tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52203853464520567422024-03-05T05:25:04.537+00:00.mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-71278147979490753742009-03-25T22:21:00.008+00:002009-03-25T23:41:48.224+00:00WWF's EARTH HOUR<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijY-dpZR6yv8LFOvso41J3kQzAg0JJc0lufEMff086XaW1ts8d7bYO3H3k2L3YDqzHm77CxeOq2nkkHOHznIYKqU1idlDK2GbaCyMyEc8kIRm_9Di-a_duinbB-ZHxUxNsnFilhllWaRi6/s400/1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317256756736165858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Earth Hour - 29th March - 8.30pm (your local time)<br />Info above</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on picture for link)</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">One hour <span style="font-style: italic;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of 'non-essential' electricity shut down around the world.</span> So if I do my math that ensures that each 'room' (or time zone) on earth will be darker/less energy sapping than usual. Or if you look at it in another way the earth will have 24 hours of less electricity consumption around the world...right...?<br /><br />Anyway... Saturday 28 March 2009, 8.30pm, your local time, turn the leccy off.<br /><br />Simple no?<br /><br /></span></span> </div><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Let's save those monkeys in the forest OK!?!<span style="font-style: italic;"> And other creatures of this planet, including us of course...</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /><br /></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/signup/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 349px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUW-PycvvZsgkvblvdfVOe9vX9quOYLB77o9e79pXzhyd0GT7TulU2mJu2X-i5t_i6VuOMPBh8o6fhp1QcoiB9ly7zxFvr0Xva_Ko435BAMEwOeQNdQVqxKAlegAdjUa0Ed4hUt_zccN2J/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317256767287453666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Sign up here</span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on picture for link)</span></span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.earthhour.org/home/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizl6QRnrzkmY4koqA918FwzEf6Y0wnBl-1WMbsn5mtZHWdcQYmpebJuD7dNnqJIqz9jXNUSoYklmAtvx4az4faQ4vPNWFN3tWBwvQEPzVzk1BFU2Jc8vxs73z_fwkTgAGCHv0ZDdJBuXtC/s400/3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317256766128812530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >And a bit more info here</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on picture for link)</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nothing more to write except <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GO DO IT!?!?</span></span></span></span>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-89716707403046404512009-03-24T16:48:00.008+00:002009-03-25T14:55:40.887+00:00CINEMA REDUX<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXSzPVcNhIr9ny51ochCsuI7DbT1Ith9Er-3IQAZMfSqzhWFm8LT1FTV6NiklUSVo0RPMtF2On3-Vv-4J_99CSdDQinRxm3XfdsiNc27VkUin6xKHX4h1HWYgE4x0nFouTgZOQj4WhscG/s1600-h/2001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXSzPVcNhIr9ny51ochCsuI7DbT1Ith9Er-3IQAZMfSqzhWFm8LT1FTV6NiklUSVo0RPMtF2On3-Vv-4J_99CSdDQinRxm3XfdsiNc27VkUin6xKHX4h1HWYgE4x0nFouTgZOQj4WhscG/s400/2001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316804853251006306" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >2001: A Space Odyssey<br />copyright MGM<br /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Cinema Redux.</span> A software program that captures <span style="font-style: italic;">one </span>frame [or screen shot] for every <span style="font-style: italic;">second </span>the film runs and places it onto <span style="font-style: italic;">one </span>print [or sheet of paper]. Each line represents one minute so it's 60 frames [</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >screen shots]</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > for every line shown. <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I had to read that back to myself a couple of times...</span></span><br /><br />I </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >have looked at these for a long time, wondered why I have looked at them for so long and then asked the question of why I like them. Which puts me back in the middle doesn't it?</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXiGvsHVcyQR-tZWw7XXwRsCWAW8k4FsOyjbr8sCnymt2TCsKZnJzsYN4BXhVnr6kxHV_jgPHW52oDFku69O4tJ01R6lEtR_wnziBgIUd6g-A0PU5DK1970DOUhl23DVvNji-la1Cf6Yx/s1600-h/There+Will+Be+Blood.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXiGvsHVcyQR-tZWw7XXwRsCWAW8k4FsOyjbr8sCnymt2TCsKZnJzsYN4BXhVnr6kxHV_jgPHW52oDFku69O4tJ01R6lEtR_wnziBgIUd6g-A0PU5DK1970DOUhl23DVvNji-la1Cf6Yx/s400/There+Will+Be+Blood.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316804884243237666" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >There Will Be Blood<br />copyright Miramax / Paramount<br /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span>It's most comforting to look at these even if you cannot see each frame and the idea is wonderful. <a href="http://www.brendandawes.com/">Brendan Dawes</a> was the man who created Cinema Redux and has created many a special edition. <a href="http://coudal.com/archives/2007/06/brendan_dawes_c.php">Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey</a> being one of them.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNkmBCWiNKVpngw7VInQJVHxBeDpY9aFABU2pKCP6wv8x83nzNkaAkOHQvesQx1F13jSEKPpLb6qWuGAVnZM_yhMA35YtdDzt7TMHyFSbNtYKZgmN-tpEJ6yB2p_dcoWQSF52vdL3NjI3X/s1600-h/Incredibles.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNkmBCWiNKVpngw7VInQJVHxBeDpY9aFABU2pKCP6wv8x83nzNkaAkOHQvesQx1F13jSEKPpLb6qWuGAVnZM_yhMA35YtdDzt7TMHyFSbNtYKZgmN-tpEJ6yB2p_dcoWQSF52vdL3NjI3X/s400/Incredibles.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316804875029734882" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Incredibles<br />copyright Disney / Pixar<br /></span></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br />The prints convey two angles; one that lets you see the images from afar (<span style="font-style: italic;">as this post shows)</span> allowing you the viewer to see another image<span style="font-style: italic;"> (</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >which could be influenced by the film that's on the image perhaps?)</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>and another that, if viewed up close, shows you the film proper, which would be fascinating by all accounts.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gBgggK0D5A6-zqxBo7o4sFrbIGI2eozGmou5ruT0iMMHdYpD9sWgPo5997w2LR1qgn7HOn6LjYjsxjBja612I8amsAZ7tLzsuDjJCvJUl4lc4C0bX9kwged5LaK-jOpaQkQeHQnSfw2g/s1600-h/Dr+Stranglove.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gBgggK0D5A6-zqxBo7o4sFrbIGI2eozGmou5ruT0iMMHdYpD9sWgPo5997w2LR1qgn7HOn6LjYjsxjBja612I8amsAZ7tLzsuDjJCvJUl4lc4C0bX9kwged5LaK-jOpaQkQeHQnSfw2g/s400/Dr+Stranglove.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316804870395323042" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Dr Stranglove<br />copyright Columbia / Sony Pictures<br /></span></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Some say the prints represent the film's DNA but I think it's more like the soul of the film. Softer, not so 'scientific' as DNA and a lot more approachable.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >All those frames on one print make for a beautiful piece of art too. A simple concept transformed into stunning reality. These I would hang on our walls without hesitation.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >There are applications allowing you to make your own 'Cinema Redux' poster. <a href="http://www.threewordtitle.com/thumber/">Thumper</a> for Mac and Ruby on Rails System, which is difficult to track down. I have yet to use or see them but guess the process would take some getting used to. I could be wrong though, I could be wrong.</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-13420831312185926392009-03-20T09:15:00.010+00:002009-03-20T12:33:11.718+00:00GRAFFITI WITHOUT THE SWEAT<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wallsnotebook.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sjnLiRTLOfjsGrt3axxNcmhBekhY9m_txK113UCZGB6WjD4XdPOQ2sVMyOGxbN6AVITiIARgQFmw8AmFJicWioByWffXRsAr8nR5ht3yWlj5k2LnotUVbEAdvp-Xh2r3ZK5Or0M2GS4T/s400/walls+notebook.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315246274772024562" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Wall Notebook</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >copyright sherwood forlee 2007</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Now this I like.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >'<a href="http://www.wallsnotebook.com/">The Walls Notebook</a>'. A cunning publication that allows you to become a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy">Banksy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blek_le_Rat">Blek Le Rat</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat">Basquiat</a> or even a wildstyle <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_168">Tracy 168</a>. Who knows eh? All I do know is that you can define your own style in the comfort of your own home or favourite café.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wallsnotebook.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2MOJGk2gVBaNKEQHf73GJ-Xwj75q6S0ixOHtYpsjvYwzRn5z7risyvq0Gove6l-FhwH9bPXzI2xT80fcNUYahROefZWXWJwpeBCNKQilicZXfmH2Uo8s6Uko5aaxpljxC76E0hgIO2G-/s400/walls+notebook3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315246285360916722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Wall Notebook</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >copyright sherwood forlee 2007</span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Me? Well, if I </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >were </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >to live in NYC then i'd go to the physical place shown in the book, sit down on the floor with my back touching the said wall and let my pen do the talking. Once done, look at the wall, look at the book, back and forth, up and down, merge the two places and I'm there in my own graffiti world untouced by the cops and unfazed from doing a possible runner?! </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Blimey...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wallsnotebook.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5jFEteGgafc-2VUY-FUDeonkvOf7NPihHXoN0sDf6Df0zTyr_fPz1H8-F9tMj0XFpGNq6APtcCKlYpWjitovKnXqSqDATBO_yyjxBNU7_YR_MP3b2aZlUD3y6iF7rtvQndgQnweYQpK_/s400/walls+notebook+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315246285598085522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Wall Notebook</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >copyright sherwood forlee 2007</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Although some of the places they show in the book may not be the best place to sit and dream huh? I could be wrong though.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wallsnotebook.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAiz9V94_FnC7y3qE3DdFerRvzgi3fWty1flWJeWMGxDcuz8zy1AG5AswKLaPPGdXUJYtIZ6yej6JkZNsgIrxKEx5Yw7m2jjLSG-FdlXCb8m1ZqB2JYmiaDqtQjpUCk7Lrk1o-fh9ngLg/s400/walls+notebook+tube.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315246290336631730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Wall Notebook</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >copyright sherwood forlee 2007</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br />You can also sketch your stuff on the website; pick your pencil size, colour and away you go.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >The book is on pre-order at Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walls-Notebook-Sherwood-Forlee/dp/159474324X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237540509&sr=8-1">here</a>, good price too. I now keep my fingers crossed for a London edition...