Ornamental Hermit

@herdingphotons

Aging nerd, depthless generalist. Refugee from alt.folklore.urban. I follow what I like, please don't bother to followback. I like old planes. No AI. Full stop. If you have a product to sell I will block you.

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Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jul 13

I’m not LARPing as a g’pa, I am one. I’ve carried these utility knives for decades, as essential to my job as were Sharpies and a pen. Stylish? Nope. My fedoras are unaffectedly stylish, though. Fedora, mind, not the incel’s trilby.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jun 30

This immediately came to mind.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jun 27

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 12

Galipoli (1981). Yes, it reflects crossing the tape in a foot race, but also echos Capa’s 1936 The Falling Soldier.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 10

And this:

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Apr 27

Primary them, vote them out if they won’t do their jobs.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Apr 20

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Apr 18

Brick wall filled with US style city gas meters.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Apr 18

Moonlight.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Apr 18

Pink pony o’ the aisle.

Child’s riding pony toy in a thrift store aisle of clothing.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Sep 6

Underside of bridge structure, strong angle to the structure. Night, devoid of signs of life.

Underside view of bridge spanning a river. Night, the structure is illuminated by architectural LEDs.

Night view of a 20th C stone and concrete arched bridge spanning a river, a modern bridge illuminated by architectural LEDs is back lighting the nearer structure.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Sep 6

Liminal image. A street at night devoid of life, darkened buildings, the street curving away in the middle distance.

Domed building in late 19th C style on a street corner. The streets are dark and devoid of life.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Aug 3

Piglet and Winnie The Pooh walking, deciding that today is Punch A Nazi Day.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jul 26

Image of a sink in a doorway, the standard response to the condescending phrase "let that sink in".

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jul 2

The other thing you should know now is how condescending the phrase “let that sink in” sounds to mere humans.

A sink in a doorway, letting that condescending sink in. Most of us know how to read, we don’t need to be told how to think.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jun 19

"The Expanse" prognosticates:

Still frame from from the TV series "The Expanse" showing New York and the Statue Of Liberty with water being held back by an enormous sea wall.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jun 4

CNN is owned by Time Warner Discovery. Their CEO is David Zaslav (right). This photo tells me all I need to know.

Elon Musk and Time Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav together as spectators at the US Open.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· Jun 2

Snarky reply to the condescending phrase "let that sink in" showing a hand basin attempting to enter a building.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 22

Seen this week. Camper conversion, fresh green/bronze color shifting paint.

1960s-1970s Volkswagen bus, camper conversion in a parking lot.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 16

... approach and inquire at the Mustang Church Of America and Museum in Franklin, KS. Its founder, Charles Ales, died in 2009 and I cannot find current info on it. But I got a snapshot. Great lighting for photography, eh? It was all of KS.

Facade of a one-story metal commercial building with a narrow spire and flag pole with US flag. A narrow paved drive leads from the camera position to the building. The ground is wet, the sky overcast and dreary, the trees barren of foliage. No Mustang cars are visible.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 16

Found it. Bug Ranch.

5 VW Beetles buried nose-down in the Texas ground and coated in gaffitti. A parody/homage to the Cadillac Ranch installation a few score miles to the west.

Ornamental Hermit@herdingphotons· May 16

Oh! Thanks for calling that to mind. Jan 2010, iPhone, as I was fleeing AZ. A score or two miles farther east at an interchange is/was Slug Bug Ranch, a similar installation but with derelict Beetles.