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Like my friend Malcolm, my friend Bob Grant is a bit of a social media Luddite, but has very kindly allowed me to upload some of his collection to be enjoyed by a wider audience.
We start off with a classic triple lash-up of former South Australian Railway's, English-Electric powered 900 class, 902/907/901, near Balyarta in the Adelaide Hills with a westbound freight on 8 July 1982. They came complete with the traditional EE 16SVT exhaust note.
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The ancient yew tree at Hartshead Church, where Robin Hood is said to have cut his final arrow, before his death by bleeding at Kirklees Priory.
Patrick Bronte was the vicar here from 1810-1815, before moving to Haworth. It is reputed that he turned a blind eye and permitted the nightime burial of two Luddites, killed in the 1812 raid at Cartwrights Mill.
Call me a Luddite but I hate what this button represents. Please bring back regular car keys for us key fob haters. For the Macro Mondays group, challenge: Button.
Happy Macro Monday!
Lens ..Sigma 10-20mm The fortunes of the Heathcoat-Amory family were founded in the early nineteenth century. John Heathcoat was born into a Derbyshire farming family in 1783.[4] An inventor of genius, he designed and patented a machine that revolutionised the production of lace. His manufactury near Loughborough was destroyed by former Luddites paid by unknown persons in 1816, he then moved his basis of manufacture, and a large number of his workers, to Tiverton, Devon and there established a lace-works which, by the later part of the nineteenth century, was the largest lace-producing manufactory in the world.
Loughborough a town in Leicestershire.
Loughborough began as a Saxon village. At the time of the Domesday Book Loughborough probably had a population of about 180-200. By the standards of the time it was a fairly large village. In the 13th century Loughborough became a busy little town. From the early 13th century Loughborough had weekly markets and annual fairs. In the Middle Ages fairs were like markets but were held only once a year. They attracted buyers and sellers from a wide area.
In Medieval Loughborough traders or craftsmen of one type tended to live in the same street. Bakers lived in Baxtergate. Baxter meant baker and gate is derived from an old Scandinavian word for street 'gata'. So it was baker street. Many of the people of Loughborough kept livestock. Any animals found wandering were put in a pound called the pinfold until the owner paid a fine to get it back. Pinfold gata was the street leading to the pinfold.
By the late 16th century Loughborough may have had a population of about 2,000. Like all Tudor towns Loughborough suffered from outbreaks of plague. It struck the town in 1558, 1602-1603, 1609 and 1631. Each time the plague struck there were many deaths. Nevertheless each time the population of Loughborough recovered.
In the early 17th century a writer described Loughborough as: 'great and large, well situated by reason of the wood and water, adorned with many fair buildings and a large church.'
From the late 17th century there were framework knitters in Loughborough. They worked in their own homes making woolen stockings, although the industry became mechanised in the 19th century.
In 1848 it suffered an outbreak of cholera. However in 1849 a Board of Health was formed and in the second half of the 19th century things improved. A clean water supply was created in Loughborough in 1870.
In 1809 a man named John Heathcoat invented a lace making machine and began production in Loughborough. However his new invention was unpopular with men called Luddites who feared it would take away their jobs. In 1816 Luddites destroyed Heathcoat's machines. As a result he moved to Devon.
Information source:
St Peter's Church, Hartshead. Overlooking the area where Luddites killed in the raid on Cartwright's Mill, were said to be secretly buried, during the time Patrick Bronte was the vicar here.
Wonky bridges, slanty streets and a warning sign for ducks!
Tiverton, Devon, UK.
Tiverton was founded around the year 650 AD as a royal estate. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the town grew to become a centre for the woollen industry; later becoming famous for lace making.
The Heathcoat Lace Factory was established in 1816 when John Heathcoat took over a factory on the site and moved his lace working business from Loughborough.
The Luddites invaded the Loughborough mill in 1816 and destroyed 55 lace frames. Heathcoat afterward installed new and greatly improved machines at a mill in Tiverton.
Nowadays its just a gentle sleepy Devon town.
