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Friday 27 February 2015

Bertolt Brecht: Parade of the Old New

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A very grey day on the very Grey Lady of #Nantucket: image via Michael West @ACKstronomy, 22 February 2015

I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.



Off Season #14, Newburyport, MA (Sunpet camera): photo by Jim Rohan (Lower Darnley), 10 February 2015

It hobbled up on new crutches which no one had ever seen before and stank of new smells of decay which no one had ever smelt before.
 
 


Intertidal Zones #2, Rowley, MA (Holga): photo by Jim Rohan (Lower Darnley), 11 February 2015

The stone that rolled past was the newest invention and the screams of the gorillas drumming on their chests set up to be the newest musical composition.



tidal inlet [Gnome Pixie Flex / inverted lens / expired Orwo NP 20 / September 2014]: photo by Polar Noire, 28 January 2015
 
Everywhere you could see open graves as the New advanced on the capital.




i. early night. 2 hours after sunset. ~ 90 sec. long time exp. with Agfa Clack (Inverted lens) / Fomapan 100. 2014 ACFL_whv_2014_1: photo by Polar Noire, 15 January 2014

Round about stood such as inspired terror, shouting: Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us! And those who heard, heard nothing but their shouts, but those who saw, such such as were not shouting.




Black Horse #5, Wakefield, MA (Holga 120S): photo by Jim Rohan (Lower Darnley), 24 February 2015

So the Old strode in disguised as the New, but it brought the New with it in its triumphal procession and presented it as the Old.


∩ ∩ ∩ ∩ ∩ ∩ plastics hot green house. Some trees watching. ^^ [Gnome Pixie Flex / inverted lens / Orwo NP 20 exp. 1986 / February 2015]: photo by Polar Noire, 24 February 2015

The New went fettered and in rags; they revealed its splendid limbs.




Stampede #3 (Rocket Camera): photo by Jim Rohan (Lower Darnley), 25 February 2015

And the procession moved through the night, but what they thought was the light of dawn was the light of fires in the sky. And the cry: Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us! would have been easier to hear if it had not been drowned in a thunder of guns.

Bertolt Brecht: Parade des alten Neuen (Parade of the Old New), 1939, translated by John Willett in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Erich Fried, 1976



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attracted by the moon. [Kodak Cresta / flipped lens / RPX 400 / Xtol]: photo by Polar Noire, 24 October 2014


Living Through History: Stoneham, MA (Holga 120S): photo by Jim Rohan (Lower Darnley), 26 February 2015



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Fuji FP-3000b w. Polaroid Land Camera 100 converted Wollensak Raptar 127mm. WP_2014_WHV_4a]
: photo by Polar Noire, 1 February 2014



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Negative from Fuji FP-3000b taken with converted Polaroid Land Camera with Wollensak Raptar 127mm. January 2014. WP_2014_WHV_4anegRS]: photo by Polar Noire, 17 January 2014
 

 
Near frozen waves off the coast of Nantucket: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh/Stay Wild: image by Rhonda Berglas, 27 February 2015



Frozen "slurpee waves" on Nantucket: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh/Stay Wild; image by Rhonda Berglas, 26 February 2015
 

  Nearly frozen waves captured on camera on Nantucket Island: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh/Stay Wild: image by Rhonda Berglas, 26 February 2015


The slurpee waves of Nantucket: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh via Stay Wild; image via Rhonda Berglas, 26 February 2015



The unrelenting cold in Massachusetts has created "Slurpee waves" off the coast of Nantucket: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh
via Stay Wild; image by Rhonda Berglas, 27 February 2015


Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh spotted ocean waves frozen over with slush off the Nantucket coast amid below-average temperatures throughout the region. The freezing water created an unusual effect on the wave shape. ‘When I got to the top off the dunes I see that about 300 yards out from the shoreline that the ocean was starting to freeze. The high temperature that day was around 19F (-7C). The wind was howling from the south-west, which would typically make rough or choppy conditions not good for surfing, but since the surface of the sea was frozen, the wind did not change the shape.’
: photo by Jonathan Nimerfroh via The Guardian, 27 February 2015
 

RT @JasonGraziadei
"Slurpee waves of Nantucket" so hot right now. Slurpee waves. #nantucket: image via @JasonGraziadei@JasonGraziadei, 27 February 2015

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Awesome. Nearly Frozen Waves Captured On Camera By #Nantucket Photog via @cbsboston: image via Jon O @bzzagentjono, 27 February 2015


Snowing afternoon on jetties beach #Nantucket #jetties #ack #snow #winter: image via Nantucket Bike Shop @ackbikeshop, 18 February 2015

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