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Muybridge Leap
Even if you haven't come across Eadweard Muybridge, I bet you've seen some of his photos: he did the ones that proved that a horse leaves the ground while galloping. This image comes from his photos of a man leaping. I just ASCII-fied it and made a gif.
Edit: a couple of frames were out of sequence. Fixed now.
Dangerous tool
In The Curse of the Wererabbit there's a garden supplies stall at a fete. When an angry mob forms, the stall holder changes the sign to "Angry Mob Supplies". When I was clearing out my garage, I found this scary-looking implement that looks like the sort of thing he would have sold.
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I'm told it's an apple picker. I'm not sure. It seems much too... violent for that.
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I'm told it's an apple picker. I'm not sure. It seems much too... violent for that.
Early photography
I've been looking at Victorian photos. The people look somehow different. It's not just the outfits, or the very staged look. In a modern photo I often think "that face is a bit like so-and-so" but the older the photo the less that seems to work. Until I came across photos of 19th century black women. They're like modern people in costume. I worked with someone who looked like the first one (apart from the extremely long hair) and the third one was her boss. Well, not exactly, but they're similar.
The past is famously another country. But I like these photos because they don't feel so foreign.
The past is famously another country. But I like these photos because they don't feel so foreign.
Dressing up in the 60s
Nowadays this would be called cosplay.
I love the expression on her face. I'm also trying to imagine the colours of the carpet and wallpaper.
Lots more
I love the expression on her face. I'm also trying to imagine the colours of the carpet and wallpaper.
Lots more
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Stairway to upstairs
If you do an image search for the Gustave Moreau Museum stairs, I predict you will have a moment of happiness.
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Magnolia
Magnolia blossom arrives early in the spring before a lot of other plants have woken up. The blooms seem too big for the tree and they soon lose their freshness, turn brown at the edges and start to fall. But for a few days they are a confident and beautiful reassurance that the winter is over.
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As a paint colour, Magnolia is off-white, but the blossom is always pink-tinged to some degree. I think that the paint is doing the plant a disservice.
Edit: Magnolia facts! It evolved before bees, and the large flowers are to encourage beetles for pollination. You can eat some kinds of Magnolia (don't do this on my say-so). It's named after a French botanist with a *huge* wig, Pierre Magnol.
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As a paint colour, Magnolia is off-white, but the blossom is always pink-tinged to some degree. I think that the paint is doing the plant a disservice.
Edit: Magnolia facts! It evolved before bees, and the large flowers are to encourage beetles for pollination. You can eat some kinds of Magnolia (don't do this on my say-so). It's named after a French botanist with a *huge* wig, Pierre Magnol.
Press photo exhibition
I enjoyed some of the pictures from a press photography exhibition. I'd be pleased if I had taken the first one (with the moon) and the last one (with the cow) but I'd have been dead chuffed if I'd taken the one with the pig. That one made me laugh.
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Photos I'm a little jealous of
This bloke concentrates on photographing one place, and it's worked for him.
Thornham Staithe: 'Magical' Norfolk coast captured in photographs
Thornham Staithe: 'Magical' Norfolk coast captured in photographs
Baroque church interiors
One at a time, these would be OK, but when they're all on one page it makes it seem like they're made up.
https://designyoutrust.com/2017/03/cyril-porchet-photographs-ornate-baroque-churches-around-the-world/
https://designyoutrust.com/2017/03/cyril-porchet-photographs-ornate-baroque-churches-around-the-world/
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More concert photos
Classical concert photography is a challenge. The lighting is low, so movement blurs. The shutter noise is too much while they're playing. The lighting outside in the interval is completely different (and yes, much yellower). It was an unusual venue in that you could walk all around the orchestra, but the backs of the musicians' heads weren't so interesting.
Manchester
I did AirBnB for the first time. We stayed in a flat in central Manchester for quite a lot less than a hotel.
We went to Ziferblat. Imagine a cafe that's more like a big version of someone's living room. You pay for the time you spend there, and you can work, play or just lounge. Everything inside is free. We had tea and cake and sat in some comfy chairs to read the newspapers.
Then we went to a concert in an abandoned TV studio, and heard pieces by six new composers. Someone not entirely unrelated to me was playing a saxophone concerto.
We went to Ziferblat. Imagine a cafe that's more like a big version of someone's living room. You pay for the time you spend there, and you can work, play or just lounge. Everything inside is free. We had tea and cake and sat in some comfy chairs to read the newspapers.
Then we went to a concert in an abandoned TV studio, and heard pieces by six new composers. Someone not entirely unrelated to me was playing a saxophone concerto.
If it's Easter weekend, we'd better have a bit of religion
Went to the Albert Hall with SO and YC for Handel's Messiah.
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Two things took me by surprise. It lasted 2h45m (including interval). Everyone stood up for the Hallelujah chorus.
YC's favourite part was a couple of hundred people singing about how they like sheep.
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Two things took me by surprise. It lasted 2h45m (including interval). Everyone stood up for the Hallelujah chorus.
YC's favourite part was a couple of hundred people singing about how they like sheep.
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