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Not necessarily flowing with the stream, but definitely swimming in your own direction! More to come soon...
going to class makes me blue.
Cardigan: navy with handsewn buttons embellishments.
knitted dress: thrifted
Leggings: blue-dark purple (Forever New)
Shoes: black flats with red wooden block (Novo)
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This model was commissioned by Tony Loizou, Architect, RAN projects, London N16 7RA
The existing parts of the buildings are show in red. The project is show in colors.
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The original photo was of a statue in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. Photoleap wis used to create this tribute to Portland, Oregon's amphibian-costumed protesters who are responding to the troops sent in by trump. "Violent" protesters dancing wearing frog costumes? The whole world is laughing at the absurdity of his misrepresentation.
It's been awhile since we saw one of these...
I'd rather have a foot of snow instead of ice...the absolute worst!
Let's hope this is yet more media hype by the so called forecasters.
Carthay Circle Restaurant
Disney California Adventure
The Carthay Circle Restaurant occupies the Carthay Circle Theater, the new centerpiece of DCA. Nobody denies the place is beautiful both inside and out, but some questioned whether the centerpiece of the park should be a restaurant rather than an attraction of some sort. While an attraction is always nice, I think the Carthay makes a statement. The place is unprecedented within a theme park on the West Coast of the US. Walt Disney World in Florida's big secret is that it's a culinary powerhouse, but even there most of the good stuff is hiding in hotels or to the wonderful selection in Epcot's World Showcase, which itself has unprecedented refined theming and dining. Yet still, the Disney theme parks suffer from stereotypes of their own past and lesser amusement parks that crowd the country. Burgers, fries, and junk food are what most people expect, and anything beyond that is greeted with low expectations. Sure Disney has multiple award-winning chefs working the background of many of these restaurants, but you can't blame the general public for not knowing about this or expecting it: the parks themselves don't really advertise themselves as places to have fantastic, unique dining experiences.
But here we have the Carthay Circle Restaurant, a place that has ended up one of the classiest restaurants in Southern California let alone a theme park. The first floor houses a full lounge and bar serving 1930s era cocktails put together with a masterful flavor and attention to detail. These aren't drinks you can just go pick up anywhere in the country, finding anything like them typically requires finding one of a few top tier bars scattered about, even then usually buried in a few populous cities like LA or NY. The 2nd floor is a dramatic, opulent dining area, full of various rooms and enclaves evoking a restaurant design they really don't do that often anymore. The food is exceptional, with a menu that isn't afraid to be adventurous even though it still needs to appeal to a majority of the tens of thousands of people walking through the gates. Quail, Rack of lamb, Fresh fish, Short Rib, Udon… it's a feat that it all pulls together.
The dining experience is really an extension of Disney's approach to most experiences: a great blend of nostalgic theming, constructing an idealized past along with modern flourish. You can't really go anywhere else in California and have the dining experience you can have at the Carthay. That Disney has put this front and center in the park is a notice to all guests that theme parks may not be about what they assume they are. It's not just rides and burgers (although there's nothing wrong with that): it can be about refinement and relaxation, it can be about idealized culinary experiences as much as lands of fairy tales and talking cars.
I think the Carthay is one of those placemaking institutions, a place DCA sorely needed. The Carthay is something I can keep coming back to. There's always one more drink to have, always an item on the menu calling my name. Sometimes it's not about a ride or attraction, sometimes I want to be transported to an idealized fantasy and just exist in it, sipping a cocktail, looking over the menu, enjoying my surroundings and my company. Putting a place like this within an icon of a theme park tells people "this is the kind of thing you should be expecting to do here." If it defies expectations for not being "a ride" then I think the plan is working perfectly.
(That's a Pimm's Punch up there by the way: a perfect drink for the summer.)
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I discovered this statement to the world on Perrie's foot.
From Psalm 139 verse 14. "I am a unique creation filled with wonder and awe".
Late in the afternoon at Sumner beach September 16, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch.On 22 February 2011, Sumner was hit by the Christchurch earthquake, which destroyed or made uninhabitable a large number of the local houses and commercial buildings. On 13 June the same year, Sumner was hit by another earthquake of almost the same magnitude as the February event. These two earthquakes caused many of Sumner's iconic cliffs to collapse, and many areas to be cordoned off with both traditional fences and, more interestingly, shipping containers.
