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Showing posts with label London 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London 2014. Show all posts
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Museum Mondays
Doll, baby dressed in a white nightgown
Text reads: "Wax-headed baby doll, about 1900.
Patrick Enrico Pierotti died as a baby. His father,
the English doll-maker Charles Ernest Pierotti,
made the doll as a portrait of him.
Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
London, May, 2014
Friday, January 14, 2022
Monday, January 10, 2022
Friday, February 19, 2021
Friday Photo
Interior of Aldgate East Tube Station, London
May, 2014
There's more of a story behind this photo than you might think. The photo turned up, mysteriously, at the end of a black and white roll of film that I just had developed in January, along with four other rolls of film going back to the 1990s. (That's what happens when you really clean up: you find rolls of undeveloped film.) Most of the rest of the roll of film is forest shots that I think I must have taken in 2007 on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula.
I remember taking this photo, because it was taken from an odd spot: I was standing on St. Botolph St. outside the station, looking in, from the end of the station opposite the fare hall and I remember approaching the location and looking into it. What's really strange is that I have absolutely no memory of having taken a film camera to London with me on the 2014 trip. I had just bought a very nice dSLR, with which I took hundreds of photos on that trip. I must have thrown my little Olympus point and shoot camera into the camera bag, because I definitely didn't take my Ricoh film SLR.
Here's a photo of the exterior of the station, taken right before or after the above shot:
Sunday, February 07, 2021
Who Knows Why?
Merlina
Tower of London
May, 2014
Photo by Lisa Hirsch
To clear up the issue I was getting at in my earlier post: I remain puzzled as to why the Gentle Author, who writes the Spitalfields Life blog, hasn't corrected a gross error on his blog.
There's a post at Spitalfields Life that went up on January 21 called "Merlin is Missing!". It's about one of the Tower of London ravens, who went missing some time in December and is presumed dead.
The problem in the GA's posting is that the bird's name is Merlina. Every other report I've seen, such as this one from the NY Times, got her name right. Her name is in the Tower of London's official Twitter feed. It's in Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife's charming book.
It's bad to get the name of your subject wrong. It's compounded when you fail to correct the error and ignore multiple prompts with the correct information: I made two blog comments, sent a couple of tweets, and sent an email to the Gentle Author, and the post hasn't been corrected. At least one other person on Twitter said the same.
And still, no correction. It would be easy to do, but somehow, not important enough. Or something.
Friday, November 27, 2020
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Friday Photo
Old-style Routemaster bus
Taken in the general vicinity of St. Paul's Cathedral
London, May, 2014
New-style Routemaster bus
30 Cannon St., London
May, 2014
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