Tag: photography

Brachymetropic Hot Links

Jive At Five, Count Basie and his Orchestra (1939)
Written and composed by Harry “Sweets” Edison, the band lineup was:
William J. “Count” Basie, piano, directing; Lester “Shad” Collins, Wilbur “Buck” Clayton and Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpets; William “Dicky” Wells, trombone; Lester Young, tenor saxophone; Ronald “Jack” Washington, baritone saxophone; Freddie Green, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jonathan “Jo” Jones, drums.

1948 Woody.

Power fishing.

Floating dogs.

Karen & Robert.

Teaching Jesse.

Results happen.

Melbourne lights.

One patient judge.

Mosaic sculptures.

Blood Makes Noise.

Deer in a hammock.

“You hear something?“

Goats and more goats.

Pretty sure I need this.

A war with 1000 fronts.

Black market dentistry.

Mary Shelly’s other novel.

81 Soap Faces [via Everlasting Blört].

Lion vs. bird vs. snek [via Thompson, blog].

Watermelon wings,  the faces of polyphony, and a funky sheep
[via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Photo titled Kathryn Von Marks In Larissa′s Lap by Sara Small found here.]

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Garbage City


Manshiyat Naser district, Cairo, Egypt
It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo’s largest concentration of “Zabbaleen” garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage.

Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no running water, sewers, or electricity.

[Photo from 2009 found here.]

Paranoia Street

Ophthalmology clinic, Tainan City, Taiwan, 1962. Wang Shuangquan photographer.

[Found here, colorized by Grok.]

Helminthological Hot Links

Oh My Angel, Bertha Tillman (1962) “R&B singer Bertha Tillman was born in Texas, but moved to San Diego where her career started. She only recorded a few singles, including her cover of the oldies staple “Oh My Angel” and a song called “I Wish” (released as Bertha Tillman & The Killers), both appearing on Bob Shad‘s New York label Brent Records. She died in San Diego on May 31, 1993, at the age of 50.”

Mitts.

Pro tip.

Tiny nails.

Dance hard.

Pips & Nubs.

Fast food race.

Train engines.

CASRSPLASHART.

Harmonic morons.

Totem if ya gottem.

Lyncornis macrotis.

Melbourne’s bridges.

The Hat Toss of 2017.

St. Petersburg bridge.

A counter in the hood.
Another counter.

Pierogie & Scammer Payback.

“What happened to your arm?“

Flashed Face Distortion Effect.

Gov. Gavin & Jake T. went fishing.

Slinky heaven [via Everlasting Blört].

Pointer pointer [via Memo Of The Air].

Compound Pejorative Frequency Chart.

US-101 plays itself [via Thompson, blog].

A gated community [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Sonny’s Discount Grocery, 1034 S. Main St., High Point, NC. In 2013, Sonny’s sold other things besides groceries, and it appears to be under new ownership. Found here.]

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Screen Test

Tela habitada, Helena Almeida (1976)

[Found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. The raccoon poster was the result of asking Grok for an image based on my Xwitter account.

Niagara Falls Cloudseye View

[Found here.]

Nephelognostic Hot Links

Danny’s All-Star Joint, Rickie Lee Jones (1979) Rickie Lee Jones, aka The Duchess of Coolsville, “released her self-titled debut album in 1979 to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and spawned the hit single Chuck E.’s in Love, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 1980. […] The album included guest appearances by Dr. John, Randy Newman, and Michael McDonald.” [Wiki]
Note: Malwarebytes detected riskware at her official website.

Pearls.

Ratrod.

Breaking.

Xerox Hell.

Street art.

Gene Gene.

Ghost Office.

What Aa is for.

35 years of TV.

Crushing Coke.

Cycler rescued.

Conceptual Art.

EF on the WNBA.

Signs in retirement.

Remembering Robby.

Cluck cluck cluck, etc.

Alabama Turtle Burglar.

Hickshit & boogerwelds.

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.

A little construction work.

Gov. Gavin makes a tortilla.

Glowfish [via Memo Of The Air].

Demolisity [via Everlasting Blört].

Johanna Van Parijs’ wood mosaics.

1956 Pontiac Star Chief Ambulance.

Hotel Dramatica [via Thompson, blog].

Gabriel’s 300th post on Vankleek Hill Photos.

WMCA-AM (New York) broadcast February 1965.

[Top image: Paranoia panda balloon found here.
“Johnny Panda” was photographed during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in the UK, 08 August 2026.]

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African Snow

Kitty Viljoen captured elephants enjoying the snow in the Sneeuberg – which translates to Snow Mountain – on the Western Cape of South Africa, where snow set in late last week. She also photographed giraffes in snow in the Karoo semi-desert region. […] Snowfalls are not infrequent across parts of South Africa during the winter, though this cold snap comes late in the season. In July, parts of the country were blanketed after several days of heavy snowfall.
The Guardian, 10 September 2018

[Found here.]

Slum Flat, Oldham 1962


“Mr Sutton Pownall, a gravedigger, lives at Number Two Court, Dickenson Street, Oldham, with his wife Joyce and their five children in a 150 year old house. The family share one bedroom, one kitchen and one living room. They share a key for communal toilets, near to where the dustbins are stacked. His children are Susan, 6, Steve, 5, Sandra, 4, Mark, 3 and Baby Gary, aged 8 months. 1st June 1962.”

The contraption in the brick nook is a coin operated gas meter similar to the one below. Drop in some change and you can heat the flat and cook for a few hours until the timer ran out and you had to feed it again.

“The meter controlled the gas supply to the dwelling’s appliances. In a typical UK flat of the era that had gas, this commonly included both cooking and some form of space heating (plus often hot water), all paid for by feeding coins into the same or similar meters. These systems largely gave way to credit meters, then modern prepayment/smart meters as North Sea gas, central heating, and different payment methods spread.” [via GROK].

Top (colorized) image found here via Google search of this image; caption from here. The original photo and more can be found in a photo essay titled Smog, Slums and Stars in the Making – 25 Pictures of a Lost Era in Oldham, Manchester Evening News, 04 March 2022.

Vintage 1949 coin operated gas meter found here, via here.]