A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a standard for a style of writing that one need not be and do to be great but it is an excellent one to study for elevating one’s adaptability with language. I can not remember where I read it, perhaps it is in Death in the Afternoon, a book that I am unsure of finishing but Hemingway did talk a something about the craft in it (Stephen King’s On Writing is a much superior text on that subject and he is totally not Hemingway and…
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Kelsea Comb first published as a start to her blog. She is a person of many things, poet and writer are two. She wrote this letter in the days after the election for the 46th president. November 04, 2020 (Excuse punctuation, just started writing) I would like to start with a poem by Countee Cullen. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis…
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Electric guitars are cool by definition. They make for best projects for all manners of learning as sound as converted to electric frequencies and back again through an instrument that can be so pretty and bring real thunder. Between learning to make a guitar and play one, learners will find much of the course that is rewarding in of itself. Start when you start and we shall be somewhere along the way. We are started with the following curriculum. Guitar Building | High School Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare “In this…
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We had the chance to sit down with Memphis City Councilman, Dr. Jeff Warren, and listen to him talk about what people should be doing in regards to health and this virus. If you listen, Dr. Warren gives a nice explanation of exponential growth. This circumstance is very much at the intersection of math and science. Below are some resources on that aspect. Learning to count in a number base is the strangest concept at first for most. We associate the one we first learn with everything. Below is a…
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We contacted our friend John Lowebow, who makes cigar box guitars and more. He sent the above list. Most things are available at your local hardware store. The pickup, jack and guitar strings came from a guitar store. A next build will include diy pickups. The screws for to attach the pickup are # 4. The bridge and nut were cut from the smaller piece of wood. Measurements are important. Here, a tape was used to measure the pickup height. On the next one, the pickup was used to mark…
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When learning a craft, finding the most knowledgeable people to provide guidance is crucial. Mr. Houston is a local luthier, or stringed instrument maker, who makes guitars and basses for people around the world. He eagerly joined the Tech Wolves in the quest to learn all we can about sound and frequencies through his chosen art. In this video, he introduces everyone to the instrument, the craft, and his philosophies on design and building.
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A great much has transpired to get to this point where a young man in some raggedy shoes and a car we had to jump afterwards, showed up in the midst of the mist of Hurricane Delta on parking lot at the intersection of Highway 51 and Noncannah Creek to have the chance to ask for his dream. The muses are powerful around here and so in media res we must go to follow some conventions. We left but not until I had to come back and boost Wesley’s car…
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A-Tonal Soul (Antonio Hobson) was scheduled to play a little diddy, as advertised on this flyer in social media and around. He’s a joy to watch and listen to. The hope was to pull some good audio with our new sound gear along with some cool video. The day prior, we had left our Mystery Van lunchbox with our camera and audio recorder with Wesley. He’s the one on the right making sparks. “He will be the one dressed to be seen and playing a saxophone.” While Zay and dude…
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We got our mixer and mic in and wanted to see if it would do and how to do, so Zay and I went over to T3’s studio. Tommie talked and played a little while we figured out which plugs and buttons did what. Super exciting because now can do more on the go and in the ways beyond ways.
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Follow the story as it is and goes. Tech Wolves Rover. The Tech Wolves started as a group of Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering students taking machine shop classes at neighboring Moore Tech and working on The NASA Rover Challenge. We were due to go down to Huntsville for the competition in a few weeks and realized that we needed a name and a flag. The was not only part of the competition but also a good idea. The team chose Tech Wolves and a logo was made by one of our…
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