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Graffiti is my tongue; it lets me taste the food I eat on my date with the city, and how I french kiss her after dessert.
Hert on graffiti and free speech, Strongbox Magazine, Spring 2011
Iron poison ring, made from a block of iron. The bottom of the chamber and the lid are made of pure iron. The hinge and the locker ring are silver.
The bottom of the chamber is inlayed into the body of the ring.
The "IIXIIXIIXII" signs on the bottom of the ring band are protective motifs they were used on old padlocks.
This ring -like my other poison rings - represents to me the desire to keep, save and protect something.
Weight: 17 gramm
Size: 7.5 (US) : slightly enlargable
On our way to Monaco from Terre Blanche. Everyone enjoyed a smooth ride in a procession of E and S Class Mercedes limousines.
How fitting because a limousine (or limo) was originally an "enclosed automobile with open driver's seat," and was named from the French limousine (in the Occitan language) that was originally an adjective referring to a region in central France. The automobile meaning evolving from a type of cloak and hood that was worn by the inhabitants of the Limousin region that later resembled the covering of a carriage and much later used to describe an automobile body with a permanent top that extended over the open driver's compartment.
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The photo title "Shotgun" refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle.
The phrase "riding shotgun" was not coined until 1919. It was later used in print and especially film depiction of stagecoaches and wagons in the Old West in danger of being robbed or attacked by bandits. A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short shotgun (or alternatively a rifle), to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.
So in short, I was riding Shotgun!
This is the keyhole to a big iron safe found in the fort at Saint Teresa in Uruguay.
The safe was probably for gunpowder or cash.
Das Schloss Johannisburg ist das Wahrzeichen der Stadt Aschaffenburg. Es wurde Anfang des 17. Jh. im Renaissance-Stil unter Erzbischof Johann Schweickhard von Kronberg erbaut und war bis 1803 Zweitresidenz der Mainzer Erzbischöfe und Kurfürsten. Die streng symmetrische Anlage mit einem quadratischen Innenhof mit vier Treppentürmen in den Hofecken wurde von dem Straßburger Baumeister Georg Ridinger geplant und soll damals die extrem hohe Summe von rund 900.000 Gulden gekostet haben. 1814 kam Aschaffenburg zu Bayern und Eigentümerin des Schlosses ist heute die Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen.
Im Schloss sind zu besichten:
Gemäldegalerie unter anderem mit Werken von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren und seiner Schule (Zweigmuseum der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen)
Paramentenkammer der Schlosskirche mit Gewändern aus dem ehemaligen Mainzer Domschatz
Fürstlichen Wohnräume mit klassizistischem Mobiliar
Städtisches Schlossmuseum, unter anderem mit einer herausregenden Sammlung von Fayencen, Steinzeug und Porzellan sowie Gemälden von Chrisitan Schad
Weltweit größte Sammlung von Architekturmodellen aus Kork, die detailgenau berühmte Bauwerke des antiken Rom darstellen
14-guage double-barreled shotgun, ca. 1876, probably used by a guard on the Fort Pierre-Deadwood stage.
KDI Cycles photo shoot at New England Air Museum
Honda CB with a Paul Smart theme cafe racer
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Alpha Krav Maga - Level 1 Instructor Certification
Alpha Krav Maga Connecticut Northeast Regional Training Center
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"The kiss" is featured in the last Strongbox magazine issue, wich is the film Issue.
I gave my contribution and story for the Photobooth article.
Take a look to "the Kiss" photo
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You can't quite freely walk inside the abandoned structures at Bodie Ghost Town. Most likely this is because it's in America. The unsafe structures would probably be a legal nightmare for the Parks and Recreation department if you could walk through them at your own risk.
