So, you were waiting for the title of this post, weren’t you? Breathe bated, mouth agape, heart palpitating, and fingers wrenched, you sat for this moment when the world as you knew would forever change and I shall reveal to the massed humanity my true purpose and mission: that of making you all wake up at ungodly hours on a Sunday morning and walk around town.
This, my friends, is the moment.
I have moved. Bristol shall walk. It shall, like Vivekananda’s Hindu nation, arise, awake, and photograph. Chandrachoodan proudly presents The first Chennai PhotoWalk Bristol Chapter.
Here’re the pertinent details.
When: Sunday (obviously) 14th of March 2010, at 9 AM
Where: Bristol Bridge to Jamaica Street, via Old Market street, Bond street and Brunswick Sq.
Yes, I realise that my regular audience (numbering in the high millions, but generating traffic of a measly 80 uniques a day.) aren’t all based in Bristol, UK. But no matter. You, my regulars, will be witness to an event of such significance. And you shall tell any/all friends in the UK to get their legs and cameras over to Bristol pronto.
Is it just me or is it very, very, very difficult to pronounce 28th? And how do you spell it?
Anyway. This time, Vatsan’s outdone himself (and bordered very close to my greatness and my supreme skill and natural talent) in picking a superb route for the photowalk. He’s an able protege and a good guide.
Here’s the route/idea for this month.
The past photowalks have concentrated in and around Parry’s corner or Broadway areas of North Madras. This walk we will head further into the so called black town areas of Washermanpet and Royapuram.
The walk will begin at the start of West Madha Church Street just outside the entry to Royapuram Railway station, where one of the earliest photowalks ended, and then proceed down that road. Madha Church Street and Arathoon Road were the areas where the Parsi community, yes the dwindling fire worshippers of Madras lived. West Madha Church has the only existing fire temple in the city, apart from its name sake Madha Church. At the end of the road is a single screen theatre, and then the walk heads to Arathoon road, which was the where the Parsi’s in Chennai lived. Both these streets do not look like the typical Royapuram/Tondiarpet areas and starkly different with their Parsi roots very evident. Before ending the walk at the Royapuram Market.
Date of the walk: 14th March 2010
Place: West Madha Chruch road Begening (Outside entrance to Royapuram Station on West Madha Church Road)
Time: The usual 7 am.
And for those who are scratching their heads after reading the route, here is the map.
For directions, questions, and to play pranks on Vatsan, call 94449 99456 or 95000 70176 or email sm.vatsan@gmail.com
where can the river go, but to the sea
where can the river go, but to the sea
the waiting flower it is for the bee
a dice throw pitched us together
I will hold you, treasure,
as I fight fate, bitter fate
I quite like the way this has come out. Chenthil tells me I have a patented free-verse style. So I shall exercise my IP, and build on my style.
bittersweet love, delirious dreams
I held on
my iris, my precious,
you were all my reason
my only theory
I lived a life to be yours,
your shadow, your image
Overlooked as I am, forgotten as today
you’ve moved on.
I am an idol without temple, a war without end
no peace, no salvation without you.
I came across this a little while ago. Liked it enough to blog.
There’s one upright spindle/ with tendons around its girth/ orbs at tendons’ end, so little/ revolve with gaiety, pure whim, and mirth/ some lose steam and slam into the spindle/ Behold! A hundred score pieces and dirt/ The others revolve, unbridled!/ And with bliss, yet tethered/ Tempus fugit; the spindle recedes into oblivion/The orbs are all alone./Unrestrained and out of a union/ that they’d taken for granted all along/ The thrust that drove them in a circle/changed nature, and pushed them far apart/Once, they were all of a spindle/About which they now know not.
~R.S.G. Priest
I looked for R.S.G Priest, but no go. So no linkback.
Vatsan, who shall be my culture minister and the third in command in the soon to be unveiled Chandrachoodan World order, has a great route for this walk.
So after the successful exhibition and walking through Mylapore, Im sure we are all bored of Mylapore for photowalks. So we should trek to another part of town this time.
So this time we end the photowalk, where we left off in one of the Madras Week Photowalks. Yep in another ancient part of town with with old houses, one of which has been restored to house the Rasam Resturant, namely Puraisaiwalkam.
So we start the walk at Nehru Park (its opposite Sangam Theatre on Ponmallae High Road) and walk down Flowers Road, take the right T Junction and proceed till Dewan Rama Road (take a u turn after finishing this rd) and come back to the Flowers road again till M Ct M school (Rasam) and take the left at Gangadeeswarar Koil street and proceed till the temple.
And end it at the Gangadeeswarar Kovil.
Starting Point: Nehru Park
Time: 7. Am
Date 7th Feb 2010.
And Then there is always the option of Welcome Hotel’s lovely Sambar Idlies for breakfast.
For directions and for other queries, call Vatsan on 95000 70176 or 94449 99456
Beginning today, now, I am going to take one photo a day and post it on Flickr, for the next 47 days. As those of you who know me on flickr know, I began a project last May, of shooting abstract-minimal photos and posting only those that I think are the best. This project, I hope, can nest within the earlier project. Minimal-abstract (or a-m), one every day.
Now, here’s the small twist in the concept. I want you, all of you, or some of you many times, to tell me what subject to shoot. As far as possible, I will shoot the subject you want me to shoot, in the best way that fits my aesthetic. I will post it on Flickr, and link to it on SelAm and twitter, and link to your blog/flickr/twitter/email id.
Works? Ideas please.
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