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Women Are Stronger Than Men by Kim Sang Hun (Juche 90/2001)

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Taking the stand in France’s biggest ever rape trial, Patrice N, 55, an electrician from the southern town of Carpentras, said he was a “jovial” guy and a fun dad who once trained youth football teams and had a “great respect for women”.

He denied the charges of rape, claiming rape had never been his intention. “To my mind, it was a game,” he told the court.

Patrice N is one of 51 men on trial for the alleged rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot, a former logistics manager, who has become a feminist hero for insisting the trial should be held in public.

For a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020, Gisèle Pelicot was unknowingly sedated and raped by her former husband, Dominique Pelicot, who crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited men to rape her at their home in the picturesque village of Mazan in Provence.

Gisèle Pelicot told the court this week that she felt “destroyed” but was driven by “the determination to change society” and expose “rape culture”.

After dozens of accused men have testified that they did not think what happened was rape, her lawyers said the court hearings have exposed a “profound problem” in society’s attitudes to sexual violence.

Despite video evidence in court showing Gisèle Pelicot in an unconscious state, snoring loudly, Patrice N claimed he had not noticed that she was sedated on the Monday night in February 2020 when he drove 20 minutes to the couples’ home after he he had been in contact with Dominique Pelicot online.

Dominique Pelicot ushered Patrice N into the bedroom, where he stayed for about one hour with the lights on. It was only at the end of the visit, when he said, “Your wife looks like she’s really asleep”, that Dominique Pelicot said he gave his wife “pills”.

Patrice N said he asked if this happened often, to which Dominique Pelicot replied that after drugging his wife, he would also take her to motorway laybys and “hand her to men”. Patrice N said: “I told him he was sick, I walked round the bed and left straight away … He didn’t even text me to see if I got home OK.”

One of the judges asked Patrice N: “You heard him say he delivered his drugged wife to men in laybys, but you did nothing to help her, you didn’t report it?”

He said: “I didn’t want to waste my time at the police station. I’m a humble neighbourhood electrician. If I went to the police and said she’s unconscious, who would have believed me?”

Gisèle Pelicot, watched from her seat in court, and shook her head.

From the dock, Dominique Pelicot told the court that he did not hand his then wife to men at roadsides, but had once drugged and raped her himself in a motorway layby on the way back from their daughter’s holiday home.

Patrice N, like several other men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, was supported in court by a number of women who knew him who said they didn’t think him capable of rape. A longtime female friend, who worked as an education expert, told the court that Patrice N had always been a “teddy bear”, “wasn’t even a skirt-chaser” and wasn’t the type to rape. A care-worker, who 16 months ago became Patrice N’s girlfriend despite knowing he was charged with rape in the Pelicot case, said: “He treats me like a princess.”

Three accused men in court this week did take the rare step of admitting rape, saying they knew Gisèle Pelicot had been drugged and was unconscious.

Abdelali D, 47, a former canteen worker who had suffered a stroke since his arrest, said he went to the Pelicots’ home twice and raped Gisèle Pelicot when she was in a comatose state. The first time, one January night in 2018, he had asked his then girlfriend to drive him to the Pelicots’ village and wait an hour for him in the car. She told the court she had driven him because she was worried about him driving drunk. She thought he was meeting a couple for a sexual encounter, but had not sought details. “I didn’t want to know,” she said. She described Abdelali D as someone who “drank morning, noon and night”.

Jean-Luc L, 46, a mirror-maker, admitted raping Gisèle Pelicot on two occasions in 2018 and 2019 while she was unconscious. He had at first thought that because her husband had consented for her, “it wasn’t against the law”. He told a psychologist after his arrest that the definition of rape was instead something that “happens in the street” in the style of “if you don’t want it, I’ll hit you”. But in court, he admitted raping Gisèle Pelicot in her own bedroom.

The court heard Jean-Luc L had fled Vietnam by boat with his mother as a child and had lived in refugee camps before coming to France. His second wife, of 10 years, and the mother of his two youngest children, was also Vietnamese. Through an interpreter, she told the court that because her own mother was ill at the time, she had not wanted sex with her husband. Asked how she felt when she learned of the rape charges against her husband, she said in a soft voice: “I was very sad, in shock. But I think because I refused him all the time, as a man he had to look elsewhere.”

Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, told the court: “You thought that because you refused a sexual relationship, because your mother was very ill and your mind was on other things, you thought you had a role in what happened, and Gisèle Pelicot could not help reacting. For her, it’s not because you refused a sexual relationship that it led to this happening.

“There is never an obligation to have sexual relations with your husband. Do you understand that? … Gisèle Pelicot says you have no responsibility whatsoever in the fact that your husband decided to do what he did.”

The court heard that Dominique Pelicot had suggested he also drug Jean-Luc L’s wife so the two men could rape her. “I told him I’d think about it just to please him,” said Jean-Luc L. “But sex wasn’t really her thing.”

Quentin H, 34, was a prison guard in Avignon who had sold MDMA drugs on the website where Dominique Pelicot sought men. He admitted raping Gisèle Pelicot in her bed in November 2019. He said he realised “something wasn’t right”, and Gisèle Pelicot wasn’t moving. Asked why, as a prison warden, he did not report this to police, he said: “I was ashamed, I wanted to get it out of my head.”

The trial continues until 20 December.

