Cardboard Reality Interventions 2011: No.38

Tate Modern, London 03/02/11:

I also recorded a short video at Ai Weiwei's sunflower seed installation:
Visitor's Question on: Meaning and Inspiration

My 'Track Of The Week' : "Getting Old Sucks" (as performed by Devo Spice).

       
Older listeners might be tempted to turn this off as it's Hippity Hoppity/(c)Rap noise.
Please try to stick with it as it's alarmingly accurate in it's observations (and very funny).

Undue Influence.

Mr. Glyn Webster of the Pavilion of Innocent Pastimes writes:

"You have inspired me. I now know what it is that I was put on this Earth to do".
 To illustrate his enlightenment Mr. Webster sends me this picture:

Excelsior to you Mr. Webster!

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Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London 03/02/11

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Houses of Parliament. London 03/02/11:

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Battersea Power Station. London 03/02/11:
(With thanks to K.M. for printing out Ralf Wiggum for me.)

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Bersted 03/02/11:

 

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Flansham 02/02/11:

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Flansham 01/02/11:

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Flansham 31/01/11

 

This intervention is dedicated to those rumbustious youngsters who broadcast a radio show on Resonance 104.4 FM.

Here's a link to their website:

One Life Left

(Because I'm old l don't have the faintest idea what they're talking about.)

My 'Track Of The Week' : "Sabre Dance" (as played on the electric guitar by Mr. Dave Edmunds).

During my childhood, when ever Love Sculptures' version of Sabre Dance was played on the radio, I would grab the cardboard guitar I made for myself and indulge in a bout of hyperactive pretend guitar playing.

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North Felpham: 30/01/11

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Bognor Regis 29/01/11:

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Aldwick 28/01/11:

 

 

I'm Touched.

These plaudits may come in useful for my inevitable appearance at the local magistrates court:
The Bognor Banksy (at the Dabbler)
Art (at Hooting Yard)

Many thanks for your kind comments chums.

Cardboard Reality Interventions 2011: No.27

South Berstead 27/01/11:

Cycle-Motor: The Clutch Cable.

It's easy to over-look the little jobs that get done on a build.
The procedures and connections that one might assume people would take for granted.
The clutch cable, as supplied, is far to long.
So long in fact that it may just be possible to stretch fabric over over the loop it forms and make something like a butterfly wing out of it.
A standard cycle control cable is extended by a shorter cable (the type used at the derailleur end of a gear cable) with an adjuster stuck between the two.
At the lever end of the cable a ferrule has been added for no other purpose, it seems, than to stop the outer cable from fitting into the adjuster on the lever.
So, here's a picture of the bits I removed:

There's a spring on the clutch cable to protect it from the heat produced by the engine which I nearly forgot to replace and a smaller spring that protects the inner cable from your guess is as good as mine.

The finished job:

I moved to say that air filter cover has just got to go and I know I've got a copper fondue heater that would do the job nicely if only I could remember where I put it.
The brass cable clamp is tightened down so much I doubt if I'd be ever able to remove it again but this is a necessary precaution as the 'pull' on the clutch is quite hefty (for a small engine) and I don't want anything 'slipping':

 All that now remains to do is to run some solder into the end of the cable to stop it fraying and an end cap fitting so it doesn't end up stuck in my leg and Bob's y'live in lover.

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South Berstead 26/01/11:

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Felpham 25/01/11:

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Bognor Regis 24/01/11:

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23/01/11: Felpham

Sundry Mortifications No17: 6 Clicks.

Way before the winter festivities I was asked to provide The Dabbler (a culture blog) with my recommendations for their 6-Clicks feature
I was chuffed to be asked and, with little effort, compiled my list.
Then I hit the problem.
My writing 'style' can best be described as coming from the 'What I did on my school holidays' category of literary composition.
The Dabbler has some really wordy wizard contributors who can wax long and lyrical about the choices they've made and make them seem enticing even to the casual reader (me).
Try as I might, every time I sat down to write about my choices, I blocked.

So, not wishing to waste a great list, here are the links I click on a regular basis:

• Hooting Yard
• Wartime Housewife
• The Internet Archive
• The Internet Meme DataBase
• Retro To Go
• UbuWeb
• British Pathe Film Archive

Go and have a look.

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22/01/11: Felpham

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21/01/11: Bognor Regis.

My 'Track Of The Week' : "Yellow Bird" (Played on slide baritone ukulele).

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20/01/11. Bognor Regis.

Cycle-Motor: The Backwheel.

I creep tentatively forward.
The fiddly job of fitting the drive sprocket to the wheel.
It involves passing a bolt through the sprocket, a rubber mount, the wheel spokes, another rubber mount, a metal plate, a flat washer, a spring washer then into a brass domed nut nine times.
I managed to drop each item listed above at least once.

The worry here was that the wheel wouldn't align correctly in the frame.
Fits perfectly and looks 'right':

The next hurdle involves finding an extra length of 415HD chain for the drive side.

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19/01/11: Felpham Pocket Park.

 

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18/01/11: Pagham.

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17/01/11: Pagham.