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This is a Tom Clark sculpture named Comfort and Joy. I had an Aunt Mae whose last name was comfort so I have a special sentimental attachment to this.
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“I’m a laughing gnome, and you can’t catch me.” One of the reasons Our Daily Challenge and other groups here in Flickr are so fabulous is it makes me look and learn every day. Who knew David Bowie wrote a song about a laughing gnome. And honestly, I never even thought about the origin of gnomes even though I have had this Tom Clark sculpture for decades. I bought it because it was named Comfort and Joy and one of my dad’s sisters was Aunt Mae Comfort.
ODC: mythical
Outside my apartment window at night. This is totally illegal in the city and probably pretty dangerous considering the ravine in front of the apartment is full of kindling and the apartment building is about 20 feet behind with a nice dry tar roof but it looked very nice.
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The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks
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Sat on a quayside bollard in what was then Central terminus quay but now known as Springfield quay entertainment complex Dicky pours his heart out on tape.
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After spotting Clare Grogan working in the ice cream van Dicky bird decides to give chase.
He follows (down the rabbit hole) through the tunnel on Lochburn Road in Maryhill.
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Dicky arranges a meet with Mr.McCool, a rival ice cream firm and follows their van out of Cambridge street multi story car park.
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Dicky Bird finally catches up with the ice cream van just before he witnesses it being smashed up.
I tracked this scene to Claddens Quadrant in Possilpark.
With the trees in the way it is not very clear but you can just make out the tower blocks to the left and the university poking up past the tree in the middle.
Later in the film Dicky is again looking for the ice cream van.
This time the location is Summerston and the van is travelling up Douglaston road.
With Dicky heading down Lytham Drive the inevitable happens.
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The warehouses of the old scene are long gone, replaced with the car park for the springfield quay entertainment complex but thanks to lots of sticky tape and super glue tha kingston bridge is still there.
In the now pic you can make out the new pedestrian bridge in tradeston.
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In the film Dicky, played by Bill Paterson lives in a flat on Mansionhouse road on the southside.
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By the end of the film Dickie has come up with a way to bring the family together and demonstrates his Ice cream fritters at Trevor's (Alex Norton) chip shop.
This location is the corner of Balmore road and Kilfinnan street in Maryhill.
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Yet another addition to my Comfort and joy then and now set.
In this scene Dickie Bird visits his dentist on Gardner Street.
The street is a lot steeper than it looks in the picture especially noticable when cycling up it.
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Giftable fun items, 50L or less, are now through Christmas on sale on the second floor of my Winterfell Anodyne store. Big marble mantelpiece, Christmas stockings with music-box carol inside, giant champagne glasses with bubbles and loving inscriptions, pretty ceramic gifts, cuddly rugs for the floor. Also my big Summernator egg, portable summertime sunshine and green grass, with transfer perms, although that costs 150L, still less than a dollar tho.
This is a composite of so many different photographs and I have run it through so many different editors that I've lost count!
Will I ever get tired of abstracting my guitar? No. I have only recently come to realize the significance of guitars in my life, and the special roles that they have played over the years. Wood and steel...it's been a story behind a story for all of my life, and being able to have my guitar and play some now is an anchor and a comfort that few other things in my life provide me.
See more in my set, "Johnny Guitar," and view them large, please. There are a lot of fine details in these photos:
Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area Comfort and Joy Holiday Toy Drive at UCSF Pediatric Outpatient Center, Walnut Creek on December 14, 2022.
This is my latest (a.k.a. second!) gocco print. The ice cream van is run by the Mair family and the slogan on the side reads, 'For straight hair and curly teeth eat Mair sweets!' This is based on real ice cream vans that used to operate (or still do for all I know!) in the north of Glasgow. I heard about them from a former customer during a question and answer session after a screening of Bill Forsyth's film 'Comfort and Joy'. I recently sent these prints out as part of the 'One' gocco swap organised by cloth.paper.string but have plenty left to sell/give away too.
The Mair's ice cream van will also be available in blue, as a card or as a print (which includes the story of the van as told by a Glasgow raised man after a screening of Bill Forsyth's film 'Comfort and Joy'). There are also a few interesting somewhere-between-red-and-blue coloured prints... Oops! It was a nice little error though, and they look good.