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Manifesto Movement

I have created a movement that is against the machine age of modern society.

Most people believe that our visual culture is contrasted by the media based on effect. This is done through the use of technology by showing us what we want to see, rather than what should be shown.

Thus technology in art creates imagery that can be considered as being mass media, showing people what they want them to see through manipulating their better judgment with visual aid or imagery

I believe that art should be separated from technology, even though to others this may sound like a limited approach to design, but exploring art through the world is an unlimited source of experience.

Art is considered as conveying interactions, symbolism and expressing the way we as artists see the world and the contents within this world. With technology today, this takes the experienced views of an artist to new heights. Thus the artist manipulates an existing image into something that it is not. This manipulates the artist’s common science of what the artists actually see and as well as what he/she thinks they see. Most believe that art has evolved with technology. One needs to explore how art was expressed through experience rather than a delete button.

Most people believe that religion has a lot of purpose, but mainly to give meaning to human life. This plays a role in how feminism acts in society, most people believe that feminism in South African society is for women to gain control and be empowered by fulfilling men’s needs. We believe than women should be treated more fairly than this, man and women are the perfect ying yang elements that keep the world turning.

This is bullshit!

We, as a society, need to conform to our roots. We have meaning to life; this is the process of living this life. Where have the days gone when death was an honor and not something to be feared?

Fear is simply a state of mind of man. We must learn to control that fear through victory!

This is the movement of living and dying with honor by your side!

Join us on the journey of walking within the light of understanding … Let us tear away from the shadows of doubt.

We are moving away from what society considers as living in times of popularity:

Celebrity weddings- waste of money and technological resources

Money Victoria’s secrets- this is actually nice, brings pleasure to a relationship

Beer bellies- earning money people become lazy and technology helps with making them lazier through making living easy

The perfect body- technology like Photoshop manipulates and exaggerates the human figure for what it really is

Black berries (cellophane) - communication is broken down to a limited source and not building proper relationships with people through interpersonal relationships.

Fitness Hair highlights- what’s the purpose of consuming chemicals in human hair?

Exotic pets- animals should be treated with respect and morals not like toys

Movie stars- we live in a society where celebrities are idolized by people thus being associated by fake ideological beliefs, we see more people in cinemas than churches

WE ARE MORE THAN THIS! We were created for a higher means than this.

Manifesto Movement in sms language

i shaulin lai wai hav created a movement dat is against the machine age of modin society.

most peeple believ dat our visual culture is contrasted by the media based on efect. dis is done through da use of tech by showing us wat we want to see, rather dan what shul be shown.

thus tech in art creates imagry dat can be considid as being mass media, showing people what dey want dem to see through manipulating deir beta judgment with visual aid or imagery

i believ dat art shud be separated from tech, even though to others this may sound like a limited approch to design, but exploring art through the world is an unlimited source of experience.

art is considid as conveying interactions, symbolism and expressing da way we as artists see da world and da contents within das world. wit tech 2day, dis taks the experienced views of an artist to new hights. dis da artist manipulates an existing image into something dat it is not. did manipulates the artist’s common science of wat the artists actually see and as wel as wat he/she thinks dey see. most believ dat art has evolved with tech. 1 needs to explore how art was expressed through experience rather than a delete button.

most people believ dat religion has a lot of purposes, but mainly to give meaning to human life. dis plays a role in how feminism acts in society, most people believe that feminism in SA society is for women to gain control and be empowered by fulfilling men’s needs. We as a movment believ dat women should be treated more fairly dan this, man and women are da perfect ying yang elements dat keep da world turning.

dis is bullshit!

We, as a society, need to conform to our roots. e hav meaning to lyf; dis is the proces of living dis lyf. where have the days gone when death was an honor and not something to be feared?

fear is simply a state of mind of man. we must learn to control dat fear through victory!

dis is the movement of living and dying with honor sid by sid!

join us on da journey of walking within da lit of understanding … let us tear away from da shadows of doubt.

we r moving away from wat society considers as living in times of popularity:

celebrity wedings- wast of money and tech resources

victoria’s secrets- dis is actually nice, brings pleasure to a relationship

beer belies- earning money people become lazy and technology helps with making them lazier through making living easy

da perfect body- technology lik Photoshop manipulates and exaggerates the human figure for wat it really is

black berries (cellfone) - communication is broken down to a limited source and not building proper relationships wit people through interpersonal relationships.

fitness hair highlits- wats the purpose of consuming chemicals in human hair?

exotic pets- animals shud be treated wit respect and morals not like toys

movie stars- we live in a society where celebrities r idolized by people dus being associated by fake ideological beliefs, we see mor people in cinemas dan churches

WE ARE MORE THAN THIS! We were created for a higher means than this.

