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WEEK 27 – Carrollton, GA, Target (I)
In this pic we’re taking a straight-on look at the storefront, which had already received most of its new paint job and had its old Target logo removed, in favor of a temporary bullseye logo poster placed off to the left. The façade features the typical pronounced, rounded entryway area that a lot of mid-90s Target stores opened with, and as we’ve discussed, the inside will hold some fun classic traits as well.
With the June 2018 remodel, it is believed that the P93 décor package was erased completely from existence, as Carrollton seems quite likely to have been the very last store to still have it. However, going through BatteryMill's Target list briefly yesterday, I discovered that at least one other store – in Helena, MT – not only also had P93, but it, too, remodeled in June 2018. So, it’s still likely that P93 no longer exists, but hey: we thought Carrollton was the last store to have it; but if there’s a store out there that had it that we didn’t know about, then there’s at least a teeny-tiny glimmer of hope that it may still be out there today, and we don’t know about that, either! Just some food for thought to leave y’all with, as we wrap up the first five photos in this album :)
We’ll pick right back up here in two weeks, so be sure to stick around for that! (And by the way, just in case you were wondering: we do have a pretty good idea of how many P97 stores are remaining. The count stands at nine. Not sure about P01, P04, etc. Though I am interested, in case anyone else has any idea!)
In the meantime, next week – starting yet another brand new store tour…
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
...that would apply to both the remnants of the glacier des Diablerets at about 9000ft above sea-level and the medium used to take this photo, although we are hanging in there !
Once considered as eternal snow and open to summer skiing, the glacier is fast melting with streams of water crossing it here and there.
"Les Diablerets", canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Shot with Zeiss Ikon rangefinder & Leica ASPH Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 @ f/8, 1/1000sec on CineStill 50D ISO-50 film.
On Saturday ( 1st of September) I went for a ride out on State Highway 37 ,where the Waitomo Glowworm Caves are, when I noticed this along the way!
Moa
The moa were nine species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.6 m in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kg. Wikipedia
Moa were large, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand until about 500 years ago. There were nine species of these extinct birds. They belong to the ratite group of birds, which also includes ostriches, emus and kiwi. Genetic comparisons suggest that the closest relatives of moa are the flighted tinamous of South America.
Extinction
Moa were hunted to extinction by Māori, who found them easy targets. Their flesh was eaten, their feathers and skins were made into clothing. The bones were used for fish hooks and pendants.
Where they lived
Moa lived on mainland New Zealand, and Great Barrier, D’Urville and Stewart islands, where there were trees, shrubs and grasses to eat. Different species preferred different habitats, depending on the food that was available. For example, little bush moa and Mantell’s moa lived in dense forest, while the crested moa and upland moa occupied mountain zones in the South Island.
What they looked like
It is uncertain exactly how moa looked. It is thought they were similar to emus, with a domed back. They had three front-facing toes on each foot and a small toe at the back. Their feathers were rough and furry.
Female moa were usually larger than males. The largest were female giant moa, at about 2 metres tall and weighing over 250 kilograms. Some moa, such as Mantell’s moa, and males of northern populations of stout-legged moa, were smaller than a turkey.
Moaland
When moa bones were first announced by European scientists in 1840, it sparked international interest. Once the largest bird to have existed, moa briefly become a national symbol, and New Zealand was called ‘the land of the moa’.
Megatherium is an extinct genus of ground sloths.
Here is the Giant Sloth
This summer, Brookfield Zoo and Dino Don Inc. are unleashing more than 20 life-sized, animatronic re-creations of giants that had roamed North America and Eurasia during the Ice Age. They'll include the following giants:
-Mastodon (18 feet long)
-Woolly mammoth (15 feet tall)
-Giant ground sloths (20 feet long)
-Giant rodent (10 feet long)
-Short-faced bear (11 feet long)
-Giant ape (10 feet tall)
-Saber-toothed cat (5 feet long)
-Giant bird (12 feet tall)
Adding to the life-like effect, parts of the animals – including the head, eyes, mouth, and tail – move as they did in real life. The display's creator, Don Lessem, CEO of Dino Don, Inc., has been digging, reconstructing, writing about, and roboticizing dinosaurs and other creatures from the past for 30 years.
Keep your eyes peeled because these Ice Age Giants will be arriving soon – and it's all free with general admission!
Posted on May 31/ 2021
Maybe it's a good thing. When was the last time you saw one of these...? Yes, kids, it's a public phone. A great way to get yuckies. Oh, lord... Could you use one now if you had to?
I thought i'd try and post something a little different today after the last two or three Aldwych shots. This was another abandoned part of Aldwych Underground Station that had me believing I was in some sort of scary movie or better still, The Walking Dead. Super eerie and cold and I think a zombie could have walked around the corner and minute (in my head anyway)
My only criticism of the tour was all of the yellow queue line bollards that were placed around (with little use or point in being there) which tended to ruin some of the photograph opportunities.
