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The Full Spectrum
It was such a thrill to get an email from Janette at BAFTA in mid March asking me if I'd like to shoot this year's TV portfolio. I'd wanted to work with BAFTA for years. It was one of my bucket list shoots. We had three days in early April and about 20 people to photograph. The timings were insanely tight and a detailed bar chart prepared to delineate between arrival, interview, hair, make up, video interview and photo shoot timings for each person. A proper military op.
I had to approach it in quite a general way and set up a couple of different lighting scenarios that would work well for everybody – men, women, young, old – and then tweak each one as they arrived for their time with me. Fortunately you can always get a really good look at them while they are in the make up chair and more than once I was regarded a little suspiciously by my subjects as I plonked myself down next to them and stared at their faces in the mirror trying to work out how best to light and approach each one photographically.
The theme of the shoot was 'The Full Spectrum' in reference to the coloured dots that make up a television picture. We decided to shoot them all on a grey background and then create a colour for each person digitally in post production which would give us a massive amount of freedom to really nail it with each colour, rather than rely on predetermined traditional coloured paper rolls.
This was done by Steve Davis at Paperhat FTP digital in Covent Garden and five of his best people worked on it for 4 days to beat the deadline. I am thrilled with what we have produced together and I can't thank Janette and BAFTA for being so gracious and trusting in allowing me to do it how I saw it, as well as Paul Willoughby from Human After All, who art directed the concept.
An absolute dream of an assignment with some of the best talent in British television. Some of my favourites below. See the whole set on my website here.
A Triptych of Confrontations
Three days in the same week, three well known people, three unique encounters on the confrontation/collaboration curve.
All of these encounters are built from the same basic structure in that each was scheduled to last for a short period of time – one to two hours – and each took place in an alien environment, on the subject's turf.
All have been doing what they do for a long time and it could be said are known for a particular integrity, as well as sometimes a certain spikiness.
What do I mean by the confrontation/collaboration curve?
In an earlier blog post on my portraits of Ray Winstone I alluded to it and it has been bobbling around in the back of my head like a ball on a roulette wheel ever since. All great portraiture has to involve a combination of collaboration and confrontation, represented by the imaginary line that connects photographer to subject and upon which it's necessary for the two to meet if anything at all is going to happen. If the two meet somewhere in the middle third I'd say that was a collaboration. Anywhere on the third at each end then it's more of a confrontation.
Each of these three, Jeremy Paxman, Paul Weller and Damon Albarn, started out in my head as similar in terms of what I was prepared to expect. Well, actually, Weller not so much. Of the three, I have photographed him before (with Noel Gallagher) in the upstairs room of a pub and the afternoon became the evening, which became the night. Definitely the night. On top, I come from the same part of the world as him and the fact that we can talk about that place quite intimately meant that, even though we last met seven years ago, he remembered not only me but the night with Noel too. So of the three he was the one of which I was least nervous, despite his sometimes brusque reputation.
Another thing about Paul is that he innately understands and likes cool imagery. If you get him, or he gets you, then he's easy to photograph. Don't ask him to put on a circus outfit and run through a flaming Mod target of fire but address him on terms that reflect his sense of the world and working with him can be a flowful experience. There's a quietly patient zenness to the way he sits. He's very still, physically and in the way he projects too. I remember the room being so quiet but there was no fidgeting, no impatience. He sat in his chair and he was evidently comfortable in his body and skin. If I saw him do something that I liked, and said so, he would hold it for long enough. His gaze into the camera was resolute. He speaks quietly. Short sentences. He's completely the opposite of bombastic. Precise, measured, quiet and confident, a silent collaboration.
Confidence. What is that? Based on our public perception of him in his role as host of 'Newsnight' we'd probably all agree that it's something that Jeremy Paxman has in surplus amounts. Based on an hour and a half with him in the living room of his agent's house, ostensibly to produce some pictures of him for a poster to publicise his Edinburgh show this summer, I'd say I'm not so sure. This is all gut instinct, cod psycholgy, but after twenty years, I don't know, you learn how to read people quickly. Not in novel form but definitely in sketch. I may be on their turf physically but they're in my landscape once the door's shut and the lights come on.
There was about him a kind of dichotomy at work and my instinct also says that it's this which makes him so compelling to watch as an interviewer and journalist. Not far below the surface there is a great uncertainty, a doubtfulness that surges and falls in relation to the output and the noise around and inside him. Bombastic at first glance, he comes into the room like a rapidly decelerating sports car, tentative not far behind. At every stage he would more or less do what I asked him, whilst simultaneously challenging the necessity of it. At one point we had a two line exchange that punctured the tension and made the whole thing quite a laugh.
"What an extraordinarily strange job you have."
"Well yours can hardly be classified as normal, can it?"
His Newsnight persona is not an act. It's the necessary manifestation of an internal need to seek truth and honesty not just without but also within. I liked him very much and came away thinking that his role in public life adds to its richness and, again, its integrity. In summary, a collaborative confrontation.
Weller has been in my cultural life since I was about eleven or twelve years old and Paxman for my entire adult life, probably since Spitting Image cast him in latex. Damon Albarn has been here for the shortest amount of time, yet of the three he's the one that I probably feel the closest affinity with in terms of comparative experiences. We are the same age, born 1968, the same height, same colour eyes and hair, same kinds of suburban adolescences where London was some aching distant nirvana, twenty miles and twenty light years away. Both him and Neil Tennant have a beautiful ability to clarify and crystallise the longing to escape suburbia for a less mundane existence but paradoxically, had they always had what they felt they deserved, or were in need of to complete themselves, they would never have become the artists they did.
