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Specifications of Videocon VT75C
General FeaturesStatusAvailableTypeCallingHandset ColorGrey & SilverNetwork TypeGSMAnnounced2013, March
DisplaySize7 InchesSize7 InchesTypeTFT Capacitive TouchscreenResolution800 x 480 pixels
BodyDimensions194.5 x 122.3 x 11.7 mm
PlatformOperating SystemAndroid OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean)Speed1 GHz
CameraFront CameraYes, VGAVideoYesRear Camera2 MPFront CameraYes, 0.3 MP
MemoryRAM512 MBROM4 GBRAM512 MB
Data &Internet3G/4GYesWi-FiYes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/nHDMIYes
Data & InternetGPRSYesBluetoothYes, v2.1
ConnectivityUSBYes, microUSB v2.0BluetoothYes, v2.1NFCNoNavigation TechnologyNo
MultimediaMusic PlayerYes, AAC, AMR, MP3, WAV, WMAVideo PlayerYes, 3GP, AVI, DAT, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, RMVB, VOB, WMV
SoundLoudspeakerYes3.5 mm JackYes
BatteryMusic Play TimeUp to 23 hrs 40 mins
Other FeaturesSIM OptionSingle SIMTouchscreen TypeCapacitiveAdditional FeaturesExternal 3G Dongle
Over all Review of Videocon VT75C
Overall Review
Videocon has launched VT75C, which is a tablet and is capable of working as a smartphone and a tablet as well. This product is a hybrid of both the technologies and would attract the strata of customers who love to use a smartphone with the features of a tablet. Videocon is a renowned name round the globe, which enjoys a good hold in the market shares in every sphere. The products of this company are very reasonable in terms of price and have the capability to attract the customers who belong to the middle class segment. This product is also not different from its other products. This is also priced very reasonably and has the capability to attract all those who are not running behind the high budget gadgets. Videocon VT75C runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is packed with a 2G voice calling slot.
User Interface and UI functionality
Videocon VT75C comes with TouchWiz user interface and has a very sensitive capacitive touch screen of 7-inch that provides a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The dimensions of this tablet are 194.5mm x 122.3mm x 11.7mm and it supports full HD play back for better picture and audio quality than other contemporary rivals. This tablet does not have multi-touch screen so you cannot give multiple commands to the device at one time.
Multimedia features
Videocon VT75C sports a good multimedia features with very good speakers and an audio jack of 3.5mm. The multimedia features of the tablet holds a media player and the music formats supported are MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, and AMR. Even though it features the entire best possible audio formats, VT75C does not support FM radio and recording feature.
Pictures and Video quality
Videocon VT75C is packed with a 2 megapixels rear camera and a 0.3 megapixels front-facing camera. The maximum resolution of the rear camera is 1600 x 1200 pixels and the front shows VGA quality with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The camera supports video recording with full HD video playback. The various video formats supported by the video player are MP4, AVI, FLV, MKV, WMV, RMVB, VOB, DAT, MOV and 3GP.
Internet support
Videocon VT75C is Wi-Fi enabled and also supports 3G network through a USB dongle. You can also connect to Internet via 2G network.
Internal and External Memory
Videocon VT75C tablet comes with an internal memory of 4GB, whereas you can expand the external memory up to 32GB via a microSD card slot or a T-Flash card slot. The device is packed with 512MB RAM which enables it to perform better.
Applications and Gaming
Videocon VT75C is packed with loads of applications like Google Play Store, Skype, Saavn, Facebook, TOI, ET, Diamond, and Twister2. There are so many other applications and games which are pre-loaded in the device. One can even download applications and games and could enjoy a lot with the better screen and the graphics featured in this tablet.
Battery Backup
Videocon VT75C is embedded with a Li-ion battery of 3,000mAh. The battery strength is good to keep the device alive after long hours of Internet surfing and multimedia playback.
Connectivity Offered
Videocon VT75C has a very good Wi-Fi and 2G connectivity through GPRS. For connectivity through 3G network, you have to use a dongle, for which a port has been provided in the tablet. The tablet also provides support to Bluetooth of version 2.1, whereas the wireless protocol supports Wi-Fi connection. For transfering data from one device to another a USB port has been made available at the user-end. There is one HDMI-Out port using which the TV and other devices could be attached with the device. There is no support to Infra Red connectivity.
Videocon VT75C is priced slightly higher than any other model of the same category and has so many good features better than any other product in the market. The product could be compared with Micromax Funbook Alpha and with Penta Tpad. Videocon VT75C has web browser and Micromax with Adobe flash player and the screen size is also slightly big. When comparing the operating systems, Videocon runs on Android v.4.0.1 Jelly Bean whereas Micromax FunBook Alpha has Android v.4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich platform. On the battery front, Videocon VT75C has 3,000mAh battery while Micromax FunBook Alpha comes loaded with 2,800mAh battery. Videocon VT75C tablet can store the call information like dialed, received and missed but the same feature is not supportable in Micromax FunBook Alpha. Videocon VT75C supports HDMI output slot which is missing from Micromax FunBook Alpha.
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3rd April 2013: With all the goodness of a smartphone and a tablet, Videocon has launched VT75C tablet at a very reasonable price. The tablet has 7-inch capacitive touchscreen and is powered by a single-core 1GHz processor coupled with 512MB RAM. With the latest version of Android, that is, Jelly Bean under the hood, one can enjoy unlimited access to ample number of applications and games available at the Google Play Store. Videocon VT75C is a hybrid technology which brings both the smartphone's features and also the features of a tablet. This calling tablet is packed with all the best features of the smartphone and the tablet in a very good budget price, which helps the customer to have the merged features of both smartphone and tablet in a single device.
· Videocon VT75C holds a big screen of 7-inch size, which sports a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
· The device has a memory of 4GB, whereas the external memory can be extended up to 32GB.
· It runs on Android 4.0.1 Jelly Bean OS and has 1GHz processor
· Videocon VT75C has a 3G supportive USB dongle along with 2G SIM card slot.
· The tablet has 2 megapixels primary camera and 0.3 megapixels secondary snapper.
· Has 3,000mAh battery, which is comparatively a good thing for the device.
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Are both velocity and jerk of charges responsible for magnetic fields?
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Mar7-12, 09:24 PM
It is commonly believed that changes of electric fields cause contributions to a component of the magnetic field and that changes of magnetic fields cause contributions to a component of the electric field.
In the case where the fields in question are caused by electric charges, do electric fields correspond to even-order derivatives of position, while magnetic fields correspond to odd-order derivatives of position? If so, I would first like to make the statement that this would mean that odd-order derivatives of position of an order greater than one would make contributions to the magnetic field that would still be present in other inertial frames of reference. This would be consistent with the idea that not all magnetic fields can be "Lorentz-transformed" out of the system.