For more Info:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner,_New_Zealand
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Once upon a time… Joyce told me that my recent blogs were becoming less story like and more instructional. At first I was alarmed at this statement! Have I lost my linguistic cunning? Am I no longer taking you on a literally roller coaster through my vast imagination? I must sincerely apologize to those of you who come back day after day waiting to be swept away to some far off location most likely no further than 10 minutes from my home. I find myself stuck between two demographics. On one hand I have fellow photographers, either professionals or aspiring amateurs. Either way you are my "bread and butter" if I must put a term to it. On the other hand I hand I have a loyal base of readers that actually enjoy my literary stylings. My sick, twisted and sarcastic brand of humor. I've tried to balance the blogs so that each group can enjoy, but perhaps I've slipped a bit and left the second group hanging. To that I apologize once again and only hope I can lure you back into my weird world. I only have 53 days left and I'd hate to alienate this late in the game.
Speaking of my "sick, twisted and sarcastic brand of humor", I apparently offended Shawn's lady friend the other day! We were in the line for the COD launch and she had stopped by to check out the commotion. Shawn, mentioned that she is a hard core COD fan, to which I quickly and to what Shawn described as "stone faced" looked her in the eye and said "you probably don't even know what a PS3 controller even looks like! its the small one with the little buttons" I didn't even sense any offense when she quickly announced she was going to leave. Hey, you can't please a crowd without pissing a few off! I'll admit I don't appeal to everyone! Hell, if I did then I'd be like Ice Cube being all gangsta in the 90's and all family fun films in the 2000's! This situation brings me back a few years when my friend James came over to a giant house party we were throwing. I had already drank enough to be legally stupid when he had walked in with his brand new girlfriend. He introduced her and the first thing out of my mouth was "wow! you have a small head" from that day forth, she didn't like me!" for what reason… I have NO idea! I will never live that one down!
So, COD… an addiction that may even rival WOW. I'm not what you say, addicted as I can go weeks without playing. However, I will admit that the game does kick its own special brand of ass! There is no denying that it is a cultural phenomenon! The pre-sale and launch party were evidence of that, albeit a small, inkling of that evidence. At 5:00pm people started lining up just to get a door ticket to hold their place in line for the midnight release. I went over all this yesterday so I'll just fast forward to Midnight… ready. (insert crazy fast forward sound)
12:00am Tuesday, November 8th 2011
Joyce's cooperation was contingent on a 96 ounce Mountain Dew from 7-11. She said if she had to deal with a crowd of people with way too much time on there hands, she required her drug… the thick, syrup like substance once rumored in my high school to make your balls shrink! I opted for a red bull which would later prove in combination with my headache/hangover induced nap, to keep me up until well after sunrise! The crowd was significant yet not nearly as massive as I had envisioned (a, "thats what she said" line would fit there!) I'd say in all there must of been about 300 people there. Out of the 300 I'm sure only 150 were buying the game as it appeared that people were bringing there brothers, sisters, grandmothers, dogs and pet snails. Earlier I had recruited the fully geared up Josh to become part of the project. I had first noticed this man looking like he was straight out of the game when we came for the door tickets. Turns out he doesn't even work at Game Stop. Being friends with some of the employees, and a fan of the game, he stepped up to make this particular locations launch just a little bit more authentic! I love when people take the extra step and Josh most definitely did.
With the line as long as it was I was worried if Josh would be able to pull away for the 5 minutes I needed. I approached him and he seemed unconfident that he'd be able to pull away before 1 or 2am. I wasn't going to wait that long and after inquiring as to shooting later in the day, he offered to step away once I was setup. I was happy as I really was looking forward to not having to shoot at 7pm. I'm actually, writing this when I'd typically be saying… what the hell I'm I going to shoot tonight!
After Josh committed to pulling away, I snuck around the side of the building and setup the lights. Not having the Vagabond I was left to find power. Luckily the store had a long extension cord left from when they had the 4 big screen TV's setup from the launch party earlier. I just borrowed a little power and quickly set the lights up.
The line was dwindling drastically and too my surprise, it looked like Josh wouldn't have to "pull" away, but instead just walk away. On a side note, as per my awesome brotherly advise, Shawn had purchased a second copy of COD, in the event that it sold out before everyone got a copy. We planned on having a heated bidding war in the parking lot, with the hopes of making a small profit. The demand obviously wasn't that large and we weren't going to be making any money tonight.
Ok, back to the topic at hand. Josh was ready and it was time to capture some COD inspired awesomeness!
Posing was made easy by Josh's previous experience. Corp. Josh, Fire Team Leader of the 3rd infantry division did his "Call of Duty" from January of 2005 - January of 2006. Stationed with 2nd Marine Devision he did his tour in Ramadi Iraq in what was called the Triangle of Death. With a name like that you can bet it was pretty dangerous.
So, with his experience and actual time spent in the military, he was familiar with what I was looking for. This made the shoot very quick. A full 5 minutes of shooting was all it took to get what I was looking for. I thanked Josh and we packed up. From here we headed back to 7-11 for some very much unneeded caffeine. I really really didn't need anymore but had no idea of just how much I didn't need it for a few hours. Once home, we immediately popped in COD MW3 and proceeded to get our asses handed to us for the next hour! You'd of thought Shawn and I had never played the game by the way we were getting lit up every 2 seconds. Shawn got so frustrated he considered not playing the game! Common sense kicked in and he sucked it up like a good addict or would that be snorted it up like a good addict.
