Posts by ChrisW
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Bart Janssen,
sceptic tank overflows
Sometimes I find my sceptic tank overflows and I ask "You sure of that?" or even call "Bullshit!" :-)
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
evilly beautiful
No fear, acidity of the plums and opened jar means aerobic surface conditions for growth of airborne fungal spores - no risk of anaerobic bacteria in non-acid conditions producing bottlingulism (great word! - hint of lingua franca in botulism there).
So non-evil beauty enjoyed, before surface layers spooned off and remaining stewed plums enjoyed too. -
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
Another macro digression: [ ... ]cat fur. As you can see some brushing up needed!
I'll match yours with another non-macho digression: what the opened jar of stewed plums did in the fridge while I was away. Prettier colour scheme than your cat, and more easily fixed too no doubt.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
This whole brick wall is a rarity downtown (and there's a bit of light play), so it's worth a post.
What a marvel - a seriously earthquake-resistant brick wall!
I marvelled at this brickwork tower - All Saints church on the corner of The Square in Palmerston Nth. Are those slender tree branches reaching out to help hold it up?But no, the wider shot shows they are instead providing a skeletal framework for the clouds.
And a little research reveals the church's structural strength is assessed at only 3% of the earthquake code requirements, and was closed to the public earlier this year pending a decision on its future. Here's hoping ... -
Nearby on the Whanganui riverfront - 'Bearing' by David McCracken. Reflecting allsorts including the river, while the dark fissure around the work is a schematic representation of the Whanganui River, headwaters in the front, around the back to enter the sea at far right.
Notably not kept as clean/shiny/polished as those in similar material in Beijing that Chris Waugh was showing us a few pages back. But still, photographer took the trouble to self-efface himself within the river fissure. Then thinks - would be interesting for a tangata-whenua viewer, cf. 'I am the river and the river is me'. -
That multi-panelled reflection of the Auckland Art Gallery from within it seems a nice inversion of this multi-panelled painting of the Sargeant Gallery in Whanganui (with Veterans’ Steps and Memorial Hall to the fore and Ruapehu beyond). Known as ‘The Big Paint’, a one-day work of 100 artists and would-bes painting one panel each, later erected to enhance a brick wall by the Whanganui river-front for “two or three months” in March 2012. I’m glad it was still there in July 2013.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Limited Time takes on an extra meaning, snapped during the premature spring....
You've done well those many reflective winter images from the Auckland art gallery and environs this winter, Nora!
Check out the AAG Spring
in this foretaste of October with these from shortly after the gallery reopening, 2011 -Having a break in the café from the gallery's artworks, their power (and this thread retrospectively) encourages me to see things in a different way.
A framed multi-panelled work, softened by a Spring shower.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
going sideways too Chris!
North and south, east and west -
though home is best. -
I've been on the road lately, heading this way and that.
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More conventional aseismic wave patterns photographed with more care obliquely upstream on the Taruheru River yesterday afternoon -
Mid-afternoon with hints of blue sky between the clouds.And two just after sunset, within a minute or two of same time as today's earthquake arrival, but some high cloud to enliven the colours. This one looks rather like Wellington harbour? but not a good model of tsunami wave patterns.
And willow pattern, not reflecting plate movements of the Pacific.
