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Drilling a seemingly endless number of holes for the rivets. A lot of G-clamps were needed to set everything right, never can have enough clamps!
These six images show Andy MacDonald set up a scene with a Lego artist at Portobello near Edinburgh. The close up pictures of the Lego artist seemingly at work on the graffiti are my set up. Andy has posted some of his pictures here
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These pictures were taken at an event with EDPM
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I was shooting with a Canon 18-135 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens on an EOS 550D using Dorr DAF 42 P Power Zoom Flash Unit for Canon with inbuilt diffuser in place. These small versions are rendered from RAW files which I did warm up slightly.
Lisbon's iconic bridge seemingly hovering over the clouds.
More of the same subject seen by the eyes of other photographer friends:
Cloudy River, by Nuno Miguel Correia
Cloudy River II, by Nuno Miguel Correia
foggy in the city, by Luís Amaral
lisboa que amanhece, by João Nogueira
the river of mist, by Pedro Moura Pinheiro
Another seemingly inappropriate topic for a musical that produced a great show. I saw Off the Page Productions' "Typhoid Mary" and it was one of the highlights of my Fringe this year.
This seemingly quiet lake, with a good supply of fish, is a good fishing spot, but a bad swimming spot, due maily to the abundance of American Alligators it contains.
Taken at 8 seconds exposure using a B+W ND10 filter. See EXIF data for details.
Have you ever had one of those days?
Like when you wait seemingly for ever for a bus?
And seven come along together!!!
I do not believe putting it on the map is really going to change it very much.
Ban Dong Pa Wai, Doilo, Chiangmai, Thailand.
บ้านดงป่าหวาย ดอยหล่อ เชียงใหม่ ประเทศไทย
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly everywhere you look in Slovenia is a photo moment. Possibly the most visually amazing country that i've been to.
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive
Nature accomplishes her beneficiant designs
- now a flood of fire
...again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
John Muir
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Song: This is the Last Stop - The Dave Mattews Band from the album Before These Crowded Streets:
Fire
The Sun is well asleep
Moon is high above
Fire grows from the east
How is this
Hate so deep
Lead us all so blindly killing killing
Fools we are if hate’s the gate to peace
This is the stop
For raining tears
(Is) War
The only way to peace
(Well) I don’t fall for that
Raining Tears
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead, believe that you are the chosen one
Raining tears
You’re righteous, so righteous
You’re always so right,
Oh no
Gracious even God
Bloodied the cross
Your sins are washed enough
Mothers cry
“Is hate so deep
Must a baby’s bones this hungry fire feed?”
As smoke clouds roll in
The symphony of death
This is the last stop
Scream
Right is wrong now
Shut up you big lie
This black and White lie
You comb your hair to hide
Your lying eyes
You’re righteous, so righteous
You’re always so right,
But why your lie
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead, believe that you are the chosen one
This is the last stop
Here there’s more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it’s not so black and white
You’re righteous
You’re righteous
You’re righteous
You’re always so right,
There you are nailing a good tree
Then say forgive me, forgive me
Why
Raining tears
This is the last stop
Here there’s more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it’s not so black and white.
Lucky residents of Virginia will be treated to a free live concert in Richmond, VA on Sunday, October 26, 2008. The Last Chance for Change performance will be held at the ALLTEL Pavilion at the VCU Stuart C. Siegel Center to encourage Virginians to vote for change.
For ticket locations and additional information, please visit www.barackobama.com/dave.
More info about DMB www.davematthewsband.com/news/
Seemingly oblivious to the event, passengers carry on as normal as the first London Underground S7 train to carry passengers approaches Ladbroke Grove station on the Hammersmith & City Line.
On a seemingly beautiful day in Northern West Virginia, a big tree fell across Route 857 in Monogalia County, near Cheat Lake.
When I pulled up, there was already a half mile of traffic or so, and we didn't know any easy alternate route so my friend and I left my mom to watch the car, and jumped out to see if there was anything interesting to see.
