Spilla di Balia - Safety Pin
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Tuesday 15 January 2013
My view
From the research conducted within this study, that had as its main theme the subject "safety pin", I realized some thoughts that I will share with the reader in this text.
From the research conducted within this study, that had as its main theme the subject "safety pin", I realized some thoughts that I will share with the reader in this text.
Firstly, I realized that there
are some objects that we use in daily, that easily the accomplishment of tasks
so simple that we didn’t realize the difficulty of our life if such objects had
never existed. It's these little inventions that came in to facilitate our life
. It is possible that the value of each object in life is not so significant
and possibly we could live without them, but surely each of the small objects
that surround our lives, some more than others, make a difference in how we
live and how we behave.
The subject on which I focused my
research is a great example of the importance of small inventions have in our
lives and how the value we attach to them changes over time and from one
culture to another. In ancient times, centuries before Christ, the safety pin,
or rather his ancestor the “fibula” had importance in dress and was an
important accessory to Etruscans, Greeks and many other peoples of the
Mediterranean. However nowadays this object hasn’t the same importance it had
in ancient times but still has an important role in the world of clothing and
fashion, if we consider that this object in a few decades was the main way to
hold diapers of babies, and that today would be a treat to find someone who
still use this technique, we realize this alternation of the importance we
attach to objects.
Yet this thing, was not always
used with the same single objective and hence provides thousands of variations
depending on the purpose for which it is used, and perhaps for this reason been
improved and modified over time. Fortunately it is so, that there is this
diversity so that the same object can thus be adapted to different people and
different purposes.
Sunday 30 December 2012
Alfinete (from portuguese; safety pin)
Bite
Connections
Diapers
Encaixe (from portuguese; mortise)
Fine
Gave
Hurt
Imperdible (from spanish; safety pin)
Jealous
Keen
Locked
Mola (from portuguese; refers to the spring sistem)
Nib
Optimize
Pungiglione
Quantity
Rip
Safety
Tinny
Utilità
Versatilità
Work
X
Y
Zip
Bite
Connections
Diapers
Encaixe (from portuguese; mortise)
Fine
Gave
Hurt
Imperdible (from spanish; safety pin)
Jealous
Keen
Locked
Mola (from portuguese; refers to the spring sistem)
Nib
Optimize
Pungiglione
Quantity
Rip
Safety
Tinny
Utilità
Versatilità
Work
X
Y
Zip
Wednesday 26 December 2012
7 DEADLY SINS
Lust, someone who uses millions of safety pins as fashion accessory
Gluttony, someone so hungry that eat safety pins
Greed, the one who wants all the safety pins to himself because its a usefull object and want it only for himself
Sloth, someone who never could use a safety pin because its to "hard.working" to open it
Wrath, throwing opened safety pin's to hurt people
Envy, of the man who created the very first safety pin, because its an amazing invention
Pride, pride of having the most beutiful safety pin in the world, covered in gold with diamonds and sapphires.
Monday 24 December 2012
This object is as simple as effective and maybe that's why earlier in 1300 or 1250 b.C. in ancient Greece and Rome, were used very similar objects called "Fibula" for various utility functions.
Is normally one piece of metal with two parts very fine and long that in one of the extremities is folded with two turns, causing a spring effect and at the other end has a slot in which a pointed part fits.
This slot serves two purposes: to form a closed loop thereby properly
fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of
the pin to protect the user from the sharp point.
The safety pin runs through the elastic capacity of the material it is made, typically metal, utilizing a spring effect that allows one end peaked has space to engage and disengage so that when closed it remains so without the loose risk.
With a material that does not have enough elasticity is not possible that this object works, it is indispensable that there is a movement of the pointed end so as to open and close.
With a material that does not have enough elasticity is not possible that this object works, it is indispensable that there is a movement of the pointed end so as to open and close.
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