In a context of increasing #greenwashing where companies often claim sustainability without backing it up, the need for genuinely sustainable materials and composites to be aesthetically pleasing is paramount.
I just love the mish mash of #materials and #building styles that the multi-period #historic towns of provincial #England serve up. There’s joy to be found in the chaos everywhere you look! I’m all for freedom of expression and variety. Although I do draw the line at the crapola allowed by #urban planners in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. #Vernacular#Architecture#Stone#Brick#Timber
I've been meaning to post this pair of books for a while. They complement each other perfectly with everything you need to know about the material world - both where it comes from and where it goes to. Both great, but the combination is even better. They're both brilliantly written & a joy to read (well, from a writing perspective - the message isn't always comfortable).
Faber Castle, long plastic twisting pens that deliver wax crayon to the tip. I can point you here. They were less than 1/2 price, so I'm not the only one who doesn't know what to do with them, but there's a lot it would seem. faber castell mix and match gelatos
Recent life events have turned my world, my art and my palate upside down. The drawing are raw, random, expressionist like but with a formalism, with terror, sorrow or rage -- most unlike me most of the time.
And yesterday's self-pity party took me to the art store, and now I'm calling that a success. My usual palette of commercial art standards is gone! I want sickness, wax, yellows of disease, reds of swelling, bruises & blood, palors & darkness.
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Random question: does anyone know what the enclosure/case is made of for a regular spinning rust hard drive? Most searches about materials bring up a lot of information about the platters, but very little about the material it's enclosed in.
It feels like aluminum based on weight and hardness; up until I took this one apart (it was dead) I guess I just assumed it was plastic, despite having taken many apart before, but it's definitely a metal.
Really exciting abstract today in arXiv condensed matter.
We are being promised a LLM that search the literature to find synthesis method (the abstract claims even more, but that's another topic).
I did use it to search for the synthesis of well known compound.
1- the recipe is not correct
2- the article it refers to is not even related to the compound.
I am not sure how our data would be used (although the code is available)