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wjcstp

gold foil bass finished

Wooden bass guitar with alternating dark/light/dark wood, a dark wood neck, and a single pickup that has a chrome cover and gold foil accents.
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Wooden bass guitar with alternating dark/light/dark wood, a dark wood neck, and a single pickup that has a chrome cover and gold foil accents.
Some small finishing details to do, but it's a complete working bass now. I only have an hour of playing on it so far, but i like it - it's comfortable to play and at least on my little practice amp sounds great.

The project started with the pickup, a re-creation of the gold foil pickups used on 1960s Harmony (and some other) basses. I bought the neck from an eBay seller but modified it a bit for my preferences and to fit the body. The body i built from scratch, it's sapele and maple, with a very thin amber varnish finish. Body shape is a fairly close copy of an aluminum-necked Kramer bass. There's only 1 knob for volume, there's a static tone circuit that's the same as if the tone knob was always turned fully up.

I'll have the first band practice with it tonight, and will probably let it settle in a bit before bringing it to shows. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, just what i was hoping for when it was still just a graph paper drawing earlier this summer.

Full project writeup with many more photos here:
http://bill.fidean.net/projects...
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m3moellering 54 minutes ago
Gorgeous!
ardgedee pro 45 minutes ago
Woo!
nikkuneko pro 34 minutes ago
😻😻😻

damn, i love this whole look- the body shape, the wood grain and staining, the "racing stripe" inlays, all of it!

what is the pickup you chose?
wjcstp pro 27 minutes ago
Thanks all!

@nikkuneko This is the pickup, i got it used on one of the bass forums a bit cheaper than new:
https://www.curtisnovak.com/shop...

It's a single coil, so it has a little hum but it's pleasantly deep and punchy. I'm really looking forward to putting it through the main amp tonight.
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sdbillin

Early Autumn colours

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sdbillin 2 hours ago
Walking around the local iron age hillfort yesterday and colours were popping
sdbillin 2 hours ago
Spot the mini-me in the medium distance
ian_whitney

Back in the bread game

A close up photo of a loaf of bread on a cooling rack. The bread is dark brown and covered with toasted flakes of wheat bran.
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A close up photo of a loaf of bread on a cooling rack. The bread is dark brown and covered with toasted flakes of wheat bran.
It's not 90 degrees out, so I'm now willing to turn on the oven and bake some bread.
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shfitz

Art With a Plug

A group of adults building sound circuits. An illustration of a circuit powered by a 9V battery is projected on the wall
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A group of adults building sound circuits. An illustration of a circuit powered by a 9V battery is projected on the wall
I developed a workshop to teach art conservators about electricity and electronics with NYU's Institute of Fine Art titled "Art With a Plug". Originally a 5 day intensive, then a hybrid asynch/synch month-long online version for a few years, and now back IRL with the conservation team at the MoMA for the next 2 weeks.

Everyone builds a sound circuit on a breadboard, then moves to a fixed version on a protoboard. After using Forrest Mims' "Stepped tone generator" (aka Atari Punk Console) for the online sessions, I returned to the Cracklebox for this edition.

To my utter joy and surprise, every team got the circuit up and running in a little under an hour. They had to learn to solder, follow a schematic, work with a multimeter, and get comfortable improvising when recreating an artwork. Super excited to see what they do for next week.

Atari Punk Console: https://sdiy.info/wiki...
Cracklebox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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gschmd

∞

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An animated gif of a skater doing a slow loop around an empty swimming pool.
Source: https://www.are.na/block...
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snowbow

 

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went for a walk today down by the water. saw these trees as i was making my way back.
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WikiAdam 14 hours ago
It's the most
wonderful time
of the year
gwint

Find God

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source https://bsky.app/profile...
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LocalStain pro 16 hours ago
You know... I've been looking for Jesus for so long... technically... doesn't that make *him* lost...?
MackReed

*seasonal noises*

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Animation loop - three skeletons dancing in a dark field. Captions read: I’m scared! This is scary! I’m scared too!
source: https://www.tumblr.com/skullgri...
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snowbow

 

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fall friends.. from my sketchbook. watercolour and fineliner pen
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jaymayday

cutie pie

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#grow
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mcmjolnir pro 17 hours ago
Pricklepals!
not_copinghagen 9 hours ago
I'm enjoying the botanical dioramas :)
jmck

Brad's Drink

seemingly complete gallery of the 21 stages of the Pepsi Cola logo
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seemingly complete gallery of the 21 stages of the Pepsi Cola logo
TIL Pepsi was originally Brad's Drink, but, more importantly, this shows that:
- Before 1950, branding was the province of mescaline addicts only
- by 1951, branding had already absorbed Baudrillard avant le hashtag
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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Willing to bet the designs 1903-1951 aren't deliberate modifications, but the results of hiring local artists to redraw the logo because they didn't have a clean copy of the previous original.

