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No.....This is an Art Deco central light fitting that can be found in the Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building, Leeds University, UK. The Library was designed in 1927 and completed in 1936. It houses over 3 million books.
If you have a minute it's worth having a Google. Fantastic place to learn....
Thanks for visiting......
[PHOTO NOTE: Despite what the camera data says, this is a stack of three exposures at 1/60, 1/30, 1/20. Even the dynamic range of the D850 is not that good.]
Call this a bookmark shot when you're not having a bookmark. Next week I want to post a series on Industrialism and Post-Industrialism, so let this stand as a segue.
But... I do want to give you something to think about that is a real light bulb moment in relation to our social media practices.
Jaron Lanier - one of the founders of Virtual Reality - is a polymathic inventor, philosopher and writer. Since leaving Silicon Valley he has been warning people against the dangers of social media. This interview might be one of the most important you have listened to in a long time. Our future as real human beings (not inhabiting virtual reality space) might depend on these ideas. Remember the relaunch of FB as "Meta" a few weeks ago?
"How social media ruins your life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
“What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create”
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-turned-jaron-lanie...
For those creative artists among you, here is Julia Bausenhardt and why she is quitting social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yF8eJJ8z0
Her most telling argument - and one I am thinking about very seriously - is to ask ourselves why we are giving away so much of our artistic content for free (and as PRO users paying for the "privilege" - US$71.88 at the latest billing). The problem you see is that social media is so flooded with free artistic content that people see no more reason to buy it. Thus further impoverishing artists while social media companies make fortunes from the advertising revenue WE generate for them.
Time for us humans to seize back control from the algorithms and artificial intelligence. And now of course my chances of an Explore go from 0.00001 percent to actual zero. Good! You know what I think about that whole scam.
“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling ...”
- Patricia Highsmith - The Price of Salt
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgovv8jWETM
Coldplay - Paradise (Peponi) African Style (ft. guest artist, Alex Boye) - The Piano Guys
PARADISO PARAMOUR
Love is like a circle
Infinite goes round and round
encompasses us within it's light
and leads us to the one we found.
Have you ever looked wide-eyed up high
and wondered why - there is no sky?
Just avoid an empty void;
don't be devoid by standing still.
The bars we make imprison us
and block the sun from shining down
Obscure our vision so we can't see
how beautiful we're meant to be,
but look beyond the solid frame
and see the circles lit within
there's love and light and comfort there
actualise perpetual dreams.
When every barrier's fallen down
and all the debris swept aside
the dust will settle; drift away
and sunshine find it's way inside.
The sky will be repainted blue
the sun will warm our hearts and lives
and harmony and peace will reign
Let conscience ever be our guide.
Paradiso paramour
walk the sands for evermore
no words required just BE with me
tranquility waits patiently.
A touch, a kiss, a smile, a look
no words required; an open book
take my hand, don't let me fall
forever love will conquer all ...
- AP – Copyright remains with the author
'copyright image please do not reproduce without permission'
After a hugely enjoyable lunch, we were the last to leave Ma Cuisine bistro in Kew Village the other day – and with outstanding cuisine and an authentic French atmosphere, who could blame us?
Oh, and just look at that superb ceiling light with its menagerie of parrots!
7th August 2021 :
I would have used my seascape photo for today, for the Weekly Theme of "Water."
But, when I found this on the window ledge in the entrance to the apartments it looked far more fun.
It's the light fitting from one of the bathroom cabinets, which someone has had removed.
Today is : International Hangover Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/international-hangover-day-day-af...
That isn't something I'm going to be suffering from.
And for the Silly News it's : National Mustard Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-mustard-day-first-saturd...
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This image was created on the staircase of The View Hotel in Eastbourne.
In September 1974, the first stone was laid by Jack Jones for the TGWU’s new purpose-built convalescent, holiday and educational centre at Eastbourne.
The Eastbourne Centre was then opened by Jack Jones in October 1976. This Centre was built for the purposes of a workers’ recuperation and holiday centre and a Conference Centre for the union.