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The Perfect Destination for Fun: TikTocs Indoor Play Area in Sydney

Do you wish to partake in a great many games, games, and pleasure choices so you can keep everybody excited and engaged? Assuming that you said OK, you need to go to TikTocs indoor play area Sydney!

TikTocs is Sydney's biggest indoor jungle gym for young people, situated in Prestons, around a short ways from the CBD. It's a great area to play, have a birthday celebration, or eat up. TikTocs gives something to one and all, whether you need to live it up on a birthday, set up a school journey, have a family outing, or just grant your young people to consume off some power.

What might you at any point do at TikTocs?

TikTocs is a 4-stage play structure with epic slides, a disco dance ground, and a different baby segment. The passages, spans, ball pits, climbing parcels, and obstructions will spellbind your youths. Arcade games, air hockey, b-ball loops, and small golf are accessible. There is a goliath drop slide and a bungee trampoline for daredevils. There is similarly a delicate play region for kids with toys, books, and riddles.

However, that isn't all. TikTocs furthermore gives a ton of party applications to manage any funds or points. You can pick from a few themed rooms, like princess, privateer, hero, wilderness, and others. The bistro moreover serves splendid treats and fluids, alongside warm and bloodless bites, pizzas, burgers, mixed greens, and cakes. Remember to pay special attention to TikTocs explicit occasions and specials for the length of the year, inclusive of Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and school excursions.

Why pick TikTocs?

TikTocs indoor play area Sydney is unquestionably a game. It moreover offers consistent, smooth, and agreeable environmental factors for yourself as well as your kids. TikTocs has a respectful and proficient group that is continuously able to help you and guarantee your pride. They also have durable cleanliness and assurance safety measures nearby, which incorporate intermittently disinfecting devices, checking guests' and group labourers' temperatures, introducing hand sanitiser stations, and authorising social separating lawful rules.

TikTocs is likewise a financial plan well disposed of and a convenient solution for families. The indoor play area Sydney is accessible for $15 on non-weekend days and $18 on weekends and occasions. To save your region, you may also book on the web or via telephone. On the off chance that you really want to procure a deal, you could join the TikTocs Celebrity Club, which gives limits, free confirmation tickets, birthday presents, and different advantages.

How would I get to TikTocs?

TikTocs is situated at 2/9 Endeavor Circuit in Prestons. You can easily arrive by utilising a vehicle or public transportation. Assuming you're driving, you might take the M5 or M7 motorways and exit at Bernera Street. There are a lot of free stops accessible at the spot. In the event that you are taking public transportation, you could get a train to Edmondson Park Station or Liverpool Station and afterward take a transport to Prestons.

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen, 39, was born in Newport. He studied at the National Youth Theatre of Wales, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Rada. He left Rada early to appear opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the West End production of When She Danced. He has twice played Tony Blair: in Stephen Frears' 2003 television film The Deal and in Frears' 2006 movie The Queen. He will appear as David Frost in the film Frost/Nixon, which opens next month; he has also played him on stage in London and New York. Sheen has a daughter, Lily, with his ex-partner, the actor Kate Beckinsale. He is based in Los Angeles.

When were you happiest?

When I'm with my daughter.

What is your earliest memory?

When I first wrote my name.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Some anonymous Red Cross worker in a war-torn area no one will have heard of.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Not living up to what I believe.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Lazy thinking.

What is your most treasured possession?

My books.

Where would you like to live?

London: the greatest city in the world.

What would your super power be?

Shape-shifting.

What makes you depressed?

Not being creative.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Who would play you in the film of your life?

I would.

What is your most unappealing habit?

I am very impatient.

Cat or dog?

Dog. My tragedy is that all I want is a dog and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

What is your favourite smell?

My daughter when she's just come out of the bath.

What is your favourite word?

Discombobulated.

What is your favourite book?

The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

What is your fancy dress costume of choice?

Alex from A Clockwork Orange.

What is the worst job you've done?

Picking up litter from the side of a motorway at 6am, while it was freezing cold and pouring with rain. I was 17.

If you could go back in time, where would you go?

Elizabethan England: I would want to meet Shakespeare.

What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?

I've obviously totally repressed it and one day when I'm standing on the top of Tesco shooting at strangers with a rifle, I will suddenly be shouting it out.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Listening to music that is considered very uncool, such as ELO and Enya.

What do you owe your parents?

Everything, really. My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?

Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Laurence Olivier, Albert Einstein, Buster Keaton and Stephen Fry.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

I think I say 'wow' too much.

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Welsh rugby since the 70s.

When did you last cry, and why?

This sounds incredibly pretentious - last night reading Shadowplay by Clare Asquith, which is about the coded politics and hidden beliefs in Shakespeare's plays. I cried when I read about him finishing The Tempest and having to stop doing the thing he most loved in the world.

How do you relax?

Reading.

How often do you have sex?

As often as I can.

What is the closest you've come to death?

I had a near-death experience when I was 24. It's a very, very long story.

What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

Seeing my daughter more.

What song would you like played at your funeral?

The End by the Doors.

Where would you most like to be right now?

Nowhere other than where I am.

Tell us a secret

After today, I have no clean underwear left.

[buddhajeans]

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A German band from the early 70’s changed the way music sound

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Kraftwerk was created in the German city Düsseldorf; the band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970,  fronted by them until Schneider’s departure in 2008. Their signature is easily recognizable driving; repetitive rhythms with strong melodies, minimalist strictly electronic instruments, almost naïve lyrics simplified and at times sung through a vocoder of computer speech software. The harmonies are classical western; however, these simplified lyrics are conceptual and enormously strong future-oriented.