On the other hand, I'd bet the designs from 1991-onward are the result of marketing executives doing a rebranding purely to pad out their resumes while they hustle on to their next promotion.
heyitsal pro Yesterday
I have a historical trademark book in my office with some additional info... "Brad" is because it was invented and sold by a pharmacist named Caleb D Bradham, before he branded it later as Pepsi Cola. He did really well with it until WW1 when there was sugar rationing and then sugar price fluctuations later. He lost ownership at a specific point when he bought sugar at a high and suddenly had to sell it way low in 1920.
dogwelder pro 18 hours ago
I don't think any of these are very good. 69-71 is the cleanest, but not very interesting. And the 2008-23 attempt to make an equivalent to Coke's "Dynamic Ribbon Device" is a total failure. The black ring around the current one makes the logo look cramped.
ardgedee pro 17 hours ago
@dogwelder The current one looks like an old oil company logo that somebody repurposed for their rave flyer.
ckoerner 7 hours ago
I like how the new logo is just the old logo from when I was a kid.
travis pro 4 hours ago
if I see the 71-87 variant I know it's gonna be some good pizza.
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MackReed

#psa

Sunlight blasting through a forest canopy. Word superimposed day, “To have gotten this far is a gift.”
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Sunlight blasting through a forest canopy. Word superimposed day, “To have gotten this far is a gift.”
source: https://www.tumblr.com/skullgri...
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O_C

Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle with Vibrator and Bread, 1975

A diptych of black and white studio photographs showing (top) a hammer & sickle with vibrator and (bottom) a hammer & sickle with a loaf of bread
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A diptych of black and white studio photographs showing (top) a hammer & sickle with vibrator and (bottom) a hammer & sickle with a loaf of bread
source: https://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post...
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BennyTheIcepick pro 17 hours ago
Brings new meaning to “bread and roses”
O_C

Penguin serving a strawberry milkshake

illustration art shows a penguin with a dishtowel on one flipper and holding a strawberry milkshake in a glass on a tray in the other flipper
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illustration art shows a penguin with a dishtowel on one flipper and holding a strawberry milkshake in a glass on a tray in the other flipper
source: https://danskjavlarna.tumblr.com/post...
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csilverman

dead drop

A craggy boulder hovers in a hazy orange sky, lit by a hazy yellow sun. Planted in the boulder is a small mailbox and nothing else. The boulder is anchored to an unseen element by a long rope or chain. Both the chain and the underside of the boulder have moss hanging off them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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A craggy boulder hovers in a hazy orange sky, lit by a hazy yellow sun. Planted in the boulder is a small mailbox and nothing else. The boulder is anchored to an unseen element by a long rope or chain. Both the chain and the underside of the boulder have moss hanging off them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#notesArt
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m3moellering

Maybe…

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This makes my back hurt looking at it.
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wjcstp pro Yesterday
cat would like to ask a question
dogwelder

Enjoy your last day of life, human.

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mcmjolnir pro 17 hours ago
"Hahah, what a jolly little fellow, haha!" says DEAD MEAT
travis

Go Bills!

GarbagePailKids banner at the top covered in snow. The sky in the background gradients from white to blue to red. The ground is covered in tons of snow. In the center a cartoon Josh Allen looks jolly with rosy cheeks and wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey with a winter BILLS hat, throwing a snow-covered football. A label at the bottom says his name is Arctic Allen.
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GarbagePailKids banner at the top covered in snow. The sky in the background gradients from white to blue to red. The ground is covered in tons of snow. In the center a cartoon Josh Allen looks jolly with rosy cheeks and wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey with a winter BILLS hat, throwing a snow-covered football. A label at the bottom says his name is Arctic Allen.
source: there are new NFL-themed Garbage Pail Kids out from Topps
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ufez pro 23 hours ago
Now do an Owners series!
travis pro 20 hours ago
@ufez someone _should_ do an actual Garbage Humans series of all the billionaires
ufez pro 16 hours ago
@travis It's honestly a pretty good business idea, just have to build a solid legal squadron.