The dog turned 13 on friday and I spent most of the weekend lounging around with the old guy and relaxing on the balcony in the cooler weather. I was supposed to take him to the Vet sunday at 5pm to get his nails cut and a few of his annual tests and shots out of the way but by 3pm with heavy clouds and periodic rain drops, I figured I'd give him a full weekend of no stress. I also was hoping to maybe head out somewhere to shoot what seemed like an inevitably great sunset. Well, I didn't make it anywhere. I had considered Venice but with high surf conditions (see? i learned my lesson from last time) i knew reflections would be tough and I'd simply end up in the exact same area as always. I drove the 10 minutes to Hollywood Bowl Overlook and found a line of cars and tourist vans waiting to enter the approximately 5 parking space lot. After a few u-turns, I decided to just head back down Mulholland Drive and go home. From what I could see off the balcony, the sunset was nice with plenty of layered clouds and pink and purple hues. Basically like so many East facing sunsets I saw when I first arrived.
The forecast shows mostly cloudy with some light rain possible over much of the next 2 weeks so I wasn't too bummed out to miss sunday's sundown even if it would've looked amazing from the overlook with the hollywood sign to the left and downtown LA straight ahead. I planned to go to Laguna Beach for the first time today but when I finally set out, many of the streets right around the apartment were blocked off and traffic was nearly stopped in all directions. The GPS said i'd arrive 25 minutes before sunset and it seemed pretty silly to spend almost 2 hours in the car going somewhere I'd never been for such a short period of time. There's a lot to explore over there and as usual, poor planning and traffic forced me to change my plans.
I spent 20 minutes driving towards Santa Monica Pier before changing course for Hermosa Beach Pier. The one time I went to Hermosa was back in early January, about 10 days after Scotch and I arrived here. After a sleepless night, he and I set out just before sunrise and explored the areas between Dockweiler beach all the way to Rancho Palos Verdes and the only time I came back over there was a few nights later for that sunset at Manhattan Beach. From photos I've seen, Hermosa pier has some similarities to Venice and since it's adjacent to Manhattan Beach Pier, I had a good idea where the sunset would line up.
I didn't move more than 15 feet from this particular spot and this was still before the sun set below the horizon. I moved only when the glare was bad or the view semi obstructed. The sunset itself was less impressive that I expected and a few other photographers near echoed those thoughts but it was still a beautiful sight and a nice deviation from Venice Beach. The colors lingered a while and my intention was to head up to the pier for some nice symmetrical shots from that vantage but i got wrapped in a conversation with a older gentleman who's been photographing here since the mid 1960s and it turned out to be a real eye opener for me. He claimed to be a luddite when it came to technology but he spoke of photography like an expert and explained some things to me I never learned in the first place or even realized I needed to understand. By the end of the conversation, I felt like I owed him money for the valuable information and perspective he provided. Maybe in the future, I won't be so closed off when I'm shooting around other people. It's a successful night when I can get some sunset shots and learn something new about photography or get a few questions answered.
▪️WHEN & WHERE▪️
•Hermosa Beach Pier
•Hermosa Beach, California
•October 24th, 2016
▪️SETTINGS▪️
•Canon T4i
•EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
•@24mm
•ISO 100
•f/13
•25 seconds
•ND1000
•CPL
Pleasley Vale Cotton Mills stand in a short limestone gorge formed by the River Meden. They were in operation between 1784 and 1987 and now house a business park. They were the scene of luddite attacks in the 19th century. These reputedly haunted mills featured in an episode of the UK TV series "Most haunted". They straddle the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, UK.
Doubling-down against AI in Photography
This fake lizard looks like it has crawled out of the shadows. A bit like the shadowy figures behind the Artificial Intelligence revolution which is changing our world forever.
After my rant against Artificial Intelligence yesterday I have decided to double-down. What does it matter if AI fans and bot users on Flickr want to block me? The feeling's mutual anyway. I've already blocked hundreds and hundreds of the worst bot users (an early form of AI technology). It's one of the reasons why my photos don't get as many views and faves as they should. So much faving on Flickr is done by bot machines. In other words, real people aren't even looking at our photographs, they are using their bot to fave for them - and even comment - in the hope we will be silly enough to reciprocate. It's why you see some people with bad photographs getting tens of thousands of views and thousands of faves.
