A Few More Donation Blocks

Donation blocks - mid October
Donation blocks – mid October

My last batch will make a cohesive quilt. This group less so. I had one leftover from the previous batch. When I returned home from the meeting on Saturday, I decided to cut up some cream and green squares for a background and make more donation blocks.

I pulled out a small bin of 2.5″ squares that I cut up for donation quilts a thousand years ago and began using those to make more squares. There is a lot of blue.

Last Lone Green & Grey Donation Block
Last Lone Green & Grey Donation Block

The blocks are interesting. They aren’t as cohesive, as I said, but they make an interesting group of blocks. I don’t know that they will all be put together in the same group.

I have more to make.

 

Creative Prompt #332: Taxicab

taxi medallion

Definition: “A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice. This differs from other modes of public transport where the pick-up and drop-off locations are determined by the service provider, not by the passenger, although demand responsive transport and share taxis provide a hybrid bus/taxi mode.

There are four distinct forms of taxicab, which can be identified by slightly differing terms in different countries:

  • Hackney carriages, also known as public hire, hailed or street taxis, licensed for hailing throughout communities
  • Private hire vehicles, also known as minicabs or private hire taxis, licensed for pre-booking only
  • Taxibuses, also known as jitneys, operating on pre-set routes typified by multiple stops and multiple independent passengers
  • Limousines, specialized vehicle licensed for operation by pre-booking

Although types of vehicles and methods of regulation, hiring, dispatching, and negotiating payment differ significantly from country to country, many common characteristics exist.” (Wikipedia)

Yellow Cab

Etymology: “Harry Nathaniel Allen of The New York Taxicab Company, who imported the first 600 gas-powered New York City taxicabs from France in 1907, coined the word “taxicab” as a contraction of “taximeter cabriolet“. “Taximeter” is an adaptation of the French word taximètre, coined from Medieval Latin taxa, which means tax or charge, together with meter from the Greek metron (??????) meaning measure.[1] A “cabriolet” is a type of horse-drawn carriage, from the French word “cabrioler” (“leap, caper”), from Italian “capriolare” (“to jump”), from Latin “capreolus” (“roebuck”, “wild goat”).

The taxicabs of Paris were equipped with the first meters beginning on March 9, 1898. They were originally called taxamètres, then renamed taximètres on October 17, 1904.[2]“(Wikipedia)

cab fare

A natural analogue to angles and trigonometry is developed in taxicab geometry.

Taxi Cab” song by TWENTY ONE PILOTS

Checker cab

United Taxicab Workers – CWA

Taxicab Industry. In the United States, there are approximately 6,300 companies operating 171,000 taxicabs.

Taxicab Confessions

Taxi ( TV Show 1978–1983)

The Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) Board of Directors established an Advisory Taxicab Committee in September 1994.

Taxi Driver (1976 movie with Robert DeNiro and Jody Foster)

cab driver

taxicab with the doors open. A phrase used to describe a person who’s ears stick straight out from their head (at about a 90-degree angle) (Urban Dictionary)

In mathematics, the generalized taxicab number Taxicab(k, j, n) is the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of j kth positive powers in n different ways. For k = 3 and j = 2, they coincide with taxicab numbers. (Wikipedia)

The A-Team: Season 2, Episode 7 The Taxicab Wars (1 Nov. 1983)

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Creative Prompt #331: Utensil

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Definition: “an implement, container, or other article, especially for household use.” (Google)

Utensil may refer to:

fork

EcoSecurity Utensil (ESU) offers solutions for safety and humane treatment where utensils may be misused.

knife

Based in San Francisco, Utensil Recordings releases artist singles on vinyl and digital downloads. Our musical focus is the underground dance floor.

spoon

implement

writing utensil

utensil tray

Trongs – finger food utensil (who knew?)

spork

Boon ModWare toddler utensils

The Vision 1321/1327 Cart and Utensil Washer/Disinfector is a high-capacity mechanical washer intended for use in the efficient cleaning of reusable items.

Improve your customer’s dining experience with your custom Utensil Buddy™ …raising silverware to a safe, new level! (I didn’t know I needed this.)