Description once exotic objects in our consumer culture that today are the most ordinary and important things surrounded with (similarities to pop art). In 1981 came the albums Computer Welt those lyrics singing about home computers, pocket calculators a conceptual work and vision of today’s world of computers. In 1986 came the albumElectric Café and again Kraftwerk lyrics are about the telephone, mobile phones, and a society builds upon electronic communication; still with the catchy melody laying on the top making their songs feel like any Beatles tunes sing along. Earlier work as the Autobahn (1974), Radioaktivität (1975) and Trans-Europe Expresss (1977) state a clear vision of the future, motorways, transportation, superfast trains, energy consumption etc.

No band has influenced pop culture more than Kraftwerk since the Beatles

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk distinctive sound was revolutionary and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music. No other band has influenced pop culture more than Kraftwerk since the Beatles, their massive impact on the sound and music for an artist such as Moby, David Bowie, R.E.M., Daft Punk, Orchestral Maneuver’s in the Dark, Madonna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Missy Elliott and Fergie. It doesn’t stop their Techno music from Detroit would not have happened if it wasn’t the impact Kraftwerk had on ‘Belleville three’ (Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May), who fused the repetitive melodies of Kraftwerk with funk rhythms. Hip Hop roots is no exception for their influence; Trans Europe Express and Numbers mixed in Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force, one of the earliest hip-hop/electro hits. Richard D James (Aphex Twin), Björk, Joy Division and New Order were heavily influenced by Kraftwerk. David Bowie’s “V-2 Schneider,” released as B-side to the “Heroes” single, features on the album “Heroes,” is a tribute to Florian Schneider. Furthermore, disco scene and later electronic music would not have been the same.

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Live at Tribal Gathering 1997

I have luckily seen the band play since the 80’s when I saw them at Rockefeller in Oslo, a 1000 capacity club, later the night. I even shared a few beers with Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider on an after a show in a club near the venue. In 1997, I saw them on the legendary dance festival Tribal Gathering in Luton outside London. The performance should be one of the key concerts in their history; club land was at its highest point commercially and that night all other bands stopped playing simply because every other musician wanted to experience the band. Kraftwerk has always cultivated their own style, whatever trend going on in pop culture they resisted making changes; their total anti-fashion statement should turn to the fashion statement. After a concert, I had seen the members walk out of a venue without even being recognized, with a small sack, jeans and a jacket they looked like the most ordinary people.

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The album The Man-Machine (German: Die Mensch Maschine), was released in 1978, and it is the album that created the fashion look this post is about. The album was recorded at their studio Kling Klang; however, due to the complexity of the recording, the album was mixed at Studio Rudas in Düsseldorf. The cover of the album produced in white, red and black and the design was highly inspired by the Russian artist El Lissitzky, and the moment named Suprematism. The cover shows the band members dressed in red shirts and black ties. Great website on Kraftwerk publications etc.

The Man Machine

The tune from the album Das Model or “The Model should become one of the most selling records in Kraftwerk history, and the song is also a classic tune for the dance floor. Many of Kraftwerk cover art designed by German multi-artist and painter Emil Schult, his unique signature style highlighting his role in pioneering the unique aesthetic that eventually came to represent not just Kraftwerk, but an entire style ethos of the period, copied and admired still today. Schult style can remind of Russian communist propaganda posters; however, on acid as many of his paintings shows a dream of space or even an urge to break out of the strict frame of the design.

On 21 November 2008, Kraftwerk officially confirmed Florian Schneider’s departure from the band; Floridan is one of the original members from the start. Kraftwerk has not only a pioneer electronic music but pushed the limits of music technology with some notable innovations, such as custom-built devices and self-made instruments. The Kling Klang studio has always been perceived as a complex music instrument as well as a sound laboratory; especially Florian Schneider developed a fascination for music technology, sponsored by computer brands as IBM and Sony. Donatella Versace used the theme of Kraftwerk “The Man-Machine” in their menswear line to create a contemporary spin. Alexandre Plokhov head of menswear at Versace, he ushered in a new skinny tailored silhouette. Lean black suits were worn with high-necked red shirts or T-shirts for a look that channeled the German band Kraftwerk.

 Immortalized

Kraftwerk was immortalized when they were performing eight shows at the Museum of Modern Art April 10th through April 17th, 2012 and Tate Modern, the concert sold out so fast the ShowClix servers crashed. I guess almost every single artist was visiting MoMA or Tate Modern for one or more Kraftwerk concerts; from REM’s Michael Stipe, shipping scion Stavros Niarchos and curator Vito Schnabel, consisted mainly of male hipsters, art types and electronic enthusiasts in a series of concerts understood as “a visual and phonic feast. Kraftwerk finally released The Catalogue box set on 16 November 2009, a 12? LP-sized box set containing all eight mastered CDs in cardboard slipcases, as well as LP-sized booklets of photographs and artwork for each individual album.

