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COMMIT!Forum at the Westin Hotel in Times Square on October 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photos by Ben Hider)
The Chantry ( built1937, listed Grade II 1971) was so christened simply because Clough happened to like the name. The first phase of building at Portmeirion involved Clough in 'pegging out' the project by committing himself to the essential dominant structures, to be linked up with less important buildings later. Thus was Chantry conceived and built at the highest point of all, an escarpment of rock sheer above the roadway and village green. It was intended for the artist Augustus John and included a studio for him on the top floor, complete with fish eye lens looking out over the Campanile. The panel on the cupola is a carving in blue and gold of "Sun and Glory". Chantry is now a self-catering cottage sleeping nine.
Portmeirion is a model village built by its founder, the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. He wanted to demonstrate that a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it, and that architecture in sympathy with its surroundings could be good business. His motto was "Cherish the past, Adorn the present, Construct for the future".
Clough acquired the site in 1925 for around £20,000. It was then, as Clough wrote, "a neglected wilderness. Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion: Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site. Clough sometimes later suggested the development was unplanned but drawings and models suggest otherwise. It appears that he had quite a well defined vision for the village from the outset and that to a large extent he stuck to it. Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
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The premiere of Generation Startup at the 2016 COMMIT!Forum, the Westin Hotel in Times Square on October 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photos by Ben Hider)
Chastity.
Part of the ABC project
I think it's clear what I've chosen seeing as I already had a condom I could use for this photo. The ring could represent a wedding ring or a TLW ring. It's actually a wedding ring that I inherited, and I felt like I was commiting some kind of blasphemy when I used it for this. I would never want the previous owner to know how I used this ring. She was very Catholic.
Organisations such as True Love Waits are hugely popular and well-known in the US, and have made a teeny tiny dent (more like a fingerprint impression) in the UK. I was briefly interested in TLW when I was around 13, but the more I learned about it the more crazy it seemed to me - especially the part about not teaching children safe sex and only allowing them to learn about abstinence. Don't people see what a risk they're putting children and teenagers in? Aren't they realistic enough to know that not all teenagers who take the pledge are going to keep it? Shouldn't they know about how to protect themselves????!!!!
I can get quite angry about this stuff sometimes. I know one girl at my school who says that she does consider not having sex before marriage and that it's a nice idea, but she's not sure if she will or not. That's as close as I've got in England to finding anyone who has these beliefs. I think it goes down to how religious America (particularly middle-America) is. Personally, I find it crazy that 80% of American's believe in Creationism. I know three people in England who do. My ex-boyfriend was a Jehovah's witness and talked to me a lot about creationism, so I have considered both sides of the argument and was open-minded about learning and considering both sides. He wasn't.
A new analysis of data, collected by the federal government's National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and published in Pediatrics, shows chastity commitments made by teens don't seem to work.
The researchers gathered detailed information from 11,000 students in grades 7 through 12 and followed them over time. They matched students on 100 variables and then compared those who took the virginity pledge with those that did not take a pledge in 1996. It didn't matter if they took the pledge or not. By 2001, they found 82% of those who took the pledge had broken it. More than half of both groups had engaged in sexual activity and they had an average of 3 sexual partners whether they took the chastity pledge or not. No difference!
They did find one difference, however. Unfortunately the kids who took the pledge were less likely to use a condom or any other form of contraception.
It's about time to re-look at government funded abstinence programs. It has already been shown that 80% of the curricula used in these programs provide distorted information about birth control and STDs with scientific errors and blurring of religion and science.
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". . . many teens find it hard to resist the temptation of sex shortly after they take their pledge, and because of their lack of knowledge about safe-sex methods, teens who break their pledges are one-third less likely than non-pledgers to use contraceptives once they do become sexually active.
"Statistically kids who pledge abstinence are just as likely to have sex as those that don't, and more likely to contract an STD because they have not taken the time to learn about STD prevention," Riera says.
