Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Allen Park Wonder Day
Today was a wonder day. We went to the park and a farm. Here’s the complete personal documentary of the day:
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Trellick Tower, A Brutalist Wonder Caught from a Passing Train
We were on a train from Slough this afternoon and I spotted this: A Brutalist bookend-er of a building. I did a Street View search and found the name of it, and then the Wikipedia page for Trellick Tower. Stuff: There is an entry once every two floors is because each flat is a duplex It…
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Fish; Chips
We went to The Laughing Halibut today for fish, chicken, & chips, as well as a walkabout in Westminster Abbey. Oscar Romero is honored there as one of the 20th Century Martyrs whose statues were placed in 1998 above the Great West Door of the Abbey. All hail. Also did a Jack The Ripper tour, which was…
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Speeding Past Human Efforts at Migration
Today we traveled back by Chunnel to London. There is great drama in Calais, as people seek somehow to get through and be in England, which they perceive as the best place for them to be. Comfort can often be placed right next to the opposite of comfort. Here’s the video of our day:
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Free Audio: London Tube, Paris Metro, Eurostar Chunnel
I take a lot of images and offer all of them for free on Flickr. Lately, as I’ve been doing a lot more video, I find myself collecting background sounds and audio that might be useful to others as well. Here’s some sharing of sounds from the London Tube, Eurostar Chunnel, and Paris Metro. More to…