Showing posts with label cart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cart. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
this cart, as primitive as it is, has 16 tons of iron on it
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
interesting book, and good read. Quite the page turner, IF you want to learn about what it was like for the secret service when protecting Jackie Kennedy on vacations and visits to rulers of other countries
being the 1st lady, Jackie was friends with the richest people in the world, such as the owner of Fiat, Agnelli, and would vacation with his family
I had no idea that JFK had a golf cart at one of the homes... a place called Glen Ora that I'd never learned of before now. Instead of using Camp David, the Kennedy's bought a 130 acre place nearby-ish, so that Jackie and the kids would be free from paparazzi and enjoy the horse riding.
Monday, January 01, 2024
Standing ovation, and I begin a slow hand clapping of admiration for Martin Murillo, a book cart pushing amazing guy in Colombia, who had transformed the cart he used to sell water and sodas into a rolling library: La Carreta Literaria.
By 2007, he decided to collect 120 books from his own room and take them around the city for anyone who wanted to stop and read for awhile. “In a book you find all the applications that a man needs to learn, to pry, to entertain yourself, to investigate,” he explained.
Later that year, Murillo found a patron who gave him the funds to continue promoting his literacy project. Since then, he has been able to operate in rural and urban areas alike with the help of sponsors for the past twelve years. This has also allowed him to attend Latin American book fairs across places like Argentina, Mexico, and Bogota.
Later that year, Murillo found a patron who gave him the funds to continue promoting his literacy project. Since then, he has been able to operate in rural and urban areas alike with the help of sponsors for the past twelve years. This has also allowed him to attend Latin American book fairs across places like Argentina, Mexico, and Bogota.
It is the only cart in Cartagena that transports books . He doesn't sell books, he lends them to the readers he finds in the squares, in the parks, in the universities.
He is one of the unique cultural changes in Cartagena in recent years.
He is one of the unique cultural changes in Cartagena in recent years.
Though he has a brother that is a geologist, and one that's a professor, and a sister that is a nurse.... he outshines his siblings by his unique dedication to the literacy of his people and their children. That is very noble.
One day the Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Gabriel Márquez saw Murillo pushing his cart of books and he saw among the books an original edition of the book he wrote in 1985, Love in the Time of Cholera. He autographed it: “For Martín Murillo, with all the love of the person who wrote this book.”
5 other Nobel winners have autographed books for Martin. That is awesome
The cart lends books to readers in squares and parks, schools and universities, it does not sell anything in return, it only promotes the pleasure of reading. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, for three hundred and sixty-five days. In all this time, Martin has been the founder, manager and messenger, and the initial 120 books have become 3,500 books.
The cart lends books to readers in squares and parks, schools and universities, it does not sell anything in return, it only promotes the pleasure of reading. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, for three hundred and sixty-five days. In all this time, Martin has been the founder, manager and messenger, and the initial 120 books have become 3,500 books.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Banksy has featured shopping carts a lot more than I realized
In another artwork, Banksy has used the shopping trolley as a symbol for destructive and wasteful capitalism: Show Me the Monet features two discarded shopping trolleys thrown into Claude Monet’s famous waterlily pond at Giverny.
Though Banksy has faithfully captured the impressionist style of the original masterpiece, the jarring addition of two upturned shopping trolleys reflects how damaging consumer culture can be to the beautiful natural world.
This mock cave Painting by Banksy went unnoticed in the British Museum for 3 days.
In 2005, the British Museum in London discovered a mock-cave painting of a man pushing a trolley among their exhibits, complete with a fake title plaque and ID number. The piece was created using black marker pen on stone, and went unnoticed for 3 days, only being discovered after the prank was announced by Banksy via Twitter.
Thirteen years later, Banksy’s cave painting was entered into the British Museum’s exhibition on the global history of dissent and protest
Shop Till You Drop
One of Banksy's most famous social comments was his artwork, Shop Till You Drop, painted in November 2011 on the side of an office building on Bruton Lane in London's West End. It is also known as the “Falling Shopper” and depicts a woman falling from the top of a building, clutching a shopping trolley containing a few items. His aim was to point out the perils of consumerism.
Using scaffolding and a tarpaulin to make sure he wasn't caught in the act; he painted the graffiti in daylight. It was painted more than two storeys up and the tarpaulin made it appear that renovation work was taking place on the office block.
Scaffolding was set up at some point on Saturday 19th November by two men who looked like construction workers. Once the scaffolding was erected, tarpaulins were draped over it. At around 3pm on Sunday 20th November, the workers went back and began taking the scaffolding down.
By 5pm that day, all of the scaffolding had been removed and passers-by realised Banksy had stopped by and created his latest graffiti, which was quickly dubbed, Shop Till You Drop.
Art critics believe the woman is depicted as contributing to the big corporations, but the shopping cart is pulling her down, making it a controlling authority. Shop Till You Drop is still visible today, although it has become quite damaged over the years.
