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Shot with a SLR Magic Toy Camera Lens and a Lumix G2. ESP opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern State Penitentiary quickly became one of the most expensive and most copied buildings in the young United States. It is estimated that more than 300 prisons worldwide are based on the Penitentiary's wagon-wheel, or "radial" floor plan.
Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cell blocks and empty guard towers.
Furlong House refused to fall down despite decades of neglect. The developer was obliged to retain and restore the principle structure - that work is now almost complete. A victory for heritage.
The radio station where I work, sent my wife and I to the National Quartet Convention in Pigeon Forge, TN. We caught the end of Jim & Melissa Brady's concert on the Thursday morning session.
Human ingenuity has produced chairs and seats of many shapes and sizes, some less suited to being occupied than others. These were at Sadlers Wells Theatre and are somewhere in the middle of the comfort scale.
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rain on the brain
now there's flowers in your window
she well she's so strange
i don't know anything about her
but if it's all the same to you
here's what i'm gonna do
i'm gonna write a song
gonna sing it to everyone
and then i'll sing it to you
cos it was you that wrote it too
this could be the last train
search within yourself for feelings
everybody's got them
you left me on the shelf
and no there'sno one to rely on
but if it's all the same to you
here's what i'm gonna do
The new achitecture in Lyttelton has been spawned by the earthquakes and the need for a quick solution to the situation created by the destruction of most of the inner city of Christchurch and the main streets of Lyttelton. A whole new style is evolving with shops, cafes, bars, offices and workshops offering citizens alternative venues for what has been lost.
Some images & impressions of the streets of Barcelona
This elegant couple were slumped fast asleep in a cafe, no one seems to mind, no one seems to notice . . .
This was the ticketed seating area for the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. Tickets for this event were free and distributed on November 1 at the White House Visitors Center in the Department of Commerce building on a first-come, first-serve basis. Of course, the front rows were reserved for dignitaries.
No bleachers in the back this year -- not sure when (or why) they stopped building them. Maybe for security purposes.
The overall crowd for the ceremony was fairly large...but wait 'til next year when President and Mrs. Obama and their girls light the tree for the first time.
DCist, December 5, 2008: "Morning Roundup: It's Beginning to a [sic] Look a Lot Like Edition"