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- Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham
- Gay Pride, Nottingham : A Slideshow
- A selection of Furries hang-out at the pub, Nottingham
- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 6 April 2024 vid2
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- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 2 March 2024
- Pro-Palestinian Protest, Nottingham 17 February 2024
Wow, look at Gideon Falter's facial expression at the end when he's been caught out 👀 #C4News
"Today Channel 4 News has seen new exchanges with different officers in different locations"
Police officer, "I've been told you keep running into the protestors"
Gideon Falter,In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding
This case should never have been brought. It was a vindictive prosecution by the Solicitor General, a government minister. The judge has seen sense.
📣 BREAKING from the High Court:
Judge Justice Saini has refused permission for the Solicitor General to pursue retired social worker Trudi Warner for Contempt of Court over holding a placard outside court telling jurors they have a right to acquit on their conscience 🪧Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it a photographer processed a roll of film using cannabis flower.
A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it -
The largest digital camera ever made – a 6,600-pound, 3,200-megapixel monster – is finally complete.
We've seen it in person and it's incredible! Come along with us to learn about the sensor, lens, and why it even exists.
Alan Lodge's Blog - Tash's Blog on stuff wot happens - ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on -
Researchers have discovered that some populations of monkeys have entered their Stone Age.
They have started using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish, making them a further type of primates to do so after us.
[📹 jim59186]
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Recent Posts
- The Mass Trespass : Kinder Scout 24 April 2024
- The Man in the White Suit 23 April 2024
- CIVIC : my website gallery 23 April 2024
- A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it 21 April 2024
- ‘We went from naive, hippyish protesters to hardcore anarchists’: the criminal justice bill protests, 30 years on 20 April 2024
- MILITARY : my website gallery 19 April 2024
- Peak District. 2 Hours of Beautiful Landscape Photography 17 April 2024
- POLICING : my website gallery 17 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Nottingham Puppet Festival 15 April 2024
- ARTS : my website gallery 15 April 2024
- Interview with Andy Earl, ex NTU 14 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Sunday afternoon at the Sumac 40 years events 14 April 2024
- Friday Gay night at the Sumac, Nottingham 14 April 2024
- Facebook Pix : Sumac 40 Years gig : Friday Gay Night 13 April 2024
- PRIDE : my website gallery 13 April 2024
- Glastonbury Festivals Slideshow 11 April 2024
- GREEN FESTIVAL : PRESS RELEASE 11 April 2024
- Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain 11 April 2024
- Lecture 2 Festivals Events 400 pics. 60mins 10 April 2024
- Film activists better : Media advice for activists 10 April 2024
An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
Quotes & Thoughts
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Happy New Year
Happy 2008 new year all. ps. the Chinese do it better. This year, there will be events in Nottingham on the 9th 10th February, celebrating the new year of the Rat.
My son, Sam comes to visit
Sam, my son, came to visit for a couple of days. Nice to see him again. ‘My, how he’s grown’. Currently to do with Bassline Circus, tol3, Free-kuency-festival crew & totalresistance. He’s a sound system and lighting/projection bod. Currently based in Portugal … Continue reading
Site4Life
This short film is about the young people who were born into the free festival scene that flowered and bloomed through a counterculture in 80’s Britain. From the Stonehenge free festival to the merging of the so called ‘New Age … Continue reading
2008 – Seasons greetings [with legal considerations]
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your … Continue reading
photographers from climate camp: exhibition at Nottingham Broadway
Tues 1 Jan – Thurs 31 Jan, Climate Camp: ‘Time 2 Act’ : How 2,500 people got together to call for an end to aviation expansion and work out solutions for a lower-impact society. A digital photographic exhibition showing on … Continue reading
A (very) misty morning
A (very) misty morning in Woodthorpe Park, Sherwood, Nottingham. Sometimes you have to get up really early to capture this atmosphere. Today though, it wasn’t necessary, since it stayed like this, all bloody day.
Just a thought ……………….
“He who seeks to know himself in the universe is as one who gazes at his own reflection in the warm waters of the oasis, after the camels have been” ………. anon
Happy Winter Solstice
I used to regularly go to Stonehenge, both winter and summer. To celebrate with others the cosmic events of the solstice. But, in recent years, English Heritage, and other agencies, have created ‘managed access events’ that I don’t feel I have anything … Continue reading
Applications under Freedom of Information & the Data Protection Acts
Over recent years, government has passed legislation to allow the citizen to get a copy of information, held by public authorities on policy issues [general matters], and about the individual [only yourself as an individual]. Data Protection Act 1998 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm … Continue reading
SMS Guerilla Projector
Check out this: http://www.troika.uk.com/sms-guerrilla-projector.htm I saw a piece this evening on Current TV, the Goggle digital TV channel. They did a ‘pod’ piece on the SMS Guerilla Projector and it’s application, not only for commercial purposes, but also street … Continue reading
Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns. Progress to the New year
Work has been continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. The wall having been compressed, the wooden top-plates in position and the whole issue strapped down as described in part #24. From the 13 – 16th December, we had … Continue reading
Happy Christmas from my Grandkids
Guess it that time of year then. Class-fulls of kids doing xmas cards, sparkley stuff and plastic antlers etc. Here is an example from mine ……. cute eh 🙂
Bali climate conference ends in farce as US vetoes emission targets
The UN-sponsored climate change conference held on the Indonesian island of Bali ended on the weekend without any agreement on combatting global warming other than vague generalities. A last-minute, face-saving communiqué was issued but, at the insistence of the Bush … Continue reading
Stop the Climate – Wrecking at Bali
Climate negotiations in Bali are in crisis. Things were looking good till now: near-consensus on a delicate deal, including 2020 targets for rich countries, in return for which China and the developing world would do their part over time. IPCC … Continue reading
Tacking climate change across the East Midlands: Local Government Consultations
Attended the Climate Change Seminar in Nottingham on Wednesday 12th Dec. At these consultation events, they welcomed views on the questions and issues raised in the consultation document “Towards a programme of action on climate change for the East Midlands” … Continue reading
Volunteer Workdays at Ecoworks, 13-15 Dec
We will be working on the straw bale building at Ecoworks this weekend – all are welcome to come and lend a hand. We are now at the exciting stage of constructing the roof over the extension (kitchen) part of … Continue reading
The East Midlands Vegan Festival
Press Release for immediate release. From ‘The East Midlands Vegan Festival’ On 8th December Nottingham will see it’s 4th ‘East Midlands Vegan Festival’ held at Nottingham’s Council House in Market Square. The event will run from 11am until 5pm and … Continue reading
Tacking climate change across the East Midlands
Government Office, East Midland (East Midlands) Events in 5 cities The East Midlands is responsible for the equivalent of 47 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year and could see some of the most substantial climate changes in England … Continue reading
Heard from a mate from party scene years ago
Heard from Fluffy Phil a mate from party scene years ago. Leicester Babble Crew. Was part of the ‘All Systems’ events we did, trying to tell all about the CJA at the time. Anyway, so glad to hear from him. … Continue reading