Sunday Challenge

The color shaft to my kaleidoscope. The opaque looking shapes are actually little bits of mirrored plastic. The complete kaleidoscope is in a note in the upper left. I bought the kaleidoscope at an antique store. It's made to look like an antique, but it's not ... it's more of a homemade item/art. The kaleidoscope body is made out of stained glass. The viewing end is at the bottom and contains the viewing lens. The T end of the kaleidoscope is an acrylic rod filled with fluid and bits of color which slide down a spiral slot inside the rod. It works pretty much like a regular kaleidoscope with a prism at the T-end. You twist the rod as you look through the viewing lens and it changes all the shapes and colors. I just noticed while sitting here looking at the photo that it has a crack in it and I'm guessing it's been dropped sometime by one of the grand kids ... or maybe me! I did a search a few minutes ago and there are actually stained glass kaleidoscope kits available. Not quite the same design, but then I bought this one nearly 12 years ago.

Something personal challenge: I bought the kaleidoscope at an antique store. It's made to look like an antique, but it's not ... it's more of a homemade item/art. The kaleidoscope body is made out of stained glass. The viewing end is at the bottom and contains the viewing lens. The T end of the kaleidoscope is an acrylic rod filled with fluid and bits of color which slide down a spiral slot inside the rod. It works pretty much like a regular kaleidoscope with a prism at the T-end. You twist the rod as you look through the viewing lens and it changes all the shapes and colors. I just noticed while sitting here looking at the photo that it has a crack in it and I'm guessing it's been dropped sometime by one of the grand kids.

Alfred Cheney Johnston collection of Ziegfeld Girls. I'm still dealing with a reluctant internet and my comments will be hampered until I get it figured out.

Scanned 35mm negative.

Anonymous art posted on an abandoned house ... spooky enough the neighborhood association had quite a discussion on it.

Shiny metal challenge.

In Europe the design won numerious awards at the Salons d'Elegance in Paris, Lyons, Bordauex, and Marseilles. However the style was too radical for the American public and that hampered sales. In 1938 there were only approximately 5020 cars sold all of them being a four door sedan. In 1939 Graham added a two door sedan and a combination coupe, but sales were still slow with only 5400 cars being sold. In 1940 sales fell to around 1000 cars even after having a redesigned front end and other improvments. The 1940 car was also renamed the Senior car, but production ended in early 1940. The Hollywood Graham was produced in 1940 and ended in later 1940. Very little advertising was done in 1940 for the Senior car or for the Hollywood.

Original photo from www.deviantart.com/art/Snowman-Christmas-107371041 and PhotoFunia.

My New Year tradition is to attend the auto show. Lots of shiny metal and very little in my price range. Each year I vow to come up with a new tradition ... the auto show lacks any vestige of excitement!

I didn't have time to go out for and new photo this week and I pulled one from the archive. This young lady was there to support the Veteran's Day parade.

Used largely for determining the slope of the land.

No time for new photos this week and I pulled this one from the archives. 1940 Dodge on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. Night photo taken with my old Nikon D40.

Photomatrix HDR. Photomatrix gives quite a variety of different HDR image choices, but I felt the artistic b/w looked more like what I was seeing when I took the photo.

Gladstone, Michigan beach.

Condo garage door in the Old North Side Historic District.

Cartoon Sunday Challenge.