Foam Padded Utensil Gripper

“Evident Utensil” song by CHAIRLIFT

The History of Eating Utensils – California Academy of Sciences

Last Defense Utensil Wipes allow you to eliminate 99.9% of germs and bacteria found on what you may think are clean eating and drinking items.

Compostable Utensils

Utensil Welding Gun (Lego)

 

 

Creative Prompt #330: Wave

light wave

Definition: “In physics, a wave is an oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through space or mass. Frequency refers to the addition of time. Wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, which may or may not displace particles of the medium[disambiguation needed]—that is, with little or no associated mass transport. Waves consist, instead, of oscillations or vibrations (of a physical quantity), around almost fixed locations.

There are two main types of waves. Mechanical waves propagate through a medium, and the substance of this medium is deformed. The deformation reverses itself owing to restoring forces resulting from its deformation. For example, sound waves propagate via air molecules colliding with their neighbors. When air molecules collide, they also bounce away from each other (a restoring force). This keeps the molecules from continuing to travel in the direction of the wave.

The second main type of wave, electromagnetic waves, do not require a medium. Instead, they consist of periodic oscillations of electrical and magnetic fields generated by charged particles, and can therefore travel through a vacuum. These types of waves vary in wavelength, and include radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays.

Waves are described by a wave equation which sets out how the disturbance proceeds over time. The mathematical form of this equation varies depending on the type of wave. Further, the behavior of particles in quantum mechanics are described by waves. In addition, gravitational waves also travel through space, which are a result of a vibration or movement in gravitational fields.

A wave can be transverse or longitudinal. Transverse waves occur when a disturbance creates oscillations that are perpendicular to the propagation of energy transfer. Longitudinal waves occur when the oscillations are parallel to the direction of energy propagation. While mechanical waves can be both transverse and longitudinal, all electromagnetic waves are transverse in free space.”(Wikipedia)

sound wave

Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google originally developed it as Google Wave.

Wave is a free mobile app which enables you to locate your contacts in a PRIVATE and REAL-TIME map for a limited period of time.

The Z-Wave Alliance is a global consortium of 300+ companies creating products and services powered by Z-Wave.

Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, poetry in translation,

Google Wave

The Wave is Leatherman’s most popular model, with outside-accessible blades, bit driver, scissors, and wire cutters, all in a 100% stainless steel body.

Wave Cable TV and Internet

Wholesome Wave strives to create a vibrant, just and sustainable food system.

Touchjet Pond projector and Touchjet WAVE turns any surface, TV and monitor into virtual touchscreen giant tablet and smart TV.

1981 TV Short

Showcases the Wave series of spreading petunias. Available varieties, cultural tips, photos of implementations, and retailer finder.

94.7 The Wave

Doing the Wave

Wave Hill is a famous public garden in the northwest Bronx along the Hudson River, with flower gardens, alpine house, greenhouses, and cultural center.

Wave Motion journal – Wave Motion is devoted to the cross fertilization of ideas, and to stimulating interaction between workers in various research area

gesture of hello or good-bye

rogue wave

Single-use WAVE rocking bioreactors are suitable for both suspension and anchorage-dependent cells in applications including MAb production and virus, etc

Water Assessment by Volunteer Evaluators

D-Wave, a Canadian quantum computing firm

WAVE Fellows at Caltech

The Wave Glider SV3 is the world’s first hybrid wave and solar propelled unmanned ocean robot.

Rogue Wave Software

The WAVE Foundation: Women Against Violence Everywhere, is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington.

The Hobie Wave is an easy- to-sail, easy-to-rig speedster that will have you smiling.

The Wave is a photogenic rocky area in the Paria Canyon Coyote Buttes Wilderness area of southern Utah and northern Arizona.

The Wave Energy Prize is a public prize challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Water Power Program.

The Global Wave Conference is an international gathering to advance the recognition of the value of waves and their protection around the world.

Wave Farm

Speed Wave

Third Wave Fund

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More IRR

As mentioned the other day, the IRR is going well. I worked on Michelle’s piece on Saturday. It is, as also mentioned, a 20 minute exercise, so I worked on it early and got it finished.

Michelle's IRR Start
Michelle’s IRR Start

I started with Michelle’s piece, by putting it on the wall and looking at it for a few days. That tactic would have worked better if I had taken a look at the fabrics she included. 😉

I decided, however, that I was going to work on it on Saturday and get it out of my hair.

