Photo of The Day

[SandiaPaul]

Here is a sign I liked. It is(was?) a few miles east of Albuquerque on old Rt 66.

[chester]

I just really like this photo collection.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/

I think this one's a corker modeling subject.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/4903873120/

[marc_reusser]

This came in the mail yesterday....something for all you yarder sled builders

This is a B&W scan of an 8x10  promotional photo from Clyde Iron Works, showing one of their diesel yarders being unloaded from a flat car.


Marc

[RoughboyModelworks]

Here's one from Shorpy for the gas pump guys, Chuck and Craig and all the rest of us who are into signs. I suspect some of these signs are actually performing a structural function, holding up the building. Photo taken in Gordonton, North Carolina in 1939 by Dorothea Lange. All that's missing is a set of antlers...



Paul

[Ray Dunakin]

I like the various mismatched stacks of rocks holding up the porch.

[Chuck Doan]

Using the tree branches to support porches is a pretty common thing on old southern stores.

[Chuck Doan]

Here is a case where the builder used HO scale material (on the left) on his O scale shed. Shame!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yvan/3574593797/in/pool-ruraldecay

[Craig_H]

Paul,    Lots of interesting details in that photo   thanks for posting.       Craig

[DaKra]

no oil barrels, no tires,  no RR siding, no external staircase to a storage loft, no clock tower, no advertisements for a bordello in back,  no antlers, no mellon head people in glossy plastic suits ignoring each other, no cars with a levitating wheel and no water wheel.   But there are a few nail holes.   

[Chuck Doan]

NailHEADS, not holes! 

[DaKra]

Hey, when you use a pounce wheel to make 'em they're just holes.   

[Philip Smith]

Paul,

That downtown deco dude has that structure for sale in HO.......IMO  the original looks much better as the copy doesn't capture the look, feel, and mood of the original. 

Philip

[Krusty]

the original looks much better as the copy doesn't capture the look, feel, and mood of the original.

I've always been deeply impressed by the special power that enables craftsman kit manufacturers to take any full-size structure and give it the look, feel, and mood of John Allen on his day off.

[DaKra]

I have Betty Edwards excellent book on drawing.  In the introduction she discusses the way the brain and eye are not really aligned, that the un-trained brain simplifies and categorizes input from the eyes in such a way that the brain stores the information as symbols.   So laymen look, but they don't really see.  If they were asked to sketch from memory, the result is more often a childish, symbolistic drawing, for example, a house indicated by a square with a triangle on it for a roof, or a stick figure for a person.   

Dave

[finescalerr]

The same is true of the way most people hear music -- not as the music a musician hears where everything fits together and where the tone of each instrument must be pleasing -- but almost as independent sounds. That is why so many people can listen to hideous garbage on the radio, for example, and don't mind it because it's "in fashion". This is a pretty difficult thing to explain in two sentences but it's exactly analogous to what Dave wrote. -- Russ