My further analysis is as follows:
In AC power, the zeroth, first, second, and third derivatives of position would, I presume, have much greater significance in the total electric and magnetic fields than any higher derivatives. In the case for electric charges, this would correspond to charge, drift current, I'/t', and I''/t' respectively.
charge = Q = linear charge density * length
drift current = Q'/t' = I = linear charge density * velocity
I'/t' = linear charge density * acceleration
I''/t' = linear charge density * rate change of acceleration
From what I understand, the derivative of an acceleration, with respect to time, corresponds to the derivative of force divided by mass, with respect to time. So for a constant mass, I''/t' is proportional to the derivative of force with respect to time. The gradient of the scalar electric potential (in units of force divided by the electric charge) corresponds to a component of the electric field. The derivative of that electric field with respect to time, integrated over the surface area of a conductor and multiplied by electrical permittivity gives the value for displacement current generated in a direction normal to that conductor's surface. Therefore, regardless of the direction the total displacement current, a total that includes the component of displacement current down the length of the conductor, it may ultimately be due to jerk of the charges.
Since jerk is the second-derivative of velocity, there should be cases where the jerk of the charges contribute more to the magnetic field than that provided by the velocity of the charges. While the energy stored in the magnetic field of a solenoid is proportional to the square of velocity, as integration of a variable (v) would imply (i.e. 1/2 * v^2), in the case of the displacement current, we would have a jerk of the electrons, and let's call it k instead of j to not conflict with the imaginary number j used in electrical engineering. Given a constant linear charge density, charge drift velocity v is proportional to drift current, and k is proportional to displacement current.
Knowing that:
sin(t)' = cos(t)
cos(t)' = -sin(t)
-sin(t)' = -cos(t)
-cos(t)' = sin(t)
In the case for a sinusoidal drift current, we have the following relations:
charge / charge_max = -cos(t)
drift current / drift current_max = sin(t)
(I'/t') / (I'/t')_max = cos(t)
(I''/t') / (I''/t')_max = -sin(t)
In this case, the derivative of drift current / drift current_max ((drift current / drift current_max)'=cos(t)) is exactly opposite that of (I''/t') / (I''/t')_max (((I''/t') / (I''/t')_max)'=-cos(theta)). In the case of a lossless LC circuit, changes in drift current are directly opposite of changes of displacement current. However, obviously, this condition does not hold when switching the LC circuit from the off position (open circuit) to the on position (closed circuit), for if the changes of these two currents were directly equal and opposite from one another from the moment of being switched on, then no net change of current, and thus no net change of magnetic field, could develop in the first place. The alternating net magnetic field clearly does exist, even in an AC circuit.
Have I got it right so far?
First, let's stick to the sinusoidal condition:
Now considering that the electromagnetic field produced by a drift current has a stored energy content proportional to v^2, we should analogously expect that the displacement current stores magnetic potential energy proportional to k^2. In a sinusoidal situation, this would imply a total magnetic potential energy storage proportional to x(sin(t))^2 + y(-sin(t))^2, where x and y are proportionality constants. So obviously in that case we would have a situation where the magnetic potential energy goes up and down. Presumably, the electrical potential energy would vary according to, say, x(-cos(t))^2 + y(cos(t))^2, corresponding to position and acceleration, respectively.
But what if we do not have a sinusoidal condition? Then the derivative of the drift current / drift current_max is not necessarily equal and opposite to the derivative of (I''/t') / (I''/t')_max. Then the idea that displacement current was necessarily converted from the drift current becomes invalid.
Maybe the displacement current is a manifestation of the jerk of electrons or other kinds of charge, such as virtual electron-positron pairs in the vacuum? If the magnetic potential energy stored in the field of an inductor were proportional to (I^2 + b^2*(I''/t')^2) (where b is another constant) instead of simply being proportional to I^2, all one would have to do to create a magnetic field is to jerk the electrons in the circuit. The rate at which you could turn the field on and off would in turn be proportional to jounce of the electrons, as opposed to the acceleration of the electrons, as in the case of passing alternating drift current in an inductor.
While capacitance relates to stored charge, resistance relates to drift current (I), and inductance relates to I'/t', there does not appear to be any conventionally taught terms relating to I''/t' and I'''/t'.
We would have an effective current equal to I + b*(I''/t'). The integral of this with respect to time would equal to the "effective" charge passed through. The integral of I with respect to time (=Q) is the amount of electrical charge that had passed through a surface cutting through the conducting path. The integral of (I''/t') with respect to time is (I'/t'), which equals linear charge density * acceleration. The electric flux divided by surface of that conductor gives the electric field, and the charge subject to that field will have an acceleration proportional to it. Therefore, the increase of electric flux through that surface is proportional to the acceleration of the electrons at that surface. When the acceleration is ceased, as is the case for DC, then this additional electric flux component is eliminated. That residual electric flux could thus be switched on and off simply by applying and removing an external E-field onto to the electrons in the circuit. The stored energy of that electric flux would fluctuate at a rate that can easily be disproportional to drift current, as it would instead be proportional to the second derivative of drift current with respect to time.... For, in the case of non-sinusoidal drift currents, particularly in situations where the circuit is driven at a frequency higher than its natural one (off-resonant), the rise of displacement current produced is "decoupled" from the fall in drift current, resulting in what may lead to a displacement current greater than the peak value of I.
As more charge is withdrawn from the (-) source, the acceleration of the charges plummet exponentially as time passes, as does the displacement current. Some of this is acceleration down the length of the conductor, and some of it is deceleration with respect to the surface of the conductor. What amount of time does it take for the E-field to be created? Very little time, limited by the propagation speed of the electromagnetic wave down the conductor and the length of that conductor. Thus, simply applying the electric field polarizes the medium interface consisting of the wire and the space out of it much faster than electrons flow through it. The energy stored in the polarization of the medium consisting of that interface is therefore proportional to the deceleration of electrons with respect to surface of the conductor. The power of the alternation between states of polarization is therefore proportional to the jerk of the electrons with respect to the surface of the conductor, for it is that component of acceleration contributing to the displacement current through that surface. Another way to look at it is that this component of power is proportional to the slew rate of the electric flux, which for a fixed area, is proportional to the slew rate of the electric field, and which for a fixed length, is proportional to the slew rate of the voltage. Therefore, for a wire element of fixed dimensions, the power of the alternation between states of polarization is proportional to the rate change of the voltage. The maximum of that power occurs just after the very moment the circuit is switched on, which is also when the drift current is at a minimum.
