It might be done with a light sensor triggering the shutter tor a timed exposure, but actually getting it when the tree is hit would be a real stroke of luck.
The work of photographer Ben Zank, who arranges and shoots surrealistic images that only exist in the photos, rather than being shown or collected as sculptures.
“Cleo, the ‘talking’ basset hound on Jackie’Cooper’s NBC-TV program, ‘The People’s Choice,’ is primped for her ‘pawtograph party’ at the Los Angeles Kennel Club… by actresses Elaine Edwards, Lori Mitchell and Elaine Riley.
About 17 in 1947 means born about 1930… 25-ish around 1955…
Maybe by then married with a baby?
So if you’re American (just cos I don’t know if it was the same elsewhere), and something close to 70 years old, a bit younger if your Dad was older than 25 when you were born… this could be what he was getting up to in high school.
LOL
Then again… my parents were born before WWI… my mother in her 30s when I was born. My Dad fought in WWII….both had been working during high school in the 1930s.
So these breezy “teenaged” years certainly weren’t a reality for everybody.
In 1947 the UK the school leaving age would have been 15, and the minimum age to learn to drive would have been 17. Only much, much later (1972) when it was possible to stay on at school until 18 to do A-Levels before (Possibly) heading off to University would it have been possible for school goers to drive.
One of the many day-to-day differences between the US & UK.
I’ve been told that in the UK, you can drink when you’re 16, but you can’t drive until you’re 18. Maybe it helps to get the drunken foolishness out of your system before you start driving.
You can drink at home at any age, but you can’t learn to drive until you’re 17, and you can’t drink in a pub until you’re 18. You can enter a pub at 16, but can’t drink alcohol. Age of consent is 16, so things balance out….
And we still have drunk drivers over here, but generally it’s a 12 month ban if you fail an intoxication breath/blood test, or refuse to submit to one (Refusing to submit to a test is an offence in itself, and is usually regarded as a fail by the courts). A roadside test is given first via a portable breath intoximeter (No walking a line stuff over here) then the person would be taken to a police station for the official breath intoximeter test, and/or a blood test.
I’ve been breath tested twice, both following accidents as it’s routine over here to breath test all the drivers involved whether at fault or not. I wasn’t at fault either time, and I passed both tests as I hadn’t been drinking either.
Most laws about drinking used to be left to the states… In most states you had to be 21 to buy alcohol, some permitted beer and wine at 18, some set a percentage, like only 3.2% alcohol beer ok at 18.
But in the 1980s, a federal law was passed, and since then, you’ve had to be 21 to buy alcohol anywhere in the US, and in most states, to drink it anywhere.
A few states make an exception, where you can drink, usually just beer or wine, but not purchase it, and only with a parent or guardian, at 18, in a private home,… and in even fewer states, in a restaurant as well, but not a bar.
California is very strict… give someone under 21 a beer, even your own kid in your own home, and you can go to jail.
But you can drive at 15½, ÍF you passed a test and obtained a learners permit, and IF a licensed driver is in the car… And drive on your own at 16.
You can vote, marry, join the military, fight in combat and sign legal documents at 18… but not drink.
All I could find was that most sites said she was a Mississippi “delta blues” player, around 1890, name unknown.
A few sites said Appalachian, but I think Mississippi is more likely.
1890 would be very early for either, at least for calling it blues.
To me, her clothes look more early 20th century than late 19th, because she’s not wearing an 1890s silhouette, no corset or petticoats, but she might be too poor and/or rural to have anything but simple handmade dresses.
I play guitar and can attest that you could not play with rags like that on your fingers. I think she may be just holding a hanky in her hand and grabbed the guitar to pose. Another thing is that she could not play the guitar standing like that without using a strap to hold the guitar up.
And yeah… I feel like she was posing for the picture, rather than playing the guitar.
Somebody making a portrait, not catching her in action… which would be impossible anyway, if it’s really 1890, with glass negatives, and subjects having to hold still for quite long exposures…. though not as long as 10 years earlier.
Ahh… Brings back memories!
We called the envelopes “Thousand Milers”, when we asked the office clerk for this type of envelope. OCS was our formal internal mail designation description = a letter sent via On Company Service (CPR Railway)
Per coal, yeah, but he’d need to have an account with the coal company and make a bigger order, instead of paying those kids to steal the neighbors strays.
