Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

There is a FedUp office that is one of the distribution centers a block from the company offices. Can drop stuff off there as late as 8pm for next day. Have one of those UPS stores 2 miles from my house. Have to get there quite a bit earlier.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the main FedEx center is the one by your office. The last time we shipped off the $480,000 9x9 aerial film camera to be cleaned and get the USGS certification that cost 20 grand we took the camera there for shipment. We brought a nice pallet, and the 500 pounds of camera and let them strap it down to the pallet.

Now that virtually everyone has gone digital, the USGS no longer offers the calibration service and the government contracts no longer require a calibrated camera, and we are happy about that.

We have a FedEx account and we don't ship much stuff. UPS seems to have a real talent for crushing and destroying every box no matter how well it is packed. It is like the really try had to destroy a package. FedEx is only a little better.

[RKDinOKC]

Yep, UPSed some wheels well protected in individual wheel boxes and it was a good thing I insured them and had time/date stamped before picture showing all four cause they mangled one of them.

Oh yeah, Good Hump Day...even Jim though he may be under the impression it is some kind of Saturday without the cartoons.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all.

Structural drafter.......more like hired slave who never finishes his work cause by the time I get thru the stack of 22 drawings they have put more marks on them from the beginning.

[RKDinOKC]

Sounds like work would be a lot easier if you all got rid of the Marks. We had that problem with Larrys.

Had to do drawings of a foundry on time. It was basically a big pole barn that was built in a week from the ruins after a tornado hit.
Kind of interesting though. There was a modern induction furnace at one end and an old coke furnace at the other.

[Porsche-poor]

So true!!!!

[GH85Carrera]

My former boss from the 1980s talked about his early days at a power company in the 1950s. They had a drafting department that was typical of the old days, real pen and ink drawings of very intricate drawings of the power grid. One guy that was the old timer, master, had the task of drawing the main power plant and had spent many long months carefully drawing every wire and connector. He was meticulous about cleanliness and detail. He left his drawing table and put away all the inks and went to lunch for the ink to dry on a new section he just finished.

The co-workers took an old empty bottle of India ink and carefully cut a piece of black paper in the shape of a big ink spill down his drawing and put the empty bottle on its side at the top. From a few feet back it was a perfect illusion of a major ink spill right across his months of work.

He came back from lunch and about had a heart attack as every one was giggling. He was quite relieved to see his drawing was fine.

[Porsche-poor]

And this folks is why people go postal. LOL

[flipper35]

My old chemistry teacher used to work at a nuclear plant. They told the new guy if anything glowed blue it was going critical. Of course they had a blue light bulb for day two. He said it nearly killed the new guy.

[GH85Carrera]

Back in the olden days when I worked at a place called Pro Photo, which was a professional photo lab we had a few fun things to do to newbies. THE number one rule at any photo lab is never open a door, unless you are willing to bet your next paycheck that no one is is in the darkroom with light sensitive material out. If you go barging into a darkroom and open the door and fog the material in there it can be very expensive.

If the door is closed, it is likely someone closed it for a reason. The door to the paper processor was a double door so as long as the inside door was closed it did not fog anything. If I was in there putting paper on the processor and they pound on the door out in the room light I would yell DARK! and and meant don't come in. If it was safe and there was nothing to fog, I yell SAFE! and they know to come in and I am likely coming out.

If I am back there putting on paper and they just walk in, and to double door protected everything they got lucky. But walking into a room that is 100% dark as a cave at midnight they can't see anything at all. My eyes are accustomed to the dark so I can see the glow tape spots that outline the back of the processor and I can tell where they are. I would not say a thing, just quietly walk over next to them and firmly grab them by the arm, and say YOU FORGOT TO KNOCK! They usually jumped a foot or so and, often screamed but they never forgot to knock again. When a firm hand grabs you on a room that you think is empty, it gets your attention.

[RKDinOKC]

The dark room for our print shop you had options, white light, red light, and no light. If the red light anord no light switch was on a red bulb outside the room at the level of the door knob. It only had one door. If the red bulb was on, you don't open the door. The rule was simple, you paid for whateer you exposed opening the door when you weren't supposed to. I never had anyone walk in on me working either red or no light. The no light switch turned off the red and white lights if they were on besides lighting the busy bulb next to the door knob.