In contrast to the above, for magnetic dipoles, we would have the opposite relationship, in which case electric fields correspond to odd-order derivatives of position and magnetic fields correspond to even-order derivatives of position.
The above would be implied if variations of electric and magnetic fields were based on derivatives of positions of electric monopoles and magnetic dipoles. Therefore, I ask this:
Are both velocity and "jerk" of charges responsible for magnetic fields?
If the answer is yes, then I also ask the following:
In this situation, we have capacitance formed between a wire in a closed circuit and the surrounding environment, causing lines of electric flux to concentrate near the - end and + end of the wire. Presumably, this causes displacement current to flow out of the wire at some acute angle to the surface of the wire depending on the weakening of the electric field from the - end to the + end of the circuit. This would result in displacement current possessing a net longitudinal component outside of the wire along its course between the - end and the + end. Thus, it would act as a displacement current in parallel to the drift current, and it would be capable of producing a magnetic field that is generally in the same direction as that which would be produced by the flow of the electrons (with minor deviations near the - and + ends of the wire). In other words, it would reinforce the magnetic field produced by the electrons, in a way similar, but different, to that of a capacitor hooked in parallel.
Is it conceivable that for non-sinusoidal waves generated by pulsing far beyond the natural frequency of the circuit, such as electrical impulses, that the relationship, between excess charge on the conductor and the number of charges passing through a conductor at any given time, breaks down so much that electrons that move down the wire account only for up to 1% of the magnetic field in the wire?
If that is conceivable, this would mean that the drift current can be arbitrarily small, as if the circuit were still open, and yet the same desired magnetic field can be produced, and propagating near the speed of light, if circuit parameters are optimized to manifest this condition, though that component of the magnetic field (due to displacement current) would only exist so as long as I''/t' is not zero.
Thus, it would be logical to think that the number of electrons displaced from the (-) end of the circuit can be made arbitrarily small compared to the fields produced surrounding the conductor. Is that not a paradox? What is missing here?
If all the above is the case for non-sinusoidal pulses, in a non-sinusoidal waveform, where does the energy stored as a magnetic field (resulting from the displacement currents flowing between the negative end to the positive end of the circuit) come from, if it is arbitrarily disproportional with the amount of charge displaced from the (-) end of the circuit?
Mar7-12, 10:07 PM
Mar7-12, 11:34 PM
BTW: You do realize that some formulas which do not have higher derivative terms can be expanded to an infinite series with those higher derivatives... Right? This is why I find your answer incomplete.
Mar8-12, 06:16 AM
Are both velocity and jerk of charges responsible for magnetic fields?
Mar8-12, 09:17 AM
The zeroth derivative of position is just position.
The first derivative of position is velocity.
The second derivative of position is acceleration. Etc.
So if a charged particle has no velocity relative to the observer (i.e. first-order derivative of position x'=0), how can there be no electric field?
Just by looking at the equations, in the case that we assume that [itex]1 - \mathbf{n} \cdot \boldsymbol{\beta}=1[/itex], I can see that the scalar potential [itex]\varphi(\mathbf{r}, t)[/itex] is a function of position (zeroth-order derivative of position) and the time derivative of [itex]\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)[/itex] is a function of acceleration (second-order derivative of position). The gradient of the scalar potential at [itex]\mathbf{r}[/itex] is proportional to the value of [itex]\varphi(\mathbf{r}, t)[/itex] at [itex]r[/itex]. Thus [itex]\mathbf{E} = - \nabla \varphi - \dfrac{\partial \mathbf{A}}{\partial t}[/itex] depends on the zeroth and second-order derivatives of position. The curl of [itex]\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)[/itex] at [itex]r[/itex] is proportional to [itex]\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)[/itex] and the sine of the angle between gradient of [itex]\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)[/itex] at [itex]r[/itex] and the direction of [itex]\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r},t)[/itex] at [itex]r[/itex]. This makes [itex]\mathbf{B} = \nabla \times \mathbf{A}[/itex] dependent on relative velocity (the first-order derivative of position).
Mar8-12, 09:20 AM
Summary of key questions:
Mar8-12, 11:04 AM
Mar8-12, 12:07 PM
a = c*(1-b)/(1-d)
a corresponds to c but not either to b nor d.
The degree of proportionality depends on b or d, but neither b nor d are proportional to a.
The factor [itex]\mathbf{n} - \boldsymbol{\beta}[/itex] appears in the numerators of E and B forms of the Liénard-Wiechert potentials, while the factor [itex]1 - \mathbf{n} \cdot \boldsymbol{\beta}[/itex] appears in the denominators of them. Neither the [itex]- \boldsymbol{\beta}[/itex] term nor the [itex]- \mathbf{n} \cdot \boldsymbol{\beta}[/itex] term "correspond" to the value of E and B. I hope that clears it up.
Mar8-12, 12:45 PM
Mar8-12, 01:31 PM
c is a factor in that equations. So are (1-b) and (1-d). -b and -d are the second terms of each factor, respectively. (1-b)/(1-d) "corresponds" to a as well, but both factors (1-b) and (1-d) are dimensionless. a and c are not necessarily dimensionless. The point anyway is not the dimensionality, but rather the fact that -b and -d are terms, not the factors themselves. It is the factors which may have proportionality, not the terms within them.
I defined current as:
current = linear charge density * velocity
linear charge density and velocity are factors in this equation. They both "correspond" to current. On the other hand, say we had the following equation:
current = linear charge density * (speed of light - some other velocity)
"some other velocity" does not correspond to the current, even if "velocity = speed of light - some other velocity".
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I don't know if you meant for it to read this way, but it looks like you're accusing Jon Finkel of perpetuating all this nastiness.Yeah, as other people pointed out, I didn't. I was talking about people who 'identified' themselves as being like Finkel, even though Finkel wasn't actually all that much like them. Maybe a lot of those guys harbored fantasies that they were so smart and so good at games that they'd one day make enough money playing that they could afford to start their own hedge funds (and be good at it, because they are so smart).
Now listen—you mustn't be too upset with Miss Hart. She's a female writer for a tech website, and that is a very, very difficult job. In order to fit in, she has had to internalize all the ways that boys in her industry treat girls poorly and take them for granted. It's okay to blame her less than you do the boys who were mean. As you grow, I'll be proud of you if you tend to assign blame to power and tend to forgive the oppressed.He follows it up with: "Some have said that Alyssa was trolling, but whether she was or wasn't does not matter anymore." Well, you know, I rather think that it does.