The most glaring example of this is when you see Explored photos filled with bot comments like, "Congrats on Explore." You don't think an intelligent person would come up with that stupid phrase do you? Remember that the Explore algorithm is itself a bot, and that humans do not select your photos for it. So in the very rare event I am Explored you won't see these bot usual suspects on my page as I've already blocked them. These "people" (bots) trawl the Explore page each day faving everything and even leaving these meaningless comments. Please don't respond to them they won't read your comment anyway! They are only doing it because it's a proven way to get Explored yourself.
Tony Northrup is a YouTube photographer increasingly concerned about the way even programs like Photoshop are incorporating AI features which will ultimately make cameras and even photographers redundant. People are already using it to create pictures without even so much as leaving their desktop!
Have a look at what Tony says:
New Photoshop AI REPLACES the Digital Camera?! SERIOUSLY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6N6y7HqrFw
Also try Andy Hutchinson's brilliant take on the issue:
Photography’s Post A.I. Future - Keep Calm and Carry On?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaL1pjr1sk&t=603s
Perhaps most people on Flickr might think this is tilting at windmills, some Quixotic quest for a purer world, but I will always side with the Chivalrous Don against a world of abject fakery.
For modern literature lovers even the reclusive Thomas Pynchon has written about this long before AI was anything but an imaginative thought in some Silicon Valley computer lab.
"Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?"
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/review...?
Another reminder (as if I needed it) of a recent, fabulous morning spent loitering, back & forth, on & around, the upper reaches of Stob Ghabhar.
As usual, I'm probably deceiving myself into thinking that particular arrangement works. It once again employs a level of implied symmetry as well as a foreground 'cradle'. Its right on the limit with regards to detail retention at the light extremes; & it may be this feature that's slightly bothersome (in that an old Luddite like myself is very wary of something veering into overcooked HDR territory).
If you can help me re: SL Viewers, please leave a comment here or on my blog <3 deuxlooks.com/is-this-minecraft/ because this looks like Minecraft -_-
The upper strands of Rock Creek coalesce into a vivid, glacial blue ribbon beneath a bowl of mountains, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana. There are hundreds of Rock Creeks throughout the inter-mountain West, and this is as fine a specimen as they come.
From this vantage, we are approximately ⅔ up the 1500 foot (460 m) climb from the creek to the summit of Sundance Pass, and deep amongst the lairs of the numerous and wily American Pika (Ochotona princeps). They were a joy to watch as they perched saucily atop the boulders, scolding us before taking cover amongst the smaller rocks and crannies. From left to right in the photo are Mount Lockhart, Whitetail Peak, Medicine Mountain, Castle Mountain, and Sundance Mountain, all between 11,500 ft -12,600 ft elevation (3,505 m - 3,840 m).
Shortly before pausing for this photo, we passed a group of four middle-aged gentlemen from Atlanta and Michigan who had known each other since college, probably half a decade older than us. They were descending the pass and were also the first people we had seen since hoisting our packs at the trailhead the morning of the previous day. The night before when we were camped in Quinnebaugh Meadows we witnessed a helicopter move purposefully over the pass at dusk and then disappear from view. It was puzzling to see in such a remote location. One of the men carried a small device that allowed texting via satellite, and he explained that it was they who had summoned Life Flight. Apparently they had camped near a woman who had unexpectedly passed a kidney stone the night before. She was unable to move from the pain, and the helicopter was unable to land closer than a mile to her location due to the steep topography. They carried her up a good climb to the waiting medics and she was evacuated to Bozeman for treatment.
We watched them descend out of view and contemplated the trackless days ahead in the Plateau. We carried no such device, and I was quite sure the paper map and plastic compass would fail to summon any help if either one of us slipped on a loose rock and sustained any kind of serious damage. Such is the gamble the Luddite makes.
Material Agency : Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
Visualising Environmental Agency
"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"
"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."
Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
Filament,drawing on lightweight paper 2010.Chapel Arts Studios,Andover.
My mini theme here today was actually discussed on the TV news last night - timely, but I had planned these uploads long before that. It concerns the increased urbanisation of Tasmania, one of the most rural states in Australia.
It is projected that within the next few years population will fall up to 15% in most rural areas, particularly in the north west of the island state. Already the effects are being felt. Local municipalities struggling to be able to afford essential services for communites; local football teams unable to survive because they can no longer attract enough players (actually East Devonport folded just yesterday, and their most famous player in history was one of the greatest to ever play Australian football, the late Daryl Baldock). We've known for a long time about the flight of young people from rural areas. They go to the cities for education and work and almost never return.
