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Picture "fear" (lyrics) 1981
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Oh oh oh ooh ooh oh...
Last night, I walk along the street, I saw a stranger coming near,
I felt I felt a terrible heat, it fill my body with fear.
Oh oh oh.....
The air, the air was trembling, it was, it was so weird,
The air.... was glowing, and then it disappeared.
It frightened me so, had no place to go,
I want to scream and shout, want to spit it out, oh yes, spit it out.
Oh oh oh...
Last week, I laid in bed, felt a strange thing in my head,
There's growing, there's growing something inside, I was afraid, I wanted to hide...
Last night, walked along the street, I saw a stranger coming near,
I felt, I felt a terrible heat, it fill my body with fear.
Wooh oh whoh, oh oh.....
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“Bertie, the man is looking quite befuddled this morning.”
“I hadn’t noticed Sky, but I think you may be right.”
“Do you think it is anything we have done?”
“No, it can’t be after all we haven’t done anything yet today, much...”
“What do you think Posh?”
“Well, it is hard to say for sure but I think it might be something to do with the clocks.”
“What are clocks, Posh?”
“They are things that measure hooman time. Please don’t ask how they work for I have no idea, but I have noticed that he seems to be going around to change the direction of the pointy things they have on all the clocks he has this morning.”
“Maybe, it is because they are all wrong.” Suggested Bertie.
“No, they can’t all be wrong surely, Bertie. No, he is being quite precise in what he is doing for a change. I wonder if this is happening all over the hooman world, what do you think Posh?”
“It is possible, hoomans are silly enough to do something like that. For us bears time really doesn’t matter but for some hoomans they tend to live by their clock or watch. They allow time to rule their lives, very sad.”
“That would be awful Posh, imagine having to get up at a particular moment and go somewhere. One might even be in the middle of a jar of honey and have to leave it because the clock says so.” Said Bertie.
“Not on your life, Bertie. The clock could say what it wants, but I wouldn’t be going anywhere until I had finished the honey.” Said Sky firmly.
“Posh, I think it would be nice if we helped the man with the clocks.”
“We could do Bertie, but we don’t really know how to or even what needs to be done.”
“That is no reason not to help Posh. He is our friend and he does allow us to get all our honey and stuff so it would be nice if we helped.”
“I agree Posh, even if we messed up, I do feel he would appreciate the fact that we did try. I mean, he would try and help us if we wanted him to.” Said Sky.
“Look, he has gone out so now is our chance to collect all the clocks and adjust them so it will be a lovely surprise for him when he returns.” Said Bertie looking at his two friends.
“There are a few I doubt we’ll be able to reach.” Said Posh.
“Oh, come on, Posh, we’ll find a way. We can knock them off the wall and try and catch them as they fall. It’ll be such a lovely surprise for him when he comes back.”
The bears sat looking at the clock, watches and screwdrivers feeling really pleased with their efforts.
“I think they look so much nicer now those pointy things are in different directions and not all the same as he had them. Now, the question is do we leave them like this for him to see and have one huge surprise or put them all back and let him have lots of different surprises?” Asked Bertie.
“I vote we put them back, it will be fun to see how long it takes him to notice what we have done for him.” Said Sky.
“What about the small ones that are still in pieces?” Said Posh.
“I found if you jump up and down on them enough, they click back and are fine.” Said Sky. “If not, he has that bangy thing somewhere, we can use that.”
“Come on, hurry up we need to get these back in place before he returns if we are to surprise him.” Urged Posh Bear.
The clock on this beautiful church stood out against the cloudy sky. I liked the view and the contrast.
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The famous astronomical clock @ Strasbourg in the Notre Dame cathedral there. Daily shows are made of it in operation. This & the close up of the base section were taken in extremely dark conditions using the hand held night shot facility on my old FZ150.
Wikipedia: This is one of the five principal Lutheran churches (Hauptkirchen) of Hamburg, Germany. The base of its spire, dating from the 13th century, is the second oldest building preserved in the city, after the lighthouse on Neuwerk island. It is situated on an island near what was formerly the southern boundary of the medieval city, opposite the historic harbour area on the Elbe river. It traditionally served as the church of the seamen.
a one shot, small run of 14, tract size, 8 page zine made in 2 hours, printed it on parchment, had slight registration issues, stapled it, burned the corners round and will probably glue the zine filled library card onto a board that i will nail up somewhere.
Marshall Field's Great Clock
Chicago, Illinois
The Great Clock was installed on Marshall Field’s State Street Store on November 26, 1897. Marshall Field envisioned his great clock as a beacon that could be seen for miles and attract crowds to his store which he saw as a meeting place. Norman Rockwell immortalized this famous clock when he produced a painting of the clock called The Clock Mender for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on November 3, 1945.
Selected for inclusion in the Schmap guide of Chicago: Marshall Field's and Company
One of the landmarks of the Bisley National Shooting Centre is the clock tower. It was originally placed on Wimbledon Common where the National Rifle Association ran its Imperial meeting up until 1890. The competition moved to Bisley and so did the clock tower.
This image was taken during the 2016 Imperial meeting on a warm but cloudy day. The wind was blowing down the range in the background towards the clock tower and so was ideal for a long exposure for the cloud trails. The sun is trying to peep through and brighten the evening.
Canon EOS-6D with 24-105mm lens at 24mm. f/11 at ISO-50 for 8 minutes with the aid of both a Lee big and little stopper.
A city of clock towers if there ever was one. I thought at first I could navigate using them as landmarks, until I found one too many.
A rather fine traditional station clock situated on platform 1 at Darlington Bank Top station, 28th October 2023.