KDI Cycles photo shoot at New England Air Museum
Honda CB with a Paul Smart theme cafe racer
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Minibike "ice" Throwdown 14
Columbia, CT
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Photos by Ron Agnello
Alpha Krav Maga - Level 1 Instructor Certification
Alpha Krav Maga Connecticut Northeast Regional Training Center
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4th Annual MurderCycles MINIBIKE THROWDOWN
Andover;
CT
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Official list entry
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade:II*
List Entry Number: 1183969
Date first listed: 17-Jan-1955
List Entry Name: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1: St. Bartholomew and All Saints Church, High Street
Location
Statutory Address: St. Bartholomew and All Saints Church, Wootton Bassett, 1 Church St, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon SN4 7BQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Royal Wootton Bassett
National Grid Reference: SU 06612 82516
Details
Anglican parish church. C14, C15 and much restored 1869 - 71 by G. E. Street. Coursed rubble limestone, stone slate roof. Two parallel naves and independently roofed north aisle. South porch. Chancel and Lady chapel, organ chamber, north vestry and west tower. Exterior: nave 3-light Perpendicular windows and parapet with many large gargoyles, all C15. Chancel 3-light window c1300 with intersecting tracery and matching windows of C19. South priest's door. Porch, C15, 2 storey, 2-light square headed window to parvise and sundial in gable. Tower: 3 stages, upper stages by Street, paired lancets, crenellated parapet and rounded stair tower on north. Slated pitched roof. Interior: 5-bay arcade, circular columns and capitals. South arcade C13 probably heightened, with chamfered west respond. Arches have hollow chamfers. North arcade similar but C19, when aisle added. Roofs: C16 over naves, panelled and painted, north aisle C19 arch-braced principal rafters. Chancel and Lady chapel, barrel and trussed rafter roofs, Porch has lierne quadripartite vault on corbels with skewed shields. Small stoup. Chancel encaustic tiles and choir stalls. Pulpit: C15, timber, buttressed with tracery. Altered C19 plinth and brass rail to steps. Font: C19 diapered tub, by Street, carved by Earp, on clustered short columns. Lectern: Brass, 1876. Rood stair to south nave arch and open timber screen between Lady chapel and chancel. Low stone screen to chancel. Reredos: 5 gabled bays, limestone, by Street, with marble relief of Adoration by Earp of Lambeth. Glass: East window of chancel, and of Lady Chapel 1871 by Hardman, depicting Tree of Jesse and Prophets. Organ: Vowles of Bristol 1871. In north aisle benefaction boards, Charles Pynner 1619 and two of c1680, round headed, recording gifts inter alia of crimson damask, the clock, and the Free School. In nave, west wall triptych of commandments. Brass chandelier 1782. Houselling bench c1700; 2 no stools also c 1700. C18 rectangular table with 22 twisted baluster legs. Monuments in base of tower: 8 marble wall tablets HENRY WILSON 1812, draped urn. MARY SMITH, 1813, pedimented. WILLIAM IND, 1825, urn. THOMAS MAYRISS 1825; ELIZABETH FREAK, 1841 by Reeves of Bath; Francis King, 1848, by Franklin; CHARLES MORETON HUNT 1855; and BARTHOLEMEW HORSELL 1851, Gothic. Sculpture: in parvise, fragment C10-Cll, winged biting dragon and ?tree of life. (Reference: Pevsner N., Buildings of England, Wiltshire 596-7.)
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Iron poison ring, made from a block of iron. The bottom of the chamber and the lid are made of pure iron. The hinge and the locker ring are silver.
The bottom of the chamber is inlayed into the body of the ring.
The "IIXIIXIIXII" signs on the bottom of the ring band are protective motifs they were used on old padlocks.
This ring -like my other poison rings - represents to me the desire to keep, save and protect something.
Weight: 17 gramm
Size: 7.5 (US) : slightly enlargable
Withy Grove Stores, 35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, England. In 1799, the Richmond Safe Company was set up by John R. Solomon. The company supplied the maritime trade between England and the United States with iron branded or iron clad wooden strongboxes and seaman's chests. As the business grew, new offices were opened in Manchester circa 1840. As Manchester grew in reputation, the offices relocated to Withy Grove Street and in 1850 the company was renamed Withy Grove Stores. In addition, offices were opened in Leeds. The company began to design and patent steel safes, strongboxes, firesafes, and vaults, many of which are still in use today. They also sold office furniture, shop counters, and made bespoke cushioning. Withy Grove is still in business today, selling safes and office furniture, and is still owned by the Solomon family.