Shot using my favourite lens at the moment, my Tamron 10-24mm.
7 HDR bracketed shots, processed and edited using Photomatix Pro, CS5 and Nik Color Efex Pro.
"The Chimacum, also spelled Chemakum and Chimakum are a near extinct Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians), who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay" Wiki
A photo of the Hicks family near Chimicum Creek circa 1914 can be seen here along with details of other first nation communities on the peninsula: www.nps.gov/olym/learn/historyculture/tribes-of-the-olymp....
Opposite the south end of Vancouver Island and directly west of Seattle, the Chimacum people occupied a land of very real mist and rain, as the Olympic peninsula is well known for its good air and dominant rain, with up to 355cm a year. Tall trees of the north west coast were used for Totem poles - often placed in coves behind the worst laps of the sea - and they start to appear along the coastal mainland, opposite and around Vancouver Island just to the north of Discovery Bay. The carved poles then continue up the laced coast into Alaska - a close enough cultural vision to be a symbol for today's Seattle (aside the Chimacum). (www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-did-totem-poles-become-symbo...). 'Looking' at but not living with. Were there arborglyphs or decorations assigned for their real tree giants, with the permanent carving starting in the near yonder?
Some of the tallest trees in the world come from the reserves along this coast. The World's tallest Spruce, Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir are all old growths living through and past the Chimacum rains on the Olympic Peninsula. The biggest tree today reads 75m tall by 6m circumference and 5.7m diameter. Chimacum rains in the spaces between these trees.
In this clip the tall totems and mythical trees are in modern cement, and they draw in 'worshipers' of modernity. Norman Foster's bridge is very successful, and during our visit we met a Brazilian who was motorbiking to see the best bridges of Europe (Lisbon, Porto (!!) and on up to Millau...). The Millau bridge tilts to respect the line of the hills either side of the valley, and it curves slightly to undulate with the mist and river. In the days prior to the bridge, the drive up to the Larzac plateau was a chain of old lorries puffing like steam-trains at walking pace, with summer cars overheating to a general breakdown, and a steep tilted jam that seemed to crumple and slide back down into the city of Millau; so the bridge does adapt well to today's lifestyle of car and long distance haulage. Despite that, it is a totemic forest of cement and hardened sand that has turned a landscape with a deep past into another visible link from a modern web.
Lynda Perhac's LP 'Parallelograms' was released on Kapp records in the same years as Joni Mitchell's 'Ladies of the Canyon', and between the two Karen Dalton LPs. For the recording, she used the studio knowhow and orchestration skill of Leonard Rosenman, who is perhaps best known for the music and work he did with the film star James Dean ('Giant', 'Rebel without a cause'). After a long break, Lynda returned to release on Sufjan Steven's 'Asthmatic Kitty' label, with other releases currently through Sundazed and Omnivore.
Her style is often described as 'Psychedelic folk', which seems a miss-up. There can a psychological expressionism to her folk music - not unlike Kate Bush, but with the intimate spaces of early Sufjan or Joni. And she really doesn't need a category as she has a name.
Was this shot taken of Lynda by the Olympic peninsula?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzsY7AXEBQ
Here Lynda talks about the visual method behind her song writing. Being inspired by the sea, or Larks rising; a New York crossroads, or Dr Caligari are all examples of the visual senses mapping into music. Lynda went a step further and abstracted her own visual for the musical subject before then transcribing. Creative ways to inspire the mind's eye are more common in musical composition than is apparent in the generic and 'manufactured' and should not be mixed up with issues of drugs or disorders even if both have appeared in the history of music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEW5CRnnnws
An original demo of Chimacum rains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJsViR_PV0
AJM 09.11.22
This skeleton display was housed
inside of The Hunterian Museum,
our Day 2 in London, visiting BOTH
The Hunterian Museum
and
The Sir John Soane's Museum!
I've always wanted to photograph this atom on the outside wall of the Universe of Energy at EPCOT Center. It didn't quite turn out how I imagined but i tried to salvage it and turn it into something abstract and interesting since the UoE is now extinct.
EPCOT Center | Future World | Universe of Energy
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Petit train d'extinction circulant entre Trois-Villes et Ste-Croix pour s'assurer qu'aucun départ de feu ne se déclare après le passage du train à vapeur, cela à l'occasion des 125 ans de la ligne.
A Ste-Croix, le 1er septembre 2018
© Philippe Dubuis
The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum
London :Printed by order of the Trustees,1877.
I think only a few people have ever walked past this. There is but a faint trail through dense, regenerating lodgepole pine.
