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The Strokes Performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on April 17, 2011. Photo by Chris Tuite for Pitchfork
All Points East, Victoria Park, London Ft. The Strokes, The Raconteurs, Johnny Marr, Courtney Barnett, Jarvis Cocker + Anna Calvi - 25th May 2019
Photography by Bimal Tailor
We're back from STROKE.01 in munich and had a great week!
Check out online-store soon for the pieces that are still available:
We're back from STROKE.01 in munich and had a great week!
Check out online-store soon for the pieces that are still available:
We spot one of Dan's posters for the aftershow party!
(And a chubby lad plays an invisible trumpet.)
All Points East, Victoria Park, London Ft. The Strokes, The Raconteurs, Johnny Marr, Courtney Barnett, Jarvis Cocker + Anna Calvi - 25th May 2019
Photography by Bimal Tailor
We're back from STROKE.01 in munich and had a great week!
Check out online-store soon for the pieces that are still available:
All Points East, Victoria Park, London Ft. The Strokes, The Raconteurs, Johnny Marr, Courtney Barnett, Jarvis Cocker + Anna Calvi - 25th May 2019
Photography by Bimal Tailor
Urban (ɜːʳbən) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
Arborist (ˈɑːrbərɪst)
noun
A specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests
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How do you manage trees that were planted in the 1960s as part of post-war housing development in the third decade of the 21st Millennium? With great care, dinosaur smoke and mankind’s great pursuit in conquest over nature.
The process being undertaken in these photos is what's called pollarding, where a trees limbs are removed entirely to encourage later dense growth within 1 to 2 years. Only certain species of trees can handle this brutal operation, like these London Plane trees here. Once a tree is pollarded, it has to be regularly maintained in 5-10 year operations.
Historically, wood harvested from this method would be used to feed livestock or for light timber, but these days, thanks to the infernal combustion engine, two operatives can pollard five trees in as many hours, with the tree limbs being quite violently mechanically separated and carted off to be used either as mulch or biofuel.
I find arboriculture rather fascinating; living amongst the trees in an urban environment, arborists have been a regular sight over the years, performing everything from whole tree clearings to dead wood pruning, I’ve seen them do a lot.
It’s a highly skilled profession with some of the most dangerous and violent tools possible in the workplace – Darwin Award nominees are quickly weeded out.
There is a strange beauty to the brutality of efficiency, especially towards articles of nature.