I did loosen up a bit on Michelle’s. Even I can admit that mine was a bit more uptight than improv. I guess that is part of the process.

Once again, I have a shortage of design wall space. I really think I need a whole room with movable design walls all over it. OR I need to clear my mind of the jumble of projects in it. My mind is an insane mess right now.

Michelle's IRR with my contribution
Michelle’s IRR with my contribution

I should have balanced the piece out by putting my contribution on the bottom, but I wanted to continue those dark solid lines. I really do like the strips of bright. the top of the piece is very happy.

It is headed off to Jen next.

Creative Prompt #329: Castle

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TV Show

Castle Rock Regional Recreation Area

where a king and queen live with their princes and princesses

Neuschwanstein

Hearst Castle

Castle provides information and links for candidates preparing to take certification and licensure tests.

Definition: “A castle (from Latin: castellum) is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a palace, which is not fortified; from a fortress, which was not always a residence for nobility; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence – though there are many similarities among these types of construction. Usage of the term has varied over time and has been applied to structures as diverse as hill forts and country houses. Over the approximately 900 years that castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls and arrowslits, were commonplace.

A European innovation, castles originated in the 9th and 10th centuries, after the fall of the Carolingian Empire resulted in its territory being divided among individual lords and princes. These nobles built castles to control the area immediately surrounding them, and were both offensive and defensive structures; they provided a base from which raids could be launched as well as protection from enemies. Although their military origins are often emphasised in castle studies, the structures also served as centres of administration and symbols of power. Urban castles were used to control the local populace and important travel routes, and rural castles were often situated near features that were integral to life in the community, such as mills and fertile land.

Many castles were originally built from earth and timber, but had their defences replaced later by stone. Early castles often exploited natural defences, and lacked features such as towers and arrowslits and relied on a central keep. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, a scientific approach to castle defence emerged. This led to the proliferation of towers, with an emphasis on flanking fire. Many new castles were polygonal or relied on concentric defence – several stages of defence within each other that could all function at the same time to maximise the castle’s firepower. These changes in defence have been attributed to a mixture of castle technology from the Crusades, such as concentric fortification, and inspiration from earlier defences such as Roman forts. Not all the elements of castle architecture were military in nature, and devices such as moats evolved from their original purpose of defence into symbols of power. Some grand castles had long winding approaches intended to impress and dominate their landscape.

Although gunpowder was introduced to Europe in the 14th century, it did not significantly affect castle building until the 15th century, when artillery became powerful enough to break through stone walls. While castles continued to be built well into the 16th century, new techniques to deal with improved cannon fire made them uncomfortable and undesirable places to live. As a result, true castles went into decline and were replaced by artillery forts with no role in civil administration, and country houses that were indefensible. From the 18th century onwards, there was a renewed interest in castles with the construction of mock castles, part of a romantic revival of Gothic architecture, but they had no military purpose.” (Wikipedia)

Loire Valley “castles”

Pink Castle Fabrics

Blarney Castle

Castle Heavy Metal Band

North of Manhattan, the Castle Hotel & Spa sits majestically overlooking the Hudson River on sprawling acres of manicured gardens, etc

Durham Castle

White Castle – the first hamburger chain, started in 1921

Castle is a Chicago nightclub and multi-venue home to weekly shows from global superstar DJs and a premier private event space in the heart of Chicago.

Edinburgh Castle

Boston University’s historic Castle is an extraordinary Tudor Revival mansion on Bay State Road

Castle Crashers – website for the award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!

More Donation Blocks

FOTY-made Donation Blocks
FOTY-made Donation Blocks

I made more donation blocks last Saturday as I worked on sewing together the FOTY 2014 patches. I thought green would be good and chose a lot of medium greens, though I had to use some darker pieces as my green scrap basket dwindled. I used, mostly, grey for the background. As you will, a little pink and some other colors crept in.

Using the leaders and enders technique, I just kept sewing the 2.5″ squares in between the FOTY 2014 patches and came up with all of these donation blocks. I joked about making enough for a whole quilt, never thinking I would be able to do it. I am close, though, especially with the blocks from the other day.

