I thought I’d lost this forever. This is a different version and it’s really badly mixed, but I’m glad I found it.
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Hilariously it’s only taken me fourteen years to get this recording this far. Maybe it’ll take less to actually complete it.
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By Silverfish Imperetrix whose incorrupted eye Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky By those who see with their eyes closed You’ll know me by my black telescope
Your green tree mantle from which these things derive A lens of quartz and refract scope That crystal lens whose crystal rope once Bound me to those doctors and wives When my vision was oh, so cloudy And I saw things through two eyes
I am a sailor on the raging depths And I know a thing or two Back to the corner, mates, and over the side Yes, I know a thing or two
By Silverfish Imperetrix whose incorrupted eye Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky By those who see with their eyes closed You’ll know me by my black telescope
Before my great conversion when the ridge was closed Before my visit to the workshop of telescope
By Silverfish Imperetrix whose incorrupted eye Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky By those who see with their eyes closed You’ll know me by my Black telescope
Yuri Gagarin was a childhood hero of mine, the first human in space and a mysterious figure from behind the iron curtain.
In the 70s, without today’s instant fingertip access to all the world’s knowledge, it was impossible for an eight-year-old in Northern Ireland to discover anything more about Gagarin other than that he existed, that he orbited the earth in 1961 and that he had a few years of international celebrity.
I lost sight of my space addiction, and never since thought to learn more about it so I’m pleased, pleasantly surprised and saddened to read this article marking the 50th anniversary of the original human in space.
I had no idea colour photography was so old, and to find it used in wartime, right in the trenches, has amazed me.
I’ve seen many, many wartime photos but since every single one of them has been black and white, so these colour images seem retrospectively staged. The colours imply a modernity that jars with the historic nature of the content. Perhaps it’s more difficult to believe they’re real because they seem too real, as if the subjects are actors in period costume, glimpsed on-set in-between takes.
Funny thing, perception.
I had no idea colour photography was so old, and to find it used in wartime, right in the trenches, has amazed me.
I’ve seen many, many wartime photos but since every single one of them has been black and white, so these colour images seem retrospectively staged. The colours imply a modernity that jars with the historic nature of the content. Perhaps it’s more difficult to believe they’re real because they seem too real, as if the subjects are actors in period costume, glimpsed on-set in-between takes.
Funny thing, perception.
Here’s the link: www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com.
As a post script, here’s Colour Photography on Wikipedia. I shoulda guessed that this was a gaping hole in my knowledge…
WWI, photography, historic