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Making a Squeegee for Print Screen – The Handle

Leave a Comment / Silkscreen, Printing / D Almeida

In a purely occupational environment, even a plastic spatula, a ruler, or a piece of cardboard can serve as a squeegee. The need for a suitable and high-quality squeegee becomes apparent when professional goals begin to be established, when rigor, speed, and consistency become necessary. Since the squeegee is the most active tool in screen printing, it is convenient for it to be a lightweight, comfortable, practical, and well-constructed piece. The ideal material for the squeegee handle is aluminum, due to its lightness, impermeability, durability, and resistance. If the user is familiar with 3D printing, this is a small and easy-to-print piece in bioplastic, as an alternative…

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Graham, Classical, Soul And Movement

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The Graham technique was created and developed in the 20th century by the American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham over her 70 years in the business. Like Maria Callas in opera, Martha Graham imprinted on dance the break with the decorative movements of Classical Ballet, that search for aesthetics and perfection for the sake of mere entertainment, born in the courts of Italian Renaissance of the 16th century. Instead, Martha explored the pure origin of movement, the relationship of the human body with the ground that supports and propels it through the surrounding air, within breathing analogy, seeking dance as a profound expression…

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6 Open Source Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Open-source alternatives to Google Analytics offer a powerful way to reclaim data ownership and prioritize user privacy while avoiding the complexity of GA4. By moving to an open-source tool, organizations can ensure GDPR compliance by design, improve site performance with smaller tracking scripts, and ensure that their visitor data is never shared with third-party advertising networks. This article lists six free alternatives to Google Analytics based on BTW’s open source alternatives, lightweight and cookie-free self hosted applications, and some even with a plugin option for Wordpress CMS based websites like 43-art.work and more than 42% of websites world.

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The Prism, Shaping One’s Character

1 Comment / Spirituality / D Almeida

The Prism is an old photographic exercise, an experiment I did with a piece of polished quartz, carved into a somewhat pyramidal irregular shape, under black light applied in the engraving of sensitized screens for silkscreen printing. Nothing more than an aesthetic or experimental curiosity, but that reminded me about The Karma of The Now book, by Martin Schulman – a psychologist who became a professor of Astrology, but according to an approach based on karma and past lives, thus becoming the founder of Karmic Astrology. “An individual can spend his entire life searching for what he was in a former incarnation. He may be fortunate enough…

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