DADA Collage

DADA Collage

The Atom Bomb

The Atom Bomb

On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.

Upon witnessing the explosion, its creators had mixed reactions. Isidor Rabi felt that the equilibrium in nature had been upset as if humankind had become a threat to the world it inhabited. Robert Oppenheimer, though ecstatic about the success of the project, quoted a remembered fragment from the Bhagavad Gita. "I am become Death," he said, "the destroyer of worlds." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, "Now we're all sons of bitches."

As many know, the atomic bomb has been used only twice in warfare. The first was at Hiroshima. A uranium bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" (despite weighing in at over four and a half tons) was dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945. The Aioi Bridge, one of 81 bridges connecting the seven-branched delta of the Ota River, was the target; ground zero was set at 1,980 feet. At 0815 hours, the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. It missed by only 800 feet. At 0816 hours, in an instant, 66,000 people were killed and 69,000 injured by a 10-kiloton atomic explosion.

The area of total vaporization from the atomic bomb blast measured one half mile in diameter; total destruction one mile in diameter; severe blast damage as much as two miles in diameter. Within a diameter of two and a half miles, everything flammable burned. The remaining area of the blast zone was riddled with serious blazes that stretched out to the final edge at a little over three miles in diameter.

While the explosion from an atomic bomb is deadly enough, its destructive ability doesn't stop there. Atomic bomb fallout creates another hazard as well. The rain that follows any atomic detonation is laden with radioactive particles, and many survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts succumbed to radiation poisoning.

The atomic bomb detonation also has the hidden lethal surprise of affecting the future generations of those who live through it

During the early history of The Atomic Age, it was a popular notion that one day atomic bombs would be used in mining operations and perhaps aid in the construction of another Panama Canal. Needless to say, it never came about. Instead, the military applications of atomic destruction increased. Atomic bomb tests off of the Bikini Atoll and several other sites were common until the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was introduced

http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb_2.htm

The First Atomic Bomb Blast was introduced in 1945

The events that took place in a remote area of New Mexico during the predawn hours of July 16, 1945 forever changed the world. In the early morning darkness the incredible destructive powers of the atom were first unleashed and what had been merely theoretical became reality.

Some feared the consequences of radio-active fallout on civilian populations surrounding the test site. Still others feared the test would be an outright dud. Observers were sent to surrounding towns to monitor the results of the blast and medical teams were kept on alert.

The test was the culmination of three years' planning and development within the super secret Manhattan Project headed by General Leslie R. Groves. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the scientific team headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico

Everyone sensed 'This is it!' No matter what might happen now all knew that the impossible scientific job had been done. Atomic fission would no longer be hidden in the cloisters of the theoretical physicists' dreams.It was a great new force to be used for good or for evil.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/atomictest.htm

Anti protests

Protester Bertrand Russell addressed a rally organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Trafalgar Square on September 20, 1959. Russell had played a leading role in the establishment of this anti-nuclear pressure group early the previous year and remained its President until resigning in October 1960 over disagreements about tactics with others in the organization's leadership.

Bertrand Russell had also given his speech at the Hiroshima Vigil in Hyde Park on August 6, 1961. Russell was prevented from completing his address by police who instructed him that the use of a microphone contravened Park regulations. The meeting adjourned to Trafalgar Square. Russell's participation in the day's events led to his serving a week-long prison sentence for inciting the public to acts of civil disobedience.

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/cnd.html

Illustration

Manga

It is a traditional art form of Japanese storytelling, or telling stories with a series of sequential images has been a part of Japanese culture long before Superman ever put on a cape. The earliest examples of pre-manga artwork that influenced the development of modern Japanese comics are commonly attributed to Toba Sojo, an 11th-century painter-priest with a whimsical sense of humor.