We had the elaborate switch and light setup because the guy that did stuff for the print shop wasn't 100& deaf, but couldn't hear if anyone knocked on the door.

We had this one litho camera that was pretty cool. We could make 1:1 copies of 24x36 drawings on a mylar that the image lines were erasable. It was for quickly copying and editing to make a new drawings. It was surprisingly accurate too.

[GH85Carrera]

We did not bother with "safelights" except in the litho camera area. We made PMTs, and did a few halftones. Man, that a gone art. We used the same camera for the easy color copies like photos, or watercolor artwork. The oil painting and such had an elaborate polarized lighting source to eliminate the specular highlights. I shot a lot of 8x10 film for the folks doing separations for litho printing.

I remember the Cowboy Hall of Fame which is now the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum brought over one of the signature paintings for me to photograph. They hired an armed guard to stand there all day and watch. They brought two curators and we spent the entire day getting a 8x10 transparency that was just perfect. That painting was only valued at 10 million.

The coolest one was when a local client hired us to got to Tulsa to the Gilcrease museum to photograph her painting by Leonardo da Vinci. She was selling it to the Getty Museum in California and they paid her 18 million for it. I got to touch it! Talk about pressure. Drive 110 miles, set up a 8x10 Sinar P view camera and the lights in a museum back room and photograph the painting and then wait until we got back to the lab to see if I got it right. It was perfect, and the Getty museum used my 8x10 transparency to print the catalog of the new painting. The painting was in the Gillcrease museum only for storage. It was not on public display. The had the storage facility to keep the humidity and temperature just right. And secure.

[Porsche-poor]

amazing. I loved seeing all the art in Italy two years ago. Walking the streets where the masters walked. Even snuck a picture or two of the chapel ceiling.

[flipper35]

Alas, I have only seen pictures of pictures.

[GH85Carrera]

That da Vinci is a painting I would have not picked up at a garage sale. It was just not my type of art. But what do I know about art, except what I like and don't like.

We had a constant string of artists from real artists to complete garbage wasters of inks.

One of my favorite artists was Orren Mixer. He did mostly a particular horse that an owner wanted painted. If someone gave him the down payment it might take 10 years before he got to it. He charged a minimum of 25K for a painting.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Orren+Mixer&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr7NWC_efaAhVh6YMKHaOZDFAQsAQIJg&biw=1728&bih=809

He was a great guy, and I considered him a friend.

[RKDinOKC]

I've done pencil and pen and ink sketches.

From when I was 10 up thru college.
Paid in money for some, in kind for others. Have a couple on my wall that people offered to buy, Mom wouldn't let me sell them.

Don't really consider myself an artist though. Especially not what I consider a Gallery Artist.

Was really embarrassed by my Mom when I took her to her cousins funeral. He was Gene Bavinger, artist and senior art professor at Oklahoma University. Even his house "The Bavinger House" is art. At his funeral were a LOT of people from the art crowd. Mom would tell them I was an artist too. When they ask me, I said nothing special just commercial art using computers. They were okay with that and siad a lot of people are using computers now days.

[GH85Carrera]

Well the record of no tornadoes for 2018 in Oklahoma is over.

Already several little ones today in the western OK area.

It should be interesting tonight. They are saying it should go south of us through Moore and Norman as usual. I wonder what Moore did to attract tornadoes. This one is aimed at Norman, but it might shift just north and get Moore. We are 25 miles north of there.

[RKDinOKC]

Welp, we dint get blowed of floated away. Yay.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, in the end we received 1.01 inches of rain over a period of a couple of hours. The local TV stations had to go to one house in a 1,000 square mile metro area to find a tree thet fell over on a house and did some damage to the roof. No one was hurt is the good news. And one old lady that had a 1/2 dead tree hanging over her house no longer has a 1/2 dead tree over her house.

The state did have a few little tornadoes that tore up some fields but no big deal unless you own the fences that need repair.

Happy Thursday everyone.

[Porsche-poor]

good morning oh twisty ones!!! Stay safe!