My main objection is that he doesn't seem to address the fact that a significant percentage of gamers, often the majority, are women. 53% of gamers in mobile platforms, 42% of online players, 42% of players in the USA. According to the last link, 72% of U.S. households play games and the average player is 37 years old. In the UK, 59% of 6-56 year-olds are gamers with 48% being women and half of the 36-50s playing games according to the Beeb.Yeah, he's using "gamer" to mean, basically, "nerd" He doesn't seem to realize that there is a huge range of 'gamers' encompassing much of the the human race. Old grannies playing Wii. People playing farmville. Whatever. I think he meant to restrict it to card games/fantasy games (he is apparently big in the 'magic' world, or something?)
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for April 22, 1998
It Took 20 Years
Libations of wine were common in religious ritual throughout all of early history...In the Christian religion, wine became the supreme symbol of the unity between human and divine.
... "Gods, Men, and Wine, "William Younger
The Christian sacrament of communion illustrates how fully the subtle pleasures of wine drinking became associated with the religious urge both to find union with God and friendship with one another.
..."Religion and Wine," Prof. Robert Fuller, Bradley U.
Throughout history good wine has played its role in the mystery of table communion at home and at worship. It's taken me 20 years to come up with a communion wine."
...The Rev. John Staten, the first Presbyterian minister to run a winery in the USA, Field Stone.
Rev. Staten's wine is called "Convivio." It is derived from the Italian word for "banquet," and refers to the union that's experienced when people gather around a table to share bread, wine and the substance of their lives.
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NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. - Luke Kirwan scored two goals to lead the United States to gold with a 4-0 victory over Pacific at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
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Hi, I'm new to this and have very little technical knowledge so please be gentle!
I'm attempting to install SilverStripe. All my settings seem ok except for a warning saying .htaccess needs to be writable. I couldn't see it on the server so found a forum that stated how to make one in windows (text file called htaccess.txt, then rename it on the server to .htaccess). As soon as I rename it, the files seems to disappear, but if I go to upload it again, I get an overwrite request.
The problem is, if I can't see it, how can I change it's write properties?
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OK, I realised my stupidity just as I sent the last message - I changed the permissions BEFORE I changed the filename - sorry to waste your time!
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Easter is just an innovation according to Muslims. via France: Muslim unfolds prayer carpet in church and reads Koranic verses during Easter mass | Diversity Macht Frei.
The worshippers present at the scene were dumbfounded. This Sunday morning, in a collegiate church full to bursting, a man wearing a djellaba and headgear came to pray. He laid a carpet to the left of the altar, while the Easter mass was underway.
The man, visibly disturbed, read verses from the Koran before writing some lines in Arabic in the parish register. After having caused disruption for the first time during the mass on Palm Sunday one week ago in la Bedugue then in the collegiate church, some worshippers had warned the police.
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The 2014 edition of Nyack College's art and literary journal, The Fine Print, which features student and faculty's original poetry, short stories, art, and photography, has been released. Surrounded by a display of the book's prints and photos, Fine Print staff announced student awards at Monday evening's Gala (April 7th). The staff also recognized this year's Dedicatee, Mrs. Linda Poston, for her support for the creative arts at Nyack College. This year, over 40 contributors from Nyack's Manhattan and Rockland campuses contributed to make this one of the best editions yet. The photography and art will be on display at the Bailey Library, and copies of The Fine Print are available at the circulation desks at all three Nyack libraries. A list of award winners may be found on the English Department's website.
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Picnicking with stingrays on Moorea, French Polynesia in the South Pacific.
South Pacific is etched into the traveler's sub-conscious as a series
of glorious, sunny, relaxed palm-fringed beaches surrounded by kaleidoscopic
fish, soft coral, sensual girls and muscular, tattooed guys.
And it
was thus - in Gauguin's time a hundred years ago, but that perfect
combination of Polynesia assets is very difficult to find these days
unless you have a big wad and jet into a five star bubble. Even then
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Easter Island Fiji Tahiti Bora Bora Rarotonga Moorea
Our aim with this gallery of pictures and beaches information is
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travellers who don't have a fat wallet to areas where they may have
a chance of finding some measure of peace, plenty and privacy.
A typical black sand beach bordered by Tahiti's ring road on the south coast.
Tahiti is past its sell-by date, overbuilt and short of interest, both scenically or culturally.
is also expensive but hosts an international airport (Faaa) and frequent
flights that arrive late so many beach freaks have no choice but
to stay over en route to far more appealing Bora Bora,
Moorea or other islands.
Moorea lacks massive beaches but is nevertheless closer
to a tropical dream destination than Tahiti.
It's calm, with no urban centre, encircled by crystal seas, white sand beaches and a mature coral
reef. At the core of this small island is a magnificent cluster of
lush mountainous peaks.
Moorea is what Tahiti may have been 30 years ago.
are fair,
the circular road is placid, the people are
amiable, facilities are comfortable
and a huge variety of marine
activities are available.
French Polynesia (e.g. Tahiti, Moorea, Bora
Bora) is generally the most expensive area of the South Pacific,
and, need we say, French speaking?
• Fiji and its many islands are the best value
group of South Pacific islands, English speaking, not so far from
Australia or New Zealand and well set up to look after backpackers
and their needs.
Probably the most beautiful, well-sorted 'paradise'
beaches in the South Pacific (i.e.
sporting superb resorts, hideously expensive of course) are on French Polynesia's Bora
Bora, The Cook Island's Aitutaki, Tonga's Foa island (Ha'apai islands
group) and Fiji's Yasawa Island. We couldn't afford to go to these
places so cannot offer pictures or subjective information on them.
Culturally the most interesting easily-accessible island group is
Fiji, though Rarotonga, Moorea and Samoa all have valid culture tours
or shows.
Pricey but gorgeous just about summarises Bora Bora.
Bora, a short flight from Tahiti, is a stunning French
Polynesian holiday spot in an amazing setting and sporting one of the
world's best beaches, but it's costly to both get
and stay there and is divorced from real life.
South Pacific's best snorkelling and scuba diving are found in North Fiji's Somosomo Strait (speciality soft coral, best
visibility May-October), French Polynesia's Rangiroa
atoll (a huge cluster of tiny islets northeast of Tahiti, hotels
available, best December-March for sharks) and Tonga's
Ha'apai (terrific caves and canyons) and Vava'u islands (May-October
for humpback whales. Superb sailing too).
One of Rarotonga's best beaches, and not exactly busy. This is one of the Cook Islands.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga is a quiet, better value, English-speaking version
of a French Polynesian island, 900 kms west of Tahiti and ringed by
a fractured reef.