Ok, for those who have been patiently waiting… on to the technical part.
The image was shot using two lights. with Josh in the middle I had one light at 3:00 and the other 10:00. with him facing 4:00 he was very dramatically lit. I had set the backlight about 3 stops lower than the main light in the attempt to only softly illuminate his outline. I didn't want him to disappear into oblivion but at the same time I didn't want him to stand out like he was pasted over black. The lighting setup was perfect for the effect I was going for. In post I simply added the smoke to give it a little character. Photoshop was a very minimal part of today's shot. Not a half bad outcome for such little PS time. I'll have to try shooting more in camera again. Hell, if I can shoot 50% in camera I could not reduce the PS time but drastically increase the amount of tweaking I can do, thus giving me a more amazing outcome. Sounds good to me!
With the photo and blog finished I'm free to do something else… Wow, thats odd… what do do? I'll be sure to let you all know what I figure out.
Lighting:
AB800 Med Gridded Softbox 10:00 1/8 power
AB800 Med. Gridded Softbox 3:00 1/2 power
Triggered Via Cyber Syncs and Commander.
I was thinking back today.
Before covid Paris felt so different. Not that I've been there a lot, I don't really go there often - but everything that comes to mind now is this big figure of authority dictating weather you should hide your face or not to the rest of the territory. Culture was Paris, Paris attacked and almost killed culture.
Thousands of artists and cultural workers had to find other life pathes because Paris stated, culture is not a priority. Yet, Culture will survive this Paris. This political figure of grabbing more authority as soon as you are given the occasion to. Culture as appeared as a folk's way to have fun when the "real boys" were making money by maintaining malls opened - of course exactly what we needed during Covid.
Let's see which Paris will be remembered. Culture will always be Culture - Consumption will consume itself.
Martin Dedron, three shots from my good old Olympus OMD EM-5 mark 1, 2019, few months before the pandemic.
Britain’s biggest bus……
As a young, brash, upcoming company Stagecoach was not adverse to making a statement or two. It has already ordered Van Hool Astromegas and Neoplan Skyliners for its coaching operations, which if branded as Super Stagecoach. These high profile coaches highlighted that this company was here to stay.
However with the company rapidly expanding into running buses it too wanted to make a statement. It had standardised on Alexander-bodied Olympians to update the double-deck content of its new subsidiaries. Alexander also had a thriving export business supplying tri-axle Olympians to Hong Kong. So the two came together and Stagecoach ordered three such tri-axle buses.
When new one of the buses was allocated to Stagecoach’s Magicbus subsidiary in Glasgow and used on a school contract. The registration of F110NES made reference to the 110 seats on the bus, which was laid out in a three plus two configuration.
When new, it carried fleetnumber 1 and Megadekka branding before moving to the East Midland fleet in 1990. It was then transferred to United Counties at Bedford in 1992, where it was numbered 600 until the national system was introduced when it became 14000 in 2003, and was repainted into the ‘beach ball’ livery style by 2008. Its high seating capacity — with 3+2 layout — was put to good use for more than ten years at Bedford where it was allocated to a busy peak time working, as well as seeing regular use on other services. It became part of the heritage fleet in September 2011 after the paintshop at Bedford restored it to its original striped livery and staff at Peterborough applied original-style Megadekka and ‘Britain’s Biggest Bus!’ decals manufactured from photographs as no original drawings were available.
Ir was then entered preservation and became part of the Stagecoach Heritage Collection. However with the break-up of that collection following the sale of Stagecoach to a German Investment Company, former Stagecoach owner and founder Sir Brian Souter bought the bus for his own private collection. This bus now resides at the safety of the Scottish Bus Museum at Lathalmond, where the collection is kept.
This is a film detail shot of the room full of computers at abandoned Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in New Orleans. When I look at it, I imagine how the mission statement posted on the wall must have taken on a strange meaning with the high water mark sitting just below it. Floating above Lake Six Flags. Some people boated through the ruins. I imagine them reading "To deliver Family Fun and Fond Memories for all of Our Guests" just hovering on the water. A surreal hope, but their mission was successful with me. I will never forget the intensity I felt wandering the ruins.
My credit card statement consists of two sheets of paper, one I keep with the amount spent each month, this sheet is surplus to my requirements so I shred it.
As you see I used it for a few sums :)
A quick candid at a recent visit to a coffee shop...........loved the look of these Dolce & Gabbana glasses and the elegant look, just waited for the far lady to lean into the picture for a defocused image to highlight the glasses more!
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