#Industrial innovations

[poojaauto]

Explore the transformative influence of sand casting on industrial progress. Learn how this age-old technique continues to mold the future of manufacturing and engineering.

[cai-tan]

Never actually paid attention to the Steam awards this year until the results were out, and holy shit this year was beyond an absolute joke.

I mean look at this one screenshot.

You wanna tell me a literal ten year old game with a practically non-existent Hollywood scoring slop OST has better music than a literal rhythm game???

[thererisesaredstar]

Look, great things have been achieved (1974)

[samaspic31]

My growth as an artist was heavily stifled by the dogmatism in the online art community I was subjected to as a teen (aka by rhetoric implying or straight up saying art has to be made a certain way to be valuable, which discouraged me from experimenting and developing for my own methods, customising my artistic process felt illegal) and i will forever be mad about it

Anyways if any young artist follows me : the only good art advice is get weird about it and fuck around a lot. Also be honest

[techtimechronicles24]

🇺🇲 113 years ago, on June 16, 1911, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) was formed by merging three smaller companies. Specializing in office products like punch card tabulators, CTR would later become known aslegendary International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.

👉 This marked the beginning of a journey that would see IBM revolutionize the tech industry and become a global leader in computing.

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

it’s interesting to see how taylor has always imagined her ideal partner as being courageous (“headfirst fearless,” “this love is brave and wild,” “you walked in wearing a football helmet and said okay let’s talk,” “don’t blame me love made me crazy if it doesn’t you ain’t doing it right,” “standing broad-shouldered next to her was a love that was really something….”) and how i think at first she thought that joe simply being willing to be with her felt courageous but then as she grew she realized that it wasn’t enough of that feeling because he wasn’t always standing broad-shouldered next to her, only when it was convenient for him. and that’s not fearless. that’s just doing what’s easiest

[genericpuff]

Genuinely curious as to if you asked permission to use Rachel’s characters and she said yes or if you just decided Lore Olympus is popular enough to make a fan comic of and are hoping you don’t receive a cease and desist? Can anyone create a remake comic of original content and just change what you don’t like about it and it’s considered legal if you say the characters belong to the original creator? There is plenty of disappointing media out there that could be remade. I understand you cannot use their characters for profit so is just posting it ok?

Yes, anyone can, because it's called fanfiction lmao Obviously in my case the term "fan" is being used loosely here as at this point it's more like "foe"fiction LMAO but the same principles apply. Unless I try to claim LO is my own creation or make a profit off Rekindled, I should be in the clear. If legal action was taken against me then it would set a precedent against all forms of fanfiction, rewrite, redraw, etc. content around LO which are all essentially doing the same thing Rekindled is doing. I think people tend to view Rekindled as somewhat of an "exception" that's vulnerable to legal action because it's an actual weekly comic put into practice in the same playing field as LO (though they're on massively different bases obviously LOL), but there's not much more separating it from the LO redraw accounts or even the genuine fan accounts that have learned how to draw in Rachel's style (and use it to make their own LO self-inserts and whatnot). I had the time and resources and experience to do what I do through Rekindled, but every redraw, rewrite, fanfiction, etc. account are making the exact same statement I am, whether intentionally or not - "I do/don't like the canon, but/so here's what I think it would be like if it went like this".

There is definitely plenty of media out there that could be remade, and a lot of them are by the fanfiction writers out there who are filling that niche within their respective fandoms. LO is the one I want to do because it's the one that interests me and compels me the most to rewrite.

Not to mention, it's already a bold statement in and of itself to say that I'm "using Rachel's characters", a statement that likely wouldn't hold up in court LMAO Her "characters" are literally just stylized self-insert versions of public domain figures. She did not write The Hymn to Demeter. She did not create Hades, or Persephone, or Hecate, or any of the other characters she writes about. She does not own an entire religion or its deities. The only thing that she really "owns" is the licensing rights to the name "Lore Olympus", and while the style of LO is very unique and identifiable, you can't trademark/copyright a style because that uproots the entire foundation of what art is (ironically no one has had an original idea SINCE the Greeks, we all just learn and adapt our styles based on other artists that we get inspired by and learn from).

Shit, there are series completely unrelated to LO that get harassed or otherwise warned that they could cross into "legal territory" with LO just because they're Greek myth comics. Punderworld, Theia Mania, H x P Ficlets, all of these are comics that also tackle the H x P myth, and while they aren't attempting to do the same thing as Rekindled (as they exist on their own terms) it's really disappointing when I see people talk about these comics purely through the scope of Lore Olympus as if LO invented Greek myth. If WT/Rachel tried to pull rank over the story's "characters", they'd be picking a fight with every other Greek myth comic, book, movie, etc. and they oughta know that's not a fight they're gonna win lol

So everything beyond LO's branding is, in and of itself, fanfiction. Rekindled is just another level deeper by being fanfiction of a fanfiction. As long as I'm not profiting off Lore Olympus' namesake or distributing my work with the misconception that I created LO, it's legally fine. Morally, I'm sure it doesn't exactly make me a saint to do it, it definitely took a lot of hubris for me to say "yeah I don't like how you wrote your story enough that I felt the need to rewrite it completely" and I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking doing so is icky. There are certain lines I won't cross - I don't use the general LO hashtags because my content is very critical and my work isn't really for the fans, I don't encourage anyone to "show Rachel" what I do here because none of what I do here is obligated to be seen by her (and I know it wouldn't be in her best interest to see it anyways, she's literally said that she doesn't like criticism so why tf would I wanna show her a comic that exists to criticize her work lol), and I'm not planning on posting it to Webtoons because that's Rachel's territory. I don't want to overstep both in the legal sense and in the moral one. I think it's more than enough for me to just post my stuff here for the people who are seeking it, and not profit off it or directly affiliate it with LO/Rachel beyond crediting.