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Want more info? email info@wallsnotebook.com</span></span><br /><br /></span></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-20961316445908805112009-03-17T13:40:00.008+00:002009-03-17T18:03:00.468+00:00OFFICE TRIPTYCH<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >From my travels around The Barbican Centre I shot a series of images focussing on an office block. <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/">The Barbican</a> has a number of skywalk's or raised walkways and offer a great view into the many office buildings that hug its outer skin.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KetBHl3kMvTnGKDrwRuktQxf_-uL33WWbxLX1wWtlQVrMvQC0pWcpHp_TXra6SdHmiN9za4O5XN3opktEcLN3CBkXkr_qaalBuNjqLR-s_jlUVoq0TVo5VgbjKpLR2SJ1YNneK4KXb0e/s1600-h/Black+1a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KetBHl3kMvTnGKDrwRuktQxf_-uL33WWbxLX1wWtlQVrMvQC0pWcpHp_TXra6SdHmiN9za4O5XN3opktEcLN3CBkXkr_qaalBuNjqLR-s_jlUVoq0TVo5VgbjKpLR2SJ1YNneK4KXb0e/s400/Black+1a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314166535142219154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Barbican Office 1 (2009)<br />(click on image for larger size)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >When I returned home I thought these images would do well as, what I call, <span style="font-style: italic;">passing-by pictures</span>. Somewhere like a hallway or a walk-thru from room to room. Interesting when looked at for a brief moment out of the corner of ones eye but also has the ability to offer that <span style="font-style: italic;">something else</span> when studied deliberately. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkTJsOKIddM2UT7tKK0mwOLY8xMii0UnkRfaImqoVoLcdDBxiv3wzNaQWnc4Qu54RFba1RA8BJhg841Sg8YL8l0-N1VePdMbEy83fI2O7eRH8SLYiTfNRpV2rXsHqR-roUvrgamyp1Ytv/s1600-h/Black+2a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkTJsOKIddM2UT7tKK0mwOLY8xMii0UnkRfaImqoVoLcdDBxiv3wzNaQWnc4Qu54RFba1RA8BJhg841Sg8YL8l0-N1VePdMbEy83fI2O7eRH8SLYiTfNRpV2rXsHqR-roUvrgamyp1Ytv/s400/Black+2a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314166540839946290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Barbican Office 2 (2009</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >)</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on image for larger size)</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I have put these images in order and separated to give an individual view. The last shot, a composite/triptych of the three, shows this brief capture in time - about 10 seconds - and provides a certain animation to any story you care to conjure up about the office workers. <span style="font-style: italic;">My favourite being the stretching man on the fifth floor.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQCzj58ED4e1A2orG_n2bvDTDQN5dw_zc4aBu5CQYMFTls8SszLRvQ1QhwL3XwwBQ0CilxLq_MBCSJAhIpcjI3fClo-071YoGQzsiKWnFzsP0l7pYiQ-EELMuy_bhjxv8qR2Cd2yLT15O/s1600-h/Black+3a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQCzj58ED4e1A2orG_n2bvDTDQN5dw_zc4aBu5CQYMFTls8SszLRvQ1QhwL3XwwBQ0CilxLq_MBCSJAhIpcjI3fClo-071YoGQzsiKWnFzsP0l7pYiQ-EELMuy_bhjxv8qR2Cd2yLT15O/s400/Black+3a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314166548280993714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Barbican Office 3 (2009)</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on image for larger size)</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >My camera is still in the 10mp(megapixels) range and many photographers put an issue on pixel size and state that image quality doesn't matter between 10, 12 or even 24mp's. But in my mind the last shot, the triptych, would look fantastic blown up to about 4 foot high and 6 to 7 foot long within a large room. This however <span style="font-style: italic;">does </span>require a larger pixel count preferrably going into the medium-format 39, 50 even 60 mp range <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://mangrovevens.blogspot.com/2009/02/heaven-is-39-megapixels.html">see my earlier post</a>).</span> The aroma and clout would be lost if I blew these up from a mere 10mp.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPhhxy-H6MqLEzf9I3Fq3eq9RQ_PiyY8G-9Oiwgg4yIBVzpvrAMBc5WyOwDoqHl5KvMWl1KQkUeoP9nsGkAPSVMRHRiplGRMW-Rmf1f5VANOR373vEmLmSGb5nuN6Aq1Z4qVPRW_bihvm/s1600-h/Trip+Black+1a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPhhxy-H6MqLEzf9I3Fq3eq9RQ_PiyY8G-9Oiwgg4yIBVzpvrAMBc5WyOwDoqHl5KvMWl1KQkUeoP9nsGkAPSVMRHRiplGRMW-Rmf1f5VANOR373vEmLmSGb5nuN6Aq1Z4qVPRW_bihvm/s400/Trip+Black+1a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314166550618602546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Barbican Office Triptych (2009)</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">(click on image for larger size)</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >But the mind is powerful and if you look long enough at the shot, create your own story(s) and transfer to an imaginary wall then I think you will be suitably impressed. I certainly was even if I say it myself...</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-23642307272704616152009-03-12T16:10:00.009+00:002009-03-12T22:13:51.325+00:00THRU YOU - KUTIMAN<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thru-you.com/#/videos/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqb6EncjW1-AQNHWkRyy0dfPRIKIHc_0-dSyXSZGy_SBdWynBGtltYwVIwiXliSokjBkUcBoFDjgVd0mBW7zYG1mDJ8AU5Pg5UO5ohdi59kD_17MAQabbI2kudXUuZa3ktKeqbOvcGufR/s400/kul+1.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312338423269386946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Thru You</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Kutiman Mixes YouTube</span></span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />(click the above to play album)</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now I haven't been excited about an album for a long time. </span> Songs get me excited when I have found a rare track hidden in the archives of some torrent site but an album??</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPn9MD9-UwsTs-vJYq822oH4_83XGxvS25sDQkQTxVLJI_aYBENkUD1X-dYfvafQSD5RhlOCJFNBovmgFaBZ_37u-j13FhgsutxFy6QJBvmqVbbX6OlKCIlw2UBD8lZjdOipsrIsGTf7w8/s1600-h/kultiman+2.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPn9MD9-UwsTs-vJYq822oH4_83XGxvS25sDQkQTxVLJI_aYBENkUD1X-dYfvafQSD5RhlOCJFNBovmgFaBZ_37u-j13FhgsutxFy6QJBvmqVbbX6OlKCIlw2UBD8lZjdOipsrIsGTf7w8/s400/kultiman+2.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312338429333410450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Thru You</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Kutiman Mixes YouTube</span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This my friends is genius. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman"> Kutiman</a>, a man born in Jerusalem with tags such as musician, composer, producer and animator has come up with this DJ Shadow-esque, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endtroducing">Endtroducing...</a>) on-line album. All samples have been taken from YouTube users and then mixed and edited together for 8 tracks of pleasure (there's 7 tracks of music but an additional 'about' which is marvellous too).</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />It took him three months of work and he spread the word via Twitter - some say the first Twitter star but who knows or even cares. The man is, in my books a musical mastermind. To make one song takes vision and patience but to make an album...?!?</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />I don't think the album touches Endtroducing but given that Kuliman has produced this in his house the scope for this guy, if given the pro suite, could be huge.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Although imagine the logistics of royalty payout if this went out on a label...?! Woof Charlie...</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Respect to you sir. I hope this is the shape of things to come.</span></span><br /></div></div></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-8239209089223879652009-03-10T20:46:00.013+00:002009-03-11T11:03:48.551+00:00SOUTH BANK, BANKSIDE & MONUMENT CHALLENGE - PART 2<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNIfhoZR7e2KyMKnZ_4yaq4LmAebJXY77OS_dJ27WfLHjG3sp-Cz0ceO1WcrevzTiXa7fNmrXHMo8dMig_KVRrla5WbCVcHNyN5svuLAbly-fSz6hHuE6R-po3Q4B_7dJ5NfVK63S29PF/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMNIfhoZR7e2KyMKnZ_4yaq4LmAebJXY77OS_dJ27WfLHjG3sp-Cz0ceO1WcrevzTiXa7fNmrXHMo8dMig_KVRrla5WbCVcHNyN5svuLAbly-fSz6hHuE6R-po3Q4B_7dJ5NfVK63S29PF/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676618018871634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The sequel if you please!</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Another gap too long for my liking but read on, you'll understand why.</span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTz8OqY7O0aRG6FGRStOyXC4s5BLoQ_wOpTUSNQTPtkzdADc0WZ36LxEeFqxY1gv35fujTPocXU94IWVKqA_AUWkv9SyO5UUj4gwSlcIwaqiy5IfFIOEOFjquy3vCEw17EjYe6dtwJB7z/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTz8OqY7O0aRG6FGRStOyXC4s5BLoQ_wOpTUSNQTPtkzdADc0WZ36LxEeFqxY1gv35fujTPocXU94IWVKqA_AUWkv9SyO5UUj4gwSlcIwaqiy5IfFIOEOFjquy3vCEw17EjYe6dtwJB7z/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676618726484530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Tate Modern, Bankside, London</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">One London stroll, if one can call it that, which lasted 6 hours. Yes 6 hours.?!My eyes were weak, my spine creaked, feet were swelled, back it ached... It was glorious!! One of the sights that I took in was (i)The Monument to The Great Fire of London, all 311 stairs worth of climbing recently refurbished and opened a month or so ago.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Now I must say vertigo gets the better of me and I <span style="font-style: italic;">did </span>think twice about spiralling up the flights but I was a Londoner being a proud tourist in my own city for the day. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gcBIS8od-nOCV8w6Mn0D55HkmI24DRCcPM_OHTNjs4XBt-JH-Kkn9HCH_R51BtYohMCsBNF-5zQATuR_91sZU5DT_zwVR-4ZIj2eaQMoLEZ32K2_DLwL47T-eK0ZpHDQwgOMEWeeaQR5/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gcBIS8od-nOCV8w6Mn0D55HkmI24DRCcPM_OHTNjs4XBt-JH-Kkn9HCH_R51BtYohMCsBNF-5zQATuR_91sZU5DT_zwVR-4ZIj2eaQMoLEZ32K2_DLwL47T-eK0ZpHDQwgOMEWeeaQR5/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676632326581426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Union Jack, View from The Fire of London Monument,</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>Monument, London</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Now when I move about London from A to E, sometimes diverting via C and D, the sights are secondary to me. The backdrop of the city is just that, it serves a purpose to house the public, move the public and entertain the public. I also think it's the case of when you want to get somewhere there is no time to look and stare therefore it's head down and full steam ahead. This, I wager, is the case for most city folk - workers and Londoners alike.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I never <span style="font-style: italic;">'tourist it up'</span>.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPs_o98Zu1dqWArKPBsjeNu9Vsn_BQoUJeJ9esmAo70sygN5K9bjPMZWUv6PsfozAN7yq-tif8fwE-XgBp20r3w7CEeDXMBsFRuLqTCYPZ8vcG4kgZ2WpAchryIDc4axyQW8ty1gRxZsYW/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPs_o98Zu1dqWArKPBsjeNu9Vsn_BQoUJeJ9esmAo70sygN5K9bjPMZWUv6PsfozAN7yq-tif8fwE-XgBp20r3w7CEeDXMBsFRuLqTCYPZ8vcG4kgZ2WpAchryIDc4axyQW8ty1gRxZsYW/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676624571175122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Underpass, South Bank, London</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So I did.<br /><br />Last week.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">From South Bank to Bankside to Borough and back to South Bank. Across the water to Embankment then down to (ii)Monument ending up east side at The Tower of London and St Katharine's Docks. Burr-you-tee-full.