There's a pattern to all this that finds its origins in the industrial revolution - when people moved off the land that their families had worked for centuries to find work in grubby mills in the rapidly growing industrial cities (William Blake's "Dark Satanic Mills"). Sickness was often the result.
Isn't it interesting (and this is certainly true of Australia) that the rural areas have largely been untouched by the pandemic. In rural areas people are physically distanced, but they are most definitely NOT socially distanced. There's a big difference, and it's why I ask myself why any sane person (without the desire for mammon) would want to live in a big city.
I dream of a counter-revolution where we rely less on modern technology and communications to rediscover our true humanity in ordinary life on the land. Then maybe we would not have so many abandoned buildings like this and a real change would be in the wind. But we are fighting against a longstanding plan to move people into the large cities. It provides better economies of scale, and a greater ability to monitor people's behaviour, so the powers that be are not going to relent.
Only strong minded individuals can make the difference, by telling these "progressives" enough is enough. Even if we fail, as the Luddites did when they tried to smash the looms in those dark satanic mills, we will have chosen the path to recapturing true human values in the face of the growing Machine Age. And never forget that the great scientist Steven Hawking warned before he died, "If we let the machines take over they will destroy us."
theconversation.com/stephen-hawking-warned-about-the-peri...
BBC interview with Steven Hawking: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLVyWBDTfo&feature=emb_logo
Once the spine of the towns economy, mills dominate the townscape at Dewsbury. Several of the impressive stone and brick buildings have been converted into flats and a few can be seen in this shot, scattered beside the railway.
68028 'Lord President' shoves TPE's 1E29 0854 Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough across Dewsbury viaduct on the former LNWR line. The striking livery and modern appearance of the set would no doubt have alarmed the Luddites, reputedly formed in the town.
13th March 2020
Thanks to Simon Jowett for the loco ID.
in some ways i'm as "fashion 4ward" as the next guy
and in some ways i'm such a luddite
take phones...
for the most part, i've HATED phone design over the past few years
i have always DESPISED flip top phones because they always break... usually within a year (in fact, are there any phones that last more than two years without something happening to them?)
i never really felt the use to have a camera in my phone (that's why you have an actual camera, isn't it?)
i never really had use for sliding bits and gadgets and oh look it's so shiny
and what's with the phones that are the size of a postage stamp that'll get lost in twenty minutes?
(obviously i'm exaggerating on that last one, but only a little bit!)
just give me something of a decent size that i can make a call with and that's not so fragile it'll break if i sneeze too hard
which is why i've had my one piece phone forever and he served his purpose just fine thank you very much!
(wasn't too thrilled about sprint itself, but i thought my phone was great)
there was a deal that was a bit too good to pass up and we switched over to verizon today
which means that my old friend (who i've had for something like 6 years) is now retired
maybe i'll turn him into an art piece
(and if i could have brought him with me to verizon you can be damn sure i would have)
I can't help myself. I want to give up on remote shoots, but it's also a hill I want to summit, gotta hit the mountaintop before I move on.
Did one last week...same problems, but I'm seeing some solutions on the horizon.
I look at this shoot, there's possibilities! These are so close!
The best reason to keep trying? I CAN DO IT FROM MY COMPUTER. It feels gross, isn't the whole point to go outside? To actually be around other people!
Sure...if you're a luddite! This is the future! All human interaction behind the safety of a very expensive computer screen!
Really, the excitement of being able to get this right AND "hang out" with folks in other cities/states/countries, that's where the juice is.
Just gotta find an app that lets me control other people's phone cameras...
23.6.2023.
The cramped conditions of a Victorian Framework Knitters workshop.
The workers worked a fourteen hour day in cramped noisy and dangerous conditions. Pay was so poor it led to the Luddite rebellion of 1811.
The movement began in Arnold (a suburb of Nottingham) a spread rapidly over the next two years.
The Luddites in Nottingham destroyed frames belonging to the 'Master Hosiers'
The Government of the day responded by sending in troops to protect the workshops and a Bill in parliament was proposed to make the breaking of frames punishable by death!
Framework Knitters Museum - Ruddington.
