ok… the face… i, when tripping, thought: nietzsche…
then i recalled this image of a great great grandfather… i think he was a great great grandfather…
a lord, anyhow…
a bloke who had connections to the land/ or a tea-trader..?
or what?
and i’ve added this because it’s my favourite photograph… my grandfather in the far right of picture looking like he doesn’t care much for anything much.
cool.
now i’ll be castigated for tekkin’ the piss out of my own family… well..ne’er mind… this is harmless whereas… like say, you, carl… or you brian…
anyhow…
i have said this before or rather stated it…
that the guy who wrote derogatory tracts about the icelandic gods etc
i do not know his name
but he would be a worthy icelandic writer to hear more of/read more of…
infact i’ve read nothing of him.
or heard owt of him.
who is he.. was he?
anyhow; that kindda stance is laudable… admirable – especially in such an insular/isolated
society as iceland….
i only added this video as it is my favourite sigu ros video.
only due to the fact that the seagull, as the kids run up the hill, seems to push them onward..
in my sad little world it does…
as one did today as i rode over to burnley…
http://youtu.be/Zr_MJAOyOeU
p.s. i still smell of dev(eloper).
WELL THE ICELANDIC SAGA DOCUMENTARY… AIRS NOW… 1 IN 10 ICELANDERS IS A PUBLISHED AUTHOR??????????? THEY ARE A BORED NATION, ME THINKS?
ARE THEY MAD?
THE WOMAN INTERVIEWING THE ICELANDIC BLOKES SEEMS SOMEWHAT 1:BORED 2:TAKEN ABACK…
EVERYONE SEEMS… WELL, NOT EVERYONE… SEEMS INTENT ON ICELAND… THE FALL WERE HUMBLED… BJORK ESCAPED FROM THERE…. DAMON ALBARN VISTED… ARE THERE REALLY NO TREES?
MAYBE YOU SHOULD PLANT ONE?
JACK SHOULD READ KNUT HAMSON.
O TO BE HUMBLED IN ICELAND.
Introduction
At the end of the nineteenth century,
the British artist, photographer and traveler Frederick W.W. Howell, F.R.G.S.,
recorded Icelandic and Faroese landscapes, farmsteads, towns and people in a
remarkable series of photographs that depicted Iceland and the Faeroe Islands on
the edge of modernity. Daniel Willard Fiske, who bequeathed the Fiske Icelandic
Collection to Cornell University, purchased over 400 prints from Howell around
the turn of the century. Halldór Hermannsson, the collection’s first curator,
mounted the prints around 1923 in six albums and supplied the prints with
captions. (A small group of photographs includes the work of Henry A. Perkins,
an American, and Magnús Ólafsson, an Icelander.) In late 2000, a researcher in
Iceland requested digital scans of 95 of these photographs for a book on Howell.
This rather large request stimulated interest in digitizing the photographs held
in the Fiske Collection, thereby making the images available via the Internet
and greatly facilitating provision of printed copies for research and
publication.
WWW.FWWHOWELL.COM MAY2010
IT WAS JUST A WILD STAB IN THE DARK…
WHICH IS BASICALLY WHAT NEXT DOOR WILL BE GETTIN’ IF THEY DON’T SETTLE DOWN.
a wild stab in the dark… another photographic term – stab… to stabalize sommat.
or guess. i guessed… she stabbed the neg… etc…
words. mere words.
escape from colditz was on today… just a thought
r.e. the situation i find myself in back over here in the good ol’ blight of the u.k.
an obsession is developing…
now… after these wasted 10 years (add on to that a further 20 years) of (un)education and folk just ballsing up my life (i’m sure you have had it bad yerself?) i now actually know what you think of me (and my family)… they can sort out their own mess, though… i’m useless… or some such thing…
30 years of bullshit is a long time…
i’m obsessed with this image now…
crazy….
old simulacra man is back…
actually… the image could be ronnie greenwood… or wild billy childish on a bad moustache day…
i’ll go visit tomorrow and see if the physiog is still there.
ok; so the kills’ future starts slow is ok.
no, i didn’t take the pornographic pictures.
hey… both my email accounts are now being hacked into… the new blurb book i ordered seems to have been hijacked – i.e. the order confirmation has gone missing… these people fucking piss me off… no end…
i love this pub. i’ve never drunk here or frequented any of this part of the pennines… this is where the pennines comes to a close - it’s visual vastness cedes to doldrum country… of thieves and pickpockets, house-breakers and wankers.
anyhow – i am obsessed with the sign on this pub – it’s somewhat faded now but still intriguing…
this old stately house… what would it be – the house of the guy who owned the farms or the mines?
worth researching…
i wrote something far more substantial but it’s lost – the computer is having a bad day.
I’VE BEEN OUT CYCLING – AS SOLITARY FUCK WITS… OR SHOULD I SAY: FUCKTARDS DO…
I DID A GOOD FEW MILES…
TOOK A FEW PHOTOS…
HERE’S ONE NOW – THE LAST IMAGE I SHOT, AS I CYCLED HOME – RAWTENSTALL TOWN CENTRE – THE CONSUMER DURABLE AREA – I.E. THERE’S MEANT TO BE SHOPS HERE… INSTEAD WE HAVE BOARDED UP SOVIET ERA ARCHITECTURE…
DO I BLAME THE LARGE SUPERMARKETS THAT HAVE SAPPED THE SOUL FROM THE TOWN OR DO I JUST PUT IT ALL DOWN TO ECONOMIC FACTORS…?
PROGRESS?
IT REMINDED ME OF LIVERPOOL SHOPPING CENTRE EARLY 80′S… NOTHING BUT NOWT.
THAT SAID… IF ANYONE WANTS TO DO A FASHION SHOOT THERE – IT’D MAKE A GREAT BACKDROP… FALIING THAT – IF YOU’RE OUT TO DO A PHOTOSHOOT YOURSELF AND HAVE THE GET-UP ETC YOU COULD DO WORSE THAN USE THIS BIT OF WASTE GROUND…
WAS THERE ANYONE IN NEED OF POLICE ASSISTANCE OR AN AMBULANCE EARLIER TODAY – BETWEEN 11.00AM AND 2.00PM, IN ROSSENDALE? AS AROUND 4 POLICE CARS AND 3 AMBULANCES WERE FARTIN’ ABOUT, DRIVING TO NO-WHERE IN PARTICULAR, WHEN I WAS OUT PHOTOGRAPHING… OR SHOOTIN’ – AS I USUALLY SAY…
I.E. SHOOTIN (IN MY VERNACULAR) = PHOTOGRAPHING SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
IT’S A BALL-ACHE.
LIFE – WHO NEEDS IT?
CAN’T YOU SEE… THERE’S NO ONE…
A US newspaper has apologised for doctoring a photograph of senior White House staff watching the Osama bin Laden mission by editing out the women in the room, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
P.S. THIS CAN ALSO BE THE OBVERSE… THAT A PERSON WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN PART OF SOME POLITICAL EVENT OF GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS HAS TO BE ADDED TO AN IMAGE – FOR FEAR OF LOSING GENERAL POPULAR APPEAL ETC…
ok… the face… i, when tripping, thought: nietzsche…
a bloke who had connections to the land/ or a tea-trader..?
and i’ve added this because it’s my favourite photograph… my grandfather in the far right of picture looking like he doesn’t care much for anything much.
