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Jules Verne’s dashing adventurer is reimagined with a Bristolian twist! Inspired by ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, Phileas Dogg sets out on an epic journey to circle Bristol in 80 ways – turning every obstacle into an adventure. Can you spot all 80 modes of transport?
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester. I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
After going through some old photographs I found some of the Bristol Harbourside, so decided to go back to where I had taken these then photographs and take some new now photographs.
I took this photograph of the Industrial Museum on the Bristol Harbourside either in 1995 or 1996. It was taken with my Canon SLR using film.
I wasn’t exactly sure which vantage point I had taken the original image. The broken guardrail had been fixed.
Of course the Industrial Museum as was, was closed and replaced with the MShed
The railway tracks have also gone.
Find it interesting that the Balmoral is in both photographs in roughly the same place.
Gromit as a lion? Well 29. Alex the Lion is one of my favourite sculptures this year and I think Gromit works very well as a lion.
Alex the lion is a character from the Madagascar films. I like the mane effect.
Alex can be found just outside the MShed guarding the Harbourside. I was a little surprised that there are three Gromit in and around the MShed and a Wallace in Whapping Wharf. Not quite sure I understand why they grouped these, but then put others in the middle of nowhere! Ah well.
Back in 2015 I attempted to see and photograph all 70 Shaun the Sheeps I managed to get 62. This time I am aiming to get all 67 sculptures. I have created this page to record all the sculptures we find. Download the app to find the sculptures.
In the entrance to the Mshed is 28. Gromitronic a silicon chip themed Gromit.
Covered with wires and flashing lights it looked very impressive.
This was a challenging Gromit to photograph as its background was a window, which was very bright compared to indoors, I had to Snapseed and edit the image accordingly.
Back in 2015 I attempted to see and photograph all 70 Shaun the Sheeps I managed to get 62. This time I am aiming to get all 67 sculptures. I have created this page to record all the sculptures we find. Download the app to find the sculptures.
In the heart of the MShed in Bristol is Oceans 2: Yellow Sub, an underwater submarine themed Gromit.
What I didn’t realise at the time that this was is connected to 22. Oceans 1: Deep Blue in “we the curious” by two way video cameras.
Back in 2015 I attempted to see and photograph all 70 Shaun the Sheeps I managed to get 62. This time I am aiming to get all 67 sculptures. I have created this page to record all the sculptures we find. Download the app to find the sculptures.
Canopy & Stars at Crane 29 is a unique treehouse built around one of the cargo cranes outside M Shed. The treehouse will grace Bristol’s skyline from June until September 2017.
I don’t know if you can really call it a treehouse as it’s not built in a tree, but it certainly looks very nice (see more pictures here).
To register for the ballot to stay in the treehouse, visit www.canopyandstars.co.uk/crane29. A night’s stay costs either £185 for a weekday or £250 for a weekend, with the final ballot open until July 3. All profits from Canopy & Stars at Crane 29 will go to Friends of the Earth.