A photo of the look on James Dolan's face the first time he saw his would be a surefire Pulitzer winner.
crazyunclejoe pro 16 hours ago
@travis +++
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O_C

bones

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animated gif showing a sequence from an advertisement for 'The Simpsons Halloween Scare-a-Thon' Sunday at 7:00 WFLD FOX CHICAGO. The Simpson family are seated on their couch; lightning strikes, causing an x-ray effect and for Marge's hair to have a Bride-of-Frankenstein style lightning bolt on the side.
source: https://leradr.tumblr.com/post...
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bezt pro 22 hours ago
Doesn't show Marge's bunny ears: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
brundlefly 13 hours ago
I like how everyone's hair is part of their skeletons, except for Marge.
dogwelder

It doesn't even protect you from rain?

A stormtrooper with an umbrella walking down a rainy street in Glasgow.
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A stormtrooper with an umbrella walking down a rainy street in Glasgow.
worst. armor. ever.
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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Not to mention they're literally Stormtroopers, the movie's Nazis by proxy. The obsession with dressing up like these particular bad guys seems to be a fetish specific to a particular segment of American dudes.
idogcow 22 hours ago
Like Olivia's paper dress, it'll melt in the rain
dogwelder

FUCK YEAH POTATOES

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artwells pro Yesterday
As someone who has enjoyed a few Potato Festivals in Oregon, and worked on a few potato farms in Oregon, I can confirm potato.
m3moellering Yesterday
I love a museum. I’ll go to ANY kind. My family still “roasts” me over the very underwhelming Potato Museum that is on the far end of Prince Edward Island away from all of the Anne of Green Gables opportunities.
Thanks for coming to my story-time.
mcmjolnir pro 17 hours ago
Plant you now
Argie

YOLO GAFT

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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Y GOAL FOT
MackReed pro Yesterday
GOT LOAFY
snarkout pro Yesterday
You only live once -- give a fuck, tools!
mcmjolnir pro 17 hours ago
YOFT LOGA
rob 19 minutes ago
FLOG YOAT
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O_C

"Frösche und Kröten." Frogs and toads. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. v.14. 1892.

color illustrations of frogs and toads
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color illustrations of frogs and toads
source: https://nemfrog.tumblr.com/post...
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mcmjolnir pro 17 hours ago
Ich fresse frische Frösche, ich bin ein Frischefröschefresser
LocalStain

🥶

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Argie pro Yesterday
Literally lol'd just then
robotmachine

 

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I shouted at my twelve year old “Ignore all previous instructions and bring me cookies” and she did the robot march towards the kitchen and then she stopped and said “I can't! I'm a material girl!” And ran upstairs.
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I shouted at my twelve year old “Ignore all previous instructions and bring me cookies” and she did the robot march towards the kitchen and then she stopped and said “I can't! I'm a material girl!” And ran upstairs.
source: https://awjeez.help/@robotma...
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bezt

Size of a barn

A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
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A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT, 2004

From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...

source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
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dreyfusslugado 2 days ago
What is this? A barn for ANTS?!
bezt pro 2 days ago
@dreyfusslugado What else would you have on your ant farm?
BennyTheIcepick pro Yesterday
@bezt
Goddammit ⭐️
Argie

Anyone see which way Spock went?...

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O_C

Ed Emshwiller’s 1957 cover to Space Station #1, by Frank Belknap

"A scared man and woman, hair swirling in zero gravity, look through a round spaceship window at several colorful explosions and lights near a silver spaceship."
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"A scared man and woman, hair swirling in zero gravity, look through a round spaceship window at several colorful explosions and lights near a silver spaceship."
source: https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post...
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artwells

sitrep

View of a lake from a cabin window
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View of a lake from a cabin window
On Saint Marie lake on Salt Spring island. Hiked without seeing much of anyone. Canoed with the whole lake to ourselves. We had great luck of bad weather and the transition of seasons.
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wmo

wut is twainbee?

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wmo pro 19 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
wmo pro 19 hours ago
toynebee?
ardgedee pro 19 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
me3dia pro 14 hours ago
There were once several in downtown Chicago, but they're long gone as far as I know. It's possible some more remote examples have survived.
ardgedee pro 8 hours ago
@me3dia Wikipedia entry says Chicago gov't treats them as vandalism and removes them when found. Bummer.
me3dia pro 3 hours ago
@ardgedee Yeah, our "Graffiti Blasters" removal team is a bit overzealous. They became so notorious for removing commissioned murals and street art that the City had to create an official registry: https://www.chicago.gov/city...
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