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At first glance, the covered wagon at Weber State University looks the same as the symbol of Utah’s past spotted throughout museums and history books.



The wagon is large enough to carry a family. Supplies hang off of every open space and the entire set-up is the muted brown color of faded wood and layers of dust.



It is only on closer inspection that the wagon becomes visible for what it really is: a life-size sculpture made of cardboard and twine.







After an invitation to give a talk at Weber State earlier in the year, Johnson instead suggested a community sculpture project with students in the art department.



For one week, Johnson set up shop in the lobby of the Kimball Visual Arts Center. After designing the basic structure of the wagon, Johnson was joined by new artists every day who created their own pieces for the project. Students from the sculpture and design classes at Weber sketched out ideas for components to add to wagon.



These additions ranged from cardboard tools and silverware, to chickens, hats and plenty of guns.















http://www.standard.net/gallery/The-Prairie-Schooner-Project

http://www.standard.net/Profiles/2015/11/27/Crossing-the-country-on-cardboard

http://www.thebanyancollective.com/ogden-outdoor-adventure-show/2015/11/20/ogden-outdoor-adventure-show-219-art-adventure

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If you’ve been a listener of my LeanBlog Podcast series, you might know that I normally record conversations and then publish them into the podcast feed.

Today at noon CT, I’m going to do my first live broadcast of a podcast discussion via the “Blab.im” streaming platform.

My guest is going to be Sam MacPherson and we’ll be talking about Lean leadership, including his lessons learned from his time as a Green Beret. Sam introduced me to the idea of Blab.im (along with Chris Burnham) and we did a discussion there about a month ago if you want to watch the recording.

Sam wrote up a bit of a preview of the discussion on LinkedIn. You can also find him on Twitter as @leanleaderway.

So, you can watch live today at Noon CT or you can listen to this when I get the audio in the podcast feed, as normal.

The Blab.im platform might be blocked by some workplaces. You can view without an account, but to ask questions, you need to connect a Twitter account to Blab.im. Learn more about the platform and how to use it.

Here’s today’s embedded player and recording:

I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please scroll down to post a comment (or click through to the blog if you’re reading via email or RSS).

Original article: My First Live Podcast – Today with Sam MacPherson on Lean Leadership.

(c) Mark Graban and Constancy, Inc. 2005-2015



via Raymond Arsenault on Life and Business http://raymondarsenault.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-first-live-podcast-today-with-sam.html

1939 ZiS (Zavod Imeni Stalina) 101A Sport Coupe Built on the chassis of a seven-seater limousine, the one-and-only ZiS-101A Sport Coupe was built by the Soviet VMS factory. “One and only” is quite literal because there was only one single Sport Coupe built. Collectors and historians have been in search of it since the war, but so far, no sign.



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Yesterday, I did a webinar about the “ExperienceChange” workshops that I’m facilitating and would love to bring to your organization.

In the webinar (see the recording), the first part talks about the need for change management practices and higher levels of employee engagement. That doesn’t mean somehow forcing people to go along with what you want to do. It means real engagement and collaboration.

Why do people complain about a “lack of sustainment?” What are some of the root causes of that? What can we do about it?

What’s the first part of the webinar.

Then, at about 23:00 in, I start talking about how the on-site workshop is facilitated. Click on the link if you want to jump right to that point.

And, at about 28:30 in, I show a brief demonstration of what the Lakeview change simulation looks like. Jump to that part of the video.

I’m curious what you think about the change management challenges and ideas from the first 20 minutes of the webinar, even if you’re not interested in the ExperienceChange workshop.

Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please scroll down to post a comment (or click through to the blog if you’re reading via email or RSS).

Original article: Webinar Recording – Why Change Management and Lean Are So Important.

(c) Mark Graban and Constancy, Inc. 2005-2015



via Raymond Arsenault on Life and Business http://raymondarsenault.blogspot.com/2015/12/webinar-recording-why-change-management.html

Ford’s 427 didn’t make its way under a production car’s hood until 1963, but the side-oiler here looks right at home in the engine bay of this 1960 Ford Galaxie Sunliner for sale on Hemmings.com, especially with that four-speed (another not-for-1960 piece of equipment) and those wider-than-stock steelies. From the seller’s description:

recently refurbished; re-painted in original Rangoon Red” some years back; equipped with a modified “427” Ford “Nascar style” 425 H.P.FoMoCo “Cobra”; with cast Iron factory headers, dual four barrel side-oiler engine; 4 speed manual floor mounted transmission; Moroso high capacity oil pan,Dual point distributor,”Poverty” hubcaps on slightly wider wheels;new interior in correct tri-tone pattern; nice chrome and britework; new white grained top; manual steering and brakes; new door/ trunk/ hood rubber seals original trunk liner; not for the faint of heart!

Burke in 1941 while serving as Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Timing Association. Photo courtesy Geoff Hacker.

“The Michael Jordan of Bonneville,” Ryan Cochran, proprietor of The Jalopy Journal called him.