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJw74d_MoOSXqt1O7J_7xMvOBenq9IJWubDLVcXN7AsAg6bSmcVPGNgSrAOroKiRlp1c4L5_Izjhm14QyuBkf_Zq4P2XO8LH0gPfHEWNpWKGUumXzZXxHyvLyosKXwRSdhOzVzCaOtNOK4/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJw74d_MoOSXqt1O7J_7xMvOBenq9IJWubDLVcXN7AsAg6bSmcVPGNgSrAOroKiRlp1c4L5_Izjhm14QyuBkf_Zq4P2XO8LH0gPfHEWNpWKGUumXzZXxHyvLyosKXwRSdhOzVzCaOtNOK4/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676629974434226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >London Eye Capsule, South Bank, London</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">It put a whole new perspective on London for me, being a tourist that is. My camera was out all day, I mingled with the foreign crowds, took in the sights and waited for Tower Bridge to open. I must add that last week was the first time I saw it open in all my 36 years of visting and living in London...!? Bloody marvellous it was to see the road lift, even though it would have been more exciting if I were six or thereabouts.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhSZ7Zq2qZhw2bYKtYBSoKIMAAnVdORmTM_1-3H5ACSfOoysNQd0wCZTy1_Xh5IWVRYXJRmi61MajRT7mrcMDiDrcVezDuvCMNhe32rHjgO9w2zZgXLUdpQf9ck8WOxLtbbyfTJFjw_YS/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhSZ7Zq2qZhw2bYKtYBSoKIMAAnVdORmTM_1-3H5ACSfOoysNQd0wCZTy1_Xh5IWVRYXJRmi61MajRT7mrcMDiDrcVezDuvCMNhe32rHjgO9w2zZgXLUdpQf9ck8WOxLtbbyfTJFjw_YS/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311676992960952674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Tower Bridge Fully Drawn, Tower Hill, London</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So, here's my thought of the day.<br /><br />I recommend that if you live or work in London become a tourist for one day in the month, every month. It makes you appreciate what <span style="font-style: italic;">amazing </span>tourist spots we have and also puts you around lovely people throughout the day. Even if the tourists do swear, shout down the phone or slag people off you don't understand what they are saying and it sounds so much nicer in Japanese, Thai or French...n'est pas??</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />(i) I must thank the cashier in The Monument who gave student passes to the two girls in front of me. As I was a tourist I thought i'd be cheeky to these London folk and asked for a student concession too (£2 instead of £3). She shook her head, smiled and gave me a tut then asked for £2!! Fantastic! It was only a pound saving but the view up top seemed even sweeter somehow. Thank you! You also get a certificate when you come back down pronouncing 'You have climb the 311 stairs to the top"<br /><br />(ii) I did pass by - on the way to Monument - one of my favourite buildings in London. The old Daily Express offices on Fleet Street. I wanted to take pictures but the streets were busy with activity. A Sunday should prove more fruitful and images will appear on a future post. </span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-37130814698628976252009-03-05T11:32:00.011+00:002009-03-05T17:28:17.502+00:00DAYLIGHT DRAMA<div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b44H_KOMnuXaS4vzVzTJvgnAr6JjT8MWxZrXB9KBlX7D4eLkS5clCkuqmW3JPKyXgidjGub6RhhBfG5NUbP8OY6uJmFnkfYo7iYJAMUz_kY2wqwIH9kw5p9Djo54Csyym1-DY7KIhGD1/s1600-h/1071905681_5ba302a9f8_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b44H_KOMnuXaS4vzVzTJvgnAr6JjT8MWxZrXB9KBlX7D4eLkS5clCkuqmW3JPKyXgidjGub6RhhBfG5NUbP8OY6uJmFnkfYo7iYJAMUz_kY2wqwIH9kw5p9Djo54Csyym1-DY7KIhGD1/s400/1071905681_5ba302a9f8_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676523793227746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Roofgirl<br />(liking the pigeon stencil too)<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Washington DC</span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right, after an absence of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">much </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">too long</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >redesigning a blog eats spacetimecontinum but much thanks to <a href="http://www.eblogtemplates.com/">eblogtemplates</a>, couldn't have done it without you!</span> -<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I give you! Street installations</span> that step over the fine line of "Is it?" and "No! It couldn't be! Could it!" <span style="font-style: italic;">Blimus!</span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWFy9nHM7F4YJl_Rbtpg1mY2vI0WASWU6OHTDgxqazu-Kf_zv4tPqKurCP82XKpQH2eXh_80fUnDu95_B_wCUuL6TLI_DqgWvJk5kwXUgseQ_ZalNyMkhvZuu1JmLC-nQXOfLGSQJ-QBo/s1600-h/3100722009_a8b018cc32_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWFy9nHM7F4YJl_Rbtpg1mY2vI0WASWU6OHTDgxqazu-Kf_zv4tPqKurCP82XKpQH2eXh_80fUnDu95_B_wCUuL6TLI_DqgWvJk5kwXUgseQ_ZalNyMkhvZuu1JmLC-nQXOfLGSQJ-QBo/s400/3100722009_a8b018cc32_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676528386293330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Embed #1</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Washington DC</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >'Daylight Drama', created by Mark Jenkins and 'performed' all over the world from London to Sweden to Washington DC is all about taking the interaction of street art to the upper most level. Level 42 perhaps, which in some cases is the answer to everything and others, like myself, a perfect marriage of jazz-funk and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_King_%28musician%29">slap bass perfection</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">(we're talking early <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_42">Level 42</a> here, not your pop years...) </span><br /><br />I have found a site that is run by Mark Jenkins and i'm pretty sure it is him who makes the art. It hosts plenty of pictures and a few videos showing the reactions of the public. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hecok3rE3Bk">Here</a> a video shows the local authority 'rescuing' the dummy from a river in Sweden. Controversial? Not controversial? You decide...<br /><br />The more you look at them though the more fascinating they become. And this is just via images on the web for gawd's sake...</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHe9ChQZrHApjAIFp87DLRHX3ifp6s6FBO013yP8PrhMHDzGQZ3bxr51tEgi6mZdGKjzmBRtuWza2nGmGYDMFSxjkRHT0HLRlgRLHShDcmZB9VmAwEfYcbEaGiFOOf1vg98ucQIp45g6L/s1600-h/2924012003_c04a462070_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHe9ChQZrHApjAIFp87DLRHX3ifp6s6FBO013yP8PrhMHDzGQZ3bxr51tEgi6mZdGKjzmBRtuWza2nGmGYDMFSxjkRHT0HLRlgRLHShDcmZB9VmAwEfYcbEaGiFOOf1vg98ucQIp45g6L/s400/2924012003_c04a462070_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676871116387442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bin Bag Rummage</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Prato</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">, </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Italy</span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Two strains take up the installations:</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >i) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tape Art</span> - involving wrapping copious amounts of sellotape around an object then carefully cutting and reapplying. The babies I love. Delicate beings surrounded by dangerous and awkward situations.</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXOWq6MegEO4QX-RPkBwRk-sKTeeD_yGFB8tf7a3THHsRkDDnw5soxmbPveAW5OL4j5gWCVRcPoGLXuDFdflg7zQhefnSMx1R_-RF5YFCn5UEFqtkbFJNpJ6dlDlKoc31rkidMQVJe9fw/s1600-h/132404462_1f8cd5e984_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXOWq6MegEO4QX-RPkBwRk-sKTeeD_yGFB8tf7a3THHsRkDDnw5soxmbPveAW5OL4j5gWCVRcPoGLXuDFdflg7zQhefnSMx1R_-RF5YFCn5UEFqtkbFJNpJ6dlDlKoc31rkidMQVJe9fw/s400/132404462_1f8cd5e984_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676532811317986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Storker Project</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Washington DC</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >ii) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dummy Art</span>, if that is the correct term - mannequins dressed up, sometimes cut in half but always placed in full view of the passer-by. These are my favourites.<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGueVE7Y_bGwgdHObBAkJyZBrZ9btsw_BlIizhqOiBuvfh1_oZgj9wSXwm_iWiezsBFK_LyyFhouL00bLQ9LnM50TrlOsrVMANebZgMwfQ6bLQC4CSiOgXYNX3Gv7a67kTZStrZZo4QUj/s1600-h/170537973_1fab2775e2_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGueVE7Y_bGwgdHObBAkJyZBrZ9btsw_BlIizhqOiBuvfh1_oZgj9wSXwm_iWiezsBFK_LyyFhouL00bLQ9LnM50TrlOsrVMANebZgMwfQ6bLQC4CSiOgXYNX3Gv7a67kTZStrZZo4QUj/s400/170537973_1fab2775e2_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676544297743298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Embed #2</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Washington DC</span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Instead of the viewer appreciating with an instant smile or scowl the works really pull the person in, sometimes to a point where help or assistance is given, and make you question before giving judgement. It may be going a bit <span style="font-style: italic;">too </span>far on some occasions -<span style="font-style: italic;"> see 1st paragraph</span> - but this is what I think art is about. Drawing you in from your normal existence and allowing the piece to tell <span style="font-style: italic;">you </span>what <span style="font-style: italic;">you </span>should be doing <span style="font-style: italic;">or</span> thinking. Abandonment as such.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Although I think this is why cities are so blasé about seeing stuff like this. If you have been burned before and taken in too many times then you assume everything is dodgy and if you assume art is dodgy then the whole fabric of society is DOOOOOMED!!! It really is...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZeAq_VB9_A067aLu-URnOBvj4izXPp1q4BDjY6z63WTAEJPJfopWoX_sssIOokJSAhIE3hbZWhl8_OnM-M3HHhGkXGYJRjQUVpHkMExTaIdBO9VDoRK1CTCHg5QMudxRJChYUIAJD1Yo/s1600-h/2880225724_c788235f2a_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZeAq_VB9_A067aLu-URnOBvj4izXPp1q4BDjY6z63WTAEJPJfopWoX_sssIOokJSAhIE3hbZWhl8_OnM-M3HHhGkXGYJRjQUVpHkMExTaIdBO9VDoRK1CTCHg5QMudxRJChYUIAJD1Yo/s400/2880225724_c788235f2a_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309682401491662306" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Storker Project</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Amsterdam</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Take a look through my selection of favourites, many more <a href="http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html">here</a> and if it is Mark Jenkins or someone else </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >or </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >a group of people doing this then keep it going!</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawV8UoMOWQhXrWHe6EFM-ag3E6oiw8MbSqXvEnRde1blfCIpBkuC7f8EjizTe3mJkcs8-Ti0sW14sJNuI0SI_fGFTKTnTMglojTpEQSRX20phmYPEGUOiaSuj66AQURPY6LEfTcnpiOTW/s1600-h/31513297_c545c9028a_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawV8UoMOWQhXrWHe6EFM-ag3E6oiw8MbSqXvEnRde1blfCIpBkuC7f8EjizTe3mJkcs8-Ti0sW14sJNuI0SI_fGFTKTnTMglojTpEQSRX20phmYPEGUOiaSuj66AQURPY6LEfTcnpiOTW/s400/31513297_c545c9028a_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309676542215395410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Unnamed</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Washington DC</span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >More works in London though please! I'm growing tired of wall art...Zzzzzzzz</span>...<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, and if you want to make a sellotape figure, object or wrap yourself up then here you <a href="http://www.tapesculpture.org/">go</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(also run by Mark Jenkins)</span></span></span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-80975445165878825212009-03-02T10:34:00.028+00:002009-03-04T22:50:45.031+00:00CHARLES AND RAY EAMES - POWERS OF TEN<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLRHIZnJ5QuT3m8QCxYieZXxdMh7H2GEdc6J57OtURlnTDEuA2fBvSzFk437O5VE9g-u1mYhHg8tcfQFBv7YfwQlVDMlqPrts1WHMSuMIcU-X40q4ui9CAhiaNEJD1bj7m3LbA_OqyEBJ/s400/10+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308866058029839698" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Powers of Ten<br />(click the above to play the video)<br />Charles and Ray Eames<br />Commissioned by IBM - 1977</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >I think this is what a TV producer calls a 'damn fine lin</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">k'.