Some cool loan for business images:
Pawnbrokers and Pay Day Loans
Image by Alan Stanton
19 May 2012. 515-519, High Road, Tottenham at the corner of Bruce Grove.
Before the Tottenham Riot in August 2012 this corner was occupied by Winkworth Estate Agents.
The slogan used by Haringey is "Building Back Better". Which has a nice alliteration and sounds upbeat. Unfortunately, it raises completely unrealistic expectations about how much control or even persuasive power local Councils actually have to influence decisions taken by developers, landlords, business owners, consultants, and Mayors of London.
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Of course, the social problems suggested by the prominent signs are not unique to Tottenham or London. And almost everything the UK Coalition Government does is making it worse.
§ Article by Jill Insley : Payday loans: bishop hits out at 'sinful' interest rates.
§ Article by Deborah Orr. The rise of payday loans replaces one debt bubble with another, nastier one.
§ Video of David Graeber talking about his book Debt: The First Five Thousand Years.
§ Noam Chomsky The people always pay.
§ Photos by Clive Carter of similar developments in the Stroud Green/Finsbury Park area.
§ Aerial view of where I took this photo.
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----- Original Message -----
From : Haringey Environment Department
Sent : 18 May 2012 12:07
Subject : Olympic Decoration
We will be having Olympic lamp post banners all the way along the torch route - not on every lamppost, but enough to make an impact. There will also be Olympic lamp post banners all the way down Tottenham High Road (even though the southerly end is not on the route). Installation of the banners is starting on 6 June. I attach a picture of the banners. There will also be a flag at the Civic Centre.
We will also be using London 2012 Community Celebration packs to decorate Council venues (these include bunting and banners). We are doing site visits to confirm the locations, and we are looking at leisure centres, libraries and other public-facing sites like Apex House, 48 Station Road, Bruce Castle Park Pavillion and the Civic Centre.
----- Original Message -----
To : Cllr Alan Strickland
From : Alan Stanton
Sent : Sunday, May 20, 2012 05:33 PM
Cc : Labour councillors
Subject : Olympic decoration - bread & circuses
Hi Alan
Can I ask how much these extra lamppost banners and celebration packs are costing? And especially who's paying?
Bread and circuses. Though for everyone except the rich it seems to be cuts to the bread-and-butter services. While for some people it's food banks. And a few others rummage in waste bins.
----- Original Message -----
From : Cllr Claire Kober (Leader of the Council)
To : Cllr Alan Stanton
Cc : Labour Councillors
Sent : Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:54 PM
Subject : Olympic decoration - bread & circuses
Alan
The Mayor of London gave every borough £50k for Olympic decorations. This was announced some time ago.
Claire
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
To : Cllr Claire Kober
Cc : Labour councillors
Sent : Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:49 PM
Subject : Olympic decoration - bread & circuses
Hi Claire,
Thanks for the information. Splendid news!
Let them eat banners. And repay loans in bunting.
Alan
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§ The £50,000 which Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, "gave" every borough to pay for Olympic decorations, meant in effect that Boris returned some of our tax money.
§ "... this has been the year of the soup kitchen. The switch from "soup kitchen", which smacks of Victorian desperation, to the more neutral "food bank" is a semantic coup d'état. An economic crisis initiated by the immorality of the banks ends up with nice "banks" that offer food for free." From: '2012 has been the year of the food bank.' Article by Suzanne Moore in The Guardian 19 December 2012.
§ The Olympics were a celebration worthy of Nero – and as extravagant. Article by Simon Jenkins in The Guardian 27 December 2012.
Fighting for the couch
Image by tychay
Fighting for the couch
Terra
South of Market, San Francisco. California
Nikon D70, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX, SB-800, ultimate light box
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Kubrick and Cupcakes by Songbird and Satisfaction.
Thanks to Cindy and Halle for the invite. Thanks to the folks at Get Satistfaction and Songbird for hosting. And, of course, the peeps at Terra.
This was my spare camera as my D200 is broken and I didn't realize I could have shot the Leica. Since my D70 L bracket is on loan, the flash was handheld which made AF, flash, nearly everything inconsistent.
Batch processed in DxO to give it a little Clockwork Red^H^H^HOrange. Some of the images posted are unprocessed.
