Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Two Sevens Clashed, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
There’s a comment early on in the film about 1977 having much more of a turn of the millennium feel to it than 2000 ever had – a damp squib in comparison.
Yes, I thought that was a really interesting observation.
Also, one thing I love about Britain and treasure about the time I lived there is how entwined its popular culture is with the social and political mood.
I’ve always counted myself fortunate to have been there for the acid house explosion in 1988. That was in part a shucking-off of grim Thatcherite reality. Not a resistance to it, as there had been a decade earlier, but a skipping away from it.
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Late-breaking: a murky, monochrome but awesome-sounding Talking Heads show from 1980, just emerged from some vault:
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Two Sevens Clashed, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
And New Years Day 1977 is as remote now as New Years Day 1939 was in 1977.
Man. When you put it that way ...
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Capture: Peak Pohutukawa, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
Late to the party without a photo, but perhaps a technical observation. I was wandering around the other day having finally found the clip-on sunglass things for my glasses and it seemed to me the polarising really brought out the contrast.
I reckon. The key is sunglasses with brown lenses. They tend to bring up reds -- and the pohutukawa look truly striking through them.
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Capture: Peak Pohutukawa, in reply to JacksonP,
By the seaside, Pt Chev.
Ah! I was down there just after 6.30. Glorious.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Wireless Summer, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Noooooo..!
They’ve gentrified the School of Hard Knocks…
;- )Ha ha! Yes!
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Julien Temple's new film, The Clash New Years Day 1977 , built around footage from his early attempt to make a film about the band, is a wonderful cultural college. Can't recommended it highly enough. And for the time being, it's on YouTube.
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Capture: Peak Pohutukawa, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Using the camera’s vivid setting.
Post-photographic saturation seems legit in this case. It's quite hard to capture the eyewitnessed intensity of a fresh blooming -- as if the phone camera won't accept that anything is that vivid.
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Westmere and Cox’s Bay.
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Capture: Peak Pohutukawa, in reply to JacksonP,
It struck me the angles on our consecutive shots were uncannily in-sync. So I did a twiddly thing.
Nice :-)
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