</span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Following on from my <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://shanklee.blogspot.com/2009/02/tenth-dimension.html">'The Tenth Dimension'</a> </span>post; we all know about the ten dimensions now don't we? This post showcases the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten">Powers of Ten</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> film that </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames">Mr Charles and Mrs Ray Eames</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> were commissioned to produce by IBM. It takes you on a journey from a couple having a picnic in the US to the furthest reaches of the universe back down to the atoms in your own body. As with the 10th Dimension film i'll leave the film to do the talking.<br /><br />Released in 1977 the style of the film reflects this decade and the narrator's voice, as pointed out by a YouTube viewer sounds like Tigger from Disney's Winnie the Pooh. He was in fact </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Morrison">Philip Morrison</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who was the science behind it<span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsi2Vs3ZnyKEsWw5cFTw2w1AN5FIlnajoEWZyeXaaysxdn62Wl0cJtz28dBsPyax66Bavu0K6Xjsubf9RILTEgdrva3e-Sj_6Sr57K9MSjUe5CGdYpdnNx3LVncC3WZDGSLQnGTGRCgbT/s1600-h/zero+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsi2Vs3ZnyKEsWw5cFTw2w1AN5FIlnajoEWZyeXaaysxdn62Wl0cJtz28dBsPyax66Bavu0K6Xjsubf9RILTEgdrva3e-Sj_6Sr57K9MSjUe5CGdYpdnNx3LVncC3WZDGSLQnGTGRCgbT/s400/zero+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308852434746932050" border="0" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Powers of Ten<br />Charles and Ray Eames<br />Commissioned by IBM - 1977</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Fascinating on all levels and a nice tight 9 minutes to keep you focussed.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The real thing that gets me about space and the human is that the darkest d</span>epths of the universe look exactly the same as the nerves in our brains.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQ92UpxAeebEf0x0IHz5C20gNMGa7OHYZRpkXSgYSUWVfbFTyQrw73jpeJNrOnQ7BQVoNuZq-cTg7Ge-YFnJubEvBJAxEEe8ittAE9s2_pPP2U0mlgPm-C1Ai_LiuGZEjuBH98nqh9g2f/s1600-h/brain+vs+space.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQ92UpxAeebEf0x0IHz5C20gNMGa7OHYZRpkXSgYSUWVfbFTyQrw73jpeJNrOnQ7BQVoNuZq-cTg7Ge-YFnJubEvBJAxEEe8ittAE9s2_pPP2U0mlgPm-C1Ai_LiuGZEjuBH98nqh9g2f/s400/brain+vs+space.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308852796937465970" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mark Miller vs Astrophysicists<br />Brain on the left - Universe on right<br />2006</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Coincidence? Tweaking of the computer modelling software? A link?? I remember a scene in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/">National Lampoon's Animal House</a> where Donald Sutherland explains to a student that our universe could be a spot in someone's finger nail, therefore many spots in a human could be billions of universe like our own... They were smoking <span style="font-style: italic;">*mowee-wowee</span> at the time </span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Now i'm not a man of God but the similarities are astounding and it feels to me like there's a game going on somewhere by something to that someone being us... I could go onto the reason why oil is so hard to find and extract or why lungs look like trees, that's a good one, or why the ocean conveyor belt is more 'mechanical' than just a natural occurence.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Woof Charlie! Anyhow, enjoy the film and let the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames">famous furniture makers</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> take you on a trip that's as beautiful as their designs.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Apologies for using a YouTube film. There is an official <a href="http://www.powersof10.com/">website </a>but the film did not load. Take a look around though, it may work for you.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">*reference <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/">Nine to Five</a> film - Lily Tomlin explaining what they (Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda) are smoking</span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /></span></span></div></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-13941031148931934202009-03-01T16:40:00.012+00:002009-03-05T08:21:35.843+00:00MASS GAS RALLY<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNat8oc7B3676OjKGVKA7FcDT5bjyJRFDRMLcBXLSGQ9QaXT4zjJ5A96zyRTbfuVzyH9BwgpjzPqDKA63lhf793p9N-mhNTruxS5NUHoM5Rl5gVGtqeVfhOxCmhRS3X64cEiVwb_6YZTNb/s1600-h/partisans-713195.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNat8oc7B3676OjKGVKA7FcDT5bjyJRFDRMLcBXLSGQ9QaXT4zjJ5A96zyRTbfuVzyH9BwgpjzPqDKA63lhf793p9N-mhNTruxS5NUHoM5Rl5gVGtqeVfhOxCmhRS3X64cEiVwb_6YZTNb/s400/partisans-713195.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308871825773889154" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Unknown, circa Unknown<br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">(click on image to increase size and quality)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >What. A. Picture!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Beautiful? Haunting? Enthralling? Sad? Motivating? Essential? Just downright creepy??</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />There is much deliberation to what and where this picture is. Russian partisans posing for the picture to show how well prepared they are in World War II? Schoolchildren on a gas drill? A show of preparedness for the enemy?</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />I think this picture, regardless of where it was taken, shows their war in an almost theatrical sense. If you look at the kids behind the mock field gun there's a comedy 'showhall' feel to it. But this is dispelled when you look at the way everyone is standing and the vigour in which the kids are lying behind the gun.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />You can tell a lot from a face but here they are obviously covered in *masks.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />It's the three children at the front with heads cocked to the right that invokes a sense of question from them as if to ask, </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />"Is this correct? Are we standing right? What is this for...?"</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />This is the beauty of this photo. It makes you think, it fires back questions to </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >your </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">questions and makes sure you look at every detail so when you stop looking you cannot stop thinking.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >*I wouldn't be surprised if Pink Floyd got inspiration from the above when animating the teacher in 'Another Brick in The Wall' I may follow that up in a future post...</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-32786225086680625762009-02-27T15:38:00.011+00:002009-03-05T08:21:58.848+00:00THE TENTH DIMENSION<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipwp3Lj5qviLqvwvHMY27fbelhTu-UwVHNsRKUzRGjDl9JkCz8brxxrPOuADyD0GP5J-dlygZfNZS2zmrIHntkOE1XumQgagn4oE3XakXylvByNaLIHPASKI7al8Odh_h6mGHfit-Qlap7/s400/10.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307511560032194818" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Rob Bryanton 2006</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright Imagining the Tenth Dimension 2006<br />(click the above to play the video)</span><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >OK. You need your imagination for this one, and time perception, and space deduction, and folding ability and, and...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >This video by Rob Bryanton goes through the dimensions from 1 - 10. It explains, in Layman's terms - although the explanation still bamboozles the noggin - what these 10 dimensions, could look like or be or are... Stay with me on this one.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I have always had a fascination about the laws of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics">physics </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics">quantum mechanics</a> but alas my school was so bad and teachers so annoying that I purposefully closed my ears and made sure I was the most badly behaved pupil in their class. If I only knew back <span style="font-style: italic;">then </span>how much I wanted the title of Professor <span style="font-style: italic;">now</span>, believe me I would be making videos like this one instead of kicking myself whilst viewing.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I am not going to explain the film myself. See for yourself and be prepared for a brain scramble. I think on the 10th viewing and <span style="font-style: italic;">a lot</span> of diagrams<span style="font-style: italic;">, to the </span><span style="font-style: italic;">power of 20, </span>later this will start to make sense.<br /><br />Fantastic video that makes you concentrate so hard you could burn a whole in your computer screen</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-15518609636098333442009-02-27T10:23:00.021+00:002009-03-05T08:22:48.332+00:00DESIGN ODYSSEY CREATES DESIGN GENIUS!<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcsVYk3EONGVqRUpFy3xPOhkoMvYiSmpvnq97583WpEmkLkRUgQRlxXpeKIzoaDNM6Tu63OwFghMSHzeE3IRS9FvEdG560yviHXpxpEwFcpCFw7DFDXs617Q_MaERc7hX6IagVNUJl0c1/s1600-h/1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcsVYk3EONGVqRUpFy3xPOhkoMvYiSmpvnq97583WpEmkLkRUgQRlxXpeKIzoaDNM6Tu63OwFghMSHzeE3IRS9FvEdG560yviHXpxpEwFcpCFw7DFDXs617Q_MaERc7hX6IagVNUJl0c1/s400/1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307425510504883298" border="0" /></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Vertebrae®<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">© </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Copyright Design Odyssey UK. All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An ingenious design from Paul Hernon's Design Odyssey Ltd. </span>I love space saving designs and this just jumps to the top of my <span style="font-style: italic;">'Best Space Saving Ideas'</span> list.<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDmGERlGtzl6bKqwcKejEswgk4Nk_BSk8F80kWIwva-DG_EmvMcO-3q5RU6qbJGQNaiFQCGwdLGOExojLJudXolG3gfASD6Yjqdpbb2d6ikeYSkXXRrEh2mXOZvlgWeRodLreIu6C680i/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDmGERlGtzl6bKqwcKejEswgk4Nk_BSk8F80kWIwva-DG_EmvMcO-3q5RU6qbJGQNaiFQCGwdLGOExojLJudXolG3gfASD6Yjqdpbb2d6ikeYSkXXRrEh2mXOZvlgWeRodLreIu6C680i/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307425666235592050" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Vertebrae®<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">© </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Copyright Design Odyssey UK. All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">These, dependent on how heavy they are, would be ideal for the Airbus A380? Call me stupid but a few holes drilled in the metal to make the structure lighter; a water mist instead of a stream to save water; only one shower head and one storage bay; vacuum cistern/system...?? This unit can work within 2.25sq metres.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Oh how the untrained designer brain works hmm?