Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Microcosmos
Wow! I've nothing so impressive, but this morning between the art installations on my doorstep I photographed this miniature art installation made by ants, on the doorstep of their home being newly re-excavated for the season through the boulderfield/concrete. They’ve assembled the pieces from a great distance in ant-metres. This as left overnight, all quiet in the ant world early on a cool morning.
If there is reluctance to accept this ant-work as an art-work, perhaps it might be agreed at least it is artish, or could the appropriate adjective be artic? That's it – an Ant-artic installation on their doorstep and mine.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Nice piece of trickery - at first sight I thought that was the reflection of a huge orange container ship in the Rangitoto Channel, epically seen against that Auckland skyscape. But no, a sea kayak through the glass, more solidly grounded than it seems!
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the surrounding spread of dark smuts and charred debris
makes me think it’s more ‘jaywalking vampire,
crossing against the sunlight…’Sheesh, what an imagination! Here I am, solidly grounded in physics, and you're off with the vampires ...
Another solidly grounded basis for levitation, inspired by Jos - perhaps that purported sandal is the original asian paper wasp?
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Chris Waugh,
If anybody’s lost a sandal, you might be able to find it in roughly the middle of the intersection of 广渠路/Guǎngqú Lù and 高碑店路/Gāobēidiàn Lù.
Yep, it's entirely plausible that someone in Auckland or thereabouts lost that sandal, on the basis that it's obvious the ill-disposed Christmas tree recorded by Nora in the Rangitoto Channel is the solution to your conundrum of a few weeks later - "but I couldn't for the life of me figure out where [the christmas tree] had been uprooted from."
Additional evidence - the sandal appears to be levitated, as if not quite beamed in yet ...
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On the riverbank -
little black shags are lined
up for a takeover of the
All Blacks brand,
an outline map of New Zealand
marketing logo in mind. -
On the riverbank -
high density housing, yet an accommodation shortage.
"Huh! Wouldn't want to stay with you roosters anyway." -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
Barbed wire is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
On reflection, I see this is inverted - the barbed wire is in the eye of the beheld. No offence intended to Ian and Nora!
I found this a harrowing image myself in Jan 2005, overlooking Lake Grasmere by the saltworks, fresh from a focus on the prominent memorial in nearby Seddon to 35 local people killed in World War I.
A diary note from the time reminds me there was a TV1 promo or self-advertisement of some sort featuring as spokesperson a somewhat similar fence post, though without the barbed wire. Dimly remembered and can't find any trace of it online now. -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Barbed wire is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
Offencive Allegory
The people are anguished, suffering under this government -
all strength and fertilty to your campaign ideas! -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Islander,
First glance - none of those look like heron tracks - all much smaller birds-
And at second glance?
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On the riverbank -
pukekos, a heron too?
have tracked the falling tide.
