Sentences with phrase «birchler wooden pole»

There was a wooden pole perhaps thirty feet high with a dancing platform at the top.

Asherah reference of wooden poles images or trees that represented the canaaite goddess asherah.

In his best event, Oldfield put the shot 65» 1», but he met his match in the caber, which calls for lifting a 16» 4» wooden pole, balancing it on a shoulder, taking a short run and then flipping it end over end.

Despite all this panic, it was easy to assemble the frame — the only problem we had was fitting the wooden poles through the fabric walls of the cot.

The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA, has outlawed the use of wooden poles for electricity installations in the power sector.

The vessel would then be suspended, such as from wooden poles, and swung until butter formed.

In addition to inventing bifocals, a device to reach for items using a long wooden pole with a grasping claw at the end and an odometer, Franklin invented: A. electricity B. lightning rod C. electronic calculator

In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by wooden poles, on a small plot of land.

«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.

They wore high boots of soft, brown leather, and were armed with jeweled dirks in their belts; in the left hand some carried sharp pikes on six - foot wooden poles.

At each end of the pit they set up a short wall of cinder blocks with a heavy wooden plank on top, looking like the head and baseboards of a giant bed, where the long wooden poles onto which the baby lambs had been lashed would rest.

Super Pole Rider is played with two players, armed with long wooden poles.

By manipulating advance and grip buttons, you can hang onto wooden poles and other contraptions, while you can also call up Doodle to lift you up, thus making you a little lighter in case you miss a grab.

Halloween masks, glass eyes, expanding foam, magi - sculpt, polyurethane horns, polyurethane branches, resin, acrylic paint, metal base, wooden pole

Installation View, Missing Truffaut, 2014 Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Wooden pole, electric light, laser print on paper 25 x 4 x 2 feet Courtesy of Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Photography © Fredrik Nilsen

A massive structure of wooden poles festooned with colorful ribbons by the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow is the first work one encounters when visiting the 2013 Carnegie International, the quadrennial (or thereabouts) show at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art that stands as the oldest global contemporary art exhibition in the United States.

An olufe — a wooden pole in Lugbara, her spoken language — used to mix millet, stands upright, set not in a traditional mortar but in a toilet.

Up above, Miles Greenberg had arranged for naked bodies to lie splayed out between wooden poles on sheets of transparent plastic, in corpse - like repose.

Featured are a series of tall wooden poles covered in woven cord emblazoned with various geometric shapes, words and symbols called Cetros, resembling scepters or staffs.

Disassociated from their traditional function, they simply become vibrant fabric stretched across wooden poles.

Ablation stakes are white wooden poles 3.3 m long.

Ablation stakes were white wooden poles, 3.3 m long.

A wooden pole that had been driven into the ice the year before now stands exposed as the Aletsch glacier melts and sinks at a rate of about 10 - 13 meters per year near Bettmeralp, Switzerland.

Experience in climbing wooden poles and performing pole transfers and tree trimming operations

This was a symbol of the way he criticised, assembling his arguments like a huge wooden pole, heaving the thing up on his shoulder, running and then letting it fly until it thudded into the ground with a mighty impact.

If you're hanging curtains in smaller windows, you can cut the wooden poles from the wooden pole kits to size.

If you're feeling crafty, why not build your own trellis from wooden poles and sticks, bamboo, lumber, copper or wire mesh.

Fire is a severe threat to wooden pole barn structures.

Any old wooden pole will do, you could use an old curtain pole or parasol stand as long as the diameter of the pole is small enough to fit a roll of washi tape.

The trick here is to anchor a wooden pole inside a concrete filled pot and fasten a hook to the top of the pole.

I found an American flag at Joanne's and love that it has a special plastic fitting over the wooden pole that keeps the flag from wrapping around itself.

Not exact matches

As I was driving to work this morning, I saw a wooden power line pole that had resprouted limbs.

Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect wooden electric poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect of collapsing the poles and disrupting power distribution.

The Yendi Divisional Police Command has arrested five persons for causing the destruction of wooden electricity poles after they lost control of bushfires they started.

Her classmate, holding the wooden surveyor's pole, read the measurement: 14 centimeters.

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

Japanese fishermen shoved three - foot poles through the backs of their heads and then pushed wooden dowels into the wounds.

Their glossy bulk looks out of place as they squeeze between the electricity poles and cramped bars, ramshackle wooden offices and tiny shops that line the street.

One area of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension pole, perhaps while teetering at the top of a rickety three - meter wooden ladder, the base of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.

Thanks for being the best Mum, You taught me how to thread a needle, how paint and draw, how to sew in straight lines and how to make brooches out of old wooden curtain poles, you encouraged me to go to art school, fashion college and then St.Martins.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

That's because the wearisome wooden dowels and plain plastic poles of yesteryear have been replaced by exciting new materials and designs intended -LSB-...] Read More →

This is a skinny wooden boat, powered by a noisy motor at the end of a long pole.

In a narrow quiet lane behind busy Jalan Raya Seminyak, a gathering of carved wooden totem poles guard the round thatch - roofed entrance to Blue Karma, suggesting that this is not your run - of - the mill hotel.

And her neighbors a floor below make a short totem pole of stacked wooden blocks look daringly haphazard, dark, and handmade.

Blue Tree Grey has a 5ft wooden stand, I designed it and my dad made it, he's an old school master carpenter, I painted the stand indigo blue, made 6 long grey droopy branches for it, tied a grey velvet egg baby to its central pole with a blue ribbon, because oh dear what can the matter be, Johnny's so long at the fair, he promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons to tie up my bonny brown hair, and there's 6 midnight blue velveteen «heads» tied to its branches, I see them as mourners, watchers, protectors, and they're my version of my all time favorite sculpture: Nature Study (Velvet Eyes) by Louise Bourgeois.

From the late 1960s into the 1980s, Grossman carved heads from the hard wood of discarded telephone poles, overlaid them with leather, and then adorned them with zippers, lacquered wooden noses, spikes, and straps.

Made of castoff poles and other random pieces of wooden debris, the sculptures are improvisatory and informal without yielding to chaos.

And if you found yourself wanting one of their wooden totem poles in a metal box, well... tough titties!

«In the darkened gallery space a round wooden platform with textile walls and an iron pole is spinning around its own axis, reminiscent of both, a merry - go - round, a cinema theatre and a mobile war tent... the merry - go - round is spinning so fast that the spectator's gaze can not fully grasp what's inside the tent;» (PR Klosterfelde gallery).