Most of these are from the Mick Twyman
collection, and mainly part of trying to make sure they don’t get lost, or at
least lost in a form that has reasonable definition. This has happened to a lot
of the photos that form part of our heritage here in Thanet, and had happened for
a number of reasons.
I think one of the main reasons is web hosting and how free internet hosting sites have stopped being free, there are also issues with social media sites reducing the size of images.
I don't think anything on the preservation front beats getting them into a reasonably cheap and reasonably high definition paper format. We learnt a hard lesson here in Ramsgate when the library burnt down.
Work wise
here is the link to books we put out yesterday printed books seem to holding up against other formats providing the price is reasonable and competes well with internet prices.
Today's election and I still have a bit of a bad feeling about the whole BREXIT business, I think the implications are overshadowed by having an opinion about staying or leaving.
There is something about a fairly stable democracy with 100 years of government moving from Labour to Conservative and back again and with both parties not really having a safe plan to deliver BREXIT that worries me.
I think perhaps stability has been overthrown outside the normal method of government, I guess most worrying would be it happening again with a referendum forcing the government to deliver something they really can't think of a way of safely delivering.
Once again I lunch at Wetherspoons here in Ramsgate, hotter day with more sun so yet another different seat meaning yet another sketch started
A few photos
here is the link as it seems unlikely I will get all of these sketches finished I am experimenting more and more. I have moved pretty much exclusively to Bokingford (Not) paper which used to be called cold pressed.
I am reminding people that I am continuing with my intention to add more material to this blog for myself
100,000 Mark note at a time when it would have been worth less than a £20 note is now, a reminder of how fragile the protections of civilisations are.
I can see that the system of electing a government based roughly on choosing people who have to work within some limitations when it comes decisions could feasibly be replaced by all decisions being decided by everyone using technology.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.