Apparently the big tree just sort of randomly fell down, and the white car came around the bend a bit fast and wasn't able to stop in time. No one was hurt, but the car had some fairly serious damage (not shown) and the road was blocked for about 30-45 minutes.
Finally, just as the road was being cleared, two state troopers came barreling up the hill. The one, noticing my friend and I taking pictures, asked "what are you boys doing, a school project or something?"
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly unscathed, this hardy water lily stand beautifully amid chewed and yellow leaves at BBG (Brooklyn Botanical Garden) lily pond.
My now seemingly quarterly-photo upload.
I love it when the seasons change*. This is my attempt at avoiding the typical bright colourful tree pictures but still trying to get those gorgeous colours. Taken on an old-style wood fence on the summit of Blue Mountain**.
*Except when fall turns into the deep freeze of Winter.
** We all know these "mountains" are just glorified hills
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
A frog, seemingly lost in thought, in our pond from several weekends ago.
Shot with the Nikon D7000 and Sigma 50-500mm lens @ 500mm. Manual exposure mode, F9, 1/200th second shutter speed, ISO 320, spot metering. Camera was tripod mounted. Processed in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 4.
Seemingly unaffected by whatever problems there may have been in Carlisle, an unidentified TransPennine Express "Nova 2" set is on time as it passes Barrow Mill with the 10.12 Edinburgh - Manchester Airport.
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Majorette have seemingly left no stone unturned with their interesting Dacia 1300 casting giving it an array of very different recolours, most of which have been designed for their "Dacia 1300" sub series. I was delighted to discover the full assortment had begun to appear at TK Maxx stores in single format though unfortunately I was unable to locate them all. Salvation has come with the same retailer now getting in the new Dacia 1300 five vehicle set which of course includes all the single releases I couldn't obtain.
Ironically I already have this glossy red version which was its debut colour but who can refuse such a charming model!
Mint and boxed.
Spring has come on like a wild woman ! Seemingly overnight, the blooms are coming and going at warp speed. I went for a walk to my little park last week and thought I'd share the forsythia and skunk cabbage renewal, (and one maple leaf bud).
BTW I heard a discussion on Car Talk when a Brit called in the say the correct pronunciation of the above yellow flower is for-sigh-thia, not, for-sith-ia, as it was named for William Forsyth, a Scottish botanist. I was laughing because I once heard about a little girl name Cynthia, and she always thought people were saying," For Cynthia"!. ;-) Whatever they're called, along with that other yellow flower, the dandelion, they are the true harbingers of spring. And, while stinky, the skunk cabbages have the most interesting structure and detail.
Incidentally, there is a rare pink forsythia for sale on Amazon. I wish I had time to order one before we leave. I think it would be a nice addition to my weeping cherry and red bud. You might want o see this large.
Title.
2008. New York. Room of a hotel.
The first person to gain Stephen King's manuscript.
The person was his mother.
Seemingly, she handed him several cents.
2014.
Exhibition of New York.
My work sold.
I sold it for 1 dollar.
However, the buyer paid.
10 dollars.
I appreciate from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you.
I stood on the starting line now.
Thank you.
The next exhibition.
It is Switzerland.
A schedule is as follows.
The next exhibition.
"Swiss SWART Basel Fair "
Term.
From June 16, 2014 to the 22nd.
The hall.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
Work name.
" Shadows "
Size.
530mm X 455mm
Manhattan . New york city 2007. shot ............. 1 / 1
(Today's photograph. It is unpublished.)
Image.
Havana Boys - Shaolin
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iTunes store. Electronic publishing. Under a plan.
Amazon. Electronic publishing stops.
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flickr . ( XL size )
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www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/
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Postscript 2.
Today's text.
I prepared 9 languages.
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Заглавие.
2008.
Нью-йорк.
Помещение гостиницы.
Первая личность к преимуществу Stephen рукопись Короля.