I found this picture on one of the picture-dump sites I visit daily and was intrigued by how a good portion of it appears to be below street level. Can anybody [cough]susansunshine[/cough] with excellent picture search skills shed any light on this building ?
There were tons of results… It’s posted all over the place.
Unfortunately, most of the sites aren’t authoritative, being Facebook and Instagram pages, yet I’d estimate that 75 or 80% of them state unequivocally that this is the Porta Nigra, a Roman structure located in Trier, Germany.
A quote from one:
“As Trier expanded, the city’s ground level gradually rose, eventually covering parts of the gate. What remains visible today is only the upper portion of the Porta Nigra, while the lower floors were once hidden beneath layers of soil and sediment. Archaeological excavations have uncovered the full extent of the gate’s construction, revealing the hidden floors that had been buried for centuries.”
Only problem is that loads of comments say “no, it’s not the Porta Nigra” and that the actual Porta Nigra has never been buried. Some of those people say they live in Trier.
So I looked it up … I’ve attached a picture of the actual Porta Nigra below.
So what is it really? As of now, I don’t know!
At least 3 or 4 sites declare that it’s a building in Edinburgh, Scotland; a somewhat equal number say that it’s in Paris, discovered during the late 19th century excavation for the Metro. The ones I looked at all had comments refuting either claim.
Several sites, including a boring video I couldn’t get through, call it a mystery… A couple of Facebook pages claim that not only is its origin unknown….cue the spooky music (doo doo doo doo)…. Nobody knows where the picture was taken!! That one cracks me up.
Yeah, somebody took a picture, but he didn’t know in what country he was standing.
Anyway… I’ve gotta make dinner, but if I can, I’ll look again later. Can’t guarantee results, though!
I knew you would come through ,that’s why I coughed for you 😉
The building certainly resembles the one you posted save for the bottom partly hidden by shrubbery.There are also no mountains in the background .
I would venture to say the Paris comment is more compelling because of the timeline and the need to excavate.
Thank you .
I haven’t given up, cos now I’m curious.
I just got distracted by something else.
It’s weird that nobody seems to know!
The tower you posted is way taller than the Porta Nigra, which I posted…8 floors vs 5.
It also seems to be a single tower, with no room in that excavation for the rest of that big building.
But the main thing is, the Porta Nigra has been well known in its current location for several centuries, is at ground level, and has never needed to be excavated or uncovered.
It was certainly not dug out in the 19th century, when a photograph could be taken.
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What breed of dog is he?
If he’s a canine, he’s been eating too much of that Blue Buffalo dog food.
He must work out. He looks pretty buff.
Any tourists around?
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Now that’s White Lightnin’!
Yeowch! Hard to believe anybody could time up a shutter release that precisely, though.
It might be done with a light sensor triggering the shutter tor a timed exposure, but actually getting it when the tree is hit would be a real stroke of luck.
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Ugh. No.
In five days it will be 25 years since I kicked the habit!!
👍
Kind of an odd choice of material for a “sculpture.”
The work of photographer Ben Zank, who arranges and shoots surrealistic images that only exist in the photos, rather than being shown or collected as sculptures.
Just about the only good use for them.
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According to Getty Images (clipped):
“Cleo, the ‘talking’ basset hound on Jackie’Cooper’s NBC-TV program, ‘The People’s Choice,’ is primped for her ‘pawtograph party’ at the Los Angeles Kennel Club… by actresses Elaine Edwards, Lori Mitchell and Elaine Riley.
Photo by Los Angeles Examiner”
“Cleo” eh? Coincidence?
nope!
That’s what I thought, but I didn’t say it cos I wasn’t sure.
I do remember loving that Cleo as a child.
..
https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_4739
That’s my ring tone.
Beep beep!
This one is the first in line…
Thank you! 😀
thanks, Susan
About 17 in 1947 means born about 1930… 25-ish around 1955…
Maybe by then married with a baby?
So if you’re American (just cos I don’t know if it was the same elsewhere), and something close to 70 years old, a bit younger if your Dad was older than 25 when you were born… this could be what he was getting up to in high school.
LOL
Then again… my parents were born before WWI… my mother in her 30s when I was born. My Dad fought in WWII….both had been working during high school in the 1930s.