Manga has a long and strong tradition of poking fun at society and mocking the rich and powerful. Kibyoshi or "yellow cover books" satirized Japanese political figures and were very popular in the 18th century (whenever they weren’t banned by the authorities).





After Commodore Perry opened up Japan to the West in 1853, an influx of foreigners followed along with the introduction of European and American-style comics. In 1857, Charles Wirgman, a British journalist, published The Japan Punch, a magazine modeled after a popular British humor publication. George Bigot, a French art teacher, started Toba-e magazine in 1887.




http://manga.about.com/od/historyofmanga/a/mangahistory1.htm




Japanese Manga is no longer considered a pop culture. It has established a foothold in the mainstream entertainment media. You can find such evidence in media outlets such as movies, television and books. Today Japanese Manga is not lumped together in the same category such as cartoons and kid’s shows.


You have American cutesy cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and then there are adventure packed, often bloody animations such as Akira. Japanese Manga can be graphic and violent. And it can be cute and non violent. If you’ve watched enough Manga and have become a true fan than maybe you’ve felt that urge in your hands to pick up a pencil and draw. If that has happened then you are not alone. Japanese Manga has excited and thrilled a new generation of young talented artist and potential Manga masters.Japanese Manga has many different styles just like traditional paintings. Certain Manga characteristics have exaggerated physical proportions such as large heads, short legs and arms with a squat torso to bring everything together. This Manga drawing style is called “Chibi”. You can find examples of Chibi drawings from the popular animated series “Naruto”. And some are perfectly proportioned as if they were actual human beings.

http://www.bg-webhosting.com/anime/

Comment: I love manga and respect the art form; it is a well respected art form in the animation industries. If I could be a good manga illustrator I’d be very happy as a wana be designer, more and more people are growing a liking to manga and not just children anymore but grownups as well. The reason I have nothing on Anime is that anime is another word for manga.

Otaku

Otaku is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga and video games. Female otaku are occasionally referred to as fujoshi
It was used in the 1980s as a second person singular pronoun among hobbyist photographers. As it gained familiarity, the word was soon used by others to refer to hobbyist photographers. Since the photographers were seen as socially unskilful, reclusive, and obsessed with their hobby, otaku picked up those negative connotations and eventually was used to refer to any reclusive, obsessive hobbyist.
http://lowee-addiction.blogspot.com/2010/04/otaku_26.html

The term "otaku" seems to have been introduced to anime fans in the US and other countries via Studio Gainax's "Otaku no Video 1985," a self-parody film.
Otaku, meaning probably "venerable house," refers to someone who has a devotion to a subject or hobby (not necessarily anime) to the point of not leaving home. For instance, an otaku fan of a particular movie star could quite possibly know all of the films s/he has been in, their birth date, time of birth, shoe size, favorite toothpaste, etc. Generally speaking, calling someone an otaku in Japan is an insult, implying that their social skills have atrophied or never even developed, due to their manic involvement in their chosen fandom.

In America, the term is used to denote a zealous fan, usually of anime and/or manga. Due to its introduction to most people's vocabulary through its tongue-in-cheek use in Gainax's film, "otaku" tends to have a much less dire definition overseas.

When dealing with Japanese people, however, it may be best to keep in mind the modern Japanese image of an otaku -- Someone who only leaves their home to eat or shop, if at all, with an overwhelming and unhealthy obsession about something. It can as easily refer to a stalker or sociopath as it can to a harmless anime buff.

kewii

Japan is the king of cool. Unlike Cool Britannia or Hip America, though, Japanese cool is nothing if not cute, intensely cute, maddeningly cute, and even cloyingly cute.


The Japanese for cute - kawaii - is uttered so often and so reflexively by so many that it has become a mantra. See baby: "Cute!" See little dog: "Cute!" See almost any girl/woman under 30: "Cute!"


Long-known to Japan-watchers, kawaii has now gone international. From New York art-scene superstar Takashi Murakami's urban vinyl toys to Hello Kitty!, kawaii is now a serious life-style choice of adults throughout the civilized world.
http://www.japanvisitor.com/index.php?cID=359&pID=1124#ixzz1KKocxUkF

It seems that cute is everywhere in the UK now.

