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while we are at it with the tubes. if you act fast you can still cherry pick Leland Stanford Junior Marching Band covering the tubes's White Punks On Dope off brian turner's playlist for a listen. what puts it over the top and a seriously good listen is the extended fans in the bleechers sing along chant at the end. go ahead and listen, i bet you cant do it just once. 1st times free, cummon just say yes. white punks on dope white punks on dope white punks on dope...
What do you want from life
To kidnap an heiress
or threaten her with a knife
What do you want from life
To get cable TV
and watch it every night
There you sit
a lump in your chair
Where do you sleep
and what do you wear
when you're sleeping
What do you want from life
An Indian guru
to show you the inner light
What do you want from life
a meaningless love affair
with a girl that you met tonight
How can you tell when you're doin' alright
Does your bank account swell
While you're dreaming at night
How do know when you're really in love
Do violins play when you're touching the one
That you're loving
What do you want from life
Someone to love
and somebody that you can trust
What do you want from life
To try and be happy
while you do the nasty things you must
Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary's baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck,
a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?
thomas hine populuxe
The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of history's great shopping sprees, as many Americans went on a baroque bender and adorned their mass-produced houses, furniture and machines with accouterments of the space ange and of the American frontier. "Live your dreams and meet your budget," one advertisement promised, and unprecedented numbers of Americans were able to do it. What they bought was rarely fine, but it was often fun. There were so many things to buy--a power lawnmower, a modern dinette set, a washer with a window through which you could see the wash water turn disgustingly gray, a family room, a charcoal grill. Products were available in a lurid rainbow of colors and a steadily changiung array of styles. Commonplace objects took extraordinary form, and the novel and exotic quickly turned commonplace.
It was, materially, a kind of gold age, but it was one that left few monuments because the pleasures of its newfound prosperity were, like Groucho Marx's secret word, "something you find around the house." There was so much wealth it did not need to be shared. Each householder was able to have his own little Versailles along a cul-de-sac. People were physically separated, out in their own in a muddy and unfinished landscape, but they were also linked as never before through advertising, television and magazines. Industry saw them as something new, "a mass market," an overwhelmingly powerful generator of profits and economic growth. There was ebullience in this grand display of appetite, a naivete that was winning, and today, touching...
The essence of Populuxe is not merely having things. It is having things in a way that they and never been had before, and it is an expression of outright, thoroughly vulgar joy in bing able to live so well. "You will have a greater chance to be yourself than any people in the history of civilization" House Beautiful told it readers in 1953. The greatness of America would be expresed by enrichment of the environment, bu the addition of new equipment to the household and by giving up European models and, instead, finding inspiration in the American past and, most of all, in its promising future.
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shipping container housing q and a
1. How much of one side can be removed without weakening the structure? None, the moment you make an aperture in the sidewall regardless of location, the structure is weakened. Almost all apertures will require perimeter framing along with some rail to rail intermediate posts (an intermediate post is any reinforcement from bottom to toprail not located at a corner).
2. If you build one yourself, how cheaply can it be done? The lower cost the container will be inversely proportional to the labor you put back into it. Containers that are 20 years old and are still structurally suitable regrettably are usually so dinged up that when it comes to putting on its prom dress (exterior siding) that you end up adding back huge amounts of hat channel and labor to accomodate. Plan on this being dollar for dollar equivalent to DIY stick or Panel built. Consider your containers (ahem, ISBUs) to be your dried in Framing Package.
3. Are they harder or easier to insulate and how are they affected in the hot/cold months? Once insulated they perform the same. The difficulty to insulate is really no different than anything else.
4. What is it like to actually live in one? To live in one unit is OK, that really comes down to location. 40' units are 320 sq ft and I lived in an apartment smaller than that but it was at the beach so who cares. To live in a home, is no different than any other home. Ouyr system cuts open the entire sidewalls so you end up with huge areas.
