This shed — of potentially two? — has been reserved for posts that were insufficiently inflected or poetic, or were too odd, or dry or, in some instances, too close or difficult. What was and wasn’t too this or that was inconstant, or evolved. With the exception of some of the medical portraits (about which I remain conflicted), any one of these might have (or might now) fit in asfaltics.
Shed one started on 10 March 2013; it has gotten inactive of late.
Numbers at left are links to their respective posts. Each archived post indicates its original (GMT) date, and its tumblr URL.
as for the name —
There were two sheds, behind Miner’s Hardware in Culver City. They were used for storage, boxes, rental paint sprayers... for warehousing extra stock perhaps... I was a kid then, remember them as lumber rooms, and where boxes were accumulated for eventual move of the business.
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| 1 | danger inherent to work or misadventure | diagrams; assignment of blame; A. H. Fay, “Mine Accidents and Uniform Records” (1917) |
| 2 | wandering boy cross faults | diagrams; displacements; faults; J. E. Spurr, Geology of the Tonopah Mining District, Nevada (1905) |
| 3 | skiagraphy, 1 | innocence; lithography; skiagraphy; typos; R. Abbe, “Illustrating the penetrating power of radium” (1907) |
| 4 | the difficulty of representation | color; whiteness (absence) / Highest Intellect; A. Besant and C. W. Ledbeater, Thought Forms (1905) |
| 5 | it’s complicated | acoustic experiments; The Invisible Lady; The Invisible Girl; M. Charles and others... |
| 6 | the unreliability of all the safety-explosives | dust; mining; A. C. Kayll, Report of the Proceedings of the Flameless Explosives Committee, Coal-Dust (1896) |
| 7 | well-watered | dirt; imperialist fiction; telegraph; offen; C. N. Buck, The Code of the Mountains (1915); G. W. Gage |
| 8 | in the survey of rivers, creeks, and coasts | dots; mud; spoil bank; G. G. André, The draughtsman’s handbook of plan and map drawing (1891) |
| 9 | are thus held in proper place | posture; correct sitting; John Harvey Kellogg, The Art of Massage (1895) |
| 10 | fast motions, slow motions | unhappy subject; B. F. & L. M. Gilbreth, “Chronocyclegraph Motion Devices for measuring achievement” (1919) |
| 11 | writing, and the penetrating screen | ambiguities; grid; writing; B. F. and L. M. Gilbreth, “Chronocyclegraph Motion Devices” (1919) |
| 12 | coffee roaster | coffee; Tokyo; Ueno |
| 13 | night blue, etc. | D. Paterson, Colour-matching of Textiles (1901) |
| 14 | what powerful chains of circumstances | chains of circumstance; deafness; elocution; the face; Lillie Eginton Warren, The Warren Method (1898), &c. |
| 15 | there takes place from a series of centres | cleavage plane theory; islands; slowness; J. O. Arnold, “Factors of Safety in Marine Engineering” (1908) |
| 16 | pneumatic steppes | rock drills; Mt. Wilson; San Gabriels; vm |
| 17 | no guessing and no dodging movement of the head | or book; Priestly Smith, “On the Etiology and Educative Treatment of Convergent Strabismus” (1898) |
| 18 | writing across a fold | questions of vital importance; A. S. Osborn, Photography and Questioned Documents (1907) |
| 19 | arose from tho and, indeed, next | numismatics; neoclassical symmetry; and recreative science; J. Newton., “Money and Moneyers” (1862) |
| 20 | nothing left but | Margaret Abigail Cleaves, Light Energy: Its Physics, Physiological Action & Therapeutic Applications (1904) |
| 21 | and is loaded directly | ye olde new topographics; W. W. Bradley, et al., The Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings... (1916) |
| 22 | while under the influence of light | retina; rods; optics; L. Luciani, The Sense Organs (1917) |
| 23 | in order of decreasing consonance | contradictory indefinite character; curves; melancholia; tuning; L. Luciani, The Sense Organs (1917) |
| 24 | and between the two, a valley almost destitute of grains | classification; graphical plot; heaps; hindered settling; R. H. Richards. Ore Dressing (1903) |
| 25 | to each compound belongs a surface | curves; boundary curves; models; solids; G. W. Morey. “The Ternary System H20-K2Si03-Si02” (1917) |
| 26 | as an index of | index; melancholy consequences; A. Henderson, “On the speed & other properties of ocean steamers” (1853) |
| 27 | through slips occurring with itself | deformation; iron; plasticity; strain; J. A. Ewing and W. Rosenhain, “Experiments in Micro-metallurgy” (1899) |
| 28 | Here we pass the night in solid comfort. | desert; Oak Grove; C. F. Lummis, “The Exiles of Cupa” (1902) |
| 29 | katagami textile stencil | 型紙; mulberry; persimmons; stencil; textiles |
| 30 | but the paralysis was of short duration | paralysis; passion; tangents; H. Cushing, “On preservation of the nerve supply to the brow” (1906) |
| 31 | considerable time was lost | rivers; certain rivers; J. J. Casey, his improvements to the Louisville and Portland Canal, Kentucky (1899) |
| 32 | dredging | T. L. Casey, Improvement of Mouth of Yazoo River and Harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi (1900); cotton |
| 33 | in extremis | sadness; George A. Zeller. “The Spread of Pellagra throughout the United States” (1911); J. Goldberger |
| 34 | atlas and epitome | lithography; seas; waves; H. Dürck, Atlas and Epitome of General Pathologic Histology (1904); L. Hektoun |
