Chuffed in London (and Glasgow)

More photographs from my trip to London and Glasgow last month.
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Some Jews on the Queens walk, Southbank, London.
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"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie." -Bob Dylan
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"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three." -Robert Motherwell
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Crying baby. "One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying." -Grete Waitz
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"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot." -Groucho Marx
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"Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless." -Pras Michel
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This was in Glasgow.
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." -Randolph Bourne
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The train stopped in Carlisle, UK, and I snapped this man from my seat.
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Back in London, there were racists in the headlines.
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Londoners.
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"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." -John Wayne
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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." -Lao Tzu
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The Glasgow police rides a pale horse.
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"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." -Goethe
Posted May 14th, 2012 by Come one come all, marvel at the old time craft.
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Once again in London Town

Take me back to dear old Blighty...
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"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income." -George Bernard Shaw
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Dumpling or Gyoza making going down in London's Chinatown.
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Some Split-Screen action. (in between two frames)
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A man looking at a Barkley Hendricks painting in the Tate.
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You can see the Tower Bridge in the background.
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"Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive." -W. C. Fields
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"Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides." -Junichiro Tanizaki
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I say good man...
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"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature." -Albert Einstein
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"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy." -Demetri Martin
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -Oscar Wilde
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"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating." -Andrea Dworkin
Posted May 11th, 2012 by You never know when it will all be over
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Catalina trip no.1 for 2012

Went for Cinco de Mayo and other things...

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Off from Long Beach for adventure. Passing the Queen Mary.
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Seagull lurking hard on our snacks.
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He liked Have'a Chips, the best chips ever.
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I think one lodged in his throat.
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Nobody anywhere, so nice.
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My first ever sighting of the elusive Giant Black Sea Bass. They used to be caught in abundance off Catalina Island, (see this old photo from 1905) but have since been overfished and are critically endangered. This one was 5 feet long, and probably over 200 pounds.
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It was just lurking under the pier all day taking handouts from people.
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The people from Joe's Rent-a-Boat (The best activity by far on the lsland!) were worried that a kid would leave his/her hand in the water and the fish would think it was some food. This beast could easily pull a 4-year-old into the water.
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Giant Sea Bass documentary Part 1 --- Part 2
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This guy was trying to pet it.
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Mike V was there shredding a mini ramp demo and killing it.
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The sea was calm and the moon was bright and full. We saw dolphins, giant sea bass, bald eagles, harbor seals, sea lions, and leopard sharks. A good day for sure.
Posted May 6th, 2012 by Saw lots of critters...
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Glasgow, Scotland - Mega-Post

Here is my last post of Glasgow photos from our trip in mid-April, scanned from the proof sheet for your lo-fi pleasure.
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"The road to success runs uphill." -Willie Davis
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Glasgow was kind to us, and we are looking forward to going back. The people at Mono, and Good Press were very cool.
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"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone." -Emily Bronte
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They hate Billy Marks there.
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A police box by the Cathedral (which closed before we got there.)
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This young man Rory Price stopped me on the street and invited Deanna and me to his studio (a 15 minute walk away) at the Glasgow School of Art. So we went for it.
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"In Royal Exchange Square outside the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art and forming an end to Ingram Street is an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington by Italian artist Carlo Marochetti, erected in 1844. Capping the statue with a traffic cone has become a traditional practice in the city, claimed to represent the humour of the local population and believed to date back to the first half of the 1980s if not before. The statue is a Category-A listed monument and due to minor damage and the potential for injury that the placing of cones involves, the practice has been discouraged by Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police in recent years." -Wikipedia
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Rory again...
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Teen Smoker (Sorry I forgot your name man!) in front of Focus Skateshop.
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"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." -Albert Einstein
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"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man." -Arnold J. Toynbee
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"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on." -James Callaghan
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Some skaters who were shredding the park before the rain ruined the sesh.
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Hogwarts, er, Glasgow University.
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." -George Bernard Shaw
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The Kelvingrove...
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." -Gertrude Stein
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"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose." -David Brainerd
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The news about secondhand smoke has not reached Glasgow.
Posted May 4th, 2012 by Chamy gan han ho, gimmie chan gan ho
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Glasgow Part 3 - Necropolis

They don't call it a cemetery, it's the city of the dead.
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Died 15 December, 1861, the American Civil War was raging. That statue has no head, but holds only a mask.
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"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." -Stewart Alsop
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"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." -Richard Dawkins
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The dark clouds lumbered upon us, shaking out drops of light rain.
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"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives." -Abu Bakr
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz
Amen sister.
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The necropolis reaches out like a strangling vine, waiting ever so slowly to latch on and slowly smother...
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"Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live." -Henry Van Dyke
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"An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders." -Thomas Traherne
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"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."" -Bill Maher
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." -Leonardo da Vinci
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." -Bill Vaughan
Posted May 1st, 2012 by We all will die some day. Make it count.
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Glasgow, Scotland - Part 2

Lots of sheep on the train ride up from London.
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People seemed to like this one, so here's a vertical of it. Again, this is in the Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow's west end.
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Glasgow University was the inspiration for Hogwarts.
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Come as you are.
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"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking." -Black Elk
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"When it blows here, even the seagulls walk." -Nick Faldo
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"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." -Charles Darwin
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents." -Prince Charles
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -Lou Holtz
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"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland." -Sydney Smith
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Glasgow Central Station from my hotel elevator.
Posted April 30th, 2012 by The vegan joints serve vegan
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Glasgow, Scotland

I have Scottish blood on my grandfathers side.
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"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards." -Billy Connolly
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We loved Glasgow! So much art and vegan food. The people were welcoming and kind.
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"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught." -Lord Kelvin
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At the Kelvingrove Museum.
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"But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content." -Anne Boyd
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"I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!" -William Wallace
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"Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland." -Sean Connery
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Glasgow has a big wheel of their own located in George Square.
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The Buchanan Galleries, this is as far in as we went, only 20 feet to the smoothie stand. I bet it's nice. Maybe next time.
Posted April 26th, 2012 by Blood and thriftiness.
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More Barcelona...

Just found a few more photos.
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The famous MACBA big 4 is now a small 3.
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"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." -Richard Dawkins
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"Let's see how my Instagram feed is looking..." -Guy in Pointy Hat
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Deanna at our local Barcelona jam, Juicy Jones.
Posted April 24th, 2012 by Of the digital variety 3 digits deep.
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Barcelona, Espana

Some digi's from the trip to Barcelona. I shot mostly film, and this is Deanna's digi cam, so we didn't shoot much.
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I think Deanna shot this one.
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You break you buy.
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The Guell family liked to place their doo-doo into real fancy receptacles.
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Deanna was enjoying Gaudi's mosaic work.
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"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic." -Antonio Gaudi
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Deanna with La Merce.
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One of many Good Friday processions that come to the Cathedral square.
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The artwork in the background is a Picasso.
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Oh yeah, and these guys in hoods and pointy hats that are called "Capirote" and resemble Ku Kux Klan outfits to Americans.
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There were some in bare feet and with chains around their ankles holding candles. That is a long and cold march in bare feet.
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One of the procession floats.
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The music was quite nice, horns and drums. I should find a CD of that stuff.
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An early sneak peek of my attempts at shooting skate photos. That's Javier Sarmiento doing some moves for me. (shot a bit late Deanna!)
Posted April 19th, 2012 by Hey dont buy into that 4:20 crap.
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