My career came into bloom at the same time that his did, 1994, and over the years I have photographed all of his British contemporaries and a good few foreign ones too, yet, frustratingly, never him or his band, Blur. Perhaps an invite to spend an hour with him in his studio was something to be wary of. My gut said yes and so did my mouth.
In the Ray Winstone post I mentioned how it feels when a meeting on the line has fallen short:
"There are some where you can feel that you are only inches apart, yet you're just not going to make it. Those are the worst. They torture me for days afterwards, blaming myself for an imagined oafishness or missed opportunity."
When I wrote that it was the time with Damon that inspired it. All the way, a confrontation punctuated by very short dashes of tolerance rather than collaboration.
We had arrived an hour earlier than him and set up in one of the rooms at the studio, a large soundproofed thing with pianos and keyboards along every wall. An incredible sandpit for a grown up.
Damon arrived and thought that the erection of a 9 foot wide backdrop was silly. He thought it was 'a bit formal'. What can I say to that? I like to photograph people on plain backgrounds. I don't want to work against a cluttered wall with Indonesian puppets in the background. So that was where we started. I tried to break the ice:
"Oh God, this isn't going to turn into a stand off between two passive aggressive people, is it?"
That got us back to one degree above zero with a wry(ish) smile. So seizing the initiative I ploughed on, a triumph of hope over experience, trying to explain my theory of confrontation and collaboration, eliciting this short, sharp response:
"I've had my picture taken enough times and I know what a good photograph is."
The thing about a statement like that is that in one sweep it lumps you in with every other photographer he's ever met. Nothing special, nothing different. This time is unimportant, it's merely something that stands between me and my desire to bring it to a close. To the ego it's a declaration of war.
"Well I've listened to a lot of records and I know what a good song is."
From there Damon's passivity dominated the room. It was a creatively negative energy that coloured everything, or rather desaturated it and even getting him to engage with the camera was a small victory.
He was extremely difficult to get a read on and it's been a long time since I've come away from a subject feeling locked out. I have referred to the act of portraiture as similar to that of a burglar casing a building, looking for an open window, a way in. That, to me, is often how it is. I walk all around the place trying doors, tugging windows, asking questions, talking, always talking, as if the act of talking is the key to one of those windows or doors. And 99% of the time it is but with Damon it wasn't. I shrunk back into myself, defeated and outsmarted by a psychological terrain peppered with invisible patches of quicksand. Just as I felt we had established a surer footing, a vortex of ground would draw me down.
At one point, in response to something I said, he offered this beauty:
"And you were doing so well."
I couldn't even look at the pictures for several days afterwards. When I finally did, pressure of approaching deadline rather than any desire at all, I realised that although the encounter was demoralising on a human to human level it yielded something worth having on a photographic one.
One final thought.
It's funny, for twenty years I have been told by so many people how much they think I look like him (same age, same height, same eye colour, same hair, same build once but not now), to the extent that in a Los Angeles bar in the mid nineties, when I assured a barman who thought I was him that I was not him, he replied, "You look more like him than he does." When it goes on for so long it becomes a bit of a joke, part of your schtick, part of who you are and all that. Then you meet the guy, you spend an intense couple of hours together and while you're on his turf you overhear him talking to someone from his management and he refers to you as 'the photographer' and you realise that he doesn't even know your name.
Sometimes I wonder if this happened to Richard Avedon or Irving Penn or Arnold Newman or any of the others from whose shadows we try so hard to emerge.
All The Way Down The Line
When I was young and the world was wide open, I thought that it would be enough to be able to tell people who asked, that I was a photographer, that I took or made pictures for a living. It seemed so perfectly succinct and circular. I am a…..photographer. The word 'photography' is the joining together of two Greek words: 'photos' meaning light and 'graphe' meaning drawing. Going by these definitions 'photography' gives us 'drawing with light.'
Then I got older and, fortunately, I got a career. What fell by the wayside though, was the idea that I could just be a photographer. So naive. I've had all kinds of work in my portfolios. People, landscapes, still life, reportage. Never any watches though. I couldn't think of anything I'd like to do less than spend a life photographing watches. Literally seeing your life tick by at work. I did once photograph the stopwatch that timed Roger Bannister's sub-four minute mile but that was different. That was a watch with a unique history and a charisma of its own.
As the years have gone by I've slowly evolved and narrowed my field of expertise down to one singular element of practice within the wider field of photography. That now slim vista consists entirely of portraiture. Nowadays, when people ask, I say that I am a portrait photographer. If the subject has a pulse then I am your guy. Even the photograph I made of that stopwatch, with its cracked glass and hands stopped at 3min 59.4sec was a portrait.
So here I am, twenty years in, and I'm a people person. I'm in the people box. I don't get calls to photograph ice cream or cars or electronics or fashion still life. No, I'm a people person. This is a good thing because without it I'd never meet anyone. It's been said that the difference between an extrovert and an introvert is that an extrovert enters a roomful of people and feasts on the energy in the room. An introvert enters a roomful of people and the room instantly sucks all the energy from them. Without the job, I'd be stuck alone in a roomful of people feeling exhausted, so I'm thankful for it in more ways than one.
Which brings us to Ray Winstone here. Not in a million years would I have known how to engage with him had we been pitched together, say, in a small soiree of a dozen people. Put a camera in my hand though, and all that goes away. I have a role and with it a licence to say or ask almost anything. The camera is the catalyst for the conversation.
