Welcome! You are visiting our Blog: Hard and Soft.
This blog is intended to tell the several meanings of the couple of the adjectives “hard” and “soft” among the material culture history. The different aspects of our analysis go, in facts, from chemical to cartoon and films, from materials to food, history and philosophy, from fashion to literature, technology, mythological cythation, advertisement and music. The description of our couple of adjectives is then always improved by the use of suggestive images, made for a better comprehension of our text and to get the perception speedier. The focus of our analysis stands in the concept of “strength” as a halfway point between hard and soft and it’s analyzed using the following couples of ideas: animate/inanimate, appeal/seduction, sinuosity/rigidity and resistance/fragility.
Este blog quiere contar muchos significados de la pareja de adjetivos en contra, duro y blando en la historia de la cultura material.
Los diferentes aspectos en que se llevó a cabo el análisis, de hecho, van desde la química a los dibujos animados y películas, desde los materiales a la alimentación, a la historia y a la filosofía, desde la moda a la literatura, la tecnología, los mitos, la publicidad y la música.
Ademas la descripción de nuestra pareja de adjetivos se apoya a la utilización de imágenes evocadoras que podràn validar la comprensión del texto escrito y dar una percepción mas inmediata.
El foco de nuestro análisis es el concepto de la fuerza como punto de encuentro entre duro y blando y se analiza de acuerdo a los siguientes pares de ideas: animado y inanimado, appeal y seducción, sinuosidad y rigidez, resistencia y fragilidad.
Questo blog intende raccontare i numerosi significati della coppia di aggettivi contrari “duro” e “molle” all’interno della storia della cultura materiale. Le diverse declinazioni sotto cui è stata effettuata l’analisi spaziano, infatti, dalla chimica ai cartoni animati e ai film, dai materiali al cibo, alla storia e alla filosofia, dalla moda alla letteratura, alla tecnologia, alle citazioni mitologiche, alla pubblicità e alla musica. La descrizione della nostra coppia di aggettivi è inoltre sempre stata supportata dall’uso di immagini evocative che possano avvalorare la comprensione del testo scritto e darne una percezione più immediata. Il fulcro della nostra analisi sta nel concetto di “forza” come punto d’incontro tra “duro” e “molle” ed è analizzato secondo le seguenti coppie di idee: animato – inanimato, appeal – seduzione, sinuosità - rigidità e resistenza – fragilità.
Clay is a material characterized by the transition from soft to hard. Clay is malleable when hydrated and can be easily worked by hand. Indeed, the main feature is its plasticity, and if the clay is added water, it is absorbed and forms a dough that can be easily modeled.
When it becomes hard and dry when it is subjected to intense heating, undergoes an irreversible transformation to become permanently solid and compact.
These properties make the clay one of the cheapest materials and are widely used in ceramic production since ancient times. The first evidence of use of this material by man to create artefacts dating to the Neolithic period, when the first clay objects (vases for example) were cooked on an open fire.
Potter making a vase
The clay is also known as a material used for housing construction in antiquity but also currently in the countries where this technique is still in use. For example in Burkina you can visit the fortresses of Lobi. Shy and bellicose nature of the lobes have been able to preserve their traditions, rites of initiation “Dyor, the production of terracotta pottery.
The architecture of the houses is very special. Called “Sukalo” (Mande language) are rectangular shaped buildings of clay with layers of thick walls, giving the feeling of a miniature fortress. The dry season is the perfect time for the construction and repair of collective houses reserved for men. On a side entrance that allows access to the courtyard and the various rooms, while a wooden pole serves as a bifurcated staircase and leads to the terrace where you placed the crop for drying. Here is the home of head of household.
With hardware, electrical and computer engineering will indicate all mechanical, magnetic, optical and electronic components that allow a personal computer to work. More generally, the term refers to any physical component of a device or an electronic equipment.
The etymology of the word comes from a combination of two English words, hard (hard) and Ware (artifact, object), as opposed to the software, the logic (and therefore soft, “soft”) that makes up the personal computer.
Hands screwing on a hard disk
The software is a program or set of programs that can run on a computer or other device with processing capabilities. The term is a word of English made by joining two words, soft (soft) ware (manufacture, component, object, thing).
The words soft or hard light often make those new to photography think that it refers to how bright of dim it is. This is not true, what it actually refers to whether the edge of the shadow that it casts has a hard, abrupt transition from dark to light, or whether it has a soft, or gradual transition.
Light that comes from a single, point source, such as a naked bulb, and falls directly on the subject from one direction, without being reflected off another surface, is known as hard light. It generally casts dark shadows and produces high contrast pictures with deep blacks and bright highlights. The shadows also generally have a very distinct or hard edge, so that the outline of the object closely reflects the shape of the shadow.
Soft light, as the name suggests, is the opposite of hard light. It means that the light that falls on the subject comes from multiple sources, from multiple directions or from a single, very large light source quite close to the subject. It does not cast deep shadows, and where it does, it has a soft edge, rather than an abrupt transition from dark to light.
Diamonds are made of carbon. They are among the hardest of materials and are used to cut glass and steel. Graphite is also a form of the element carbon. It rubs off easily on paper, which is why we use it to make pencil leads.
If diamonds and graphite are made out of the same element, why do they look so different and behave so differently? Take a closer look:
Chrystalline structure of a diamond
Above is a drawing of the crystalline structure of a diamond. The spheres represent carbon atoms; the lines connecting the atoms represent chemical bonds. Each carbon atom is at the center of a four-sided pyramid, or tetrahedron, formed by the neighboring carbon atoms to which it is bonded.
Do these drawings suggest a reason why diamonds are hard while graphite breaks apart easily? The answer has to do with how the carbon is arranged in the two materials–with the materials’ structures.
North American wheat flour is considered the best in the world; it’s consistent, reliable, and of very high quality. One of our largest crops, it’s exported all over the globe.
But the continent grows just two types of wheat: hard and soft. Both have winter and spring crops, each of which produce red and white varieties. Hard wheat is high in protein and grows best in colder climes. Soft wheat is low in protein and grows plentifully in the Carolinas, where winters are mild and dry.
