Street food vendors

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These are paintings of carts, stalls and trucks that serve food from the side of streets. Hotdog carts, taco trucks, and all manner of small enterprises that serve treats and meals.  

As an aside, my son, Ambi Jr., at one point in his varied career decided he was going to operate a food truck. He bought a truck and spent some time adding all of the facilities inside it. He opened it and a week later the covid lockdowns started. Needless to say, that put a dent in his business. However, all was not lost, he kept working his regular job and his partner survived the lockdown on take-out business from the truck. 

Oh My Darling, Clementine

Get ready for a lamenting weekend with Gemma Caldwell.

 

Priorities

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

   

Chairs and sitting

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Aside from the times we turn them into tables by randomly piling objects on them, chairs are made for sitting. And sit in them we do. These are paintings of occupied chairs as well as empty ones. So, as you sit in your chair in front of your computer, or relax in a chair with your phone, scroll through and enjoy the pictures.

Substitute

Get ready for an ersatz weekend with Joe Griffin.

 

Casting a centrifugal pump body

Once again, we head to the sub-continent to visit an industry. This time a foundry casting a pump body. As usual, safety standards seem to be lacking. The two guys wearing sandals as they carry a cauldron of molten metal across a debris littered floor is particularly harrowing.     

 

Jacques Carabain

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Jacques François Joseph Carabain (1834-1933) was a Dutch/Belgian painter known for his paintings of street scenes. However, while many of his paintings featured markets it was the architecture and not the people were the focus of his paintings. He stopped painting 26 years before his death. Because of that, and because of some motifs repeated in many of his works, I suspect he painted mainly for commercial purposes.

Jacques Carabain