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Nice photos, Chris! That IAC building is really interesting.

Chaka Khan in The Color Purple? Hmmmmmm.........

great photos chris!

Beautiful downtown Garfield NJ as seen through a wet train window.



Some birds hanging out in Hoboken NJ across the river from Manhattan



The Liberty Street pedestrian bridge leading from the World Financial Center.

Chris, Randy, very nice photos!!!!


I know that everyone is curious as to what an Autolite 2150 carb looks like inside, so...here ya go!
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carb was leaking gas badly(Is there such a think as a good gas leak?)after I rebuilt it. Why????

Here is the reason, below!!!

Carb rebuild kit had the wrong size float hanger! So, float floated too well!!!! Fascinatin' ain't it????

Also rent cardboard apartments to cats down on their luck....

Yes I do Chris, very good memory!!!!!

What a difference a few days (literally) make!

Less than a week ago....


Today.....

Sun was in my face....couldn't see screen on digital camera...an older one.

More of those damn birds

My God, Randy, they're HUGE!!!

From our apartment facing southwest. Nov. 2004

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This week we bought a lot to build a new home for the wife and I this Summer:

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Whoa -- your work or Ann's? Great stuff, particularly the bird footprint.

I did the footprint, Ann the lake.

May, 2005
From the same window facing west.
Statue of Liberty in the harbor.
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Staten Island in the background across the bay.
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Late afternoon sunlight in February, 2005.
Facing Manhattan from Brooklyn.
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I'm breaking protocol - this is a jazz photo, but it's in the same folder as the other pictures so I couldn't resist.

I love this. From the Jazz @Lincoln Center auction of a few years ago.

I'd really like to get inside Wayne's head into why performing with a great band, on tour, playing your own music, would be so dissatisfying!
Maybe the hotels and other conditions were less than favorable.
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Here's one more and then I'll stop with the jazz photos, in this topic anyway.

This is Trane's sketch for a Love Supreme.
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As the real estate agent told us, "Viooz ta dahy fowa"

thanks. Now that I have the go ahead I'll think about posting photos of some of my favorite characters.

A bit different from glitzy Manhattan:



Just over 30 years ago I moved to this area. 16 year old lads were going down the pit as they left school. Today this is the only headstocks surviving - and a housing company has a request in to demolish it to 'develop' the site.

The mines were wiped out in the 80s and 90s - an almost Stalinist expunging of history followed, with virtually all visible remains removed. Just the odd half a pit wheel.

Very sad - the whole shape of this community was created by 100 years of coal mining.

They were there earlier. Now they've been replaced by these stern messages! Sinister censorship? Wrong image of Britain, perhaps?

Now THAT looks like Michigan. The sunsets there are gorgeous.

That is TOO cute!

I'm still not sure how to do this properly - tried to post some larger versions, so I suspect that caused the trouble. I've put the smaller ones up.

This is how Bentinck Colliery is commemorated...the site is now an industrial estate - modern warehouses etc (thus the strange multicoloured things behind):



Not much to show for what once looked like this:



When I came for interview here in 1977 from the 'soft south' I can recall being awestruck by these giant collieries.

I suppose a similar tale can be told in Pennsylvania and many other places in the world.

Von Freeman at Tula's in Seattle

A favorite of mine, taken from the middle of Lake Grapevine:
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Cyndy took this one from inside her uncle's cabin on Wall Lake in Michigan:
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A random group of people outside Grand Central Terminal

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.


REM


The Stills


The Sadies w/Andre Williams


The Chevelles


X


Sixth Street at mid-festival

Still plenty underground. Two things happened:

a) It proved cheaper to import surface deposits from mainland Europe for power stations than to extend underground mining.

b) The Thatcher government had a vendetta against the miners because of previous political humiliations and essentially set out to destroy the industry - which is why I think so little surface evidence has survived. What is ironic is that in the great strike of 1984-5 most Notts miners carried on working, partly out of resentment towards the mining union leadership, partly out of a sense that the Notts pits (as modern' pits) had a good future. Thatcher encouraged them in these beliefs...and then, once the union was defeated, wiped them out as well.

If you've not seen the movie 'Brassed Off' try and borrow a copy - a romanticised tale but a wonderful story of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity during the days of the closures.

Interestingly, there was an article in the Guardian last weekend about one of a handful of local collieries that have survived and how, with soaring energy costs, it is taking on new workers!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/15/2

Taken last year on a whale-watching trip - though it's obviously not a whale!

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Spring !




At least, good plans for the week-end.

Jazz or no Jazz?
Trumpet player Corey Wilkes Blows the Shofar in front of El-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

Jazz or no Jazz?

Sax player Ernest Dawkins buys some bells for the evening concert. Jerusalem.

Where was that picture taken? That place looks familiar.

920 Clinton???? Nice block.


Edit: I thought you lived in West Philly??

A bar called BD Riley's. You been there?

A foggy morn a few months back. Clearly, I am deeply in love with my neighbor's tree!

The other side of our front yard...am ambivalent about it...

our backyard, thirty minutes ago:

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and ten minutes later:

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No. I was thinking of this one place, and now I can't remember the street it's on; all I know is it intersects Lamar, just south of the river (it's the same street that Chuy's is on). And now I can't remember the name of the place either.

I was so mad last night: we were driving over a bridge over I-20 and I could see the moon as it had just fully risen above the horizon. It looked like a giant pumpkin! We were a few seconds away from the house, so as soon as we got home, I ran in, grabbed my camera and headed back to the bridge. When I got there, the moon had disappeared behind a big patch of clouds on an otherwise partly cloudy night. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

Hailstorm, correct??? If it was, how big were those suckers???

Nice shot, Chris........good timing.

Are you thinking of The Continental Club on S. Congress?

This is a pictures of my kids (and my two nephews) about 3 years ago in Austin.