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Why the electric car fails and failed. 1916:

klh@threads.dk — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:01:04 +0000

Written in 1916:

The fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist.

-Electrical World Journal (Anno: 1916)

Found in Google books.

Editing on-the-go

klh@threads.dk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:55:18 +0000

What do you do when everyone is on vacation without laptops and your website needs an Update?
Today I found the answer: Ftp on-The-go for iPhone, this little gem og a program lets you connect via FTP to the site and edit the files remotely.

This post was written from an iPhone somwhere in Vienna.

Gadegalleriet

klh@threads.dk — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:31:23 +0000

We want to inform about a side project we are involved in: gadegalleriet.dk mainly by Søren L. Hougesen and Thomas Øjerson.
The idea behind the project is to put more focus on recycling and try to change the way people look at trash.

What we do is that we find trash of all kinds and bring it home. It could be an old lamp or a toilet seat, anything goes. After we have cleaned the object and painted it, we put it back in the street as an art piece.

What happens with the object from here, we will let you decide. Should it have a place in your home or should it just go back to the garbage can where it came from? Its up to you to decide.

Gadegalleriet works after the simple slogan of “Abandoned, evicted and searching for a new home”
Watch the Gadegalleriet movie from Bergen, Official flickr and Website.

Teaching students to work with art in Germany

klh@threads.dk — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:32:39 +0000

We have recently returned from a week in Flensburg, Germany where we and a group of student explored the possibilities of digital art.
The students at the school had a theme centered around the 7 deadly sins , they divided in groups and each group chose a deadly sin to express in art. Some classes worked exclusively with digital art, some with drama others with sculptural art & cinematography.

We’ll post this project to our website in full when everything has been produced and printed on canvas.

But for now you can enjoy a few images of the lessons and the jaunt to the scrap yard.

Collecting scrap

More after the jump

Teaching art class

Collecting scrap in the scrapyard

Teaching class in digital art

Hello world!

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:28:32 +0000

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