This gangway once connected the North Mill to the West Mill in Belper (the latter no longer extant). It was equipped with musket holes so that the mills could be defended against the Luddite attacks of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Project 365 (one photo per day for 2022 taken on 5x4 large format film)
Event: Project 365
Location: Garage at home
Camera: Wista 45VX
Lens(s): Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar 150mm f/5.6
Film: Ilford Delta 100
Shot ISO: 80
Light Meter: Minolta Spot Meter F
Movements: Front tilt forwards, front rise
Bellows: 175mm (+0.5)
Exposure: 1s @ f/19
Lighting: Vivanco VL300 - 6pm
Mounting: Tripod - Manfrotto
Firing: Cable release
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4)
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
I went for an early 5 mile walk yesterday without my camera to force myself to try out my new Samsung S8. I am not a luddite, but have resisted the temptation of a smart phone until the recent Cyber Monday sale (Following Black Friday). It actually takes pretty reasonable snapshots and was quite fun experimenting with!
Mr Computer meets Mr Powergel
We had spare computers and spare explosives it seemed a shame not to let them play together.
Oil, acrylic ink & synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 153 x 185 cms.
**** STOP PRESS ****
Josh Foley has won the Children's Choice Award at this year's Glover Prize. This was announced on March 14 and involved voting from all children who attended the show. Congratulations Josh. Much deserved.
www.examiner.com.au/story/7166345/tasmanian-artists-win-b...
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This year there were a record 640 entries to the Glover Prize, and just 42 finalists. To make the final show is in itself a major artistic achievement. But Launceston contemporary artist Josh Foley has done better than that, winning with his entry in 2011. www.johnglover.com.au/product/gees-lookout/
Foley didn't win the big prize this year, but his painting still proved popular with the crowds of people who packed the Falls Park Pavilion in Evandale.
I can see numerous refences to classical myth and art history in this sophisticated work. The style is distinctly Foley's, but the setting to me seems to evoke Glover's pastoral scenes, and Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" (d.1516). Is that Icarus falling from the sky like a comet? And what about the little tribute to Vincent's "Starry Night" in the top left hand corner.
When talking to Foley a week before the show, he said the title of his work would be "Houdini". I mentioned the fact that Harry Houdini (the renowned escapologist) was also a serious pioneer aviator, who made the first recorded powered flight in Australia at Digger's Rest in Victoria in 1910. It's a fascinating story and you can read about it here: collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/3706
Foley did not know that fact, but admitted he often picks things up in the "collective unconscious". And there in this photograph is an airplane (not Houdini's biplane, but a symbolic representation at least).
Well here is what Foley himself says of this work:
"Some notes taken throughout the creation of this work include:
Information age landscape.
Detail is textual.
Flying pigs. The sky is inhabited once more.
The Tasmanian landscape is a computer program made in Inida (Spelling intentionally incorrect. The label on the roll of canvas used for the work specified it was made in Inida and I thereby began to speculate on the significance of the fact that in some ways part of this landscape was manufactured in a factory in the Northern Hemisphere)
This is a Frankenstein landscape of Tasmania, stitching together a gothic past, echoes of Gondwana land, the continuing juxtaposition of industrial schematics with ongoing colonial desires, and an emergent reality that is mediated and manipulated by exponentially increasing technological trickery with the communicative and physical distances of space and time shrinking as an outcome.
Luddite self-portrait..."
Unpack that!
What's this ad telling us?
Edison Home Phonograph
Color chromolithograph advertisement, 1901
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"It's telling me parental guidance is in short supply.
"First lesson
would be how to hold the axe correctly.
"Lesson two
send him outside with orders to chop firewood until the blisters on his hand give him a aversion to axes.
"Lesson three
send him to the Captain Bligh Sunday school to learn seamanship and discipline. And hard tack for dinner. "
-- Steve (below)
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
- Albert Einstein
Purposely kept this composition 'busy' to reflect the complexity of modern life, as seen by the young (overwhelming for adults, imagine what the world seems like to them).
And no, I'm not a Luddite.
Yes, that white stuff is spring snow ... good thing about spring snow, it melts fast and almost never needs shoveling.
This is probably as close to "posting a tweet" as my Luddite fingers will get ;-)
Disclaimer: This drawing is intended purely as biting social satire of contemporary behavior. It is in no way a personal slight aimed at any factual persons of my acquaintance who own an iPhone, specifically including my spouse. Honestly.