I saw a quilt on Valerie’s Twitter feed that has these blocks with Flying Geese on the outside to make them into stars. I am sorely tempted, but I have so many projects that I am going to force myself just to turn these blocks in and let someone else make a pretty quilt.

I am very pleased that this will be a quilt (or quilts) that will make someone happy.

Creative Prompt #328: Man

Renaissance Man

be a man!

Mountain Man

Tin man

he’s a family man

Gingerbread Man

Walkman

53-man roster

Man up!

Transcendent Man is the documentary film that introduces the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist who journeys the world offering his vision of a future in which we will merge with the super-intelligent machines we have created and can live forever?all within the next thirty years.

Sovereign man

9-man: An award-winning sports documentary about a streetball battle in the heart of Chinatown.

Yes Men

Third Man Records

Kennewick Man

Isle of Man

Cafeteria Man shows us that improving school food isn’t about nutrients and recipes — but vision.” – Jane Black, Food Writer (movie)

Medicine man

man down

Definition: “A man is a male human. The term man is usually reserved for an adult male, with the term boy being the usual term for a male child or adolescent. However, the term man is also sometimes used to identify a male human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as “men’s basketball“.

Like most other male mammals, a man’s genome typically inherits an X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father. The male fetus produces larger amounts of androgens and smaller amounts of estrogens than a female fetus. This difference in the relative amounts of these sex steroids is largely responsible for the physiological differences that distinguish men from women. During puberty, hormones which stimulate androgen production result in the development of secondary sexual characteristics, thus exhibiting greater differences between the sexes. However, there are exceptions to the above for some intersex and transgender men.” (Wikipedia)

The Last Man on Earth

12 Angry Men

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (book)

straw man

Two and Half Men (TV Show)

Burning Man

The Music Man (play/musical)

Mad Men (TV Show)

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Man of Steel

Blue Man Group

The Man (2005 movie)

con man

Iron Man (2008 movie)

Museum of Man: Anthropological museum containing artifacts, folk art, and archaeological finds.

Ant-Man (movie)

Spiderman

Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015 movie)

No Man is an Island

Man Booker prizes

young man

Lindow Man

origin of man

Man Bartlett is an an artist living and working in New York City. He is known for drawings, collages, videos, and online performance that often uses social media.

Man is an industry leading alternative investment provider offering a comprehensive range of transparent, dynamic and thematic trading strategies across the …

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Donation Blocks

September Donation Blocks
September Donation Blocks

I was finally able to make some donation blocks!

Unlike Pam, I do not have piles of 2.5″ squares laying around, though I am starting to think I should. I cut the foreground squares from a FQ I found that I won’t use in a quilt. I decided to make the blocks, because I had some leftovers from a One Hour Basket I made. That fabric became the background. There isn’t a ton of contrast, but they are pleasant blocks. The best part is they will go to a good cause. I haven’t done as much charity work this year and it makes me feel good to add to the BAMQG charity pile.

As I started to sew the FOTY 2014 together on Friday (started last week, but got really serious on Friday), I realized that I needed leaders and enders. After I sew each FOTY pair, I need to sew something in between so that I can keep the FOTY patches in order. I have been using the Octagon 9 Patch as leaders and enders pretty regularly, but I am at a weird place with that project, so for the moment it won’t work. I gave away a bunch of my neutrals, but dug around and found some suitable greys for more donation blocks. I used leftovers of some Bonnie and Camille greys. They are a little too taupe for me, so I have been using them for projects I don’t plan to keep. Since I also have a lot of green scraps, which I don’t use much, I cut some random 2.5″ squares from those and made a couple of blocks.

Green & Grey Donation Blocks
Green & Grey Donation Blocks

Now I have a random thought to make 12 more and have enough for a quilt. I suppose it is possible since FOTY has a lot of pairs needing sewing, but the cutting of the 2.5″ squares – enough to make a quilt before next week is a little daunting.

I think it will be better if I get over my Octagon Nine Patch hump so I can make progress on that project, not that donation blocks are a bad thing.

Creative Prompt #327: Grill

gas grill

“A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side by side in a wall or metal sheet or other barrier, usually to let air or water enter and/or leave but keep larger objects including animals in or out.[1]” (Wikipedia)

charcoal grill

George Foreman Grill

 

backyard grill

Tadich Grill (San Francisco)

Definition: “Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above or below (as in North America).