KRAFTWERK MUSIC NON-STOP

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WHO: Kraftwerk WHERE: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany GENRES: Krautrock, avant-garde, EDM, experimental, synthpop ESTABLISHED: 1970 –present MEMBERS: Ralf Hütter – lead vocals, vocoder, synthesizers, keyboards, organ, drums, and percussion, guitar, bass guitar (1970–1971, 1971–present) Fritz Hilpert – electronic percussion, sound engineering (1987

SONGS ON MAN MACHINE

The Robots, Die Roboter

Spacelab

Metropolis

The Model, Das Modell

Neon Lights, Neonlicht

The Man-Machine, Die Mensch-Maschine

DISCOGRAPHY

Kraftwerk (1970)

Kraftwerk 2 (1972)

Ralf und Florian (1973)

Autobahn (1974)

Radioaktivität (1975)

Trans-Europe Express (1977)

Die Mensch-Maschine (1978)

Computerwelt (1981)

Electric Café (1986)

BANDS AND ARTISTS INFLUENCED BY KRAFTWERK

Moby

David Bowie

Daft Punk

Orchestral Maneuver’s in the Dark

Madonna

Jay-Z

Kanye West

Missy Elliott and Fergie

U2, Neon lights

Laibach’s

Uwe Schmidt Senor Coconut,

Dr. Alex Paterson the Orb

Afrika Bambaataa Planet Rock

Simple Minds, Neon lights

Ladytron

Yazoo

Depeche Mode

Franz Ferdinand

Coldplay, Talk

Official website of Kraftwerk  www.kraftwerk.com

kraftwerk records for sale on recyclesound.com

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The Model Computer love Vinyl 7 Inch

Tribal Gathering CD compilation live

Radio-Aktivität LP vinyl

Man-Machine LP vinyl Fame

Tour de France Vinyl 12 inch

Expo remix 2×12 vinyl

Electric Cafe Vinyl Album

Das Model EP 12 vinyl

Showroom dummies EP 12 vinyl

The Mix 2xLP vinyl (German Version)

Expo2000 EP 12 vinyl

Showroom dummies Single 7 vinyl

Computer love Single 7 vinyl

The Model, Single 7 vinyl

Pocket calculator Single 7 yellow vinyl

Pocket calculator Single 7 vinyl

Die Roboter Single 7 vinyl

Kraftwerk changed music, youth culture and fashion A German band from the early 70’s changed the way music sound Kraftwerk was created in the German city Düsseldorf; the band formed by…

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Welcome to the results of this month’s “Loved Ones” challenge. The idea was to send in photographs of things, objects, ideas, places … we love and fear might one day disappear out of our lives. Or about loss and disappearance themselves. Not only that, but photographs made in such a way that the love would shine through the photographs to the readers viewing them, even those who feel nothing about the subject.

  Incy Wincy

  Once again, this was very difficult. Not only because you were asked to reveal something about yourself, something intimate, but also because it is so hard to convey an emotion to someone else when we are ourselves locked into it and lack the objectivity to think formally.

I love those practical exercises. They are infuriatingly hard but so efficient to push us upwards. Always the educator at heart, right 😉 Kinda strange, coming from someone so bad at being educated himself 😀

Anyway, as always, I am blown away by what some of you have sent in. To me, the ability to convey a variety of emotions while retaining a consistent style is the hallmark of a great photographer and that’s what I’ve been observing in many of your contributions over the months. Some are moving, others are thought provoking. Great work.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to create/find images and sending them in for us to enjoy. Since the photographs on this page are very personal I will refrain from any commentary and simply publish whatever texts authors agreed to link to the images. On with the show.

(as always, I’m stressed out about forgetting someone’s work. Last time it was Kristian and this time, I have the feeling someone sent in just one photo, and can’t find it, and it’s nagging me. Please accept my apologies if your contribution isn’t in here and just drop me a line in the comments so I can correct my mistake …)

  Philippe Berend

  Philippe writes : “Here are my first pictures. They embody or symbolize, or represent nature. The unbelievable, almost painful, unbearable beauty of it. I worry that, one day, most probably through man’s folly, it will be gone like the dodo bird…

    The second theme is Paris. The song says, “Paris sera toujours Paris”. But if Notre-Dame can burn, what is really safe, really there “forever”?

    The third theme is: beautiful fast cars. Could it be that, in order to perserve what is left of our planet, we have to give up these extraordinary objects of beauty, desire, thrill and freedom? Could it be that I have been part of the last generation to have ridden a Ferrari at 265kmh on a motorway?

    The fourth theme, of course, and it ought to be the first, is my mother, who will in just over a week turn 98, God willing. I love her, and, know for a fact that she won’t be there forever. I hope you will forgive me fo not putting up her picture, which I consider private. Nah, the real reason is, the years are not always kind to faces of loved ones. And she, for sure, would not forgive me, for putting up a picture of her in her old age, when she was once so radiantly beautiful… And the Bard said “hell hath no fury like a woman posted on DS against her will….

  Michael Fleischer

  Michael writes: “a photo of a place dear to me – the lake close by where I grew up I Denmark – where I spent my youth fishing, swimming, kissing and more…”

  Jean Pierre Guaron

  Jean Pierre writes “The first was taken with my Pentax, c. 2002 – my second Dobermann, Chloe. I’ve always adored this photo, and in fact it’s my screen saver, in front of me every day. It’s not 100% SOOC, but it hasn’t had much post processing, because in those days I had limited access to post processing software (ONLY PS Elements, in one of its early iterations) and very little knowledge or experience with digital processing. Actually it was scanned onto the computer, from AGFA color negative film and given a bit of a touch up from there. I love the colours, the bokeh, the typical expression on her face – and she was my best friend, except for all the others.

