As Christmas is fast approaching I am sure many of you have or are about to get your Christmas tree up. In our household our tree has just gone up so I thought that it was time for this festive photo to go up also. Many of you guys who regularily comment on my posts are all over the world, I felt that these aircraft would be very apt, representing the five continents of the globe, In fact it "makes me want to oh oh oh oh oh oh, London to Jamaica, LA to Africa" or should it be ho, ho, ho, ho, ho makes me want to! (homage to JLS's She makes me wanna oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh......)
Of interest the aircraft in this post were all taken from the same spot, Putney, London as they descended towards Heathrow airport last summer with me sat on my back shooting skywards, further details are:
Time: Friday July 15 12:10 - 13:23 BST 2011
Altitude 3000 feet (estimate)
Azimuth/Bearing 056° N56E 0996mils (true)
Elevation Angle +90°
Horizontal Angle +20.7°
Each aircraft was shot every 2 mins. Gave me an idea for a future project!!
Merry Christmas all! Oh oh oh oh oh oh do press L as does look so much better large and with a black background!
Last thing stamp a note and your country of origin on this post! Lets see how many countries we can get on here and how many from each country, I will start if off!
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Been going through my favorites over the last day or two. There are so many great photographs out there. Many faves are from those of you who regularly comment on my post which is much appreciated, as I really respect and admire your work. As a final post of 2010 I thought that I would add your photos to one of mine that I took recently in East Village, New York. It's a pastiche of the Led Zeppelin cover Physical Graffiti, but I added some of my flickr heros in the windows.
What would be cool is if those of you that I have featured would add a note to your image and hence feed back to your stream. I am sorry to those of you that I have not featured, I only had room for 16 images.
Wishing all a Happy & Prosperous New Year
Press L to see large and even larger to see detail, especially my added text ;)
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Re-posted on the annual day of this album coming out originally posted in 2010. On the 13 August 2019 Led Zeppelin Instagram showcased the original artwork from the iconic album featured in the 50th Anniversary book 'Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin'. They also include details that I was unaware of like who took the photograph. This post has been very popular with 107,500 views as of 25 February 2021.
What follows is my observation in seeking out the location of this iconic album cover and further design and album details updated.
Whilst in New York this year it was a must that I find the tenement block that featured on my favorite and Led Zeppelin's biggest album Physical Graffiti. When I got back home I set about changing my photographic view to match the cover artwork. On the web it is widely known that the building is 5 stories high, but on the cover the building has only 4 stories. When I started to compare my photograph and the album artwork I soon realised that as well as the 4th floor being removed, artist Peter Corriston also added a number of further elements that include extra tiles, faces and sides of the building. Part of the top right railing balcony was left out for a whole window frame to be visible. See my notes below. I have just amended the Wikipedia listing with these new findings.
Artist Peter Corriston worked with designer Mike Doud to convince Led Zeppelin manager, Peter Grant, that the cover art idea was a good one. Unlikely as it may seem, the concept was itself heavily influenced by the design for Jose Feliciano’s album, Compartments (1973). The new version was created by using a photograph of a New York apartment block, situated at 96-98 St. Marks Place.
Peter Corriston recalls: "We walked around the city for a few weeks looking for the right building. I had come up with a concept for the band based on the tenement, people living there and moving in and out. The original (vinyl) album featured the building with the windows cut out on the cover and various sleeves that could be placed under the cover, filling the windows with the album title, track information or liner notes".
The tenements were shot by New York photographer Elliott Erwitt. The front-cover shot was taken in daylight and the back was taken at night. Sepia prints were made for the outer package and they and the inner bags were then hand-coloured by Maurice Tate - the best hand-retoucher in London at that time. Jimmy Page described the cover as "A peeping tom's delight". The title was coined by Page to convey the amount of physical energy and creative writing that had gone into producing the recordings for the album.
The building is still standing today. In the basement is a second-hand clothes shop. The name of the shop is, naturally, Physical Graffiti.
Although Physical Graffiti was originally designed to be the debut release on the Swan Song label, the album’s elaborate cover art, which features a New York City tenement with interchangeable images visible through the building’s die-cut windows, forced a delay. The release of Bad Company thus took the Swan Song debut honour all the way to the top of the Billboard album chart. Within six months Physical Graffiti also hit that peak, giving Led Zeppelin another number one album, in the week of March 22, 1975. The centrepiece of the album is a song called Kashmir. Despite the fact that Stairway To Heaven is the band’s best-known song, Kashmir is generally considered to be the ultimate Led Zeppelin track.
An eclectic gallery of celebrities and icons inhabit the building and they can be spied through the windows. Amongst the tenants therein are Lee Harvey Oswald, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, King Kong, Charles Atlas, Queen Elizabeth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait of Proserpine, the Virgin Mary and Laurel & Hardy. Perhaps I should do a second version with these figures in the windows or with the lettering.
Peter Corriston lives and works in the heart of Greenwich Village.
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At the moment I should be in New York City, but my flight was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, so I have been looking at some old NYC photos from my last trip. This is taken from the Flatiron Building (see below) I posted sometime back. Watching TV as it happens over the last 24 hours has been like watching a disater movie. I hope my flickr friends and all those effected by this storm are safe.
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After the success of my last upload I had to call this one Colour Charting. A big thanks for all the comments and faves. I still do not understand what makes a good explore placing. I prefer this one myself, ah well lets see what happens.
Taken opposite the Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs Elysées.
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