So these breezy “teenaged” years certainly weren’t a reality for everybody.
In 1947 the UK the school leaving age would have been 15, and the minimum age to learn to drive would have been 17. Only much, much later (1972) when it was possible to stay on at school until 18 to do A-Levels before (Possibly) heading off to University would it have been possible for school goers to drive.
One of the many day-to-day differences between the US & UK.
I’ve been told that in the UK, you can drink when you’re 16, but you can’t drive until you’re 18. Maybe it helps to get the drunken foolishness out of your system before you start driving.
You can drink at home at any age, but you can’t learn to drive until you’re 17, and you can’t drink in a pub until you’re 18. You can enter a pub at 16, but can’t drink alcohol. Age of consent is 16, so things balance out….
And we still have drunk drivers over here, but generally it’s a 12 month ban if you fail an intoxication breath/blood test, or refuse to submit to one (Refusing to submit to a test is an offence in itself, and is usually regarded as a fail by the courts). A roadside test is given first via a portable breath intoximeter (No walking a line stuff over here) then the person would be taken to a police station for the official breath intoximeter test, and/or a blood test.
I’ve been breath tested twice, both following accidents as it’s routine over here to breath test all the drivers involved whether at fault or not. I wasn’t at fault either time, and I passed both tests as I hadn’t been drinking either.
Wow… so much the opposite here.
Most laws about drinking used to be left to the states… In most states you had to be 21 to buy alcohol, some permitted beer and wine at 18, some set a percentage, like only 3.2% alcohol beer ok at 18.
But in the 1980s, a federal law was passed, and since then, you’ve had to be 21 to buy alcohol anywhere in the US, and in most states, to drink it anywhere.
A few states make an exception, where you can drink, usually just beer or wine, but not purchase it, and only with a parent or guardian, at 18, in a private home,… and in even fewer states, in a restaurant as well, but not a bar.
California is very strict… give someone under 21 a beer, even your own kid in your own home, and you can go to jail.
But you can drive at 15½, ÍF you passed a test and obtained a learners permit, and IF a licensed driver is in the car… And drive on your own at 16.
You can vote, marry, join the military, fight in combat and sign legal documents at 18… but not drink.
,,,
All I could find was that most sites said she was a Mississippi “delta blues” player, around 1890, name unknown.
A few sites said Appalachian, but I think Mississippi is more likely.
1890 would be very early for either, at least for calling it blues.
To me, her clothes look more early 20th century than late 19th, because she’s not wearing an 1890s silhouette, no corset or petticoats, but she might be too poor and/or rural to have anything but simple handmade dresses.
It looks like she has bandages on 2 of the fingers on her left hand. That’s real dedication to playing.
Some people were discussing in comments on one site whether those are rags tied to her fingertips to buffer the strings…
Since I’m not a musician, I wasn’t going to bring it up here, in case that makes no sense, as though I don’t know what I’m talking about.
But I admit, I don’t… so those of you who are more musical can say whether you think that’s what they are.
I play guitar and can attest that you could not play with rags like that on your fingers. I think she may be just holding a hanky in her hand and grabbed the guitar to pose. Another thing is that she could not play the guitar standing like that without using a strap to hold the guitar up.
Thanks!
And yeah… I feel like she was posing for the picture, rather than playing the guitar.
Somebody making a portrait, not catching her in action… which would be impossible anyway, if it’s really 1890, with glass negatives, and subjects having to hold still for quite long exposures…. though not as long as 10 years earlier.
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“That is the biggest dog, i ever did see!”
Looks a bit nervous!
I’d say exceedingly.
,.,
Still used.
Used ’em all the time when I was working.
You can’t sign an email.
Well, technically you can, now, with Docusign (online virtual signatures) … but lots of places still prefer to pass the paper version hand to hand.
Were certainly in use here in the UK as well, I remember using them at work.
We had the regular ones, and some in red. Made it easier to see who was holding up the signature queue.
Ahh… Brings back memories!
We called the envelopes “Thousand Milers”, when we asked the office clerk for this type of envelope.
OCS was our formal internal mail designation description = a letter sent via
On Company Service
(CPR Railway)
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At first I thought it was a mobile.
