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This street is not unlike some recent shots but with some differences. I thought there was what was known as a bit off a gyuck in the line up there but it is a set of points to change from a double into a single. Are they policemen in the distance????
Niall McAuley identified this street as Blackrock Road, Cork. He also provides a streetview link and a link to an article in the Echo from 2014, I have included an extract of the relevant section below:
"When initial survey works were carried out last year workers uncovered old tram lines and cobbles that were found intact under the road surface. The tram lines operated in Cork city from 1898 to 1931, running from Blackpool to Douglas, Summerhill to Sunday’s Well and Tivoli to Blackrock.
The trams, run by the Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company, ceased operation in September 1931, largely due to the increasing popularity of buses. The Council plans to incorporate the tram lines into the redevelopment of the harbour."
Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: 1900 - 1920
NLI Ref: OCO371
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
― Douglas Adams
"I told the writers there are no bad ideas. And they really took that to heart."
― Liz Lemon, "30 Rock"
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People say lots of silly things about failure. For instance, my high school principal tried to inspire/lecture us at our graduation by telling us, "If you don't have a goal to aim towards, you'll never miss your mark." I think this was just a confused version of "Aim for the moon, because even if you miss you'll end up among the stars." But to this day, I can't be sure if he was being stupid, sarcastic, or secretly ingenious at some deeply meta level.
Here's another thing people say: Failure is not an option. Words that have been muttered more than once by desperate men right before they make a really bad decision.
Some pretty dire stuff can happen when we refuse to accept defeat, refuse to acknowledge our failures or even our capacity to fail. When the stakes are so high, we might feel justified in resorting to all kinds of bad behavior we'd never excuse when failure *is* an option. Those words -- "failure is not an option" -- are really just another way of saying, "I had no choice." Really? None at all? Forgive me if I chock that up to lack of imagination.
Am I saying we should embrace failure and learn from our mistakes? Sure. But let's not fetishize failure. Let's not get so comfortable with failure that we use it to excuse mediocrity and broken systems and bokeh lighting.
A popular saying in Silicon Valley these days is: Fail fast, fail often. Such advice is easy to follow when the cost of failure is relatively low, when there's not much more than 1s and 0s at stake and you can always write a new bit of code. But it quickly becomes obvious how terrible an idea it is when failing fast and often means creating basic employment instability for workers, churning out cheap gadgets that just end up in landfills because nobody actually wants them, and burning through natural resources on an already feverish planet in pursuit of get-rich-quick schemes on a massive scale.
Maybe the most obvious result of the fail-fast approach is that soon enough we find ourselves living in a culture of failure, surrounded by discarded half-assed projects and half-baked ideas that don't really satisfy anyone's needs. This is not a culture of innovation and creativity, but of laziness, clutter and distraction. "We'll let the consumers decide. We'll just throw everything against the wall and see what sticks," say the folks with nothing to lose. I have in mind an old sit-com scene where a woman cooking pasta take this advice literally and throws an entire pot of spaghetti against the wall. What do you get? Just a big mess and a bunch of hungry people.
What we may have forgotten along the way is that you have to cook the pasta first. That's what thinking is for, after all: imagining scenarios in your head, playing out different ways things could go, preparing for the possibility that things will go wrong so that when they do you don't end up with marinara sauce dripping from the ceiling. It's much quicker to clean up imaginary messes. So while I admire the can-do spirit that doesn't shy away from failure, I'd like to see more of us taking a moment to figure out what it is we really want, to think through our choices and the costs involved instead of outsourcing that part of the process and trying to rebrand junk as the price of success.
Maybe I'm starting to sound a bit too much like my high school principal, but I guess what I'm trying to say is: The fastest way to fail is to think things through.
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#UULent #failure #choice #altar #meditation
I'm using this as a PSA! This is a little different, not a very "artistic" photo but a photo none the less!
It's a side by side comparison of two different sensor cleaning kits. I had never cleaned my sensor before (had the camera about 6 years) and I assumed all cleaning kits were similar - NOPE. The one on the right was cleaned 2X with a name brand, green handle with triangular shaped swab after I cleaned the sensor with the brand on the left many more times. Not purfect but much better and WAY better than the uncleaned sensor.
Shutter Speed: slow
Movement: frozen
Aperture: small
Depth of Field: medium
Light: tiny, filtered (window), horizontal/sideways-right
Denholm ICD then 2008 & now January 2015
The end of an era as another long standing Bristol company calls in the demolition crew and ceases trading!
