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I thought I'd jump on Andy's Scrabble Sunday train today, and make a very tenuous food & drink link, but this is all I can muster in my one evening off!
London, one of my favourite places on the planet, ever-changing and always so inspiring photographically.
The Blues Festival in the little village of Thredbo, in the Australian Snowy Mountains is always a blast.
Indoors in the Schuss Bar, the Repeat Offenders, a new line-up of old musical favourites pound out some seriously swampy southern soul with Gary Lothian on guitar, Rosscoe Clark on drums, Dave Green on bass, and Sally King on vocals.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/australia/music-in-the-snowy...
The Blues Festival in the little village of Thredbo, in the Australian Snowy Mountains is always a blast.
Indoors in the Schuss Bar, the Repeat Offenders, a new line-up of old musical favourites, pound out some seriously swampy southern soul with Gary Lothian on guitar, Rosscoe Clark on drums, Dave Green on bass, and Sally King on vocals.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/australia/music-in-the-snowy...
A Secret from On High depicts a life-size adolescent nude Mercury (Hermes) whispering a secret to a herm - a pillar topped by a bust of
Dionysos/Bacchus or perhaps himself - knowing that it will never repeat what he tells it.
A Herma, herm or herme is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece, and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of term figures and Atlantes.
In ancient Greece the statues functioned as a form of apotropaic and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection. Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders. His name comes from the word herma (plural hermai) referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta, or bronze; a bust of Hermes' head, usually with a beard,] sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base. The hermai were used as boundary markers on roads and borders. In Athens, they were placed outside houses as apotropes for good luck.
Hippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin, sometimes given as Julien-Hippolyte Moulin or Hypolite Moulin, (1832–1884) was a 19th century French sculptor.
Moulin, a shopkeeper's son, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1855 but was unable to afford to continue the lessons and had to become a language teacher in Paris to support himself. He subsequently studied with Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin and with Antoine-Louis Barye.
A Lucky Find at Pompeii is probably Moulin's best-known work. A life-size bronze version, signed and dated 1863, was exhibited and won a medal at the Salon of 1864; the same year it was purchased by the State for 7,000 francs; in 1867, it was included at the Exposition Universelle. Part of the Muse du Luxembourg collection during the nineteenth century, and [subsequently exhibited] in the Louvre. Reviewing the Salon of 1864, the critic Lon Lagrange remarked that all the best statues of that year were balanced on one foot. While certain of these works, such as Falguire's Winner of the Cockfight [which today stands on a pedestal alongside Moulin's Lucky Find in the Muse d'Orsay], adopted the pose of Giambologna's Mercury, Moulin's figure was inspired by the famous antique Dancing Faun from Pompeii (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples). [Another statue which uses an almost identical pose is the American Frederick MacMonnies' female nude, Bacchante and Infant Faun (1895), which caused considerable controversy when it was installed at the Boston Public Library.
Moulin won further Salon medals in 1867 and 1869, and another at the Exposition Universelle, 1878.
His other works include Victoria Mars (plaster exhibited at the Salon of 1872) and A Secret from On High (Secret d'en Haut) (plaster 1873; marble 1875, now also in the Musée d'Orsay alongside other marble statues.)
Moulin spent his last few years in a rest home for the mentally ill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Moulin
Posing the Question of how the future will judge Art at the zeitgeist of the 21st century www.flickr.com/photos/aforum/collections/72157625299189937/
Caught this train again a bit south of McLure as it was slowly progressing towards Kamloops. CN nos.2232 & 2102 in charge.
It's been some time coming, but finally the replacements for the FJ08 batch of Volvo B9TL's with Yorkshire Coastliner are arriving, and from December 12 2016 the new buses rolled out into service. As a repeat of history back from 2003, the Coastliner order is a tag-on to an order made for Harrogate and District's route 36 - however an improvement from 2003-4 is that the Coastliner buses are specified to just as high a standard if not better.
This order of B5TL's consists of ten vehicles to fully replace 411-420, and the order is worth just over £2.3Million; the engines comply to Euro 6 standard which means these buses emit less pollution in terms of particulate matter than a small diesel hatchback car (and studies have proven this). Each bus has a gross vehicle weight of 18t and is 11.5m long and 4.4m heigh.
In famous Transdev style, the plan for 411-420 has changed at the 11th hour and 59th minute: rather than going to keighley the company has decided not to renew the lease and so those will leave the group as a whole.
Externally the buses have been given an entirely new livery in the current Transdev style as also seen in York on the Cityzap and Little Explorers buses, along with a new logo and the motto "Yorkshire's Amazing Day Out", as everything is amazing apparently, and are also fitted with crystal white destinations throughout which are connected to an automatic 'next stop' internal announcement system. Each bus is given a unique rear advertisement to promote somewhere along the route, taking up the space previously used for the route map which has now been shifted to the side panels above the lower deck windows and has been simplified - which is proving controversial for some as the 'map' is deemed not to be geographically correct (placing Leeds north of York) yet the curvy nature of the map is appealing to others.
Volvo B5TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 (with the jaunty-angled 'Stealth' frontage) BT66 MVP is taking an 840 service to Thornton le Dale on the 1630 service, often a regular for B5TL's now. Although the bus is officially numbered 3632 I have also added the 'correct' fleetnumber of 433 in the title as this was the original fleetnumber that was supposed to have been allocated to this vehicle when it was ordered - it may yet get the correct fleetnumber, as the BD11-plate Gemini 2's when first delivered had a 4-digit fleetnumber yet Malton didn't like it and so reverted the buses to have the correct fleetnumbers still used on them now. at the moment only 10 buses in the Coastliner fleet will carry this new livery which I am nicknaming the 'Aquafresh livery', though a further order due later in 2017 could see more B5's replacing the remainder of the B9TL's in the fleet and thus bringing in a unified fleet appearance. On January 21st a further three B5TL's were delivered to Malton but these are yet to enter service.
I had been disappointed by my visit to Keys View in the afternoon, so I made the drive again the following morning, thinking if the light hadn't been good at one time of day it would be better at another. My conclusion was that the view was slightly clearer on this particular morning, but that the real problem was haze. (Confirmed by a nearby sign and improved somewhat with Lightroom's "Dehaze" function.)
The peak is Mount San Jacinto (10833', more than 5000' higher than my position); Palm Springs, California is located at its base. The valley is the Coachella.
From the park sign:
"Air pollution can come from locations many miles away. Southern California industrial plants, power plants, wood stoves, and automobiles belch soot, dust, and smoke into the atmosphere. Prevailing winds direct the air east and funnel it through Banning Pass, where it is dispersed through the Coachella Valley."
Seen from Joshua Tree National Park.
Part VI of my project "Commissioned Work": I asked a couple of friends to suggest me a topic for a photo. Piia Anneli wanted to see "a repetition in a photo".
Well, of course the stairs consist by definition of a certain number of steps and the wooden wall of quite a few similar looking boards. But it seems that I repeat myself, too...
Taken in Prater amusement park, Vienna (Austria).