<br /><br />My aircraft experience and design know how is limited to <span style="font-style: italic;">ser-weet FA</span> so I will not hold my breath for <a href="http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/us/index.jsp">Richard</a> or Paul to call me up. But I <span style="font-style: italic;">will </span>let the pictures do the talking and let it clean you with its beauty.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rWMks7cbebAgIgVmk34N6qDQCqWGSsKh1f5sJmVUjoCFfAYN6DvagO2K1hJOzp4J54ZBFwAZhoINjZrYa1Y3VFSQzut4VOdH-6CKCm9FWWlz_JkAQq3WiseqzuvXTvgy8OwofME-RBHe/s1600-h/3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rWMks7cbebAgIgVmk34N6qDQCqWGSsKh1f5sJmVUjoCFfAYN6DvagO2K1hJOzp4J54ZBFwAZhoINjZrYa1Y3VFSQzut4VOdH-6CKCm9FWWlz_JkAQq3WiseqzuvXTvgy8OwofME-RBHe/s400/3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307426253024421298" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Vertebrae®<br /></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">© </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Copyright Design Odyssey UK. All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />British design at its most innovative. Well done <a href="http://www.designodyssey.co.uk/about/">Design Odyssey</a>, well done indeed.</span></span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-16856960825687606802009-02-26T15:26:00.034+00:002009-03-05T08:23:59.161+00:00THAILAND AND HER DAUGHTERS - PART 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9kV1cP6yAzvhjy1zymEIPfpRRwHs1ndJ2zNiYoTolU5SKH_HOLmwyex_ZW1v4MWc8muYJUZa2fm8l3DKcRM1mhkcbVCLurSA6EZ4sX8E0cYrKgBL2n4GjmNcNbvDblUfvmJ81mZtavmCy/s1600-h/6.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9kV1cP6yAzvhjy1zymEIPfpRRwHs1ndJ2zNiYoTolU5SKH_HOLmwyex_ZW1v4MWc8muYJUZa2fm8l3DKcRM1mhkcbVCLurSA6EZ4sX8E0cYrKgBL2n4GjmNcNbvDblUfvmJ81mZtavmCy/s400/6.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307150769470003746" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">One women to another woman threading the small hairs off her face. Amazing dexterity and the speed is something else!<br />Chinatown</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Thailand. A place in my heart. Love it. </span>Love what it stands for and could breathe it in every day. </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok">Bangkok </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">and </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Hin">Hua Hin</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> are the places for me. On every Bangkok street there is a myriad of food, drink, shops and anything you could possible want. Hua Hin on the other hand provides the calm and tranquillity Bangkok could only dream of.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBn7ZVNobwWRcjALh29hqz5drMqTtmERyckkGHeoV7Eppc21ruPEl3bdYBo-oAO6NoY-7loZGpYH12cnyYWDf0b8ftyc3GFLHYgCw2C5xvydGYDyasmfuNiv8Bmyvz3YHNiwy4xhPReBqq/s1600-h/1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBn7ZVNobwWRcjALh29hqz5drMqTtmERyckkGHeoV7Eppc21ruPEl3bdYBo-oAO6NoY-7loZGpYH12cnyYWDf0b8ftyc3GFLHYgCw2C5xvydGYDyasmfuNiv8Bmyvz3YHNiwy4xhPReBqq/s400/1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307152781284365026" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">One of the many street markets in Chinatown. Go down this street and you walk the maze of smaller streets off of this one. Deep breath and away you go...Chinatown</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you need it, you can get it in Bangkok.</span> Not necessary the original but you <span style="font-style: italic;">will </span>get it if you look in the right places. The place, to me, is on the go 24 hours a day and everyone seems as though they need to get something done. A veritable ants nest of people movement perfectly choreographed.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5HklQMuv2dVJofYFeZ2w7mUDvxn5vf-VWjTLxLdrUFJr3PMIukH09h-qG0M1KgGtLn0qt2qWbkg5Fg-FLXtEJJIdA_myksE9pUMiNEU-xDLbqr8RJhj51d_gFNjmFG7jJxqbZ3PIFVO3/s1600-h/4.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5HklQMuv2dVJofYFeZ2w7mUDvxn5vf-VWjTLxLdrUFJr3PMIukH09h-qG0M1KgGtLn0qt2qWbkg5Fg-FLXtEJJIdA_myksE9pUMiNEU-xDLbqr8RJhj51d_gFNjmFG7jJxqbZ3PIFVO3/s400/4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307150766103712626" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Another back street in Chinatown and I come across this open house. By open I mean no front door just an alley leading into their kitchen. This wasn't a restaurant either, just a house with no door.<br />Chinatown</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nothing sits still for too long</span>, in fact Bangkokians do rest a lot throughout the day but they have most probably been up since 4.30am and don't stop until 9pm, when they sleep again. The remainder are still going until 2am or thereabouts.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTiCYTH8faKFucCLPmcUUar6TWCMm5N97oZTX9FJ2jAo_wfGk-iaUsPem_whNNCur3qqXzNO1_0E_MryRk2Jzc-vhOF_NlwO09pIUqZd39orxsAgdwh6Kc21eyDcHOP_XWzA6fYVFuOF7/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTiCYTH8faKFucCLPmcUUar6TWCMm5N97oZTX9FJ2jAo_wfGk-iaUsPem_whNNCur3qqXzNO1_0E_MryRk2Jzc-vhOF_NlwO09pIUqZd39orxsAgdwh6Kc21eyDcHOP_XWzA6fYVFuOF7/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307150762350132498" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Market trader on main road called Ramkhamhaeng. Just wrapping up a deal which took about 10 minutes to close. I think this shot captures a look of relief on his face. It was for a set of suitcases you understand<br />Ramkhamhaeng, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Miq9S4sBCd5XnJ8MOESVWaXw3smyF8b-AzbCjOoyPIMz2mdtx6vStrkPIJ00AN1Fa4CpmuQzfQIP3sM9XRm4tctJ9uqWqxqGgRaJjlF1YezSgHrP8RqQnxKOhmI0gD5sfeGZBi5jyjWe/s1600-h/3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Miq9S4sBCd5XnJ8MOESVWaXw3smyF8b-AzbCjOoyPIMz2mdtx6vStrkPIJ00AN1Fa4CpmuQzfQIP3sM9XRm4tctJ9uqWqxqGgRaJjlF1YezSgHrP8RqQnxKOhmI0gD5sfeGZBi5jyjWe/s400/3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307150764792687618" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">An old Thai man in Chinatown looking more worn out than me. After an hour walking the narrow streets the heat and closeness gets to a western boy like me.<br />Chinatown</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have family in Bangkok</span> and travel out there quite a bit. I also have the good fortune to see Bangkok from a 'non-tourist' point of view and see the real attitude and personality of city folk, which is 100 times more polite and 1,000 times less angry than London. In London you walk down most streets and hear shouting, anger, frustration - over in Bangkok you are what you are and if you are angry then you channel it elsewhere at home or look for enlightenment somewhere. That somewhere may be a food stall as they take food very, <span style="font-style: italic;">very </span>seriously, which is extremely good for my poong yai (big belly). My wife may think differently though.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyxJFSFBg4r_gnJtC4pLEHXorvVDJO7Em3cy3OBI-9pBoZdeBG1AARveSr3eoNWywqhSVOj7mbXHpDQhOY-RSohU9Ho9lX243aFFRUtMysBxdNhFvecjWFHWEeXaFgVOQCmvNTrH9WZ0SN/s1600-h/10.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyxJFSFBg4r_gnJtC4pLEHXorvVDJO7Em3cy3OBI-9pBoZdeBG1AARveSr3eoNWywqhSVOj7mbXHpDQhOY-RSohU9Ho9lX243aFFRUtMysBxdNhFvecjWFHWEeXaFgVOQCmvNTrH9WZ0SN/s400/10.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307154531418934034" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A taxi bike rider - men who give lifts to the public on mopeds - taking a well earned food break. The noodles looked good too.<br />Ramkhamhaeng, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzpdLmZ97S4HnCbR9GCn20nkfIQTtlA-mwfs-qg7izqynbTzq23cbu9BEaUQUaaCUk97rczczD9MmBTeQqFAdfSjadzNVDEbTRnOmi47p7yVrgRPL_AIprYXNakRnsjvCMD_P4g2r_xpJ/s1600-h/10a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzpdLmZ97S4HnCbR9GCn20nkfIQTtlA-mwfs-qg7izqynbTzq23cbu9BEaUQUaaCUk97rczczD9MmBTeQqFAdfSjadzNVDEbTRnOmi47p7yVrgRPL_AIprYXNakRnsjvCMD_P4g2r_xpJ/s400/10a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307154530406560194" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Down a back street in Chinatown I catch this kid thinking about life. I was there for a good five minutes and he didn't move an inch. He may have stayed there all day long...<br />Chinatown</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hua Hin is about 2 to 3 hours in a car </span>south west of Bangkok and is a royal seaside resort. Very quiet but still fantastic food and two of the best hotels I have stayed in - <a href="http://huahin.anantara.com/default.aspx">Anantara </a>and <a href="http://www.sofitel.com/gb/hotel-0891-sofitel-centara-grand-resort-and-villas/index.shtml">Sofitel</a>. Hua Hin is the King's resort and as such has resisted development like Koh Samui and Phuket. It has the right balance of everything and a fantastic beach to walk along too.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-l6Yfj3GvjrlAGvohA5Ehh1nweQpivhUJPsWVUqxxTROqbxU9Nq7ihtPqPFyXg3iR0g2leuacn6tQrlS0XfBzyhLq0GgCbnWpZk5C-iwI63a0mNtEJL8xwRJeoI0L_3gjdnfrdeEhSYbP/s1600-h/8.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-l6Yfj3GvjrlAGvohA5Ehh1nweQpivhUJPsWVUqxxTROqbxU9Nq7ihtPqPFyXg3iR0g2leuacn6tQrlS0XfBzyhLq0GgCbnWpZk5C-iwI63a0mNtEJL8xwRJeoI0L_3gjdnfrdeEhSYbP/s400/8.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307154528322947858" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A truly amazing house on Hua Hin beach. If I could retire here with my wife I would. Stunning. And Hua Hin is beautiful too.<br />Hua Hin Beach, Hua Hin</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So these are just some of my pictures</span> in my collection and most were taken about 2 years ago; I do need to take more when I visit again this year. They will be of an alternative Bangkok, through my eyes so not every photo will be of the typical Thailand scene.</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I don't want to go through the same old Thailand guff about where this is and where to go but I will share my thoughts on why I took them and any stories worth telling.</span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgF88IsV7IkZVtUE-iAKw9UyVc51KwBJmRiLcgj3Byr7MTfT52Exh-O3LFOZV9ENx36Z0epvcxfhhAE_NEacH5MIh7BIXX72i_Krv8nBDDVyoP18BkHxNkLXvfPSQAZWa3iDVIBUG1g4MM/s1600-h/9.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgF88IsV7IkZVtUE-iAKw9UyVc51KwBJmRiLcgj3Byr7MTfT52Exh-O3LFOZV9ENx36Z0epvcxfhhAE_NEacH5MIh7BIXX72i_Krv8nBDDVyoP18BkHxNkLXvfPSQAZWa3iDVIBUG1g4MM/s400/9.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307154528652940546" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">An assault on the senses. There were hundreds of shops like this throughout Chinatown selling crisps and sweets and other Chinese/Thai goodies. Didn't buy anything though, the Thai food does it for me.<br />Chinatown, Bangkok</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Once I have increased my collection</span> then more will be posted. Much like the London pages I will update the Thailand ones when I can. </span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2ylx3F-xVX9JHPhsrEqLJHTU3G0YDGyP8hYeTy_cRhyhGUNSuDzbX99qfZ-eVNwxwy86oPoQpmKJ8ZYofZt_3dCEKWga9cxbM1WMvIrk9SL7F2DWuNIx9QUDuDzfBsIrLYPbGwH6Tn2e/s1600-h/7.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2ylx3F-xVX9JHPhsrEqLJHTU3G0YDGyP8hYeTy_cRhyhGUNSuDzbX99qfZ-eVNwxwy86oPoQpmKJ8ZYofZt_3dCEKWga9cxbM1WMvIrk9SL7F2DWuNIx9QUDuDzfBsIrLYPbGwH6Tn2e/s400/7.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307154522894163586" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I love this shot of a lone goal in the grounds of an international school in Bangkok. This was before a huge redevelopment of the school so I don't know whether it is still there. I will find out later on in the year though.<br /><a href="http://www.traillschool.ac.th/index.php">Traill International School</a>, Bangkok</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> All Rights Reserved</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So as with the London blog</span> please enjoy my images and take in the kick and pleasure that Thailand provides.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Quite beautiful.