#anodising

[echolaliaplayer]

I actually think the Mercedes pride star is kind of cool. Fuck. FUCK

[laservectrix]

Laser engraved f1 keyrings with track map and stats

[pablodelarcorey]

Sennheiser / IE 900 / Sennheiser Engineer Team / Headphones

[aluminiumuk12]

Premium Anodised Aluminium Sheets for Durable and Aesthetically Stunning Applications

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[sheltiechicago]

Marc Fornes designs bulging coral-shaped pavilion for Louis Vuitton

Designer Marc Fornes presented an organically shaped pavilion at Milan design week to accompany the most recent Objets Nomades furniture collection by fashion house Louis Vuitton.

Fornes, who runs New York studio The Very Many, formed the Nomad pavilion out of more than 16,000 sheets of anodised aluminium.

[vinodcookware]

Wave goodbye to long hours in the kitchen this product can be used to cook pasta, dal, rice, khichdi, vegetables, and meat dishes in minutes.

The 3-in-1 Kraft hard anodized magic cooker set consists of a cooker pot, a strainer lid, a pressure cooking lid, and a serving lid. It can be used on the gas stove and induction cook tops. The cooker's fusible safety valve and gasket release system (GRS) ensures a safe and secure cooking experience.

[diino8081]

new art prompt dropped

draw zane like this

epic science below the cut

ok so i remember ages ago i was searching if titanium changes colours for my au

and to my absolute joy i discovered that yes it does

it's called anodisation and if you put titanium in electrified water then it changes colours

here's a bit more info from a comment on the post

it's so interesting

we can finally have real completely pink zane

alright that's the end of my ted talk thank you for coming

update: this is now a full au

link to masterpost

[skitsmixcommissions]

Mindstealer Sphiranx, inspired by acrylic pour painting and anodised metal. Personal work, completed August 2024.

[foxgirlgenerator]

My skull is going to look so awesome. Crazy scars and blue titanium.

I'm just thinking about the terf obsession with bones

Bones are living, changing tissue

Bones grow, bones break, bones heal, bones adapt

How diagnostic is the shoulder of a man who worked in factory his whole life? How diagnostic is the jaw of a woman who chewed tobacco for 40 years? How diagnostic is the hand of a child crushed in a steam loom?

Almost everything we find about bones tells us more about how people lived than how they were born

Bones aren't biology, bones are history

[lilly-onthevalley]

Earrings & Jewellery

I'm incredibly privileged to have grown up with a grandmother who loved high-quality ear piercings. When I was a child, I would always gawk at her diamond collection and her deep emerald studs, which she would keep safe and secure. Prized gifts from past lovers.

One of my favourite things is my jewellery. I would go broke for a good real black pearl. I would fly back to Bridge of Allen to meet the family jeweller who crafted my silver and pink-purple fresh water pearl bracelet. I would run to Poland to find another Torah necklace to remind me of the dear old lady who I would source my vintage jewellery from and my pleasurable years of studying Judaism.

Whenever I walk around, my stack is always a conversation starter because of how it stands out, all rings, earrings, and bracelets. I wear on average 3-5 rings and 4 bracelets, all silver, some with diamond or zirconia. I wear the silver cartier wedding band I got as a gift every day, depending on where I'm going, lol. I also have a signature symbol, which I'll gate keep.

I implore everyone to have a signature charm. It could be a shell design, a flower, a sea horse, a star, anything that feels lucky to you or blessed. Whenever anyone sees the symbol, they will automatically think of you, and whenever you'll see it, you'll remind yourself of the luck and personal significance it has to you. My middle finger ring has my symbol, and so does my everyday necklace. I'm about to get studs with the same.

When you get jewellery, I always recommend finding someone with a passion for it. I don't see the point in going to a mass market jewellery store that will sell you fake jewellery that tarnishes the second summer hits or if you swim. Invest in the metals. 90% of my jewellery is from random old men with a long-time passion for craftsmanship. It's not always pricey. You will not be charged $100+ for starter hoops or a plain stud. Take the leap, and you'll never have to do it again. Furthermore, with these types of jewellers, if you ever need maintenance such as shining, anodising, oxidation, cleaning, repairs, etc, they have your back. The secret to shiny white icy silver and white gold is in the shining, it's necessary. Google is your friend, if you start now you'll be sorted till 60!

Having multiple piercings is thought by the tiktok wealth gurus to not be classy, and quite frankly, I disagree. There's an art to creating a good piercing stack, which adds to your allure.

As a woman of colour from a country with a very proud history of adornment and multiple local high jewellers who's hearts ache to capture Africa into a singular mental piece, I cannot subscribe to that narrative in good faith.

Currently, I have 2 piercings on each ear, which will increase to 5 on 1 and 4 on the other. I have scheduled my piercing dates and contacted all my jewellers to let them know what's up and that I want to come in to see what they have going on for the new season. I'm terribly excited.

