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A selection of the pictures I took yesterday are up on Flickr.
It may have appeared seamless by the time it got to Albert Square but where I was standing, across from Urbis, the parade kept being held up for busses coming down Shudehill. And it was very windy there, I think I’m suffering from getting so cold (and so old the cold can affect me so).
There were a lot of marching bands, as you’d expect. I kept trying to get a shot with a drummer’s hands blurred as they hammered away a rhythm. This is the best I could manage-
What I didn’t expect was all the tractors. I guess farming is still a large part of the Irish identity. Whatever the reason, it warmed my country boy heart to see so many of them. This one, in particular, I took a lot of photos of-
It’s a Minneapolis Moline. Even without the name giving it away there was something about the size and stance tha marked it as an American creation. Flickr has many more Minneapolis Moline photos if you want to get your Yankee tractor on.
Check out the rest of the pictures. I’ll leave you with one of the man himself, the very Saint Patrick-
Or they’re so deeply buried that you give up before you get to them. One of the subjects discussed in the pub on Friday was the paintings of L S Lowry and where exactly they depicted. There’s a book- Lowry’s City: A Painter and His Locale
which tries to track down a few of them but, after a bit of searching, I can’t find much online. The wiki entry for Lowry names some locations (I didn’t know he’d done paintings of Cleator Moor, for instance), but no-one’s tagged them all on Google Maps.
Consider this a Lazyweb request- someone put Lowry’s paintings on a map for me please.
I doubt I’ll be able to make it to the Millom model railway show, but my dad might. It’s in Millom Palladium Theatre on September 4th and 5th.
via Chris Whiteside.
I’m not completely happy with this page, though it gives a good impression of what’s going on. I may redraw it one day.
I did a lot of shading for this one in Photoshop because I wanted to use all the gradient fill options.
 
Citizens of Warrington, or anybody else with access to a trailer, you can own your own Batmobile. Okay, it’s only the body, you’ll need to supply your own chassis and running gear. It’s from the Tim Burton movies and whilst that’s still cool as, it’s not a Tumbler.
My surfing of the Ebay classic car pages also turned up this Daimler Conquest/Century which is also a star car, having been in Heartbeat.
Requiem for Detroit is available on BBC iPlayer until March 20th. You should watch it, it’s incredible.
From being the USA’s fourth largest city in its heyday Detroit has suffered a slow apocalypse, destroyed by- amongst other things- the very cars which made it great. Now nature is reclaiming whole neighbourhoods, schools are closing, historic buildings are decaying and being cannibalised for scrap and the roads are all but empty. Requiem for Detroit takes us for a journey through the city and its history. It’s a powerful, scary film, but with just a hint of optimism at the end.
Not much of a wander, compared to my others. I took pictures of a few interesting buildings and details I spotted on the way between the railway station and the model show the other week. They’re on Flickr now.
Prints of the photos in this set can be bought on Qoop.com.
The time has come. Every four or five years I spend a lot of money on a new computer. The idea is to have something which will be able to handle whatever new things take my fancy after I’ve bought it. My current pc wasn’t bought to edit video on, but it is powerful enough that it was up to the task, at least until I got a camera which shoots high definition video. Now I need something that will handle HD footage and maybe a move into 3d rendering.
So my new waste of time is visiting Mesh computers and mixing and matching components in an ttempt to build a system which will be too powerful for what I do at the moment but able to cope with whatever whim strikes me this time next year.
Its got to have Blu-ray.
And a larger monitor.
And RAID for peace of mind.
And……
Time to try something new.
mysinglefriend.com is the old idea of friends matchmaking for each other taken onto the internet. And for the rest of March they’re offering a month’s free membership to listeners of XFM. Go on, somebody volunteer to write a glowing reference for me and I’ll join. At the very least I’ll buy you a drink and will have tales to tell. And who knows……
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