photos and other things…
One of my less than visually stunning images for this Friday. Thos who have followed me long enough might recall a photo titled ‘The Proposal‘. Its all getting mighty close now here in the household, so close that table maps and lists of names are falling into order. A wonderful combination of excitedness and ‘so much to do’ is floating around. One thing not on todays list was heading out to take some images, so here we are, inside and mapping it out.
Have a nice Friday!
‘Just for fun’ I threw together a home designed and built Ukulele over the last few weekends. Influenced by cigar box uke’s and guitars, I took their essential design, but worked from scratch.
The straight angled body and sound holes give it enough lack of beauty that its been named Frankenstein’s Ukulele – although to be fair to old Frank, I didnt reuse any old body parts…perhaps its actually Pinocchio’s – but his would be more crafted and carved.
How does it play? Well, with me behind the strings, it doesn’t play any worse than anything else. Thats to say one would recoil at my playing before the sound quality. Its not bad. Strings are just fresh on today, so still bedding in. Tone is nice, but not as long standing as my purchased units.
Perhaps its Frankenstein 1.0
We are Mankind. We came from planet Earth, and we built this base, called Alpha, to learn more about space. But human error blasted this Moon out of the Earth’s orbit. And so, we have traveled the Universe searching for a place to live. Now, we can no longer live here, and we go to face an uncertain future on the planet that has nearly destroyed us. You, whoever you are, who find this empty vessel of Alpha, come and seek us out, if we still exist. Come and teach us all you know. Because, we have learned many things, but most of all, we have learned we still have much to learn.
Prof. Victor Bergman, Space 1999 [last message before evacuating Alpha]
Bit of a bug spreading through the household, so one from the archives for today.
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