</span> </div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-25443653700804625322009-02-25T14:09:00.027+00:002009-03-05T08:24:48.206+00:00SOUTH BANK MODERNIST AND BRUTALIST BEAUTY - PART 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI34Kp1egd-CxZrUaIzdggu0xPaCnXT6eKG5gBIj1Y2pINTNbT7QABJM3DX3uGL0d6J40rlbI7x07bdsLVY5zGQR-jsSIs4oslAhwEasE_WnTfvhmn_Owg7VeIyhf1ep8Nis27965KfSmO/s1600-h/_DSC0071a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI34Kp1egd-CxZrUaIzdggu0xPaCnXT6eKG5gBIj1Y2pINTNbT7QABJM3DX3uGL0d6J40rlbI7x07bdsLVY5zGQR-jsSIs4oslAhwEasE_WnTfvhmn_Owg7VeIyhf1ep8Nis27965KfSmO/s400/_DSC0071a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782279312680226" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">All Rights Reserved</span><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have a thing for the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/">South Bank </a>and only found it out the other day. Not that I am getting bored with London but when I go out and about it doesn't feel new or exciting any more. W</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">hen I were a nipper O</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">xford St and Regent St encouraged a 'WOW!' from my mouth, sometimes a "COR!" Even when I went clubbing in my teens and 20's I always had the anticipation in my stomach when travelling down from Reigate in Surrey. But today, although I still love the place, it has lost its chutzpah you know? I would love to visit London from a non-Londoner perspective though, I wager I would get that wow factor back...</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwX1iifiNiRysYdHauNt7aLK3ZhcOu8x11YDy1z-gtAyGg0bwjxd84G7bhRFuTKayHqLlvSgIrDqFNTwJh6hcGNwjXzZBG8nTxNijAzjw-_TtwEroRcaJzKrPMQVllMbz7RgMgG7mEahfe/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwX1iifiNiRysYdHauNt7aLK3ZhcOu8x11YDy1z-gtAyGg0bwjxd84G7bhRFuTKayHqLlvSgIrDqFNTwJh6hcGNwjXzZBG8nTxNijAzjw-_TtwEroRcaJzKrPMQVllMbz7RgMgG7mEahfe/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782370586495762" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Shell Centre, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">But come in South Bank, this is my Waterloo! The place rocks and I love it!</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhQKcqHvsl_i9YRcP-CA2H80VHMX82fO3tD6GwUTo0Bj-zKd0EbGVJ0iQV-Fh2hBiC2ahTaFPfCmV3VpSmQ7qrIn0D6PpgmP7AhLhMvZ49xulbPWQunpuhZQuhXXd4CV9_EVTwCqyYOWr/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhQKcqHvsl_i9YRcP-CA2H80VHMX82fO3tD6GwUTo0Bj-zKd0EbGVJ0iQV-Fh2hBiC2ahTaFPfCmV3VpSmQ7qrIn0D6PpgmP7AhLhMvZ49xulbPWQunpuhZQuhXXd4CV9_EVTwCqyYOWr/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782649436862418" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Shell Centre, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMniij873LwgYUtxU-9e1J9QfmW7dYEYj-v9pBoleLnIz9woSBwVn1ciPzhqE58tQA7xSIoUVepHDbIXfXIR8EU2vWs8kYk4UlFDXXYqjf9cRiobELwWF5cv_oWKq_VMsRWHM_knKTBiPk/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMniij873LwgYUtxU-9e1J9QfmW7dYEYj-v9pBoleLnIz9woSBwVn1ciPzhqE58tQA7xSIoUVepHDbIXfXIR8EU2vWs8kYk4UlFDXXYqjf9cRiobELwWF5cv_oWKq_VMsRWHM_knKTBiPk/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782556608016322" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >London Eye, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The structures are fantastic from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall">Royal Festival Hall</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hayward">The Hayward</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hall">Queen Elizabeth Hall</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purcell_Room">Purcell Room</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Centre">Shell Centre</a> right up to the present day <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_eye">London Eye</a>. Although all fall into the modernism/modern 'bracket' (I'm thinking London Eye is just modern) they are the only group of structures that look different to each other yet complement and respect the space <span style="font-style: italic;">they </span>are in, together with the space their <span style="font-style: italic;">neighbours </span>are in. Foresight by the architects and planning departments or a unique turn of events that just work? The latter bodes well in my mind.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaXbVshzYKNgvc16GVjmkz1WjmNXviTnrH8CegNUQG5mB0Yj5_iDP1t0y27DzmLuf62Qu0QpVayjcdqA3aQbufL6YL05S-VZY_EBbqh8EWIX7FOPPssVNIbCpnxh2CoBotJGucp1kwGND/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaXbVshzYKNgvc16GVjmkz1WjmNXviTnrH8CegNUQG5mB0Yj5_iDP1t0y27DzmLuf62Qu0QpVayjcdqA3aQbufL6YL05S-VZY_EBbqh8EWIX7FOPPssVNIbCpnxh2CoBotJGucp1kwGND/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782470971596530" border="0" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >The Hayward, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The atmosphere down there is always vibrant and the place spacious enough to make sure you don't feel squashed, unlike Borough Market these days. Get to market by midday and <span style="font-style: italic;">my God </span>you will have problems getting around the stalls. But if you <span style="font-style: italic;">do </span>go there then head for the hot cider place. Cockles will get warmed quick sharpish like.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MBT7ZscZ94YVkhnHWwhO9JpfuH78ASJjMe3Y-FOTCONT6bAkAvYBWOkMmofKZgMCfPMKD9Zh7nFttdDxQalbQ2dJ3KyGx_tysh76JaImmcFZHXLnfrkWTKlLUYQG1jeWcgxoYZUGiYO0/s1600-h/f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MBT7ZscZ94YVkhnHWwhO9JpfuH78ASJjMe3Y-FOTCONT6bAkAvYBWOkMmofKZgMCfPMKD9Zh7nFttdDxQalbQ2dJ3KyGx_tysh76JaImmcFZHXLnfrkWTKlLUYQG1jeWcgxoYZUGiYO0/s400/f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782745033829650" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Royal Festival Hall, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Just outside the Royal Festival Hall every 2 months (last one was on the 15th Feb 2009), there is a 'Slow Food London Market'. The visiting stalls set up with food, drink and bits to take home or eat on the fly </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">(spit roast pig, pies, stout, oysters, wine, cakes)</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Of course there are plenty more places to go when the market isn't there; I suggest a day or two to seek them out.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjva7iFU7KjQX7M4w-C4K_ALyy5YJ90XsSy3Hylb1ZWQsfqJlOoM_A6H-Sg0HgzfNkWNNw9F-9gKjIiej7sMyLCxNGtxOP0FS4B2hMlGMdvabEubAivsdFT3X48ASb0Is1k-0ADFb7LL9Zi/s1600-h/g.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjva7iFU7KjQX7M4w-C4K_ALyy5YJ90XsSy3Hylb1ZWQsfqJlOoM_A6H-Sg0HgzfNkWNNw9F-9gKjIiej7sMyLCxNGtxOP0FS4B2hMlGMdvabEubAivsdFT3X48ASb0Is1k-0ADFb7LL9Zi/s400/g.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306782854579995602" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >London Eye, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >South Bank</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br />I have concentrated this page to the Waterloo end but the South Bank stretches further round the Thames to the east. Hope you enjoyed some of my pictures, more will follow as I start spending my weekends and evenings down there.</span> </div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-85315364367102981582009-02-24T17:05:00.021+00:002009-03-05T08:28:28.732+00:00LONDON URBAN ART PART 1 - R.I.P. CANS FESTIVAL.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLOnGJtyv0Wt2wQtemRdK6QNWbvH_yg56fg2_sZDw_yn2Tj5X4sjaQeAXwwVcO-Jgjb7IN7JrGnnUlbErRV1JwJDAnDGl4yU2NONKsZ7_Ytfzrx4EupBz9LGagKH_NA0rK69WmMS1SuWq/s1600-h/DSC_0047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLOnGJtyv0Wt2wQtemRdK6QNWbvH_yg56fg2_sZDw_yn2Tj5X4sjaQeAXwwVcO-Jgjb7IN7JrGnnUlbErRV1JwJDAnDGl4yU2NONKsZ7_Ytfzrx4EupBz9LGagKH_NA0rK69WmMS1SuWq/s400/DSC_0047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306416918330107634" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Banksy, Waterloo, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some of my favourite street/urban/graffiti art </span>that is currently adorning the streets of London. These pictures were taken around Hoxton, East London and from Waterloo where Banksy set up The Cans Festival (a play on the Cannes Film Festival). If you try and see the original Cans Festival art you'll need the skeleton's x-ray specs as it has been sprayed over by other graffiti and tags. A short and sweet picture of urban art.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguemKvadOVpmgP4UTd7Pk959gnJknObKdbNCoVz6_mdGC5VmQX50bG9KSnaLCP5XMj9C7D_CRGy9xyogDj1JdiO2rMh8X9x20kP6YBRQRV5h15DAjNV-0iLxLw7__10frF_tUInNAoSfMk/s1600-h/Bor+Leer+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguemKvadOVpmgP4UTd7Pk959gnJknObKdbNCoVz6_mdGC5VmQX50bG9KSnaLCP5XMj9C7D_CRGy9xyogDj1JdiO2rMh8X9x20kP6YBRQRV5h15DAjNV-0iLxLw7__10frF_tUInNAoSfMk/s400/Bor+Leer+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306416762139219906" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Bortusk Leer, Hoxton, London</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WnGWYNutCb7H2WHZO2Vm0TMLgf02ChW6VEyrgV7N0ybi0XHtQczcyomse1pc5zujUsSBnLQ009U9rmlTST9JWX308KyC7MSRj6TQ30MOXvNrwMs3-ix5gvMPihWw-FC5ZQUJ8Frp1mYA/s1600-h/DSC_0087.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WnGWYNutCb7H2WHZO2Vm0TMLgf02ChW6VEyrgV7N0ybi0XHtQczcyomse1pc5zujUsSBnLQ009U9rmlTST9JWX308KyC7MSRj6TQ30MOXvNrwMs3-ix5gvMPihWw-FC5ZQUJ8Frp1mYA/s400/DSC_0087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306416999604866562" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Vhils, Waterloo, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoIAgCOEEl133A78GkLC4j97ySYjvVoEEGN4p8rsG2vu84OU_5nkUIoQ5OChV-F0HN6sE08gCYUaA7Ax_E8TgCDpxe2U0JEuk9ePq7deYRZgKoOD_USxyakr0qNeaAdkZwpuqsiF7rBz1o/s1600-h/Bor+Leer+11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoIAgCOEEl133A78GkLC4j97ySYjvVoEEGN4p8rsG2vu84OU_5nkUIoQ5OChV-F0HN6sE08gCYUaA7Ax_E8TgCDpxe2U0JEuk9ePq7deYRZgKoOD_USxyakr0qNeaAdkZwpuqsiF7rBz1o/s400/Bor+Leer+11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306416846496083378" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bortusk Leer, Hoxton, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I try and make a routine scan (minimum) one day a week, every week around East London. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I'd say that either pieces are going up and being taken down, by 'collectors' or councils pretty damn quickly or the art is being funnelled somewhere else - galleries perhaps. Or maybe, just maybe the people are holding back for a mass stick up? Who knows. Keep them coming. That's what I'd say. And do say...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKiAxlKY7J_Jv9OMonJWDOvW4wi5uLj_yUjaTdU70RfcMTkUqbhQTI1GoBE4bd8c8VYS0JVY4UZIIMgiu6Yl7XbYgq425Ka2hez1Fez_2GVFXAVrS4NrTxlzgoivl6Gn52IkD1UI2Lz0IP/s1600-h/DSC_0218.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKiAxlKY7J_Jv9OMonJWDOvW4wi5uLj_yUjaTdU70RfcMTkUqbhQTI1GoBE4bd8c8VYS0JVY4UZIIMgiu6Yl7XbYgq425Ka2hez1Fez_2GVFXAVrS4NrTxlzgoivl6Gn52IkD1UI2Lz0IP/s400/DSC_0218.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306417212731130306" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Paul Insect, Waterloo, London</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Y9wWUR73zPq0WBoSdVuG2F6FmsGff62Dr16gUuxyakuZNVoPnOIP8Cg0lpyFIxPNRRUKB2LXwe37Zxq_484rBgkNzvwCKLyFosSwkGNLYaMnoxw8PZTg5nreXTIel7SqemRFhe1nJi30/s1600-h/DSC_0220.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Y9wWUR73zPq0WBoSdVuG2F6FmsGff62Dr16gUuxyakuZNVoPnOIP8Cg0lpyFIxPNRRUKB2LXwe37Zxq_484rBgkNzvwCKLyFosSwkGNLYaMnoxw8PZTg5nreXTIel7SqemRFhe1nJi30/s400/DSC_0220.