May 2008 Archives
The view from the back window of my house. Looking out across the garden to the backs of the houses in the next street.
Nene Valley Railway.
I've always loved this song by Kevin Ayers ('May I'). It's the opening track on Shooting at the Moon, an LP that I sold recently (getting rid of all vinyl). Mike Oldfield on bass is particularly stunning, beautiful and flowing - and this is long before Tubular Bells.
Just found this sort of by accident through using last.fm.
OGWT 1972
Just found this sort of by accident through using last.fm.
OGWT 1972
Took the girls to the Science Museum in London at the weekend to an exhibition called 'The Birth of High-Tech Britain'. It was about how Britain capitalised on its war-time industrial strength to develop products for gloomy post-war Britain.
Dan Dare and Eagle comics were used to illustrate the exhibition in terms of how the future was envisaged and portrayed and just how optimistic post-war Britain was.
Interesting that the only product pic I got was a tape-recorder. Hmmmm.
Today I wen tot see the film Manufactured Landscapes. A film about Edward Burtynsky's massive landscape photographs that document man's effect on the lansdscape.
NSTAC, on the same day there is a Guardian (it's a newspaper here in the UK) editorial on Burtynsky. Had I been a photographer, these are the pictures I would be taking.
The film is beautiful and I would urge you to go and see it.
There is also an exhibition of (some) of his 6ft by 4ft photographs in London ("prices start at £5500 + VAT").
I'm sure they will won't mind if I reproduce some of his images here...
In the film. these photographs are shown on the screen. BIG. BIIIIIIIIIG.
In fact, including any of them here is almost pointless. Small reproductions of them is totally disrespectful of them.
Doodads. Objects rather than investments in the future. Can't get away from them. But try. Read 'Rich Dad Poor Dad'. Not rocket science. Even without a job. Still.
Doesn't mean a celebration of doodads is a bad thing. Celebrate anything. I do.
Wanting doodads is good. Buying them with employer-funded income is bad. Or rather not good. Buy them with investment returns. Am I preaching? Who cares? Argue against the logic.
Anyway, here are some aspirational doodads for me. It's my blog after all.
BTW, I took the shit picture and Bryony, nearly 12, took the good one. On the Nokia. A1 goinf north near Peterborough.
[Just to be clear, these are doodads I desire but can't afford, so can't have]
...having walked under one. I dunno, maybe I have. But today It seemed to be memorable.
These pictures are cliched and formulaic - but I took them. So I'm adding to that morass. But I like them.
I often wonder if I could collect pylons. I see them is so many lands. And they are so different. Do they hang or support the cables? How to they the cables up there?
How much does a pylon cost? Or weigh?
What is the weight of the cable between pylons? Doe the tension keep them up?
A lorry that looks stationary but wasn't.
This is the rarer Eat More Chips lorry - with the blocky script as opposed to the handwriting style 'logo'. For a long time they were never sighted. A bit elusive perhaps... If you look closely, this is DMS031 which is the same lorry spotted years ago. Maybe there's only one of this type of lorry. OMG, that sounds very lorry-spotting...
Taken on my phone which incidentally, came out as having the best phone camera in a test done by The Gadget Show on Five (a TV station here in the UK).
