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Post by rayge on Feb 13, 2021 19:57:27 GMT
Up to now, I've largely resisted posting my photos on here - will no-one think of the bandwidth? - and I won't post here the current ones that are already on three other forums, including the Other Place, but I am more interested in my pictures than my words, so I am going to start putting up some historical ones. Please feel free to comment, but if you have ones of your own you want to put up, please start another thread and bear in mind that, according to St Skope, I am a dictatorial egomaniac with vast admin super powers.
Ahem.
I discovered nearly 400 slides from approx June-November 1989 in a box, but unfortunately at some point they had been spilled and mixed, so the time and place bop about for a bit, making narrative coherence difficult. There was a lot was going on. Sometime in there I left the flat in Carlton Mansions, Cricklewood, NW London, where I had been living for 12 years, the last couple on my own, to stay above a friend's shop in Belsize Road, Kilburn (I sold the flat to said friend's nieces and their partners, which was a handy arrangement). Chip, whom I'd married the year before, was living in Mangotsfield, East Bristol, with Sally, a Jack Russel/whippet cross. We did not set up home together until shortly before Xmas 1990. I was working one or two days a week in-house at Marshall Cavendish in Wardour Street, Soho, across the road from the Marquee club, sub-editing a partwork on antiques called Times Past. Sweet PeasGrown by Chip by the cordon method in her garden at Mangotsfield, picking every other day. One issue of Times Past featured an article I wrote on juke boxes, and a photo session was set up with a dealer in Willesden, just a short bus ride from the Mansions. I went along to direct the shoot, and took my camera with me- Rock-OlaI wondered what a 1930s juke-box had to do with Rock and Roll, but Rockola was the name of the company's founding family, who were Czechs iirc. Tower of SongThe Singing Towers juke was as tall as me PoutIn a yard outside, the dealer had a life-size fibre-glass statue of Marilyn. And why not? UpdraughtOn the Street Where I Live(d)Coming back from Willesden on the top deck of a bus. The Mansions can just be glimpsed through the trees in the centre of the picture ...
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Post by rayge on Feb 13, 2021 19:58:13 GMT
War WoundThe only picture I have of my Swiss Army knife, stolen just a week or two after I bought it Sunset GothicFlakedPhil the Prof enjoying the facilities at the Mansions ToscaElderly but engaging fleabag owned by my sister-in-law, Kiki Another thing that was happening about this time was that I was traveling to Putney once a week for a regular health appointment. East Putney tube station was closer, but the walk was dull, so I would get off at Putney Bridge and cross the Thames on a footpath attached to the railway bridge. The stanchions of the barrier between the walkway and the trains was smothered in several layers of grafitti, and I took to taking pictures of it using various close-up lenses to abstract them. I took loads of these over a two-year period, so get used to them... Hudson BayApproaching Skull Island
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Feb 14, 2021 12:26:09 GMT
Post by wobblie on Feb 14, 2021 12:26:09 GMT
...the number, another summer - sound of the funky drummer.
How did your knife get stolen? Might have been a good thing. You appear unsafe with weaponry.
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Post by rayge on Feb 14, 2021 14:30:47 GMT
How did your knife get stolen? Might have been a good thing. You appear unsafe with weaponry. 1. No idea
2. Pretty pissed off at the time 3. It's a tool. I won't have anything to do with weapons. They disgust me. I don't remember how I got the scratch, but don't think it was from the SAK, which was essentially a prop in that photo
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Feb 14, 2021 15:02:29 GMT
Post by wobblie on Feb 14, 2021 15:02:29 GMT
Yes, I am well aware knives are tools. I've carried the same Benchmade Auto-Stryker in my pocket for over 20yrs. Lost it a couple times in the woods but was able to backtrack and got lucky - a major relief.
I had a Swiss Army knife when I was 9 or 10. Loved it, then lost it. It never returned.
Good photos, Ray. Post more when you can.
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Feb 14, 2021 17:57:39 GMT
Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 14, 2021 17:57:39 GMT
I'm very confused by the pic of Phil the prof. Is that some sort of coffin/couch (sofa/chesterfield whatever you call 'em over there)?
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Post by rayge on Feb 14, 2021 18:24:50 GMT
I'm very confused by the pic of Phil the prof. Is that some sort of coffin/couch (sofa/chesterfield whatever you call 'em over there)? He's stoned and lying on a sofa. I switched it from landscape to portrait for the lulz, and becuz I could
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Meanwhile, back in the representational zone SerenityNo idea whose window Red Line FeverRemember that I would later in the month move in above a friend's shop? They sold bespoke designer radiators from Switzerland. Pub LunchThe magic of the interwebz tells me this is Sutton Berenger, near Chippenham. Sallywags, Chip, and her neighbour in Mangotsfield, Telstar (Terry, actually, but he was a star). In lieu of a living parent, he 'gave away' Chip at our wedding. Lovely man Full PeltWith her whippet ancestry, Sal could really shift. Lovely mover Explosion in a Fur FactoryTallullah and I shared a birthday, and although she always lived with Chip, She was generally considered my cat. Abalone
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Feb 22, 2021 20:54:32 GMT
Post by rayge on Feb 22, 2021 20:54:32 GMT
More from the summer of 1989 VistaLooking south from Mangotsfield Common, Bristol M4Time exposure on a night drive Get Orf My LawnsGladstone Park, NW London
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Post by rayge on Feb 22, 2021 20:55:52 GMT
SweetBalloonaticsChip and Sally at Bath Racecourse RollingView from Lansdown, nr. Bath Ripped BacksidesEscher-style pile-up in London (probably Soho) Pond LifeGlasdstone Park again Blue BallsCarlton Mansions ...
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Post by rayge on Feb 22, 2021 20:57:49 GMT
Party in My MindNight view from the Mansions Storm FrontIn Swansea, visiting Clive's second ex, Sarah, and his son, Matthew Rock ArchMatt climbing Matt, aged 10SarahHinterlandSomewhere in South Wales ...
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Post by rayge on Feb 22, 2021 20:59:32 GMT
RevelationsRocksAvon Gorge, Bristol Brunel's MasterpieceThe Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol SailingHammerGuest appearance from Billy, wielding my camera as I sling a hammer (upside-down Frisbee throw). He got the shot and caught the disc. SnufflingTwo hedgehogs outside my mother's house in Hertfordshire
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Post by rayge on Mar 4, 2021 18:21:49 GMT
Onward, back in ’89 SquadSpurs line up for a pre-season friendly at White Hart Lane in August Fromn memory, left to right, ?, Gary Lineker, Paul Allen, Gary Stevens, Paul Walsh, Pat van den Hauwe, Paul Stewart, David Howels, Erik Thorsvedt, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Mabbutt Reg x 7Bill x 7Both taken with one of my favourite Cokin filters MovingBilly sort of helping me pack to leave the Mansions after 12 years SigWritten in grass ...
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Post by rayge on Mar 4, 2021 18:24:51 GMT
Part Two Phone SelfieYuccaWestern Bath from LansdownSally ForthVistaKelston Round Hill and the view South across the Avon Valley from Bath Racecourse Line-UpBoats moored in the Thames downriver of Putney ...
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