Kerið, volcanic crater lake in Southwestern Iceland. Two people can be seen walking right on the top of the crater edge.
A long extinct volcano to be exact. This is a view I obtained after leaving Dettifoss in Northern Iceland. What I thought was so cool, wasn't just the shape, but its isolation, jutting up all by its lonesome from the surrounding plains. I discovered from Wikipedia that it's a "tuya" type volcano--one that originated under an extremely thick ice sheet (outside of Antarctica, there are very few such in the world). The lava cools much quicker than would otherwise be the case, so instead of a normal flow, it builds up into a steep-sided hill/mountain. This one originated during the most recent ice age--the Pleistocene--and has not erupted since then. At the end of that last ice age, Herðubreið would have been even more distinctive, its sides still less sloped as erosion would not have yet been significant.
Many Icelanders refer to this as the most beautiful mountain on the island, and refer to it as "The Queen of Mountains"--only in Icelandic, of course (which, according to google translate would be "Drottning fjalla" for what it's worth).
This was taken from the Ring Road, south of Dettifoss. Where I placed this on the map is where the mountain itself is, not where I took it from.
I originally wanted to process this as a B&W, but my efforts haven't yielded a decent image as yet, though I may yet return to that attempt.
BTW, supposedly this is pronounced "HAIR-the-breth." Icelanders really slur their words and run syllables together, so keep that in mind.
I do wish it would explode.
In central Victoria, Australia, there are many extinct volcanoes.
The farmers probably like it that way.
With its lineage pretty evident, a former UP E9A is at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting movement east via Conrail to Naporano Iron & Metal in New Jersey for scrapping. 01/11/80--Tom Golden photo
I think the back building was the original homestead. In the distance are the Big Horn Mountains which if in the house you could see quite well. Johnson County, WY where the Johnson County Cattle War took place www.wyohistory.org/essays/johnson-county-war-1892-invasio... Happy Fence Friday!
The Grábrók volcano is further away. Note the two guys on its brim. They have a grand view from where they stand. Often, during the summer time, groups of tourists seek to this spot.
These volcanoes are the Easternmost on a fissure that stretches along the Snæfellsnes peninsula, which is famous worldwide for its diversity of volcanoes. Here is one of the more original kind: www.flickr.com/photos/coldpix/4524851207/in/set-721576238...
Confinement jour 43 / Lockdown Day 43
En direct des studios de confinement avant fermeture...
Photophore "boule de neige" en verre, de la manufacture Kosta Boda, souvenir d’une belle année suédoise (1986)
Quarante trois jours, c’est très long... Mes photos s’appauvrissent, mes textes s’étiolent, et tout cela tourne en rond dans le (co)vide de ma pensée du moment, de plus en plus rongée par le manque, à moyen-terme, d'horizon social, culturel et voyageur.
J'ai toujours fui à toutes jambes les réseaux prétendus "sociaux", portés par l’autosatisfaction nombriliste ("regardez tous comme je suis beau") et l’autocongratulation réciproque et forcée ("oui, tu es vraiment magnifique, merci pour le partage") donc il me paraîtrait surréaliste de sombrer à mon tour dans les travers post-adolescents de ce monde virtuel, fugace, et superficiel, que je n’aime pas beaucoup...
Et puis, et surtout, je ne tiendrai pas encore douze longs jours de détention semi-volontaire, à ce rythme quotidien et "contraint" d’une photo, si possible pas trop moche (plus gagné d'avance, faute de liberté) et d’un texte si possible pas trop c... (définitivement perdu, faute de talent littéraire)
Je me place donc délibérément en mode “pause” (ou "pose longue" en photo) à partir de demain et jusqu’au déconfinement...(le 11 mai... ou plus si affinités !)
Si je réussis péniblement à produire une ou deux photos "montrables" (traduction = pas trop moches) dans les jours qui suivent, je les publierai, au compte-gouttes et après une sélection draconienne et sans concession.
Cette sage décision me permet déjà de penser à mon inspiration photo et à mes voyages des "jours d’après"...
Et cette perspective va vraiment me motiver dans la dernière ligne droite de ma détention !
Certes, les tristes prophètes hygiénistes, idéologues ou écologistes des médias et de la politique profitent désormais de leur temps de parole (inespéré avant le virus) pour occuper largement le paysage audio-visuel, et nous y annoncer la proximité de la fin de l'ancien monde, voire la fin du monde tout-court, et nous assurer avec conviction que rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant…
Mais j’espère bien que non, et que tout sera à nouveau (presque) comme avant, en 2021...
Les soi-disant prévisionnistes de l’avenir se sont toujours trompés depuis des siècles !
C'est la seule statistique rassurante du moment !
