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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Nike Flyknit Chukka Sneakers in Stanford Cardinal and Nebraska Cornhusker School Colors


"The Nike Flyknit is the world's first mass-produced consumer product made using additive manufacturing." -- Maurice Conti, Autodesk.

These sneakers may already be collectors' items, even if they are never worn.
There was no way we could resist buying a pair of these pioneer shoes.

In fact, we got lucky enough to find a fitting pair in the only shop in Germany (burner.de) currently offering the new Nike Flyknit Chukkas online:

Nike Flyknit Chukka Sneaker
 
This may not be the color combination that most people would buy, but we thought these colors were perfect to match the college school colors of our alma mater undergraduate and graduate universities:
  • the scarlet and cream of the University of Nebraska Huskers
    and
  • the cardinal red and white of the Stanford University Cardinal.
We note here, as in the last posting, that this is NOT paid advertising.

Rather, this is industrial and manufacturing history in the making.

Crossposted from LawPundit.


Posted by Andis Kaulins at 7/03/2013 11:10:00 PM 0 comments
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Sky Earth Native America


Sky Earth Native America 1 :
American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy,
Volume 1, Edition 2, 266 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

  • Sky Earth Native America 2 :
    American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
    Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy    ,
    Volume 2, Edition 2, 262 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

    • Both volumes have the same cover except for the labels "Volume 1" viz. "Volume 2".
    The image on the cover was created using public domain space photos of Earth from NASA.

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    Both book volumes contain the following basic book description:
    "Alice Cunningham Fletcher observed in her 1902 publication in the American Anthropologist
    that there is ample evidence that some ancient cultures in Native America, e.g. the Pawnee in Nebraska,
    geographically located their villages according to patterns seen in stars of the heavens.
    See Alice C. Fletcher, Star Cult Among the Pawnee--A Preliminary Report,
    American Anthropologist, 4, 730-736, 1902.
    Ralph N. Buckstaff wrote:
    "These Indians recognized the constellations as we do, also the important stars,
    drawing them according to their magnitude.
    The groups were placed with a great deal of thought and care and show long study.
    ... They were keen observers....
    The Pawnee Indians must have had a knowledge of astronomy comparable to that of the early white men."
    See Ralph N. Buckstaff, Stars and Constellations of a Pawnee Sky Map,
    American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, Nr. 2, April-June 1927, pp. 279-285, 1927.
    In our book, we take these observations one level further
    and show that megalithic sites and petroglyphic rock carving and pictographic rock art in Native America,
    together with mounds and earthworks, were made to represent territorial geographic landmarks
    placed according to the stars of the sky using the ready map of the starry sky
    in the hermetic tradition, "as above, so below".
    That mirror image of the heavens on terrestrial land is the "Sky Earth" of Native America,
    whose "rock stars" are the real stars of the heavens, "immortalized" by rock art petroglyphs, pictographs,
    cave paintings, earthworks and mounds of various kinds (stone, earth, shells) on our Earth.
    These landmarks were placed systematically
    in North America, Central America (Meso-America) and South America
    and can to a large degree be reconstructed as the Sky Earth of Native America."