I have no idea what this old chest once contained, or was meant to contain. Gold maybe? Or perhaps something more valuable, such as the secret to happiness or pornographic magazines. It could also be that gold and porn, contrary to popular belief, is the secret to happiness. Thus, I have made up my mind. This chest once contained (or was meant to contain) gold and porn, hence making its owner a really happy fellow. If you don't agree, you're just being cynical. Or worse: a prude.
Iron poison ring, made from a block of iron. The bottom of the chamber and the lid are made of pure iron. The hinge and the locker ring are silver.
The bottom of the chamber is inlayed into the body of the ring.
The "IIXIIXIIXII" signs on the bottom of the ring band are protective motifs they were used on old padlocks.
This ring -like my other poison rings - represents to me the desire to keep, save and protect something.
Weight: 17 gramm
Size: 7.5 (US) : slightly enlargable
Withy Grove Stores, 35-39 Withy Grove, Manchester, England. In 1799, the Richmond Safe Company was set up by John R. Solomon. The company supplied the maritime trade between England and the United States with iron branded or iron clad wooden strongboxes and seaman's chests. As the business grew, new offices were opened in Manchester circa 1840. As Manchester grew in reputation, the offices relocated to Withy Grove Street and in 1850 the company was renamed Withy Grove Stores. In addition, offices were opened in Leeds. The company began to design and patent steel safes, strongboxes, firesafes, and vaults, many of which are still in use today. They also sold office furniture, shop counters, and made bespoke cushioning. Withy Grove is still in business today, selling safes and office furniture, and is still owned by the Solomon family.
Would have made a nice addition to my most recent photo essay, "Real Mature," featured in the Fall, 2012 issue of STRONGBOX Magazine.
Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville Neighborhood
A mocked up Estonian police car, the engine compartment of which contains the strongbox for donations.
I just want to know what this originally was exactly (it's obviously a strongbox - of some sort), when it dates from - and why it survives. I remember coming across it on a night walk years ago, and then forgetting where it was. It's still peculiar. It's on a short street with no name (not even in the A-Z), between Laurence Pountney and Martin Lane, which strongly suggests to me that it is from the inside of a building destroyed in The Blitz - I think this street itself may be a postwar construction.
Odd thing to still be hanging around without a plaque. These days, it's cool to find some genuine Urban Decay in The City, I have to say, though.
Iron poison ring, made from a block of iron. The bottom of the chamber and the lid are made of pure iron. The hinge and the locker ring are silver.
The bottom of the chamber is inlayed into the body of the ring.
The "IIXIIXIIXII" signs on the bottom of the ring band are protective motifs they were used on old padlocks.
This ring -like my other poison rings - represents to me the desire to keep, save and protect something.
Weight: 17 gramm
Size: 7.5 (US) : slightly enlargable
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History
Withy Grove Stores has been in existence since 1850 and remains one of the very last remaining traditional businesses on Withy Grove
Withy Grove officially began in 1850, when the Company took its name from a street in Manchester called Withy Grove. In medievil times this was called Wythen Greave, which literally meants, 'copse of willow trees by a stream'
However, to understand the foundation, is to go back a little further in time......
In 1723 a group of migrant steel workers from the Toledo area of Spain were working their passage to the United States, with the intention to sail from Liverpool to New York. They joined Richmond Manufactory, where their skills with steel were put to good use replacing the traditional wooden strongboxes with 'all steel' reinforced strongboxes.
During 1799, the Richmond Safe Co was set up and was in the family ownership of John R Solomon. At the time the Company supplied the maritime trade between England and the United States with iron branded or iron clad wooden strongboxes & seaman's chests.
As the business & family grew, and in keeping with expansion new offices were opened in Manchester, it is beleived around c1840. As Manchester grew in reputation, the offices relocated to Withy Grove & in 1850, renamed the company to Withy Grove Stores. In addition, offices were opened in Leeds. The most obvious link between all sites is the Leeds-Liverpool canal. This was the M62 of the day.
You can just imaging delivery of a safe or shop counter by barge!
The Company began to design and patent steel safes, strongboxes, firesafes & vaults. Many of which are still in use today! They also sold Office Furniture, Shop counters & made bespoke cushioning. Withy Grove became, with the famous Milners Safe Company of Liverpool among the best known safe manufaturers from the 1850's to the 1970's when rationisation of the safe industry led to the loss of many traditional manufacturers.