I walk a strange line with these encounters. On the one hand I want to get my subject in to a place where they feel like the whole thing is nothing more than a light stroll down a promenade of moderately stimulating conversation and engagement, so that when they walk back into the real world they think, "that was nice, he was nice, not too demanding, I enjoyed it. What shall I have for lunch?" On the other hand, I'm really trying to nail them in a lightning flash moment of self reflection and revelation. I try to quietly push and coerce, wait a bit, lighten it up a touch, wind it back in suddenly, just like fishing. I want it to feel like the whole universe has momentarily dissolved and they are left there utterly alone with themselves and nought for company.
My whole method revolves around constant conversation, talk talk talk, what about this thing you did, what about that thing you did, did you expect that an image of you in a pair of yellow swimming trunks would become an iconic image? All that. There's a line joining the subject and me. Each of us at opposite ends. For it to work, I HAVE to meet them on that line somewhere. If they won't come far down the line it means I have to go all the way up it. Other times, they come the whole length and I barely have to stand up for the connection to happen. There are some where you can feel that you are only inches apart, yet you're just not going to make it. Those are the worst. They torture me for days afterwards, blaming myself for an imagined oafishness or missed opportunity. When the meeting on the line does happen, that becomes the moment where I can stop speaking, they can stop speaking, and no one needs to say anything anymore. Oh, it's a cloud nine moment, the most intense feeling of relief. The adrenaline settles and it all becomes flat as the calmest ocean. Everything seems, I don't know, it seems so balanced. I once had it with Paul McCartney for two frames and it was enough.
So, Ray. These portraits were shot in the Riflemaker, an art gallery in Soho, London. I didn't have long, perhaps half an hour at the most. I would have liked it to have been longer. Given another hour I think he would have delved deeper for me and we could have gone higher than second gear. He is an underrated and mesmerising actor when it comes to conveying the nuance of emotion and that's what I would have worked on with him but when it comes down to it, it's not going to come in half an hour. Time, we're back to watches again. The great thing that he asked me though, was "What d'you want? What sort of thing you after?" – a collaborator, a dream to direct. I loved him for his willingness to try to go somewhere for me. It was real honey, he knows it's about something more than just showing up in a double breasted blazer. He used his whole body. His hands, chest, shoulders all affected the weight of the pictures. He came all the way down the line, then he was out the door and into the streets of Soho, off for lunch.
Five Books I Love
I wrote this last year for the website It's Nice That and I thought it would also be nice to place it here too. So, these five, among many, many others are some books I love.
Lee Friedlander: American Musicians
My all time number one favourite book. A masterclass spanning 30 years, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, in how to photograph not only musicians but the greatest musicians of the 20th Century at that. Apart from my children, it's the first thing I'd save in a fire. Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Mahalia Jackson, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, in studios, on the road, in their homes, boarding houses, hotels, buses, cars, city streets, country juke joints, gospel, jazz, country, blues, it goes on and on and on.
The intimacy of the work is astounding. It could only have been achieved by someone that was liked and trusted, as well as brilliant. Only Frank is missing. You like soul music? This is soul photography.
Richard Avedon: Evidence
The diametric opposite of Friedlander's work – detached, aloof, deadly. See his portrait of Marilyn Monroe, lost to the world in her solipsism. Avedon is the first place you should go if you want to be a photographer. The restraint, discipline and surgical preciseness of his work still awes me 25 years after discovering it. His technique – stark white backdrop, daylight, black & white – is the photographic equivalent of three chord rock 'n' roll. Anyone can do it, only a few can do it well and no one can do it like Avedon.
David King:The Commissar Vanishes
A shocking and riveting compilation by King that reveals, in the pre-digital age, the falsification of photographs and art in Stalin's Russia, as well as the phenomenal skills of the retouchers that did the work by hand. To remove a man from a photograph, by hand with a scalpel, and replace him with more of the building he was standing in front of really is quite a special gift. The cover is a grid of four images, each a variation on a single original. The master is a photograph of Stalin with three comrades beside him. The other three images are altered versions of the original, where one by one, the other men have been removed by the retoucher's hand as they fell out of favour with Uncle Joe, until we are left with the final image of Stalin alone.
My favourite is a photograph of a humble working man indicating to Stalin where the microphone is located as he prepares to address a huge crowd. In the published version the man has been removed. The Boss must never be seen to be needing anybody's guidance when it comes to knowing which way to go.
Stanley Booth: The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones
Booth accompanied the Stones on their 1969 American tour which culminated in a free gig at the Altamont Speedway in California. The band asked the Hell's Angels to do the security and this, combined with a batch of terrible acid that did the rounds of the crowd on that cold December day kicked off a chain of events that ended just yards from the front of the stage with the murder, by the Angels, of a man called Meredith Hunter, as the Stones struggled to make it to the end of Under My Thumb.
Booth's book is a Heart of Darkness for the sixties, as the pampered and childish boys from Dartford begin to realise that the chain of events they have triggered has ended in a place that none of them wish to remain. The prose is elegance incarnate.
There is a companion documentary (Gimme Shelter by The Maysles Brothers) that is as compelling as the book and which also shows Mick Jagger in the editing suite being shown the footage, shot from a camera on the stage, of the victim as the Angels descend on him with pool cues and baseball bats. The last thing we see, as the Stones make their getaway by helicopter from the crime scene, is Stanley Booth's tan leather jacket clambering aboard, as he becomes the last guy out of town on the chopper with them.
Craig Taylor: Londoners
A collection of first person narratives on London from people who, love it, hate it, live in it and left it. This passage from an airline pilot, who describes the approach into Heathrow, perhaps explains it best: "You'll be flying back in across from France, say,…….past that nubbin sticking out south of Calais…..it's all nice and relaxed. Then you hit the London frequency on the radio and suddenly everyone's jabbering away. There's a million and one voices and the controller's not got five seconds to take a breath…..they'll tell you what you need to do, and then you get out of the way. All those planes are heading to London for a reason, and the people on board want to be there for a reason."
