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Almscliff Crag is a popular destination for walkers, learner rock climbers and short day-trip travellers in Yorkshire. It’s less than half hour drive from Leeds and so gets quite busy. A strange and impressive, and certainly challenging, rock formation on top of a short hill…
From the top of the crag someone has a superb view over the Yorkshire Moores, green valleys and lush fields, spotted with black and white cows, small box-houses, or even long smokey chimneys of power stations. But to take a photograph from up there is not so easy… unless you know how to talk to the winds… like Tom, who is seen below (the same Tom who has created this blog’s photo header) .
The rock stands through history. It almost freezes time. A remain of natural history, a continuous part of human history. Someone could see several inscriptions of names and years upon its surface, from visitors of the past, not alive now. What did these people feel and think? Was the landscape view the same for them? How free and optimistic did that couple feel, who wrote their names here just one year before the start of the bloodiest World War?
[All photographs by Christos Stavrou © 2007. All rights reserved]
Photographs from a friend travelling in Japan right now. Painted images on walls, roller shutter doors, laptops and facades. Cultural artifacts of popular imagination and kitsch commercialism.
I keep adding new photos and discovering new words. ‘Kawaiii‘ is apparently a word of creative design, cuteness and fun.
Culture is everywhere in these pictures. And as kawaii almost harmly penetrates and revitalises experience. From statues of dogs dressed with clothes - to keep them warm in winter, to anthropomorphic products of extreme and apolitical cuteness. From ordered and well-designed cemeteries to ordered and well-designed food displays, sign fonts, and corporate identities. From imitations of VW camper vans to commemorative artifacts; such as of the frieze of a dog, who walked to work with his master on his way to the train station everyday and continued to do so even when his owner died…
Cuteness, order, consumption. Where market meets kawaiii… and vise versa. Or, where a cup of noodles promises freedom.
Photographs by Faye T © 2007 (Design & post-processing by Chr.S.)
Paris details by Omi Mai © 2007 All rights reserved
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