    The second was one of many, taken at a time when my friend Kath’s older Dachshund Bella seemed to me to be nearing the end of her life.  Without wanting to alarm Kath, I started taking photos of Bella on a regular basis, so that when the inevitable happened, at least she would have some decent photos of her little girl, to remember her by and to ease the pain of losing her. 

    My present Dobermann, Cris – taken with the D500 and a zoom AF lens (AF is an overwhelming reason for not going with the larger gear, like the D850 and the Otus’s)”

    Brian Nicol

  Brian Writes: “I have always wanted one of the classic thunderbirds. We lived in California around 2000 for about 5 years. I was driving my wife’s car by myself and say a late fifties red thunderbird convertible approaching in the opposite direction. It was like a scene out of American Graffiti. I did not notice traffic has stopped and I drove into the back of a 70’s Volvo with the giant bumper that wiped out the grill and rad of my wife’s car. I have even more emotion now when I see a pristine thunderbird.”

  Pascal Jappy

  I suppose starting with the most endangered is probably the most in line with the challenge.

So wildlife it is. I love wildlife and the outdoors. My life is largely indoors, these days, but recent hiking photographs by my son reminded me just how much I miss it. Anytime something is wrong, being out with (friendly) wildlife just makes it all go away.

    Art. Probably not at any risk of disappearing. Our societies are crumbling faster than sand castles at high tide at the hands of populist devils. It’s sad and will only get sadder as the years pass.

But the great news is that art thrives in those conditions. Not paintings made for oligarch wives (although the concentration of money in the hands of a few does make that market happy as well). Real Art, made by people freed of their smartphones and tired of Facebook. People willing to think about life’s meaning from up close.

    I love London. It’s a ridiculous city, architecturally, with stuff sticking out of other stuff in every which direction. “A man tired of London is tired of life” wrote Samuel Johnson and that’s certainly true from a photographic perspective. A hundred times or more, I’ve visited, never have I made the same photographs twice.

    Traveling. I love it. Particularly with family. Environmental concerns make it a little harder to enjoy without feeling some guilt these days, but it is probably the last luxury I would like to give up 😉

    Astronomy made it easy for me to cruise through school. Whether we had a lesson about some murderous hero of the past or about the damping of springs or about some really important protein that makes monkeys fart (I wish) or about the dative of comounds, my note books were full of drawings of telescopes, and buildings, and telescopes and planets, and telescopes and stars …

To me today, astronomy symbolises time. The time I’m no longer making to observe and read about the heavens is time stolen from thinking about the deeper meaning of things, stolen by the mundane and unimportant. Life slipping away.

    Oh, and what’s life without a cat? Why not forfeit cookies and milk while we’re being barbaric. I mean …

    Bob Kruger

  Bob writes : “The sarcophagi in Key West, FL are not buried, as the water table is too high. So the burial chambers are stacked like cord wood so they will not float off. A weathered flag keeps watch.

    Jim used to rent a “villa” every winter in the Conch Republic, aka Key West, Fl. I memorialized his veranda during his last visit.

    I took this picture of an abandoned fish house from around the corner where I once lived in Pamlico County, NC, an un-destination if ever there was one.

    How many childrenonce traveled to school on this relic, now forgotten,in Florence, NC.

    Family cemeteries tell their own stories.”

    Paul Perton

  Paul sends this series of portraits without words of this wonderful land he has to leave behind for a while. No words are needed.

    Nancee Rostad

  Nancee sends those 3 gripping images of desolation.

    Lad Sessions

  Lad writes: “The Chessie Trail lies below our property, and I walk it frequently.  It’s a converted rail line (the “Chessie” was short for “Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad”) and winds along the Maury River, a tributary of the James River.  Here are four shots taken at different times and places that express my affection for this “nature trail.”  There are many more…

Hope one of these strikes cords of affection in your heart too.”

They sure do …

    Kristian Wannebo

  Kristian’s series is entitled “Forest, left alone”.

  Shot with DxO ONE

  John Wilson

  John writes: “They are all shooting locations and will need some explanation. The Richmond Night Market was a Street Photographers wet dream. Lots of action in a limited space, great lighting exotic atmosphere and great street food. One of my all time favourite shooting locations. The old parking lot had a fantastic mural along the length of one side and a poster covered wall at the end. The wall behind the poster wall was covered in graffiti and vivid paint. After a rain there would be pools in the parking lot to reflect the mural and there was always lots of reflections in the car windows and metal surfaces. A fabulous place to shoot. The umbrella shop was one of only two stores I’ve ever seen that specialized in umbrellas. Their window was always colourful and being under a bridge the light was always soft and even … perfect for catching the reflections of passing cars and pedestrians. Another much loved location. Sadly they are now all gone … “

    June Challenge: and now for something completely different

  Nope, that is not the name of a contributor. April Flowers, Theresa May, June Challenge, July Andrews … ya know …

No, this is the RFP (fancy!) for your photographs for the new DS challenge for the month of June. Just sounds better the short way. June agrees.

Now, in the past months, we’ve explored serious, almost heavy, topics such as things we love and fear to lose (not the city, Paris and London are enough for one page), Haiku, vital energy … I’d like to do a fun and silly one for a change.

