Monthly Archives: July 2012

A Photo A Day … July 30 2012

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I took my daughter to the Orthodontist this morning to have a bottom brace fitted – that’s a brace fitted to her lower teeth rather than one fitted to her bottom which wouldn’t have been very useful. On the way back, we passed some plants that were in troughs attached to some railings. I think they were put there to make it look nice when the torch went through there. Anyway, I really liked the look of the plants, so decided to capture some of them.

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This sounds fantastic. More countries should adopt this idea 😀

The Green-Walled Tower

I live in the town of Jeonju, South Korea. It’s a medium-sized city of 650,000 people in the southwest of the country. It has always been famous for being a traditional, historic Korean city.

Then they elected a new mayor: Mayor Kwak Min-Gi. He was young for a mayor and had an artistic temperament. He wanted to make Jeonju into a easy-going, free-spirited, stop-and-smell-the-roses sort of city. Not a very Korean ideal and a bit of a hard sell.

One innovation was the “karaoke stoplights”. Now, instead of being on timers, each intersection has a song assigned to it. Directional mikes are set up and the side that sings the loudest gets to go next. If you get stuck with a bunch of sullen drivers, you can sit there for twenty minutes or more. People were a little resistant at first, but it slowly caught on.

Now, to get across…

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Seven Things

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Thank you to UnfetteredBS who has put me up for the Seven Things About Me award.

Here are the rules for the award:

  1. Thanks the blogger who nominated you
  2. Share Seven things about yourself
  3. Nominate other bloggers you think deserve the award, and post on their blog to let them know they’ve been nominated.

So, again I would like to thank UnfetteredBS for nominating me for the award.

Okay, seven things about me.

  1. I have recently upgraded my phone to an iPhone 4S
  2. I love swimming, but I can’t any more
  3. I have four tattoos
  4. I have two piercings
  5. I love thunderstorms
  6. I like playing call of Duty games even though I suck at them
  7. My favourite plane is the Lancaster Bomber

Now to nominate other bloggers. Seeing that this is the “Seven things” award, I’m going to hazard a guess that I need to nominate seven people. SO I am going to do these in alphabetical order:

  1. #iPhoneography & Observations
  2. A Dog With Fleas
  3. Blue Jellybeans
  4. Cee’s Life Photography Blog
  5. E K Photography and Art Gallery
  6. Jodi Ambrose Blog
  7. Photography  Of Nia