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March, 2010:

Terremoto y tsunami – Earthquake & tsunami – Concepción, Chile 2010 – Diego Morales Aguilera

Mar 7th, 2010
by Frank.
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My name is Diego. I´m 23 years old I live in Concepción the second largest city of Chile. It all began the night of Saturday, 27 February at 3.35am…I was sleeping when suddenly I awoke from violent movements. I was so frightened that my nose spontaneously started to bleed and continued to for a long while. I was trying to run out of the building but the earth did not let me. I lost everything inside my flat, but I’m so lucky to be alive… 800 people died in my country and more then 1500 lost their houses. The earthquake was 8.8 degrees on the Richter. We’ve been knocked down, but we are strong, we are trying to get up as fast as we can…

Here are some images Diego posted on his Facebook page of the aftermath. These images of the destruction in his home town were shot on Monday, March 1st with a Handy Cam:

There are no hazard signs for dangers in the road © Diego Morales Aguilera

© Diego Morales Aguilera

Footwear Repairs © Diego Morales Aguilera

Effects of the tsunami © Diego Morales Aguilera

Resignation © Diego Morales Aguilera

© Diego Morales Aguilera

The military arrives behind schedule © Diego Morales Aguilera

© Diego Morales Aguilera

Diego calls this the ICONIC image of the Chilean Earthquake © EMOL dot com

We are Chileans and this earthquake won´t keep us down…”  – Diego Morales Aguilera

Diego suggested that donations be sent to a Chilean relief organization called Chile Ayudar a Chile [Chile Fundraiser Aims to Ignite Fundraising Efforts – Huffington Post].

Chile Earthquake Relief – How you can help – Huffington Post

In & Around Flatbush Junction – Outmoded Food Terms & Eating Habits

Mar 7th, 2010
by Frank.
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June 2003 © Frank H. Jump

Li Hung Chang, considered by some to be China - Underwood and Underwood. “Li Hung Chang, China's greatest viceroy and diplomat,” 1901. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-110736.

Chop Suey Was Invented, Fact or Fiction? August 29, 1896

Have you ever eaten chop suey? The origin of this Chinese-American dish is a bit of a mystery. Legend has it that, while he was visiting New York City, Chinese ambassador Li Hung Chang’s cooks invented the dish for his American guests at a dinner on August 29, 1896. – America’s Story – Library of Congress

History of McDonalds – Wikipedia

The McDonald’s concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald’s brothers in the concept and went on to found McDonald’s Corporation.

June 2003 © Frank H. Jump

Ray Kroc's first franchised restaurant, the tenth-ever location (though torn down and rebuilt twice), Fresno, California. - Wikipedia Commons

History of Obesity:

Obesity is simply fatness in a degree higher than being overweight. The energy intake coming from food is stored as fat because the body does not use it. Obesity has quite an impact in one’s physical health that many degenerative diseases are directly and indirectly linked to obesity as observed in the history of obesity. It may even have a much worse impact on a person’s mental health. Throughout the history of obesity, its reputation varies from appreciation and the opposite among cultures and in time.

Perhaps the most controversial is the independent film, Super Size Me. Released in 2004, Super Size Me was written, produced and directed by American independent filmmaker, Martin Spurlock in an exploration of the prevalence of obesity in the USA. He documented 30 days of his life in an experiment of eating only McDonald’s food with completely no exercise. He began the project as healthy and lean but ended up overweight. It was later followed by several other documentaries and a few changes in the McDonald’s menu. The history of obesity should be well studied so precautions can be practiced and thus prevent obesity from spreading. – History of Obesity

Previously posted:

Western Woodworking Corp – We Buy Scrap Metal – Rockaway Avenue – ENY, Brooklyn

Mar 6th, 2010
by Frank.
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Western Woodworking Corp - Sept 2003 © Frank H. Jump

We Buy... Sept 2003 © Frank H. Jump

…Copper, Die Cast, Batteries, Brass, Zinc, Radiators, Lead, Mixed Metals, Generators, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, [?]

Alice in Wonderland 1903

Mar 5th, 2010
by Frank.
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The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.

