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Tag Archives: photography
More shots of lovely Ukraine
Today I had to kill a post because because it contained a major mathematical error that could not be corrected. Fortunately – or unfortunately – I am able to substitute for it a post featuring more photographs of poor Ukraine, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Agnes Somlo, Alina Kisina, Bored Panda, Hungary, Invasion, Kyiv, Lviv, photography, Ukraine
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It’s truly a beautiful world
Like everyone else, people I know send me stuff online that they get from people they know. Lee Juskalian, who used to work on development in Providence until moving to California a couple of decades ago, occasionally sends me photographs, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photography
Tagged Animals, Earth, Nature, photography, Planets, Plants, Urbanism
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How the coronavirus fools us
Citizens worldwide are wondering how the coronavirus behaves after entry into the human body. How does it get past our immune system? Scientific antiviral studies report that the coronavirus, once inside its host, does not continue to look like a … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Marya Schrier, Microscopic Photography, photography, Sad and Useless, Science, Virus
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The Journal’s ‘R.I. Memories’
Black and white photography bears the stamp of history, a ratification of the long-ago. One might wish that photos from, say, the 1890s were in color. That would convey a different authenticity, a satisfaction that today’s colorization processes generally fail … Continue reading
London perceived, tortured
By torture, we’re not talking pins under fingernails, the Iron Maiden or Philip Glass, but how else to describe what the leadership of London has done to the city of London in the last several decades? If a city is … Continue reading
D’town PVDfest vids galore
We – not the editorial we but the family we, as in me, Victoria and Billy – visited PVDfest in downtown Providence this afternoon – whoa, Nellie! a lot going on! Downtown was jamming. More different types of people than … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Providence, Video
Tagged Downtown, Festivals, photography, ProvidenceRI, PVDfest, Urbanism, Videos
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Surrounded by beauty
Spent Friday morning surrounded by beauty at the auctioneer’s showroom of Kevin Bruneau out Elmwood way, just over the line in Cranston. The exterior of the low, tan cinder-block building belies its contents. A visitor, having mastered the desire to … Continue reading
Posted in Art and design, Photography
Tagged Antiques, Architectural Ornament, art, Auction, Beauty, Cranston RI, photography, Sculpture
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London then and now
This video, “Oldest Footage of London Ever,” from Yestervid, one-ups its own videos of old footage of New York posted here a few days ago by including not only the old footage but also side-by-side old and new footage – … Continue reading
Posted in Old Video
Tagged Cites, London, photography, Video, Vintage Footage, Yestervid
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Oldest footage of New York
This fascinating video, “Oldest footage of New York City ever,” filmed between 1896 and 1905, has been seen on this blog before. I post it again because, first, it is so amazing, and second, it has a new feature my … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Video
Tagged Library of Congress, Marilyn Monroe, New York, New York History, photography, Video, Yestervid
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A Thanksgiving foto feast
Give thanks for Lee Juskalian, my West Coast friend who continues to avidly follow development news in Providence (occasionally letting me in on some of it). He has sent me these marvelous photos. Thanks, also, to the unnamed artists whose … Continue reading
Posted in Art and design, Photography
Tagged Google, Grand and Amazing Sights, photography, Thanksgiving
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