Saturday, September 14, 2013

The World's End - English-to-English translation fail

"Fag end" can mean a cigarette butt in British English, or just the worn out end of anything real or metaphorical. "fag" in North American mean homosexual...so they translated it to "cigarette" but "cigarette end" just means only a cigarette end in North American - the paragraph abruptly stops making sense here!
I'm going to see this movie - I really liked "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", the other two films in the 'Cornetto' series.
I see that the plot is like the the original novel of "The (invasion of the) Body Snatchers" - the aliens leave when they figure out that the people they're trying to help by building a better version of them don't want to be helped.

Friday, September 13, 2013

States of Decay

 Somewhere around Brasher Falls, NY
New York City 1991

Old post office and customs house, November 2013, corner Park and Zimmerman,  Niagara Falls, Ontario - once this neighbourhood was the commercial centre of Niagara Falls, now it is isolated and has a vacant lot and other abandoned buildings nearby.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Juxtapose This!

 Note that the girls are holding "Canadian Money" (probably the google search that got the images) but it's Canadian Tire money - just coupons - the green ones are worth 10 cents!
Or a young voyeur...
This was a mail ad from American Express in the early 90s - OK, to illustrate a trip contest a plane is a good stock photo - except this isn't a passenger plane - it's a B-2 Stealth nuclear bomber!
Not as large as hers, I hope.

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)


I think it's a double crested cormorant - normally they don't let me come close to them at all but this one slid into the water when I was about 15 feet away.
group roosting on a buoy

Monday, September 9, 2013

Akwesasne Powwow 2013

Dancers and a flint tool making demonstration, Akwesasne Powwow 2013. This is an annual event held on the first weekend after Labour Day. What the dancers are wearing should be called Regalia and not costumes - also, some of the dances like the Grand Entry should not be recorded - the Master of Ceremonies will tell you.





Flint tools - Akwesasne is a Mohawk reserve - Mohawks are called "People of the flint" in their own language - flint was an important material for making things like arrow heads, knives and other cutting tools.