Личность была его мать.
На вид, она вручила его несколько центов.
2014.
Выставка Нью-йорка.
Моя работа продала.
Я продал это для 1 доллара.
Однако, покупатель заплатил.
10 долларов.
Я оцениваю из дна моего сердца.
Спасибо.
Я стоял на начальной линии сейчас.
Спасибо.
Следующая выставка.
Это - Швейцария.
График следующим образом.
Следующая выставка.
"Швейцарский SWART Базель Справедливый "
Срок.
Из июня 16, 2014 к 22.
Зал.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 БАЗЕЛЬ - ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ.
Имя работы.
" Тени "
Размер.
530mm X 455mm
Título.
2008.
Nova Iorque.
Quarto de um hotel.
A primeira pessoa para ganhar o manuscrito de Stephen Rei.
A pessoa era a mãe dele.
Aparentemente, ela lhe deu vários centavos.
2014.
Exibição de Nova Iorque.
Meu trabalho vendeu.
Eu vendi isto para 1 dólar.
Porém, o comprador pagou.
10 dólares.
Eu aprecio do fundo de meu coração.
Obrigado.
Eu me levantei agora na linha inicial.
Obrigado.
A próxima exibição.
É a Suíça.
Um horário é como segue.
A próxima exibição.
"Feira de SWART Basel suíça "
Termo.
De 16 de junho de 2014 para os 22º.
O corredor.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BASEL - a SUÍÇA.
Trabalhe nome.
" Sombras "
Tamanho.
530mm X 455mm
Título.
2008.
Nueva York.
Habitación de un hotel.
La primera persona en adquirir el manuscrito de Stephen King.
La persona era su madre.
Aparentemente, le pasó algunos centavos.
2014.
Exposición de Nueva York.
Mi trabajo se vendió.
Lo vendí por 1 dólar.
Sin embargo, el comprador pagó.
10 dólares.
Me revalorizo de la parte inferior de mi corazón.
Gracias.
Me paraba en la línea de salida ahora.
Gracias.
La próxima exposición.
Es Suiza.
Un programa es a saber.
La próxima exposición.
"Exposición de Basilea de SWART suiza "
Período.
De 16 de June de 2014 al 22.
El salón.
57 de CLARASTRASSE - 4058 Basilea - Suiza.
Nombre de trabajo.
" Sombras "
Tamaño.
530 mm X 455 mm
Titolo.
2008.
New York.
Stanza di un albergo.
La prima persona per guadagnare il manoscritto di Stefano Re.
La persona era sua madre.
Apparentemente, lei gli diede molti centesimi.
2014.
L'esposizione di New York.
Il mio lavoro vendè.
Io lo vendei per 1 dollaro.
Comunque, l'acquirente pagò.
10 dollari.
Io apprezzo dal fondo del mio cuore.
Grazie.
Io ora stetti in piedi sulla linea iniziale.
Grazie.
La prossima esposizione.
È Svizzera.
Un orario è come segue.
La prossima esposizione.
"SWART Bâle svizzero correttamente "
Termine.
Dal 16 giugno 2014 ai 22.
La sala.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 Bâle - la Svizzera.
Nome di lavoro.
" Ombre "
Taglia.
530mm X 455mm
Titel.
2008.
New York.
Zimmer eines Hotels.
Die erste Person, die Stephens King's Manuskript gewann.
Die Person war seine Mutter.
Scheinbar gab sie ihm mehrere Cent.
2014.
Ausstellung von New York.
Meine Arbeit verkaufte.
Ich verkaufte es für 1 Dollar.
Aber der Käufer bezahlte.
10 Dollar.
Ich schätze vom Grund meines Herzens.
Danke.
Ich stand jetzt auf der beginnenden Linie.
Danke.
Die nächste Ausstellung.
Es ist die Schweiz.
Ein Zeitplan ist wie folgt.
Die nächste Ausstellung.
