Picture Post
November 30th, 2003
And now, the inevitable weekend picture post.
- :cold: I and :cold: II by ~sckamb are beautifully overexposed, fabulously colourful portraits. My only quibble is that I’d have preferred that the two images in the first picture be posted as separate images. I don’t think the totally bleached out background in the right hand image works as well.
- With Digital Sun, ~nasigoreng performs the by no means minor feat of making Birmingham look exotic.
Incidentally, I had no idea Birmingham had its own ferris wheel right in the middle of Centenary Square. If work ever takes me down that way again I’ll have to see if I can’t find time for a visit. And come to think of it, the new Selfridges store looks to be quite an eyeful. When I left Birmingham in 1995 the Bullring redevelopment was barely getting started, and last time I was back in 2001 there were just a lot of muddy lots where new building was taking place. You turn your back for a few years and look what happens while you’re away…
December 1st, 2003 at 3:30 am
We moved from Birmingham about six years ago and it’s amazing what they’ve done: a creative and impressive revamp. In Exeter, in contrast, they’re fixated on this kind of dull post-war architecture.