Posts Tagged ‘Paint’

New Hope washes over former Cura Building

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
What can be accomplished when people roll up their sleeves rather than hold out their hands, and tear down red tape to put up paint or sheetrock tape?

Wrestling with steroids

Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Dewey Robertson might have covered his body with bulging muscles and his face with blue and green paint, but that still couldnt mask what was going on inside him.

Introducing the (new) oldest pre-human

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Over four million years old . The release: Ardi displaces Lucy as oldest hominid skeleton Ethiopian desert yields fossils that paint new picture of human evolution Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct. 1) announced their reconstruction of a partial skeleton of the hominid, Ardipithecus ramidus , which they say revolutionizes our understanding of the earlie

Mark Engler: Climate Disobedience: Is a New “Seattle” in the Making?

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Crossposted at TomDispatch.com In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant's grounds, they prepared to climb the interior of the structure to its top, rappel down its outside, and paint in block letters a demand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown put an end to plants like the Kingsnor

Introducing Gibson USA’s SG Zoot Suit

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The body of the Zoot Suit features a brand new body built with multiple birch wood laminate pieces (each one approximately .075” thick), each dyed with a different color then compressed and bonded together to form one solid block of wood. No paint is used. Each body is given two coats of satin nitrocellulose lacquer. Average Weight The average weight of a Zoot Suit body is 5.7 lbs, which is slightly heavier than normal but actually creates more balance, a solid feel, and brighter tones that p