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I think I'm just scared of letting someone else into my life again. I never used to be...
Today I started to make a dress out of plastic, easily one of the most annoying things i have decided to do, and still go through with it. I'm really hoping once its done it will look lovely and I also hope I dont freeze my ass off wearing it!! But I'm sure if I have enough alcohol in me I wont feel the cold.
dress and sweater: asos
tights: hue
shoes: kork ease bette wedges
bag: cambridge satchel from modcloth
lipstick: ysl rouge pur
"I think we cover the faces of corpses for the same reason. We see the faces of the dead as a kind of gate. It's shut against us, but we know it won't always be shut. Someday it will swing open for each of us, and each of us will go through."
- Patient "N", in "N", Just after Sunset, Stephen King
Truly one of his best short stories that I have ever read.
I'm quite pleased with how this turned out - I don't normally shoot things that are moving, so I don't have much practice. These two cooperated nicely, though. :)
People don’t think that Sheffield has history, but we have the largest “listed” building in Europe. It sounds like Sheffield must have an enormous cathedral or massive castle. But, no, the largest listed building in Europe is (or, rather “are”) Park Hill Flats. Built in the late 1950s/early 1960s, the flats divide opinion more than Marmite (I’m one of those people who doesn’t really have strong opinions on the yeast-based spread).
Personally, I think they are a fascinating idea. To appreciate them you have to compare them to the “back to back” slums which they replaced and the “high rise” flats which other cities erected as their way of replacing slums.
Park Hill flats look brutal, but they were well meaning. Each of the thirteen levels had “ground level” access (since they were built on a slope), making them disabled access ahead of their time (okay, to be pedantic, the thirteenth floor doesn’t have access on the ground level, but the fact that you can live on the twelfth floor of a building and still have milk floats drive off the street to the walkway outside your front door must have seemed very futuristic back in the 1950s when construction started).
Fascinating though they are, and I see the logic in “listing” them, they remain a blot on the Sheffield skyline. Being built right behind the train station, they are a brutal “introduction” to the city. So, whilst they should probably be preserved as an example of “what seemed like a good idea at the time” (after all, Architecture students need to learn what worked/didn’t work, we need to understand why mistakes were made), what I’d propose is a “Beamish” where we can rebuild structures like Park Hill if the local council doesn’t want them. Otherwise, “listing” buildings become an albatross, they may be “historically interesting” but they are a pain to organize your city around. If we don’t learn from history, we will repeat the same mistakes, true. But we need to find a way of preserving what is “good” and/or “interesting” without condemning towns/cities to remain lumbered with them.
1 October 2010: Think - Desiring God Annual Conference held in Minneapolis, MN. ©2010 Andres R. Alonso. All Rights reserved
At the age of 76, one might think Jesse White, who is seeking his fourth term as Illinois Secretary of State, would prefer riding inside a vehicle rather than hanging off the side of one (that's Jessie holding on by the door). But that's not his style, particularly when he's accompanying his famous Jessie White Tumbling Team. In case you missed the tumblers performing at President Obama's inauguration last year, you'll get to see them in action here.
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The 2010 Illinois State Fair runs from August 13 through 22. More photographs of the 2010 Illinois State Fair, along with past Illinois State Fairs and the State Fairgrounds, can be found in my collection titled:
Chief Warrant Officer Joel Smith, marine inspector, Marine Safety Unit Portland, uses rubber strapping to fix a ruptured pipe while using the Coast Guard's damage control simulator in Newport, Ore., March 27, 2017. Smith, along with 12 commercial fishermen, took part in an 18-hour drill conductor's course in which fishing vessel safety examiners from Marine Safety Unit Portland taught students how to conduct various emergency drills for the crews aboard their own vessels. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Zac Crawford.
cropped and sharpened
I think this reads:
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TP.BMT
Phone: 0979890057
if any of you are unaware, the northeast had just been smacked by an intense blizzard. this was one of the top 6 biggest to ever occur in new york state. i've been thinking a lot about summer lately and decided to post this, taken back in july while traveling upstate. summer 2011, where are you?
www.myspace.com/thinkbigpa | Pocono Summit, Pa
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This was probably the best shoot I've ever had. The band was really cool, and way fun. The ideas they had were really funny and we all had a great time, with lots of laughs and giggles. Check them out, they're a great bunch of guys with a whole mess of talent!
