#gripman

[getagrip6248]

Check out the new look of #getagripsportsnutrition! we updated our window graphics today and the new neon sign goes up in a week or two! Even our #gripman got a #facelift! #sic #teamgrip #griplife #getagriponyourlife #outwiththeoldinwiththenew #then #now #thenandnow #before #after #beforeandafter #vitamins #vitaminstore #sportsnutrition #sportsnutritionstore #business (at GET A GRIP!) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkvDd2Lgm2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sophtoart]

@mosaic47 Grip-kun is very adorable. He looks fierce but in reality he’s a soft fluff. Honto gomenasai to Mosaic-san for ruining the ink shading. It was too heavy and the shadows became too dark ;o; Then I cannot fix. This is the best I can do. Drawn on aged paper with pencil, painted with Chinese Ink. It’s very fun to grind the ink on an ink-stone. You can control the saturation much better than the bottled ones too. I really hope I can draw more traditional art in the future. I don’t have much time to practice because I spend most of my time writing. Why am I writing? Because I’m an author. My first book, Crafting the Sun is out on Amazon Kindle.

[marmarinou]

Madison St. Cable Car near Pulaski by cta web Via Flickr: Did you know Chicago once had cable cars? The first cable car service in Chicago began on January 28, 1882. Before cable cars, streetcars were generally pulled by horses. Cable cars were pulled by a moving cable under the street--to go, a "gripman" would operate a mechanical grip that would grab onto the cable and the car be pulled along by it. Because you couldn't have a continuous, moving cable crossing Chicago's movable bridges, tunnels were built to allow for cables to enter and exit today's Loop area from the north and west. The tunnels were constructed under LaSalle, Washington and just north of Van Buren, which later hosted electric streetcars who could then avoid delays from river traffic in those locations. Cable car services, provided by three different companies on certain lines, continued until 1906 when both the last horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars were replaced with self-propelled electric streetcars (trolley cars).

PHOTO: A Madison St cable car "grip car" and heated trailer car, near Pulaski. Between 1888 and 1893 cable cars debuted on the Milwaukee Avenue, Madison Street, Blue Island Avenue, and Halsted Street lines of the West Chicago Street Railroad Company and the Chicago Passenger Railway Company.

[tna33]

Tried some pixels these days and here’s mosaic47 ‘s OC GripMan. ^.^’  Happy birthday !