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I'm both such a curmudgeon and Luddite that I find the ubiquitous big screens found at events to be, well, evil. The whole point is to witness the event live, correct? You want to watch a bloody screen, well, stay home and watch your TV. And don't get me started talking about people who check their iPhones every five minutes..... aaarrrggg. Seen in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
She said I probably wouldn't be able to get a good shot of this side that late in the afternoon, and perhaps I didn't, but I certainly tried to make one.
Not bad for a Luddite, right?
There are those who hate SingulariCity. Humanists, religious fanatics, anarchists. To some, mankind's waning importance is a conspiracy, to others, abomination. This tribe of uneasy alliances works tirelessly to cause havok for those who would live with AI in peace.
Depicted here is a Luddite's Custom Assault Racer, crossing into the city's Terms of Service area.
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***EDIT*** DUE TO POPULAR ACCLAIM, THE PART PREVIOUSLY PLAYED BY ZACH GALIFIANAKIS HAS BEEN RECAST WITH JAVIER BARDEM.
I'm mad for books, and I have had intimate relationships with so many of "my" libraries over the years . . . from the little church-like one of my youth, with it's attic of a children's room to the palatial New York Public Library which I used to visit on lunch breaks when I worked in the garment district.
We have really wonderful libraries in my town now, and I know the future is digital downloads, but I'm an unapologetic luddite in this regard. I don't think a house is a home without piles and piles of books. We're in the process of installing some new bookshelves, so I've got stacks all over the place.
A new project is in the works at this time: a Shasta Trailer Distributor, circa 1959.
I was so inspired by the posting of the winter trailer scene, that I went and bought
a number of other trailers and repainted them to create a sales and service center for them.
Here is that former posting:
www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/31899018511/in/datepos...
And even though you might not be able to see the interior of the sales room in the final photograph, I felt it was necessary to fit it out with furniture plus display items from the trailers themselves.
Here you can see the finished generic office desk from that era.
It is made of styrene plastic,
with straight pins for handles. It took about 3 hours to create.
Now in the background, you can see an office chair. That is not hand made, but in fact it's a 3D printed item.
I thought I'd do some exploring into the new technology that is available,
and went on line to see what was there.
The future is here! I could have hand made the chair myself, but it felt necessary to embrace what is coming down the pike.
There is no need to be a total Luddite [a person opposed to new technology].
With all apologies to Led Zeppelin, this is classic Central Oregon. This is probably the most well known abandoned homestead in the state, and likely the most photographed both during the day and at night. But that's because it's a really, really cool house that still shows off its distinctive Victorian architecture and shingle patterns.
I bet it would actually have been a decent place to live back in the day. It's beyond repair now, and serves as a fantastic reminder that commerce in Oregon was not nearly as concentrated in the metro area in the past. The land is still worked as vigorously as ever, but by fewer people, more machines and a growing number of computers. I'm not really a Luddite at all, but I like these images of the past, even if they are viewed through rose-coloured glasses. At any rate, though, you only have to take a look at the light pollution from The Dalles to realize what century it is.
Thanks for viewing!
So, my first video uploaded to Flickr, then.
Video on Flickr? Hmmm...
First thoughts were dread that Flickr will edge closer to YouTube, with the inane brainless commenting that goes on there.
Then, after seeing some great videos uploaded by some of my contacts, I started to come round.
And when I think about it, it does make sense to keep one's visual goodness together, rather than having to actively maintain an account elsewhere for photos that happen to move.
We shall see...
Rug-based analogue entertainment for sixties throwbacks and luddite offspring. A spooky dalek shaped monstrosity catches the last light of the day on the bank of the river Thames.
The latest in dinner menus, brought to you by the coronavirus!
No matter what cruise line you go on they're going to have an app that you can use. You can find out show times, get the lowdown on the best places to shop in the port, and choose your eating spot based on the menu.
I personally don't like the idea of an app but I'm in the minority judging by the number of people walking around with their phones in hand. I don't want to order a drink and have it delivered to me anywhere I am on the ship, I don't want the cruise line to know how long I spent browsing in their shops, and I don't want to see their suggestions as to what I should be doing based on my location!
I go on a cruise to disconnect but they're making it more difficult all the time. You can embrace it if you like but it tends to bring out the Luddite in me.