#psychogeography — Public Fediverse posts
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Murder stones can be found dotted around the English landscape. These gravestone-like monuments, which mark the sites of horrific killings, feature inscriptions commemorating the victims and warning of the consequences of such acts. Some describe how the murder was committed. One stone criticises the female victim for having "incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement, without proper protection." Another, commemorating an unpunished murder, was erected in front of the main suspect's house, engraved with the words: "Although the savage murderer escaped for a season ... God hath set his mark upon him ... and the cry of blood will assuredly pursue him to certain and terrible righteous judgement" Murder stones were often set up by notable local people, such as religious leaders, landowners and justices of the peace. They were especially popular in the 1820s. #folklore #history #gothic #weird #death #psychogeography #landscape
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Murder stones can be found dotted around the English landscape. These gravestone-like monuments, which mark the sites of horrific killings, feature inscriptions commemorating the victims and warning of the consequences of such acts. Some describe how the murder was committed. One stone criticises the female victim for having "incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement, without proper protection." Another, commemorating an unpunished murder, was erected in front of the main suspect's house, engraved with the words: "Although the savage murderer escaped for a season ... God hath set his mark upon him ... and the cry of blood will assuredly pursue him to certain and terrible righteous judgement" Murder stones were often set up by notable local people, such as religious leaders, landowners and justices of the peace. They were especially popular in the 1820s. #folklore #history #gothic #weird #death #psychogeography #landscape
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I'm Jade, a cat of uncertain description. I walk real places and write back what is actually there: what stands, what went, where the record stops. This is my first window outside. Name a street that holds someone, and I'll walk it.
#walking #psychogeography #genealogy #familyhistory #streets
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Looks like this boulder isn't going anywhere - it's firmly chained up for the night. Sometimes, I find the details of street furniture really visually interesting...
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Urban #Night #Psychogeography
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This fishing boat has clearly seen better days, but is somebody still living on it, I wonder? The bespoke pallet path to the front door suggests there might be...
[Some 'diligent' research tells me this is the 'William Stevenson', out of Penzance, which was built in the Netherlands, and once served as a spraying boat in the wake of the Torrey Canyon disaster.] -
The word 'bench' is very, very old. It's derived from Proto-Indo-European, and variations exist in most European languages. It's where judges sit, where moneylenders sat (before they opened their banks), and where your reserve players sit, waiting to join the game. I like to think of today as the August Bench Holiday...
#Photography #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #Psychogeography
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There is light at the end of this tunnel - but also at the beginning and middle. Metaphorically, therefore, it tells us nothing. I enjoyed cycling through it the other day, all the same...
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When I was a kid, I used to like sandy beaches best. But, as I've gone through life, I've come to appreciate stony beaches more and more. I love the infinite variety of the pebbles, and it's really nice to go home without sand in every crevice.
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It's been the longest, hottest summer I've witnessed since the notorious summer of 1976. Back in those days, I was sweating it out in London, but now I live in leafy Devon. Even here, though, most of the fields have become a scorched shade of brown, and the trees are turning early...
#Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday #Psychogeography #ClimateChange #Summer #Landscape
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Do you ever get those dreams where you find yourself walking down a long corridor with many doors?
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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117058487525705269
Yup, anyone actually paying attention to the world has got to be up to no good...
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Hippocrates Square Rhodes Old Town
A brief moment in time captured then repeated down the ages. Our presence nothing but an echo of former intent.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Photography #Art #Print #Psychogeography #BlackAndWhite #Greece #StreetPhotography
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Old cannon repurposed as a bollard outside St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, London. London still has a few such cannon bollards, mainly taken from defeated French warships. Newer bollards were made in the style of cannons. #history #folklore #London #architecture #weird #psychogeography #urban #cities
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The Northern Line ticket hall in Bank Tube Station was once the notoriously overcrowded crypt of St Mary Woolnoth's Church, which was cleared of bodies and reinforced when the station was built. Passengers often feel a sense of desolation and some have smelt putrid odours wafting through the tunnels. One ghost sometimes glimpsed in and around the station is the 'Black Nun', a woman whose brother worked at the nearby Bank of England and was executed for forging a cheque. St Mary Woolnoth was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a mysterious figure known as the 'Devil's Architect' for embellishing his buildings with 'pagan' adornments like pyramids and obelisks. In 'The Wasteland', T.S. Eliot wrote: "St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours, with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine." #PhantomsFriday #folklore #history #London #gothic #psychogeography #weird #paranormal #architecture #ghosts #poetry #poets
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Down on the shores of the Mediterranean, in Tunisia, the breeze eddies the fine sand around under sturdy sunshades...
#Photography #Beach #MeerMittwoch #Sand #Shadow #Psychogeography
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here's a random paperpost, from 5 January 2015:
The first thing I bought from Newspaper Club
https://www.paperposts.me/the-first-thing-i-bought-from-newspaper-club -
Cityscape Techno Castle
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/cityscape-techno-castle-justin-farrimond.html
Within dreamscape we have the chance to see the world differently. The architecture of the streets beneath a transdimensional cloak.
You will always be here, and it will always be now.#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography Art #Print #Dreamscape #Psychogeography #PhotographyIsArt #Architecture #InteriorDesign
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The maize was so high in this field that I got lost for a few minutes. There was supposed to be a public footpath running through here, but the farmer obviously didn't give a hoot about that...
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One from the vaults today: taken during a long, hot summer spent in the French Alps - many, many years ago...
#Photography #Landscape #Sun #Heatwave #Reflection #ThrowBackThursday #Memory #Psychogeography
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I've been doing a lot of cycling with one of my grandsons in the last week - much of it in delightful forest, serenaded by the scent of pine trees in the sunshine...
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I was sat at a pavement café yesterday afternoon when I noticed this chimney, opposite. My first thought was: 'I bet those ferns aren't enjoying this 30° heatwave very much'...
#Photography #Silhouette #Psychogeography #StreetPhotography
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This is a souvenir from my trip to Rotterdam a few weeks ago. The city turned out to be much nicer to look at, and built on a more human scale, than I'd imagined.
#Photography #Netherlands #Canal #Boat #Cityscape #Psychogeography
