Apacs Badminton Racket Blog » shuttlecock in the http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog Apacs are a Malaysia Super Brand award winner Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:36:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Adam and Sean with shuttlecock in the air. http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/adam-and-sean-with-shuttlecock-in-the-air/ http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/adam-and-sean-with-shuttlecock-in-the-air/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 15:42:09 +0000 Racket http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/adam-and-sean-with-shuttlecock-in-the-air/ shuttlecock in the

Image taken on 2004-07-25 14:39:13 by bump.

]]> http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/adam-and-sean-with-shuttlecock-in-the-air/feed/ 0 Does anyone have any pictures of a kid’s playground ‘ride’ that was (nick)named ‘The Bobby’s Helmet’? http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/does-anyone-have-any-pictures-of-a-kids-playground-ride-that-was-nicknamed-the-bobbys-helmet/ http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/does-anyone-have-any-pictures-of-a-kids-playground-ride-that-was-nicknamed-the-bobbys-helmet/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:55:26 +0000 Racket http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/does-anyone-have-any-pictures-of-a-kids-playground-ride-that-was-nicknamed-the-bobbys-helmet/ It was a tall steel tubular pole with a frame (similar to a shuttlecock) ‘balanced’ on the top. This frame had a wooden ledge around the bottom that kids stood on and a handrail part way up. The frame spun but also ‘rocked’. The last time I saw one the frame had been removed – H&S again.

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Simply a video and stills recording of a picnic of members of the Real Change Organizing Project celebrating last month’s action (see my three previous uploads). The video shows some amusing attempts of picnickers to keep a badmitton shuttlecock in the air, and some stray comments from myself, such as , “The object is to hit it, Anitra” and “Hit it higher, Anitra.” The picnic was held in Seattle’s unique Gas Works Park, and closes with a couple of images taken of it as we left near sunset. This is also a test of a new video camera.

]]> http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/rcop-picnic/feed/ 0 Dwell Gets a Gag Gift on Its Birthday http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/dwell-gets-a-gag-gift-on-its-birthday/ http://www.apacsbadminton.net/blog/shuttlecock-in-the/dwell-gets-a-gag-gift-on-its-birthday/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:51:37 +0000 Racket Dwell Gets a Gag Gift on Its Birthday
The earnestly modern habitats extolled in Dwell magazine, which celebrates its 10th birthday this year, veered into parody last week, pushed there by a mischievous blog called Unhappy Hipsters (unhappyhipsters.tumblr.com). With its deadpan captions (example below), it ricocheted in the blogosphere like a shuttlecock, as Twitterers like Matthew Yglesias, a political blogger, Andrew Sullivan of …

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