Licence to clamp...

...and to grip.

SCHUNK brand ambassador and German goalkeeper legend Jens Lehmann

on the SCHUNK exhibition stand of the AMB 2012 exhibition at Stuttgart, 19 September 2012.

Locker room??? --> SCHUNK lounge on the exhibition stand!!! 

Superior clamping and gripping:

SCHUNK is technology and competence leader in clamping technology and gripping systems

Miniature zero point system VERO-S mini for light cutting applications in machining centers or assembly applications...

...changing pallets in seconds (my hands! ;-) camera on the tripod) ...

...with a repeatability of less than 5 µm (micrometer)

 

Detaching the air pressure guaranties a self-locking clamping of the pallet...

...additional turbo pressure supporting the spring forces ensures a superior pull-down force.

SCHUNK toolholder system TENDO E compact:

the benchmark for toolholders based on hydraulic expansion technology

ROTA-S plus 2.0 - the brand new manual lathe chuck based on improved wedgebar technology.

New clamping diaphragm / membrane

actuated by a standard zero point clamping module VERO-S NSE+ 138

7-axis jointed-arm robot equipped with the new SCHUNK robot coupling VERO-S NSR 160 and a 2-finger parallel gripper for workpiece grasping

For further information: www.schunk.de

Shibuya fireworks of lights

Probably Japan's most famous street crossing, seen from the 24th floor of my hotel:

Shibuya crossing, Tokyo

 25 September 2012, 6:49 pm

Same place, different perspective,
four days later, 6:27 pm.


Shots like this you find in plenty on the internet,
so I tried to capture a different style of Shibuya crossing lights.

My interpretation of Shibuya crossing in the evening.

Enjoy.
My.
Fireworks.
Of.
Lights.

The end.

Beginning of fall in the Japanese Garden of Wolfsgarten palace

Schloss Wolfsgarten, Langen, Germany,

recent weekend.

Schloß Wolfsgarten is a former hunting seat of the ruling family of Hesse-Damstadt, approx. 15 km south of Frankfurt am Main.
In the twentieth century, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig extensively modernized Schloß Wolfsgarten and rearranged its park.

The 100-year-old Japanese Garden was restored in 2011and newly opened on the occasion of the "Japantag" within the Royal Garden Festival / Fürstliches Gartenfest at Schloss Wolfsgarten.

The Japanese Garden with a big water lily pond in its center accomodates various old dawn redwood and Japanese maple trees with the slender leaves. They change their colour from green to yellow into dark red during the autumn season. This process is right now in full swing.

The property and its garden is open to the public only on two weekends in May during the annual Rhododendrenblüte / Rhododendron festival and again for a weekend in September for the The Schloss Wolfsgarten Garden Festival

Have a great start into an inspiring and colourful new (work) week!

Men on hands

Tokyo break dancer under the Shinjuku skyscrapers.

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (left), full moon (middle) and Sompo Japan Building (right)
- the backdrop and venue for (one group) of the Tokyo street and break dancers.

Kenji K. - art illustrator and free spirit

Aerialists / dominators of airspace whereever you look...;-)

One of two Frenchmen who hung around and breakdanced with the Tokyo boyz.

Boyz in motion.

 What a great time and experience hanging around with the artistical and fantastic Tokyo street dancers and their guests under Sompo Japan Building. Thank you / Arigato gozaimasu, boyz!

Appearance of the Ice Princess at the Venetian Fair Ludwigsburg

Venetian Fair Ludwigsburg 2012

from the 7th to the 9th September 2012

One of my favourite characters at the market place of Ludwigsburg:

The Ice Princess (as I called her).

granddaughter and grandmother - white and black - an incredible and perfect team!

This is what I call a really brilliant grandmother... ;-)

Later a marvellous unicorn complemented the black & white duo  - to form a "trio infernale", err, a "trio fantastico"!

Cool duo while we had sunshine and temperatures around 30°C during the festival!