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52 year old Stuart and 19 year old Jack (my nephew) on December 25th 2019.
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Stuarts Coaches EVM Cityline bodied Mercedes-Benz Sprinter SL23ZFM is seen here heading out of Wishaw General Hospital working the 365 to Torbothie.
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My buddy Stuart, also a talented photographer, offered to model for me as I tested out some different lighting set-ups.
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Camera info:
Canon 7D, Canon EF 135mm f/2L, f/10.0, 1/250s, ISO 100
Strobist Info:
-AlienBee B800 shot with a 27 inch softbox camera right 6 feet high and 3 feet away from subject. 1/2 Power
-AlienBee B800 shot through a Stripbox with a Red Gel camera left and behind the subject for rim. 5 feet high and 6 feet away from subject. Full Power
-AlienBee B800 aimed at background with 10 degree gridspot and orange gel camera left. 1/4 Power. 8 feet high. 5 feet from background.
-AlienBee B400 aimed at background with 10 degree gridspot and green gel camera right. 1/4 Power. 4 feet high. 2 feet from background.
-Flash trigged with Cactus V5 triggers
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New to Armchair, Brentford in March 1983, Bedford YNT / Plaxton HBH 422Y is seen here being operated by Stuart Palmer of Dunstable in the late 1980's.
Scanned from an acquired, un-copyrighted print.
Jules Stuart is a Dean’s Honored Graduate from the Department of Physics. He is earning an honors physics degree through the Dean’s Scholars Honors Program, and additionally has earned a certificate in Statistics and Scientific Computation. Jules is being recognized for his strong academic performance and his outstanding research culminating in an honors thesis, “Frequency Stabilization of a Pulsed YAG Laser using Fabry-Perot Interferometry,” conducted under the supervision of Professor Greg Sitz.
Jules has consistently demonstrated a passion and proficiency for experimental-based investigation. From his personal hobbies programming Arduino’s and even teaching an informal class on this topic to others, to his participation in HACK Texas, to his participation in an electronic techniques class, Jules showed an early interest in instrumentation and tinkering. Professor Sitz, who teaches the electronic techniques class, writes, “I had the students do an independent project in the lab during the last few weeks of the semester. For his project, Jules and his partner built a receiver and amplifier to pick up radio emissions from Jupiter. This was again above and beyond the call, and involved setting up a fairly large antenna on Jules’ partner’s parents ranch outside of town. I was so impressed with Jules’ work that I arranged to have him work in my own lab.”
Working in Professor Sitz lab, Jules worked on scattering experiments with beams of molecules. The group uses lasers and prevision-timing instruments to interpret the ways the molecules change as they interact with surfaces. The quantum mechanical interactions of molecules and atoms with chemical, physical surfaces are of interest in studying catalysts and other industrial applications. Jules began with a project to develop a lock-in amplifier, writing software to control phase locked loops and filters. He then built a precision delay generator, which allowed the team to examine the presence of particles in their apparatus after millisecond- level flight times, but having to arrive within microsecond- level precision. Such precision was achieved with a 20 MHz clock, with a precision ramp generator/comparator to get the nanosecond accuracy within one 50-nanosecond clock period. Jules programmed the device using an Arduino and a custom integrated circuit that he designed. As Professor Sitz writes, “I am not given to effusive praise, but in this case I have to make an exception. Jules’s talent for measuring (instrumentation, signal processing, electronics and computer interfacing) is off scale.”
Jules has been rightly recognized here at UT for his work, receiving the Kevin E. Underhill Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship and the Eva Stevenson Woods Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship. This fall, he will pursue a PhD in physics at MIT.
DSC_4931 - OUI 9687 - Volvo B10M/VanHool T8 Alizee - Stuarts of Carluke - Glasgow, Killermont Street 28/07/14
An avid basketball player, Stuart wanted to incorporate basketball as well as his son in his senior pictures. My thanks to the coach who took time out of his Sunday to let us into the gym..
This was probably my favorite of Stuart and his son.
An avid basketball player, Stuart wanted to incorporate basketball as well as his son in his senior pictures. My thanks to the coach who took time out of his Sunday to let us into the gym..
This is part of the series we did first thing after setting up. In fact, I set up this shot well before Stuart even arrived. I had this shot in my head the moment he told me he wanted to do portraits in a gymnasium.
Package Deal, 1956. Gouache and pencil on paper (1892-1964) Lawrence Benenson Collection. deYoung Museum
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St Margaret, Westhorpe, Suffolk
Dear, dirty, rough and ready Westhorpe. This church is one of my favourite places in England. It isn't Suffolk's finest church, but it has the great character of a much-loved old friend. It is idiosyncratic, scruffy and wise. It is not ashamed of its age, and doesn't try to hide the ways it has changed over time. I like people like this, and I like this church.
