weegee the famous

It may be obvious by now, but I love old photos. Never heard of the guy before tonight, but here are some fascinating images from Weegee the “Famous”.

And Unknown Weegee from the International Center of Photography.

uh-oh, pipped at the post

Did I say “It’s Lovely!” was my new favourite blog? It’s my second favourite today. This gorgeous site is my new favourite:

http://www.shorpy.com

(PeeEss, actually, my absolute favourite is my fella’s blog, but it won’t ever fall off the top slot, so perhaps can’t count.)

I luf them

More. Many, many more on the National Geographic site.

beautiful botanicals

Kew opens botanical art gallery. Shame the video isn’t embeddable. In Pictures.

totally tikitastic

Dr. Zarkov Tiki Lounge 18
Originally uploaded by Dr Zarkov.

What a fabulous pad! Have a look at the whole set.

daddy tweet on BirdNote

My photo! Published! With a credit!

I particularly like this as it’s a feature from the US public radio station NPR. Do listen to the MP3 of the clip. My budgie photo is there to illustrate a clip from Sparky the budgerigar, a well-know talking bird from the 50s. You’ll be amazed at its speaking ability. There’s also a little mention of the late Alex the African Grey - one of my favourite birds of all time.

Do also follow the link to the British library articles. This in particular features a good long clip of Alex, which fair made me well up listening to it knowing poor Alex is no more. He is, sadly, an ex-parrot.

One Day in History, part the second…

So, the second third of the day was spent out of the office/house. I went out to Bridges Patisserie for my regular satay and noodles. It proved a pretty fortuitous choice, as the owner, who knew I was a part-time photographer, asked if I ever did food photography. I said, yes, because, yes, I do as it happens. He wants some images of his dishes since people tend not to actually read the menus. I gave him a moo card but had to write my number on the card. I need to order another set with some proper information - sort of a non-Flickr version.

Then I went out to the Sedgwick Museum of Geology to get some work-related inspiration. I came away not particularly inspired, but perhaps it will come to me later.

Back home, I did a bit more arts funding research and a little more reading. I realised, when following a link from the BBC that today is the anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 and remembered that I was in the city the day before so I tracked down a couple of photos.

I was living in LA at the time, but my boyfriend (who I married a couple of years later) and I went to my high school reunion in Santa Clara on the 14th.  This is me and my high school best friend at the reunion.
The next day, we went up to the city for a little recreation and on the Monday, headed back south. We decided to take the scenic route along the coast - route 1, but left it a bit late so a good chunk of driving was while it was getting dark and very foggy. It was pretty nerve-wracking as the road is narrow, twisty and with massive great drops to the rocks below. It got to the point where the trip was taking far too long, so as soon as we could, we headed back inland to take 101(or possibly 5)  the remainder of the way. Needless to say, we made it home fairly late and slept late the next day.

By the evening it was all over the news and we learned that the very road we traveled so tentatively the night before had fallen into the sea.

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