fat, either.
Nor is Danny DeVito tiny, though he’s about her height. I’d call him large, but short. Peter Dinklage is a dwarf, I don’t think even 4′ tall… but not tiny.
Tom Cruise is tiny because he’s built like a very slender tall person, but he’s actually short…so his body is proportionally very small. That’s why he doesn’t look short in pictures, if there’s no frame of reference.
Nor did I say either short or tiny was unattractive, or in any way a negative… I said I didn’t know why it mattered.
I happen to find Peter Dinklage quite attractive.
Tom Cruise not, but it has nothing to do with his physical appearance, which would also be very attractive … if he weren’t a jerk.
I’m not sure i can really wait a whole week to see whether Perro™ can save Señorita Voluptuoso!
But I suppose I have no choice. Sigh.
Meanwhile, sometimes a big Thanksgiving dinner with relatives and friends, having to try Aunt Felicity’s cranberry pickle relish and listen to Uncle Elias proselytize about football plays…
That’s enough to drive the staunchest Pilgrim Father to head for his secret flask of fortitude.
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“Dude! What’re you doing down there?”
Leggo my gekko!
I thought he was scared to jump.
Maybe I’m just projecting.
nah, he looks pretty comfortable
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Beauty! Basset!
Bastet?
I had a friend, an older artist, who painted her walls rather like the ones in this picture.
It was a small house, more like a cabin. Some walls were knotty pine, some she had covered in thin lath or old barnwood.
On some she painted blotches like this, some she spattered… There were a couple of loosely painted murals.
When she was selling her house, her agent told her to paint it all over, but she was highly offended. She thought it was a selling feature.
Instead, buyers would look around, and right in front of her, talk about the cost of repainting.
Sad.
We did a mural once inside a post office lobby. it depicted large colorful or just plain cool stamps down through the years. Came out pretty good.
then, abut 6 or 7 years later an out of control truck jumped the sidewalk and crashed into that post office demolishing the mural….all we have of it now are some photos of it
Awwww…
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“Shotgun!”
Who’s gonna tell him no???!!!
Too bad it wasn’t right hand drive…
He can’t reach the pedals.
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What a Magnificent cast!
Well played!
I always think… Brad Dexter??
(Sorry Brad.)
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Wouldn’t it have been easier to just run the pipe diagonally up the wall?
and I would have doubled as a hand railing
That would have been so nice of you!
hee hee….I just noticed I dropped a T
Somebody owns a plumbing supply store…
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Let me guess: “Twilight Zone?”
And I even recognized the episode at once!
yes, there’s an incredibly bad makeup attempt at depicting a third eye under his cap
So not another “Nighthawks” tribute…
needle and thread
No wonder i can’t thread those things.
LOL!
But I don’t get it.
This is way larger than we see it, but we do see it.
There’s no way my good mercerized sewing thread is this rough or loosely twisted.
BRB…. I gotta try something.
Ok, I don’t have a good camera with a macro lens.
.
This is cotton and polyester sewing thread… I happened to have a color similar to the other photo.
Taken with my phone camera, with no flash, as close as I can get it.
Even so, you can tell it wouldn’t be like the other picture, even if I had better equipment. I’m wondering what that other thread is made of.
….
BTW, Happy³… You might want to get some needles like this one. They have packs of them at most fabric shops.
They’re called self-threading. The eye is double.
The lower eye, which I managed to use just now, is normal.
The top one has a slit you can pull the thread through from the top, sideways, without poking the end through the eye. I use it when my hands won’t cooperate.
I’ve got needles like that — I never knew what the second eye was for! Thank you!
You just hold the thread taut from both sides of the needle (for me it takes two hands) and snap it down into the slot.
Every now and then the cheap ones I have now will break the thread… But you just try again.
If you were going to use it double and it broke in the middle, you just put both pieces through as though it’s one thread.
There are also some now with the slot on the side, which makes more sense.
cool! a public service announcement
The first photo looks to me like one of those SEM (scanning electron microscope) images.
Or a statue — that needle doesn’t look like steel either.
I thought at first it was a bone needle… made of bone, not for sewing bone… threaded with some kind of raw fiber.
But it seems symmetrically molded, not hand carved.
Maybe a plastic needle threaded with fiber for basket making, like fine coir.
I think it’s steel. The choice of color is deceiving, since it’s not the real color of the object. Steel doesn’t necessarily look like steel at those magnifications.
on set ‘Psycho’, 1959
The movie Psycho, or just a general description of Alfred Hitchcock?
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Bogie was 5’8″… Bergman considered very tall in that era, at 5’9″.
And if course the rule in Hollywood was that the man had to be at least an inch taller than the woman.
…
That rule may seem sexist and quaint… But how often do you see it broken today?
A lot of male stars are short, but the camera loves 5’11” model-like women.
Yet you don’t see many movies where the female lead towers over her love interest.
…
A few guys, like Michael Fox, Kevin Hart, and especially Danny DeVito, play up their short stature. Peter Dinklage doesn’t have much choice.
But some guys still wear lifts… usually more subtle than these… and the women wear flats, interspersed with occasional shots of just their feet in heels.
A lot of fancy camera angles, a lot editing done in post production….
All so you can’t tell that Tom Cruise is only 5’7″.
I’ve never understood why it matters.
I never thought Bogie was taller than Cruise…..the selection of Cruise to play the main character in the Reacher books caught a lot of flak from fans of the books because the character Reacher is 6’6′ or something and they considered ol Cruise as too small…but movie magic makes him much larger than his stature
Bogie was also just built bigger.
Not a big or muscly guy… but Cruise is tiny.
AHEM! 5’7″ is tiny? 🙁 I must be microscopic. Bring in the SEM, it’s time for my close up.
No, not everybody 5’7 or even 5’2 is tiny.
My 4’10” female friend is certainly not tiny… She wears a size 12, but she’s not at all fat, either.
Nor is Danny DeVito tiny, though he’s about her height. I’d call him large, but short. Peter Dinklage is a dwarf, I don’t think even 4′ tall… but not tiny.
Tom Cruise is tiny because he’s built like a very slender tall person, but he’s actually short…so his body is proportionally very small. That’s why he doesn’t look short in pictures, if there’s no frame of reference.
Nor did I say either short or tiny was unattractive, or in any way a negative… I said I didn’t know why it mattered.
I happen to find Peter Dinklage quite attractive.
Tom Cruise not, but it has nothing to do with his physical appearance, which would also be very attractive … if he weren’t a jerk.
Because, um, size matters? 😉
Only to some types. 😁
Subtle…
And that’s how clogs got invented.
Got ’em.
You just can’t hide… your lion eyes
Boo! 😀
BUNNY!
Flopsy!
You can’t fool me…that’s a helicopter in disguise!
It worked for Bugs.
And Snoopy.
Radio Times Cover – Issue 2141 – November 1964
I highly recommend the TV-movie “An Adventure in Space and Time”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2663812/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_adventures%2520in%2520time%2520and%2520space
“Dr. Who & the Daleks” – sounds like a rock band.
I’m not sure i can really wait a whole week to see whether Perro™ can save Señorita Voluptuoso!
But I suppose I have no choice. Sigh.
Meanwhile, sometimes a big Thanksgiving dinner with relatives and friends, having to try Aunt Felicity’s cranberry pickle relish and listen to Uncle Elias proselytize about football plays…
That’s enough to drive the staunchest Pilgrim Father to head for his secret flask of fortitude.