  Carter and June

  Antropomorphism would be the appropriate name for what I have in mind, but it feels a bit too serious for the fun mood of the challenge. How often have you seen objects or shadows or plants or … that look like human faces? Sometimes funny, sometimes spooky, sometime interesting … if you’ve made pictures of those, please send them to me (pascal dot japppy at gmail dot com). In the example above, the box on the left, the guy with the 66 bow-tie eying pretty pink June, actually seems more interesting than the overly obvious one on the right.

So bring it, or bring them. Juno, I can’t wait to see what you found 🙂

  Posted on DearSusan by pascaljappy.

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Present-day Thaesong-ri A few hours’ drive along the Youth Hero Motorway from Pyongyang reaches a rural village nestled at the foot of the hills on the left. This is the seat of Thaesong-ri in Kangso District of Nampho https://t.co/tfBjkDrsGH

Present-day Thaesong-ri A few hours’ drive along the Youth Hero Motorway from Pyongyang reaches a rural village nestled at the foot of the hills on the left. This is the seat of Thaesong-ri in Kangso District of Nampho pic.twitter.com/tfBjkDrsGH

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The Daily Thistle – News From Scotland

Saturday 8th July 2017

"Madainn Mhath” …Fellow Scot, I hope the day brings joy to you…. Saturday.. I am off to the beach when the sun gets up, a chance to lay on the sand and relax, lot’s going on in my life at the moment and a little R&R this morning will go down well.. but first before the rest and relaxation, Bella and I have to make sure the town is all ok, so give me about 30 minutes and I’ll tell you.. sit where you are, coffee is in the pot, cookies on the table, just help yourself…. Well did you miss us, Bella I hear you say but not me, story of my life…. The past few days I have been taking care of a young baby Goldfinch or “jilguero” as they call it here in Spain, Bella pointed it out to me Tuesday laying on the path as we walked up to the Hermitage, needless to say I picked it up and took it back to the house, made some food for it and put it in a cage, feed it every four hours, and sat for the best part of the day with it either in my hand or T-shirt pocket, well yesterday I had the pleasure of letting it go, back out into the wilds, a free bird, but typical of the youth today no call, no email…..

ARCTIC EXPLORER JOHN RAE AWARDED FREEDOM OF ORKNEY…. Councillors in Orkney have voted to confer the Freedom of Orkney on Dr John Rae. The Arctic explorer was born in Orphir, but died more than 120 years ago. One councillor argued the list of posthumous candidates should also include Orkney's patron saint, St Magnus, who was martyred 900 years ago. In the end the Rae proposal was passed, though it is not clear who will accept the honour on his behalf. Born in Orphir in September 1813, Rae studied medicine in Edinburgh before signing on as ship's surgeon on the Prince of Wales bound for Canada. When the ship's return was blocked by ice, he accepted the post of surgeon and clerk at Moose Factory and served there for 10 years, using his spare time to learn hunting, travel and survival skills from the First Nation and Metis people. He was asked by the Hudson Bay Company to finish the mapping of the Arctic coast, making several important discoveries during his subsequent expeditions. He also found evidence of the fate of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, which had intended to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After Rae's death in 1893 his body was taken to Orkney, where it was buried in the grounds of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. The proposal confer the freedom of the islands to him was passed at a meeting of the council in Kirkwall on Tuesday.

YOGHURT ENTREPRENEUR PUTS BLADNOCH WHISKY ON THE MAP….  Scotland's most southerly whisky distillery has resumed production following investment by an Australian entrepreneur. Bladnoch distillery went into administration three years ago before being bought by David Prior. The site, near Wigtown, has received about £25m in investment and will celebrate its 200th anniversary in October.

FUNDING FOR NEW DAVID LIVINGSTONE MUSEUM IN BLANTYRE…. Funding of £6m has been announced for a new museum at David Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre. It is hoped that the investment from the National Lottery and Scottish government can help to attract visitors from around the world. Livingstone was born in a Blantyre mill in 1813 and spent 30 years exploring southern, central and eastern Africa. The museum will celebrate the story of how a poor millworker became a popular British hero of the Victorian era. The Heritage Lottery Fund will invest £4.1m in the project with the Scottish government committing £1.375m and Historic Environment Scotland investing £575,000. International Development Minister Alasdair Allan said: "David Livingstone remains to this day a deeply inspirational and iconic figure to many people here in Scotland, in Africa and across the world. Principles of global humanitarianism and solidarity lay behind much of his work. "The reinvigoration of these historic buildings and surrounding grounds will create new spaces and opportunities for people to learn about the important legacy of one of Scotland's national heroes." David Livingstone's geographic, technical, medical, and social discoveries are still being studied today. The respect he gained from African chiefs opened the door to missionaries, inspired abolitionists of the slave trade, and influenced Western attitudes towards Africa. Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Scotland, Lucy Casot, said: "The life of David Livingstone is both incredible and inspirational yet his pioneering work is recognised more in Africa than it is in Scotland where he was born. "In the Year of History Heritage and Archaeology, it's timely that, thanks to National Lottery players, David Livingstone's birthplace is set to become a valuable education resource and world tourist destination."

POLISH CULTURE FESTIVAL PLANNED FOR INVERNESS…. A new Polish cultural festival is being planned for Inverness. The organisers of the event to be held in September hope it will build closer links between the city's Polish community and other residents. Pol UK, a creative writers group for Poles and Scots, has held similar events over the last three years. Its chairwoman Joanna Napiorkowska hopes the festival will encourage people living in Inverness to find out about Polish literature and music. She told BBC Radio Scotland: "We Poles want to integrate with local people so that means that we need to know their culture. "And it would be marvellous if they could know our culture - our beautiful traditions, customs and art, literature and music."