The Centre is now called The View Hotel. It is still owned by Unite the Union.
Once inside Casa Batlló, one is never tired of discovering the many innovative and charming pieces of artwork. This is a ceiling lamp in one of the rooms, which looks more like a spaceship or UFO in outer space to me:-)
Taken inside Casa Batlló, Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain, as part of a series of excursion tours during my Mediterranean Cruise
Casa Batlló is a renowned building located in the center of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that. Like everything Gaudí designed, it is only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. In 2005 Casa Batlló became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [Source: Wikipedia]
This is Deck 11 Starboard side odd number cabins looking towards the front of the cruse ship. P&O's Ventura can carry up to 3,078 guests and 1205 crew.
An original light fitting in Balham Underground Station, London. Opened in 1926 to a modernist design.
BEAUTIFUL LANDING LIGHTS ( Some shaped like Onions, some like Pineapples hanging on a large metal multiframe suspended with chains. ) AND A COLOURFUL GLASS MOSAIC BETWEEN THE TWO FLOORS IN "THE CROSSED PEELS" WETHERSPOONS. SPITTAL STREET. STIRLING. SCOTLAND.
Look at this classic light on the front of the Broadway Hotel at Woolloongabba, Brisbane. I could imagine it shining through the mist or fog in a classic whodunit movie or Sherlock Holmes story.
I hope one day it shines again.
Found this bent dessert spoon hanging from a light fitting on the deck of a cruise ship (Noordam)
The theme this week is 'Lost and Found'
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"Beam me up, Scotty": a request supposedly made by Captain James T. Kirk in the original series of Star Trek. A request for ‘Chief Engineer Scotty’ to beam him back up to the star ship using the teleporters on board the ‘USS Enterprise’, back from the surface of some unknown planet; while undertaking a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no man has gone before!
Not true. It is a catchphrase that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series. ... Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series and films, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film.
The light fittings in this room inside ‘The library of Birmingham’ just reminded me of what a future teleporter room might look like; If the Enterprise had one then we will have one someday…… Just look at Kirk’s flip top communicator, the likeness inspired Motorola in 1996 to name the first flip phone "StarTAC."; now mobile phones are everywhere.
Much, or all of this may be irrelevant if you are too young to remember ‘Star Trek’ The original series…..
Some information taken from the Internet.
Abstract image of the wonderful light fittings in the drawing room at Windyhill. Mackintosh’s first house on the hill, designed for William Davidson. The light fittings recreated by Rab MacInnes and Linda Cannon with glass baubles that show the four elements.
A second shot from my recent visit to NML's Sudley House. Just loved the colour of three indoor suns. Built in the early 19th century for Liverpool Mayor Nicholas Robinson, Sudley became the house of Victorian ship owner and merchant George Holt in 1883. It was all bequeathed to the city in 1944 by Holt's daughter Emma Holt. It is run by National Museums Liverpool, UK. My blog posting refers at:- tonyrobertson.mycouncillor.org.uk/2016/08/19/liverpool-a-...
A capture of a metal chandelier at Dubai Airport Lounge. I just liked the design and the ceiling was so intricate. Tried to get a nice capture from a different angle and include elements of the light and shadows of the scene. I opted for reduction in clarity and contrast post process with some noise added to emphasise some of the warmth of the light and the mood I saw at the time.
Been horribly wet here almost all day, so getting out for a photo wasn't an option. I happened to have my camera in my hand when I went to make a mug of tea and looked up at the kitchen light.
To cheer it up a bit I changed it to black and white and gave it a slight swirl.
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I'll make this my last upload from the V&A, I promise! It is a beautiful building, and I had a busy day filling up memory cards. This is the ceiling in the museum restaurant - I liked the light fittings, these huge balls of light. My hands are not that steady but this was easy to take, simply laying the camera on the table behind my plate:-) A couple more shots in the comments.
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