Some beaches are superb but others are covered with sharp coral rocks and impossible to use comfortably, particularly
along the north east shore. Rarotonga has a fine variety of places to stay, but when
booking your hotel it would be advisable to ask about the sand quality
of nearby beaches.
accessed by a pricey flight from Rarotonga, is the Bora Bora of the
Cook Islands, a gorgeous 5 sq. mls (8 sq. kms) coral atoll necklaced
by an azure lagoon and 21 talcum sand islets, 225 kms (140 mls) north
of Rarotonga. The big action on Aitutaki involves either hiking to
the top of 124 metre high Mount Maungapu for an overview of the area,
snorkelling, fishing or scuba, with lunch served on one of the coconut
tree shaded, white sand islands.
The most popular island in Aitutaki is touted as one of the world's
best beaches, One Foot Island aka Tapuaetai, a 20 minute boat ride from the main island.
Although the flight here is pricey (several 50 min flights a day),
accommodation is not too bad, ranging from the expensive Aitutaki
Lagoon Resort to some reasonable guest houses and backpacker lodges.
Aitutaki, One Foot Island (aka Tapuaetai).
of the Cook Island's outer islands also have flights from Rarotonga
so diehard adventure travellers could find places with few or no other
visitors and isolated atolls. Accommodation of some sort - even with
local people - is always available. These islands are among those
that have flights:
Manihiki (north), aka the Island of Pearls,
is one of the prettiest of the Cook's with a 4km wide lagoon - dotted
with 40 islets - that provides top snorkelling, swimming and black
Pukapuka (north) is small, remote and
has habits and customs similar to Samoa. Swimming and snorkelling
are good.
Mangaia (the most southerly island) offers
stunning rock formations and caves, so climbing, caving, interesting
drives, biking and horse riding can be added to the usual snorkelling
n.b. Rarotonga and Aitutaki are in the southern island group.
A typical, laid-backpacker beach resort on one of the Yasawa Islands in Fiji.
all the South Pacific island groups Fiji is the one with the lowest prices
and greatest variety of travel, activity, beaches and cheap accommodation
options, so the most popular with budget-conscious backpackers and
flashpackers (a term coined in New Zealand to mean low-level travellers
who have a slightly more spending power and are ready to pay a bit extra
for comfort or unusual experiences). Fiji is also English-speaking.
Easter Island is a different Pacific experience entirely, being even more expensive and time consuming to reach but scenically and culturally amazing, a really unique destination. And it has a pleasant beach too.
• traffic: these islands experience varying amounts of road
noise on their limited roads; even Bora Bora
suffers from scooter whine.
• tropical islands can see some cloud and rain on a regular basis due to the heat
and humidity, so don't expect endless sunshine even in the dry season
• the South Pacific has a some thieving from
hotel rooms, even in good resorts.
• mosquitoes will always be on the prowl for fresh blood, though they're not normally malarial, so take precautions.
Pacific triangle map South Pacific Map
The best months generally are May - October. The South Pacific
lies in the tropics so all islands are warm and humid year round.
The dry season is climatically best, May to October, with less humidity,
cloud cover, rain, wind, rough seas and seaweed on beaches. However,
July and August get very crowded with visitors, especially Australians
and Kiwis escaping winter back home.
Beware the November to April wet season. Don't believe travel agents
who tell you it only rains for an hour a day. Not true! It may
rain for an hour, it may rain for days on end, and even when
it doesn't cloud cover could spoil the sunshine, winds make boating
unpleasant, choppy water makes snorkelling water murky and beaches
wear a coat of seaweed. Hurricane force winds (cyclones) may also
occasionally make an appearance.
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Playground of memories
When I need a laugh I pull out my copy of Unreliable Memoirs by Australian ex-patriot polymath Clive James. The whole book is funny but one of my favourite passages involves concrete footpaths, billy carts and rubber tyre marks. Oh, and poppies.
The pavement often appears in people's reminiscences of childhood. This is not remarkable, especially if they lived in inner city areas when they were young. After all, children are close to the pavement and playing on it is an everyday experience – or at least it was when children had more freedom. There were games like hopscotch and chalk chase that needed to be marked out on the hard surface, rhymes and chants about avoiding the cracks (or break your mother's back), and hot sticky bitumen roads that were torture to cross in bare feet in the summertime.
Even in the sprawling suburbs where spacious backyards were the norm, streets served as a communal playground for ball games and competitive races that could only be staged on paved surfaces. Clive James played with neighbourhood kids on the footpaths of Kogarah, a suburb of Sydney.
James has been in the news lately. He is suffering from a terminal illness and The New Yorker has published an emotional new poem written by him as he contemplates his death. Also this fortnight there has been the two-part documentary Brilliant Creatures: Germaine, Clive, Barry and Bob on ABC-TV. So as a tribute to him I reproduce here an excerpt that introduces the episode of the billycarts and poppies. If you haven't already read the book – or even if you have – I recommend you track down a copy.
Other children, most of them admittedly older than I, but some of them infuriatingly not, constructed billycarts of advanced design, with skeletal hard-wood frames and steel-jacketed ball-race wheels that screamed on the concrete footpaths like a diving Stuka. The best I could manage was a sawn-off fruit box mounted on a fence-paling spine frame, with drearily silent rubber wheels taken off an old pram … Carts racing down the footpath on the far side had a straight run of about a quarter of a mile all the way to the park … Carts racing down the footpath on the near side could only go half as far, although nearly as fast, before being faced with a right-angle turn into Irene Street. Here a pram-wheeled cart like mine could demonstrate its sole advantage. The traction of the rubber tyres made it possible to negotiate the corner in some style. I developed a histrionic lean-over of the body and a slide of the back wheels which got me round the corner unscathed, leaving black smoking trails of burnt rubber.
Clive James, Unreliable memoirs, London: Picador, 1981.
The billycart photograph is in the collection of Museum Victoria. Reg. No: MM 110102
The swagman artist
Ernest Reynolds was a street showman, a colourful character who made a living as a pavement artist for over 30 years. His home town was Adelaide in South Australia and he claimed to have travelled the world as a seaman and artist. On the tramp around country towns in Australia, he drew such crowds that he often rated a mention in local newspapers as 'the swagman artist'. His career as a 'pioneer in chalks' began in Sydney around 1900 and by the 1930s he was setting up his pitch in places like Adelaide, Mount Gambier (SA), Broken Hill (NSW) and Kalgoorlie (WA).
