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Comments about dungenessThere are 18 comments about "dungeness"
jan : 25th September 2006: Having just got back from my usual 2 weeks in Dungeness living in one of those 'Railway Carriages' as you put it.........I fell as I always do......2 weeks is not enough............Life is so simple there,...... elaine: ta, jamie, i did it partly to mimic the original panoramic photos i took in my first dungeness posting, and partly to solve the problem of a weird smudge i get on my lens which...... Jamie: elaine i lurve the aspect of these photos. it suits the subject matter perfectly. i want to go to {dungeness}.... indykid: Come to think of it, when you think of Chenobyl, London would probably be wasted by Dungeness exploding, your no safer either!... indykid: One of the most visited places on the Marsh is Prospect Cottage:
"Derek Jarman was drawn to Dungeness by its desolate character; he used it as the setting for his film The Last of England, an...... indykid: Ahh...Dungeness, close to home. I'm from just up the road in Ashford, currently at uni in Plymouth though. There was an interesting article in Dazed and Confused last month in which they called Romney Marsh...... elaine: these pictures are better than mine [[http://www.hyperkit.co.uk/dungeness/]]... Duncan: I have been down to Dungeness many times, and can assure you all that DJ's patronage of The Pilot was inspired, despite a change of ownership in the past 10 years or so it is...... elaine: yeah babe. come and pick me up. but lissen, we got dungeness to do yet, and the martello towers and the sound mirrors.
i have been trying to get jeeff over by promising to take...... elaine: yeah, put work up. i felt constrained by the 'city' tag at first, but posted the dungeness thing anyway and brighton beach, you have to stretch things if you can, parameters, whatever. it's part of...... elaine: i am fond of it all. that is part of why i live here. some part of me thinks i should be a grown up and try to be more middle class, but most of...... elaine: yeah, i don't know if the etymology is the same or different, the scots have a particular history with france so maybe ness is nose, but dungeness is very near france and it means danger...... Jamie: **also:** dungeness sounds like it should be in scotland... Jamie: Hey no worries lady, we all go off on one sometime. Especially us arty-farty types. ##Angry Detractor##. Go to Dungeness and snap me some photos of the sound mirrors and all will be forgiven.... elaine: I know, imagine my disappointment to discover they've been mothballed. There is another one we can get to, but it's little like the round ones, not the big one. You're supposed to be able to...... hasslehoff: photos at: [[http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/dungeness.html]]
ive never seen or heard of these installations before. they look almost post-apoalyptic.... elaine: there are also very very exciting installations called sound mirrors, which they made expensively and redundantly just before radar was invented/discovered (doh). they are big and concrete and face france or so. there is...... elaine: and you thought the thread in the 'found note' commentary was obscure? this is fucking bonkers!
I laughed like a drain at the 'death march' holiday, very resonant. I think once you have that as a......
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