Even though she is well aware of the disheartening statistics, Rosales still has faith in virginity pledges and their impact on teens.
"In my case I've overcome the statistics and haven't broken my pledge," she says. "But even if a purity ring helps a girl put off sex for just a couple of years, I think it still accomplishes something."
I'm probably going to get a lot of stick for this and I can see people commenting on this photo without thinking about both sides of the argument. I have met people and experienced things with them that have truly forced me to think about these issues, and draw my own conclusions. You don't have to agree with me at all, just THINK before you yell at me. I want my ABC project to make people think about things they may not want to.
This was taken on 70th St, between Park and Lexington Ave.
I have no idea what was really going on here .... but hey! They don't call this place the Big Apple for nothing!
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for May 20, 2014.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Leica M6
Carl Zeiss Sonnar 50mm F1.5 ZM
Ilford HP5+
DSLR Scan/Negative Lab Pro
Construction, Week 63 (Demolition, Week 3)
(cont.) ...a fate that might look a little something like this, seen over in the now-closed southern portion of the old store's parking lot. Demo crews have been busy ripping out the landscaping islands (and the asphalt surrounding them, too, as we'll see in a moment), though it's unclear if those crews work for Mr. Dempsey or someone else. There is one sign l_dawg and I both saw just down the fence from where this pic was taken saying all visitors must go to another company's construction office, but 1) there is no such office and 2) I saw a similar sign for yet another company elsewhere along the fenceline. My thinking is that new fencing was brought on-site and the signs of whoever used it previously simply haven't been removed.
(c) 2016 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
I hope I am not commiting a faux pas by improvising this week's submision to this extent. If you feel it doesn't belong in the group, please remove it, not hard feelings :) I am still in Bucharest, while Ouzo is in Denver and this week Chris didn't take any iPhone pics of him, so this is all I was left with. I'll be back in the States next week and I can't wait to take fresh new shots of my Ouzo boy!
Pictures of Ouzo against the 52 Weeks Group - you can see it's from a few hours ago :)
You might be asking what's with all those strange dogs around the image. Those are street dogs from Bucharest that I've been photographing and feeding and playing with :) You can find more info about them in my "Dogs of Bucharest" set.
This evening I went again and fed them dog treats and played with them, even discovered an adorable litter of puppies - see the one in the lower right corner - in the park - all sleeping in a dog house that people put together for them, brought them blankets, food, milk, water, etc.
All those yellow ear tags you see show that the dogs have been Spayed & Neutered and released back from where they were picked up. It seems to work, but of course, puppies do still happen on occasion :)
Jen Lampton, lead of the Twig initiative for Drupal, watches as Twig is committed to Drupal core live during the BADCamp 2012 keynote by Dries Buytaert, Drupal's project lead. The commit was the culmination of months of hard work by Jen and other contributors.
Great Suffolk Street, off Borough High Street, London. The same sign is repeated round the corner as well.
I must say that with the mass closure of public lavatories in recent years it is becoming increasing difficult to avoid "committing a nuisance".
Yeah I think the title pretty much explains it. I just thought it was so cute that they were eating in sync! I finished week 1 of my internship, and now I get a break for the weekend. Thank goodness! It's so cool and interesting, but my brain needs a break, since my days revolve around committing to memory as many different biological concepts and lab techniques as I possibly can! Cheers to the weekend!
COMMIT!Forum at the Westin Hotel in Times Square on October 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photos by Ben Hider)
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Designer: Li Jianghong (李江鸿)
1965, November
Committing the words of Chairman Mao to memory
Mao zhuxi huar ji xinshang (毛主席话儿记心上)
Call nr.: BG E15/152 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
Another shot for the 'commit' theme. This time I've gone for religion. This is something which takes a lot of commitment and one commitment that I dont have.
I used to go to church every week when I was a kid as well as various church related groups. Part of growing up in Northern Ireland i suppose - religion is everywhere.
