Sunday, March 04, 2018
Thursday, March 01, 2018
all and sundry.
Feb: 1965.
My brother Zyg's 21st Birthday Party in a club on Clare Road ,Halifax.
Top Row.(l/r) Uncle Gordon ( ex-RAF prisoner of war in Germany for 3 years):Zyg:Me (stood on a box):my Dad Wladylaw (ex-Polish Air Force /got a gong inThe Battle of Arnheim).
Bottom Row (l/r) Aunty Brenda :My Mam,Marjory : Aunty Dot :Cousin Pat.
1967:
Huddersfield Road,Halifax.
(photo by Halifax Courier)
Clare Hall School Rugby League team.1966/67 season.
That's me 4th left/back row .I dont think it looks much like me ? Behind the cameraman were members of the girls hockey team .I think I was attempting to appear hard !
1996. me with my Transpersonal Gestalt Oasis Group in Boston Spa. That's me on the floor 'looking a right spangle! |
1999? Rochdale Turkish Baths. Me:front row middle. |
"The Shining" meets Hitchcocks's "Birds"................caught by Cath this afternoon in front of our new Living Room window..
Finally i found here: a mystery photo..............just because everybody is looking at you...doesnt mean your paranoid.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Strange Face in Halifax.
Me & Cath went to Square Chapel Halifax last night to see Strange face: Adventures in a lost Nick Drake recording
A full house .
Watch below a you tube video for background of the project.
Michael Burdett is a lovely bloke who talked and held the audience comforably for over two hours.
Ironically Amusingly.I had wanted to take a photo of Michael talking during the show ,but such things it seems are copyrighted...........
Instead ,I share a photo of me in Halifax in the early 70's (channelling my 'inner-drake' )I was one of those (very) rare souls who actually bought a Nick Drake album (Pink Moon) in his lifetime.
Below ,some photos from the past 2 days...........
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
sepia saturday 407
I take this week's sepia saturday to be about bicycles.
The sepia movie was shot in 1952 (the year i was born & christened "Karol")
Its called "how friendly are you?"
It Stars a young lad called Karl
It Stars a young lad called Karl
I imagine its purpose was school/education -related?
A splendid evocation of that period.
Charmingly innocent.(although I worry slightly about all that "fudge"!)
Whatever.An important & timeless topic.
I can imagine it was a good way into a subject that kids will always find difficult to acknowledge.
It's a pity nobody filmed the audience resposes......that would have been even more interesting than the film itself.
Monday, February 19, 2018
John Perry Barlow
https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/5-lessons-john-barlow-taught-world/
This week, Grateful Dead lyricist and digital rights activist, John Perry Barlow passed away. Although we mourn the loss of a great visionary, we will forever remember his lessons of free speech, personal growth, and marketing tactics. Here are five lessons we learned from the digital rights activist.
1. Freedom of Speech is important
Barlow believed that the world should be a place that “all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth… a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.”
This is probably due to Barlow’s humble lifestyle on a cattle ranch. Here the idea of being free and having a wide-open space for oneself developed. Barlow was an advocate for net neutrality and believed that the internet was where people could speak openly, having that wide open space as he did on the ranch.
As he himself said, “there is a lot of room to define yourself. You can literally make yourself up.”
2. People appreciate familiarity
Barlow was not only passionate about self-development through the internet, but believed that putting one’s digital goods out there for the world to see and hear was the best marketing strategy.
As the lyricist for the Grateful Dead rock band, Barlow developed a marketing strategy in which he let people bootleg the Grateful Dead’s concerts so people became more familiar and would flock to the music they learned to love. He believed that the secret to marketing was in the availability and familiarity of the product.
3. Live freely and without fear
In 1990, Barlow took a stance against the government and created the non-profit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). https://www.eff.org/
Here, he fought against the government for individual’s freedom of speech and personal liberties.
He believed that people should have the opportunity to express themselves freely and that the internet was a great place for this purpose. It was because of this that he went to every measure to do so.He took a stand against the government and authorities for what he thought was right.
4. Security matters
Although Barlow strongly believed in the internet and all the good the internet had to offer, he was not blind to the darkness of the internet.
He believed that people needed to have secure communication methods. He therefore provided, as part of the EFF, security measures through tips, tools, how-tos, tutorials, and software for safer online communications.
5. Stand up for what you believe in
Barlow believed in an open internet, a free internet, and he held that belief until he died. It is through Barlow’s strength and stance with the government that today we have the safety, security, and free music and movies to listen and watch.
Today, as he can no longer do so, we must take the stance for ourselves and stand up for what we believe, just like he taught us to do. There must be someone from your friends or family who deserves to know what John did for our internet freedom.
