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Written by Frank Zappa after Ray Collins suggested the idea to him. The first Zappa/Collins collaboration at Pal Studio. The title comes from one of the catch-phrases Steve Allen would use on his TV show in which birds and ferns would often feature...
"Schmock, schmock! How's your bird?", "Bet your bird", "Hows your fern?", "Ferns for your creel" A Fanny/Granny couplet would appear again in Debra Kadabra on Bongo Fury. On 14th March 1963 FZ appeared on the Steve Allen show performing his Concerto For Two Bicycles he ended the interview with a plug for the record.
Steve Allen: Is there anything you like to say in closing?
FZ: Yes I would. Next week our record is being released called "How's Your Bird?" (audience laughter)
Steve Allen: Really?
FZ:Yes. I brought a dub of it over here, I don't think you heard it yet, and it's uh . . . go and buy it, it's wonderful. (audience laughter)
Steve Allen: Crazy.
FZ: It's got everything but a bicycle in it.
The Moot Hall was built in the first half of the 16th century, the exact date is unknown. It's believed to be one of the best preserved Tudor buildings in Britain. It is now home to the Aldeburgh museum and is still used for local council meetings.
The building was once used in the witch trials of 1645, when the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, was called in by the residents to purge Aldeburgh of its bad fortune. He accused seven women of witchcraft and locked them up in the Town Hall. In February 1646, all seven women were hanged.
Low-angled evening sunlight filters through the expansive, iron-and-glass roof canopy of Manchester Piccadilly station, casting a warm golden glow across the empty tracks and stone platforms below. The intricate steel framework, painted in structural silver and accented by sky-blue protective panels, stretches endlessly down the length of the train shed. On the left, an ornate red-brick wall featuring arched, multi-pane windows and white decorative pilasters adds a classic architectural elegance to the functional space. A modern passenger train sits idling under the vast structure, while a few lone commuters make their way along the elevated footway, captured in a quiet, contemplative moment within a bustling transport hub.
Architectural & Historical Reflection
The station’s soaring canopy displays the distinct structural language of Victorian "crystal architecture"—drawing a clear design line to the grand glasshouses and botanical conservatories popularized during the 19th-century Industrial Age. By utilizing prefabricated cast iron, riveted steel trusses, and sweeping glass spans, engineers transformed industrial spaces into cathedral-like halls designed to maximize natural overhead light while protecting passengers from the elements.
In the height of the steam age, this airy conservatory aesthetic would have stood in stark, dramatic contrast to the station’s intense daily atmosphere. Rather than the clean, golden tranquility captured here, the vast roof vault would have trapped swirling billows of thick black smoke and white steam spewed from coal-fired locomotives.
The air would have carried the sharp scent of hot oil, burning coal, and wet soot, echoing with the rhythmic clatter of piston rods, screaming steam whistles, and the reverberating shouts of porters and passengers. Sunlight would have struggled through soot-darkened glass panes, cutting dramatic crepuscular rays—or "god rays"—through the haze, illuminating an era driven by sheer thermodynamic power and heavy machinery.
This was the site of a log cabin built by James Westervelt. The current imposing structure replaced the log cabin in 1889.
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Albi is a commune in southern France. The episcopal city, around the Cathedral Sainte-Cécile, was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2010 for its unique architecture.
Charlecote Park is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
Built in 1632 the Church was abandoned and left in ruins once the new Stone Church was finished in 1850
Looking up the Norman Style Red Brick Tower
Stanmore, Middlesex. North West London. England UK.
From the Victorian Heritage Database:
" . . . . Designed in 1890 by Public Works Department architect, AJ MacDonald, and erected in 1892-3, the three-storey red brick structure combines basic American Romanesque characteristics with Scottish Baronial forms and Art Nouveau and Australian decorative motifs in an asymmetrical picturesque composition. . . . . "
" . . . . The Former South Yarra Post Office is of architectural significance as one of the most important buildings in the evolution of a uniquely Australian style of architecture. While the building reflects the influence of the American Romanesque and Scottish Baronial forms, the use of Australian decorative motifs, such as gum nuts, gum leaves, flowers, birds and marsupials was a new symbolic language for Australian public buildings, and reflected a growing national awareness and the beginning of a distinctive Australian style of architecture in the years preceding Federation. . . . "
NB: powerlines digitally removed.
Vintage cars on the beckground of the old flax factory buildings. I took this photo in my hometown, when we had here small old cars exhibition :)
The wonderful William and Mary-style country house Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire. This is a beautifully maintained and presented National Trust property.
Hanbury Hall was built c1701 by an unidentified architect for a wealthy Chancery barrister, Thomas Vernon, a distant relation of the Vernons of Haddon Hall and the Vernons of Sudbury Hall. This red brick house with stone dressings has a front of eleven bays with three-bay projecting wings. It also has a hipped roof and cupola.
