The Flickr Gasometers Image Generatr

photographer: (me) Mushroombrain aka. Danny Hennesy
Model: Gasometer, Vienna, Austria

Eh ok! Today I am just gonna rant and jab on about stuff I just feel I need to write…

This picture was taken over a decade ago, when they were building a new house in front of the Gasometer, here is a link about the iconic buildings: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Gasometers
One wonders why I have so many photos of just that building? It is kind of weird since I was not hanging around them every day :) still they are cool buildings…

Ok, I guess that I walked often in that direction since it was close to where I lived, but still that many pictures of the same building…

My curing-depression walks often took that route, actually I walked most often in that direction because it was the way I would be the least likely to bump into someone I knew, since I often wanted to be alone when I had severe depressions and angst in Vienna!

And now I want to congratulate Austria my former homeland to gain a new Government consisting only of genuine democratic political parties, no semi-democrats and no putin-sponsored parties, just real democratic parties, then I need to congratulate Germany on the same grounds I am happy that the fire valut is still on!!!

…another thing that struck me, is that the empty Pumpkin-head, A leader of a nation in the north America wants to make Canada a 51th state of his country (which both are deliberately unnamed here by me here)

But hey, Canada has 40 million people, compared to the Other unnamed country, wouldn’t that make almost 20 million extra votes for any democratic anti-pumkin-head coalition in a presidential election???

I mean that is probably why Puerto Rico never got to be a state, because they mainly vote democratic in many election, even though they in more than once have proven that they want to be the 51st state in that unnamed country?

But hey wait, does the Canadians want to be a 51th state in the pumpkin-heads federation??? Oh I guess they shall just be forced in to an involuntary union, by economic pressure despite what they want!!!

I already knew that the pumkin-heads head was empty! Or is it like this, democracy won't matter in his future state, because he dreams of a hereditary monarchy whe he and his bloodline rule that is appointed by god???

…are you not scared you who live in Pumpkin-land, because of 25% voted for an imbecile the world and that country will fall down in to a spiral of recession, the markets around the world need stability, they want to know that supply chains are stable so they can plan up ahead, know the profits when trading with foreign powers… not like: oh today it is a tariff on Mexico! Oh: today there isn’t, we must remember that the world's economy is closely tied such disruptions and uncertainty might lead to consequences that is unknown, a spiral down, also as the pumpkin-head says, prizes are gonna rice in pumpkin-Land, that will mostly hit the poor, since poor are always the ones worst off!!!

So please! Dear brothers, sisters and others in the US, please fight the lunacy, as much as you can to later on fight for a better world together, make your country something to be proud about again! …and all elephants, stop just clapping for any piece of crap coming out the fake-elephants bottom parts!!!

Canada and Greenland are their own, if their people choose to become part of a future Pumking Monarchy, then it is their choice and only theirs and without force or threats!!!

Also the Panama channel is given away by America, it cannot just be taken back at the whim off a nutter! The same goes for Ukraine, Slava them!

May the world be free and Democratic and let's focus more on helping the global south, may all empires crumble!!!

Peace and Noise!

/ MushroomBrain dreaming of a friendly collaborating prosperous world a family of friend and a rule system where power is not the right!!!

Viewed over King Class 6023 King Edward II are the long lines (over 200) of engines resting at Barry Scrapyard on 30 May 1966. Most of which were thankfully saved for preservation.

London Overground

Expired FUJIFILM Superia X-TRA 400
Canon EOS 30
Canon 35mm f/2

South Hackney

Cambridge Heath

Regents Canal bordering the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Hackney. Taken over a high wall using the articulated screen facing down at arms length and underneath a railway bridge.

08418 and 60013 at Washwood Heath

"John Bull", a long running pictorial magazine, was part of the massive Odham's stable of publications. This cover from July 1949 captures a very urban scene that at the time would have been familiar in many industrial areas in the UK. Equally, the use of murky canals for informal recreational use was familiar! The artist is given as "Turrall".

#gasholder, #gasholders, #gasometer, #gasometers, #industrialarchitecture, #architecture, #photography, #demolition, #monochrome

A view from the sky over the southeast wing of Dublin shows a scene that has not only changed but changed utterly! We haven't visited the "Monkey" Morgan Collection for some time and this is a cracker of a shot to show us just how interesting they can be. I'm curious about the apparent running track on the bottom right - Shelbourne Park perhaps?

Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan

Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection

Date: ca. March 1955

NLI Ref: NPA MOR891

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Wien ist anders.
Vienna is different.

"The Vienna Gasometers are four gasholder houses, built as part of the municipal gas works (Gaswerk Simmering) in Vienna, Austria, from 1896 to 1899. They are located in the 11th district, Simmering. They were used from 1899 to 1984 to house gas holders, also known as gasometers, each of 90,000 m³ (3 million cu. ft.) storage capacity. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas between 1969 and 1978, they were no longer used and were shut down. Only the brick exterior walls were preserved. The structures have found new residential and commercial use in modern times." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Gasometers

Glasgow,
Scotland.

Fascinating looking on to see how they demolish a gas holder.
Apparently you need to have a giant 'tin-opener' attachment and just snip, snip, snip away.
These gas holders on Sunderland's Commercial road have long dominated the local landscape, but they're now disappearing fast.

The many gasometers here show the scale of the gasworks and is also visible from the Jubilee Line on the approach to West Ham.

Shot from the passenger seat of my dad’s 1965 Pontiac Bonneville on a gray and rainy day, Bridgeport presented quite a bleak view back then. Unlike today, there were still vestiges of the highly industrialized city it once was until the mid 1960s.

Driving through Bridgeport on the Connecticut Turnpike always looked like the blasted lands to my 13 year old eyes. (and worthy of a few pictures on black and white grainy 126 film.)

When I moved to Rockland County in late 1983, Nyack was the first town that I explored. Unlike today where it looks like a miniature version of Greenwich Village, vast swaths of it were still in a raw post-industrial condition, especially along the Hudson River shoreline. There were even remnants of abandoned railroad tracks slicing through parts of town.

I was fascinated by the reed-covered rusting hulks of cars, trucks, refrigerators, mattress box-springs and all the other junk people just left to rot by the Hudson River.

This view shows an abandoned trash strewn greenhouse being taken over by nature and a round leaky cement diesel fuel tank behind it. Old books in my collection contain black and white images of the Nyack shoreline being filled with small factories, marine fuel tanks and boat supply buildings in the 1920s. By the 1980s, some of the remnants could still be found.