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A depressing walkway under the Barbican Estate, the most appalling residential development right in the heart of London. Contains over 2000 flats built in brutalist style of the early 70's. Incredibly it's now protected as a historical architectural landmark! The ultimate irony is the beautiful concert hall right in the middle that is hard to find. The hall gift shop actually sells badges saying "I found the Barbican Arena". You couldn't make it up.
A late April snow sweeps through our area turning spring to winter overnight and a lonely tree braces the storm.
The Milky Way above one of the Twelve Apostles. It’s either Gog or Magog - I can never tell which of these dramatic limestone sea stacks is which. This is the view you get looking south from the bottom of the Gibson Steps, on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. A shot from March 2018.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is in the bottom left of the shot and just to the left of the stack is Canopus, a massive star that is 10,000 times as luminous as the Sun and is the second brightest star in the sky. Oh, yes, and there's also a meteorite in the shot for good measure :-)
"Located about one kilometre east of the Twelve Apostles Visitor Facility are the Gibson Steps, a set of steps from a car park which lead down to Gibson Beach which provides access, at beach level, to the Twelve Apostles. The original steps were carved into the rock by Hugh Gibson, an early owner of Glenample Homestead. They have been improved over the years and offer a sea level view of the "stacks" that make up the Twelve Apostles. The two that are viewable from the beach are known as Gog and Magog."
As featured on The App Whisperer Weekly Showcase 26th May 2013
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Catalytic confrontations
Calculated crawl,
Embryonic isolations,
Future free-for-all.
Energetic exhortations,
Apoplectic brawl,
Catatonic saturation,
Isometric balls.
Egocentric salutation,
Fatalistic fall,
Megalithic mumbo jumbo,
Paganistic pall.
Pugilistic palpitation,
Excavated sprawl,
Perspiration aggravation,
Aspirated wall.
Ammunition malnutrition,
Superstition stall,
California concentrated,
Captivated thrall.
Bound and ground,
Then taken down,
By the very best-
With one more show
Worth watching,
And then we’re headed west.
Recreation generation,
By the book denomination,
Families filled with hesitation,
RVs racked for roaming.
Picking up the pieces,
Laid down on the land,
With wasted wealth and watersheds,
And regions raped by man.
Calibration castigations,
Asymmetric aberrations,
Guided tours with revelations,
Ratted out and ruined.
Catastrophic congregations,
Commutated castings,
Calvinistic computations,
Debonair and prancing.
Altruistic aspirations,
Stoned, bemoaned abbreviations,
Terrified with trepidations,
Gnomes long gone and gassed!
Honed and cloned then overthrown,
Granted one last wish-
Celebrated, then negated-
Dangling near the dish!
Partisan un principles,
In petrifying packs-
With news and views
And loop-de-loops,
And stab-them-in-the-backs.
Ready for the ruckus,
Sitting at the shrine,
Thought they really
Had the goods,
Now listen to the whine.
Thought they had it marketed,
Cornered and refined,
Around the town
The lie unwound
And then they lost their mind.
Settling to the bottom,
They slid to lower ground,
Between the lines and valentines,
some lost their royal crowns.
Terroristic tinkering,
Tumbling and tinkling,
Fundamental farkles
Helpful and home grown.
Patriotic particles,
Hidden in the articles,
Compact and post partial,
Buried to the bone.
Vacuumed packed
And gunny-sacked,
Pre-segmented squalls,
Appalachian apparitions,
Headed to the malls.
Fevered and fantastic men,
Marching to the moon,
With masticating matriarchs,
In subcutaneous swoon.
Breasts blown up beautiful,
Complicated castings,
Fallen faces on the floor,
Mesmerized for masking.
Sacrificial sublimations,
Surrogates sublime,
Tetrahedral analgesic,
Sentimental crimes.
Pawing, pungent prisoners,
Soothing, sexy swine-
Sows and cows and sinning sons,
Tasting tempting wines.
Navigation nuances,
Nuptials by Nair,
Feudalistic fragrances,
Held up with heavy hair.
Practical imbalances,
Factory un repairs,
New wave cold and chemical friends,
Facts blown up with air.
Salivating swindlers,
Solo Simon says,
Highfalutin prostitution,
Fixed up with the Feds.
Sports and courts and teasing torts,
Women going wild-
Dow Jones Average hemorrhage,
Help the homeless child.
Down the daunting highway,
Less than overnight,
Covering ground without a sound,
Filtered by first light.
Lazy lit up lethargy,
Loosed by lying lips,
Bought the farm in small degrees,
Then sailed a sinking ship.
Galvanizing garrisons,
Gathering at the line,
Pushed ahead though nearly dead,
They won it one more time.
Tested in the tumult,
On solid ground they stand,
Groping with the changer,
Positioned close at hand.
Nightly, brightly flickering,
Turn the clicker off-
Before you go,
Don’t miss the show,
An evening totally lost!
James Watkins
Given the world is moving to self isolation I think we will see more through the window shots posted.
I was just going through some old photos when I stumbled upon this one. This is a statue which stands on the grounds of the Pax Amicus Castle Theatre in Budd Lake, NJ. It seems kind of fitting for the crazy times we are living in. I'm sure isolation is taking quite a toll on a lot of people. Many feel like there is no hope. This will end! Stay home, practice social distancing, wash your hands. We will make it through this! Stay safe everyone!
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Late afternoon light catches the upper branches of a birch just before the scene is cast into shade.
Co Wicklow, Ireland