Share this post to let them know. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/5-lessons-john-barlow-taught-world/
This week, Grateful Dead lyricist and digital rights activist, John Perry Barlow passed away. Although we mourn the loss of a great visionary, we will forever remember his lessons of free speech, personal growth, and marketing tactics. Here are five lessons we learned from the digital rights activist.
1. Freedom of Speech is important
Barlow believed that the world should be a place that “all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth… a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.”
This is probably due to Barlow’s humble lifestyle on a cattle ranch. Here the idea of being free and having a wide-open space for oneself developed. Barlow was an advocate for net neutrality and believed that the internet was where people could speak openly, having that wide open space as he did on the ranch.
As he himself said, “there is a lot of room to define yourself. You can literally make yourself up.”
2. People appreciate familiarity
Barlow was not only passionate about self-development through the internet, but believed that putting one’s digital goods out there for the world to see and hear was the best marketing strategy.
As the lyricist for the Grateful Dead rock band, Barlow developed a marketing strategy in which he let people bootleg the Grateful Dead’s concerts so people became more familiar and would flock to the music they learned to love. He believed that the secret to marketing was in the availability and familiarity of the product.
3. Live freely and without fear
In 1990, Barlow took a stance against the government and created the non-profit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). https://www.eff.org/
Here, he fought against the government for individual’s freedom of speech and personal liberties.
He believed that people should have the opportunity to express themselves freely and that the internet was a great place for this purpose. It was because of this that he went to every measure to do so.He took a stand against the government and authorities for what he thought was right.
4. Security matters
Although Barlow strongly believed in the internet and all the good the internet had to offer, he was not blind to the darkness of the internet.
He believed that people needed to have secure communication methods. He therefore provided, as part of the EFF, security measures through tips, tools, how-tos, tutorials, and software for safer online communications.
5. Stand up for what you believe in
Barlow believed in an open internet, a free internet, and he held that belief until he died. It is through Barlow’s strength and stance with the government that today we have the safety, security, and free music and movies to listen and watch.
Today, as he can no longer do so, we must take the stance for ourselves and stand up for what we believe, just like he taught us to do. There must be someone from your friends or family who deserves to know what John did for our internet freedom.
Share this post to let them know. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/5-lessons-john-barlow-taught-world/
Friday, February 16, 2018
The Almighty Sometimes
[I quote here a piece Cathy has written]
"On the 15th Feb ( a significant date , for Cathy ) we went to see a play at the Royal Exchange in Manchester,
One of the actor's is
Julie Hesmondhalgh
She is on a branch of the family tree ( Cathy's side of the family).originating from Accrington/Clayton-le-moor.
[plus:] Saturday's Guardian Magazine
Thursday, February 15, 2018
ßack from Lancashire.
A photo I took of Cathy in The Shoulder of Mutton in Mytholmroyd tonight at 9 pm.
We had just returned from Lancashire,visting a relative.
Report & tons of photos soon.
Isnt life exciting!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Bill Boards is Innocent
a London Poet uses billboards to get his message across. I like the idea and ,more importantly ,I like his words.
I lived these streets for 4 years in the 70's 80's (mainly Newham) living in grotty East End bedsits and teaching in the schools there.It was so rough there,even the Kray's had to walk around in pairs.....
"he who is tired of London..etc.etc.."(as Sam once said).
I still have (nice) dreams about where i used to live.......
Also .Something else I came across today.
Can I give a wee plug to The East End in Colour 1960 - 1980 by David Granick . (£16.95)
In a couple of days ,me & Cath go over the Pennines to see someone on her ( and my) Family Tree.
As well as 'billboards' I also talked about R.D. Laing last week
. This movie 'about' him .starring David Tennant looks rather groovy
( I wonder if they will show Mary Barnes smearing her shit on any walls? I suppose if they do , it will have to be multi-coloured and psychedelic in this Post- Weinstein era........)
i might be wrong but the building shown at the start of this clip looks to me like Ironmongers Row swimming pool & turkish baths in Islington?
Friday, February 09, 2018
the name is "Zimnoch". (barking up the wrong tree.........)
Rest Well John Perry Barlow
- a fine Guardian Obituary
In the Shepards Rest in Sowerby Bridge tonight with my Godson Bryn. |
Me & Cath went to Hebden Bridge Picture House this morning to see 'Three Billoards Outside Ebbin Missouri '.
I sat there imagining , if someone gave me 3 billbords ( in ,let us say ,the middle of Halifax ) to give the population messages for 12 months...what would i chose to display to relect my concerns.....?
At this moment in time, I think I'd pick a few ditties by R.D.Laing
Not that that's a bad thing.only....she never wrote Sanity, Madness & The Family like wot Ronnie did.....
Anyway.........today's film should well win a shed load of Oscars .
It's the first great movie of The Trump Era ?
The ending , in particular , could have been The Rust-Belt going off to vote......