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306417327155306642" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Eelus, Waterloo, London</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5TwitMkjYukfgiAggMKWVOvSYGzzEv298DKNRDT_I5uCw5LReO0WG9MKSO_oxcVK8gzashAR6Lel1IogYWmsSgwR6PhZjLrwk3uPSF5WNeGOulHN0wcPcTh8WzXaQhz0qu0y64Un0Xkd/s1600-h/Unknown+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5TwitMkjYukfgiAggMKWVOvSYGzzEv298DKNRDT_I5uCw5LReO0WG9MKSO_oxcVK8gzashAR6Lel1IogYWmsSgwR6PhZjLrwk3uPSF5WNeGOulHN0wcPcTh8WzXaQhz0qu0y64Un0Xkd/s400/Unknown+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306417400449363042" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Unknown, Hoxton, London</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OFvBMogDLICzvqXITt7jQergpxISAP1u5Jq9Fl0TiYqEreigOxxD-4mnncJOcILVXAbUKgYzWw1VTnergdmKo9Qgah5EZ8BqcRrc9iwM8g1sP6xDr9vI3MUXE32PLsH6QKg7OSfACmeg/s1600-h/DSC_0107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OFvBMogDLICzvqXITt7jQergpxISAP1u5Jq9Fl0TiYqEreigOxxD-4mnncJOcILVXAbUKgYzWw1VTnergdmKo9Qgah5EZ8BqcRrc9iwM8g1sP6xDr9vI3MUXE32PLsH6QKg7OSfACmeg/s400/DSC_0107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306417081572700610" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Btoy, Waterloo, London</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">All Rights Reserved</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >The more pieces that brighten up the grey streets of London the better! And other grey places in the UK obviously...</span><br /></span></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-80530400829720943562009-02-24T10:27:00.007+00:002009-03-05T08:29:14.101+00:00ANNIE LEONARD - THE STORY OF STUFF<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.storyofstuff.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0DBVSXd1hdTTGxC0-Kcro9rCsVBV2jibtl5JFOr977k1DlAItKpCRfXiDhiXhrUEVJseplZDiMm1PZN7C9ZPJkN6B8LMi5zRnHUmeoZobmppoT0HxpYYQeTrhKRHMj_JhGHy4wAbIfrO/s400/untitledggg.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306309783319806274" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Click above to play The Story of Stuff</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marvellous 20 minute film</span> about the story of the everyday materials we extract, use, abuse and throw away. It took her ten years to investigate and well worth the wait I'd say.</span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />What amazes me is that it was one man - Victor LeBeau - after World War II who declared that society should have the mass choice we see today on our shelves, websites and showrooms.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“<em>Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.</em>” - </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victor LeBeau, Retail Analyst Post WWII</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Fantastic film. It should be shown on TV.</span><br /></div></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-80915614542491935012009-02-23T22:17:00.013+00:002009-03-05T08:31:23.846+00:00HERMAN LEONARD - JAZZ MASTERPIECES<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKWRRdmEebi9HTZsdf5FUWxwZApIaW7eundxOpNo-HKqPwsWSVMxM5z3bGAKgXCKJThW_WCkawhHIl1FLg2iQFjsZz8PQ21aqK8upl-YA7G0NXRu0r2533B_W7ATthaff_9QsuebSwJQi/s1600-h/vol_one09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKWRRdmEebi9HTZsdf5FUWxwZApIaW7eundxOpNo-HKqPwsWSVMxM5z3bGAKgXCKJThW_WCkawhHIl1FLg2iQFjsZz8PQ21aqK8upl-YA7G0NXRu0r2533B_W7ATthaff_9QsuebSwJQi/s400/vol_one09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306125519891111362" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Buddy Rich, NYC, 1954</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Known primarily for his photographs of jazz </span>musicians and singers throughout the 1940's, 50's and 60's.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> It was his skill with lighting and exposure times that made the images stand out for me. Much like a well made bronze statue I feel the images could come to life at any moment.<br /><br /></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitl4RhTd8pVWdKmZgR1gJx3vlLCYCcfH-3grEH4jywurDnE4W5cWtqysscs6VPA3IcxWUeKAcfwnxVZLPaMyxlw_E0FW4gX9ucyCV3yoo3ATE9j28fU9WpfpqjHegwnNdBFdvnKPU1P34/s1600-h/vol_two01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitl4RhTd8pVWdKmZgR1gJx3vlLCYCcfH-3grEH4jywurDnE4W5cWtqysscs6VPA3IcxWUeKAcfwnxVZLPaMyxlw_E0FW4gX9ucyCV3yoo3ATE9j28fU9WpfpqjHegwnNdBFdvnKPU1P34/s400/vol_two01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306125630407483842" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Art Blakey, Club Saint Germaine, Paris, 1958</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">They had movement and attitude like no other. And remember, these pictures were taken over 50 years ago when film was king and the darkroom the nerve centre.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmv7r3i3pbk5IJ1u1FOylbOuwTk3iwEwd2T6k-q-4IMkqM4yOdqJxRL7v2v2ZhyAbBWxb63ef3_2hoP6-xaVAqYFY0KvCqZsYWyCWOzdph-Vjn7noHXjJc5bCf5FcPdFSBsja-xcGiU7y/s1600-h/vol_one10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmv7r3i3pbk5IJ1u1FOylbOuwTk3iwEwd2T6k-q-4IMkqM4yOdqJxRL7v2v2ZhyAbBWxb63ef3_2hoP6-xaVAqYFY0KvCqZsYWyCWOzdph-Vjn7noHXjJc5bCf5FcPdFSBsja-xcGiU7y/s400/vol_one10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306125579625270914" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Sarah Vaughan, Birdland, NYC, 1949</span><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAoMC7u_g_fRIwLVvQjfLwBdvtGk8yzXFvtnkGVT-zdsEufHB4LT_TOm3BHxjLWDVDnYqMV3LzWmSVvqXSrMOO1suoeZ_MqS5lq6F2YaFKYuWGLVNbnEccrivT43nzxSYarWicP5Oxx_VP/s1600-h/vol_two06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAoMC7u_g_fRIwLVvQjfLwBdvtGk8yzXFvtnkGVT-zdsEufHB4LT_TOm3BHxjLWDVDnYqMV3LzWmSVvqXSrMOO1suoeZ_MqS5lq6F2YaFKYuWGLVNbnEccrivT43nzxSYarWicP5Oxx_VP/s400/vol_two06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306125673324161266" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Quincy Jones, NYC, 1955</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">If ever I could go back in time these pictures would be my first port of call. <a href="http://www.hermanleonard.com/">Herman Leonard</a> has captured something that I have not experienced but can imagine a lot easier thanks to his images</span>.</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-51911114268355899002009-02-23T15:39:00.009+00:002009-03-05T08:32:03.094+00:00STEPHEN REED - RADIATOR MUGS<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghasL9QkvydlnVt8DmmLXEwOL-J9dcLpRLrZ8ZC9vlqWbV9bKM2onJMqGNqn4K_QFG__UNtM9SUWKkGi7CyHvj6QFkgdXdwWovrVkI854jBjEfr73mxq4JVYfEUGKzm1xTIO5jtV04NXdm/s1600-h/ceramic+cup+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghasL9QkvydlnVt8DmmLXEwOL-J9dcLpRLrZ8ZC9vlqWbV9bKM2onJMqGNqn4K_QFG__UNtM9SUWKkGi7CyHvj6QFkgdXdwWovrVkI854jBjEfr73mxq4JVYfEUGKzm1xTIO5jtV04NXdm/s400/ceramic+cup+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306018571120948450" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Ingenious, simple and bloody lovely</span> to look at.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > The fins dissipate the heat of the hot drink so when you pick the mug up it doesn't burn ones fingers, therefore no handle required.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXz4HZ_m6fUZImqfaI-DxX70SWvGzEXHCHte-N1Bekef03hKNfzkJDYIHdv7OE5B_VJBJVoneb-b3et1XI7TbzTJ3wtQuYFdJkL18INt-6XOcvg2tPRH0IqBL13dvJ6Jg_126Q3sGmrucI/s1600-h/ceramic+cup+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXz4HZ_m6fUZImqfaI-DxX70SWvGzEXHCHte-N1Bekef03hKNfzkJDYIHdv7OE5B_VJBJVoneb-b3et1XI7TbzTJ3wtQuYFdJkL18INt-6XOcvg2tPRH0IqBL13dvJ6Jg_126Q3sGmrucI/s400/ceramic+cup+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306018629581823298" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Nothing better than a good mug when drinking a cup of tea. Love them. Obviously you can use them for other hot and cold beverages but tea just sits so pretty against the design.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQYJTdC8yEe5x4EIRJrJSaGl8hlQtwQVScO7V9uN1G-_iF58e9nG0vwXc1kxx9z75oqoT2RhYEcRNxe2CFRv-oBLendMLIAFFTGXmMIhVlHUKdxM8EQQmXW2wEUtqe9suUcchXgFPNEG1a/s1600-h/ceramic+cup+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQYJTdC8yEe5x4EIRJrJSaGl8hlQtwQVScO7V9uN1G-_iF58e9nG0vwXc1kxx9z75oqoT2RhYEcRNxe2CFRv-oBLendMLIAFFTGXmMIhVlHUKdxM8EQQmXW2wEUtqe9suUcchXgFPNEG1a/s400/ceramic+cup+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306018530697433090" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />You can pick them up <a href="http://www.opus-interiors.com/artists/StephenReed-RadiatorMugs/1736">here</a> if you fancy a cuppa with fins. First class <a href="http://www.stephenreed.net/index.html">Stephen Reed</a>, first class.</span></span><br /></div></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-70118946053784832222009-02-23T13:07:00.013+00:002009-03-05T08:32:43.908+00:00HEAVEN IS 39 MEGAPIXELS OF MEDIUM FORMAT<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3M4QUo5z_8J5jEfJkNd7H-9REFrBodES2yZgmr5ab6xGHOb21uZgnIqP8YZAd1hLfyX0qX6xS9U8V4hnSCOKB66_BA8TuniZf94myaG6Ke8sZ9A6xR-C4bdkIkN8z56K0ovF3zdvAQDJX/s1600-h/hasselblad-h3dii-50-50-megapixel-camera.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3M4QUo5z_8J5jEfJkNd7H-9REFrBodES2yZgmr5ab6xGHOb21uZgnIqP8YZAd1hLfyX0qX6xS9U8V4hnSCOKB66_BA8TuniZf94myaG6Ke8sZ9A6xR-C4bdkIkN8z56K0ovF3zdvAQDJX/s400/hasselblad-h3dii-50-50-megapixel-camera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305982843015637362" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />If I had to ask for one thing,</span> which is not health or love related it would have to be this beautiful piece of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Design">industrial design</a>.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jakswXpnUexV8iPqQCyaJig154HWHlB41SGWxndfDgxDzghIVMoTFaSS_Q9LEyEg1RkHh_ret7y4ZH_y5H0W86ZkRNdC-rqye4Xhc8NmjK9A-pA6wkc96stD3CU90jq0Ku33lU8pvlDI/s1600-h/Hasselblad-H3DII-39MS-DSLR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jakswXpnUexV8iPqQCyaJig154HWHlB41SGWxndfDgxDzghIVMoTFaSS_Q9LEyEg1RkHh_ret7y4ZH_y5H0W86ZkRNdC-rqye4Xhc8NmjK9A-pA6wkc96stD3CU90jq0Ku33lU8pvlDI/s400/Hasselblad-H3DII-39MS-DSLR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305982776713569170" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br />I won't go into details suffice to say that the quality of image from this <a href="http://www.hasselblad.co.uk/">Hasselblad</a> camera is stunning. And it looks slick too. Pro digital cameras use on average 12 million pixels or tiny squares to make a picture. This terminator has 39 million of them and it 'paints' those squares onto a bigger canvas as such.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I don't expect you to feel the love as I do but one day, in all hope, I will be able to post my photos on this blog taken with my new Hasslebald. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >But at the moment the £18.5k price tag is a bit of a large hurdle.</span></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-80107261259283167972009-02-23T12:45:00.010+00:002009-03-05T08:33:00.498+00:00CAN'T GO WRONG WITH STELLA DORE NEITHER...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgerPEPYTrIFAArbm1ik7Hjmpo2-y5HLbe7bqf0OX0qKnsrisbMJ30ygdgQaXKcGetfoHAk_riu6jNMn5T6rd92a7AjS68LJYNxQPxcAc6qiWagKcJvICg6G_GPQNJgBO91fndRTMzxo8_I/s1600-h/sdore.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgerPEPYTrIFAArbm1ik7Hjmpo2-y5HLbe7bqf0OX0qKnsrisbMJ30ygdgQaXKcGetfoHAk_riu6jNMn5T6rd92a7AjS68LJYNxQPxcAc6qiWagKcJvICg6G_GPQNJgBO91fndRTMzxo8_I/s400/sdore.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305975605972125650" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Another wonderful gallery</span> for your urban art needs. <a href="http://www.stelladore.com/Home.asp">Stella Dore</a> has just moved to a lovely new place off <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK253&q=great+eastern+street+london&lr=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=uk&ei=z52iSbn_C5DRjAfcr9XgCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title">Great Eastern Street, London</a>. Extremely friendly and knowledgeable people inside with some beautiful, original pieces from a selection of artists including, Eine, Cat Johnson and Kid Acne to name but a few.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Cat Johnson is a favourite of mine, especially her 3D worlds in a box.</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-81423493390723406922009-02-23T12:35:00.012+00:002009-03-05T08:33:30.246+00:00NELLY DUFF GOT PRINTS<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qWu5t6sYWpz0w0gQG4CwKiewgiIUKbeJWqMhF6r2GBrTSzN7pI2RHLt8vAVGJNEPxB5Mm76-d3vCnq4YdTNvFRdFuLRGeW-jm9_sltzzvS0UPL4IlcpditrLy_hsdr33mDjyO01htJ8V/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qWu5t6sYWpz0w0gQG4CwKiewgiIUKbeJWqMhF6r2GBrTSzN7pI2RHLt8vAVGJNEPxB5Mm76-d3vCnq4YdTNvFRdFuLRGeW-jm9_sltzzvS0UPL4IlcpditrLy_hsdr33mDjyO01htJ8V/s400/untitled.