Reading it back now gives me a shiver. It's my home too. When I walk round Soho I don't just see a load of old buildings, I see and feel history, everything that came here before me. I hear, smell and taste the ghost of lunches past. Laughs, ideas, boozing, eating, moaning, life being lived. I love this city. I've lived in other cities in other countries, this one though, she's my soul mate and this book reminds me of that.
Good Things Take Time
From: jon rubin
Subject: Inquiry: Shoot in Oxford Circus tube
Date: 2 July 2013 19:28:24 GMT+01:00
Hi Chris,
I am an American artist who is doing a project for The Thing Quarterly and Levis and I am looking to hire a photographer in London for a shoot.
I got your info from Geoff Chadsey who is a photo editor for Time Inc.
Basically, I need to have photos shot of one man waiting for a train in the Oxford Circus tube station. The photos from that shoot will go into ad spaces throughout the station (without any branding on them). Each weekday during rush hour, for the duration of the images display (late August), the actual man depicted in the photo (in the same clothes as he wears in the photo) will be in the Oxford Circus underground waiting for a train that he never boards.
As people arrive at the platform they will see the photos of the man in the ad space(s) and might recognize him waiting on the platform. As everyone boards the train and empties the platform, the man would be left standing there alone (much as in the picture). By destabilizing the viewers perception of both the image of the man and the man himself this project creates an uncanny simultaneity between the space of advertising and the space of life, what is past and present.
I saw your website and love the work you do. The project is on a really fast track and needs to be shot late this week, early next. Let me know if this might be of any interest to you.
I can be available via Skype or email to give you more details if you'd like.
Jon Rubin
From: Chris Floyd
Subject: Re: Inquiry: Shoot in Oxford Circus tube
Date: 2 July 2013 19:54:54 GMT+01:00
To: jon rubin
Hi Jon,
I love this idea!
It's good that you wrote when you did. I had a few different jobs come in today and I'm in the process of getting them scheduled but I would so love to do this that I can bend everything else around it.
Do you have 'The Man' cast yet? Do London Underground know about it? They are very strict on shooting anywhere on the tube. If we have permission then that is great but it's always possible to guerilla it.
Would we see the man from the back? From the front? With the track behind him or would our POV be from the track looking towards him?
Would he be the only man in the picture or would there be many other people?
I have so many questions though it might be easier to talk on the phone. It's no hassle for me to call you. If you'd like to talk then send me your number.
Best wishes,
So, here's the bigger picture:
San Francisco-based publication THE THING Quarterly has partnered with Levi's® Made and Crafted™ to produce Moment to Moment, a magazine (of sorts) that happens in real time throughout the summer, across a broad spectrum of mediums and geographic locations. Through a series of independent but related contributions—all built around the central theme, 'Good Things Take Time', Moment to Moment reminds us about the good things that happen when we slow down and experience the details around us.
Moment to Moment is based on visual artist Dan Graham's interventions from the 1960's in which he purchased advertising space in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Arts Magazine in order to create art pieces. The title comes from 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who envisioned a three-dimensional book entitled Moment to Moment. He saw it as something that would be performed, rather than read.
The project will consist of over 15 different commissions including online videos, text pieces, paintings, animated gifs, photography, and essays. Some of these pieces will appear on billboards, bus shelters, subway stations and other outdoor advertising spaces in cities around the world. These public interventions propose a more pleasing visual alternative within the urban landscape and prompt viewers to take time for the good things around them. Some pieces will be inserted into the paid advertising space of magazines as standalone works of art. They will be pages from the Moment to Moment project, extracted and repositioned as pages in other likeminded publications. The remainder of the publication will be featured online at www.goodthingstaketime.com and in the free printed newspaper which, like the official website, will document and share the entire project.
The man on the platform is London based artist, Michael Crowe, who is doing a great project of his own called Mysterious Letters. In order to get far enough away and realistically photograph him on the platform of the southbound Bakerloo line platform at Oxford Circus required permission to go into the station at night, after 1am, when it had closed, the power had been switched off on the track and position the camera there. An underground station is an eerie place when it's closed. All I could think of was 'An American Werewolf in London'.
Jon Rubin has created a site for the project here.
This is his statement:
Dates: July 29th through August 12, 2013
Part One: Multiple advertising spaces in the Oxford Circus Underground will show a photograph of a man seemingly waiting for a train. The photo will be stark and beautiful, the man's face filled with gravitas. No one else will be in the photo but the man.
Part Two: Each weekday during rush hour, for the duration of the images' display, the actual man depicted in the photo (in the same clothes as he wears in the photo) will be in the Oxford Circus Underground station waiting for a train. He will not board any train. As people arrive at the platform they will see the photos of the man in the ad spaces and might recognize him waiting on the platform. As everyone boards the train and empties the platform, the man will be left standing there alone (much as in the picture). As their train pulls away from the station people might recognize the lone figure as the lone figure they saw in the ad spaces.
Part Three: Each day the man will write in a notebook things that he hears other people on the platform saying, including any questions or statements directed at him. This writing will be presented on this blog.
Oxford Circle is part of Moment to Moment a collaboration between THE THING Quarterly and Levi's® Made & Crafted™
The Badge Of A Wifebeater
This is as heavy as any piece of armour worn at Agincourt. Created by Fee Doran of Mrs Jones in London. Among her other creations was a pair of trousers made for Justin Hawkins of The Darkness. The unique thing about those was that they were made entirely from pairs of knickers thrown at him onstage by female fans. Tasty.