"Over the last 10 years, the country's youngsters have started to embrace the whole spectrum of kawaii -- from the extremes of costume play down to the purchasing of accessories adorned with cute anime and manga characters."

The article gets commentary from Helen McCarthy the British-based expert on Japanese popular culture, anime, manga, book author (we really need to write up some sort of introduction to Helen as she's done a lot of stuff). Helen reports that over the last 10 years with the growth of the internet the kawaii culture has become more visible.

'"Kawaii has made inroads, but is not embedded yet," she said, adding that its influence can be seen in TV shows and subway posters'

"We (Britain) are still quite a masculine and patriarchal culture and we have never embraced the cute, soft side like France and Japan. We are not ready to go full-on cute yet and whether we ever will be is a mute point."





Source: Mainichi Daily News





http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=1724








Comment: I am not really into cute shit, if it was up to me I would banish the shit. Most people may like kewii but the real world out there is shitty and evil, not much cute we can talk about. The Japanese did start this shit and I think that today it is a huge market that earns millions billions

Victorian design

Gothic - Middle Ages


The Goths were a Scandinavian tribe that was only one of several tribes who invaded the crumbling Roman empire. In 410, the city of Rome fell to plundering Northern Goths. They were prodigious woodworkers who made trade routes from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
"Gothic" was first used as a term of derision by Renaissance critics who scorned its lack of conformity to the standards of classic Greece and Rome. In effect, "Gothic" means barbarian.


Italian Gothic


"In Italy the true Gothic never made substantial inroads, though prominent exceptions like Milan's cathedral stand out.
http://www.buffaloah.com/a/archsty/gothic/index.html#Gothic


ECLECTIC STYLE - What is it?


Feb 20, 2004 - © Barbara Brice

What is Eclectic and what does it mean? One dictionary definition is: selecting individual elements from a variety of sources, systems or styles. Also, made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources. That all sounds interesting, but how does it relate to decorating. Well, as renters, we often do select or combine elements from a variety of sources. Especially if it is your first rental or your first time on your own. You many have inherited furnishings from family or leftover pieces from previous roommates. If you are a first time renter, you are most likely on a strict budget and one source might be shopping garage sales or thrift stores. Can it all be brought together and given a look of cohesion and style? Most definitely!


By using some or all of your pieces, you can accomplish an eclectic style that is uniquely your own. It doesn't matter if you prefer modern, country, contemporary or traditional; eclecticism can be applied successfully.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/decorating_tenant/106575




A Victorian Sentiment offers an untraditional, relaxing, therapeutic three-hour Body Treatment for the discerning individual. http://www.avictoriansentiment.com/




Ornate Gate

Louis Prang


Believe it or not, the celebration of Christmas was once banned in Boston. It seems the Puritans considered it an invention of the devil. Although the law banning Christmas was repealed in 1681, it was not proclaimed a legal holiday here until 1856. This was the same year that Louis Prang, a German immigrant from Breslau Germany, came to America. He later became known as the father of the American Christmas card.


PRANG, Louis (1824-1909) was born in Breslau of a French Huguenot father and German mother, and learned to dye print calico in his father's shop. After traveling as a journeyman in Europe, he went to the United States in 1850, a refugee of the revolutionary period. He came well trained as a lithographer and settled in Boston, where he started as a wood-engraver. He also became a lithographer, color-printer and publisher. Soon after the Civil War he began printing chromo lithographs; and during the 1870's he began to issue color reproductions of famous paintings.

He was a writer on many subjects. He wrote the "Prang Method of Art Instruction" and the "Prang Standards of Color." He is remembered for "Prang's Natural History Series," published in 1873, and "Prang's Aids for Objective Teaching," which appeared in 1877, and both had a marked effect on the teaching of art throughout the United States. In 1882, the pioneer of American lithographing organized the Prang Educational Company to publish drawing books for schools, and Prang's water colors remained standard classroom equipment for many years. Sylvester Koehler, the son of a Leipzig artist, who was brought to the United States as a twelve-year old boy in 1849, became technical manager of Prang and Company in 1868, one of the founders of the American Art Review, and curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. http://www.emotionscards.com/museum/louisprang.htm

Walter crane
Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15th August, 1845. Walter's father, Thomas Crane, was a moderately successful artist. In 1851 the family moved to London with the hope that this would provide Crane with more clients. Unfortunately, just as business was improving, Thomas Crane died.

