pervocracy:

I want to know about the things going on in the world, and be an educated participant in society

but psychologically and biologically I can’t live my life to a continuous background chant of “everything is awful, everything is awful, everything is awful,”

and I still don’t really know where the balance is.

callumogden:

Craigmiller Castle in Autumn

Since it was fairly clear and not absolutely freezing today, I took the opportunity to test out the new phone’s camera at sunset – mostly using a Pixel 3 in these, but a couple are taken on my actual camera. I always liked Google’s HDR+ processing, last time I got to use it properly was back on the original Nexus 5. Fair to say it’s improved a bit since then.

Also apparently parts of Outlaw King were filmed here.

twosidestarot:

WEATHER REPORT – XV THE DEVIL. ⁣
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With Jupiter soon to move out of Scorpio and Venus soon to go direct, we’re in a great moment to do some reflection on the murky, sticky stuff in our lives. What have we learned on these recent underworld journeys? What seeds of knowledge and understand can we take with us back into the daylight? ⁣
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In its exploration of The Devil, the new Nomad Tarot guidebook asks: ⁣
In what ways do I hold myself back?⁣
In what ways am I relinquishing my power?⁣
What parts of my shadow have I been ignoring?⁣
How might I stay focused on my liberation?⁣
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How, indeed? Worthy questions for today. ⁣
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Today’s Weather is from the #NomadTarot. In stock now at twosidestarot.com 🖤
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Can you shortly tell me what’s the difference between soft enamel and hard enamel please ? I am an ignorant.

foxflightstudios:

They’re both names that are inaccurate for what’s actually going on actually so this is a fun topic!

So when you make a pin it’s a metal casting most times, so it has thin metal walls and spaces that need to be filled with enamel, basically like a paint by number.

Enamel is applied to the pin by hand usually, one space at a time.

When people say ‘soft enamel’ they mean that the color is allowed to not completely fill the spaces to the top in a pin, so the enamel is recessed, which causes visible shadows and can give pins more dimension. This is caused because the enamel is added after the metal plating, and it’s all technical but really cool. When the pin is polished, the enamel isn’t touched because it’s below the wall level.

Hard enamel is what people mean when they say the pin is completely flat, so the color has to completely fill each space in the pin so when it goes to polishing, it’s smooth and all one level. The enamel here is added before the plating and polished at the same time. They are often polished multiple times, as well. These pins tend to appear entirely smooth.

Here’s an image from the studio website that explains it really well:

Neither is better than the other as they both have applications and uses.

For example: special dyes (like my red rabbit pins) can be applied to soft enamel, but not hard, because it wouldn’t survive the polishing process. Rainbow plating can only be done in soft as well. Soft can also achieve INCREDIBLE detail because you can get extreme thin lines in REALLY close proximity to each other—again my rabbit pins are a good example of why to use it.

Hard enamel pins have a satisfying entirely smooth finish which is great for designs that feature lots of bare metal and shine. You usually get slightly less detail in them due to the need to polish them multiple times, and you often get some line spread happening.

Almost all the armory is hard, except we fight as one, which is soft due to its special finish. It’s cool because you can compare both We Fight as one designs and really see the uses of both processes in action 🙂