Five Hundred & Eighty Three Words on Memphis
These photographs were taken in Memphis in 2002. I learned some lessons. Maybe some of these lessons are true. My dad did a good job of raising a cynic by constantly reminding me to believe half of what I see and nothing of what I hear. He is an accountant and I am his son. Accountants do not have ideas. They have doubts. I suppose he didn't want me to get let down by the limitations of life. Memphis neutralises that though. It makes me a believer. This is what I learned.
I learned from Ike Turner that there really are 2 sides to every story. I learned from Jim Dickinson that they hated Elvis in Memphis when he was alive and now that he's dead they love the money that he brings in. I saw that Phineas Newborn Jr lives on in the disposition of his brother Calvin. How shattering it can be to wake up every day, late in life, with a sense of loss. Rendered dour by the knowledge that atonement can only come on judgment day. I learned that Bob Dylan was as excited as any kid to have found a lucky penny on the stage of Humes High School (Elvis' place of education) when the principal let him stand on it while the kids were in class. Gatemouth Moore taught me that you should always leave something on the plate, especially when you're in his church. Willie Mitchell likes to use the word motherfucker. He also doesn't like to pay a drummer more than $75. Solomon Burke preached the lesson of concession control. When you tour make sure that you're the one selling the popcorn. But Cozy Corner's Cornish game hens taught me how close to God food can be. I learned the value of a good hat from Pinetop Perkins. If you are a photographer who shows up and asks to photograph Ernest Withers he will be flattered and sell you one of his prints for a 20% discount. Withers was the photographer with Martin Luther King in the days leading up to his murder. And I learned from James Alexander that he is a lucky man. Alexander was the man who missed the flight that killed Otis Redding and all but one of the Bar Kays.
Those are some good lessons for a four week investment paid in installments. However, the biggest lesson I learned came from the city of Memphis itself. God, food, and music. The order can change depending on one's mood and what day of the week it is but it's always those three things. I'm not from there, you'd be right to tell me that I know nothing and that I have no right to make these pronouncements. I'm from London and I've lived in New York for over 4 years. In that time I've been to 38 states. It is the only place in America I have seen that is not prostrating itself on an orgy of aspirations. Aspirations that are of no nutritional value. Memphis has a nobility about it's demeanour. It's yearnings are human.
When I tell people that I have been to Memphis they say to me, "Memphis? Isn't Elvis from Memphis?". As if that's all it is. My answer is always the same. Yes, Elvis is from Memphis. But it wasn't Elvis that made Memphis. It was Memphis that made Elvis and everybody should get to taste what made Elvis. Good and Bad. Then you will know.
The Consequences of Trajectory
I've recently become obsesssed with the significance of trajectory in my career. This has been brought about by a book I'm reading on the Apollo 13 moon mission that went wrong. There is a point in the story where, with what little fuel they have available and 250,000 miles from home, the astonauts have to fire their engines and adjust the ship's trajectory so as to put them in line for a good earth re-entry position. Their current trajectory is in line to send them 40,000 miles past the earth. To correct this the engines need to be fired for six minutes. Six minutes is not much to effect a difference of 40,000 miles over a distance of a quarter of a million miles. The point of this is that over such a long distance, the slightest wiggle has a massive effect at the other end and I've recently been thinking about the fact that I've realised I set myself on a course 17 years ago that was easier but possibly wrong – though barely perceptible at the time – and the upshot of the story is that 17 years later I've arrived at a destination that I'm beginning to think has me 40,000 miles away from where I wanted to be. So now, I may have to burn my fuel & my engines for a good deal longer than 6 minutes to get me back on what I think is the correct course for re-entry.


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Originally published in Interiors & Sources
CARLSBAD, CA -Smith Consulting Architects has design services underway for the new 20,000-square-foot Bressi Ranch Medical Plaza, situated on a 1.94-acre property at the corner of El Camino Real and Town Garden Road within the master-planned business community of Bressi Ranch in Carlsbad, Calif.
Santa Ana-based Urban West is the developer, with project oversight provided by David DiRienzo, president, and Kimberly Hutchings, vice president of development.
Smith Consulting Architects is providing full architectural design services for the proposed two-story structure, the only medical office within Bressi Ranch. The business park is adjacent to Tri-City Medical Center's new Wellness Complex, which also was designed by Smith Consulting Architects and is currently under construction.
Bressi Ranch Medical Plaza will offer for-sale office suites designed to meet the needs of medical professionals that want to take advantage of the equity-building benefits of office ownership versus leasing. The architectural design utilizes a palette of contrasting concrete masonry colors and textures for its walls, sleek silver metal cladding panels for shading canopies, and blue glazing in silver window frames to create bold, clean lines and a sense of formality.
A dominant design feature is the pattern of "wall panels," created by spacing apart ground face/burnished Birdseye block wall areas with columns of split face charcoal block. This modular effect reduces the mass and scale of the exterior walls while providing texture and height variation. The exterior landscape and plaza hardscape treatments and patterns also reflect these modules.
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Hunger Next DoorPosted by: | Comments
Several stories about hunger in America popped up this weekend, a couple online and another just down my street. Among people you wouldn't identify as poor and struggling just by looking at them. PBS Newshour reported on women in Denver who fell into poverty, women who don't fit popular stereotypes of people on SNAP.
CAROLINE POOLER: Any one of your fellow peers, colleagues or fellow parishioners may be hungry, but you don't know that about them, because people don't want to advertise that about themselves. There's lots of people out there who do not have enough to eat until next payday. There's a lot of working people who give their last five bucks to their kid for lunch and they go without. And so that's kind of a different face of hunger than people are thinking of hunger.
