Wooden Boy: Seascape


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Cardinal marker, Paignton: photo by Derek Harper, 31 October 2008


.......Torbay:
........a bowl of syrup light

....................From Paignton you can
........watch the warship turn                      
...............................from cartoon vast
.................to smaller seeming
......................a heart contracted
 
.......shade gathered to mass

...evidently marked as

......How lovely is the state
......wherein we're 
......shadowed here

The sea goes from gold
..............to grey to gold again

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 ..............And always further out
..................(with limitless spread of merewif hair)  .........

 ........forever writhes ecstatically              




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Fishblood: Gustav Klimt, 1898, india ink and pen on on brown paper 40 x 43 cm (Galerie St. Etienne, New York)

Sejal Sharma Photo Shoot

 
 
 
 

Deepika Padukone White Photo at PAG Awards 2012

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tamanna Bhatia Milky Naval Show

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Abel Evans: On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect)


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Sir John Vanbrugh's south facade of Castle Howard, commissioned in 1699; residence of the Howard family, formerly the Earls of Carlisle, and filming location for the "Brideshead Revisted" miniseries (Yorkshire, England): photo by diverstonefly 29 August 2006



Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's House of Clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! For he
Laid many Heavy Loads on thee!




Abel Evans (1679-1737): On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph (1726)


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South (garden) face of Castle Howard, Yorkshire: photo by Pwojdacz, 21 March 2006

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Castle Howard, west wing: photo by Paul Allison, 15 March 2005

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Castle Howard, south front: photo by Richard Croft, 5 June 1991

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Castle Howard from over the Great Lake: photo by John Nicholson, 30 July 2007

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 Castle Howard Mausoleum, with potato field in foreground: photo by Colin Grice, 28 May 2006

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Sir John Vanbrugh's Temple of the Four Winds in the grounds of Castle Howard, near York
: photo by Peter Astbury, 16 August 2010

 

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Seaton Delaval Hall, seen from north: photo by Alan J. White, 17 April 2006


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Architect Sir John Vanbrugh's Seaton Delaval Hall, begun 1718, completed 1728; central block seen from north: photo by Alan J. White, 16 April 2006

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Vanbrugh's monumental East Gate at Blenheim Palace panorama
: photo by Magnus Manske, 3 November 2005


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Vanbrugh's monumental East Gate at Blenheim Palace is more the entrance to a citadel than to a palace. Vanbrugh cunningly slightly tapered the sides to create an illusion of even greater height and drama
: photo by Magnus Manske, 21 October 2005


Sir John Vanbrugh's West facade of Blenheim Palace ("Vanbrugh's castle air"), commissioned in 1704, showing the unique severe towering stone belvederes  ornamenting the skyline: photo by Eljay, 25 October 2010



Blenheim Palace: photo by gail548, 13 August 2004

Philip Larkin: Ape Experiment Room


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Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus, from Cebus apella group), sharing: photo by Frans de Waal, from K. Powell, Economy of the Mind, 2003; image by Ayacop, 2006



Buried among white rooms
Whose lights in clusters beam
Like suddenly-caused pain,
And where behind rows of mesh
Uneasy shifting resumes
As sterilizers steam
And the routine begins again
Of putting questions to flesh


That no one would think to ask
But a Ph.D. with a beard
And nympho wife who --
.................................But
There, I was saying, are found
The bushy, T-shaped mask,
And below, the smaller, eared
Head like a grave nut,
And the arms folded round.


Philip Larkin (1922-1985): Ape Experiment Room, 1985, in Collected Poems, 1983




 Two Chained Monkeys: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, oil on oak panel, 20 x 23 cm (Staatliche Museum, Berlin)

Tracks


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CTA cross junction, northwest corner of The Loop, Chicago; control tower 18 guides north and southbound Purple and Brown lines intersecting with east and westbound Pink and Green lines and looping Orange line above the Wells/Lake Street intersection: photo by Daniel Schwen, 2007




In labyrinthine catacombs sunk far beneath
great glass and concrete blocks
where a sacred grove once towered
white smocked post docs in masks
plant electrodes in the stripped and peeled
back skulls of mice and rats and monkeys
the actor kept distant from the act
an implicit pact of society
................................ with science
as though every creature left alive now
and supported on two feet
were not itself a test subject 
in the final animal experiment
shrouded in silence without echo
which proceeds as if without a driver
The train does not make
up its mind where it wants to go
it just follows the tracks 




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Northward view from the Adams/Wabash station at night: photo by Daniel Schwen, 2009


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Northwest corner of the Chicago Loop elevated tracks: photo by Daniel Schwen, November 2007

Gavin Lambert: The Slide Area


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Signs of civilization loom over the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California, on the northern edge of Los Angeles. These mountains contain the last semi-wilderness in Los Angeles County but are under threat of  development. Some 84 percent of the state's residents live within 30 miles of the coast, and this concentration has resulted in increased land use pressure. Shoreline development has been restricted since the passage of the Coastal Zone Conservation Act in November 1972
: photo by Charles O'Rear for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)