Geoff Hacker, Hemmings contributor and historian of Forgotten Fiberglass sports cars, said of him in 2012:

“Throughout his life, if you asked Bill about what he had accomplished, he would always focus on what he was working on, or on his future plans. It’s like that with these guys. They didn’t dwell on the past – they focused on the future.”

Born in 1918, Bill Burke is remembered best for his contributions to land-speed racing at the dry lakes and Bonneville beginning before WWII, in particular for originating the idea of re-purposing the teardrop-shaped drop tanks from fighter aircraft as ready-made bodywork for a streamlined race car–an idea that occurred to him while serving on PT Boats in the Pacific Theatre. Burke’s first “belly tanker” was created from a P-51 Mustang tank in 1946 and ran 131.96 MPH. With the original lost to time, Geoff Hacker was responsible for the re-creation of this first belly tanker.

Burke’s original P-51 belly tanker in 1946. Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker.

Not content with his first design, he soon obtained a larger P-38 Lightning drop tank and created a second lakester, this time with a rear engine. That car, ultimately dubbed “Sweet 16” and shared with engine guru and future Hot Rod technical editor Don Francisco, ran 151.085 MPH in July of 1949 and received the title of “World’s Fastest Hot Rod.”

Moving on from belly tanks, Burke tackled an enclosed-wheel streamliner for 1952. The O-class vehicle was powered by a motorcycle engine and ran 136.9 MPH, setting a class record that would stand for a decade. That experience with fiberglass would lead Burke to partner with Mickey Thompson and others in a sports-car building concern called Atlas (later Allied) Fiber-Glass, building bodies for the Swallow coupe—a hand-laid fiberglass copy of the 1947-52 Cisitalia 202 from Italy.

For Burke, whose day job by this point was advertising manager for Hot Rod, the Swallow was primarily a means to further his racing hobby. Burke used a modified Swallow body to run 167 MPH at Bonneville in 1953, setting a new record for closed sports cars that year.

Lucky Burton, Bill Burke and Bobby Green on the salt in 2010. Green owns Burke’s second tank, Sweet 16. Photo courtesy Bobby Green.

After selling off Allied in 1955, Burke continued his pattern of innovation and racing. In 1960 he set a new Class D record of 205.949 MPH in the Falcon-powered “Pumpkin Seed” streamliner that he later sold to and drove for Mickey Thompson in 1961, raced one of the first Studebaker Avantis at Bonneville (in fact, he campaigned the ’63 Avanti for 30 years, with two more generations of the Burke family ultimately taking the wheel to receive their own LSR licenses), and by 1965 he had built a Hemi-powered streamliner in pursuit of 300 MPH. In the 21st Century, Burke along with his son Steve and grandson Joshua, campaigned a stretched Mazda RX-7.

Burke’s original tank at speed on the dry lakes. See it in action here. Photo courtesy Geoff Hacker.

Burke was a regular at the Salt every year from 1949 to 2009 and he will be missed by hot rodders, Studebaker aficionados and racers alike.

via Raymond Arsenault on Life and Business http://raymondarsenault.blogspot.com/2015/12/bill-burke-hot-rod-pioneer-passes-away.html

The 2009 BMW Z4 used to create “An Expression of Joy” with artist Robin Rhode (L) and director Jake Scott. Photos courtesy BMW AG.

The Petersen Automotive Museum officially reopens to the public on Monday, December 7, and among its new attractions will be the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery, presented by BMW of North America. The first display will center on BMW Art Cars, featuring three of the line’s better known examples, along with a Z4 Roadster that, while not an Art Car, still has significant ties to the brand’s support of the arts.

1975 BMW 3.0 CSL, by Alexander Calder.

The car that began it all was a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL painted by American artist Alexander Calder in broad strokes of primary colors. Created at the request of Herve Poulain, a French auctioneer and racing driver, the BMW was campaigned in the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans by Sam Posey, Jean Guichet and Poulain himself, but retired with a broken drive shaft less than a third of the way into the race. Calder died in New York City the following year, making the BMW among his final contributions to the art world.

1990 BMW 535i, by Matazo Kayama.

Japanese artist Matazo Kayama was enlisted to paint a 1990 BMW 535i, and he based his creation on Snow, Moon and Cherry Blossoms, artwork originally crafted for the Tokyo National Museum of Arts. The installation blends airbrush techniques with more traditional Japanese mediums, such as foil printing (Arare) and metal cutting (Kirigane).

1995 BMW 850 CSi, by David Hockney.

David Hockney, a British artist now lining in the United States, was given the task of creating the 14^th Art Car from a 1995 BMW 850 CSi. Hockney’s style typically depicts people within their environment, which explains his focus on turning the 850 CSi inside out. While the driver and his dog are readily apparent in this left side view of the car, other angles depict the car’s intake manifold, the motion of air over its wheels and tires, its suspension and the green landscape of the hills around his California home.