I dont understand the Guardian's comment that"......the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters’ moral journey...." [read more:]
I dont get that at all.......I mean,it doesnt have anything to say about Polaks either.So what?
Bravo Performance,Frances McDormand .
Then I went out on the lash in Sowerby Bridge tonight.
Monday, February 05, 2018
ßréxitérs aré as thick as fuck
If your a bit thick,here are some of my previous posts you may also enjoy:
If your very thick, you will love this video.Taken from my 2011 post how to hate the working classes
Some people are ultra literal,arnt they?
They dont see things in a wider context .
Anybody who reads my blog knows i dont "hate" the working classes ( if I did ,I would not say so,would i?).
In my book. If you cant see irony,context,third-party views..then,yes you are as thick as pig shit ,non?
- For the record. I,m not a "Remainer".
- I believe the E.U. is deeply flawed.
- I dont wish for a second referendum.
However "Brexit" is different from"Leave".
Brexit has been hijacked by a bunch of right wing/nationalsocialists such as Farage
& Mogg. Now I dont want to be ruled by "faceless beurocrats from Brussels".
& Mogg. Now I dont want to be ruled by "faceless beurocrats from Brussels".
OK .I,ve explained myself. You cunts can all go and just fuck off ,s'il vous plaît
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
"A seemingly pregnant woman would not be suspected of stuffing her clothes with pamphlets, Resistance newspapers, or even weapons."
Italian women partisans on the Castelluccio front (1944) .Waiting to go on patrol with the US 5th Army. |
Late in the winter of 1943 ,three British SAS soldiers were dropped into (still) fascist occupied Italy.deep in a remote mountain region.
The 3 Brits were sheltered by villagers& partisans in the remote hamlet of Gessopalena
One local must have 'grassed' on them?
Anyway, they were soon arrested, taken away & tortured by the Germans.
Anyway, they were soon arrested, taken away & tortured by the Germans.
As punishment for trying to protect these English Squadies, on 21st January 1944 the Luftwaffe bombed Gessopalena and completely destroyed it.
Now ,perhaps different nations react differently to grief?
Now ,perhaps different nations react differently to grief?
The Poles In Warsaw, they rebuilt an identical copy of their city after WW2.
However ,Italians( seeming to love ruins.)... kept Gessopalena's damage complete & intact......
However ,Italians( seeming to love ruins.)... kept Gessopalena's damage complete & intact......
They did bury the bodies ,but otherwise did nothing.....other than to move the undamaged church bell .
To this day , nothing else has ever been moved!
Clothes, toys furniture ,books ,mirrors....etc.remain in exactly the same spot they were on the day the Luftwaffe called..
Somekind of permanent record of what " normality." might once have looked like for the victims.?
These days ,its rather weird when you hear that original church bell call the new villagers to Mass in the new church in "new" Gessopalena which was later built a 100 yards away...............
I scratched my head and tried to work out which was the "real"village and which was the "replica"......
To this day , nothing else has ever been moved!
Clothes, toys furniture ,books ,mirrors....etc.remain in exactly the same spot they were on the day the Luftwaffe called..
Somekind of permanent record of what " normality." might once have looked like for the victims.?
These days ,its rather weird when you hear that original church bell call the new villagers to Mass in the new church in "new" Gessopalena which was later built a 100 yards away...............
I scratched my head and tried to work out which was the "real"village and which was the "replica"......
My son Chris. Our friend Mick & myself in Italy in 2010
( i briefly owned a ruined cottage in the Abruzzo mountains at the time )
Damien Rice: Montreal 2017(famous blue raincoat):Jackson Browne: Osaka, Japan; October 23, 2017:(late for the sky)
This is a sepia saturday post.The themes this week are Dance : Performance : Costumes : Stage
https://theconversation.com/forgotten-resistance-the-italian-freedom-fighters-dropped-from-our-history-books-34891
This is a sepia saturday post.The themes this week are Dance : Performance : Costumes : Stage
i found this photo in 2009 in a junkshop in Lanciano.I was told these are firemen .....Ironically! looking like a bunch of girls........! |
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Fuck your sharia court : your fatwa: your old testament gods.....
Manchester 2nd feb 2018 |
"You don't divide up an empire with a handshake. You have to cut it with a knife"Robert Saviano.
Roberto Saviano (the author of the book it was based on); Live at the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
Wednesday's on Sky Atlantic at 9pm sees the start of Series 3 of " Gomorrah". Shakepeare with an automatic rifle. Try catch it.
Me in a Pennadomo cafe.( i failed the audition) +here -->some old images of me in Italy |
Below.Full political interview with the author ,in Bristol.
Manchester 2nd Feb 2018. https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Manchester-2nd-Feb-2018/ |
Thursday, January 25, 2018
drinking in dirty dick's:
is around 'rooms' & 'interiors '.......I visited a haunted pub in Halifax tonight.