It is only a few miles’ drive to the ocean, but before reaching it I shall be nowhere. Hard to describe the impression of unreality, because it is intangible; almost supernatural; something in the air. (The air . . . Last night on the weather telecast the commentator, mentioning electrical storms near Palm Springs and heavy smog in Los Angeles, described the behavior of the air as ‘neurotic’. Of course. Like everything else the air must be imported and displaced, like the water driven along huge aqueducts from distant reservoirs, like the palm trees tilting above the mortuary signs and laundromats along Sunset Boulevard.) Nothing belongs. Nothing belongs except the desert and the gruff eroded-looking mountains to the north. Because the earth is desert, its surface always has that terrible dusty brilliance. Sometimes it looks like the Riviera with a film of neglect over villas and gardens, a veil of fine invisible sand drawn across tropical colours. It is hard to be reminded of any single thing for long. These houses are real because they exist and people use them for eating and sleeping and making love, but they have no style of their own and look as if they've been imported from half a dozen different countries. They are imitation 'French Provincial' or 'new' Regency or Tudor or Spanish hacienda or Cape Cod, and except for a few crazy mansions seem to have sprung up overnight. The first settlers will be arriving tomorrow from parts unknown.

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How to grasp something unfinished yet always remodeling itself, changing without a basis for change? So much visible impatience to be born, to grow, such wild tracts of space to be filled: difficult to settle in a comfortable unfinished desert. Because of the long confusing distances, the streets are empty of walking people, full of moving cars. Between where you are and where you are going to be is a no-man's-land. At night the neon signs glitter and the shop windows are lighted stages, but hardly anyone stops to look. A few people huddle at coffee stalls and hamburger bars. Those dark flat areas are parking lots, crammed solid.

I suppose that Europeans, accustomed to a world that changes more calmly and more slowly, are not much interested any more in imitating its surface. It becomes more exciting to see appearances as a mask, a disguise or illusion that conceals an unexpected meaning. The theme of illusion and reality is very common in Europe. In America, illusion and reality are still often the same thing. The dream is the achievement, the achievement is the dream.

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The ocean appears suddenly. You turn another hairpin bend and the land falls away and there is a long high view down Santa Monica Canyon to the pale Pacific waters. A clear day is not often. Sky and air are hazed now, diffusing the sun and dredging the ocean of its rightful blue. The Pacific is a sad blue-grey, and nearly always looks cold.

Each time I drive down here it feels like the end of the world. The geographical end. Shabby and uncared for, buildings lie around like nomads' tents in the desert. There is nowhere further to go, those pale waters stretch away to the blurred horizon and stretch away beyond it. There is no more land ever.


High lurching cliffs confront the ocean, and are just beginning to fall apart. Signs have been posted along the highway, DRIVE CAREFULLY and SLIDE AREA. Lumps of earth and stone fall down. The land is restless here, restless and sliding. Driving inland towards the mountains, it is the same: BEWARE OF ROCKS. The land is falling. Rocks fall down all over and the cliffs called Pacific Palisades are crumbling slowly down to the ocean. Who called them Palisades, I wonder? They cannot keep out the Pacific. There are mad eccentric houses above the Palisades, with turrets and castellations and tall Gothic windows, but no one wants to live in them any more in case the ground slides away.

 

Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): from The Slide Area: Scenes of Hollywood Life, 1959




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Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park on Mulholland Drive near Malibu, California, on the northwestern edge of Los Angeles County, is one of the few developments in
the Santa Monica Mountains: photo by Charles O'Rear for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)

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Looking down from the Santa Monica Mountains towards Highway #1 near Malibu, California, on the northern edge of Los Angeles
: photo by Charles O'Rear for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)

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Houses near the Pacific Ocean north of Malibu, California, on the northwestern edge of Los Angeles County. The Santa Monica Mountains are seen in the background: photo by Charles O'Rear for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)

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Looking down from the Santa Monica Mountains towards Highway #1 in the distance near Malibu, California, on the northern edge of Los Angeles
: photo by Charles O'Rear for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)


The cliffs of Malibu -- watch out for landslides: photo by Kat Howard, 21 February 2006



Malibu hills landslide (aerial view): photo by Doc Searls, 5 August 2005



Malibu hills landslide (aerial view): photo by Doc Searls, 5 August 2005


Roadway damaged by landslide, Malibu: photo by Ben Foster, 11 August 2005


Rock Slide Area, Mahou Riviera, Malibu: photo by Ben Foster, 11 June 2011



Cliffs at Pacific Palisades, close to Malibu: photo by Buck Winthrop, 7 September 2011



Cliffs and homes at Pacific Palisades: photo by Alan Fogelquist, 5 January 2010



Pacific Palisades, California: photo by Johnny Ciotti, 27 March 2012



Pacific Palisades, California: photo by Johnny Ciotti, 6 February 2012

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West LA and beyond (aerial view just after takeoff from LAX): photo by Richard Wanderman, 30 October 2006



Circus sideshow billboards, Santa Monica, California: photo by Walker Evans, August-September 1967 (Walker Evans Archive/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)



Slide Area, Los Angeles: photo by katie/king, 14 August 2008