Described by reporters as a 'picturesque personality', Mr Reynolds called himself 'a travelling artist and scientist' and made pronouncements about scientific matters including, for instance, the geological origins of the Blue Lake in Mount Gambier. In Sydney, he said, he had been decreed the world's champion pavement artist in 1930, and he liked to be referred to as the King of Pavement Artists.
He also told reporters that he was a descendent of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the famous 18th century English painter. But his most famous pavement art work was a rendition of William Holman Hunt's 1910 religious painting, 'The Light of the World', which he could do in 6 hours 18 minutes. Once, after this picture had been on the pavement for several days in Broken Hill, the Barrier Miner newspaper reported that ' one devout woman … to prevent its desecration by the feet of the multitude, visited the spot with scrubbing brush and soap and washed the pavement clean'.
Reynolds made amusing comparisons about the generosity of various towns. In Sydney, he said, the people hurry past and 'let you starve on!' And in Mount Gambier he told a reporter that the public did not seem to be aware of the fact that he was doing this work for a living. The journalist duly wrote that 'he would like them to realise that a silver coin would be acceptable'.
The drawing at the top of this blog post is copied from another blog Cipher Mysteries. Blogger Nick Pelling found Ernest Reynolds while hunting down another person named Reynolds (it's complicated) but does not mention where he found the picture.
But I first encountered Ernest Reynolds in yet another blog, All my own work! – a history of pavement art by Philip Battle. I have since found out more by searching for newspaper articles about Reynolds in the National Library of Australia's marvellous resource, Trove.
Philip Battle's stories about screeving – mostly in Britain – are based on meticulous research and his posts feature wonderful archival illustrations. Philip is now turning his blog into a book, and he is hoping to raise a modest sum to publish it through crowd funding. Perhaps you would like to help him.
In an art gallery bookshop recently I came across a little book on a subject that interests me. It has taken me a long time to discover it, since it was first published in 1994. Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets and philosophers is by design philosopher, Leonard Koren.
It may have been Koren's book that put the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi on Western curricula. These days most designers will have had some passing acquaintanceship with wabi sabi during their student years, although few have any real grasp of the concept. This is not surprising. Apparently author Marcel Theroux presented a program called 'In Search of Wabi Sabi' on BBC Four in 2006. In it he asked people on a Tokyo street to describe wabi sabi, but he was usually given a polite shrug and the explanation that wabi sabi is simply unexplainable. So, while I cannot possibly encapsulate Koren's elegant little book in a blog post, I can give you an idea of some of the things he says about wabi sabi.
Peripherally associated with Zen Buddhism, and based on the idea that truth comes from the observation of nature, wabi sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete; a beauty of things modest and humble; a beauty of things unconventional.
Wabi sabi is an aesthetic appreciation of the evanescence of life, and its images force us to contemplate our own mortality. They evoke an existential loneliness and tender sadness mingled with bittersweet comfort, since we know all existence shares the same fate.
If things are described as having the quality of wabi sabi, it means that their appearance suggests natural processes. They are made of materials that are visibly vulnerable to the effects of weathering and human treatment, and they record these processes in a language of discolouration, rust, tarnish, stain, warping, shrinking, shrivelling and cracking. Their nicks, chips, bruises, scars, dents and peeling are testament to histories of use and abuse. Koren even says that "wabi-sabi comes in an infinite spectrum of grays".
Now you can see why I might be interested in wabi sabi. Don't these descriptions of the material qualities of wabi sabi fit so well the appearance of worn pavements! I am reminded of the chapter on 'How to look at pavement' in James Elkins's book How to use your eyes. "Cracking, distortion, disintegration, ravelling, shoving, rutting – I love the terminology of distressed pavement," says Elkins, "The utterly ordinary mangled surface of the road … is full of metaphors for human disaster".
My interest in wabi sabi extends to the aesthetic appeal (or otherwise) of run-down parts of the city – old alleyways, derelict industrial sites, shabby shopping strips, crumbling houses. But I'll save that discussion for another time.
Elkins, James, How to use your eyes, New York, Routledge, 2009.
Green, Penelope, At home with Leonard Koren: an idiosyncratic designer, a serene new home, The New York Times, 22 September 2010.
Koren, Leonard, Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers, Point Reynes, California, Imperfect Publishing, 2008.
Wabi-sabi, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_sabi
No parking
Posted by megan in city, gardens, protest, rules and regulations, signs & symbols, territoriality on 23 June 2014
This is a story about the struggle between the green and the grey, between leaves and asphalt, between street trees and street parking, between what ought to be and what is. In inner city suburbs like Enmore and Stanmore, Marrickville Council is caught in this struggle.
One of the most stressful aspects of urban living is the shortage of parking. Suburbs that sprang up in the Victorian era, when there was no such thing as a motor car, are now undergoing gentrification; households often have more than one car but few houses have off-street parking.
Given the convenience of public transport in area, why do these people need cars? Partly it's snobbery. Does your solicitor join the plebs on a bus to work? Would your doctor be seen dead in a train? Partly it's necessity. With both parents working, try juggling work hours, childcare drop-offs and pick-ups, and Saturday sport all over the city. However much people might agree in principle with the environmental benefits of public transport and bicycle riding, often these are just not viable options.
Shortage of street parking spaces is made worse by visitors to the area. Now that Enmore has become a 'vibrant entertainment precinct' hundreds of customers come in the evenings to attend performances or enjoy the many new restaurants, bars and cafes. And they don't necessarily want to travel across the city in public transport at night to get home. So they infiltrate ever-deeper into residential territory to find parking for their cars. Residents jealously guard driveways (if they have them) and fume when they have to park blocks away from their homes. Marrickville Council knows all this and is trying to address the problem with committee meetings, surveys, community consultation, plans and projects.
So why is Council intent on reducing the amount of parking in contested areas, rather than finding extra spaces? It's because they are also committed to an Urban Forest Strategy that 'recognizes the urban forest as an essential, living infrastructure asset and resource that provides a wide range of social, environmental and economic benefits'.
And this is what has prompted the demonstration project in Cavendish Street, Enmore, where large Lilli Pilli trees have been planted in structured soil in the roadway. I wrote about this project in my earlier post 'What lies beneath'. And even though 'permeable paving' means that the space taken up by tree-planting 'blisters' is smaller than would normally be needed to keep trees healthy, there is no question that parking spaces have been lost. Residents of the street are supposed to have agreed to this arrangement, but they probably would have agreed to any scheme that saw the former huge, inappropriate and destructive fig trees removed from their footpaths.
Meanwhile parking pressure on nearby streets has been increased just that bit extra. What's more, Marrickville's draft Master Street Plan has Lilli Pilli (Waterhousia floribunda) or similarly large trees slated for some of these same streets. Given the narrowness of the verges, this must mean more in-road planting and more parking lost. Residents of these streets are not going to be too happy about this.
