'THE DRINKING BIRD' ....JUST AN AMUSEMENT TOY?.....or......A CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS LESSON VIA SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION?

1. The water evaporates from the felt on the head.
2. Evaporation lowers the temperature of the glass head (heat of vaporization).
3. The temperature decrease causes some of the dichloromethane vapor in the head to condense.
4. The lower temperature and condensation together cause the pressure to drop in the head (governed by equations of state).
5. The higher vapor pressure in the warmer base pushes the liquid up the neck.
6. As the liquid rises, the bird becomes top heavy and tips over.
7. When the bird tips over, the bottom end of the neck tube rises above the surface of the liquid in the bottom bulb.
8. A bubble of warm vapor rises up the tube through this gap, displacing liquid as it goes.
9. Liquid flows back to the bottom bulb (the toy is designed so that when it has tipped over the neck's tilt allows this). Pressure equalizes between top and bottom bulbs.
10. The weight of the liquid in the bottom bulb restores the bird to its vertical position.

YACINE KHAROBI......IS ANYTHING 'REAL' ANYMORE?

my conceptual 'instruments' drawn in Soest Holland, 50 years ago........

 

Edith Massey, Vintage Clothier...on the Thrifty Side of Baltimore.....aka Queen Carlotta, The Egg Lady and Subversive Baltimore Dreamlander

                THE QUEEN OF FELLS POINT...... 

WHOLESALE SUPPLIER OF BLACK LEATHER JACKETS FOR LOCAL FAG HAGS AND BUTCH DOLLS.....

EAT YOUR HEART OUT, HEIDI KLUM.....FOR THAT BUSTY BLACK, SHOESTRING-LACED GETUP, FEATURED IN THE PHOTO ABOVE......AND YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE FOR THAT MUUMUU, MAMA CASS....  MAYBE, YOU SHOULD KEPT $12 FROM YOUR DRUGS BUDGET INSTEAD OF DREAMING A LITTLE DREAM WITH THAT NEEDLE UP YOUR VEIN....."Well, Rah sha sha" FROM CUDDLES KOVINSKY.....THOSE TRIPLE-A  SHOES WERE WAAY  TOO TIGHT, ANYWAY!   

PUT  HARD-BOILED EGGS IN THEIR HEEL CUPS, GIRL! 

VAMPIRE BAT BOTTLE OPENER......

 

From mind Chaos, via Explosiveness, to Static Wall Art with Token Memory..

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.for some blah blap crap to print on a wall card at a Kindergartener's supercilious Art Show.. Candy Crayons and Kool-Aid will be served to patrons, in exchange for their tickets-of-admission, which will be summarily shredded and made into glued-paper art, then sold back to them.......facsimile hammers and nails will be provided to provide the pretentiousnes of hanging this "art"...or, blow torches for the Banksyites.....who may exit through the giftshop with Shepard Fairey, carrying the ashes of 

Marshall McLuhan, preserved in a mayonnaise jar.....in melted crayon wax...

OVER A CENTURY AGO, THIS ONE-WHEELED MOTORCYCLE ACHIEVED SPEEDS OF OVER 90MPH.....

         "BACK WHEN" MEN CYCLED WITH THEIR STETSON'S 'ON'....LIKE 'REAL COWBOYS'...OR....SHOULD ONE CALL THIS FELLOW A 'BUCKING BRONCO'.....OR, MAYBE, THE ORIGINAL CONCEPTUALIZATION FOR  THE HULA HOOP?

                                      BEFORE THE MECHANICAL FOOT CRANKING...WAY BEFORE THE GASOLINE ENGINE,  CENTURIES BEFORE, GUYS WERE FINDING WAYS TO UTILIZE 'THE WHEEL'....       

MY STEP-FATHER, TOM, IN A MOMENT OF SPONTANEOUS GENEROSITY.......

                   GAVE ME ONE OF HIS MANY SHEAFFER SNORKEL PENS AND A BOTTLE OF PERMANENT INDIA INK.  (SOURCING FOR MY FIRST SPILLED 'INK BLOT' CREATIONS, INCIDENTALLY)   I WAS, ALREADY,  A 'SCRIPTO' MECHANICAL PENCIL-USING LAD WHO HAD JUST BEGUN TO UTILIZE AN EARLIER GIFT...MY WATERMAN PEN THAT HAD REPLACED AN EVEN EARLIER PEN WITH A CRACKED & LEAKING GLASS INK CARTRIDGE.....AFTER I COMPLAINED ABOUT THOSE 'BALL POINT' PENS' BALLS GETTING CLOGGED WITH THE THICK INK, REQUIRING A LIT MATCH AND A DUNKING IN  WATER/ALCOHOL   TO GET THEM FLOWING ONCE MORE.....FRUSTRATINGLY, I KEPT ANOTHER ANTIQUE GLASS  'INKWELL' OF WARM WATER TO UNCLOG THE NEWER WRITING DEVICE.....TODAY, I MUST HAVE AT LEAST 50 DIFFERING INK DELIVERY INSTRUMENTS, INCLUDING ROLLER BALLS, FELT TIPS, QUILL PENS WITH VARIOUS METAL TIPS.....BUT, AS MUCH AS I ENJOY CALLIGRAPHIC "WRITING"....HERE, I SIT, TYPING ON AN ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD!         

ALEC BALDWIN, DURING HIS EARLY DAYS.......TRYING OUT FOR THE 'BEFORE PHOTO' IN A "NAIR" DEPILATORY CREAM ADVERTISEMENT

CULLING ALL THIS DENSE CHEST FUR WOULD HAVE TAKEN A CASE OF "NAIR"

HE'D HAVE BEEN A SHOE-IN FOR THE ROLE OF 'LIONEL SWEENEY'...

HOWEVER, THAT 'HAIRY ROLE' WENT TO ROBERT DOWNEY JR.