The 180 Bs and one of the 355 Bs are working to build the side structures of the skyscraper, while the other two 355 B models are constructing Tower 185. The 355 Bs can move 14t in single-reeve configuration, or 28t in doubled reeved operation. They have a jib length of 50m. The standard cable drum capacity of the hoisting system is adequate for tower heights up to 860m in single reeved operation or 400m in a double-reeve configuration.

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Cranes Today - the independent magazine of the crane industry - Wolff pack loose in Frankfurt

I love running across random trade publications. It’s such a good reminder that there are great big worlds outside the internet.

Tired of media saying that the internet is isolating people. Try being a geek before the internet.

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— Marco Arment (via travors & toldorknown) (via inky)

Mileage Runs »

So I travel a lot and have become fairly obsessed with accruing airline miles and getting status. When you’re in airports constantly you aren’t left with that many other things to think about. With that said, I’ve never done a milage run, where you take a trip just to bump your milage up for a status reward. Take, for instance, this story from a guy on his 8,000 mile run:

Mileage runs are a blast. They really are. They’re relaxing, they’re a way to get disconnected, and ultimately they’re “profitable.” But, if you’re like me and do hardcore, eight segment, 36 hour, 8,000 mile domestic mileage runs, only half the journey is fun. Typically I’ll start out on a flight out of Tampa at 6AM on a Saturday morning. Can someone remind me why the hell I’d actually want to get up (as opposed to go to bed) at 3:30AM on a Saturday morning?

The scary part is that I’ve considered it …

Via: Milage Runs // NoahBrier.com

But this kid…Christ alive. Planning to him seemed to be about drawing Powerpoint charts that literally blew my mind. Some of them looked like a spider had fucked a Venn diagram in a fireworks factory.

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— I AM THE CLIENT!: What the fuck is planning?

In my day, we didn’t have armies of ants directing traffic like they do now. All combustible vehicles ran on roads that converged into town where my gal Madge was the traffictress. And she did a darn good job too, except for her occasionally getting flattened by a wooden steamroller. But by gum I’d fluff her back up to regular size, and she was as good as new!

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A comment I just got on my site for a post I wrote back in March. I assume it’s spam, but I don’t have the heart to delete it.

Ants, Traffic and the Lack of Individuality // NoahBrier.com

aceterrier:

tomewing:

“If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to become a bad imitation of the person you admire. What you need to do instead is to locate the same level of inventiveness as the person you admire, and apply it to a new domain.”

Nice quote from Donald Judd via the Jonathan Harris lecture that’s floating around.

Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Imitation

(via heyitsnoah)

And what’s the best way of “locating the inventiveness”? - almost certainly through the trial and error of imitation. There’s a reason guitarists, say, mostly learn by playing other people’s songs or playing along to records.

(I love Harris’ web work, as a creator he’s magnificent, but as a thinker this whole lecture was disappointingly weak: that whole tangle of contradiction around simplicity, homogenity, ‘special effects’ etc. Of course he put the obligatory “boo sucks to cynicism” bit at the end too.)

Artists (in the generic sense of “creative people”) are so frequently the worst-informed people about any creative process other than their own that I automatically ignore any general principles they draw, correctly or not, from their individual experience.

Very fair bit of feedback.

If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to become a bad imitation of the person you admire. What you need to do instead is to locate the same level of inventiveness as the person you admire, and apply it to a new domain.

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Nice quote from Donald Judd via the Jonathan Harris lecture that’s floating around.

Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Imitation

COME TO OUR BIG BUSINESS BREAKFAST 2ND TUESDAYS 9AM AT KATZS (.COM) »

benjaminpalmer:

next tuesday, nov. 10 !

It’s been entirely too long since we ate pastrami and eggs together, people!