I'm always a bit worried about coming back here, in case some enthusiastic person has moved into the parish, rolled up their sleeves and cleared out all the clutter, possibly carpeting the floor and installing an overhead projector screen as well. Coming back after some five years away I opened the creaking 15th Century door with some trepidation, but I needn't have worried.
Westhorpe church is open every day, but you used to have to collect the the key from a lovely lady across the road who would always apologise for the state of the church. The reason for her apology was that St Margaret is home to a large colony of bats. A notice in the little porch also apologised for the state of the church. We can only clean the church once a week, it said. And as you know, when you have bats, you know you've got them.
Perhaps it was just the time of the year I was visiting, but the bats no longer made such an impression on me as I stepped down onto what must be Suffolk's most uneven brick floor - hardly any smell of urine, no crunch of bat poo underfoot. In a thoroughly Victorianised church, with tiled floors, pitch-pine pews and recut stonework, bats are a bit revolting. But here on previous visits I had thought that the whiff of bat urine was an essential part of the atmosphere. I imagined that Westhorpe church would be diminished without its bats. But the church was still full of its familiar character, the smell of the past, the greening of the font, moss showing here and there between the cracks, all in all a sense of the ancient. The west of the church has been cleared of benches, giving a sense of drama to the high font on its pedestal.
Part of the charm and fascination of St Margaret is that it has the slight air of a theological junk shop. Every century from the 13th to the 20th has contributed a curiosity. Firstly, there's the glorious painted parclose screen to the east end of the south aisle. It may have enclosed the Elmham chantry. The altar here is always dressed for use, and on winter visits I had seen the damp collected in puddles on the uneven brick floor. It is charming. Edwardian rood screen panels flank the altar, and there are others elsewhere in the church.
Nathaniel and Jane Fox are commemorated on a pillar of the north arcade. They died in the late 17th century, and their memorials are a good amateurish mixture of cherubs, skulls and schmaltzy verse: heavens voyage doth not over hard appear, she tooke it in her early virgin year. At the east end of the south aisle, a board reminds you that this church was the Sunday local of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII and grandmother of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey. She had actually been married to the King of France, her ruthless brother sealing a shaky and ultimately fruitless pact with France by so doing. He married his other sister off to the King of Scotland. Her second husband was Charles Brandon, and they lived in the Hall here. Mary died in 1533. She's buried at Bury.
Surprising as this is, a further jolt comes from the imposing memorial to Maurice Barrow, who seems to have had lots of money in the 1660s. Unfortunately, he died before he could spend it, as so many of us will do. So this great tomb was constructed by the Shelton brothers, Maurice and Henry (Henry finishing it when, as the inscription observes, Maurice was suddenly snatched out of this world). Barrow reclines in great splendour beneath big fat grieving cherubs, behind contemporary spiked iron gates. Perhaps he thought someone might otherwise disturb his rest.
Up in the chancel there are more quirky fascinations. A high mounted memorial on the north wall is to an earlier Barrow, William. One might imagine for a moment that he is sitting with two concubines at the breakfast table, the servants looking on. But he's actually reading prayers with a Laudian air, facing across to his two wives Elizabeth and Frances (not at the same time, of course). They wear amusing hats, with sticky-outy bits, as if participating in a party game that has long-since been lost to us. Their children watch. But it is a curious little piece.
The big six candlesticks sit on the altar. Westhorpe was very much in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and there are ancient notices in the south aisle explaining the sacraments and the significance of lighting candles. Quite how much this enthusiasm is still reflected in the liturgy here, I couldn't say. When the candles are alight, they must reflect brilliantly in Richard Elcock's wall-mounted brass memorial of 1630.
Elsewhere in the church, there are delightful little details, painted walls, shields and coffin lids, forgotten decalogue boards stacked up, two sets of Royal Arms, one a Stuart set leaning against the wall in the north aisle chapel and the other apparently for George II, although it is probably another overpainted Stuart set. There is a lonely 17th century box pew in the north aisle that may have come from here, but seems quite out of character with the rest of it. Barmy Arthur Mee was convinced that it had been Mary Tudor's family pew. All in all, exploring this church is a bit like being inside someone else's head.
I have a vivid memory of my first visit here, early in the spring of one of the last years of the old century. The tiny graveyard was full of birdsong and cowslips. Recently, the cowslip had been declared Suffolk's official flower, and the ground around seemed to validate this. That Spring day, I had seen them lovely and fair all across mid-Suffolk, but nowhere as lovely and fair as this, bats and all.
Kerr Stuart 2'6" gauge "Brazil" Class 0-4-2ST No.886 of 1905, No.1 "Premier", with spark arrester, backing onto it's train at Kemsley Down station for a service to Sittingbourne, on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, 02/76. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET.