Old sign outside an old clock shop at Old Bergen Museum.
The open-air Old Bergen Museum is a reconstructed small town consisting of around 50 wooden houses dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Old Bergen is a reminder of what Bergen used to be like. In the 19th century, Bergen was Europe’s largest wooden city, and its steep and densely built-up streets, squares and alleyways gave it a unique character.
The open-air museum has 55 wooden houses from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, most of which originate from Bergen city centre. A visit to Old Bergen provides some answers as well as a breath of nostalgia.
You can read more about the museum here
en.visitbergen.com/things-to-do/old-bergen-museum-bergen-... and here www.bymuseet.no/en/museums/old-bergen-museum/
[Pinhole photograph] Taken a little over a week ago. From the on-going series Artifacts of an Uncertain Origin.
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The Journey of the Clocks
I purchased these clocks at a garage sale in Maine in late June 2007 and I first photographed them for this series on July 1st at the base of a cliff. They were on rocks and the incoming tide swirled around them.
But I was never really pleased with those photos because I could not get the camera close enough to the clocks. One of the pleasures and compositional strengths of a wide angle pinhole camera is the fact that you can place objects very close to the pinhole to create some interesting foreground/background relationships. In the photos by the sea the clocks were just a bit too far away.
So, I brought them back home to California (along with the old letters and the ledger) and put them on a shelf in my studio and waited until the muse would speak to me again. In the week of snow we had at the end of January, the muse rang me up and the clocks went for another journey into the forest behind my home. Close to water once again, but this time frozen water in the form of snow. And I finally got the image that I had in my mind's eye when I first worked with them along the rocky Maine coast. Of course, I didn't imagine the snowy setting, but this is the general positioning of the clocks that I was thinking of. The wintry landscape is just an unexpected bonus.
Sometimes, you have to wait for a good photo. Even it is one that you set up, a still life in nature. For this image, I waited 7 months, but it paid off.
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All over London there are amazing pieces of public art that help to brighten up the environment – some of them are good, some are bad, some are downright ugly. One of the very good ones and a favourite installation of mine can be found at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, Six Public Clocks or the Canary Wharf Clocks, I’m not too sure of the official name.
The Canary Wharf Clocks are by a German designer called Konstantin Grcic, who won a competition to have his vision displayed in the heart of London’s mini Manhattan. The clocks which have become an iconic Canary Wharf sight are based upon the iconic Swiss railway clock, but with a slight twist, each face has a different numeral and they are set at the same time.
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A North Muskegon family bought this for the city in 2006 to commemorate the park's centennial anniversary
The astronomical clock of Besançon is housed in Besançon Cathedral. Besançon's present astronomical clock, made in 1860 by Auguste-Lucien Vérité fr:Auguste-Lucien Vérité of Beauvais to replace an earlier and unsatisfactory one made by Bernardin in the 1850s, differs from those in Strasbourg, Lyon and Beauvais. The clock is meant to express the theological concept that each second of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the existence of man and of the world.
The clock stands 5.8 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, and has 30,000 mechanical parts. It sits in its own room in the clocktower. Verite's coat of arms, those of Cardinal Mathieu, and of the cathedral appear on the front of the clock.
Seventy dials provide 122 indications. These include the seconds, hours, days and years. The clock is a perpetual one that can register up to 10,000 years, including adjustments for leap year cycles. The clock also indicates the times of sunrise and sunset.
Twenty-one automated figures either ring the quarter-hour and the hour, or perform the Resurrection of Christ at noon, and his burial at 3 pm.
The clock also has animated pictures of seven different French harbours and indicates the hours and height of the tides there on dials. One of the harbours is Saint-Pierre, Martinique; another is Cayenne, French Guiana. There is an eighth animated picture, this one of Saint Helena, where the former emperor Napoleon died in exile.
An orrery (planetarium) is part of the clock and it shows the motions and orbits of the planets. The planetary motions are congruent with those of the actual planets so that the planetarium reproduces eclipses as they occur.
The central part of the main body of the clock has 12 dials for parts of the civil calendar, and five for the liturgical calendars The dials showing the civil calendar show the month, date, day, the solar element that gave its name to the day of the week (e.g., the sun for Sunday), the season, the sign of the Zodiac, the length of the day, the length of the night, the seconds, and the times for sunrise and sunset. One dial gives the date of Easter, and this acts as the driver for dials that present the date for five key days of the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.
Two columns have 10 dials each. The bottom eight dials show the time in different major cities around the world, including New York and San Francisco, though without adjustment for daylight savings time. The two top dials on the left column show the number of solar and lunar eclipses in the current year. The two dials on the right column show the leap years and leap centuries. The hand on the leap century dial moved for the first time in 2000; it will move for the second time in 2400.
A pyramidal arrangement of figures caps the clock. The 12 apostles form the base; two different apostles come out each hour to strike the hour. Also, every hour the three virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity, move, with Faith showing the chalice to Charity and Hope, which stand to her right and left. Above them the statues of the archangels Michael and Gabriel strike the quarter-hours.
At the top of the clock, at midday, Christ arises from his tomb, and at the 3p.m. he returns to it. When he arises, Mary, his mother and Queen of the world, raises her sceptre; she lowers it when he returns to his tomb.
Through a system of universal joints extending some 100 meters, the clock drives four dials that sit on the four sides of the cathedral's tower, thus providing the time of day to the city. A fifth dial is inside the cathedral. The outside dials also show, respectively, the season, the day of the week, and the month of the year. Cables from the clock activate bells in the tower that sound the quarter hour and the hour.
Eleven different descending weights drive the clock. Three of the weights need to be reset each day.