Punk & Funk
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“Uptown Funk” song.
Sunny Winter Sunday.
This is the burn (stream) next to my house - running fairly high after a downpour on Saturday.
I thought it looked quite nice with the sun on the moss and the bare branches. Sometimes, we pan for gold here, on the off chance that rain has dislodged a wee seam...Much chance of that!
Taken from my yard,
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
Bruno Mars/Mark Ronson
The 900 block of N. McClean Street, on the east side of Bloomington's Franklin Square, has an interesting history in terms of Illinois politics. Of the four stately residences on this block, three were home to late 19th and early 20th century gubernatorial candidates: Joseph W. Fifer, who served one term as Illinois Governor from 1889 to 1893; Adlai Stevenson I, who served as Vice President of the United States under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897, but then lost a close race for governor in 1908; and Frank H. Funk, who ran and lost as the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party candidate for Illinois Governor in 1912.
This post looks at the Queen Anne style Bates-Funk House which was built about 1891 for T. M. Dates, the superintendent of transportation for the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. Frank H. Funk (1869-19, grandson of McLean County pioneer Isaac Funk, lived in the house from 1897 to 1924.
Frank Funk was born in Bloomington in 1869. He was a Yale graduate, managed over 2,000 acres of farmland, and also had an extensive political career. He was elected state senator to the Illinois General Assembly in 1909, and held that position until 1913. As previously noted, Funk ran for Illinois governor on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912 making him the third person living in the 900 block of N. McClean St. to be a party-nominated candidate for the Illinois governorship between 1888 and 1912. Frank Funk finished his political career as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representative from 1921 to 1927. Funk died in Bloomington at the age of 71 in 1940.
The Bates-Funk House is a contributing property in Bloomington's Franklin Square Historic District, which is located northwest of downtown Bloomington. The Square is named in honor of Franklin Price, who was the mayor of Bloomington Mayor in 1856 when land for the Square was gifted to the city.
Franklin Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was designated a local historic district in 1979. The houses of Franklin Square were built in a variety of architectural styles from the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, including Georgian Revival, Italianate, Colonial, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
So today we leave the Opera House with its performances of 'Carmen', and return to the bridge where at my favourite 'rock' platform at Kirribilli, one of the passing cruise boats is belting out 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom
Spotted, out and about earlier.
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Nikon Z6, FTZ, Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5
Exposure X7, Perspective Efex, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 3
If you have never heard this amazing track before, do yourself a favour...turn it up to eleven and get ready to rock, for yes my friends, the weekend is here!
'Renegades of Funk (The Crystal Method Remix)' - Rage Against The Machine
All the trees are frozen . . .
Der Brocken (im Volksmund Blocksberg genannt) ist mit 1141,2 m ü. NHN der höchste Berg im Mittelgebirge Harz, in Sachsen-Anhalt und in ganz Norddeutschland. Er erhebt sich in der Gemarkung des Wernigeröder Ortsteils Schierke im Landkreis Harz in Sachsen-Anhalt. Der Berg und seine Umgebung zählen zum Nationalpark Harz.
what is hip? tell me tell me, if you think ya know.
what is hip? and if you're really hip, the passing years will show,
you into a hip trip, maybe hipper than hip ...
~ tower of power
1973 the reefer years
1977 cocaine express
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when i was in 4th grade music class, the teacher put out instruments,
asking us to pick the one we wanted to learn to play.
i picked up a trumpet and blew baby, with all my mighty tight might.
hell no, no shy skinny little white girl on a horn like that!
the teacher told me i could learn the piano.
alright. but it had to be an organ. i wanted to play jazz organ.
hell no, they wouldn't teach me a thing then.
but you see, can't you see? i got that hip trip:
funk
funk blues
funk rock
funk jazz
acid funk
funk fusion
funk 'n' heart 'n' soul
don't make no never mind
what's the matter baby
play anything with a funk groove
and i move
to a higher plane
onto a runaway train
come for the cosmic earthy long ride
on this funky busway with me!
My wife and I went for a walk in the woods on New Year's Eve. We were finishing the short loop when we saw this this gruesome, almost-fresh deer skeleton draped over the trail junction sign, with the flesh not quite totally cleaned off. I was pretty sure I would have noticed it if it had been there when we walked by the same spot 1/2 hour earlier. We weren't sure if it was somebody's rather sick joke, or just part of some kind of demo that was going on at the nearby nature center.