The Atmosfär Project

The Atmosfär Project
Chris Boden

This sounds very cool. This guy makes a lot of short videos about electrical stuff. This one is not one his usual. Description from the project page:

The Atmosfär Project is designed and curated by Chris Boden with the goal of creating calming content for a chaotic world. 

Drawing from his own experiences, The Atmosfär Project's videos are crafted to help people with Autism and Anxiety find calm, focus, relaxation, and clarity when they become stressed or overwhelmed.  

Atmosfär's videos feature a captivating visual element and specifically crafted soundscape designed for calm, repetition, meditation, and/or focus. Because we design ASMR videos for a variety of needs, our videos vary widely and may differ significantly from each other. For best results, we suggest wearing headphones while viewing and listening. 

The Atmosfär Project is a curated collection of videos and immersive audio experiences created for meditation, relaxation, calming, focus, studying, deep sleep, and hypnosis. 

Here is one of the videos. I had to turn the volume up to hear any sound.

The Candle Part 2 - Atmosfär
Atmosfär

Gucci Slide - Nick Bultman

Gucci Slide - Nick Bultman

Most abstract art doesn't do anything for me, but I really like this one. Maybe because I watched him make it:

My cleanest dustpan pour yet?
Nick Bultman Art

The Borg Have Landed

Traditions at Hazelwood

IAman has moved into his new compartment in the Borg Cube on East Burnside. He is the only tenant so far. On Google Maps - Satellite View, this building shows as a bare patch of dirt. I got this image from Streetview. The gang stopped by for lunch today and it is very near completion. Those are the Max tracks out front. IAman says he can hear the trains go by, but the sound it more soothing than annoying. We were there for an hour and I didn't hear them at all.

The building has a big courtyard in the center, so half of the apartments face the courtyard and half face outside. Every door in the place has an electronic lock operated with a key fob. The ground floor has a big lobby as well as variety of common rooms.

Mechanicing Dream

GEARWRENCH Bolt Biter Impact Extraction Socket
Weirdest looking socket I could find
Still nothing like the one in my dream

I had a longish dream this morning, but I had some places to go and didn't have a chance to write it down until this afternoon and much of it has faded away. Here are a couple of bits I do remember.

I am trying to break something down. I'm using a largish socket wrench, maybe an inch in diameter, maybe two. It slips when I apply some force, so I turn it over and look at the socket end. It's some oddball shape, not like a standard 6 or 8 point socket. Doesn't appear to be anything wrong, so I check the size. It has a black oxide finish and it is marked 7.1 - 6 8/16 so it's apparently marked with metric and American sizes. There is a small mechanical slide switch in the side as well. It has a small steel button that barely projects over the surrounding surface. One position marked 'East Coast'. I flip the switch, but I cannot discern any difference. I pick up another socket of similar size. This one has a worn chrome finish.

Later on I am stripping the covering from a stainless steel control cable. The wire is maybe an eighth of inch in diameter, which is much larger than the typical control cables you find on a bicycle or a motorcycle. The rubber covering is old, hard and brittle and breaks apart easily.

Note that the business about the 'metric and American sizes' is nonsense. If we take 7.1 to be millimeters, that is approximately 5/16 of an inch, and the fractional part of 6 & 8/16 is the same as one half. No surprise, it was a dream. It could just as easily have been marked in hieroglyphics. In either case, neither is anywhere near the size of the socket wrench I was holding.

Mechanicing may not be in a conventional dictionary, but it is in the Urban Dictionary.

Squiggly

Ned Flanders & Gun

Jet Fighter Dream

F-86D

This dream may have come in two parts. The second part I remember fairly clearly. The first part is kind of vague. Did I dream earlier last night, or did I just dream that I dreamt it during the second part?

The essence of the dream is that I bought an old jet fighter, probably for the price of a car. It had some problems so I took it to my automobile mechanic to get one simple thing fixed, like a small pump or latch or something, but he couldn't find the parts, no surprise there. So now it's sitting on his lot clearly visible from the street, subject to visits from riff-raff, so I need to move it somewhere more secure.

Jules Verne - Nautilus

Inside the Nautilus of Jules Verne: an internal arrangement for the famous sub
We Travel by Night

This video is great. This guy has gone to some trouble to construct a model of the Nautilus submarine from the 19th century novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas by Jules Verne. The video takes us on a tour of this virtual model along with some explanation of how he derived it from the explanations in the book.

He also has a couple of other videos about specific aspects of the Nautilus. You can find them here.

He references The Vernian Era, which has multiple pages about the book and the submarine. You can easily get lost in there for hours.