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A spinoff from an image of icicles hanging over the eavestrough.
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A vintage phone booth stands next to a single window on a red brick wall. The contrast between the old telephone booth and the sturdy brickwork creates a nostalgic, urban atmosphere.
Wilson, Kansas
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Minimalist red brick building with a single trailer in the parking lot.
A selection that made it to Flickr's "in explore", May 11, 2020.
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April 30, 2010
And thus ends the month of April. Kind of a boring month, really. It's like the backlash of the high from making front page. Ah well, I kinda like the simplicity of my pictures. That and I know who my true followers are :) You guys are wonderful, truly!
It was super windy today and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use it. However, I'm not dressed in the best attire for showing off wind...but you can at least see it in my hair :-P
Actually the "spirit" me was a total accident. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T DELETE ANY PICTURES ON YOUR CAMERA. I firmly believe that. When I took it I thought "crap I moved too soon" and look what happened...I ended up using it :-P
Yeah I know I got in front of brick again...but this campus is OBSESSED with brick. Every single building is made of it! That and there's no brick back in Ohio so I thought I might as well...
Overall not really happy with the picture. But it's better than yesterday's so I'll take that.
I'm feeling better now that I got some sleep. Yesterday was just crazy. Today I just have my IDS class and a math session at noon before my mom and grandma show up. Then the choir concert is tonight at 7:30 and I think mom's taking me and my friends out to eat after...even though it'll be like 9:00 :-P
TRF: My roommate slept here last night and the night before...this is super rare.
I love those farm houses with their benches out front - never can pass by without taking a photo. Doesn't it look inviting?
part of west side, Bay Street (at Scollard), Heritage site, peeling white paint to reveal the red brick below. Boarded up and empty, waiting to be incorporated into a new condo development
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Old waver's houses in my hometown. It's a complex of 6 small one-story houses with a residential attic, built before 1890 on the edge of a working-class neighbourhood. The houses were intended as flats and small weaving workshops. Weavers recruited by factory owners in Bohemia lived there. The buildings are distinguished by the characteristic half-timbered attic walls.
Żyrardów - small town in Central Poland, located in the Mazovia region. It owes its unique atmosphere to the characteristic architecture of an industrial town. The original spatial layout of the community, which grew around a manufacturing plant in the mid-19th century, has been preserved to the present day. The historic center of Żyrardów (mostly buildings from red bricks) is the only industrial architecture complex from the turn of the 20th c. in Europe that has been preserved to modern times in full. The old settlement covers a 76-ha area in the central part of the town. Diversified architectural forms and styles characterize the city, which has resulted from the multi-cultural character of Żyrardów. The flax trade gave the town its origins. A plant manufacturing flax that was one of the largest and modern factories in Europe was established there in 1829.
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Dawne domy tkaczy w Żyrardowie. Jest to zespół 6 niewielkich parterowych domków z mieszkalnym poddaszem, wybudowanych przed 1890r. na skraju dzielnicy robotniczej. Domy przeznaczono na mieszkania i małe warsztaty tkackie. Mieszkali tu tkacze sprowadzani przez fabrykantów, głównie z Czech. Wyróżnia je charakterystyczna drewniana konstrukcja ryglowa ścian poddasza, tzw. mur pruski.
Żyrardów leży w centrum Polski, na Mazowszu. Swój niepowtarzalny klimat zawdzięcza charakterystycznej architekturze miasta zaprojektowanej w połowie XIX stulecia. Zabytkowe centrum Żyrardowa jest jedynym w Europie zachowanym w całości zespołem urbanistyczno-architektonicznym miasta przemysłowego przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Osada fabryczna obejmuje centralną część miasta o powierzchni ok. 76 ha. Charakteryzuje ją różnorodność form architektonicznych i stylów, co wynika ze zróżnicowania narodowościowego mieszkańców Żyrardowa. Początek miastu dała fabryka lniarska, która powstała na terenie dzisiejszego Żyrardowa w 1829 roku. Była to jedna z największych i najnowocześniejszych fabryk ówczesnej Europy.
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This bay and gable Victorian house is located at 44 Hazelton Avenue in the neighborhood of Yorkville, Toronto.
The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.
This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.
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We all hit a wall eventually, some are more interesting than others. This was a wall of Schatz bakery in Bishop. I'm guessing there's been a lot of settling since the wall went up, hence the rippling with a few bricks falling out and needing to be replaced over the years.
It's interesting seeing a photo and realising you've been missing things...I've passed this spot in Gravesend many times and never noticed the two properties are (near ?) mirror images. Apart from their different appearances, of course. I assume they're being refurbished...
I don't think I've ever noticed them in use or what they were in use as, for that matter. I should pay attention.
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I love visiting campus when I can as it is so photogenic. I look for new pictures of familiar structures such as the Chamberlain Clock Tower known affectionately as Old Joe.