"Schweizerische SWART Basel Ausstellung "
Begriff.
Von 16. Juni 2014 zu den 22.
Die Halle.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BASEL, die SCHWEIZ.
Arbeitsname.
" Schatten "
Größe.
530mm X 455mm
Titre.
2008.
New York.
Pièce d'un hôtel.
La première personne gagner le manuscrit de Stephen King.
La personne était sa mère.
Apparemment, elle lui a donné plusieurs cent.
2014.
Exposition de New York.
Mon travail s'est vendu.
Je l'ai vendu pour 1 dollar.
Cependant, l'acheteur a payé.
10 dollars.
J'apprécie du fond de mon coeur.
Merci.
Je me suis maintenant trouvé sur la ligne initiale.
Merci.
La prochaine exposition.
C'est la Suisse.
Un programme est comme suit.
La prochaine exposition.
"Foire de SWART Bâle suisse "
Terme.
Du 16 juin 2014 aux 22e.
Le couloir.
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BÂLE - SUISSE.
Nom du travail.
" Ombres "
Dimension.
530mm X 455mm
타이틀.
2008년. 뉴욕. 호텔의 방.
【스티본킨구】의 원고를 처음으로 손에 넣은 사람.
그 사람은, 그의 어머니이었다.
그녀는, 그에게 몇센트를 건넸을 모양이다.
2014년. 뉴욕의 전시.
나의 작품은 팔렸습니다.
나는 그것을 1달러로 판매했습니다.
그러나, 구입자는 지불해 주었습니다.
10달러를.
나는 마음속으로부터 감사합니다.
고맙다.
나는 지금, 출발선(start line)에 섰습니다.
고맙다.
다음 전시. 그것은 스위스입니다.
일정은 이하 대로.
다음 전시.
” Swiss SWART Basel Fair "
회기.
2014년6월16일에서 22일까지.
회장.
CLARASTRASSE 57-4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
작품명.
" Shadows "
사이즈.
530mm X 455mm
标题。
2008年。纽约。酒店的房间。
第一次拿斯蒂芬·金的原稿的人。
那个人，是他的母亲。
她，好象交付了数分给他。
2014年。纽约的展示。
我的作品畅销了。
我以1美元销售了那个。
可是，挥了买主。
10美元。
我衷心感谢。
谢谢。
我现在，在开始线上(里)站立了。
谢谢。
下面的展示。那是瑞士。
日程是下面这样。
下面的展示。
"Swiss SWART Basel Fair "
会期。
从2014年6月16日到22日。
会场。
CLARASTRASSE 57-4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
作品名。
"Shadows "
尺寸。
530mm X 455mm
標題。
2008年。紐約。酒店的房間。
第一次拿斯蒂芬·金的原稿的人。
那個人，是他的母親。
她，好像交付了數分給他。
2014年。紐約的展示。
我的作品暢銷了。
我以1美元銷售了那個。
可是，揮了買主。
10美元。
我衷心感謝。
謝謝。
我現在，在開始線上(裡)站立了。
謝謝。
下面的展示。那是瑞士。
日程是下面這樣。
下面的展示。
"Swiss SWART Basel Fair "
會期。
從2014年6月16日到22日。
會場。
CLARASTRASSE 57-4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
作品名。
"Shadows "
尺寸。
530mm X 455mm
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タイトル。
２００８年。ニューヨーク。ホテルの部屋。
スティーヴンキングの原稿を初めて手にした人は、彼の母親だった。
彼女は、彼に数セントを渡したらしい。
２０１４年。ニューヨークの展示。
僕の作品は売れました。
僕はそれを１ドルで販売しました。
しかし、購入者は、１０ドルを払ってくれました。
僕は心から感謝します。
ありがとう。
僕は今、スタートラインに立ちました。
ありがとう。
次の展示。それはスイスです。
日程は以下のとおり。
次の展示。
”Swiss SWART Basel Fair ”
会期。
２０１４年６月１６日から２２日まで。
会場。
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
作品名。
" Shadows "
サイズ。
530mm X 455mm
Manhattan . New york city 2007. shot ............. 1 / 1
(Today's photograph. It is unpublished.)