Soon after his father's death Walter Crane obtained an apprenticeship at William Linton's engraving shop. William Linton had been a member of the Chartist movement in the 1840s and his stories of the struggle for parliamentary reform, had an important influence on Crane's early political development.


In 1865 Walter Crane saw Work, a painting by Ford Madox Brown, at an art gallery in Piccadilly. The picture, shows the historian, Thomas Carlyle, and the leader of the Christian Socialist movement, F. D. Maurice, observing a group of men working. The painting marked an important development in British art because for the first time an artist had decided that a working man was a subject worth painting. Although Brown's painting did not immediately influence Crane's work, it had a profound impact on his long-term career.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jcrane.htm
Kate Greenaway
Catherine (Kate) Greenaway was born on March 17, 1846, at Cavendish Street in London to John Greenaway and Elizabeth Catherine Jones.

Having her father being a well-known engraver and an architect, Kate began to show her artistic talent in her early teens. She was raised in a loving family environment and her unique illustration was born from her memories of her happy childhood. Her artwork, illustrations, watercolors and her poems, she had left behind over a hundred years ago gave us valuable information regarding children's life in Victorian time.
Kate Greenaway was also fond of dressing the children she created in a quaint fashion reminiscent of the Empire style of the early 19th Century.


With no formal schooling, Kate was home schooled by local women who themselves had very little education. At age 12, Kate was given an education in art to develop her talent. By age 17 or 18, Kate had received several awards and left some remarkable artwork such as A Kitchen in Ralston, a watercolor, Picnic, a drawing by ink, and painted tiles, etc. Kate worked for the London branch of Marcus Ward and Co. from 1868 to 1878. In 1868, amazingly 25,000 of the first Valentine's Day card Kate illustrated were sold in a few weeks time.

Kate's father was a friend of Edmund Evans, the color printer. When she showed her portfolio of drawings and poems to Evans, he immediately decided to publish them as a collection. Kate Greenaway passed away on November 6, 1901, surrounded by several of her friends at her bed side. She was 55 years old.


Many distinguished children's picture books were published in the latter half of the 19th Century. For example, Kate Greenaway's Toy-books, W.S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs and Stories, Christina Rosseti's Sing-Song, Robert Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses, and Lewis Carrol's Alice in the Wonderland, etc.
Resource:
Under The Window - Kate Greenaway, the poet of illustration from the gentler era; Shinshokan, Tokyo, 1976.
Kate Greenaway Stickers & Seals; Dover Publications, Inc., 1988
http://www.emotionscards.com/museum/kategreenaway.htm

Howard Pyle


The illustrations of HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) are as exciting now as they were a hundred years ago, while pictures by many of his contemporaries today look dated and mannered.

Several special qualities combined to make Pyle America's foremost illustrator. Pyle was interested in pictures, first of all, as drama. As a young man his initial reaction to a theatrical performance had made a great impression on him and influenced his point of view from then on. In his illustrations, Pyle sought to dramatize themes with universal appeal. The pictures portrayed basic human emotions: the ruthlessness of pirate greed, raw grief in the break-up of Lee's army after Appomattox, smug pride, humble petition.

Pyle's concept of a picture was never trite. He deliberately looked for new ways to tell a story and involved himself in his subject so thoroughly that his pictures make the reader and eye-witness to a vivid experience.

Pyle wrote, as well as illustrated, many books himself. He did original research on the obscure subject of the buccaneers in the New World. It is from his famous Book of Pirates that our present-day concept of pirates has come. School children still read his Men of Iron, The Story of King Arthur and his Knights, The Merry adventures of Robin Hood, and many other tales.

After Pyles death, his students collected many of his original paintings as a nucleus for the present comprehensive collection of his work in the Deleware Art Museum. An excellent biography entitled Howard Pyle, was written by Henry C. Pitz and published in New York by Bramhall House in 1965. - Walt Reed
["Walking the Plank" from "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main" written by Howard Pyle for Harper's Magazine, 1887; Oil on canvas en grisaille, 20 x 13"]
http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/pyle_bio.html

John F. Cumming

The designer John F. Cumming (born 20. 5. 1852 in Harrisville, Pennsylvania) created the font Kismet™ in 1879.