| 35 | states of | hand; inhalt; T. S. Clouston, Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases (1904) |
| 36 | which was the fashion in the early designs | curves; drawing; fashion; machinery; red; L. D. Burlingame, “The Universal Milling Machine” (1911) |
| 37 | seat of usual (and paths of unusual) pain | R. Catlin, Relations of Pain to Weather, studied during eleven years of A Case of Traumatic Neuralgia (1883) |
| 38 | the history of lace-making is most interesting. 1 | Adelaide V. Hall; lace; The Woman Picking up Apples; A. B. Evarts; E. J. Kempf |
| 39 | the history of lace-making is most interesting. 2 | Adelaide V. Hall; lace; The Woman Picking up Apples; A. B. Evarts; E. J. Kempf |
| 40 | since the eye is more sensitive to errors of treatment | aesthetics of technical images; H. E. Ives, “An Experimental Study of the Lippmann Color Photograph” (1908) |
| 41 | certain refractory substances | aesthetics of technical images; mantles; materials; V. B. Lewes, “Theory of the Incandescent Mantle” (1905) |
| 42 | with its usual abandon | abandon; Homestead Works; Section ‘Q’ men; valence |
| 43 | anything but a blur, and whether | blur; doubt; imagination; metallurgy; J. W. Richards, “The Söderberg Electrode” (1921) |
| 44 | anything in the pill line | another anything; under the thumb; Rx; rounds; The Upjohn Pill and Granule Co. |
| 45 | came under my care | cancer; the face; pain; presence; N. B. Carson, “Excision of the Clavicle” (1904) |
| 46 | mit besonderer Berücksichtigung | care; the face; presence; W. Ebstein, “Zur Lehre von den nervösen Störungen beim Herpes zoster” (1895) |
| 47 | altar, hearth, place of fire | ἄλλος; τρόπος; focus; Kathleen E. Bingham, “The Allotropy of Zinc” (1920) |
| 48 | the habit of signaling becomes automatic | signals; manual vocabulary; E. H. Pool and F. W. Bancroft, “Systematization of a Surgical Service” (1919) |
| 49 | aslide | blind; swimming; swimming pool; water |
| 50 | such as vacancy, the letters of a first-class swimmer | alphabet; mechanisms; figure skating; signs; W. L. Hildburgh, Improvements in advertising machinery (1908) |
| 51 | on this plan, well-defined shadows | method; tools; xerography; proto-xerography; S. P. Thompson, “Electric Shadows and Luminescence” (1896) |
| 52 | in various ways, and tested by drifting. | arc-welding; drifting; metallurgy; steel; welding; S. MacCarthy, “Steel Steam-Pipes and Fittings” (1896) |
| 53 | ὑπό + φύειν | drawing; pattern; topography; W. S. Gibson, “The Topography of the Hypophysis Cerebri” (1912) |
| 54 | gathering large hummocks of earth from drifting dust... | L’Origine du monde; F. V. Coville & D. T. MacDougal, Desert Botanical Laboratory (1903) |
| 55 | many trees are killed by this parasite. | deserts; metamorphosis; F. V. Coville and D. T. MacDougal, Desert Botanical Laboratory (1903) |
| 56 | clearings, maybe (an aside) | asides; clearings; clutter; thingly care; Katie Kilroy-Marac, “A Magical Reorientation of the Modern” (2016) |
| 57 | but all fragments should be examined | T. Taylor, report on “Tea and its adulterations” and “Olive oil, lard, and their adulterants” (1889) |
| 58 | and signs so spare | Nancy Willard (1936-2017); hardware |
| 59 | the time given begins at the first touch | sleaves; starch; touch; Philander A. Harris, “A method of performing rapid manual dilation” (1893) |
| 60 | plants, sense-organs of. 1 | flower-pot saucers; geotropism; R. A. Robertson (1909); Kristofor Minta; Herbert Pföstl |
| 61 | plants, sense-organs of. 2 | curvature; flower-pot saucers; geotropism; rotation; R. A. Robertson (1909) |
| 62 | les rosaces / rosettes | network; telegraphy; F. Geraldy, “Installation Nouvelle du Poste Central des Télégraphes a Paris” (1883) |
| 63 | work, on work | little is much; tools; work; J. Rose, P. Benjamin, chromatic tempering scale (1878, 1892) |
| 64 | and its disorders, 3 | flow of thought; W. H. B. Stoddart, Mind and its Disorders (1908) |
| 65 | and its disorders, 4 | acceleration of the flow of ideas; W. H. B. Stoddart, Mind and its Disorders (1908) |
| 66 | and its disorders, 5 | when he is incoherent; W. H. B. Stoddart, Mind and its Disorders (1908) |
| 67 | and its disorders, 9 | and an increased flow; W. H. B. Stoddart, Mind and its Disorders (1908) |
| 68 | and its disorders, 14 | increased flow; W. H. B. Stoddart, Mind and its Disorders (1908) |
| 69 | interior gardens | orts; Osaka; windows |
| 70 | inex terior | ruins; Miyaura |
| 71 | and dilution | asides; dilution; hygiene; Riensch’s Disc Screen; Kinnicutt, Winslow & Pratt, Sewage Disposal (1910) |
| 72 | besides the main topic | index; nothing; so powerful as the aggregate of small things |
| 73 | He never swallowed tacks. | hardware; nails; Sig Ranana; professional glass-eating; comminution; A. H. Meisenbach, “Gastrotomy” (1898) |
| 74 | I so... on sonan | care of; OCR; onsonants; Mississippi River; repairs; subsistence |
| 75 | ステンレスシンク | 台所 |
| 76 | ohne titel | curtain; glass; language; noise; John Williams, Augustus (1972) |
| 77 | when margins approach a marginal ridge | F. B. Noyes, “Structure of the Enamel in its relation to the formation of the walls and margins of cavities” (1903) |
| 78 | halo effect | hardware; illumination; vacuum tube; Henry Schroeder, History of Electric Light (1923) |
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