Acton's Lock

Peter: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:27 GMT

lock photos! thanks elaine... i love the old-looking iron hardware where tehy hinge into the ground. are they human-powered or something? cool. very oldskool, for sure. i love how there are no people whatsoever in all the photos.

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:30 GMT

you know me, a bugger for the no-people. sometimes there are a little troupe of street drunks that hang out at a bench, and there are lots of walkers and cyclers and dogs, so it's not exactly documentary style. yeah, you have to do the lock yourself if you come along in your boat, the lock keeper's cottages are privately owned by this lock

Peter: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:36 GMT

so cool! see, we could never have anything like this in america, as either were a) too stupid or b) too security-crazed to allow anyone to operate something like a lock by themselves, heh...

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:38 GMT

frinstance this one 'radio'. radio is andreas puppy, and very well behaved. i wasn't with them when i took these, just bumped into them walking to the park. i was with my friend david, and she was talking to another woman and her dog, so the no-people are in our minds rather than reality

jimenez: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:40 GMT

then let us see the photographs with all the people in them

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:45 GMT

aha! i said i took about 200 pictures of the canal, locks, bridges, grafs, and birdies, and i did take a few of radio while we talked, and in one of them you can see andrea's hand and a foot, but noooo, i did not take any with the people

jimenez: 8th Jun 2005 - 18:53 GMT

then let us see some of your two hudnred photographs i am sure some are very nice like i like the photograph of radio the dog better than the lock actually. do you have more odd ones?

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 19:00 GMT

bloody loads, actually. i thought you wanted people? i've just resized a load of people ones. what kind of odd do you want? (the people just look like people at a bus stop, so no loss there...

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 19:11 GMT

what am i thinking? loads of my postings already are canalside, frinstance; gasworks their reflections sixy trolls robotbuilding bridge grafs towpath grafs more canalside grafs and finally, but happily, recently, the lovely ducks swimming in the grass. sorry to be a self plugger, but you did ask!

jimenez: 8th Jun 2005 - 19:13 GMT

those are good photographs i am just very interested in your neighborhood thats all it looks very senic i would love to see more photographs

elaine: 8th Jun 2005 - 19:29 GMT

well i like it. london is a semi/post industrial city. big, mean and dirty, and this neighbourhood is not exactly posh, but it is interesting and i think friendly. people say london is not friendly but that is not my experience. people like to visit for holidays, though some of the stuff they do here they could do at home, like yanks seeing les miserables, why bother? it is the macdonalds of shows, same everywhere, near as dammit. i like the way there is a lot of organic, or less than deliberate evolution mixed in with the planned stuff. victoria park was one of the first public parks, well the first one in london not to be a royal park, there are commons for putting your sheep on, and the canals which used to be for transporting like trucks, but as times change uses change and adapt. there are prettier areas than bethnal green, but i did choose to live here

Anonymous (dynamic-62-56-36-136.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk): 8th Jun 2005 - 19:38 GMT

plus, btw, since the 13th of april i have done 46 postings, which is a fair few. you will have to be patient. there will be more as long as prevailing conditions of life and limb and the internet and peter and the US gorvernment holding off nuclear war instigation, and so on persist

jeeff: 8th Jun 2005 - 23:58 GMT

yeah you've totally kicked my ass in the posting department.

elaine: 9th Jun 2005 - 05:25 GMT

i was just doing what i wanted to do - but i started feeling like i had to hurry up and put more on, then i thought, wait a minute, i already did

fuzzytank: 9th Jun 2005 - 06:14 GMT

no need to offer up countings

and no need to put 'semi' in front of post industrial... there really is no better example

and there is no need to hurry up
one photo teacher said if you get 4 good shots out of every roll of 36 you are doing fucking great
even more so for digital i guess
4 outa erey 100

one day my dad said i really dont think you can fill up all that memory in a day or even a weekend... so u went out an took 400 shots
raw format
big as hell
filled it all up, but they wernt all good
just dumb luck with a finger on the trigger

and it dint mean much
so i dont really want to see 2 hundy... gimme the good ones an have the heart to forget the rest

elaine: 9th Jun 2005 - 06:55 GMT

i know, normally... thanks fuzzy, u see i did you a tank?
(i said semi just because although there is lots of 'post'ness abounding here, there is still industry, and particularly along the canal at this end where there always was)

elaine: 9th Jun 2005 - 16:23 GMT

ta, kobe, was it you who asked me to post these?

Lili: 12th Jun 2005 - 19:33 GMT

Strange and beautiful Elaine. Nice iron members on the 'lock'. Tell that puppy not to drink the water !

elaine: 12th Jun 2005 - 20:03 GMT

i don't think andrea has swam radio yet, but most of the dogs i know go in for a dip. there are places where they can get in and out easily which were put there for the horses that used to pull the barges - it seems that where they came up to bridges which had trains going overhead the horses would get such a fright they would jump in the water, and not be able to get out again, so they built steps for them

Lili: 12th Jun 2005 - 20:39 GMT

Dogs and other quadrupeds (etc) are "designed" to deal with microbes and
"little critters" that our digestive systems don't tend to deal with very
well - I was referring to microbes etc. They just lap it up - used to have
approx. 18 cats and I spent alot of time studying their habits. Some of the
cats actually preferred nasty water, standing water over really clean
water that I would give them, and I noticed that the cats that liked the
nasty water tended to get intestinal disorders (very expensive). Some of
these cats became very ill. And speaking of medicinals (other entry at
this site) I found that I could design diets that staved off these ailments.

Lili

elaine: 13th Jun 2005 - 07:47 GMT

yeah, i think that's why she doesn't swim him yet, he is still a puppy. charlie, on the other hand, does get sick, but that is because of his preference for 'street food' - the more rancid the better. the canal is pretty clean, fishes live in it, and birds live on it

Lili: 13th Jun 2005 - 08:23 GMT

Yum. So this site has inspired me to get out with my camera ? I have some
pretty good photos of UCLA Botanical Gardens - waterfalls and my pal the
one legged scrubjay (some say bluejay but they are different). Hope to be
posting more soon.

Lili

elaine: 13th Jun 2005 - 15:06 GMT

yesss, he puts a whole new twist on 'street food'. he takes off if you don't watch him like a hawk, and fine dines out the bins. he can eat a lot of rubbish in an ambient style while walking, but his last good chow down cost ian £75 and his bathroom carpet

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