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Large messenger bag from LTTS upcycled from old denim jeans with BB8 appliqued over the wavy improvised pieced front flap. I was inspired to make a BB8 messenger bag after seeing the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
I left off the inside pocket and changed the strap to accommodate the length of denim I could recover from the jeans I had available. The strap is lengthened to my preferred length. It is made of 2 pieces of denim, sewn into straps and sewn to a single strap adjuster. The strap is not adjustable.
The bias binding and lining are both made from orange polycotton poplin from Spotlight. BB8 is made from white pinwale corduroy, orange and brown/grey quilting cotton scraps. BB8's photo receptor is a black sew on multifaceted jewel with a flat back and thebholographic projector is made from a black male half of a plastic KAM snap.
BB8 took quite a while to make because of all the applique, button hole and satin stitch. The button hole and satin stitch were both done by machine. I used both heat and bond lite for the applique and wash away stabiliser to help me add all the detail. I'm very happy with the finished product :)
When I was taking this photo, the guy walked up to unlock & I asked if I could
take the shot and he said something along the lines of "no way, dudes
be buyin 700 dollar fixies now and I want no part in promoting this
fuckin fad" I told him where I was coming from (CHVNK666, etc), but
of course appreciated and agreed wholeheartedly with his persepctive
In Cherokee legend, Tufted Titmouse are regarded as messengers.
Most Tufted Titmice live their entire life within a few kilometers of their birthplace, and they only occur in areas where rainfall is greater than 24 inches per year, and are more common where rainfall exceeds 32 inches per year.
They are the largest titmouse, and they breed from eastern Nebraska south to the Gulf Coast of Texas and across the eastern states from Florida north to southern Maine. Its range also extends to extreme southern Ontario and Quebec. Its preferred habitats include swampy or moist woodlands, and urban shade trees. I captured this one on the "store bought" bird feeder I finally broke down and purchased .
I hung it on the Florida Cherry Tree in my "Back Yard".
Lake Wales, Florida.
I reviewed the Lowepro Exchange Messenger on my blog
lutaatwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/lowepro-exchange-messenge...
Anyway, this is one of my bags and I use this one as a daily bag for journalistic assignments that only need one camera and a few lenses. For bigger jobs I'll carry a Lowepro minitrekker with more camera's lenses and other stuff.
The setup showed above shaves of about six kilo's compared to my old bag with DSLR and heavy lenses. And that is a joy!
Having joined in 1939, Antony Blunt attained the rank of major in the British Army. In the final days of World War II, on the behest of Buckingham Palace, Blunt made a secret trip to Schloss Friedrichshof, near Frankfurt in Germany to retrieve sensitive letters which had been exchanged between the Duke of Windsor, Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis in 1938, on his return these letters were later placed, or claimed to have been placed, in the Royal Archive
( thanks to absfreepic.com for background photo and to RBH for re enactor photo )
The latest beastie from my blog, Oddments & Curiosities
Please visit for more odd creatures on odd days!
19 juin 2015, Paris.
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My last bike messenger from my trip to NYC. Thanks to Steve O whose Occupy Wall Street pictures are so powerful for suggesting some great spots in NYC. I am hopeful to meet and shoot with flickr folks this year. Photo walks, street photography, etc. Boston, NYC, CT and Chicago folks let me know.
last weekend i found a spot in town....
people come from the left, people come from the right. there's a traffic light that people cross, and people walk right infront of me, within 2 feet, and get cabs about 4 feet away from me.
there's even a pillar against which i can lean and steady myself.
so i got an idea:
one spot.
1 roll of 120 film.
12 shots.
should make for a nice project.
also,... i'm kicking myself cos i missed a shot,... just after this guy, while i was winding on, a lady with a massive 70's type afro perm, shades and a facemask walked right past me while i wound the camera and gawked.
missed shots,... they suck.
[E6 ASTIA slide film digitized by a Nikon V1]
The lower register of the north aisle west window depicts the Judgement of Solomon. The upper register mainly contains supplementary details.
The west windows of the aisles were heavily damaged by the great storm of 1797 and until the recent restoration had many missing sections and areas composed of patched fragments. The restorers of the Barley Studios bravely reinstated the missing sections using as much original material and evidence as possible (a thorough examination of the fragments when disassembled yielded much information). The result has transformed the effect of these windows, visually completing the cycle of windows again for the first time since the storm damage of 1797.