Image.
Havana Boys - Shaolin
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iTunes store からの出版を計画中。
アマゾンからの電子出版は中止。
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次の展示。
”Swiss SWART Basel Fair ”
会期。
２０１４年６月１６日から２２日まで。
会場。
CLARASTRASSE 57 - 4058 BASEL - SWITZERLAND .
作品名。
" Shadows "
サイズ。
530mm X 455mm
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Vacant chapel, seemingly awaiting use and dedication to a specific saint!
One of the many radiating chapels that surround the Madonna della Lacrime church in Syracusa.
About twelve of these chapels open off the main building, adding to the drama outside as they appear almost totally unsupported from below, literally hanging from the main structure!
It seems many of the chapels have yet to be assigned a specific role, as only five or so behind the altar seem to be fully functioning and decorated (with some very eye-catching stained glass adding some much needed colour)
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
A seemingly endless stairway descends through the four stories of books stacks in the Seattle Public Library and continues down and down.
Texture by nicolas gent www.flickr.com/photos/21680590@N06/sets/72157624841512123/
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
Come On Aussie
Shannon Noll (seemingly)
Its been a long time commin'
To silence all that drummin'
To show them that it wasn't just a dream
They've beaten all the rest you know
And proven they're the best you know
The greatest team to wear the baggy green
Pigeon's pounding down like a machine
Dizzy's scarin' batsmen - lookin' mean
Gilly's gettin' wickets
Punter's clearin' pickets
And Warney's just the best we've ever seen
Come on Aussie, come on, come on
Come on Aussie, come on
Night or day, they're out to make us proud
To keep our flags a-wavin' in the crowd
Even gettin' zeroes
They'll always be our heroes
And keep us singin' come on just as loud
Come on Aussie, come on, come on
Come on Aussie, come on, come on
Come on Aussie, come on, come on
Come on Aussie, come on
A bit of fun for the Ashes Series...We need all the support we can muster. Come On Aussie!!!!!!!
One of four images, seemingly of the same huge building, assumed to be a hotel. They come from the same large batch of c. 300 French glass plate stereoviews as the previous images in my photostream.
Another mystery to solve - where is this?
A few clues:
- images in the batch are predominantly from Paris and surrounds, Normandy, and Alpine ski resorts. Of those three I'd supsect this is Normandy
- the shops (shown in two of them) are called Au Printemps and M Calou (a hairdressers and perfumer whose awning lists Paris, Biarritz and Monte Carlo)
- the one with the statue (itself a possible clue) to me has a distinctive seaside feel to it
The text reads:
The incredibly boring, but seemingly endless, adventures of that champion of the stupid and the mediocre... The (Incredibly) Mindless Rod, Boy Graduate Student.
A typical day.. Rod is hard at work... (Thinking) Gee I wonder what dumb thing I can do today?
This is the first page of a comic book drawn in my honor by friend and graduate student Steve (The Zombie) while we were attending the University of Notre Dame as Physics graduate students. Steve's talent as a comic artist are well displayed in this series of pencil drawings on the back of 19 inch computer line-printer paper. Steve reproduced the room contents and my desk in the Nieuwland Science Hall, room 102B, which we lovingly referred to as "The Zoo". My desk seen here is exactly as one would have seen it on the day this frame was drawn; mouse over the notes on the photo to experience the detail that was included in this sketch. Steve's attention to detail was so precise that in one panel he reproduced exactly what was on the blackboard in the room, which included his sketch of Skylab falling to earth and potentially hitting the golden dome at Notre Dame.
I am not depicted in the greatest light in the frames that follow, which makes me out as a clumsy, air headed oaf. OK, that's pretty close. However, I was still pretty amused that Steve would spend so much effort on this project, even if the result wasn't too flattering.
