….but with all the fancy electrical lighting, modern shops and the motor cars, it’s all in tune with our own experience. But somehow more aesthetically harmonious than today’s urban environments

I’m a bit fond of black and white, movies too, and those times more generally, those cars too which bridged the horse and carriage days to the modern vehicle – back in the day when the car was more square and a house on wheels.

B&W does provoke a fondness in me, maybe it was growing up watching B&W TV.

I like the photo.

Re modern urban environments, well, modern development more generally I find grotesque in some way, which is interesting IMO because the development says so little, as I see it. So little organic of individuals maybe is key.

But today there is little novelty in experience of lighting, cars and all.

Colour TV experience may dampen any novelty, any freshness of experience, but am not convinced that is the all of it.

The urban environments on the other side of the fence are always more aesthetically harmonious.

Bubblecar said:

….but with all the fancy electrical lighting, modern shops and the motor cars, it’s all in tune with our own experience. But somehow more aesthetically harmonious than today’s urban environments

That’s a crook OP bubbles.

>>”….but with all the fancy electrical lighting, modern shops and the motor cars, it’s all in tune with our own experience. But somehow more aesthetically harmonious than today’s urban environments”<<

Where did that bit come from?

modern urban environment… yeah.. horrid.. (eye roll)

I suppose if a kaleidoscope is your thing.

Where does a blind sober individual go for kicks.

>That’s a crook OP bubbles.

Wojja mean? It’s supposed to be a clickable picture link.

Bubblecar said:

>That’s a crook OP bubbles.

Wojja mean? It’s supposed to be a clickable picture link.

he was talkin’ ‘bout your comment.

He said crook, not crock.

Bubblecar said:

>That’s a crook OP bubbles.

Wojja mean? It’s supposed to be a clickable picture link.

“…but with all the fancy electrical lighting, modern shops and the motor cars, it’s all in tune with our own experience. But somehow more aesthetically harmonious than today’s urban environments.”

Oh. That’s your comment.

Perhaps with a couple of weeks in the workshop it can made intelligible.
But don’t hold your breath.

Then there’s the fkn huge image…

>Perhaps with a couple of weeks in the workshop it can made intelligible.

?

Reads like straightforward English to me.

>>Reads like straightforward English to me.

Ok

What drugs/alcohol were you imbibing at the time of writing?

Answer truthfully.

Had you perhaps been over-indulging in late night TV viewing… or other strange Taswegian peccadilloes?

I don’t know what picture that links to at your end Ian, but it’s a nostalgic urban nocturne and my comment regarding it was not terribly controversial, let alone psychedelic.

Bubblecar said:

I don’t know what picture that links to at your end Ian, but it’s a nostalgic urban nocturne and my comment regarding it was not terribly controversial, let alone psychedelic.

I wouldn’t call it psychedelic… although the “Prince Albert” ad is out there.

I quite impressed that the photo manages to capture the astral bodies of entities on the footpath.

.

And what’s with the 2,400px × 1,708px sizing?

It’s the Shorpy photo site’s usual generous sizing, when you click on ‘View full size’.

http://www.shorpy.com/

FWIW I tend to disagree about the aesthetic quality. The old cars have the charm of being old, but I think today’s cars are more aesthetic than black boxes with wheels. The visual quality of the advertisements is also much less sophisticated (although I’m perfectly prepared to entertain arguments about whether that is a good thing.)

Yes but Sozodont’s only claim is: CLEANS TEETH CLEAN

Mind you, they went out of business not long after that.

Decline in popularity

Sozodont fell out of favor with consumers in the early twentieth century amid concerns about side effects of its usage. As early as 1880, however, one dentist complained, “I will testify to what is so well known to most dentists, viz., that it destroys the color of the teeth, turning them to a decidedly dark-yellow.” At the turn of the 20th century, another dentist echoed this complaint, stating that “The liquid of Sozodont . . . is far too alkaline for general use, and would in time destroy the enamel of the teeth and make them yellow.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozodont#Decline_in_popularity

>>Reads like straightforward English to me.

I thought it alright, car.

It required some developed sense of what order reality and language come about, was all.

Ta onty :)

burp!

Geoff D said:

burp!

WTF? That was supposed to be July Chat!