A 2013 survey of residents in the Marrickville Local Government Area found that most people like having greenery in their suburbs. Of course. But what the survey doesn't mention is that householders also like to park close to their homes and businesses don't want customers put off by lack of parking. Until a whole lot of things in the world change, this reliance on cars and the need for parking isn't going to go away. In-road planting is an impractical component of the urban forest strategy and would have measurable social and economic costs. An ideological commitment to such a component would have a detrimental, not a beneficial, effect on the local area. Small trees, please.
What lies beneath
Posted by megan in city, gardens, paving materials, underground on 8 June 2014
New trees have been planted in Cavendish Street, Enmore, but for pavement fanciers the interest lies in the method used to install them. The process was far more complex than simply plonking a tree in a hole. It involved such things as 'in-road planting' and 'structural soil' and 'plastic cells' and 'permeable paving' – all designed to address 'multiple issues, including impact of trees on infrastructure, safety of footpaths, enhancement of the urban tree canopy, landscape amenity and urban water management'.* And preventing the road surface from cracking or caving in.
Marrickville Council seems pretty pleased with the project, which is the first of its kind for this municipality, and maybe for the whole of Sydney. It's been interesting watching the process, but I have some misgivings.
It all started more than three years ago, when Marrickville Council began removing very large fig trees from the footpaths on the street. Although enjoyed by birds and bats, these trees broke up the paving and invaded underground pipes. I wrote a blog post about local mourning when the first tree was removed.
The story resumes in April this year, and here's how it goes. The Council excavates three huge rectangular pits in the street, digging deep down into the clay beneath the surface of the road.
Underground infrastructure, including gas pipes, is adjusted and gravel is spread in the bottom of each hole.
Next, a layer of large plastic cells is positioned in the pit and 'structural soil' is tipped in between them. Another layer of cells and soil is added, this time with a rectangular hole in the centre fenced off with plywood formwork. As I understand it, the plastic cells act as support for the roadway above; the structural soil is a mix of gravel and loam that resists being compacted and allows tree roots to spread and grow.
Over the soil comes a layer of geotextile then another layer of gravel.
Concreters build retaining edges around the central tree hole to form a 'blister'. This will prevent cars bumping into the tree trunk.
Permeable pavers are laid. Rain falling on the road will flow towards this area of porous paving. This means that street run-off will infiltrate the tree pits instead of gushing down the gutters and into stormwater drains.
Within a day or so, on a nice rainy morning, advanced trees are lifted into the central hole, the formwork is removed and more soil is tipped around the large root ball. The three trees are Waterhousia floribunda 'Green Avenue', a cultivar of the rainforest Weeping Lilli Pilli that is expected to grow to 16 metres.
The project is not quite finished. A garden will be planted inside each blister. But the safety fencing has been replaced by witches' hats and the official photographer has been sent to take photos for Council publications. As the unofficial photographer and busybody I'm rushing into e-print with this blog post.
In my next post I will talk about how my admiration for this aboricultural and civil engineering feat is tempered by reservations about the push and pull of local council policies.
*Marrickville Matters, December 2013, p.9.
Walking on clouds
Posted by megan in art, city, people, public art, signs & symbols on 29 May 2014
The public artwork by Jason Wing in Chinatown is so appealing that night-time shots of it – like images of the Opera House – are frequently used in promotional material to illustrate just how artistic/ vibrant/ innovative/ cultural/ multicultural Sydney really is. Commissioned by the City of Sydney in 2011, Between Two Worlds incorporates 'themes of heaven and earth, the elements, and respect for ancestors past and present '.
At night the glowing blue spirit figures suspended over the dingy service lane are visually dominant, but in the daytime it is the 'auspicious clouds' on the roadway and walls that first catch the eye.
Naturally I am interested in an installation that includes 'floor murals' (as the City of Sydney calls them), and last week I paid a visit to see how these were faring after three years of wear and tear. After all, the vulnerability of artistic mediums (whether paint, plumbing or electronics) means that public artworks do not always survive interaction with the public.
It turns out that the pavement clouds are going well. The etchings on the granite pavers at the corners of the laneway are proving resilient and most of the paint on the concrete roadway has lasted. It must be a blue version of the kind of tough paint used for traffic marks. It's all looking very grubby, and in places there are gaps in the clouds where the concrete has been patched or worn away by leaking water, but to me this is fitting for the element of an artwork that seems to be reflecting (or asking us to reflect on) the tribulations of our earthly existence. Life wasn't meant to be easy.
The walls are still looking good too and I could only find one place where the clouds have been overprinted with graffiti. But again, this seems appropriate, especially given Jason Wing's background as a graffiti artist.
But it is the host of airborne spirits that appears to have suffered the most. A building next to Kimber Lane has been demolished and with it a wall that supported several of these 'little dudes' (as comedian and art commentator Hannah Gadsby calls them). Four of them have vanished. Perhaps they are waiting in some kind of limbo until a shiny new apartment block is built. And then they will be reinstated to their watchful heavenly posting above the clouds. But that might take a while, because at the moment it looks as though the empty site is being made into a parking lot.
Hard rock
Posted by megan in books, city, paving materials on 28 April 2014
The remnants of asphalt and concrete, and the old paving stones underneath, give this laneway in central Sydney a pleasingly shabby appearance. The stones are not cobblestones – as I have been known to mistakenly call them – but pitchers, and in this case pitchers of trachyte. A pitcher is a rectangular stone paving block about 22 cm wide, 30 cm long and 15 cm deep. Trachyte – like granite – is a hard, impervious, igneous (volcanic) rock.
I learnt this from a recently published book, Sydney's hard rock story: the cultural heritage of trachyte. With its many beautiful illustrations, the book tells a fascinating story.
Quarried from Mount Gibraltar (the Gib) near Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, trachyte was first used in the 1880s for paving cubes and for kerb and gutter stones in Sydney, replacing the sandstone flagging that was too easily worn away by the city's increasing traffic.
But when the durability and imposing appearance of the Bowral trachyte was recognised it was soon incorporated into the design of many grand buildings and monuments, complementing Sydney's characteristic golden sandstone and investing the buildings with a sense of strength, solidity and permanence. A special feature of Sydney's hard rock story is its trachyte walk through central Sydney, which takes the curious ambler past over 30 buildings in just a few city blocks.
In parts of Sydney, such as the service lane I photographed, trachyte paving can still be found. And despite the efforts of recent City Councils to remove it, much of the original, roughly-dressed trachyte kerbing and guttering remains as well.