Over at Crooks and Liars, Susie Madrak reposted Jenn's story from Poor As Folk blog, "Living in poverty is like being punched in the face over and over and over on a daily basis"
That brings me to the hunger. The hunger is extraordinary. There is a constant gnawing in your stomach, an empty feeling that has taken up permanent residence. Even as you're eating a meal, you feel the hunger. It never goes away because you don't know when you're going to eat again…
As food stamp benefits continue to be cut and food pantries struggle to feed communities, that uncertainty will just continue. I hate to think of my children feeling the same way. They get first dibs on all food that comes through this house. There are many days when my kids get their three meals and I get half of one and my husband … well, I never see him because he is working all the time, but he barely eats, too.
A chance meeting my wife had this week brought the problem home. This is the story pretty much in her own words: Read More→
Crushing NC's UnemployedPosted by: | Comments
As states cut back on unemployment for the long-term unemployed, North Carolina leads the way. From Bloomberg's opinion section:
Across the country, the unemployed will lose from 14 to 47 weeks of insurance when the extension ends. Five other states will join North Carolina in providing fewer than 26 weeks of payments — the standard in the U.S until this year. What's happened in North Carolina since July is an indication of what will happen nationwide. The picture is troubling.
The federal extension expires on January 1, 2014. North Carolina got a head start last summer when it cut the maximum benefit length and reduced the payments.
As intended, presumably, the number of North Carolinians receiving unemployment benefits has collapsed. It's down by 45,000, or 40 percent, since last year. Expiring benefits aren't the only reason for this. Far fewer are filing a claim in the first place. Initial claims are running at about half last year's rate. Unemployment insurance is a thinner safety net than it has been in decades.
In addition, North Carolina's labor force began to shrink. The state is experiencing the largest labor-force contraction it's ever seen –77,000 fewer people were working or searching for work this October than a year ago. This should, but won't, settle a partisan debate. Cutting unemployment insurance apparently hasn't encouraged the unemployed to look harder for work: It has caused them to drop out of the labor force altogether. [Emphasis mine.]
That's understandable, in part because nationwide there were still three job seekers per job as of May.
Food pantries are stretched, becoming, as Alan Briggs, executive director of the North Carolina Association of Food Bank suggested, "the safety net of the safety net."
Please help out your local food banks this season. Decision after decision by the legislature in Raleigh seems aimed at worsening the situation for struggling North Carolinians.
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Thanks For Giving Us Your Attention. Please Give To Others.Posted by: | Comments
Our food banks here are struggling to keep up. Please help if you can this holiday season.
Food charities struggle to cover meals lost from food stamp reduction
The $5 billion cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will affect 47.7 million people, one out of every seven Americans. A family of four will lose $36 a month in food assistance, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, dropping from $668 to $632 a month.
In New York City, with 63 percent of pantries and kitchens reporting shortages, the cuts will add stress to an already strained system, says Triada Stampas, a spokesperson for Food Bank for New York City. That food bank, the nation's largest, delivered 72 million meals last year. The organization calculates that across the five boroughs, SNAP cuts will mean that New Yorkers who get assistance will eat a total of 76 million fewer meals acquired with food stamps in the next year.
"We've been talking to private donors for months about these cuts," said Stampas. "But I want to dispel the notion that private charity can make up for the cuts, that's simply not possible."
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Facing the "Hunger Cliff"Posted by: | Comments
Here's a Halloween scare for you. Chris Hayes looked at coming cuts to the SNAP program last night on "All In." Ned Resnikoff writes:
Food activists expect a "Hunger Cliff" on November 1, when automatic cuts to food stamp benefits will send a deluge of new hungry people to places like the River Fund Food Pantry, which are already strained.
"I thought we were busy now; I don't know what it will be like then, because all of those people getting cut will definitely be accessing a pantry," said Das. "It definitely will be a catastrophe."
This crisis has gone largely unreported, and now it's at our door.
According to the Off the Charts blog interactive map, in North Carolina 1,708,000 people will be affected, including 758,000 children, 285,000 elderly or disabled.
Asheville City Council Agenda 10.22.13Posted by: | Comments
It's been a few weeks, and your Asheville City Council is coming together again to deliberate and decision-make. This Tuesday we've got a big consent agenda, a report from the School Board, five public hearings zoning and development rules, and several various new business items. We took the October 8th meeting off due to the Mayoral Primary election, so there's lots to do.
Have a look at the entire agenda after the jump, or click here to see it at the City's website. Please offer your thoughts in the comments.
Please remember that early voting has begun for Mayor and City Council members. You can click here to see locations and hours of operation for early voting. Thank you for being a part of deciding Asheville's future.
Brace For ImpactPosted by: | Comments
From Think Progress:
Emergency food pantries say they will have to do more with less, thanks to the government shutdown. Food banks across the country are bracing for the suspension of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food assistance programs, which have become increasingly important to feed the needy.
As private donations dried up during the recession, the USDA's Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and Commodity Assistance Programs have helped charities and non-profits keep their inventories stocked. The USDA warned Monday that federal funds will halt until Congress strikes a deal, leaving food banks wondering if they should start planning for food shortages.
About 800,000 federal employees have been sent home. Analysts say the shutdown means a reduction in collective American income of about $200 million per day. Communities near national parks are expected to lose $76 million a day in visitor spending. In Yosemite National Park, lodges and cabins had been scheduled to be filled to near capacity. Instead, thousands of visitors were given 48 hours to leave.
