Mastodawn

51Modelbloke 🙃Feb 11, 2023

51Modelbloke 🙃Feb 5, 2023

Sontag writes that photographs are “not so much an instrument of memory as an invention of it or a replacement”. I like this quote.

Interesting article in The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/tourists-in-our-own-reality-susan-sontags-photography-at-50-197615

Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50

Susan Sontag’s sense of the danger of a photographic relationship to reality is not only relevant today, but positively prescient.

The Conversation

51Modelbloke 🙃Jan 27, 2023

Friday #Tuncurry #wallislake

51Modelbloke 🙃Jan 23, 2023

Doohickie

Nov 30, 2022

The people in the neighborhood wanted a bridge over the creek. The city had no funding for #PedestrianInfrastructure for something like that. But they did get an #art grant, so they hired an artist to create an art installation that would span the creek that people could walk on. I frequently walk my dogs along this creek and yes, over the bridge sometimes.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/08/06/drift-pedestrian-bridge-fort-worth-texas-volkan-alkanoglu/

Volkan Alkanoglu designs cedar bridge to resemble a driftwood branch

A sculptural timber bridge across a creek in Fort Worth, Texas, was created by Portland designer Volkan Alkanoglu to be installed in just a few hours.

Dezeen

51Modelbloke 🙃Jan 22, 2023

Watching Tsitsipas v Sinner match. What’s with this sideline coaching. What are they, school children learning to play? Supposed to be the final test of the elite #australianopen #AO2023

51Modelbloke 🙃Jan 22, 2023

Amazing photo from The Sunday Times