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I got my home
In the promise land
But I feel at home
Can you overstand
- Bob Marley
No chance to get out and travel far this week so back to an old haunt ...
Sometimes, we all need to take a break. There is no shame in it, and in fact, I think it can be a healthy, necessary part of our photographic life... moneymakerphotography.com/taking-a-break
Chicago Cultural Center: Revisit the Past for Fresh Perspective
I'm away in Florida for the week. I am back to a place that I used to spend a great deal of time ... Wiggin's Pass.
Everything is a matter of scale and perspective and, yep, this is about right for my place in the world.
Nikon FM2, Nikon E 28/2.8, Fuji Superia 200
going through old pictures from last year that i didn't get round to uploading. these are from when my sister and i went to brighton for the day in october.
A true ghost story!
On the night of October 31st, 1890 in the Village of Akron, New York a seventeen year old girl named Sadie McMullen took two young girls out onto the middle of the Cement Works trestle. The trestle spanned Murder Creek Ravine, connecting the cement mill to the mainline railroad at a height of 52 feet.
Once in the middle of the trestle, Sadie McMullen instructed the girls to sit down. In an instant she rose up and hurled eight-year old Nellie May Connor off of the bridge. Six-year old Delia Brown screamed and in a moment, McMullen was upon her, clasped her hand over the little girl's mouth and pushed her out into the darkness.
Nellie May Connor fell, striking her head on a stone abutment - she was killed instantly. Delia Brown managed to miraculously survive and when she was discovered beneath the bridge by a search party at 3 AM, the first words she uttered were, "Sadie thought she was real smart throwing us off the bridge, didn't she?"
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My second shot from last weekend where I discovered the name of the location after the fact. The first was Suicide Corners.
My twisted sense of humor thought the "Dead End" sign was kind of funny next to the cemetery. There is a stream along the left side of the sign, running the length of the cemetery. After searching the maps I found out that it is called Murder Creek. Even better, I thought, since I was planning on using it for Halloween.
That's when things started to get really interesting. I googled "Murder Creek" and found the story above, The Tragedy at Murder Creek, on YouTube, and the entire story in ARTVOICE.
I thought the fact that it happened on Halloween night 120 years ago was kind of creepy and cool at the same time.
I also found The Legend of Murder Creek, which is a tale about the origin of its name.
Happy (Spooky) Halloween, Everyone!
Despite the word on the grill this is not on a sanitorium but an outbuilding next to Easton Community Centre.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
A bloke exits the Station
Will they have to take down the 'Smoke Room' sign when the smoking ban comes in to force..?
A bloke walks out of a pub...
This is Urban Tiki what can I say about the guy... I'm not so eloquent with words as to be able to 'wing it,' and put what I've learned about the man in prose, so allow me to use the words of someone who can express what I know better than I.
I hope I make my point...
The Good Man
for Urban Tiki
The good man's history flies away before him
like a dance-partner's broken string of cultured pearls,
leaving him holding all those glowing memories
in the goblet of his upturned hands.
And people rush to bring him more,
more reasons for his generous thanksgiving.
Blessed from birth with a good family,
a good mind, a good sense of humor,
good nature and his gift,
the good man multiplies his talents
an hundredfold, blessing from their births
his own good children,
and participating in creation
in other joyful ways as well.
In the picture-book garden of virtues,
without fanfare, without flags,
the good man gently illustrates honor.
Gray-haired, smiling, he holds
toward the reader his joined hands,
a bowl brimming with light.
Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut Poet Laureate
December 24, 1999
Taken with a Nikon D200
The that beauty in his gut? The Hasselblad 500EL/Phase One P20/
and as the 'good man' once put it ,
'Lit, as we do, with a flashlight."
C.C.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
Despite the fact that I once lived in street off to the right, I've only been in the pub a handful of times, the first while under it's former name, the 'Hit or Miss'. Sadly, witnessed the aftermath of what turned out to be a fatal stabbing here about 5 years ago.
Cut off with an oxy-acetylene cutter at the start of WW2, to provide scrap metal for munitions and armaments manufacture. Much of it was never used.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
186/365.
25 hours to kill in Toronto (my hometown). We got in at 8am, one of my two best buddies Jer (who also is a co-worker, but now lives in Ottawa) coincidentally got in at 8am as well. Our mutual best buddy Mike (still in Toronto) came to pick us up and we spent the day hanging out.
I have known these two guys since we were 13. Jer was Mike's best man, I was Jer's best man, and Mike was my best man, so we are tight. Toight like tigers.
This is The Bistro on Avenue Road in Toronto. My iPhone has very helpfully geotagged it for you, so that if you are ever in Toronto and feel like having the best chicken wings you will ever have… EVER… (seriously, I cr@p you not) you can easily find it. This is an old haunt of ours, and of course we had lunch here.
Then we went to the driving range to whack some balls and wax poetic, then we went for a beverage on a patio in the sun to bullsh!t some more.
Great to see the boys again.
Geography sucks...
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The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
In my 'wayward youth' I used to hit this joint, after leaving St. Andrews, the Red Door or some other dive.
The coffee was acidic and nasty enough to last one the drive home, and the coney you would pay for all the next day.
Youth is wasted on the young... : )
C.C.
Taken by the always magnanimous Urban Tiki
Better here
I think it's just the motion blur and umbrella that does it, but this reminds me of the work of a friend who is a wonderful photographer.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
We take a break in our regular scheduled programming to bring you a birthday gift
...or rather, a laugh for Kate.
! nostalgic polaroids ! yey !
Not just a random bridge, this.
This is where
Katie M. + Person Who Shall Remain Nameless
and
Kim M. + Second Person Who Shall Remain Nameless
had their love immortalized in spray paint by
One Certain Clown Who Thought He Was The Cat's Pajamas
for all future trespassing teens to behold.
First wuv, so epic and twu.
Happy day to you, Kate... :)
© 2008 Kimberly D. Sink
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
Tooling around on his iphone, Dad found Johyatoh, an old haunt from way back, an unassuming oden shack where he and his co-workers would stop by for a bite and a beer after work. This would have been in the early 50's, not too long after the war, and when my father, fresh out of college, had joined the ranks of young salarymen who'd fuel Japan's post-war growth. Sixty years later, thanks to the internet search engine, and with some help from the koban police officer, we found the diner, no longer a hole in the wall, but up the elevator on its own floor of a modern office building. The old proprietor was long gone, and the brand passed down to the present owners, who didn't seem much interested in an octogenarian's reminiscing of the early days.
"Take me to a place
where my eyes can feel,
and where my thoughts can speak--
a place where the past cannot haunt,
the present never dims,
and the future always shines--
find it with me,
no matter the cost,
and speak to me in ways that have never been heard,
where words spoken or unspoken
always feel like an embrace...
take me to that place,
and let's lose our way back."
G. Boston
30 March 2009
10.30 PM
Last night was boxing night, on the first day of the work week. My friends and I were exhausted and decided to have a late dinner at one of our favorite old College Haunts, Ken Afford along Katipunan Avenue.
This restaurant holds a special place in my heart because:
1. They serve really good broth while you scan their menu.
2. On good days, they give you free dessert, a yummy fruit salad consisting mostly of nata de coco and coconut shavings.
3. My friends and I used to while our in-between-class breaks here (the restaurant used to be located directly in front of our university), and we have collected quite a few happy memories of this place.
I also found it amazing that the waiter who used to serve us a lot back in college (oh, roughly 4 years ago!) was still there - and he hardly aged at all! Maybe this is the blessing restaurant waiters share with teachers - the gift of getting older and wiser, but without the evidence of wrinkles and crow's feet.