france freeman | signs

iPhone photos by france freeman
of signs in washington and oregon

freeman is a professional photographer
and photo blogger from seattle

road trip | bc to alberta

photos | east of camrose

photos | various artists | urban trekking

Myrtle's an urban trekker. Says the true frontiers are the cities, so she explores 'em. Scaling skyscrapers, spelunking in abandoned subway tunnels, mounting expeditions into condemned buildings to collect artifacts. That sort of thing. . . . You Still Can't

The first seven photographs are by Michael Cook, and are found on his website The Vanishing Point - "Maps, photographs and studies of sewers, hydroelectric tunnels and other underground infrastructure in Ontario and further afield." The final three photos are taken by urban explorers in Europe, and are found at International Urban Glow.

harvey cox | feast of fools

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--
if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
W.H. Auden, "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten"

Mankind has paid a frightful price for the present opulence of Western industrial society. Part of the price is exacted daily from the poor nations of the world whose fields and forests garnish our tables while we push their people further into poverty. Part is paid by the plundered poor who dwell within the gates of the rich nations without sharing in the plenty. But part of the price has been paid by affluent Western man himself. While gaining the whole world he has been losing his own soul. He has purchased prosperity at the cost of a staggering impoverishment of the vital elements of his life. These elements are festivity -- the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration -- and fantasy -- the faculty for envisioning radically alternate life situations. Festivity and fantasy are not only worthwhile in themselves, they are absolutely vital to human life.

Harvey Cox, 1969
The Feast Of Fools

scrapiteria | beach ambush

No. 237 The Beach Ambush By Crazed Deckchair Attendants

"Scrapiteria is made up of collagists who work in the traditional cut and paste method."

photos | pictures of painting

Tanya F. Bone is a painter friend of Barb Bowen.

The buildings she is painting are at the Britannia Heritage site in Steveston.

Here's one of my favourite of her paintings, Out To Pasture.