Since these frames were created on large paper, and some span multiple pages, it is doubtful that I will scan in the rest of the pages of this tome. Probably just as well...
Oh, and if you question the accuracy of the scene depicted here, check out this photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/grogley/7453646048/in/set-721576301...
Willets Point, aka The Iron Triangle, is a shadow-neighborhood, seemingly on the fringes of the city, and even civilization. Bound by railroads, freeways, and the Flushing River and Bay, it is a hard place to get to. There is a strange world here- entirely dedicated to auto work and scrap metal. There are no sidewalks here, the streets are barely paved, huge puddles abound, and no normal rule of traffic apply. No one has a home here, and there are no stores or any kind. Mechanical work is happening everywhere- in the garages and even in the streets themselves.
Cars come to Willets Point to be resurrected- like the pristine BMW's and Mercedes being driven back out to more genteel surroundings. Or- cars come to Willets Point to die, as seen by the overturned chassis strewn about, and the massive mound of scrap metal.
This is the ash heap of The Great Gatsby, traversed by Nick Carraway on his trips from West Egg to Manhattan....
What is most amazing about Willets Point is its location right next to Citi Field and a stone's throw away from the U.S. Tennis Open. Being such a wasteland in such close proximity to places with such national and international profile puts the neighborhood in constant peril- had NYC won the 2012 Olympic bid (thank goodness it didn't, for many reasons) this area would have been razed for an Olympic venue.
10 mile expedition to Old Vlissingen- from Forest Hills through Corona, Willets Point, colonial sights of Flushing, the World's Fair ruins, and back.
December 2, 2010
Seemingly abandoned, although still in good order, Swinford station probably dated from 1895 and lost passenger services in 1963.
The building looked to be in private hands when Joe Bloggs visited in August 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/joe_bloggs_railway_photos/572625417...
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The rancho was seemingly years ahead of it's time being a soft roads long before SUVs became common.
The advanced for the time fibreglass rear body was by Matra.
The Samba was a badged engineered Peugeot 104 & the cabriolet was a rare attempt to do something different.
A389GVC was actually a silver Talbot Solara GL 1592cc last taxed on 31 December 1995.
BDU250Y is listed as a red Talbot Samba GLS 1360cc which lasted until 1 February 2002, I'm not sure if this is the right car.
Both Coventry registrations.
Seemingly into their last couple of weeks in service, 455802 & 455804 drop into Victoria with 2B71, 1409 from Epsom Downs.
Seemingly the last unmodernised house in the Siedlung. Ihope it isn't ruined by tasteless upgrades. Deserted building, Hohen Neuendorf
Lines are seemingly terms of geometry, but they also appear in the language in idioms such as power lines, water lines, telephone lines, transportation lines, green line, red lines, and as I like to shoot concrete blacks and whites, and concrete abstracts, so I like shoot concrete lines, such as these huge power lines intended to be buried soon in the dirt under a new superhighway.
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Fence Pipelines & Light-1
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גדר קווים ואור
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קווים הם לכאורה מונחים בגאומטריה, אבל הם מופיעים גם בתוך השפה כמטבעות לשון כמו: קווי חשמל, קווי מים, קווי טלפון, קווי תחבורה, הקו הירוק, קווים אדומים, וכמו שאני אוהב לצלם שחור לבן בתוך המציאות, ומופשט קונקרטי, כך גם אני אוהב לצלם קווים מוחשיים, כמו קווי החשמל העצומים האלה שמיועדים להיקבר בקרוב בעפר מתחת לכביש רב מסלולי חדש
A seemingly unlikely reveller at Salsa on St Clair.
