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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
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Have the day off of work today to drive my oldest to leave for college. Weirdest feeling ever. I wish him the very best of lucking making his future.
(2/2) Point Molate last night, at the Futures Past sculpture. I'd seen it a few times in daylight, but didn't realize it lit up at night. Very dim, but enough for colors to emanate with long exposure. Believe it or not, these were shot in near total darkness, but a bright moon was over my shoulder, illuminating the sky across 8-10s. Pt. Molate is hosting a handful of Burning Man sculptures, this one by artist Kate Raudenbush. "The inspiration you get from seeing a work of art that just makes you go, 'I can’t believe someone built this.'"
Both the engineer and locomotive ponder their futures in Galion, Ohio on March 28, 1976. This while waiting for yard space in Marion just days before the formation of Conrail, the Erie Lackawanna here will cease to exist and the C425 2455 is headed to new owner British Columbia Railroad.
British Airways Boeing B777-300ER "Great Futures" livery on finals to land at London Heathrow airport Oct 2024.
-You didn't know I saw three futures
One alone, and one with you
And one with the love I knew I'd choose-
Song by Torres - Three Futures -
Hard to believe it's been two years since I shot one of these. It's been such a busy kick working on my film projects. I love the work, but certainly, the rewards are far less immediate than in photography. Instead of hours or days, it takes months, sometimes years, just to see one film project through from inception to completion… Sometimes, within this process, it feels like I’ve sacrificed my creativity to the administrative duties of MAKING the actual work.
This needs to change.
In the coming months, I hope to carve out more time for the work I care about. The creative work. Brainstorming, photography, writing. The stuff that makes me feel like I’m actually alive.
This photo serves as a gentle reminder of the idea that, no matter how powerless we feel, each day we have the power to change our future. The choices we make today will cause a ripple effect through the rest of our lives. Every day, we are choosing from a series of possible futures, whether we realize it or not.
Title taken from a fantastic article written by Derek Sivers. If you haven’t read any of his work yet, I highly recommend.
Tonight we brought our 18 year old Son up to an Open Day in our local 3rd Level Institute of Technology. We were given a short tour of the facilities by a friend of ours who works there and we chatted with the tutors who run the course he is interested in taking, Creative Digital Media.
It was strange discussing College courses and life with my Son as it only seems like yesterday that we were bring him to see Santa in the local Town Centre. How quickly they grow.
We were both very impressed with the facilities and the general supportive attitudes of the people who run the courses and the campus in general.
Looking through the course he wants to apply for I was a little envious and wished I was that age again as, like a lot of people from my generation, I never got the chance to live the college life.
It has definitely put it in my mind that I'd like to do a mature student course in a few years time.
Watch this space :-)
Special thanks to our friend Claire for taking such good care of us and taking time out from her busy day to do so :-)
The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
(1/2) Point Molate last night, at the Futures Past sculpture. I'd seen it a few times in daylight, but didn't realize it lit up at night. Very dim, but enough for colors to emanate with long exposure. Believe it or not, these were shot in near total darkness, but a bright moon was over my shoulder, illuminating the sky across 8-10s. Pt. Molate is hosting a handful of Burning Man sculptures, this one by artist Kate Raudenbush. "The inspiration you get from seeing a work of art that just makes you go, 'I can’t believe someone built this.'"
Thanks Flickr user Alvin Tenpo for hipping me to the fact that this lights up at night! I will return on a moonless night to try again.
...not riding one of these! Northern Rail Class 150 No. 150275 sits stabled at Huddersfield alongside St George's Warehouse, a late 19th century goods warehouse built by the London & North Western Railway for joint use with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. 14th November 2024.
One of the final parts of the Quartermile redevelopment of the old, sprawling Royal Infirmary (now in a huge, modern campus on the edge of the city), the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Completed and opened the previous year, it is part of Edinburgh University, and also the new home (as of last summer) of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest literary fest on the planet.
The Quartermile (as you can see in some pics I posted recently here) is a mix of modern, glass and steel, tall structures, and some of the handsome, Victorian, stone architecture from the old hospital buildings, which were retained, refurbished and added to.
You can see the edge of a modern one on the left of the pic, in deep shadow, while the light bathes the Scots Baronial architecture, mixed with some sensitive modern additions, of the Futures Institute. Looking forward to going in there in June to watch the programme reveal ceremony for this summer's book festival.
The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
Not a pretty picture - and this collaboration with Miss Boux, does no justice to her attractive looks!
However, I think it makes a good point!
Simon
The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
The branding on the side of DB's 66150 proudly proclaims that they are the future. The future of Chathill's attractive stone and timber waiting room is less certain. The owner of the 1847 station building on the left keeps the station in excellent condition, but explained to me that the old building lost part of its roof during winds in excess of 100mph during Storm Arwen in 2021. Hopefully funds will be found to restore it - the passing container service is 4E96, 09:00 Mossend - Tees Dock.