One of Banksy's most famous social comments was his artwork, Shop Till You Drop, painted in November 2011 on the side of an office building on Bruton Lane in London's West End. It is also known as the “Falling Shopper” and depicts a woman falling from the top of a building, clutching a shopping trolley containing a few items. His aim was to point out the perils of consumerism.
Using scaffolding and a tarpaulin to make sure he wasn't caught in the act; he painted the graffiti in daylight. It was painted more than two storeys up and the tarpaulin made it appear that renovation work was taking place on the office block.
Scaffolding was set up at some point on Saturday 19th November by two men who looked like construction workers. Once the scaffolding was erected, tarpaulins were draped over it. At around 3pm on Sunday 20th November, the workers went back and began taking the scaffolding down.
By 5pm that day, all of the scaffolding had been removed and passers-by realised Banksy had stopped by and created his latest graffiti, which was quickly dubbed, Shop Till You Drop.
Art critics believe the woman is depicted as contributing to the big corporations, but the shopping cart is pulling her down, making it a controlling authority. Shop Till You Drop is still visible today, although it has become quite damaged over the years.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Tuesday, August 08, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
running the rails for fun and exploration of abandoned railways that no one but a couple train operators ever got to look at
unlike places in the eastern US and the midwest, there isn't any call to get these hundreds of miles of desert railways converted to hiking or biking trails, and they aren't in the region where they could be added to a cross country hiking/biking route. And I doubt enough people ever would use them recreationally to make it worth anyone's time and effort to do anything with them... but this, building a car, and going for a unique ride.
The source article goes into a bit of detail on the cart construction, probably from the you tubers links, but basically it's 2×3 framing with a plywood deck.
Some extra support is added for the motor mount and for the seating location. It uses slightly longer go-kart axles to accommodate the width of the railroad, and a small 6HP gas engine with a single gear to power the rear axle.
There are no brakes and the real hack here is [Ryan]’s custom wheels. He found that steel or cast wheels were not particularly comfortable on long journeys so after a few attempts he has come up with a home-built polyurethane wheel which is cast in a mold around a steel go-cart wheel and then trimmed on a lathe.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
the hand truck, one of the simplest of all tools. As a matter of fact, it's a Class One Lever. That's some physics 101.
The Hand Truck 360 and Attachit Strap were designed and patented by Richard Cortese.
Cortese, an industrial designer, did some research and found that all hand trucks have wheels that only go forward and backward. So, he designed and patented the versatile Hand Truck 360. By using triggers at hand level, it glides safely in any direction. It seems simple when you realize a library sliding ladder does this.
After he received his patent, Cortese enlisted the help of his cousin, Judy Kochevar to help with the business side of things and The Hand Truck Company, LLC was founded.
History of the hand truck/dolly:
Some time in the 16th or 17th century, someone had to put kids to work, because way back then, there were no public grade schools, there were no child labor laws, and kids had to get a job to help earn some income to cover their cost to their parents, because there was no birth control devices and people were making kids from about puberty to the grave. And, there was a LOT of international trade now that shipping across the oceans was happening.
But kids are usually unable to do heavy labor, because they aren't strong, so, someone attached two wheels together made a hand truck so young boys could move large sacks of spices and other light cargo, because they were unable to lift the large sacks by hand. By using hand trucks they were able to work as well as grown men in moving items around factories, warehouses, and piers.
Why do we commonly call a hand truck a Dolly? No one knows. I looked, all over the internet, and it's just one of those things. One theory is that it's a slang term derived from Trolley.
The first use of a two wheel truck or hand truck, was before the era known for steam locomotive travel, but the train era probably expanded the dolly's mainstream acceptance throughout civilization.
Porters used the hand trucks with two wheels at the end of a metal frame to load and transport baggage. As the industrial revolution progressed these carts continued to show up as new forms of transportation, they became the norm, and are still in use today as baggage carts at airports. The cart/trolley dates back to the Chinese Sui Dynasty (581-618) where art shows carts pulled by bulls.
Monday, November 21, 2022
For the SECOND time in weeks, the fleet of golf carts at Sanibel Island’s The Dunes Golf & Tennis Club caught on fire Friday.
Likely the a chemical reaction between the golf cart’s lithium batteries and the salt water residue left on the carts when the storm surge from Ian flooded the property on Sept 28.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
a writer/photographer with a passion for abandoned shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors made a book, a 75 dollar book. Egads.
but you can read the fantastic comments for free, here are the top 3
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/07/27/A-Field-Guide-to-Stray-Shopping-Carts/#more
it's even over 75 dollars for any of the 4 copies on Ebay
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Monday, October 26, 2020
Monday, October 05, 2020
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Broom Vendor's Cart, Havana 1933
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/272764
A photo only published in the back of a propaganda book on Cuba, "The Crime Of Cuba" photographed by Walker Evans
http://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2019/02/off-shelf-crime-of-cuba.html
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