Grilling usually involves a significant amount of direct, radiant heat, and tends to be used for cooking meat quickly. Food to be grilled is cooked on a grill (an open wire grid such as a gridiron with a heat source above or below), a grill pan (similar to a frying pan, but with raised ridges to mimic the wires of an open grill), or griddle (a flat plate heated from below).[1] Heat transfer to the food when using a grill is primarily via thermal radiation. Heat transfer when using a grill pan or griddle is by direct conduction. In the United States, when the heat source for grilling comes from above, grilling is termed broiling.[2] In this case, the pan that holds the food is called a broiler pan, and heat transfer is by thermal radiation.

Direct heat grilling can expose food to temperatures often in excess of 260 °C (500 °F). Grilled meat acquires a distinctive roast aroma and flavor from a chemical process called the Maillard reaction. The Maillard reaction only occurs when foods reach temperatures in excess of 155 °C (310 °F).[3]

Studies have shown that cooking beef, pork, poultry, and fish at high temperatures can lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines, benzopyrenes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are carcinogens.[4][5][6] Marination may reduce the formation of these compounds.[7] Grilling is often presented as a healthy alternative to cooking with oil, although the fat and juices lost by grilling can contribute to drier food.[citation needed]“(Wikipedia)

John’s Grill (San Francisco)

In food

  • Barbecue grill, a device or surface used for cooking food, usually fuelled by gas or charcoal, or the part of a cooker that performs this function
  • Grilling, a form of cooking that involves direct heat
  • A restaurant that serves grilled food, such as a “bar and grill”
  • A Flattop grill cooking device often used in restaurants, especially diners

Music

  • Grillz, a 2005 rap single by Nelly
    • A Parody of the song by the German rap-group K.I.Z.
  • Grill Music Venue, an Irish nightclub located in Letterkenny, County Donegal

People

Other

  • Grill (jewelry), a form of dental jewelry commonly associated with hip hop
  • Grill (philately), a pattern of indentations on a postage stamp
  • Grille, architectural element
  • Grille (motor vehicle), an opening in the bodywork of a vehicle to allow air to enter
  • Grille (artillery), a self-propelled artillery piece used by Germany during World War II
  • Grill (cryptology), method used chiefly early on, before the advent of the cyclometer, by the mathematician-cryptologists of the Polish Cipher Bureau in decrypting the German Enigma machine
  • Grille (cryptography), a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet
  • Grille, a decorative window Muntin for simulating separate panes
  • Grillwork, decorative grating

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Creative Prompt #326: Vanilla

Definition: “Vanilla is a flavor derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). The word vanilla, derived from the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina (vaina itself meaning sheath or pod), translates simply as “little pod”.[1] Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.[2]

Initial attempts to cultivate vanilla outside Mexico and Central America proved futile because of the symbiotic relationship between the vanilla orchid and its natural pollinator, the local species of Melipona bee.[3] Pollination is required to set the fruit from which the flavoring is derived. In 1837, Belgian botanist Charles François Antoine Morren discovered this fact and pioneered a method of artificially pollinating the plant. The method proved financially unworkable and was not deployed commercially.[4] In 1841, Edmond Albius, a slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, discovered at the age of 12 that the plant could be hand-pollinated. Hand-pollination allowed global cultivation of the plant.[5]

Three major species of vanilla currently are grown globally, all of which derive from a species originally found in Mesoamerica, including parts of modern-day Mexico.[6] The various subspecies are Vanilla planifolia (syn. V. fragrans), grown on Madagascar, Réunion, and other tropical areas along the Indian Ocean; V. tahitensis, grown in the South Pacific; and V. pompona, found in the West Indies, and Central and South America.[7] The majority of the world’s vanilla is the V. planifolia species, more commonly known as Bourbon vanilla (after the former name of Réunion, Île Bourbon) or Madagascar vanilla, which is produced in Madagascar and neighboring islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, and in Indonesia.[8][9] Leptotes bicolor is used in the same way in South America.