Now that I've been out and about in the real world for many years I have decided that whilst I believe that there must be something after death I cant commit to believing in traditional religion.
Religion has played a massive part in conflicts all over the world. I have first hand knowledge of the Northern Irish conflict and the part that religion played.
It doesnt matter if a person is Catholic, Protestant or Muslim (to name a few) they are all people and people are all equal!
I might not like religion but I do like the architecture!
medievalpoc: Liberale da Verona Dido’s Suicide Italy (c. 1510) Oil on Poplar, 42.5 x 123.2 cm The National Gallery, London. Dido, having been abandoned by Aeneas, commits suicide on a pyre composed of his armour and his gifts to her, in her palace in Carthage. This painting was probably a panel from a cassone, a type of heavily decorated marriage chest. This is usually accepted as a work by Liberale da Verona.
The people of North Bay are committed to staying cool during the heat wave we are experiencing these days!
Our Daily Challenge Topic: COMMIT
196/365 365: The 2013 Edition
Thanks for all your comments, faves and views, I so appreciate them =)
This door is located close to my hotel at Bankside in London. I don't think it's the best composition I could have done (it's too tight on the left), but I was a little distracted as I took the photo. A guy in a motorised wheelchair appeared out of nowhere as I was composing the shot and starting chatting.... and chatting.... and chatting.... in the end I had to make an excuse to leave. I'd intended to go back and get a better shot, but never did. I'm keeping the photo because its still OK, but more so because it reminds me of that guy :)
This purple petunia grew in between the slats of my whiskey barrel from last year's seed .....I guess.....I didn't plant it....it seems to be committed to blooming even though it wasn't supposed to be.....
ODC: Commit
2B Day 23: PS & LR edit (summer haze)
kk_july-1 texture by Kim Klassen
This bird is in breeding plumage colors, and I believe it to be an adult bird based on its crisp head pattern and clear breast. It is one of our LBJs (little brown jobs) most easy to ID when in breeding plumage. The several Spizella sparrows can be more difficult to ID when in non-breeding plumage. It is especially challenging when there are mixed flocks that include advanced juveniles. During such periods I find that photography is the surest method of later IDing individual sparrows in this family... you don't have to commit all the subtle field marks of mixed species to memory for later recall when comparing with the field guide images.
IMG_0050; Chipping Sparrow
my second page for Em's Art Journal Challenge. The word being "commit" I journaled a litte about how I find there is no proper German equivalent to that word.
Love locks are ostensibly a sweet idea: a couple mark a padlock with their names, attach it to a bridge and throw the key into the river, committing to the permanence of their love. However, when it's done by thousands of people it rapidly becomes destructive to the bridge and surrounding area, not to mention extremely banal.
The original cast-iron Passerelle des Arts, Paris' first metal bridge, was built 1802-04 to carry pedestrians between the Institut de France and the Palais du Louvre (then named the 'Palais des Arts'). The nine-arch span was reduced to eight in 1852, when the Quai Conti was widened, but following bomb damage in the two world wars and postwar impacts by passing river traffic, the whole bridge was declared unsafe in 1976, closed in 1977 – and destroyed by a further barge crash in 1979. This "identical" seven-arch replacement, newly aligned with the neighbouring Pont Neuf, was built 1981-84.
The first padlocks arrived in late 2008 – no, it's not an old Parisian tradition, nor even French – and overwhelmed the available space by 2012, with locks then being attached to locks. An estimated 700,000 locks added ~60 tonnes of extraneous metal to the bridge's load by early 2014, and the discarded keys were having a measurable effect on river quality; and this on a historically listed bridge within a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In June 2014, part of the parapet collapsed, with more panels having to be urgently replaced with (rapidly graffiti'd) plywood over the summer. Three panels have since been replaced again, with glass, whilst a permanent solution is found which prevents locks being attached and restores the bridge's structural and aesthetic integrity.