Strobist:
AB800 shot through Softbox camera left and above
AB800 shot bare behind
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First proper test shots using the Astrotrac TT320X-AG
Comprising of 4x 30 second exposures (two minutes total) at 300mm /f4, ISO 800
No Darks, flats or bias frames at this moment.
Need to get my head around using deep space stacker (DSS)
Not really sure how I should post process it within that software. Got a lot of learning to do.
Taken at the Leighton Observatory, Pex Hill, Widnes whilst at the Liverpool Astronomy open night held each Wednesday evening.
I was looking for a watercolor / comic book kind of feel.
I am very happy with the results. What do you think?
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Sheridan College, Trafalgar Campus's first shave-a-thon!
Think Pink - Go Bald for Cancer!
A brave few courageously shave their heads for breast cancer research.
It's events like this that reminds me how much I love photography.
It was good times
2009.01.29
I think my interest in London's prefabs was spurred after hearing a news report - around 2009 - about proposals to demolish an entire prefab estate in the London Borough of Lewisham, known as the Excalibur Estate, for modern redevelopment.
I think my initial reaction was that these buildings, erected in the years after WW2, were such a part of Britain's post-war social history, that they would presumably be under some kind of protection. It seemed fair to assume that, if the surviving examples of the buildings had already withstood more than 50 years of wear and use, they were probably fairly safe.
However, I began getting quite a shock when I started looking up their locations, and going to see them. The first ones I went to see were around Nunhead, in the London Borough of Southwark, and in this area the process of vacating and demolishing them was already in progress, ahead of neighbouring Lewisham.
Notes
1) the Excalibur Estate was a whole estate of prefabs concentrated together: it was the largest estate of prefabrictaed buildings in western Europe.
2) this set of photos dates from mid-2012, by which time dwellings were being vacated and were being boarded up as soon as they were emptied.
I think I've named my Sleeping Karsh, finally. And on a whim I plunked Mackenzie's first wig on her head and kinda fell in love.
I love the Monique double red wigs. I had to have the Paige wig in it. But Shushu heads, the intended recipient, are on the smaller end of 7ish inches round so I find that 7-8" wigs eat her head. And while it looks amazing on my DES, but then what doesn't, I really don't want it for her. This seems the perfect solution.
Of course now I need to redo her face up because her problematic eyebrows aren't hidden.
On Friday the 31st of March the European Student Think Tank hosted a European Union debate in Spanish Congress.
With the participation of our panel of experts together with the generation of young people that will inherit the European project and upon whom falls the responsibility of reconstructing it, we debated the future of the European Union, analysing from the refugee crisis, to the Monetary Union, to terrorism, journalism and the post-truth era and our European history.
In March of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome of the European Union, Europe is possibly facing its most critical moment since the end of World War Two. The nationalisms that threw Europe into the last world war have resurged in a political scape that is more and more polarized, among a crisis of confidence in our institutions and an unsustainable globalization. Now more that ever it is imperative to reform the European Union to be a political counterweight to mere economic integration, in order to preserve longest peace project in history.
Speakers:
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Javi López, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, S&D Group
Carlota Merchán, Member of Spanish Congress for Madrid, Secretary of cooperation and migration of the PSOE
Salvador Llaudes, Analyst in Real Instituto Elcano
Estrella Galán, Secretary General of the Spanish Commission of Aid to Refugees
Lucía Mbomio, Reporter in Afroféminas and Aquí la Tierra
Juan Andrés García Martín, Doctor of History, Professor in the King Juan Carlos University
Esther Ortega, Doctor of Philosophy of Science, Professor in Tufts-Skidmore Spain
José Manuel Benito Díaz-Mayordomo, Secretary of JEF Madrid
Carlota Núñez Strutt, President of the European Student Think Tank
Cecilia Passaniti, Events Manager of the European Student Think Tank
Jared Polin of RAW Talk, etc, while at THINK TANK PHOTO a few weeks back. Not my best shot, but was grateful to meet him and he was kind enough to sit back at the mic for the photo. Photographed with the Mamiya 1000s 645, 85 f/1.9 (wide open) at 1600 using Delta 3200 and pulled 1 stop. That lens is a pain to focus wide open, but that's half the fun.