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron,[10][11] because growing the vanilla seed pods is labor-intensive.[11] Despite the expense, vanilla is highly valued for its flavor, which author Frederic Rosengarten, Jr. described in The Book of Spices as “pure, spicy, and delicate”; he called its complex floral aroma a “peculiar bouquet”.[12] As a result, vanilla is widely used in both commercial and domestic baking, perfume manufacture and aromatherapy.” (Wikipedia)

a genus of orchids

a color variation

a lightweight Internet forum package

something ordinary or everyday (plain vanilla)

computer software which is not customized.

a girl band from Barnet, London, England

Vanilla (Gackt song)

Vanilla (Leah Dizon song)

Vanilla the Rabbit – a Sonic the Hedgehog character

Vanilla – an Asterix character

Vanilla, Pennsylvania

The Vanilla JS team maintains every byte of code in the framework and works hard each day to make sure it is small and intuitive.

The Vanilla workshop bicycles

Vanilla Bean Frappuccino® Blended Crème

vanilla fudge

Bourbon Vanilla Extract

Vanilla buttercream

vanilla bean

Tahitian vanilla

Vanilla Ice

Absolute Vanilla

Cherry Vanilla soda

Amy Sedaris’s Vanilla Cupcakes

Rapper Vanilla Ice

 

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Creative Prompt #325: Vise

Definition: “A vise or vice (see spelling discussion) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it. Vises have two parallel jaws, one fixed and the other movable, threaded in and out by a screw and lever.” (Wikipedia)

grip like a vise

bench vise

The Wilton ATV All-Terrain Vise mounts to any standard 2-inch tow hitch for jobs away from the workshop.

fly tying vise

Vise magazine

Doris & Harry Vise University Library at Cumberland University

he Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome.

The center facilitates the exchange of ideas between physicians, engineers, and computer scientists.  It promotes the training of the next generation of researchers and clinicians capable of working symbiotically on new solutions to complex interventional problems, ultimately resulting in improved patient care.

Vise captures a hand-blown glass globe within brass claws machined to follow the gentle curvature of the glass.

Vise pocket tool

Wood Vise Screw Kits

The blacksmith leg vise or “solid box vise” is one of the most important tools in the blacksmiths shop.

axle vise

milling vise

Opti-vise IT is a managed services provider that specializes in backup and disaster recovery solutions, Network Management and business continuity.

caught in a vise

Melissa Vise is a historian of medieval Europe with a special interest in the religious and political history of the Italian peninsula.

Daniel de Visé is higher education reporter at the Washington Post and author of the College Inc. blog.

Vise bowling bags

saw vise

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Creative Prompt #324: Violin

Stradivarius

A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years

violin concerto, Op. 35 by Tchaikovsky

Suzuki method

Violin Monster

violin solo

violin teacher

The Violin Society of America

The Violin (2005 movie)

fiddle

The Violin Channel – The world’s leading violin, strings & classical music news source.

Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

Fastest violin player (Guinness Book of World Records)

Definition: “The violin, also known as a fiddle, is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, and the cello. The modern word is derived from the Italian word violino, literally meaning ‘small viola’.

Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler. The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings (which may be stopped by the fingers of the other hand to produce a full range of pitches), by plucking the strings (with either hand), or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music, classical, jazz, country music, bluegrass music, folk music, metal, rock and roll, and soft rock. The violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world.The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it.

The violin is first known in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.[1][2] Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of “lesser” makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial “trade violins” coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.

A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood (although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument’s construction), and it is usually strung with gut, Perlon or other synthetic, or steel strings.” (Wikipedia)

The Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City

Cremona

Geige

kerman

Composite chordophone sounded by a bow (Wikipedia)

The stroh violin is self-amplified variation on the classic violin design with a resonating metal body and horn.

The American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers provides standards for the string instrument community including standards for violins and the bow family.

Violin Craftsmanship Institute

The Wandering Violin Mantis is one of the most amazing looking mantis species. It is a large mantis with amazing camouflage.

Black Violin is the blend of classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass music.

Violin Memory transforms the speed of business with high performance, always available, low-cost management of critical data and applications.

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and get familiar with your blog or website.

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Creative Prompt #323: Honey

sweetheart or endearment

National Honey Board

Honey badger

Twigs & Honey – Bridal headpieces, wedding headpieces, hair vines, crystal halos, bridal headbands, crowns, tiaras, bridal combs, bridal hairpins, silk flowers, bridal hair.

