A recent post on Twitter by Govanhill Go! reminded me of the concept of desire lines. These are unofficial paths, like the one on the right in this photo, worn into the landscape by people who would rather use them than the official routes (like the one on the left). They're generally short-cuts and often indicate a failure by urban planners to properly understand and account for people's desires as they move through their environment.
Somewhat ironically, the example in this photo comes from outside the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, home to the city's quite brilliant transport collection.
The former Washington Street Public School in Glasgow. Designed by Henry E. Clifford and built in 1889, it was home to Anderston Primary School until the Kingston Bridge was built in the 1970s. One of the on-ramps for the bridge passes within a few metres of the upper floors of the building, and it now lies empty with its playground used as a car park.
I spotted @laamaa's post about his new album 'M8 II' on Friday but only just now had a chance to listen -- it's incredible. If you like chiptune or synthwave at ALL, this is a MUST hear (and his other stuff too). The melodies, and the dynamics, the tracks all flow so well. 🎹 🔥
"I'm uninspired, don't feel that well and have only about eight hours left for this week's #WeeklyBeats track … let's do it on the #M8, which is the first tracker that I use and which I've been noodling around with for about six hours in total up until now."
Haven't felt good about a few bars of music for a couple of weeks now. FInally the curse has been broken last night! The mix is still a bit muddy on the low end, but dig the syncopated synth hit in this.
The Carnoustie Street Facade of the 1890s Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society building in Glasgow, overshadowed by the access roads and off-ramps for the 1970s Kingston Bridge.
A fragment of the old Monkland Canal passing under Castle Street in Glasgow.
Designed by James Watt, the Monkland Canal was completed in 1794 and was built to bring coal from the mines around Monklands into Glasgow. Most of it was filled in in the 1970s when the M8 motoway was built on top of it, but small fragments like this remain.
If you look carefully at the iron guard on the bridge pier on the left of this picture, you can see where the ropes used to pull the barges have cut into it.
Thanks to Centre-Ground on Twitter for bringing this interesting remnant from the past to my attention.
The Pinkston Basin in the North of Glasgow. At one time this formed the junction between the Forth and Clyde Canal (completed 1792) and the Monkland Canal (completed in 1794). The Monkland Canal has now mostly been filled in and replaced by the M8 motorway.
The Sighthill Bridge linking Sighthill and Townhead across the M8 in Glasgow or, as it has inevitably been nicknamed, the Rusty Bridge.
Today was the first time I'd visited it, and I have to say I love everything about it, even down to the colour, which was positively glowing the sunshine.
Here is our latest project after several weeks of terrible astrophotography weather. With a new AM5 mount, we were able to capture two- and three-minute subs. For comparison's sake, we chose to re-image the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae.
Imaging by @alex#NYC#Bortle 9 / 110 x 120 and 180s subs, Sony a6300 (ISO 400) / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) /AM5 /ZWO asi120mm mini
These images of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae (M8 and M20, respectively) were only supposed to be test shots! It turns out that using a telescope on a stable surface instead of a dilapidated fire escape dramatically improves the quality of the final image.
Imaging by @alex : #NYC#Bortle 9 / 132 x 60s subs, Sony a6300 (ISO 400) / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) / Star Adventurer 2i /ZWO asi120mm mini