St Mary's at Fairford is justly famous, not only as a most beautiful building architecturally but for the survival of its complete set of late medieval stained glass, a unique survival in an English parish church. No other church has resisted the waves of iconoclasm unleashed by the Reformation and the English Civil War like Fairford has, and as a result we can experience a pre-Reformation iconographic scheme in glass in its entirety. At most churches one is lucky to find mere fragments of the original glazing and even one complete window is an exceptional survival, thus a full set of 28 of them here in a more or less intact state makes Fairford church uniquely precious.
The exterior already promises great things, this is a handsome late 15th century building entirely rebuilt in Perpendicular style and dedicated in 1497. The benefactor was lord of the manor John Tame, a wealthy wool merchant whose son Edmund later continued the family's legacy in donating the glass. The central tower is adorned with much carving including strange figures guarding the corners and a rather archaic looking relief of Christ on the western side. The nave is crowned by a fine clerestorey whilst the aisles below form a gallery of large windows that seem to embrace the entire building without structural interruption aside from the south porch and the chancel projecting at the east end. All around are pinnacles, battlements and gargoyles, the effect is very rich and imposing for a village church.
One enters through the fan-vaulted porch and is initially met by subdued lighting within that takes a moment to adjust to but can immediately appreciate the elegant arcades and the rich glowing colours of the windows. The interior is spacious but the view east is interrupted by the tower whose panelled walls and arches frame only a glimpse of the chancel beyond. The glass was inserted between 1500-1517 and shows marked Renaissance influence, being the work of Flemish glaziers (based in Southwark) under the direction of the King's glazier Barnard Flower. The quality is thus of the highest available and suggests the Tame family had connections at court to secure such glaziers.
Entering the nave one is immediately confronted with the largest and most famous window in the church, the west window with its glorious Last Judgement, best known for its lurid depiction of the horrors of Hell with exotic demons dragging the damned to their doom. Sadly the three windows in the west wall suffered serious storm damage in 1703 and the Last Judgement suffered further during an 1860 restoration that copied rather than restored the glass in its upper half. The nave clerestories contain an intriguing scheme further emphasising the battle of Good versus Evil with a gallery of saintly figures on the south side balanced by a 'rogue's gallery' of persecutors of the faith on the darker north side, above which are fabulous demonic figures leering from the traceries.
The aisle windows form further arrays of figures in canopies with the Evangelists and prophets on the north side and the Apostles and Doctors of the Church on the south. The more narrative windows are mainly located in the eastern half of the church, starting in the north chapel with an Old Testament themed window followed by more on the life of Mary and infancy of Christ. The subject matter is usually confined to one light or a pair of them, so multiple scenes can be portrayed within a single window. The scheme continues in the east window of the chancel with its scenes of the Passion of Christ in the lower register culminating in his crucifixion above, while a smaller window to the south shows his entombment and the harrowing of Hell. The cycle continues in the south chapel where the east window shows scenes of Christ's resurrection and transfiguration whilst two further windows relate further incidents culminating in Pentecost. The final window in the sequence however is of course the Last Judgement at the west end.
The glass has been greatly valued and protected over the centuries from the ravages of history, being removed for protection during the Civil War and World War II. The windows underwent a complete conservation between 1988-2010 by the Barley Studio of York which bravely restored legibility to the windows by sensitive releading and recreating missing pieces with new work (previously these had been filled with plain glass which drew the eye and disturbed the balance of light). The most dramatic intervention was the re-ordering of the westernmost windows of the nave aisles which had been partially filled with jumbled fragments following the storm damage of 1703 but have now been returned to something closer to their original state.
It is important here not to neglect the church's other features since the glass dominates its reputation so much. The chancel also retains its original late medieval woodwork with a fine set of delicate screens dividing it from the chapels either side along with a lovely set of stalls with carved misericords. The tomb of the founder John Tame and his wife can be seen on the north side of the sanctuary with their brasses atop a tomb chest. Throughout the church a fine series of carved angel corbels supports the old oak roofs.
Fairford church is a national treasure and shouldn't be missed by anyone with a love of stained glass and medieval art. It is normally kept open for visitors and deserves more of them.