The Last of the FLKs ?

 

As you may have notices, dear reader, I've not been posting much recently. No, I'm not dead / injured / living in Swansea, I've been thinking about the future, including the future of this blog.

This was partly prompted by the various alerts from Google, including notifications on Content Policy changes. While these are mainly sensible and reasonable, I was musing over this (below) section.

By it's nature, this collection of slides, and the related scans feature subject that are unidentified and probably unidentifiable. And the images of "Funny Looking Kids (FLKs) are some of the best and most popular.  So, if someone complains, and demands evidence of  permission to post images of these FLKs.... I'm F'ed.

OK, it's unlikely, but ... it could happen.

Also, despite my owning the slides (the original images) and editing the images for clarity, colour correction, cropping etc.... the copyright will remain with the original photographer. So, sid that for a laugh.  Again, unlikely to be a real issue, but ...

The result is, I'll probably reduce the risk of future issues by severely curtailing the number of images I post.  Which may disappoint almost three people in the world.

Ta-Ta for now.

Rural Idyll with Cows and Silo

 

Yes, I've been away, and not posting much.

Sorry.

Have this boring slide as compensation.

Bonus - Napoleon Bonaparte has just died.

Car Park (with dirt)

 

Tedious Tuesday, and I started cleaning up this slide image, to address some of the dirt and optical crud from the image.

And then I realised... nah.  It's a very tedious image, and it's unlikely to attract millions of views.

So, here we have it. An imperfect tedious image of a North American car park from 1975.

Bonus - 

Confirmation Sunday

 

As normal, no information on this slide, but as I understand it, Confirmation is when the Church of England confirms that the young ladies of the parish have passed the age at which the Bishop has lustful thoughts about them.

Bonus - Urine Deflectors And Where To Find Them in London

Bonus 2 - Headline that you probably don't have to read beyond.

Where in the world?

 

I wonder where this could be.

Obviously, it could be Norfolk, or Lincolnshire, but .... It is probably The Netherlands.

In fact, I'd suggest that these are probably the Kinderdijk windmills.

Bonus - 

Tedium Intensifies

 

It's Tedious Tuesday, and today's is a doozy

It's a pair of sofas in a red stripey material.

And ....   my gosh. Is there really anyway to interest folk in such a boring slide ?

Bonus - 

A Quiet Corner

I just thought you might like a tranquil relaxed corner of Chez Moi. (OK, possibly Sissinghurst Castle Garden.)

Bonus - the fascinating Bad Luck of the  failed 1949 Invasion of Kinmen,

Patricia goes for a drive.

 

This slide, from July 1960, captures Mrs Patricia van Winkel, as se heads off for a bit of a drive. I personally cannot identify the cars in the image, but they are So Damned American, that it hurts. For extra fun, in the portion of the slide that I had to crop has some grocery prices. Modern readers may weep at "Eggs - 3 Doz - $1.00".

Bonus - The wall that Frank built.

Nymph and Satyr.

 

If you're anything like me, and I know that I am, you'll recognise that brushwork and shadings as being the work of  Pierre Cabanel, which means that this painting is almost certainly Nymphe surprise par un satyre (Nymph Surprised by a Satyr), an 1875 work.

Bonus -  Café Lehmitz and the Photographs of Anders Petersen: A Portrait of Hamburg’s Red-Light District.  Features an image you may recognise if you've heard Tom Waits' Rain Dogs.

Look! At!! This!!!

 

To the modern blog-reader, this slide is a bit ... ummm, what?  

However, it may have originally been part of a witty multimedia presentation to wow the attendees of a Battley Townswomen's Guild Wednesday Afternoon event.

Maybe.

Bonus - Are people born with a photographic memory?

Or does it take time to develop?

The Horror of Suburbia

 

No, it's not CGI. People did used to look like this.

These are the Fanshawe's (pronounced Featherstonehaugh.)

• Roger is an Investment Banker, in both technical and rhyming slang senses)
• Julie is a part time teacher who collect knitted toilet paper covers in her spare time
• Kevin (left) enjoys mathematics, Latin, accountancy and dressing up in mum's clothes.
• Wolfgang (right) believes he's a changeling, but wants to be a Tax Auditor when he grows up.

The sign in the background appears to be "Curtis Woo...." which makes me this this might be Curtis Wood Park Road in Hern Bay, with it's shitty half-timbered stockbroker houses...Like this  but life is too short to find an exact match.

Bonus - The Earth with high and low sea levels.

The Decapitator of Dudley

 

I know that today is Tedious Tuesday, and this slide isn't actually tedious or boring, but ... its ineptness is worthy of highlighting.

What would be a nice little image is spoiled by the photographer's inability to actually point the camera high enough to capture the (presumably) happy faces.

Bonus - I'm back, and posting Stuff. Isn't that enough?

Bonus 2 - Kansas's highest point is just a lump in a farmer's field.

Happy Birthday Melanie

 

Happy Birthday to my favourite gal, Mel.

(No, that's not Mel in the picture. Probably.)

Bonus - Today is also the birthday of Salma Hayek, another hot and sexy lady, and Keir Starmer, who isn't.