BRIDGE OF DON MAN JAILED FOR 156MPH CROSS-BORDER CHASE…. A motorist who led police on a cross-border chase at speeds in excess of 156mph has been jailed for nine months. Paul Robertson, 28, of Bridge of Don, pleaded guilty to driving dangerously on the A74(M) in December. A court heard he had been driving out of a service area at Gretna when police tried to pull alongside to speak to him and he sped off southwards. In addition to his jail term his BMW car was confiscated and he was banned from driving for 18 months. Dumfries Sheriff Court heard how Robertson had been leaving the service area in Dumfries and Galloway at night when police noticed his car with a damaged wing and headlight. They tried to speak to him but the driver suddenly accelerated and headed south on the motorway. Fiscal depute Alison Herald said: "The police car gave chase and reached a top speed of 156 mph, but the taillights of the BMW were pulling away in the distance." As the chase headed over the border onto the M6 in England, the Scottish officers notified Cumbria Police traffic cars and also a helicopter unit. The fiscal added: "The 28-mile chase continued south before any trace of the car was lost near Penrith." Robertson was eventually traced the next day at his home near Aberdeen. His solicitor told the court that his client had been heading from Aberdeen to Liverpool and had panicked when approached by the police.

On that note I will say that I hope you have enjoyed the news from Scotland today,

Our look at Scotland today is of a Mother and Child on the Sligachan Old Bridge in Skye…… I bet you had to look twice just to make sure…..

A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Saturday 8th July 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…

All good stuff....But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in

Be safe out there…

Robert McAngus

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Welcome to the results of this month’s “Loved Ones” challenge. The idea was to send in photographs of things, objects, ideas, places … we love and fear might one day disappear out of our lives. Or about loss and disappearance themselves. Not only that, but photographs made in such a way that the love would shine through the photographs to the readers viewing them, even those who feel nothing about the subject.

  Incy Wincy

  Once again, this was very difficult. Not only because you were asked to reveal something about yourself, something intimate, but also because it is so hard to convey an emotion to someone else when we are ourselves locked into it and lack the objectivity to think formally.

I love those practical exercises. They are infuriatingly hard but so efficient to push us upwards. Always the educator at heart, right 😉 Kinda strange, coming from someone so bad at being educated himself 😀

Anyway, as always, I am blown away by what some of you have sent in. To me, the ability to convey a variety of emotions while retaining a consistent style is the hallmark of a great photographer and that’s what I’ve been observing in many of your contributions over the months. Some are moving, others are thought provoking. Great work.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to create/find images and sending them in for us to enjoy. Since the photographs on this page are very personal I will refrain from any commentary and simply publish whatever texts authors agreed to link to the images. On with the show.

(as always, I’m stressed out about forgetting someone’s work. Last time it was Kristian and this time, I have the feeling someone sent in just one photo, and can’t find it, and it’s nagging me. Please accept my apologies if your contribution isn’t in here and just drop me a line in the comments so I can correct my mistake …)

  Philippe Berend

  Philippe writes : “Here are my first pictures. They embody or symbolize, or represent nature. The unbelievable, almost painful, unbearable beauty of it. I worry that, one day, most probably through man’s folly, it will be gone like the dodo bird…

    The second theme is Paris. The song says, “Paris sera toujours Paris”. But if Notre-Dame can burn, what is really safe, really there “forever”?

    The third theme is: beautiful fast cars. Could it be that, in order to perserve what is left of our planet, we have to give up these extraordinary objects of beauty, desire, thrill and freedom? Could it be that I have been part of the last generation to have ridden a Ferrari at 265kmh on a motorway?

    The fourth theme, of course, and it ought to be the first, is my mother, who will in just over a week turn 98, God willing. I love her, and, know for a fact that she won’t be there forever. I hope you will forgive me fo not putting up her picture, which I consider private. Nah, the real reason is, the years are not always kind to faces of loved ones. And she, for sure, would not forgive me, for putting up a picture of her in her old age, when she was once so radiantly beautiful… And the Bard said “hell hath no fury like a woman posted on DS against her will….

  Michael Fleischer

  Michael writes: “a photo of a place dear to me – the lake close by where I grew up I Denmark – where I spent my youth fishing, swimming, kissing and more…”

  Jean Pierre Guaron

  Jean Pierre writes “The first was taken with my Pentax, c. 2002 – my second Dobermann, Chloe. I’ve always adored this photo, and in fact it’s my screen saver, in front of me every day. It’s not 100% SOOC, but it hasn’t had much post processing, because in those days I had limited access to post processing software (ONLY PS Elements, in one of its early iterations) and very little knowledge or experience with digital processing. Actually it was scanned onto the computer, from AGFA color negative film and given a bit of a touch up from there. I love the colours, the bokeh, the typical expression on her face – and she was my best friend, except for all the others.

    The second was one of many, taken at a time when my friend Kath’s older Dachshund Bella seemed to me to be nearing the end of her life.  Without wanting to alarm Kath, I started taking photos of Bella on a regular basis, so that when the inevitable happened, at least she would have some decent photos of her little girl, to remember her by and to ease the pain of losing her. 

