For today’s entry in the alternative dictionary, we venture into Caledonian linguistics;
“Pictoral” – A broad Scottish accent.
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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Hello and welcome to a slightly later than usual, bank holiday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, brought to you today by the prompt; Geometric shapes.
I have to admit to not being very prepared this week, so I got creative this morning with a Twin Peaks’ Black Lodge floor-themed mug…
…which I used as a counterpoint to various patterned surfaces in and around the house to make these abstract artworks.
Were you more organised than me this week?
Show off the fruits of your photographic labours and let us all in on the fun…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Cosmic Photo prompt.
It’s such a novelty, having a weekly schedule again, I’d completely forgotten there was something else I usually do on a Friday…a prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge!
So here it is, a day late and a dollar short as my wife would say; I’d like your compositions for Monday’s post to be on the theme of geometric shapes.
That was the result of me sitting on the sofa staring blankly into the middle distance for two minutes, rather than any specific thought processes, so not even I know what I might come up with this week.
But if you think you can find something which fits the bill, why not join us at the start of the week for some photographic fun, it’s easy when you know how…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
One liner Wednesday: Alternative dictionary.
Good morning and welcome to the return of the alternative dictionary on One liner Wednesday.
Here’s a badly spelled culinary recommendation for you;
“Prima Donna” – The best kebab.
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The Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Ok, so this is the “new normal” we’re going to have to get used to, is it?
Well, one thing hasn’t changed and that still means that every Monday on Return of the Internet Nobody, I do a little feature called The Cosmic Photo Challenge and you are all cordially invited to take part.
On Friday I left you a suggestion based on our recent collective incarceration; asking you to capture whatever your personal version is of; The world in lockdown.
I have collected together a few of the shots I took over the last few, surreal weeks, when it has been possible to capture our beautiful town and countryside in a uniquely unpopulated state.
It has also meant that I could take photos from places that are usually far less accessible. These first two were taken from the high River Torridge road bridge, looking both downstream towards Bideford and the mouth of the estuary…
…and inland towards Appledore, with its naval shipyard.
I was lucky enough to catch a good clear evening with no traffic and a full moon high tide, so I could quickly stop the car to jump out and snap these.
But although the weather was equally glorious a few days ago when I took some on Barnstaple square and the more modest (but ancient and far more attractive) “Long Bridge” over the River Taw in town, the tide was resolutely out.
I also had a bit of a play around with a shot of the Albert Memorial clock tower outside the museum and I’m rather pleased with the result of my meticulous fingertip erasing.
As the world returns to some semblance of its bustling self, it’s almost a shame to lose the tranquility and stillness which we humans so casually shatter with our busy lives.
It has been a rare and unusual privilege to witness my home in this more natural, unsullied state and it makes me appreciate it all the more, too.
How does your world look in these strange times?
It couldn’t be easier to take part, just follow these simple steps…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day fifty three.
Good morning and thank you for joining me on our final audio excursion into the unknown archives of the Melodic Randomiser, at least for the meantime.
So let’s get the last Isolation Radio show on the go, with a tune from proto-Underworld Welsh oddballs Freur and, purely by coincidence, my epic remix of the title track and only “hit” from their 1983 album, this is “Doot Doot”
To follow that, we take a hard left on the musical superhighway and catch up with another poor relation of a more famous band, Love and Rockets, who started out as Bauhaus. This is “Holiday on the Moon” from 1986’s Express album.
And the closing track for this, the last show in the series, comes to you from one of the more bonkers UK pop outfits of the ’80s, The KLF; whose rampant and chaotic career spawned some of the most recognisable walls of sound in dance music.
Thank you once again for listening and I’ll leave you with the 12″mix of the monumental “Last Train to Trancentral” from 1991’s The White Room.
Stay safe, look out for each other and don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Peace
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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day fifty two.
Enough Isolation Radio shows to air one a week for a year!
Another milestone made possible by the musical oracle that is the Melodic Randomiser, which today brings you a trilogy of tunage that starts with…
…The Cure and a song originally from their 1982 Pornography album, but shuffled to you here from the ’86 singles collection, Standing on a Beach; this is Laughing Bob and boys with “The Hanging Garden”
I doubt it’s every day that the world’s favourite goth cheerleaders find themselves in the company of upbeat New Orleans jazz, but today is that day. Because the next track is another from the soundtrack of Treme; this time the show’s main theme song by John Boutte (with the bonus of getting DoMaJe‘s theme from the wire, “Way Down in the Hole” thrown in for good measure)
Last in this week’s Saturday listicle is Mrs Musk, or Grimes to her fans (or possibly “X Æ A-12’s mum”) and a song from 2012’s Visions album; this is “Oblivion”
Join me tomorrow for the final Sunday Service in this current run, before the march towards the New Normal continues.
Have a lovely rest of the day, live long and spritzer.
Peace
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Cosmic Photo prompt.
Greetings, I hope your Friday is still going well and that you are prepared for this week’s prompt on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which I have decided to give the theme of; The world in lockdown.
I know that a lot of you are probably still confined to your respective abodes for the moment, but we’re all being allowed to take at least some exercise, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to see how your corners of the world look during these strange days.
Whether it’s the view from your window, the ghost town-like high streets of your hometowns, or the wide open spaces of local parks; give us a flavour of the way social distancing has affected where you live.
I look forward to seeing what you bring to the table on Monday, enjoy your weekends and keep being excellent to each other.
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day fifty one.
Time to ease yourselves into the weekend with the Isolation Radio show, bringing you all the crucial tunes the Melodic Randomiser has to spare on this sunny, Summer Friday afternoon.
We begin today’s micro countdown with more from Molly Hatchet and their blistering version of the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic, “Freebird”, from 1985’s “Double Trouble Live” album.
After which extreme riffery we have a touch of serenity from Beth Orton and the opening track to her Central Reservation album; this is “Stolen Car”
Where can we go from that unlikely segue? Well, into a song by the equally mis-matched, latex-clad, 80’s Swiss hair metal screamers, Krokus, that’s where. This is a track from their 1980 Metal Rendezvous album called “Heatstrokes”
That should set the tone for a decent Friday night so, whatever you’re up to this weekend, have a great time and stay safe, my friends.
Peace
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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day fifty.
The Isolation Radio show hits the half century in style, as the Melodic Randomiser takes us one day closer to something approaching normality with today’s top three.
Starting with a fantastic track from Patti Smith‘s 1978 Easter album, this is the anthemic call to arms “Till Victory”
Thursday’s second tune is by David Bowie and comes from his album Heroes, released the year previously, this is “Joe the Lion”
We end this unlikely trio with a song from prog’s Mr Grumpy himself, Roger Waters; this is from his 2017 dystopian treatise on modern day civilisation, Is This the Life we Really Want? and it’s called “Wait for Her”
And on that cheery note, I’ll leave you until tomorrow, when I’ll bring you three more slices of musical ephemera to sort through.
Keep safe, stay happy, be good to each other.
Peace
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