Last of the shots of Salsa on St Clair
Latino-themed Street Festival
Toronto, July 7, 2012
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly coming down piece by piece, the metal roof shingles are removed at Zion Lutheran Church on Linden.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Dwight Yoakam helped re-introduce “hillbilly music” in the late 1980s after country music grew tired of the Urban Cowboy trend. The guitar-heavy, neo-traditional sound he brought to stages with hits like “Guitars, Cadillacs” made him a superstar, seemingly overnight.
Of course, like all of those overnight success stories, he’d been working his craft for over a decade before “Honky Tonk Man” dropped. Infectious, hip recordings like “Little Sister” and “Fast as You” laminated his heavily stylized image. No, he wasn’t the king of country radio (just two No. 1 hits), but Yoakam was just flat-out cool.
Yoakam has country music cred. Born October 23, 1956, in Pikeville, KY, the son of David (a gas station owner) and Ruth (a keypunch operator) Yoakam. The pioneering artist spent his first year of life in a coal company house way up in the small southeastern Kentucky holler of Betsey Layne, just across the border from the Virginia homes of the original Carter family and the Stanley Brothers. After his family moved to Ohio, Yoakam made frequent trips back to the holler to visit his grandparents.
Yoakam first showed an interest in playing the guitar at the age of two, and learned how to play guitar at the age of six playing along with Hank Williams records. As a child, he listened to his mother's record collection, honing in on the traditional country of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, as well as the Bakersfield honky tonk of Buck Owens.
He composed his first song at the age of eight, but, because he "didn't think he was doing it right, because it came so easily," Yoakam did not write another song until much later.
Dwight Yoakam spent his formative years acting in theater productions and singing and playing guitar in local garage bands. Yoakam played with a variety of bands, playing everything from country to rock & roll. After completing high school, Yoakam briefly attended Ohio State University, but he dropped out and moved to Nashville in the late '70s with the intent of becoming a recording artist.
At the time he moved to Nashville, the town was in the throes of the pop-oriented urban cowboy movement and had no interest in his updated honky tonk. While in Nashville, he met guitarist Pete Anderson, who shared a similar taste in music. In 1978, the pair moved out to Los Angeles, where they found a more appreciative audience than they did in Nashville.
In L.A., he formulated his own brand of honky-tonk – or, as he called it, “hillbilly” music. Yoakam and Anderson didn't just play country clubs, they played the same nightclubs that punk and post-punk rock bands like X, the Dead Kennedys, Los Lobos, the Blasters, and the Butthole Surfers did. What Yoakam had in common with rock bands like X and the Blasters was similar musical influences; they all drew from '50s rock & roll and country. In comparison to the polished music coming out of Nashville, Yoakam's stripped-down, direct revivalism seemed radical. The cowpunks, as they were called, that attended Yoakam's shows provided an invaluable support for his fledgling career.
Like most of the “new traditionalist” artists of the 1980s, Dwight had grown up listening to the The Band and other Top 40 radio hitmakers, in addition to the country and bluegrass his family loved. The stripped-down honky-tonk and Bakersfield sound for which Yoakam became known proved, historian Bill Malone writes, that country “could flourish with a strong admixture of rock and roll.”
In 1984, he released an independent EP, A Town South of Bakersfield, which received substantial airplay on L.A. college and alternative radio stations, and landed a contract with Reprise Records. Two years later, Dwight released his full-length debut album, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. It was an instant sensation, garnering praise from country and rock critics and airplay on college stations nationwide, and made a splash on the country charts: its first single, a cover of Johnny Horton’s “Honky Tonk Man,” reached No. 3, followed by No. 4 “Guitars, Cadillacs.” His next LP, Hillbilly Deluxe (1987), spawned four Top 10 hits. Yoakam had his first country No. 1 in 1988 with “Streets of Bakersfield,” a cover of a song by Yoakam’s longtime idol Buck Owens that featured the singing and playing of Owens himself.
Yoakam has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. Five of his albums were Billboard No. 1’s, twelve went gold, and nine platinum, including the triple-platinum This Time. He pushed the boundaries of what was considered “country,” attracting roots rock fans and college audiences.