The mystery of the Californian in Taunton High Street
Grand night at the Poet & Patriot last night. Drank booze and listened to a trio of guitar, guitarron and fiddle, which was well pleasant. A good reminder to have another go at the violinning. anyroad, i’ve been surfing the information superweb again and found flickr.com- a photo sharing site, you can put in a keyword and it will dish up other people’s photos with that tag. So i started with ‘Santa Cruz’ and saw lots of nice photos of beaches and all that, then i tried Taunton (my home town), just on the off chance and lo and behold This bloke’s taken a ton of photos of everything from Virgin Megastore to Bath Place to Hankridge to Vivary Park and it’s the same bloke who has a load of Santa Cruz pictures on the site, Chris Lewis from Davis, California. i thought that was weird. What are the chances of that happening, eh? i left him a message on the site… I have to know what he was doing in Taunton, on his own, with a camera, taking photos of everything, probably for about 4 hours. He must have had his own transport to get to Hankridge, the xmas decorations are up so it’s November/December time, there are photos in the dark, but it probably gets dark around 4:30 and the shops are open (so it’s before 5)… He’s posted every single photo he took so you can look through them and see exactly what he was up to, here he’s gone up the multistorey car park, then he’s taking pix of arthur’s sword in front of the Winch/ Castle. It’s gripping. Anyroad, I like this Flickr site it’s like picking up the wrong set of photos from the developers, only with the other person’s permission. Grand.
