Your Tuesday Afternoon Interesting Thing
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https://lifeboatstationproject.com/
@Doctor-Phibes would be able to tell you (but I had to look it up): Lifeboat volunteers are not Coasties. It's a completely independent and volunteer organization. And they sometimes do some seriously crazy shit.
Jack Lowe is going around to all 238 stations in the U.K. and is making fucking wet plates of all the volunteers. It takes hundreds of gallons of collodion, fixer, etc. to do this shit.
He chose wet plate for interesting reasons, though. Not to make the photos old-timey, but to have the volunteers be directly involved in the process. He sensitizes the glass, poses the volunteers, exposes the glass, then develops the exposures from his van so they can see. And every exposure only has 1 true copy.
The U.K.'s Maritime Museum has already agreed to buy a selection of his photos for an upcoming exhibit.
Cool ass project.
Even through a phone screen, the photos are just rad: https://lifeboatstationproject.com/rnli-coxswains-and-helms/
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Cool project!!
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Very cool.
The RNLI was one of the charities my parents donated to for their entire lives. I see the flag, and I immediately think of my mum - she had a tea mug with it on.
I was only joking
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Your Tuesday Afternoon Interesting Thing:
Very cool.
The RNLI was one of the charities my parents donated to for their entire lives. I see the flag, and I immediately think of my mum - she had a tea mug with it on.
Were they associated in any way? I find it amazing that it's all still a completely volunteer organization. I don't think we have an equivalent.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Your Tuesday Afternoon Interesting Thing:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Your Tuesday Afternoon Interesting Thing:
Very cool.
The RNLI was one of the charities my parents donated to for their entire lives. I see the flag, and I immediately think of my mum - she had a tea mug with it on.
Were they associated in any way? I find it amazing that it's all still a completely volunteer organization. I don't think we have an equivalent.
Other than donating, no I don't think so. My dad sailed a bit when he was younger - there were a couple of things they gave to - the RNLI and also Mountain Rescue, another volunteer organization, equally challenging but somewhat less expensive.
Not to state the obvious, but the thing about the UK is that pretty much wherever you go, you're never that far from the coast.