Honey Week – NYC – A weeklong, citywide festival celebrating the honeybee, NYC Honey Week 2015 merges the educational, the entertaining, and the downright delicious.

Honey by Marc Jacobs is a sunny, delicious floral—energetic and alluring, with a sparkling, golden touch. The perfect mix of brightness and warmth.

Honey Girls at Build-a-Bear Workshop

Milk and honey

tea with honey and lemon

honey butter

Chrome Web Store: Click on the Honey button during checkout and Honey will automatically apply coupon codes to your shopping cart.

Honey Maid graham crackers

Honey Bistro, San Francisco

Honey Sound System

Definition: “Honey /?h?ni/ is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers.

The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Honeys are also produced by bumblebees, stingless bees, and other hymenopteran insects such as honey wasps, though the quantity is generally lower and they have slightly different properties compared to honey from the genus Apis. Honey bees convert nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and evaporation. They store it as a primary food source in wax honeycombs inside the beehive.

Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has about the same relative sweetness as granulated sugar.[1][2] It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor that leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners.[1] Most microorganisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0.6.[3] However, honey sometimes contains dormant endospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be dangerous to infants, as the endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in infants’ immature intestinal tracts, leading to illness and even death.[4]

Honey has had a long history in human consumption, and is used in various foods and beverages as a sweetener and flavoring. It also has a role in religion and symbolism. Flavors of honey vary based on the nectar source, and various types and grades of honey are available. It has also been used in various medicinal traditions to treat ailments. The study of pollens and spores in honey (melissopalynology) can determine floral sources of honey.[5] Bees carry an electrostatic charge whereby they attract other particles in addition to pollen, which become incorporated into their honey; honey can be analysed by the technique of melissopalynology, in the area of environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust, and particulate pollution.[6][7]” (Wikipedia)

honey bear

Honey is a beautiful and intuitive social intranet for your company. Built to connect global teams, share resources, simplify team conversations, and support 

2003 movie directed by Bille Woodruff. With Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Romeo Miller, Missy Elliott. Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.

Honey Stinger’s energy and protein bars, waffles, gels and chews are all-natural foods designed for athletes and great for anyone looking for a healthy snack.

Honey Hive Gallery: Our spoken word open mics at The Honey Hive Gallery are becoming much more creative and eclectic!

Honey Care Africa – We partner with smallholder farmers across East Africa to strengthen incomes and grow Africa’s ‘family honey company’ through sustainable beekeeping.

Andy Grammer, “Honey, I’m Good” song & music video

Honey
Honey

I went to live in Austria and learned to eat bread with butter and various toppings for breakfast. One such ‘topping’ was a special kind of honey called Kastanianhonig (honey made from bees who lived near chestnut trees). This is some of the best honey I have ever eaten and I don’t think I can ever get it out of my mind.

The YM calls one of his grandmothers “Honey”

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Creative Prompt #322: Peach

White peaches (BTW, I LOVE white peaches)

peachy keen

The Peach Kings are an American Indie Rock Band in Los Angeles. Walking a slack line between black leather and blue velvet.

peach fuzz

Peach Fuzzer™ is an advanced and extensible security fuzz testing platform. It can be used to find vulnerabilities in networking protocols, device drivers, etc

Botanical print by Otto Wilhelm Thome
Botanical print by Otto Wilhelm Thome

Definition: “The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree, native to Northwest China, in the region between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.[2] It bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach.

The specific epithet persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia, whence it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus which includes the cherry and plum, in the family Rosaceae. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.

Peach and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits present the characteristic fuzz on the skin, nectarines are characterized by the absence of fruit-skin trichomes (fuzz-less fruit); genetic studies suggest nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, whereas peaches are produced from a dominant allele for fuzzy skin.[3]

China is the world’s largest producer of peaches.[4]” (Wikipedia)

Saturn peach donuts

The Peach Truck Kitchen

Princess Peach (Super Mario)

Peach Melba

Lucky Peach – An alternative quarterly journal of food writing, art, and recipes.

 

Peach is a parent-led charity that promotes Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) for young children with autism.

Snapple Peach Tea

PEACH, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist.

 

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and get familiar with your blog or website.

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