I must admit that although I say that technology usage is grounded in a cultural context, I struggle to operationalize "culture" for the fear of reducing it to some causal variable or some vague concept that dilutes what I am arguing. I haven't found much solace in sociology's linear models that isolate "culture's" effects - as it repeats the whole divide of structure versus agency. Neither have I found much clarity in the interpretive tradition of culture, not because I don't agree with it, but because am confused at how to methodologically move forward with an interpretive approach.
Well then came my meeting with Prof. Alladi Venkatesh, Assoc. Director of UC Irvine's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) (thanks for gloria mark for the introduction!). Prof. Venkatesh has created methodology magic! Ethno-consumerism is a methodology for doing cross-cultural research. It encourages the researcher to "study culture not merely as providing the context for the study of consumer behavior but study consumption itself as culturally constituted behavior. "In principle, the ethnoconsumerist perspective goes beyond the distinction of emic and etic research approaches." The etic approach encourages the researcher to interpret from her/his point of view. On the other hand, the emic approach tells the researcher to look at the subject's point of view. But ethnoconsumerism advocates for the next critical step, which is to then develop knowledge from subject's point of view. "The research becomes more than an etic interpretation (researcher's point of view) of the culture, but a view of the culture informed by the culture itself as demonstrated by the above" (Venkatesh and Meamber, 1997).
Venkatesh makes clear that this is methodology, not a method. It does not seek to promote any data collection methods. Of course I think that qualitative methods (or a mixed-method approach of qual + quant) is the best way to arrive at what he is saying is the crux of ethnoconsumerism - developing a cultural framework of analysis from the consumer's point of view.
Read his paper and other writings here.
I highly encourage you to read his 1995 paper below on Ethnoconsumerism (citation below). It's a beautifully written paper that feels intellectually and spiritually moving at the same time. When I read it I felt as if the words has fallen out of the sky onto self-organizing fractals of joy. After 3 years of sociology coursework, I've become averse at times to theories by sociologists because the words just don't stick in my brain or they just don't inspire me anymore. There was something this 1995 piece that helped me deconstruct 3 years of wonderful and hellish sociological self-discovery to even learn about the cultural divide within the field of sociology (culture vs structure or culture as interpretive model). Dr. Venkatesh, coming from a business/economics background, beautifully reconstructs all the various authors of the interpretive tradition who I have come to love. He has inspired me to think of these authors - such as Geertz, in a new way for my own work on new technology users.
I will be thinking about this methodology for a while as I try to figure out if this framework makes sense for my dissertation. So I will be writing more about this model. In the meantime, two things come to my mind: how I can apply this for my research and how this intersects with Stuart Halls, et. al. 1997 book on Sony Walkmans. How do I apply this this my research?
study how new users use their technology as culturally constituted behavior.
Do not treat new tech users as objects.
Do not treat their practices as economically motivated.
People use techology to get things done. It is my job to understand as an outsider what is being "done" in their context.
Don't be culturally reductive by picking one feature of the culture and anchoring all analysis around the feature.
If I want to compare two different regions with a cultural framework - this takes a realllllly long time because I have to understand the cultural categories and experiences of all the sites.
Circuit of Culture In 1997, Stuart Hall, Paul Du Gray, and Linda James published Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman. They created a model for the analysis of cultural objects called the circuit of culture. On page 3, they show this graph below. The book walks one through on how to deconstruct the Sony walkman as a cultural object.
In an upcoming post, I would like to discuss ways I could combine Ethnoconsumerism and the Circuit of Culture to work for my research. What's interesting is that while both authors are talking about objects and the people who use the, these are two slightly different approaches. I want to think about to spatialize these approaches. I need to give this some more thought so until the next post on this!
Suggested Reading:
Gay PD, Hall S, Janes L. Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman. SAGE; 1997.
Easterly W. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. Penguin Press; 2006. "Ethnoconsumerism: A New Paradigm to Study Cultural and Cross-cultural Consumer Behavior," Alladi Venkatesh. Marketing in a Multicultural World, J.A. Costa and G. Bamossy (eds.), SAGE Publications, 1995, 26-67.
It is 3 April 2014, or Stuart Pearce Day, a time for rejoicing in Nottingham. The appointment of a club legend as manager is certainly no guarantee of success, these things can go horribly wrong, but there is an important emotional string between a fan and a football club that for many who have become disillusioned will have been re-attached by confirmation of today’s news.
Fans of a certain age are being whisked back to their youths when a rampaging left back won their hearts. The crunching tackles, the thunderous free kicks, the marauding runs and the Herculean thighs all combined to lift an electrician into a hero.... Psycho! Psycho! Psycho!
Today, however, is for the celebration of a returning hero. Through 12 years of wonderful service as a player Stuart Pearce deserves a glorious return and whether he succeeds or fails he remains one of the greats, one of the reasons we love Nottingham Forest. For much of this season I have felt myself drifting away, not wanting to watch my club being dragged through the mud, but today I look forward. Today I wear a grin that is broad and foolish. We are Nottingham Forest, Psycho is our leader! Legend!"