5. How hard is it to cut out windows and doors? Sidewall corrugations range from 1.5mm to 2.0mm thickness. Plasma torch works well. I once cut an entire 40' unit in half with a Sawzall and a circular saw (took 20 sawzall blades and 4 circular saw blades) Would not recommend that to anyone.
6. What about the gap in between them? All dry containers whether they be STd or HiCubes have camberedd roofs just like the deck of a ship. so not only is there a gap but when two containers are side by side each half of each cvontainer is pitched down toward that gap. For a do it yourselfer, I have succesfully take a piece of 1" angle turned it so the flanges straddled each container then stitch welded it down the center line (when we were done it just looks like a little elongated pitched roof down the gap). then we caulked it liberally.
I would not want to discourage anyone from a DIY project. I would like to stress something Michael speaks of often which is predictability of outcome. The less units cost to start with would be an indicator (not a fact) just an indicator that the boxes are less fair and true for home building. Also when marring two boxes side by side some bottom rails finish above the plane of the wood floor, some even with it, some below it. This causes many problems in the field. Some containers are 9'5 1/2" while others are a true 9'6"
You will usually need to support the home at more locations other than the cornerposts. This will need to be accomplished through intermediate posts ( again just the framing package). Bear in mind you will need to extend that post through the rails and possibly hockeypuck shim to ensure it engages the can above or below it.
I do not want to make it sound daunting, rather eyes wide open. Maybe another thought is not how cheap can it be done, but instead, how much value can I create for the same effort.
I like the computer metaphors (similes?) I think of it that in the 60's computers components used to be housed in steel enclosures. Then at some point someone said lets package it up in some plastic enclosures. The components remained the same, the computing goal remained the same, just the way to enclose it was altered. All these houses of wood, now folks are considering containers as a new enclosure, but living, facades, appliances, function, that will still be the same. Anyway, theres a thought trying to get out somewhere.
My background is the Merchant Marine as a deck officer aboard container and with Steam ship companies as an intermodal equipment manager. Today we are actively engage in the modification and newbuilds of containers. WHile living in China I came across a locale that had 20 stand alone homes made form containers with Sod on the roof. Always thought that was clever but have no data to indicate what it does for R or K values.
You will find Paul Sawyers book very relevant to your project. Do not hesitate to let us all know what your progress is
"The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world," says Kirby Jones, the president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association. "Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made."
Ian Schrager, the New York entrepreneur who helped create the trend for stylish boutique hotels with the Royalton in Manhattan, the Delano in Miami Beach and the Mondrian in Los Angeles, went to Cuba in 1994-95. "I was completely enchanted with the country," he says. "I was completely taken with it. To me what was interesting was Old Havana, like Venice, a special place frozen in time."
The two weeks of Mardi Gras parades and parties have for decades been the city's binding cord, bringing together all segments of society and thousands of outsiders for a mix of the sacred and the profane. But with planning for the February Carnival season now under way, Mardi Gras has been plagued by harsh financial realities, indecision, lowered expectations and the possibility that this year's parade lineup could be absent some of its most popular krewes, or social clubs.
After the city announced plans for smaller and fewer Mardi Gras parades, dissatisfied krewes protested. Responding to the pressure, an advisory panel to Mayor C. Ray Nagin recommended Wednesday that an additional weekend be included in an abbreviated Mardi Gras parade season. The mayor is expected to agree to a pre-Lenten Carnival season of eight days, instead of the customary 12, culminating Feb. 28 on Mardi Gras Day (known in English as Fat Tuesday).
WFMU will be featured on New York Noise -- the NYC-area local access cable video show. In addition to an hour's worth of cool videos, there'll be footage shot at the Record Fair, and cameos by a number of WFMU DJs. The WFMU feature will air on NYC cable channel 25 on November 19th at 10 PM, December 2nd at 9 PM, and December 4th at 10 PM. More info on New York Noise can be found here.tape it tivo it watch it
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