This one as whole zones that move differently.
from a 1945 newspaper
I bet the coalman would have been cheaper…
Per coal, yeah, but he’d need to have an account with the coal company and make a bigger order, instead of paying those kids to steal the neighbors strays.
Oh! Didn’t get that!
I didn’t either, at first.
,,.
He eats fish; he’s got the uniform.
What are the other job requirements, anyway?
Flying underwater?
Uh oh.
I see a pink slip in his future.
And a feather boa? 😉
sniffle..
there’s a sun in this somewhere …
OMG! We better eat all that ice cream before it melts!
Probably a daughter too…
By golly. I found it.
Well, I asked whether to post my solutions, and only one person answered, and it was affirmative….
And of course, anybody else who wants it.
But if you were going to say no… oh well, I guess 🙂
Please do! I won’t look at it until tonight, unless i find it on my own, but i still check after. 🙂
Thanks Susan!
You’re quite welcome!
I’m always happy to see solutions because most of the time I can’t find it.
This one was bad for me.
I’m sure you intended to type Arthur instead of Henry.
(Can someone please explain to me how to format a spoiler? The [+] lets me type the title. Then what?)
I was going by the caption I found with the picture, I only recognised the man on the right anyhoo. Thanks for the correction.
How to ‘Spoiler’.
The cursor should jump to the correct place between the square brackets ‘ ] [ ‘ so you can then start to type.
No problem, glad to help. I struggled with it when I first came here.
Dunnock.
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
This road is in Hungary (WARNING ! ! ! While this video is suitable for everyone the vast majority of videos on this site are not.).
https://www.reeleak.com/740465/this-road-in-hungary-sings-only-if-you-drive-the-right-speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road
Well, a least he realizes that they are talking-about him, as opposed to someone else.
I found this picture on one of the picture-dump sites I visit daily and was intrigued by how a good portion of it appears to be below street level. Can anybody [cough]susansunshine[/cough] with excellent picture search skills shed any light on this building ?
Gosh… do I hear someone coughing for me??
It’s kinda like my Bat Signal…. Da dah!
BRB
Whew… It’s more than I thought!
There were tons of results… It’s posted all over the place.
Unfortunately, most of the sites aren’t authoritative, being Facebook and Instagram pages, yet I’d estimate that 75 or 80% of them state unequivocally that this is the Porta Nigra, a Roman structure located in Trier, Germany.
A quote from one:
“As Trier expanded, the city’s ground level gradually rose, eventually covering parts of the gate. What remains visible today is only the upper portion of the Porta Nigra, while the lower floors were once hidden beneath layers of soil and sediment. Archaeological excavations have uncovered the full extent of the gate’s construction, revealing the hidden floors that had been buried for centuries.”
Only problem is that loads of comments say “no, it’s not the Porta Nigra” and that the actual Porta Nigra has never been buried. Some of those people say they live in Trier.
So I looked it up … I’ve attached a picture of the actual Porta Nigra below.
So what is it really? As of now, I don’t know!
At least 3 or 4 sites declare that it’s a building in Edinburgh, Scotland; a somewhat equal number say that it’s in Paris, discovered during the late 19th century excavation for the Metro. The ones I looked at all had comments refuting either claim.
Several sites, including a boring video I couldn’t get through, call it a mystery… A couple of Facebook pages claim that not only is its origin unknown….cue the spooky music (doo doo doo doo)…. Nobody knows where the picture was taken!! That one cracks me up.
Yeah, somebody took a picture, but he didn’t know in what country he was standing.
Anyway… I’ve gotta make dinner, but if I can, I’ll look again later. Can’t guarantee results, though!
I knew you would come through ,that’s why I coughed for you 😉
The building certainly resembles the one you posted save for the bottom partly hidden by shrubbery.There are also no mountains in the background .
I would venture to say the Paris comment is more compelling because of the timeline and the need to excavate.
Thank you .
You’re welcome.
I haven’t given up, cos now I’m curious.
I just got distracted by something else.
It’s weird that nobody seems to know!
The tower you posted is way taller than the Porta Nigra, which I posted…8 floors vs 5.
It also seems to be a single tower, with no room in that excavation for the rest of that big building.
But the main thing is, the Porta Nigra has been well known in its current location for several centuries, is at ground level, and has never needed to be excavated or uncovered.
It was certainly not dug out in the 19th century, when a photograph could be taken.