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“I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover” - Germaine Greer
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
to all my friends here
Actually let’s be honest - what do we love and hate about Christmas, hmmm?
I hate the guilt trip that afflicts me until my “duty” is done - but having done it I can sit here sanctimoniously now and tell my readers I donated to animal welfare (great cause!), made overdue phone calls and wrote 10 e-letters just in the nick of time.
However I did not go shopping.
I love when Christmas is about catching up with people, drinking, laughing, writing letters, making donations, carols; food and did I mention drink, and plenty of that. I don’t even mind the odd religious story thrown in; but the focus on spending is obscene and good only for the retailers.
If you disagree with that then the bad news is there are only 365 shopping days till NEXT Christmas! Get back on that treadmill!
Sources of the pix:
1. Winter, 2. Christmas ball, 3. Have yourself a merry little Christmas., 4. Feliz Navidad a todos¡¡¡ - Happy Christmas to all¡¡¡, 5. Raphael’s ‘Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (detail expanded), 6. Christmas Window
Abandoned aluminium factory photographed by Alex Vetri (Italy)
See more of his urbex work in this Flickr gallery, along with some other personal favourites (my favs, that is)
“That” maple in Portland Oregon’s Japanese Garden
— a tree so popular it has its own Flickr group
1. The Rise Of The Phoenix, 2. Phoenix Rising ~ Portland Japanese Garden, 3. Her beauty compels photo after photo - then it’s hard to make a choice, 4. Living Lightning, 5. That Tree, revisited, 6. The Glow (She’s Got It)
In Norway
1. Summer Daze, 2. ocean and sky abstraction, 3. black rock sunset, 4. Rainy Day, 5. eye of the ocean, 6. seagull attack, 7. The Icecave, 8. Dramatic Sunset, 9. Golden Forest, 10. October at Røsholm, 11. Before the Storm…, 12. Winter at Røshom - Bonus
Jaime Silva lives in Lisbon, Portugal, but crosses Europe every August, photographing buildings and cities
… like St Petersburg
Berlin
and Dresden
Specialties: building details and the colour grey, so neglected in a photographic world inclined to pump up the volume on colour!
Now if Amplify is doing what it promises to do you will see below these few words a do-up of pix of intriguing rooms long since abandoned by all but the dedicated urbex photographer. And below that will be a key with links to each item. And you will see it whether you’re in Amplify, Posterous or Tumblr, with a note to Twitter and Facebook as well. Plus, I will see it in Delicious. All sounds marvellous, doesn’t it, but Amplify has not delivered on its promises in recent days. Let’s see.
Tableau features work of Flickr’s JREJ (Gregoire Cachemaille, who lives in Berlin), Mobileohm (Paris) and friends.
Click here to see it large or even at 1225px
See key below for individual pix on their Flickr pages
1. Red Room, 2. Theatre, Krampnitz, 3. New Sky Building, 4. Square Room,
5. [ Potters living room ], 6. Welcome to my Nightmare, 7. Der Sessel am Fenster, 8. The Watcher, 9. [ abandoned children’s home .02 ], 10. executive, 11. nature at work, 12. in my bed, 13. united color of communism, 14. unarmed, 15. royal,
16. Working class luxus suite
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/b56x
Colour of light and life
(nine reasons I love it)
1. Inner light, 2. Cuba Gallery: Green - Rainforest - Nature, 3. Les bains d’Helys, 4. Six green windows, 5. Shark Encounter, 6. neon lights at chicago o’hare, 7. Oman Emerald, 8. Lemaire, 9. Garðskagaviti Aurora
Andregovia rules in the grey and grimy world of asylums and abandoned places
1. stabilization unit, 2. Beauty in Decay, 3. It’s 3 a.m, 4. your God, 5. segregated, 6. Round corridor, 7. Beelitz-Heilstätten, 8. Hellingly abandoned hospital, 9. west park abandoned asylum, 10. Tattoo madman in Hellingly asylum, 11. Denbigh abandoned asylum, 12. hellingly abandoned asylum
know your cow butts
it used to be that one could select a good dairy cow based upon the shape of the hairs on its thighs. nowadays: growth hormones.
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