Et puis, ce n’était pas si mal que ça avant, non ?
J'espère que vous en avez encore quelques souvenirs ? 😊
Bonne fin de confinement et "Take care"
Le journal complet du confinement et des chroniques de la guerre :
Volcano Pois Katiki - is an extinct thyroid volcano on Easter Island. Its height is only 370 meters above sea level. This is one of the three volcanoes of this island and is located in its eastern part. The volcano of Pois Katiki is the lowest of them. All three extinct volcanoes of the island form a triangle when viewed from a bird's eye view. From the north, east and south, the Pois Katiki volcano is surrounded by the ocean, and from the southwest side is the Rano Raraku volcano.
The last volcanic eruption occurred more than 230 thousand years ago.
The soil in this area is reddish in color. Due to erosion, the rocks are very high, it is dangerous to walk along their edges. There is less vegetation and there is no way to carry out archaeological excavations.
There is a statement that if you connect all three volcanoes with straight lines on the map of the island, you get an ideal isosceles triangle. I have the spirit of adventure, then exploring this fabulous island, I conquered this small peak of the island - the volcano of Pois Katiki.
On my way I met the majestic statues of Moai. And in the crater of the Pois Katiki volcano you can see wild horses who just walk there and drink water on the shore of a small lake formed in the crater of the volcano. This is an indescribable sight!
I walked or drove along a dirt road from Hanga Roa and end my journey to Hanga Pico, a seaport on the island’s north coast.
I guess we'll find out soon enough!
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Front shop window of Tora Sumi, a tattoo studio and art gallery.
Tora Sumi Art + Ink, Balmain, Sydney
A formation in executing the nearly extinct Gotipua Dance at our Durga Puja Cultural Festival of 2013 - of South Madras Cultural Association, Chennai, India.
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Gotipua is a traditional dance form in the state of Orissa, India, and the precursor of Odissi classical dance. It has been performed in Orissa for centuries by young boys, who dress as women to praise Jagannath and Krishna. The dance is executed by a group of boys who perform acrobatic figures inspired by the life of Radha and Krishna. The boys begin to learn the dance at an early age until adolescence, when their androgynous appearance changes. In the Oriya language Gotipua, means "single boy" (goti-pua). Raghurajpur, Orissa (near Puri) is an historic village known for its Gotipua dance troupes.
To transform into graceful feminine dancers the boys do not cut their hair, instead styling it in a knot and weaving garlands of flowers into it. They make up their faces with mixed white and red powder. Kajal (black eyeliner) is broadly applied around the eyes to give them an elongated look. The bindi usually round, is applied to the forehead, surrounded with a pattern made from sandalwood. Traditional paintings adorn the face, which are unique to each dance school.
The costume has evolved over time. The traditional dress is a Kanchula, a brightly coloured blouse with shiny decorations. An apron-like, embroidered silk cloth (nibibandha) is tied around the waist like a ruffle and worn around the legs. Some dancers still adhere to tradition by wearing a pattasari: a piece of thin fabric about 4 metres (13 ft 1 in) long, worn tightly with equal lengths of material on both sides and a knot on the navel. However, this traditional dress is often replaced by a newly designed cloth which is easier to put on.
Dancers wear specially designed, beaded jewelry: necklaces, bracelets, armbands and ear ornaments. Nose-piercing jewelry has been replaced with a painted motif. Ankle bells are worn, to accentuate the beats tapped out by the feet. The palms of the hands and soles of the feet are painted with a red liquid known as alta. The costume, jewelry and bells are considered sacred.
Long ago, the temples in Orissa had female dancers known as devadasi (or mahari), who were devoted to Jagannath, which gave rise to Mahari dance. Sculptures of dancers on bas-reliefs in temples in Orissa (and the Konark Sun and Jagannath Temples in Puri) demonstrate this ancient tradition. With the decline of mahari dancers around the 16th century during the reign of Rama Chandra Dev (who founded the Bhoi dynasty), boy dancers in Orissa continued the tradition. Gotipua dance is in the Odissi style, but their technique, costumes and presentation differ from those of the mahari; the singing is done by the dancers. Present-day Odissi dance has been influenced by Gotipua dance. Most masters of Odissi dance (such as Kelucharan Mohapatra, from Raghurajpur) were Gotipua dancers in their youth.
Odissi dance is a combination of tandava (vigorous, masculine) and lasya (graceful, feminine) dances. It has two basic postures: tribhangi (in which the body is held with bends at the head, torso and knees) and chouka (a square-like stance, symbolizing Jagannath). Fluidity in the upper torso is characteristic of Odissi dance, which is often compared to the gentle sea waves which caress the Orissa beaches.
Each year, the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Research Centre organizes the Gotipua Dance Festival in Bhubaneswar.
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotipua