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Apocalyptic Cinema: Better Living Through Science
Originally posted on Susan X Jane:
Since the beginning of the century, American films have explored stories of the apocalypse as commentary on our own modern challenges. Stories of the horrors science can create when man tries to play…
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Swallowed By the Waves: Remembering Tohoku 2011
Five years ago, I woke to a text from my sister that there had been an earthquake in Japan. I thought little of it, lying in my bed in Ohio. Only a few weeks beforehand, an earthquake there had appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, memorial, Opinion, remembering, Tohoku, Tohoku earthquake, Tohoku tsunami
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The Curse at Three Minute Theatre- a review
I’d never been to the Three Minute Theatre nestled into the downstairs of Affleck’s in Manchester’s Northern Quarter before. The quirky and intimate venue offers alt theatre and you should pay it a visit for an evening out with a … Continue reading
Ancoats
Since my Lumix GX1 suffered a heat stroke in Gran Canaria and I replaced with a GX7 back in Sept/Oct I barely seem to have used it. When I’m out running I see so many things I’d love to photograph, … Continue reading
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Tagged ancoats, B&W, bucket, city, grime, gx7, lumix, Manchester, panasonic, photography, photos, tentacles, Urban
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Inside the Favela Rocinha
If you read the safety instructions of the Foreign Office, one find filling pages warnings about Brazil that one should strongly consider. It’s particularly pointed out that there are frequently armed conflicts and robberies in the north of the country … Continue reading
Ultimate Power
Hex colour reference: #c5d0e6 A colourful note: this pale blue-lilac shade, known as periwinkle, is named after the flowers of the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb. The first recorded use of periwinkle as a colour name in English was in 1895. … Continue reading
Manchester’s Nineteenth Century Ticketing
On Wednesday from my hotel by the Reebok Stadium at Horwich Parkway I had to get three tickets to get to Manchester Piccadilly station. The first took me from Horwich Parkway to Farnworth with a change at Bolton. The second … Continue reading
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