When it comes to a good stack, you can never go wrong with diamonds, zirconia, or diamanté. Play with different cuts. Marquise cuts are trending right now in the piercing and engagement ring communities. Furthermore, pearls are something that never goes out of style. I love a good real pearl because of lustre. A fresh pearl will have multiple colours at times, which are enhanced based on the angle of the light around you. Similar to diamonds or clean zirconia and diamanté. Diamonds and stones like it are cut with different facets to play with the brilliance. A certain cut can cause a fire, not in the literal sense but the effect whereby multiple colours are seemily present within the stone because of the refraction of light. This is especially important with engagement rings.

When it comes to individual earrings, I would recommend these types.

Very dainty, very light, very sweet. A stack of these is a sight to behold. Especially on dark skin. I absolutely love how Anok Yai and Adut Akech style their piercings.

A good account on Instagram to get inspiration on what a good classy stack looks like is Maria Tash. I'm utterly obsessed.

When it comes to pearls, here is a colour guide. I believe in jewellery shopping from different countries. My favourite places to get my hands on some pearls are the coasts of Scotland and the UK online markets. You will find the cheapest, pinkest, fresh water pearl jewellery. My friend loves a deep dark pearl and stalks Asian jewellers to find some to add to her collection. I admire her tenacity. They aren't as easy or cheap to find as pink and purple pearls.

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[livingforstars]

Greetings from the Pioneers - June 30th, 1996.

"Launched in the early 1970s, Pioneer 10 and 11 were appropriately named - becoming the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, first to fly by Jupiter and Saturn, and the first human artifacts to venture beyond the Solar System. Having coasted through interstellar space, they carried with them greetings in the form of a gold anodised plaque, with symbolic drawings as illustrated above. The male and female figures are drawn to the same scale as the Pioneer spacecraft shown behind them. Immediately to the left is a map of the position of the Sun with respect to nearby pulsars and the center of the galaxy, while below is a drawing of the Solar System, indicating the planet of origin. In the upper left is a schematic of two fundamental states of the hydrogen atom. These diagrams, along with other details of the plaque, were designed by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, and are intended to be decipherable by spacefaring extraterrestrial civilisations."

[homeoftone]

A modded Fender Japan J Mascis Jazzmaster. Custom Black anodised pickguard, new Fender JM sized CuNiFe wide range humbuckers, full new Home of Tone loom, Descendant Vibrato unit and Stringjoy 11-50 strings.

[talenlee]

Decemberween 2024 — Cohost (RIP)

In August 2023, I wrote about trying to make for a cozier internet. Now part of that is unavoidably built around the fact that I turned 40 that year and you know what it’s really really hard to avoid noticing how often I make the same typos from hand to hand, like it’s just possible I’m now at an age where one of my two hands is faster than the other and that’s how I’m going to notice my age rather than the normal model of like, my first gray pubic hair. But the point is, back then I talked about the idea of taking things slower and making more careful searches, treating the internet as a place to be connected to people, and one of the ways I mentioned – offhandedly – doing that, was Cohost.

Cohost was a website. It was like a website.

I wrote something about the end of Cohost back in the diary of the month when it passed – my September 2024 wrapup has some of the thoughts there, about what Cohost was in the broad, top-down sense of the form.

This article was always planned to happen, here in Decemberween, when I started the year — I sketched out the idea that I would use the Decemberween posts as a chance to show you a ‘best of Cohost’ set of posts, things that my friends or peers made and I wanted you to see or know about. It was, in my mind, a way to encourage you to use a social media platform I used, not just ‘because I was there,’ but because I could show to you its merits, and how it worked.

Except, y’know, it didn’t work.

Definitionally, Cohost did not work because it could not make enough money with its model of remuneration that could meet its costs. I don’t know much about those costs, though every person I’ve seen discussing those costs tends to be someone who I wouldn’t trust to manage their own bathroom supplies let alone managing a multi-national business that’s meant to pay people’s rents, so I don’t think it’s a good conversation for me to get involved in. Still, if you define the function of a website as ‘exist enough to keep existing,’ for whatever parameters you consider that to mean, then Cohost did not. In a few days, it will be deleted off the internet, and that is all for what Cohost is.

And then it will be what Cohost was.

Not only was Cohost not financially viable, though, it was also a place that was, undeniably, very white. It was too big for the people who made it to moderate it at the rate it grew, and it was biased towards people who were friends with the founders, and the kind of people who were friends with those people. All very real, very legitimate problems that were part of the character of cohost and I don’t want to pretend that actually, it being a place black people didn’t feel safe was somehow a quirky speech affect. I can think of four or five ‘big name’ posters (by their avatars, I actually don’t know their names) who would create and promote posts about this problem, which I remember seeing leading to some goodnatured comments from people going ‘hm hm hm,’ and then too many people piping up to say ‘can I argue with this post so effectively structural racism stops existing?’ and those seemed exhausting to produce.

It isn’t like knowing about these problems changes the impact the place had on me. I’m a byproduct of a lot of racist things. I like to make sure I hold onto, and keep present, the awareness of those racisms, especially those ones that aren’t ‘this person keeps saying a slur’ but rather, ‘there’s this structural problem and whatever neutral stance you took failed to fix it.’