All that said, in a moral and legal sense, what I'm doing is literally the basis of fanfiction, and I wouldn't be going to such lengths and spending this much time every week putting out episodes every week if I never cared about LO and how it made us all feel, even if some of us don't love it as much as we used to.

[divinekangaroo]

One thing I adore about PB is Tommy's approach towards modernity. Straddling the non-industrial past and the industrial/modern present; constantly positioning himself on the cutting edge, if not quite bleeding edge, of period/era technology. Cars, manufacturing, shipping, phones, typewriters. Medicine, psychology, and even bringing in incredibly modern concepts into politics in that era. He is constantly grabbing at the future. It's this striking characteristic in him, all the way from S1 when they install the phone in the Garrison - ~if only we knew someone else with a phone, we could call them~ - through to S6's final episode when he even wangles a seat on an airplane to get to Canada without wasting time. So uncommon at the time, but he just went: I need to get there with least time lost, and matched requirement to a borderline experimental non-consumer-available insider technology to do so.

(Sidestep: Such an interesting juxtaposition of all that, with the constant representation of the pre-industrial-era Romani threads in S6, too: Esme, the hills, the horse, the curse, the mythology, the vardo, all that slamming up against an actual cutting edge submachinegun, so ‘contemporary’ it’s actually anachronistic by a few years (if my research was right, it’s a WWII weapon that submachinegun, not to get on the symbolism, but). Arguably, Ruby in hospital having the most contemporary medical treatment available while Tommy goes walkabout to lift a curse is another notable juxtaposition.

There’s also an interesting slant of his modernity balanced against what I call his hoarding habit — the most cutting edge piece of tech or modernity in 1923 he’s still hanging onto in 1933. But yeah, even with that the juxtapositions are interesting because they can only happen if the forward reaching/modernity focus is there)

So, when I see contemporary-modern!AU takes of Tommy that are like, representing him as a relatively humdrum part of the capitalist consumer status quo, or even as a luddite who can't and won't use an Iphone, I scratch my head. I do think he’s *not* much of an innovator, but he is absolutely a considered first-gen adopter and recognises (and takes) opportunity regarding tech innovation with little concern for risk.

I have contemplated would rich modern!AU Tommy with disposable income finance startups if they pitched well: probably yes, because he takes gambles; with a personally vested interest in the innovators in the same way he had that vested interest in Bonnie. Startups as horses or boxers on a diff playing field, win some, lose some, etc.

[invasionimminentz]

to my old school computer

the keys on you may get stuck

like they would if you were a neglacted piano

but this message I'm writing

i never expected to be my last

we aren't together anymore, and you're

a non-sentient piece of technology,

hurriedly assembled and slow,

made clunkily by a machine, you don't run anymore

today they'll shut you down, and you won't remember

the 27,000 documents and pictures and videos and memories

we shared together.

this is to my old school computer.

i would hold you forever, without the factory reset

that breaks six years of warmth and late nights spent together.

in another life, I could stay attached, and we would

never have to forget one another.

Update device within 19 hours. the clock winds down with a tick.

"The district requires you to update your Chromebook

before the deadline." but this update will never come

and this deadline is forever your last

even though you don't know me like I know you,

i'll miss you all the same.

maybe you're in there, and maybe you'll miss me too,

maybe you loved me like I loved you

you were a friend, and a help, a distraction

from the loud world around me. without you I am nothing.

i take a deep breath in, close your lid shakily, and mutter my

goodbye.

[neldel]

Love when I play a new inventive game that has amazing art direction & fun mechanics aaaaaaand the studio's been permanently closed by their publisher

[meat-wentz]

i remember when pete first wore his skirt on stage and i saw people left and right and front and center talk shit about how ugly it was and it was such a moment for me of you lack such vision it makes me want to hit you so hard because pete’s skirt was such a sweet spot intersection of high fashion a la raf simons, ann demeulemeester, alexander wang, givenchy even, and with the layer and edge and seemingly effortless ease of NY/LA based streetwear and idk i think it deserved more applause vs being ‘just a skirt’ or pete being ‘just a dude in a skirt’ because it was intentionally styled and it was intentionally styled to compliment pete as a person, a performer, and a style icon

[belovedblixa]

My friend Klaus did this little art piece of Blixa, I purchased it when I had another one commissioned. I’ve always liked the inner sleeve of 1987’s Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala, so I decided to frame Young Blixa with that lyrics sleeve. I like the way it turned out!

W/ @andreweldritchfunkopop

[knightofleo]

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[kirliancamera1]

Kirlian Camera headlined the Stella Nomine 3-day festival right one month ago. This picture taken by Schwarze Presse DE, August 2024... 🖤🤍🖤

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This custom-built town car represented an experiment in body styling and design by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, who is seen here at the wheel on February 5, 1946.

The designer expected the comfort features of the model to be adapted to standard makes in the future. Built on a standard 1942 Lincoln Continental chassis, the car is six inches lower than standard cars without loss of headroom. The Plexiglass roof over the driver’s seat could be removed in warm weather. Blue glass portholes were an innovation in the rear dome. A plastic shield, hinged to the top, could be lowered between front and rear seats. A rear spotlight was an aid in parking and maneuvering in reverse, and a blue pilot light on an antenna rod flashed to identify the car quickly in a theater or hotel queue. The exterior was in black and deep brown, without a bright chrome finish. The simplified body treatment eliminated projecting hardware.

In 1963, Loewy designed a car for Studebaker that he called the Avanti. It is one of the most sought-after cars among collectors.

Photo: FM for the Associated Press

[thererisesaredstar]

Invent, Improve, Implement! (1970)