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Lost America

Abandoned places transformed into theatre sets with intense colours.

And it’s not just a mountain of eye candy — the photographer, Troy Paiva, gives info on how he achieved each effect. (He has been photographing scrapyards and abandoned places for 20 years).


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He often exposes for two minutes and uses coloured strobe flashes.


In some cases I found myself looking at what appeared to be an ancient wonder but was really quite an unexceptional building — dramatically dressed by exceptional lighting and an eye for theatrics.

Wonderful stuff!


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Click this pic to read a little bio on Paiva


You can also explore the photos here in Flickr

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I kept mine in one of Dad’s old Capstan tins if I remember correctly.
Loved them!

We called them “swaps”.

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15-18 definitely! and please say hello

10-14 possibly

9 or less … sadly, not

but if you have to ask who or what any of these pix refer to, be off with ya

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Junkyard cars and an airliner boneyard at El Mirage Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, California are inspirations for the photographer behind Lost In America, Troy Paiva

These images are all from his Flickr site

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HMPBTWM AKMD TJM ACZ-AGJM!

 
http://scottbryce.com/cryptograms/stats.htm

Stats on the English language — frequency of letters, most common words etc.
Necessary aid for deciphering secret messages etc ;=)

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More gorgeous dog collages at the site

 

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“Slinky” here reminds me of me in 1980, even if she has been amputated at the ankle. (Cloggo has explained that what I am seeing is only an illusion — she is in fact walking in snow.)

Well anyway I can tell you exactly what happened, out of the 70s into the 80s.
As all who are old enough will remember, everything changed at an accelerated rate in 1980 — economically, politically, musically, culturally.
I would love to read a book about the turn-around in attitudes at the time, because it was quite dramatic and no-one escaped the influence (apart from diehard hippies who would NEVER change).

That was the background, but it was amplified for me by a change of relationship as well. By around Easter 1980 I had had a thick head of long hair “brutally” reduced to something short, spiky and gelled, and of course the 70s wardrobe had to go into the ragbag.
Don’t blame the new beau for that; it was me who realised things had changed.
People were going to gyms, pushing and pumping, and you had to figure out where you’d fit in this new rather competitive environment.


The green velvet skirts, robes, embroidered kimonos, peasant-style tops, patchwork wrap-around, kaftan, broderie anglais, mandarin-collared silk “pyjamas” and gypsy scarves all had to go. Needless to say I had to hide the red plastic gumboots too, and the shapeless rat fur coat.

An entire wardrobe was replaced with a few body-hugging garments of which my pride and joy was a blue-spotted dress.
And I wore BIG shoes, Cloggo. Doc Marten boots with an array of straps. I could even have walked in the snow in those.

Remember, New Zealand girls always have an eye for practical considerations, handsome is as handsome does etc, so the look we pull together is never quite what you see on the models.


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