Cohost was a place that taught me the phrase, ‘you don’t want an audience, you want a community.’ I talk to students about audience a lot, in a deliberately anodised way. When I say ‘your audience’ I mean ‘who is this for? who do you want to see it?’ and my students, brains rotted by a million platforms that have been teaching them to be pre-emptively burnt out Fiverr ‘social media experts,’ ‘audience’ means ‘the number under my name on my platform of choice, that can be turned into some kind of graph.’ This is one of those words that I’m genuinely coming to think need a new schisming, I need to use a term that doesn’t make these people assume I mean the thing they’re already predisposed to think of because of course, the way I’m using it, I mean something that can be intimate and dynamic and immediate, and if that’s not what people hear, then I can’t restructure their heads, I need to find some other way to get the idea into them.

Because what I mean, so often, is your community.

Not ‘who are the people you broadcast to’ but who are the people you share with?

I don’t know who reads this blog. I don’t know who watches my videos. I don’t know who listens to the podcasts. I know that I have a degree of microsuccess here, where things I make have ten to thirty people express some interest and engage with some effort. But I have spoken to some of those and you know what? the reason the cohost race discussion sticks out in my mind is because I know one of the people in my audience would expect me to not ignore it. I don’t want to let that person down.

Because I am in community with the audience, even if I don’t know you. I don’t know you, by name, reading this, right now. I don’t have that analytical tool and I’ve done things to turn those tools off, to take them away. The point of this system is not to try and steal information about what you think from the material you touch, but rather, to make you feel comfortable talking to me about what you think.

It’s not everything I learned from Cohost. But it is something Cohost taught me. Also that I gotta be the one to reach out on discord to check in on people, y’know?

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[metamatar]

Thoughts about cast iron skillets? I feel like I have found the love of my life it seems like magic to me!

too heavy for my weak body. im only half joking here but i like tossing things in the pan for lazy stir fries. i own (1) carbon steel and (1) non stick pan. oh and good old indian anodised cookware for my pots.

[upinteriors]

Moreno 2681 by palca estudio

The project is located in Balvanera, a central neighbourhood of Buenos Aires that presents a heterogeneous built profile with a strong commercial presence and an identity characterised by cultural diversity. This pattern is further consolidated when understanding its direct link with the building of the Argentine National Congress, with the large number of hotels distributed throughout the area or with the Miserere Square, that acts as a hub for trains, buses and subways. Balvanera could be interpreted as a neighbourhood of national identity.

Architecture as identity. The assignment originates from the clients' need to have administrative offices in new building that determines their identity as an institution. These offices had to be complemented by apartments to be used by people travelling from the provinces of Argentina to Buenos Aires for a certain period of time. Among the clients' initial demands was the use of a glass façade as an image towards the city, which for us was an essential part of the initial program.

The potential of mixed uses. The initial idea was to locate work and domesticity in the same block. This option was rapidly discarded after the first tests when the incompatibility of the circulation dynamics was verified. Taking advantage of the long proportion of the site (7.60 x 47.60 m) it was then decided to divide the uses into two independent blocks: the office one in the front, more exposed to the street and the domestic one in the back, more reserved in the centre of the block. In this way, a daily relationship is generated between all the people who inhabit the building while providing privacy in each of the parts.

Adapt to the given conditions. Both blocks adjust their buildable profile to the limits determined by the internal front line. This imaginary line is determined by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires to delimit a non-buildable area in the centre of the block. Instead of looking for alternatives to deal with this restriction, the project adapts to the resulting silhouette. In this way, two individual blocks are proposed to take advantage of all the possible footprint and are developed with the necessary height to deal with the proposal.

The void as a meeting place. Both building blocks are connected through a central void that works as a meeting point. This void is projected through a garden of organic shapes, white stones and growing vegetation that aims to generate meeting places for the people who work and inhabit the building.

Versatile and timeless from the beginning. The office block is planned on four levels with open spaces that allow to deal with the constant changes in today's work dynamics. Each level has outdoor spaces materialised by balconies on the lower floors and a terrace on the upper floor. The domestic block is also planned on four levels but made up of two stacked duplex apartments. Each one of them operates as an individual unit designed with the minimum elements necessary to be temporarily inhabited.

How to be efficient in the Argentine context. In an economic context as complex and variable as the Argentine one, it is necessary to be rational and efficient in the materialisation of architecture. In that sense, the construction of the building is proposed in a synthetic and traditional way through the implementation of few elements, but optimising their use. To do this, we proposed a reinforced concrete skeleton and lightweight masonry walls, textured white anodised aluminium frames in the windows and airtight double glazing for greater thermal efficiency. In this way, we make it easier to deal with suppliers while achieving efficiency and durability in the use of the elements.

A new way of perceiving the environment. Faced with a complex and heterogeneous urban context, the project is created from synthesis as contrast. Pure lines, geometric composition and white elements characterise a building that aims to communicate order and timelessness.

Design: palca estudio Location: Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Argentina Year: 2023 Photography: Javier Agustín Rojas