Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Corus steel works, Port Talbot
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You can guarantee that it will be bad for cholesterol levels and will be washed down with strong tea.
I gained 10 pounds eating stale popcorn and 'damaged' candy working at a snack bar at the city pool while I was in high school. You haven't lived until you've slathered nacho cheese and canned jallapenos on a hotdog that's been on the rollers for so long it's gotten wrinkles.
I think that any mention of "jallapenos" would not be understood! This was a Sunday; I'll have to go back within the allotted time and check this out.
I am left with a desire to see the Snack Bar but given the stark industrial image you have 'painted', no desire to eat there!
Very post industrial! Maybe we could combine some of our pictures in an industrial ode or something?
The contrast between the dark, almost hostile, wall and the luminous sky seems to say something.
This is effective advertising, note. Hard to miss, to the point, informative, the works.
Stephane - one of the remaining bits of industry in Wales: the last steel works so, although Wales is now, largely, post-industrial, behind this wall are the 'dark satanic mills'. A couple of workers were even killed in an explosion a year or two ago.
Given the extremes in lighting there is detail all over in this shot. That hue of blue on the wall is most pleasing (and softening) to the eye which is of obvious contrast to the rest of the scene. It's is also nicely balanced. Well worked given the items on offer!
One wonders who for. I'm guessing a mobile roadside job for delivery drivers and the like. Do tell (show?).
Graphically simple, but interesting. The contrast in tone is effective -- I doubt I would have thought to leave it so dark.
Definitely effective advertising as Stephane commented, and I, too, would love to see this snack bar.
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The contrast between the dark, almost hostile, wall and the luminous sky seems to say something.
This is effective advertising, note. Hard to miss, to the point, informative, the works.
Definitely effective advertising as Stephane commented, and I, too, would love to see this snack bar.