You can find out more about this lovely book at the website, Sydney's Hard Rock Story. Here are a couple of photographic excerpts:
The Sydney City Council began to use trachyte for kerbs and gutters in the 1880s and the kerbs at the edges of York Street, the 'frames' of the drainage inlets and the stormwater lintels are all made of cut trachyte blocks. Similar kerbs, still displaying the textures made by the masons' tools, can still be seen in almost all of Sydney's streets.
The former Bank of Australasia (now 'Paspaley'), on the Martin Place and George Street corner. It was the American architect Edward Raht's second Sydney building, designed in 1901. The entire building is faced in trachyte, with walls of rock-faced ashlar. The coat-of-arms and the sea-shell motif at the corner pediment represent some of the most detailed trachyte carving in Sydney. The building has two large basement levels which extend outwards for 5 metres beneath Martin Place.
Sydney's hard rock story: the cultural heritage of trachyte, by Robert Irving, Ron Powell and Noel Irving, published by Heritage Publishing, Sydney and Leura, 2014.
It's not many people who receive a commissioned artwork as a graduation present, especially one that is based on the topic of their thesis. How privileged am I!
beneath the pavement, the beach is the title of the work made for me by artist Kate Riley.
I had already admired Kate's luminously detailed series of prints on paper that she called flotilla. Here are blue bottles (Portuguese men o' war) stranded on the beach by a receding tide, their long tentacles drawing inky loops across the wet sand. So when Kate was approached by family members to create a work especially for me, she found inspiration at the intersection of our interests – the eyes-down scavenging for traces of life (and death) as we stroll along deserted beaches or busy streets.
Kate, it transpires, had enjoyed reading the post on my blogsite called Flotsam and jetsam. In that post I quoted author Tim Winton on the pleasures of beachcombing, because I found in his description strong resemblances to my own practice of combing the pavement for graffiti.
This is what Kate wrote to me:
'I decided I would like to explore the "beneath the pavement lies the beach" idea … This segued beautifully into a consideration of how to use the structure of the work I had chosen, the small wooden boxes. By using both sides of the boxes I could use beach/ bluebottle/ seadrift imagery on one face of the box and pavement imagery on the other. The boxes can then be arranged and rearranged as desired. Using the 'back' of the box, as well as the front, also allows a push and pull of the surface that I find rather pleasing, and is suggestive of pigeon holes and display cabinets.
'This piece is now a record of two of my favourite places and two of my favourite walks: the beach on the south coast of NSW on which I grew up, and the streets around Newtown where I live now. To build up a store of Newtown pavement images, I used the same process I used for my beach walk drawings:
'I set aside a set period of time for a walk where I use my i-phone to take quick images of anything that catches my eye. In the studio I can then select and regroup the images to create a satisfying arrangement that captures the spirit of my walk. I know from your blog that you use the same, or a similar, process.
'The 'beach' side of the work captures a moment in time. By the next tide the objects on the beach will be completely different. Any seadrift or bluebottles left will have dried, lost their colour and vibrancy. New marks and patterns will have emerged.
'In contrast, the 'pavement' side is a glimpse of the layering of signs and markings that build up over time. Marks both intentional and meaningful (survey marks, messages official and unofficial …) and marks serendipitous and accidental (rust, cracks, wear and tear …) lie next to and over each other. Objects found there may be fleeting, but others can be (almost) permanent fixtures.
'Both sides were collected as virtual beachcombing to make a gift for you.'
Thank you Kate, and thank you to the family members who commissioned this most beautiful surprise. Thanks also to other family and friends for your gifts, both lovely and silly, your good wishes, and your company on what was the best graduation day I have ever had.
(beneath the pavement, the beach: charcoal pencil, pastel pencil, powdered graphite, ink, gesso and acrylic paint on seven wood panels, two of which are 15 x 15 cm, three 10 x 10 cm, and two 10 x 5 cm)
Your typical pedestrian
Posted by megan in animal life, body parts, books, city, country, death, people, rules and regulations, signs & symbols, stencils, territoriality on 7 April 2014
My WordPress avatar is a pedestrian traversing the asphalt. Despite a continuous battering by passing traffic, you can see that my pedestrian still has a burning heart, thanks to an implant by the 90s band Junglepunks.
I have met many such pavement people since I began my graffiti project way back in 1999, but I seem to have only mentioned them once on this blog site. A desire to revisit them has been prompted by some of the photographs in a new little book by Phil Smith, Enchanted things, where he writes:
'The pedestrian figures here were all intended by some designer as generic representations; yet to the glad eye they display their eccentricities, amputations, stretch marks, wrinkles, prostheses and rearrangements. They serves as memento mutabis ("remember you will change"), a reminder of your body as unfinished business, inscribed into its path and subject to all that passes along it, a history made on the hoof.'
In this photo-essay Phil, an ambulant academic at Plymouth University, UK, urges us to undertake an 'experimental pilgrimage without destinations' where disfigured pedestrian figures are just a small sample of the absurd, ironic and accidental artworks in the urban landscape that, if we take the trouble to notice them, will rearrange our attitude to the world.
My Sydney pavement pedestrians serve to confirm that walking in the builtscape is no simple matter. They don't need Phil to tell them they should LOOK, LOOK RIGHT, LOOK LEFT. But even if they have an opinion about what they see, they are made to shut up. It is sometimes permissible for them to manifest their gender or age status, but more often than not they are stripped to their naked genderlessness, a mere shadow of their supposed selves.
Although exposed to assault from all sides, they can hardly complain they weren't warned. Even so, when cautioned to THINK BEFORE YOU CROSS and STEP SAFELY they generally decide to make a dash for it. Some do so with a defiant display of insouciance but others are so terrified by the traffic they jump right out of their shoes.
The more purposeful striders who stick to the footpath find they are obliged to share their way with cyclists and sometimes even elephants. Hidden trenches and falling manhole covers are additional hazards.
Casualties are high and many pavements are haunted by the remains of hapless pedestrians, last seen in healthy condition maybe twenty years ago, now reduced to making ghostly appearances from between the cracks in the asphalt.
Like my flat mates, I find it hard to keep up with Phil's ambulant ruminations. Nevertheless, the next item on my reading list is another recent book by him, larger in size and no doubt equally challenging. It's called On walking … and stalking Sebald and its cover features an array of pedestrian figures. How could I resist?
Smith, Phil, 2014, Enchanted things: signposts to a new nomadism, Axminster: Triarchy Press.
Smith, Phil, 2014, On walking … and stalking Sebald: a guide to going beyond wandering around looking at stuff, Axminster: Triarchy Press.