14 Sep 2020
The Old America
Americana, Cap Guns, Photography, Shorpy's
July 1941. “Store with cap guns and fireworks for sale, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon.”
Cap guns were still legal when I was a boy.
From Shorpy’s.
Category Archive 'Photography'
02 Sep 2020
Mystery
Instagram, Italy, Photography, Romeo Battini, Sculpture
Romeo Battini takes photographs in ruins and abandoned locations and publishes them on Instagram. He found this statue hanging in the cellar of an abandoned castle in Italy.
Via Messy Nessy.
20 Jul 2020
Frescoes!
Architecture, Frescoes, Italy, Photography
I do hate it when a great image appears on Tumblr without any identification whatsoever. Especially when I like the rooms so much that I’m wondering if the place is possibly for sale…
24 Jun 2020
Amazing!
Horse Racing, Photography
This runner fell at the wire, his jockey never touched the ground, the horse slid across the finish line, his jock surfed him across the wire for the win. Incredible!!
09 Jun 2020
Last Image
Bank Robbery, Photography
A bank robber aiming at a security camera. Cleveland, March 8, 1975.
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
12 May 2020
Cantilevered
Architecture, Photography, Third World
An unidentified Tumblr image that showed up on Facebook today of a rather alarming structure presumably built in defiance of any local building codes somewhere in South America or India. Despite all that, I think it does possess a certain charisma. It looks old and reminds the viewer of some of the overhanging Medieval buildings that survive in a few ancient towns in Europe. the air conditioner sticking out provides just the perfect touch of insouciance.
12 May 2020
“Tuff Muggs Take Notice”
Americana, Bridgeport, Photography, Thompson Submachine Gun
HT: Vanderleun.
28 Apr 2020
England
Anglophilia, Photography
The old Victorian pavilion at Fenner’s in Cambridge during a match between Cambridge University and Yorkshire, 6th May 1970, by Patrick Eagar.
27 Apr 2020
Last Photo of Richtofen
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, Photography, WWI
This last photo of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as Baron von Richthofen, and most famously as the “Red Baron,” shows him playing with his beloved Great Dane, Moritz, just moments before he embarked on his last flight.
Arthur Roy Brown, the man who shot him down, wrote:
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“… the sight of Richthofen as I walked closer gave me a start. He appeared so small to me, so delicate. He looked so friendly. Blond, silk-soft hair, like that of a child, fell from the broad, high forehead. His face, particularly peaceful, had an expression of gentleness and goodness, of refinement. Suddenly I felt miserable, desperately unhappy, as if I had committed an injustice. With a feeling of shame, a kind of anger against myself moved in my thoughts, that I had forced him to lay there. And in my heart I cursed the force that is devoted to death. I gnashed my teeth, I cursed the war. If I could I would gladly have brought him back to life, but that is somewhat different than shooting a gun. I could no longer look him in the face. I went away. I did not feel like a victor. There was a lump in my throat. If he had been my dearest friend, I could not have felt greater sorrow.â€
Freiherr Manfred Albrecht von Richthofen was given a full military burial by No. 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, which included a memorial wreath inscribed with the words,“To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe.â€
(via sternvonafrika)
13 Apr 2020
“35 Most Beautiful Cars Ever Made”
Automobiles, Photography
Certainly not the most beautiful, but a Corvette I’d never seen. They only made 3600 of them that year. Very nice for a Corvette.
I hate clickbait format sites like this one. But I will admit this one is almost worth all the trouble and delays of wading through page after page, accidentally hitting an ad link ever now and then.
Obviously not all the most beautiful cars ever made. (How in hell did that Citroen get in there?) Far too short of pre-WWII cars, needs a lot more British cars and more of the very old Alfas. You could make Bugattis half the list. But, still, worth a look.
11 Apr 2020
It’ll Never Work
Black Humor, Mitch McConnell, Photography
A picture recently taken of brave wizard warriors attempting to bind this demon to an astral entrapment on the floor.
HT: Mike Moroski via Karen L. Myers.
