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  1. Rexona Ditches Traditional Sports Sponsorship Model To Own Australia’s Biggest Code War

    Unilever’s Rexona has put the ultimate pub conversation to the test, producing its own eight-part sports entertainment series…
    #NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #FoxSports #Kayo #octagon #Rexona #unilever
    newsbeep.com/au/469339/

  2. So so, #Octagon werden die Elefanten - Dildos genannt. Heute in der #rbbabendschau gelernt. Mobile Poller.
    Massiver Gußstahl, am Fuß mit Zähnen, damit die miteinander verzahnt, auf die Fahrbahn gestellt werden können.

    #PolizeiBerlin bereitet sich auf den #1Mai vor.

    #1Mai2025

  3. CW: Read previous post before revealing it

    List of relative sizes of octagons in the previous figure.
    #Maths #geometry #GoldenRatio #octagon

  4. I am very happy with this drawing using golden equioctagons. It has a remarkable feature: apart from the three sizes of octagons explicitly drawn, bigger similar octagons can be found here, can you spot them all? Try it before revealing the hidden figure in the following post, where all relative sizes of octagons in the drawing are listed.
    #Mathart #geometry #GoldenRatio #octagon #tiling

  5. I am pleased to introduce you to the golden equioctagon, a non-regular equilateral convex octagon with four axis of symmetry based on the #GoldenRatio. In the figure you can see the construction, starting from a unit square two segments of size 𝜑 (phi) are drawn, parallel to the sides and centered, so that four points are defined outside the square. Joining those points with the square vertices we get the desired polygon. It has diameters of size 𝜑 and √2. Using it in several sizes related by the golden ratio, interesting constructions can be made, as following posts hopefully show. I have mostly used it rotated 45 degrees for aesthetical reasons.
    #Maths #Mathematics #geometry #octagon

  6. Dunedin news. A truck full of woodchips was coming down Stuart Street this morning when witnesses heard it accelerate. A medical event is the likely cause.

    The truck missed Robbie Burns but the bus shelter below is seriously munted and there are woodchips everywhere.

    stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350252031/

    #Otepoti #Dunedin #Octagon

  7. Since I'm traveling yet keen to keep my #novid status, I look hard at places to eat. Has to be outdoors, of course, which rules out lots of places I've enjoyed before. Anyway #Vault21 on the #Octagon gets our $$ tonight. Didn't even need to mask up to order.

  8. And finally, because we've used coloured threads for the sashiko on the front...

    ...and have stitched through the batting and backing...

    we get a series of beautiful patterns on the rear of the quilt as well.

    This was a lovely collaborative project. I hope to do more quilting soon.

    THREAD 9/9

    #origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  9. The sashiko stitching adds so much beautiful detail.

    It draws the eye to new patterns within the whole, and links sections through (here it comes...) a common thread.

    Tessa Layzelle, textile artist, take a bow.

    instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/

    THREAD 8/x

    #origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  10. Using your sewing skills (or, in this case, with the collaboration of someone far more skilled than myself), the 9 cyanotype panels were joined together.

    Cotton batting and a white rear panel were tacked in place.

    To join the front and rear, lines of the pattern were picked out in hand-stiched sashiko...

    THREAD 7/x

    #origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  11. As I've shown previously, you can also use cyanotype to custom dye some thread.

    For this quilt, we used a mix of plain white, speckled blue, and full blue threads.

    THREAD 6/x

    #origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  12. After you've exposed the print, wash the fabric well.

    You get (somewhat obviously) a negative version - or should that be a positive version? - of the original cyanotype.

    Now, repeat until you have the required number of printed fabric pieces.

    Two prints shown here.

    I used 9 for a 3x3 quilt.

    THREAD 5/x

    #origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  13. Now all you need is some cyanotype coated fabric.

    I used squares of cotton cut slightly larger than the image. This gives room for seams.

    Put the negative on the fabric, squeeze everything together (I used a contact frame) and expose in the sun.

    THREAD 4/x

    #origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko #CameralessPhotography

  14. You can use tissue paper cyanotypes as paper negatives to print from.

    You can also speed up the exposure time a little by doing what Victorian photographers used to do with their paper negatives.

    You can oil it.

    This gives it a bit more transparency, as you can ... ahem... clearly see.

    THREAD 3/x

    #origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
    #CameralessPhotography

  15. After exposure, development and drying, the image becomes a 'metamorphogram', a cyanotype which was exposed in one form but visualised as another.

    Metamorphograms are both subject and object. It takes a picture of itself as a tato. Unfolding reveals that picture.

    Layers in the paper become shades of blue and white

    THREAD 2/x

    #origami #cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko

  16. Here's how I made a quilt, using cyanotype paper negatives to print the fabric, in collaboration with tetxile artist Tessa Layzelle (on IG: instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/)

    It all started with a Tato - an origami 'purse' folded from cyanotype-coated archival tissue paper.

    THREAD 1/x

    #origami #cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko