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Paper collage in notebook.Related content
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it would make a very cool triptych together with "A popular" and "Friday six"
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wow, love this new way of your last 3 collages
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thanks! i've been using this new notebook to loosen up a bit
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noticed how these notebooks work??
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i was reading and looking at a book that showed a lot of artists' notebooks - most of them drew rather than collaged but the notebooks worked the same. a lot of experiments, a lot of freedom!
i've had this notebook on hand for a while, i don't find them easy to start! once i get going they seem to move along pretty well.
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Mmm - more of an end than a beginning then!
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The car shoulda been one of those lovely little East German Trabbys. Wonderful little car, the Trabant, composite body panels, steel frame, two cylinder two-stroke engine that woulda been clean with modern synthetic oils.
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That was a politically motivated impression created by the Western press to show how superior wE were to the Commies. in fact, the Trabant was a brilliant solution to the problems faced by people in need of transport under difficult conditions of postwar [WWII] materials shortages. General Motors much later car company, Saturn, copied the construction method of steel outline frames with composite body panels from Trabant. The engines had to have large clearances to run on low-quality gasoline. The reason for the two-stroke engine was that you could get more usable power from a smaller, but simpler, engine design. Make it too simple by using crankcase compression scavenging and you ensure more air-pollution from excess lube oil burning, which modern synthetics can reduce to almost nothing, but which didn't exist back then. Trabbie's designers did the most needed, the necessary thing. Their composites were not modern fibreglass or carbon fiber based, but used old cloth rags, washed, sterilised and broken into consistent fiber lengths, and bound together with modern waterproof Resorcinol resins/glues, instead of polyester or epoxy resins.
Speaking of large clearances, the legendary AK-47 is legendary because it's large clearances and relatively non-finely finished structure make it nearly invulnerable to damage in field use conditions, no matter how muddy and gritty they get. We know how good it is because we've faced it and even gotten to use it in war, and become familiar with it on its home ground. That's why we respect it instead of claiming superiority to Commie design and low quality. We know that isn't so. But we never experienced the Trabant in the conditions it was designed for.
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Wow. I was aware of that about the AK-47 and the fragile weapons the U.S. sometimes gave soldiers. Had not realized it about the Trabant. Thanks.
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My pleasure, I am a virtual fountain of obscure trivia. 
They had to allow for driveway mechanics. Β Our own shortages in post-war times were as nothing compared to what the eastern europeans had to deal with. We had it easy. No Nazi invasions and war destruction on our home ground.
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With the subsequent insomnia.Β
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That's progress...bar code tattoos for everyone!
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No more credit card - just scan our tattoos
Nice new avatar, btw
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Once a free and independentΒ people now driven behind the bars of conformity and big brother government..... Β don't get me started LOL
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Believe me, I hear you!
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