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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
do you remember the wheatfield in Brooklyn I posted about in August? Ethan Hawke is making a movie about it
Agnes Denes, a pioneer of ecological and land art known for work on a monumental scale, will be the focus of an upcoming documentary
The untitled project will explore a prodigious talent who continues to make art at the age of 94. Denes, born in Hungary in 1931, has been based in New York for decades and it was in Manhattan in 1982 that she created her most celebrated piece — “Wheatfield – A Confrontation,” that saw her plant and harvest “a field of golden wheat on two acres of rubble-strewn landfill near Wall Street and the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan,” https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/08/agnes-deness-wheatfield-confrontation.html
FirstGen Content’s Girson originated the project. “Like so many, I had somehow never heard of Agnes Denes when I first saw the iconic photograph of Agnes in her wheatfield,” he said.
“That project, like Agnes’s singular career and enduring belief in the human spirit, represents the highest ideal of art—and art’s vital role in our shared human experience. That Agnes spent years as a neglected-yet-revered working artist in New York City adds intrigue and complexity to her story, which we are excited to share with people when the film is ready.”
a family wanted their tractor restored and a tractor restoring student needed a tractor to restore for the Missouri State Fair but couldn't afford one. It won Grand Champion Restored Tractor at the Missouri State Fair.
Borts was a student at Jamestown High School and president of his Missouri FFA chapter when a relative approached him and his father about a restoration project. The relative, Chris Schoenthal, was impressed with Borts’ work restoring a 1951 Oliver 77, which won Reserve Grand Champion Restored Tractor at the Missouri State Fair.
But there was also a deeper reason behind his request. Schoenthal, who was in his 40s, had been battling cancer for more than three years when he approached Borts about the 826 tractor, which had been owned by his family since the 1970s.
“The Schoenthal family wanted the tractor restored but didn’t have anyone to perform the restoration,” Borts said. “I wanted to do another tractor restoration for the Missouri State Fair [after the Oliver] but didn’t have the finances to purchase another tractor. So, this was the perfect match.”
China has set a new world speed record by accelerating a 2400 pound test vehicle on a superconducting maglev to 400mph in just two seconds. It looks like the purpose and eventual application will be launching jest from aircraft carriers
This speed broke the global record for the same type of platform, making it the fastest superconducting electromagnetic maglev testing speed in the world, a new global benchmark
“It resolves core technical challenges including ultra-high-speed electromagnetic propulsion, electric suspension guidance, transient high-power energy storage inversion, and high-field superconducting magnets,”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3337735/chinas-record-smashing-maglev-achieves-0-700km/h-acceleration-less-2-seconds
a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over a small village 60 years ago, the largest meteorite to hit the UK, was on Christmas Eve 1965. A kid found a 3 pound piece of it, and sold it to buy a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike
When a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over a small British village 60 years ago, David Radford was a teenager who had a second-hand bike.
This changed after he found a fragment of the meteorite when he was playing with friends at a park. His foot fell down a hole, and he found the 4.5 billion-year-old piece of space rock.
A week later, there was a knock at David's front door. The late British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, and an official from one of the museums in London
After the two visitors confirmed it was a meteorite, the museum official asked if they could buy it from him.
He said he was given 530 dollars when adjusted for inflation, as the going rate was a dollar per ounce of meteorite.
"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said.
He bought a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike, but said his mother made him set up a bank account with the remaining money.
After the two visitors confirmed it was a meteorite, the museum official asked if they could buy it from him.
He said he was given 530 dollars when adjusted for inflation, as the going rate was a dollar per ounce of meteorite.
"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said.
He bought a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike, but said his mother made him set up a bank account with the remaining money.
When a Wyoming crumbling bridge was failing, engineers turned to the Bailey Bridge concept invented during WW II to replace nearly half the state’s bridges which are past their prime.
"Like an Erector Set, it comes totally broken down to the site, and then it's assembled at the site by the contractors,” Sobecki said. “The whole thing is built on the premise (that) it’s pre-fabricated, made in the shop. Then the pieces ship out and you just bolt it and pin it together at the job site and launch it.
“You don't need heavy cranes. You don't need welders out there. It's designed to be built with a minimum amount of equipment."
According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association's (ARTBA) analysis of federal data, 204 of Wyoming’s 3,136 bridges — 6.5% — are classified as structurally deficient, meaning at least one key element is in poor condition.
Nearly half of Wyoming's bridges are more than 50 years old, approaching or exceeding their intended design life and potentially requiring greater maintenance. State transportation officials have identified 1,180 bridges needing repairs.
The American Society of Civil Engineers' 2025 Infrastructure Report Card paints a more concerning picture of aging infrastructure.
The ARTBA reports that 945 of South Dakota's 5,883 bridges — 16.1% — are structurally deficient, one of the highest rates in the nation and more than double Wyoming's percentage.
Nebraska struggles with sheer volume. With 15,398 bridges — nearly five times Wyoming's inventory — the state has 1,217 structurally deficient structures, or 7.9%.
Increasingly extreme weather is driving demand for emergency bridging solutions. "Whether you believe in climate change or not, there is a bigger propensity of flooding and hurricanes and all that stuff, and it does drive our business," he said.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/27/crumbling-bridge-near-alpine-replaced-in-days-with-wwii-erector-set-tech/
(if you plan to invest in something, I think copper, silver, and bridges would be a good idea right now)
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced investigations confirmed that Kawasaki Heavy Industries had supplied fraudulent test data on its engines and provided inappropriate gifts to a number of naval personnel over the past 40 years.
Kawasaki announced in 2024 that information surfaced showing a long-term pattern of falsifying test data to ensure engines were delivered on time per contract requirements
Kawasaki Heavy Industries supplied engines for Japan’s submarines and in July and August 2024 discovered its contractual required testing of submarine engines fuel consumption level reports were falsified for the engines of 23 of its submarines
Kawasaki Heavy Industries supplied engines for Japan’s submarines and in July and August 2024 discovered its contractual required testing of submarine engines fuel consumption level reports were falsified for the engines of 23 of its submarines
hard to believe that someone had a 60 million dollar collection of motorcycles and art that they didn't legally isolate via money laundering, from illegal acts so the govt couldn't seize it...
The 44-year-old Canadian national, who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, is wanted for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking operation that ships cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada
Barney and the 999
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the 1928 Packard "Vincent Speedster"
In 1927, Jesse Vincent, head of Packard Engineering, was given permission to build a special speedster to demonstrate the abilities of the 2 1/2 mile banked oval at the newly-constructed Proving Grounds.
He used the opportunity not only to impress celebrities and dignitaries, but to serve as a testbed for much of the Speedster-series drivetrain parts.
It was constructed using the lightest single-six chassis, the largest (and highly modified) straight eight engine, and a special lightweight and aerodynamic aluminum body.
It was clocked at over 129 mph on the oval track, and was often used by Vincent to commute from his home on Grosse Pointe!
In 1929, Charles Lindberg drove the car at 112 mph, saying it was the fastest he had ever gone “…on the ground.”
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