Kismet has the look of a modern, ornamental alphabet, but looks are deceiving: the typeface was designed by John F. Cumming in 1879. The basic forms are strictly constructed, most based on the form of a circle, a shape which also appears again and again in the ornamentation. Cumming decorated his figures generously with spiral elements and tiny circles in the middle of the letters. Characteristics which suggest the beginning of the Jugendstil are the floral designs and some individual forms, for example, T, M or P. Small, pointed serifs add a sobering element to all the flowery, oriental decoration. Used sparingly in headlines, the extravagant Kismet will be sure to attract attention.http://www.linotype.com/341/johnfcumming.html





Hermann Ihlenburg


Hermann Ihlenburg (born 1843 in Berlin, died 31. 7. 1905 in Philadelphia) designed the font Isabella in 1892 for MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, one of many type houses that were later amalgamated into American Type Founders. As testimony to its long-lived appeal, Isabella was one of the first PostScript® language typeface releases (in 1988) of Agfa Compugraphic. With its unmistakable 19th-century characteristics – swirls, loops, and surprising letter shapes – Isabella is a natural for display situations that demand high drama or, dare we say, melodrama.

The history of Photography

Photography as reportage

This type of photography keeps us informed of what happens in the world of today

in my opinion this is images that should be shared to the world and not hidden from

the world

Photography as art

 This type of photography has taken a step forward in expressing emotion

in still pictures, the art of photography is evolving into movement within

still imagery

Photography in science

 This is just for record keeping, a way nerds show us their fancy toys,

this is why parents should buy them toys, because life is not about

science but art and understanding, photography in science might be awesome

but really not necessary

Domesticated photography

 Domesticated photography should be private, as to me it is

something that only family or Friends show one another to explore

the pleasure of memories enjoyed

Intimacy photography

 This photography gives a sense of wanting intimacy in ones life,

because without this you cant built relationships with others

 Paparazzi photography 

If you are famous everyone wants to know what you are doing every

second of the day, being a victim of paparazzi is plainly your own fault

Snapshot photography

This is a good kind of photography because we take snapshots for

a spur of a memorable memento, something that has happened

just for that moment that can be remembered forever 

Pornography in photography

 In truth i feel there is nothing wrong with exploiting ones body, if people

allow themselves to be exploited in this way we cant judged or

blame them for what they are doing, we live in a sex sells world,

people aren't forced to do this type of photography but an opportunity to make money

Old Automobles

Group work Quantitative research

Automobiles Rules the world, that is what you would hear if you were an engineer and an ass


                                                        Old Train car

A picture for eye sores

Automobiles graphics

                                                       Coal mine steam machines

Here are some articles of old automobiles that started the production line of the fancy and new model cars we know today, because let admit it everything has to start somewhere even thieves

1.A quick read from a 1920s Harper's Bazaar comparing the European and American "closed body" style of limousines (a.k.a., 'coupe, town car, cabriolet'); these were the luxurious looking vehicles that we've all seen in pictures from that period in which the chauffeur was expected to perform his duties without the benefit of a roof over his head. The uncredited journalist talks about where cars such as these are likely to be found, their interiors, tufted seating upholstery, basket weaving applications, leather casings and more.(http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Car_History)
2,The owner of a classic 1960's Porsche describes the professional restoration undertaken on his car.
Oldclassiccar - visit the classic cars homepage. (C) R. Jones 2010

Porsche 356C Restoration.

This article describes the restoration of, and the upgrades made to, a 1965 Porsche 356C that was purchased from Connecticut in 2009. Amazingly, Shane - the owner of the Porsche - hadn't, at the time of writing, actually seen his car, or even driven a 356! The restoration was farmed out to a professional company in Martindale, Texas, with updates being provided on a regular basis by phone and email. Shortly after sending this article over, Shane was due to visit his car for the first time, and take it for a spin at a track day.