Just to show you parts of the photo without HDR treatment. The top bar and right-bottom is unedited, middle bar and middle-bottom is photoshopped, and bottom (and left) is HDR.
Also view: The Difference (1)
3 Exposures: -2, 0 and +2.
let us imagine that the pure singleness OURSELF extends: we extend as space. let us further imagine that because our understanding has the limitation of being differential, we understand always as a difference from alterity - from the other thing. however, if we OURSELF are pure singleness, then this differential extending is always with alterity (with the Other rather than from the other). we might call this moment of differential extending the moment of time.
if such were the case, then the only reason we would see things around us, would be because these things constitute our very understanding with them; we see them because we are them - moment by differentiating moment. light and space are one, difference and time are one. pure singleness.
all this is our most fundamental understanding of OURSELF, which because we have brains, we grasp together as our comprehending of things. but our understanding-with alterity is always infinitely greater than our ability to comprehend our Otherness. so although it is the case that in our brain and body we understand the universe, we cannot comprehend it, let alone know it (for to know it would be to know our own pure singleness). hence, i think, we are the unfathomable SELF, an essential deficiency - the void that must be filled.
Letterpress coaster series we produced for Anthem! www.anthemww.com Besides turning out beautifully (mainly due to good appropriate design work) the piece is also a good example of using 2-color printing and other letterpress learning.
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One of a number of Mourning Doves finding a bit of refuge from the wind in the trees behind my house. Definitely a wintery day here today (January 7,2009).
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Bonkers clearly thinks that Naomi should give him her dinner. Naomi has a different opinion (not to mention being bigger, smarter, and stronger (but with much duller claws) than Bonkers).
EXPLORE # 306
Sem diferenças...!!
Jardim Botânico - Rio de Janeiro
Imagine
Homme de couleur
Quand je suis né, j'étais noir !
Quand j'ai grandi, j'étais noir !
Quand j'ai peur, je suis noir !
Quand je vais au soleil, je suis noir !
Quand je suis malade, je suis noir !
Quand tu es né, tu étais rose !
Quand tu as grandi, tu es devenu blanc !
Quand tu vas au soleil, tu deviens rouge !
Quand tu as froid, tu deviens bleu !
Quand tu as peur, tu deviens vert !
Quand tu es malade, tu deviens jaune !
Et après tout ça,
Tu oses m'appeler,"Homme de couleur " !!!
« Homme de couleur ! » est tiré d’un conte africain.
Today is "Red nose day" in the U.K. it's a big charity event lasting all day, this years slogan is "Do something funny for money" you can see more info here
My lovely (and very talented) young friend Jeta (pronounced Yet-a) joined me at the RenFaire last Sunday. As requested, I tried enhancing some pics digitally. Left is unaltered; right is altered.
Not much change, as you can see.
I perceived the difference of asking people for their permission to be photographed and just stand where everyone can see what you are doing, and photograph...I never asked anyone for a photo neither anyone gave me a hard time...except for this tonguelish lady :)
It's amazing what a difference some paint and determination can make!!!! So pleased with how this turned out. Turns out all those hours in my childhood spent helping/watching my dad restore wooden boats ( his hobby) taught me a thing or two about salvaging furniture. I got the ultimate seal of approval with a WOW! Impressive work! from my dad via text ( which is a huge deal for him to text lol!) I'll be posting some pictures from my real camera soon and some process shots. The secret to a successful furniture flip is NOT SKIPPING STEPS. A few extra hours isn't that bad!
This one I am pleased with-- the difference between checking your measurements and eyeballing it. Polymer clay and glass beads.
小松橋通り一葉まつり
Edo Yoshiwara Oiran palade -Kamuro 2-
Do you know the difference between "geisha" and "oiran"?
Central United Methodist Church was one of the first Protestant congregations in Michigan. The church was organized in 1810, incorporated in 1822, and the church building was built in 1865 ( with modifications to the sanctuary in 1867 ) .
Those were my first hours in Cambodia. I was astonished by the differences between Vietnam and Cambodia...the gap between the rich and poors seems HUGE. They are jsut out of this genocide that killed half their population. However, everywhere you look, all that you see are people smiling and waiving at you. You are most welcome in Cambodia.
Not long after this, I went for a beer and came back to my hotel in a tùk-tùk. The driver had been waiting the whole evening/night to get me back to the hotel as most drivers do there. But on the way, I was nearly killed when a car crashed on us...Of course the driver of the car ranaway...and the police could not care less. I was glad the camera was not hurt;)
So fun doing pannings in south east asia...you don't have to wait for the next subject...it's a constant flow. You just choose the candies.