Cutting Off Food to Poor ChildrenPosted by: | Comments
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Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps—a vital support for low-income families and children, that lifted 4 million people out of poverty in 2012—is yet again on the chopping block. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a nutrition-only farm bill, which would cut $40 billion from SNAP over the next 10 years, causing at least 4 million to 6 million vulnerable individuals to lose their food assistance, including 210,000 kids who will lose their school meals. These cuts would come on top of a benefit cut that will impact all SNAP participants beginning November 2013.
The nutrition-only farm bill would be devastating to families struggling with hunger as well as to the national economy—translating into about 1.5 billion lost meals for hungry families each year for the next 10 years, and 55,000 job losses in the first year alone. We can't let that happen.
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Take action today to stand with low-income families working to put food on the table.
Feast with FEASTPosted by: | Comments
Fresh, Easy, Affordable, Sustainable, and Tasty – That's what FEAST stands for, and they're giving you the opportunity to support their mission! Website here.
The mission of FEAST Asheville is to promote healthy eating choices and make them accessible to people of all income levels through hands on cooking classes that encourage and empower participants by teaching skills needed to make fresh, wholesome and tasty food.
All that eating raises money for one of Slow Food's educational program, FEAST (Fresh Easy Affordable Sustainable Tasty), which serves 800 school children in Buncombe County every year. FEAST shows students how to incorporate fresh ingredients into their meals.
Feasting for FEAST takes place Thrursday, Sept. 12, from 6-9 p.m. More than a dozen restaurants, breweries and wine shops will provide samples. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $35 at the door.
Vendors include: All Souls Pizza, Ambrozia Bar and Bistro, Chorizo, Doubletree Catering – VIP only, Earthfare, Everyday Gourmet Catering, Farmer's Daughter Catering, French Broad Chocolate Lounge, Mayfel's, MG Road, Sunny Point Cafe, The Junction, The Laughing Seed, The Cantina, True Confections, Beer provided by Oskar Blues Brewery and Burial Beer Co. – VIP only.
I hope to see all of you there!
We will not shrug our shouldersPosted by: | Comments
I had the distinct honor of being invited to speak at the 32nd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast at the Grove Park Inn this morning. If you've never attended, I urge you to get a ticket next year. You'll be inspired by the legends in the room, people like Oralene Simmons and other founding members of ASCORE. People who integrated our city by putting themselves on the front lines and standing up for racial justice.
I had three minutes, here's the text of my prepared remarks:
Good Morning!
I'm Asheville City Council Member Gordon Smith, and I want to thank Ms. Oralene Simmons and the Martin Luther King Jr. Association.
Mayor Bellamy sends her regards. She's in Washington, D.C. representing Asheville at the National Conference of Mayors and inauguration, the reinauguration, of President Barack Obama.
I'm very honored to be here to celebrate Dr. King's vision and our place in bringing it alive in Asheville. Dr. King famously said, "I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day, education and culture for their minds, equality and freedom for their spirits."
Three meals a day. Three meals a day.
Today, as we come together over this fine meal there are families going hungry. And let me tell you what – you don't have to look half a world away to find them. Right now, here in our community, there are children going without their breakfast. Others have food, but they lack the nutrition necessary for a healthy, developing mind. Too many in our community either do not have the means or the knowledge to meet their most basic of needs.
Is this acceptable? Is this acceptable??
No. This is unacceptable. We all know it's unacceptable. Dr. King teaches us that when injustice presents itself, it is our responsibility not to turn away from it, but to address it.
We can address the issue of hunger in our community. We can do so with an audacious faith that, together, we can make a better world, right wrongs, and recognize that we are one human family – In my family, we don't let other people go hungry.
For the last year and a half sometimes it feels like all I work on for City Council is food, water, and shelter. We'll leave housing policy for another day, and I'd rather not talk about water…
But on food? I come today with good news and a call to action! On Tuesday, your Asheville City Council will take a historic step to reduce hunger, improve the health of our community, and strengthen our local food systems with the City of Asheville Food Action Plan.
This plan, with its five goals and fourteen initiatives will create the conditions for increased food production, processing, distribution, and education.
It will mean more people growing more food. You are going to see more gardens, more farms, more markets, more grocery stores, even food growing in our parks!
And this is the part where I ask for your help.
Folks, if we are truly committed to taking audacious steps to end hunger in Asheville and Buncombe County, then it's time we Stop Mowing and Start Growing. Stop Mowing and Start Growing.
We can convert lawns to gardens, church fields to farms. By joining together in this mission we can come together – across generations, across cultures and across faiths to turn to lives of greater independence and better health.
We can come together to feed our community, our city, our county, our spirits.
We can ensure that every child has the nutrition they need to succeed in school and in life.
This will be justice, and it's going to take all of us to make it a reality.
We will not shrug our shoulders at the injustice of hunger. We will aspire to justice through an audacious faith in our potential to make a better world.
Please join together in supporting the City's Food Action Plan and in ending hunger in our community.
Thank you.
Food Action PlanPosted by: | Comments
Press Release from the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council:
For the first time in its history, Asheville's City Council will consider a plan to improve the city's food security. The Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council (A/B FPC) collaborated with the Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment (SACEE) to create the first City of Asheville Food Action Plan. The plan will go before Asheville City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
The Asheville MSA has been identified as one of the most food insecure in the nation. Food Security is defined as "when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life". Many organizations are working to alleviate the challenges of food insecurity, and one-year ago an Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council was convened to address the strengthening of our local food systems and serve as a forum for action-oriented food policy discussions. Throughout the past year, over 350 volunteers have worked together to identify and propose innovative solutions to spur local economic development and create environmentally sustainable and socially just food systems.
The proposed City of Asheville Food Action Plan includes goals including: removing barriers to local food production and distribution, creation of a citywide curbside composting program, and the use of edible landscaping as a priority for public property.