Here is the brief story behind the restoration of this classic air-cooled Porsche. (http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/porsche-356c.htm)

3.Memories of a deal involving a smokey old Model Y Ford woodie, and a Royal Enfield.


Oldclassiccar - visit the classic cars homepage. (C) R. Jones 2010
Story about a Model Y "Woodie".

Robert very kindly sent over this Ford Model Y story, first of many hopefully, so thanks to him for putting finger to keyboard and sending it over for inclusion in the motoring memories section of this site.

Swapping a Model Y for a Royal Enfield - "A Lesson Learned"

In about 1957 I was then 17yrs old and riding a motorcycle to work, and living with my parents. One weekend a distant relative turned up out of the blue. He was a young lad, a bit older than me, and he was driving an old Ford Y model Woodie which was painted a light blue and smoked quite badly, but what didn't in those days!?


After a cup of tea the conversation turned to the fact he was looking for a motorcycle and wanted to exchange this old Ford car for one. Now at this my ears pricked up because a couple of months earlier I had purchased another motorcycle of the same make as mine - an old Royal Enfield Ex-WD - from a London firm, I think it may have been Claude-Rye, for the princely sum of £10 delivered. This was purchased for spares but I got it going and used it for a week while I did repairs to my previous one. I spoke to my father out of earshot of this relative, and asked him what he thought about this exchange, and we both agreed that it sounded good so a deal was done, and the relative rode off into the sunset.



A Ford Model Y with woodie coachwork, similar to that once owned by Robert. Full size photo on this page of the vintage gallery.

We made the front gateway wider and put the car along the edge of the garden. Looking in the car I noticed a pair of large chrome oblong spotlights, these I removed to the shed. The next day we decided to remove the engine, and after stripping it down we purchased a set of Cord rings. If anyone remembers these they could be fitted to a worn engine without the need and expense of having a re-bore, and did a very good job of it. They came with four very strong open-ended clips. Wondering what these were for, we found they had to be fitted to the bottom of the split skirt pistons, the intention was to open up the split and thereby make the pistons bigger! The engine was re-built and put back in and run up, it was very tight to start but apparently this was normal after fitting Cord rings so we felt quite pleased with ourselves.


After about another week a gentleman turned up at the door in a raincoat and hat looking very formal, and asked about this car, "is it yours?" he asked me. "Yes" I replied, and asked "why?". To this he asked "where did you get it?". I told him how I had exchanged the Model Y Ford for a motorcycle and then he said "did you know it had been stolen from a car site by a Mr L----Y who worked there?", "of course not" I replied, also asking him "what about the fact we have just done the engine and what about my motorcycle?". "Sorry but I doubt if you will get anything back at all" he replied, and of course he was right.

Remember my wages were only about £3 a week then, so it was a hard and expensive lesson learned. Luckily I had forgotten to mention the spotlights, and sold them for a few quid and so got back something but it took a few more years before I shared another car with my father! I might add we have never seen this relative since. (http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/model-y-woodie.htm)

Quantitative research

Questionnaire

1. Which technology can’t you live without between a cell phone and an automobile?

Most candidates can’t live without their cell phones because of the social network world or because they don’t have a car only phones, while a small percent prefer their cars

2. Do you think technology such as automobiles and cell phones have evolved for the benefit of humankind

Everyone thinks that technology evolves for the benefit of humankind as it makes our lives easier

3. Do you know who invented the automobile and the telephone?

No one had an answer to this question

4. How often do you use these types of technology?

Every one uses cell phones and automobiles everyday

5. Do these technologies influence your ability of communicating with others?

To most it does because cell phones makes communication with others easier an effortless, while a small percentage says that text messaging creates miscommunication and conflict

6. In your own opinion what do you think of the future of these technologies?

Everyone thinks that cell phones and automobiles will never stop evolving and growing

7. Do you think these types of technologies are expensive or in affordable means

Everyone thinks that cell phones are affordable because everyone has one and automobiles are expensive luxuries

8. Would you buy a 100 year old car?

Everyone replied that they would not buy a hundred year old car as they think that it is practically scrap metal

9. Would you buy an 1800’s cord telephone?

Everyone replied never, the rude bustards

10. Have you ever stolen a car or cell phone?

Everyone replied no, LIARS.......