I realise I'm stretching things a tad!
On a positive note , you can buy here:
a sepian postcard of 'tony the child drunkard' to amuse friends,family & postmen across the world........
I realise I'm stretching things a tad!
On a positive note , you can buy here:
click here for all tonight's photos
Dirty Dicks is a well-known Inn in the centre of Halifax for ghost stories and hauntings. It was mentioned in the book Haunted Halifax by Kai Roberts.
“Most notable is the spectre of an unknown woman wearing seventeenth century Puritan or Quaker dress, who had been vividly witnessed by a customer around forty years earlier. The second presence was imagined to belong to the son of the last landlord of the original pub, prior to its demolition in 1929. This unfortunate young man is supposed to have burnt to death when a sparkling ember from the hearth set his clothes alight”.
The pubs third otherworldly resident, whose history is not connected to the pub, but with the ship from which it was built. The third ghost is a spirit of an unfortunate seaman who was fatally injured when the ordnance he was moving aboard the HMS Newcastle exploded. ........"
download here :copyright free"Temperance melodies consisting of English Welsh and American airs adapted to the temperance movement"
Saturday is Holocaust Memorial Day .It might be worth saying that British politician Nigel Farage and his (former) party UKIP.are really just a rebooted brand of National Socalism.The very ideology that informed the Holocaust.The smell lingers on......the ghosts remain......“Most notable is the spectre of an unknown woman wearing seventeenth century Puritan or Quaker dress, who had been vividly witnessed by a customer around forty years earlier. The second presence was imagined to belong to the son of the last landlord of the original pub, prior to its demolition in 1929. This unfortunate young man is supposed to have burnt to death when a sparkling ember from the hearth set his clothes alight”.
The pubs third otherworldly resident, whose history is not connected to the pub, but with the ship from which it was built. The third ghost is a spirit of an unfortunate seaman who was fatally injured when the ordnance he was moving aboard the HMS Newcastle exploded. ........"
.. Read More:
download here :copyright free"Temperance melodies consisting of English Welsh and American airs adapted to the temperance movement"
Postscript: Sunday 28th January.I just got sent (unsolicited) this: Job Spec for a post in Devon.Sounds really interesting.Might lure me out of retirement? Right up my street!
A Freelance Oral Historian .
"The Beaford Archive is a photographic record of people and community in rural north Devon containing more than 80,000 images covering the 120-year period 1870 to 1990.
According to the Royal Photographic Society, it is “…a unique body of work, unparalleled, at least in this country, for its scale and quality”.
However, few of these images are currently accessible to the public. ........ a major conservation and digitisation exercise that will curate and publish online around 10,000 unseen images that together illustrate the late 20th Century social history of rural north Devon. .............
• Digitising, cataloguing, archiving and publishing to the web approximately 10,000 existing 35mm black and white negatives from the James Ravilious and Roger Deakins Beaford Archives • Production of a new fully searchable website to provide a showcase for existing digitised work, newly digitised images and audio, and new work as it is produced
• A programme of oral history, learning and community activity which will create new work and engage people in learning and education...
According to the Royal Photographic Society, it is “…a unique body of work, unparalleled, at least in this country, for its scale and quality”.
However, few of these images are currently accessible to the public. ........ a major conservation and digitisation exercise that will curate and publish online around 10,000 unseen images that together illustrate the late 20th Century social history of rural north Devon. .............
• Digitising, cataloguing, archiving and publishing to the web approximately 10,000 existing 35mm black and white negatives from the James Ravilious and Roger Deakins Beaford Archives • Production of a new fully searchable website to provide a showcase for existing digitised work, newly digitised images and audio, and new work as it is produced
• A programme of oral history, learning and community activity which will create new work and engage people in learning and education...
I have family down in Devon ('could even be really cheeky and ask for a Reference!)
What could possibly go wrong?
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
when i leave ,you will be dancing on my grave.............
I just booked two tickets to go see Young Fathers at O2 Ritz in Manchester on Friday 23rd March.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Fathers
Great to see that the splendid Afro-Edinburgh hip-hop band Young Fathers have a new tour & album out.
They have been giving a wee silence recently.
Me & Cath saw them play live in March 2015 ,around the time they were awarded the Mercury Prize.
My photos& videos from that gig can be viewed here:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/young-fathers-in-my-view/
wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Fathers
Great to see that the splendid Afro-Edinburgh hip-hop band Young Fathers have a new tour & album out.
They have been giving a wee silence recently.
Me & Cath saw them play live in March 2015 ,around the time they were awarded the Mercury Prize.
My photos& videos from that gig can be viewed here:
one of my photos. |
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If you love the Blue Nile, Prefab Sprout, Go-Betweens, Michael Head and all that good stuff, then you should give this a listen.......... ...