"Dedication to this cause is going to reduce poverty, improve public health, strengthen local commerce, and create a more sustainable land-use future for Asheville and Buncombe County," says City Council Member and A/B FPC participant Gordon Smith.
Community members are invited to attend the first A/B FPC meeting of the new year. It's 4 – 6 pm on Friday, Feb. 1 at the Mountain View Room in the UNCA Sherrill Center.


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The author Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924) was described in The Spectator as: "a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, & was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities & prejudices she gave a glamorous setting." Her blend of romance, mysticism, religion, the occult, new age philosophy and sentimentality may have been derided by critics, but her novels were devoured and adored by the public: ranging from shop girls to royalty, including Queen Victoria who collected all of her books. Her ninth and most successful novel, The Sorrows of Satan (1895) broke all previous records in British publishing history and is regarded as one of the first international bestsellers. She became the highest paid published author in England and sold more copies than many of her literary heavyweight contemporaries combined, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling. However, despite Corelli's commercial success in her own lifetime, today, she has all but vanished from our literary landscape.
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First off, this is not going to be about Ryback. No, this is going to be about the John Cena vs. CM Punk Battle For Wrestlemania match from the 2/25/13 episode of RAW. A match that is getting a lot of praise from wrestling fans because of its epic feel and solid action yet if examined closely reveals one of my biggest complaints with modern wrestling. To be fair, the match was good and had it happened on a pay per view, I doubt I�d felt ripped off in having paid to see it.
The biggest problem I had with the match was the number of �finishing� moves used by both competitors and how after a 30 minute match both men moved like they had just gone through pre-match stretching exercises instead of a grueling fight. I understand that in today�s wrestling scene, especially on the independent level, it�s not uncommon for wrestlers to kick out of numerous finishers to elicit a reaction from the crowd. Just because something has become the norm doesn�t mean it�s right. This new match template is also the reason why I don�t consider The Undertaker�s last four Wrestlemania matches to be as good as everyone else claims. When it takes five finishers to keep a wrestler down for a three count, I feel it makes the moves less impressive and reduces them to just another move. Back in the day when Jake Roberts hit the DDT you knew the match was over. Now the DDT is a transition move to set up the next attack.
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Getting back to the Punk/Cena match, the other issue I had was the way they kicked out of every pin fall. Even after twenty minutes and numerous pin attempts, both wrestlers would kick out with force. Nothing in their actions reflected the intense battle Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler kept telling us Punk and Cena were going through. Even after Punk gave Cena a pile driver, a move banned by WWE due its dangerous nature, Cena turned his body nearly 270 degrees to kick out. If Cena wanted the audience to believe the pile driver was a legit finisher he should have barely gotten his shoulder an inch or two off the mat just before the three count.
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In Kiper's latest mock, he stayed true to his belief that CB has to be addressed early in the draft, and he kept Michigan State's Darquez Dennard in this spot:
Analysis: This is a pick I'm staying with, as I like both the fit and the fact that the Bengals have few major needs, but corner is certainly one.
To quote the previous mock, "there are some concerns going forward at a couple of spots, with both age (Adam Jones and Terence Newman are north of 30) and health (Leon Hall ended the season on injured reserve), so the Bengals don't just need depth, they could use a player capable of starting."
Dennard can start, and he brings a physical style and an ability to press combined with great awareness and the ability to defend like he's in your jersey without simply grabbing.
Our own Chris Roling agrees with Kiper's belief that Dennard would be a homerun pick at No. 24.
Several mock drafts have Dennard going as high as No. 10 to the Detroit Lions, and it will be a minor miracle if the All-American and Jim Thorpe award winner.
Ironically, Dennard beat-out Joyner for the Thorpe trophy, which is handed out every year to the nation's top college football defensive back.
Sufficeth to say, the Bengals would be happy to get either one of these players in the first round, as they've both shown the potentioal to be instant-impact players in Year 1.
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This round-up of datacentres from around the world gives an insight into the powerful technology that toils behind the scenes to keep the modern world turning.
Capgemini's Merlin datacentre
Capgemini's Merlin datacentre (above) is housed within an old 86,000-square-foot warehouse in Swindon, UK. It has a total datacentre area of 10,000 square feet, and a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.1.
PUE expresses the proportion of power that must be expended to support the IT infrastructure, versus the power that actually runs the racks, servers, network equipment and other essential components of the datacentre. A PUE rating of 1.1 means that only 10 percent of the total facility's power goes on the support infrastructure, with the rest going on the equipment. A PUE of 1.1, therefore, is pretty impressive — and it makes Capgemini's centre one of the most efficient in this collection.
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Beef and Sausage Stuffed Peppers
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"This recipe came from my aunt many years ago. To store for later use, place the cooked peppers on baking sheets and freeze. When frozen, transfer to zip-top freezer bags. They won't stick together so you can remove just the amount that you need."
- 1 pound ground beef
- 8 ounces mild or hot Italian sausage or bulk pork sausage
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 cups cooked white rice
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 6 large green peppers, tops and seeds removed
- 1 (10-ounce) can reduced-sodium tomato soup
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add ground beef, sausage and onion; cook until beef is no longer pink and the sausage is barely pink, stirring frequently. Remove from heat, drain, and return to skillet. Add rice, sugar, salt, and pepper.
- Spoon equal amounts (about 1 cup) beef mixture into each pepper. Arrange in dish.
- Combine soup, vinegar and water in a medium bowl; whisk until smooth. Pour over peppers and dot with butter.
- Bake, covered, for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake 15 minutes longer, or until peppers are tender. Let stand 10 to 15 minutes before serving.
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