Why Do We Need Color?
part of an extensive mural, Southbank Centre, London.
Tag: Photography
Skateboard Park, London
Spectator Sports – Southbank, London
Courgetts (or Courgettes)
There isn’t much of a language barrier in the UK for an American visitor, but this word baffled me in a few restaurants before stumbling upon this farmers market. Ahh, zucchini.
From Wikipedia:
Zucchini, like all summer squash, has its ancestry in the Americas. However, the varieties of squash typically called “zucchini” were indeed developed in Italy, many generations after their introduction from the “New World”.
In all probability, this occurred in the very late 19th century, probably near Milan; early varieties usually included the names of nearby cities in their names. The alternate name courgette is from the French word for the vegetable, with the same spelling, and is commonly used in France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It is a diminutive of courge, French for squash. “Zucca” is the Italian word for squash and “zucchina” is its diminutive, becoming “zucchine” in the plural. However, “zucchino”, the masculine form, becoming “zucchini” in the plural, is just as commonly used and is prevalent in Tuscany. Italian dictionaries such as “lo Zingarelli 1995, Zanichelli editor”, give both forms. “Zucchini” is used in Italy , and in Australia, Canada and the United States. ‘Zucchini’ is plural in Italian whereas in English it is singular. The first records of zucchini in the United States date to the early 1920s. It was almost certainly brought over by Italian immigrants and probably was first cultivated in the United States in California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini
I didn’t even notice it was misspelled on the sign until Frank1 pointed it out…
Footnotes:- aka The Irish Samurai [↩]
The County Hall, London – TRI-X 400
post processed in Photoshop, of course.
I’m slowly chugging through all of my photos from London, have three more days of images to sort through.
If you are curious as to what I’ve found of interest so far, there is a Flickr set called London which has a slideshow option. Give it a second to load. There are controls for the slideshow if you hover your mouse in the upper right corner. I’ll be adding more as I can, but there are enough uploaded to while away a few minutes dreaming of travel…
Lambeth Palace
Lambeth, South Bank, London
From Wikipedia:
Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is located in Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames a short distance upstream of the Palace of Westminster on the opposite shore.
It was acquired by the archbishopric around 1200. Lambeth Palace Road is to the west, Lambeth Road is to the south and Lambeth Bridge is to the south-west
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeth_Palace
not a particularly inviting place, is it?
Shit Fountain
On North Wolcott, north of Augusta. Of course there is a back story
chicago.timeout.com/articles/out-there/12086/fountain-of-…
sometimes it isn’t even a metaphor
Banksy half-assed
I think Chicago got less interesting work than other places.
www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/05/27/on-the-stencil-trail-fo…
From an interview with First District Alderman Joe Moreno:
Who’s getting tagged in your ward? The tagging is mostly happening to small and independently owned, women-owned, minority-owned businesses: boutiques, restaurants, and clothing shops. Our community is an artists’ community, but we don’t want to have people putting their own paint on small business owners’ shops.
I moved to Wicker Park 14 years ago because of the artists, and I want to preserve that. But in my mind, tagging isn’t permissible.
What if a super-famous street artist like Banksy, who paid us a visit not long ago, created a piece on one of your constituents’ facades without asking? Would you make an exception for Banksy? Permission has to be granted. I would hope he’d work with a pro-art, progressive alderman like myself, and we could have his art displayed. And he could perhaps even get paid for it.
How would that happen? Well, I’ve been taking on this issue in two ways: the illegal removal side, and also in promoting spaces for street artists to show their work off and get paid for it. I’m working with various parties to make their walls accessible to street art. Brooklyn Industries also has an initiative for artists to use their exterior wall for street-art purposes that would be traditionally seen as graffiti.
How many of these specially designated wall initiatives have you worked on since becoming alderman? There’s two right now, and I’m working on two or three others to get permission. But I’d like to expand it. I’m also working with a gallery to do an art installation on the el platform.
(click to continue reading Even Banksy Has to Follow the Rules in Proco Joe’s Ward | The Blog | Chicago Reader.)
Westminster Bridge and Big Ben
Big Ben
Pillars of Hercules
No Prostitutes at this Address
Dean Street, SoHo
maybe they congregate down the way? Actually didn’t see any obvious prostitutes while in London.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lived Here 1764
Composed his first symphony here.
Belgravia, London
http://www.thewordtravels.com/Mozart-London.html
Leopold Mozart moved his family here on 5 August 1764 to recuperate from a chill and sore throat caught at an open-air concert at the Earl of Thanet’s home in Grosvenor Square. A blue plaque commemorates their stay.
In order to occupy himself Mozart composed his first two symphonies, K16 and K19. ‘Nanner’ transcribed the composition sitting at his side, and reminded him ‘to give the horn something worthwhile to do’.
Legal Tender
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil
a few pounds sterling
William Hazlitt Died Here 1830
SoHo somewhere
from his Wikipedia entry:
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell, but his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt
Now a boutique hotel
www.hazlittshotel.com/
“Selected Writings (Oxford World’s Classics)” (William Hazlitt)