    My present Dobermann, Cris – taken with the D500 and a zoom AF lens (AF is an overwhelming reason for not going with the larger gear, like the D850 and the Otus’s)”

    Brian Nicol

  Brian Writes: “I have always wanted one of the classic thunderbirds. We lived in California around 2000 for about 5 years. I was driving my wife’s car by myself and say a late fifties red thunderbird convertible approaching in the opposite direction. It was like a scene out of American Graffiti. I did not notice traffic has stopped and I drove into the back of a 70’s Volvo with the giant bumper that wiped out the grill and rad of my wife’s car. I have even more emotion now when I see a pristine thunderbird.”

  Pascal Jappy

  I suppose starting with the most endangered is probably the most in line with the challenge.

So wildlife it is. I love wildlife and the outdoors. My life is largely indoors, these days, but recent hiking photographs by my son reminded me just how much I miss it. Anytime something is wrong, being out with (friendly) wildlife just makes it all go away.

    Art. Probably not at any risk of disappearing. Our societies are crumbling faster than sand castles at high tide at the hands of populist devils. It’s sad and will only get sadder as the years pass.

But the great news is that art thrives in those conditions. Not paintings made for oligarch wives (although the concentration of money in the hands of a few does make that market happy as well). Real Art, made by people freed of their smartphones and tired of Facebook. People willing to think about life’s meaning from up close.

    I love London. It’s a ridiculous city, architecturally, with stuff sticking out of other stuff in every which direction. “A man tired of London is tired of life” wrote Samuel Johnson and that’s certainly true from a photographic perspective. A hundred times or more, I’ve visited, never have I made the same photographs twice.

    Traveling. I love it. Particularly with family. Environmental concerns make it a little harder to enjoy without feeling some guilt these days, but it is probably the last luxury I would like to give up 😉

    Astronomy made it easy for me to cruise through school. Whether we had a lesson about some murderous hero of the past or about the damping of springs or about some really important protein that makes monkeys fart (I wish) or about the dative of comounds, my note books were full of drawings of telescopes, and buildings, and telescopes and planets, and telescopes and stars …

To me today, astronomy symbolises time. The time I’m no longer making to observe and read about the heavens is time stolen from thinking about the deeper meaning of things, stolen by the mundane and unimportant. Life slipping away.

    Oh, and what’s life without a cat? Why not forfeit cookies and milk while we’re being barbaric. I mean …

    Bob Kruger

  Bob writes : “The sarcophagi in Key West, FL are not buried, as the water table is too high. So the burial chambers are stacked like cord wood so they will not float off. A weathered flag keeps watch.

    Jim used to rent a “villa” every winter in the Conch Republic, aka Key West, Fl. I memorialized his veranda during his last visit.

    I took this picture of an abandoned fish house from around the corner where I once lived in Pamlico County, NC, an un-destination if ever there was one.

    How many childrenonce traveled to school on this relic, now forgotten,in Florence, NC.

    Family cemeteries tell their own stories.”

    Paul Perton

  Paul sends this series of portraits without words of this wonderful land he has to leave behind for a while. No words are needed.

    Nancee Rostad

  Nancee sends those 3 gripping images of desolation.

    Lad Sessions

  Lad writes: “The Chessie Trail lies below our property, and I walk it frequently.  It’s a converted rail line (the “Chessie” was short for “Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad”) and winds along the Maury River, a tributary of the James River.  Here are four shots taken at different times and places that express my affection for this “nature trail.”  There are many more…

Hope one of these strikes cords of affection in your heart too.”

They sure do …

    Kristian Wannebo

  Kristian’s series is entitled “Forest, left alone”.

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  John Wilson

  John writes: “They are all shooting locations and will need some explanation. The Richmond Night Market was a Street Photographers wet dream. Lots of action in a limited space, great lighting exotic atmosphere and great street food. One of my all time favourite shooting locations. The old parking lot had a fantastic mural along the length of one side and a poster covered wall at the end. The wall behind the poster wall was covered in graffiti and vivid paint. After a rain there would be pools in the parking lot to reflect the mural and there was always lots of reflections in the car windows and metal surfaces. A fabulous place to shoot. The umbrella shop was one of only two stores I’ve ever seen that specialized in umbrellas. Their window was always colourful and being under a bridge the light was always soft and even … perfect for catching the reflections of passing cars and pedestrians. Another much loved location. Sadly they are now all gone … “

    June Challenge: and now for something completely different

  Nope, that is not the name of a contributor. April Flowers, Theresa May, June Challenge, July Andrews … ya know …

No, this is the RFP (fancy!) for your photographs for the new DS challenge for the month of June. Just sounds better the short way. June agrees.

Now, in the past months, we’ve explored serious, almost heavy, topics such as things we love and fear to lose (not the city, Paris and London are enough for one page), Haiku, vital energy … I’d like to do a fun and silly one for a change.

  Carter and June

  Antropomorphism would be the appropriate name for what I have in mind, but it feels a bit too serious for the fun mood of the challenge. How often have you seen objects or shadows or plants or … that look like human faces? Sometimes funny, sometimes spooky, sometime interesting … if you’ve made pictures of those, please send them to me (pascal dot japppy at gmail dot com). In the example above, the box on the left, the guy with the 66 bow-tie eying pretty pink June, actually seems more interesting than the overly obvious one on the right.

So bring it, or bring them. Juno, I can’t wait to see what you found 🙂

  Posted on DearSusan by pascaljappy.