With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.

Music: ‘Jill in the Box’, composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks.

To find out more about the film, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/i…

Golden Gate – Fancy Fruits & Vegetables – Free Delivery – Marine Park, Brooklyn

Mar 5th, 2010
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ESplanade 7 - September 2002 - © Frank H. Jump

Girl on Beach – Ft. Tilden, Queens

Mar 5th, 2010
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September 2002 © Frank H. Jump

Russian Girl On Hobby Horse – Kings Highway – Midwood, Brooklyn

Mar 4th, 2010
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September, 2002 © Frank H. Jump

Recently, I found my portfolio for my Black & White Photography courses I took at Brooklyn College in preparation for my first Masters in Education and decided to share some of the shots I took in the Summer of 2002 thru the Spring of 2003. This little Russian girl was playing outside of her mother’s shop on Kings Highway and East 7th Street and was happy to have me take her photograph. She must be a teenager by now.

Satellite Dishes, 2003 – Vandalia Avenue & Erskine Loop – ENY, Brooklyn

Mar 3rd, 2010
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© Frank H. Jump

It seemed like these satellite dishes were there one day and gone the next.

© Google Maps

A rose by any other name – Rose of Sharon seed – Hibiscus syriacus – Flatbush, Brooklyn

Mar 2nd, 2010
by Frank.
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name’s colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion. Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch phrase in lyrics and verse.

Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, the plant generally referred to in American English as “Rose of Sharon” and the national flower of South Korea. The specific epithet indicates that the plant was thought to originate from Syria. The flower’s name in Korean is mugunghwa (Korean Hangul: 무궁화, Hanja: 無窮花) meaning ‘immortality’. – Wikipedia

A street by any other name – Gropecunt Lane – London – Brooklyn?

Mar 2nd, 2010
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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn NY © Ephemeral New York

Ephemeral New York posted today “a sweet story” about Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights (see image above). Contemporaneously, my friend Dr. Andrew Irving and I were walking in Brooklyn Heights the other evening after seeing the German film The White Ribbon, and while passing Love Lane, he told me the story about Gropecunt Lane in London.

Magpie Lane in Oxford, once known as Gropecunt Lane - Wikipedia

Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street’s function or the economic activity taking place within it. Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and cunt. Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare.

Although the name was once common throughout England, changes in attitude resulted in its being replaced by more innocuous versions such as Grape Lane. Gropecunt was last recorded as a street name in 1561. – Wikipedia

The Virgin Queen Elizabeth the First’s reign commenced in 1558. I’m sure eradicating “cunt” from street names was on her shortlist.

Wikipedia

The map above is described in a caption in Wikipedia as:

A 1720 map of Bread Street and Cordwainer wards included in a 19th-century edition of John Stow’s Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. The routes of three extinct streets are highlighted in blue, Puppekirtylane on the left, “Grope Countlane” in the middle, and Bordhawlane on the right. The location is opposite the modern-day Mercers’ Hall. Little Fryday Street [sic] (Pissing Alley) is visible on the left. – Wikipedia

In David Carroll’s interview with comic book author Neil Gaiman @ Tabula-Rasa, Gaiman was quoted as saying:

I’ve been reading my way through a book on London street names — it’s fascinating, especially when you’re in the older parts. Each street name comes with a huge chunk of city, and of history. You discover that Love Lane was originally called Grope Cunt Lane, and you realise what kind of love was for sale in Love Lane. Apparently most major cities had a Love Lane, or a Grope Cunt Lane, or something, and it was always very near the cathedral, which I find interesting. – Tabula-Rasa dot info

The Guardian UK also claims:

Those names survive, but others were so rude they were changed or disappeared altogether. ‘Sherborne Lane, near Cannon Street, was originally Shiteburn Lane, meaning shit house after the public lavatories in it,’ Mills says. The Corporation might also be less than keen on an alley off Cheapside called, er, Gropecunt Lane. – A street by any other name…
…might be easier to sell. By Chris Partridge – Guardian UK

Oh well, it’s “sweet” to know that things weren’t always so quaint.

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