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305971897773552770" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />If you love the street/urban art</span> that's all around us as the moment and want to buy a few choice prints to liven up your walls, <a href="http://www.nellyduff.com/index.php">Nelly Duff</a> has a nice selection going on. Some exclusive to the site and not overly priced either.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Now's the time to invest in your home if you have you cash.</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-51026139906767676432009-02-23T11:43:00.015+00:002009-03-05T08:33:51.955+00:00HOMAGE TO GURSKY'S RHEIN<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL4p-RvE2NoOro1M_cxA5IGG7ebT2hhhh8-0l8OLjF0WUSZmKddPj1Tax-jPdlaszleeZc4bGRFy3yd5ZIciHPeZpp4HjBEggjQVr7PgjvO25XZ03SAEhhl7o1Ti9qZgmMhdsafzs9c0y/s1600-h/IMG_0620.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL4p-RvE2NoOro1M_cxA5IGG7ebT2hhhh8-0l8OLjF0WUSZmKddPj1Tax-jPdlaszleeZc4bGRFy3yd5ZIciHPeZpp4HjBEggjQVr7PgjvO25XZ03SAEhhl7o1Ti9qZgmMhdsafzs9c0y/s400/IMG_0620.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305965888278361218" border="0" /></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bingopresley/2859950604/">My homage to Andreas Gursky's Rhein</a><br />(Canon S80) - Monaco 2006<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >All Rights Reserved</span><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The composition and quality</span> is not up there with the Master I grant you but a sterling attempt nonetheless hmm? I wasn't inebriated on this</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> one by the way...</span></span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-7479377619491287872009-02-23T10:46:00.011+00:002009-03-05T08:34:09.924+00:00DAVID LACHAPELLE AND THE LESSON I LEARNT<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAJdzQC-WnCMnNJtfITHMq8ID-ocvWWx3S9pGMGCPjBzxa4SzodhrXLyodd1U-r7qiNt8wtCH808U6tdIpK7xgxBl4nJ2wJqB5vEgRbGjwz7m3VniDplvJ3Sp9lgb5dGxWpi9mRBXCKrd/s1600-h/davidlachapelle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAJdzQC-WnCMnNJtfITHMq8ID-ocvWWx3S9pGMGCPjBzxa4SzodhrXLyodd1U-r7qiNt8wtCH808U6tdIpK7xgxBl4nJ2wJqB5vEgRbGjwz7m3VniDplvJ3Sp9lgb5dGxWpi9mRBXCKrd/s400/davidlachapelle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305945217391593362" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">David LaChapelle - Ewan McGregor, Dollhouse Disaster 2</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Another fashion/celebrity photographer</span> for you. Not a fan of his work, good at what he does but the surreal aspects he works into his images don't work for me. So why is he here I hear you ask.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Well, when my Sister and Brother in law married six years ago I took a load of photos the night before whilst us men were getting drunk. When we all went back to the house, where we were staying, I whipped out my laptop, download the photos and gathered the boys around to look at my 'art'. Over the next hour or so I proceeded to tell them how the light bounced here and colour danced there, "My God!! Almost David LaChapelle in style?!" I quipped...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Sorry Jason, sorry men. The wine gave me Photoshop eyes that I could only use and a brain that could not compute for toffee. The images are lost, thank God, but I would say they looked more like a bad audition for The X-Factor...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">Fortunately I have progressed technically and emotionally in taking photos over the years. I also look at my images alone and sober before blowing ones trumpet too.<br /><br />A valuable lesson learned. Thanks Dave.</span></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-41567824906166574802009-02-23T10:19:00.014+00:002009-03-05T08:34:30.706+00:00HELMUT NEWTON - DIE MODE-MEISTER<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntfYuWUQ730zD6N2jgfIQDz_X5p7-5Tl3qN0LiCWo-aXMta4r1rrVAWXqRkYTaCUR-HNMXRhOm4U3SakFfQQQjnYeuFvoh38S_uIFAmLB_U6CVduR2je7bxygRDXiVAdFSNTcXS_Hlq5C/s1600-h/lesmoking.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntfYuWUQ730zD6N2jgfIQDz_X5p7-5Tl3qN0LiCWo-aXMta4r1rrVAWXqRkYTaCUR-HNMXRhOm4U3SakFfQQQjnYeuFvoh38S_uIFAmLB_U6CVduR2je7bxygRDXiVAdFSNTcXS_Hlq5C/s400/lesmoking.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305938093527235362" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Helmut Newton - Le Smoking 1966</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not a big follower</span> of fashion photography but this one is beautiful. It was featured on BBC Four where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_%28photographer%29">Rankin</a>, a UK fashion photographer, recreated <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4161221/Rankin-Seven-Photographs-that-Changed-Fashion.html?image=4">seven photographs that changed fashion</a>. He managed to get the original model to turn up and give a few pointers, tell the story and reminisce about the original 1966 Yves Saint-Laurent shoot. The street hadn't changed, the atmosphere was still there but although Rankin's image looked good it couldn't recreate or capture the life of the original.<br /><br />Why do I like this photo? No idea but I can stare at it for much too long.</span><br /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-6703076171661851092009-02-23T09:03:00.021+00:002009-03-05T08:35:01.413+00:00ANDREAS GURSKY AND HIS KEEN EYE<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3JjKPZKpNNNlbv6mwfmFo6pyGAOccTDIV6QeArWb2NMjm85eq_eVrAe0t6f4ANOwHDpXGYPkU2FFC8xsq7skcS0Hbg5rGH_iEbF0GoAbDptcVvJtSq7a0-ukgdhI98nqF9Tz9eJe6QMt/s1600-h/gursky-rhein-1996.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3JjKPZKpNNNlbv6mwfmFo6pyGAOccTDIV6QeArWb2NMjm85eq_eVrAe0t6f4ANOwHDpXGYPkU2FFC8xsq7skcS0Hbg5rGH_iEbF0GoAbDptcVvJtSq7a0-ukgdhI98nqF9Tz9eJe6QMt/s400/gursky-rhein-1996.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305933605350273986" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Andreas Gursky - Rhein 1996</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">One of my</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">favourite </span>photographers. His prints are massive, more than 7ft x 12ft sometimes, his technique sublime and attention to detail border lining on obsessive. The viewer of the picture is always elevated to an angle rarely or never seen before therefore drawing the person deeper into the experience.</span><span style=";font-family:";" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The pictures below can only give a sense of what he does. If you do see him displayed anywhere grab the opportunity with both arms and immerse yourself in his magic.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihAXfu-SvqXZdhhvBkBmvSYsMCL7t2PzO49tQcwdWNZ_RXV4f-m0Tyx2RnaGzNx3DwnGWYWfYnrT88dtRGNkzTufFuQLPDK5tdU6vbW3z989pGtZyb5KmeASxUTOMHb4eOuC0R0mB9xphr/s1600-h/exchange.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihAXfu-SvqXZdhhvBkBmvSYsMCL7t2PzO49tQcwdWNZ_RXV4f-m0Tyx2RnaGzNx3DwnGWYWfYnrT88dtRGNkzTufFuQLPDK5tdU6vbW3z989pGtZyb5KmeASxUTOMHb4eOuC0R0mB9xphr/s400/exchange.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305933709741736434" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Andreas Gursky - </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Kuwait Stock Exchange 2007</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81611rzhKBNBqh3R8TiPvkkDmTUo5A1g3XHd14AYHWi0kZ7k25wIxTcQ35W9H8Omnp1Fd5YqFaIHaZST5nu73M9P_RrefLlTlS-vxkkAhRAePY5PC7Z4Fbb-rFmjbLSLOLWdAfWdFF_vW/s1600-h/rimini.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81611rzhKBNBqh3R8TiPvkkDmTUo5A1g3XHd14AYHWi0kZ7k25wIxTcQ35W9H8Omnp1Fd5YqFaIHaZST5nu73M9P_RrefLlTlS-vxkkAhRAePY5PC7Z4Fbb-rFmjbLSLOLWdAfWdFF_vW/s400/rimini.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305933841931588338" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Andreas Gursky - </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>Rimini 2003</span></span></p>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220385346452056742.post-83662792146556025472009-02-21T12:55:00.029+00:002009-03-05T08:35:37.320+00:00BETH LESSER'S JAMAICAN TRAVELS - 1980's<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilG4fGcmUqPQOi2Aa_tcpDBdIGG37kq0u7DidETzVnNJc0fcQrYYMWyZEc282r1zhbn1UUzu9Yp0pRIjy0Vf3qhq6gIizy9FuDS1rkwwWCv_Gu6p9xQc7EfBPo01dp52GhfBWnJwNImxc/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilG4fGcmUqPQOi2Aa_tcpDBdIGG37kq0u7DidETzVnNJc0fcQrYYMWyZEc282r1zhbn1UUzu9Yp0pRIjy0Vf3qhq6gIizy9FuDS1rkwwWCv_Gu6p9xQc7EfBPo01dp52GhfBWnJwNImxc/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305243292652810834" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">Musician Gregory Isaacs in front of his African Museum store on Chancery Lane, Kingston - Beth Lesser/Soul Jazz Records</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beth Lesser</span>, a writer a</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">nd photographer, travelled back and forth from Canada to Jamaica in the </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >80's with her husband. He collected records for his radio show and she documented with photos and writing for their magazine Reggae Quarterly.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">I love these photos as you get a real sense of 80's Jamaica from the rawness of the film. Unknown what camera she used but had a good eye in grabbing the essence. She managed to shoot many a reggae artiste, my favourite being Mr. Issacs</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">, above. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEv-Fpt98-kxwB5Yd4MHyrfZX8nJgE-cJYDZlwrANYIx_3Vsic7uxyl1YciPZyM-6kJVBPKC6vDRnHGjFCHjewwqqWrMkDaF00PfQ7_9N9GaGVloRy5G13wt7J3WH20bHYlZRvsVHTxyII/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEv-Fpt98-kxwB5Yd4MHyrfZX8nJgE-cJYDZlwrANYIx_3Vsic7uxyl1YciPZyM-6kJVBPKC6vDRnHGjFCHjewwqqWrMkDaF00PfQ7_9N9GaGVloRy5G13wt7J3WH20bHYlZRvsVHTxyII/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305243753860256386" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Major Stitch at a youth promotion dance at Sugar Minot's House, on Robert Crescent</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Beth Lesser/Soul Jazz Records</span></span></div><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWkjv5L7zOC0zoJBvWxaOI-kZU3a9MLVrqUqZYWXY2fYLft9Xsyq14OKWH3MmGlHq-REVnmZk4nzeM3bV44XhfEqZkPuXG3zfWkQVSyXKN61kA6L0VJRMUL5kWlFhv124sCH2YjsyR09L/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWkjv5L7zOC0zoJBvWxaOI-kZU3a9MLVrqUqZYWXY2fYLft9Xsyq14OKWH3MmGlHq-REVnmZk4nzeM3bV44XhfEqZkPuXG3zfWkQVSyXKN61kA6L0VJRMUL5kWlFhv124sCH2YjsyR09L/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305243981000983906" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Brown and Nicodemus in the studio</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Beth Lesser/Soul Jazz Records</span></span></div><p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUcQerUi21moOaii2VNOzQb20xQ6wsyFOafKl3S_uNGYg_mf9CClChmhxEAulW4buqXqDykYGp1JRb7npJv6i7yEsO_6UM4DgSb1UGXPGj9NFCBdjScXqujxXZb08XgFt3CC2rTJhnzhm/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUcQerUi21moOaii2VNOzQb20xQ6wsyFOafKl3S_uNGYg_mf9CClChmhxEAulW4buqXqDykYGp1JRb7npJv6i7yEsO_6UM4DgSb1UGXPGj9NFCBdjScXqujxXZb08XgFt3CC2rTJhnzhm/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305244557911676546" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >General Trees in Drewsland</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Beth Lesser/Soul Jazz Records</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">More pictures at <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/nov/27/beth-lesser-dancehall?picture=336356999">The Guardian</a>. A <a href="http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=13466">book</a> has been released too.</span></span><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Phill/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /></div>mangrove venshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219919002467044906noreply@blogger.com1