Author - Paul Schatzkin

@historicscotland @welovehistory @visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUKAdam Smith towers over the crown of St. Giles Cathedral along the #RoyalMile in #Edinburgh, #Scotland
#forcedperspective #photooftheday #thebest_capture #ig_masterpiece #nuriss_tag awe_inspiringshots #pro_ig #global_highlights #igworldclub #ig_select #editoftheday #capture_today #waycoolshots #featuremeinstagood #igcapturesclub #ig_masterpiece #ig_great_pics #tweegram #picoftheday #instadaily #beautiful #bestoftheday
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Is This Thing On?

June 12, 2014

Digest, photography

Another observation from Ashley Segroves studio… this Post-It note was covering the camera on her new iMac Apparently somebody told her that The Authorities can turn your computer camera on without you knowing it. So she’s not smiling…

What to do if you think the #EnnEssAy is turning on the camera in your computer.
#dontsayNSA #photooftheday #nuriss_tag #global_highlights #igworldclub #featuremeinstagood #tweegram #picoftheday #instadaily #bestoftheday #spy-v-spy #nashville
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Robbie Quinn: On Assignment

June 12, 2014

Digest, photography

I went to a gathering of Nashville-based photographers last week. The event was hosted sponsored by 12th & Broad and hosted by Ashley Segroves at her fabulous studio in downtown Nashville.

We were given assignments: a word on a slip of paper. Mine was “flowers.” Robbie Quinn drew “sharp” – so he placed a pair of scisccors in a refrigerator and photographed that… and I photographed Robbie…

#notflowers @12Broad #nextgennash #photographers #mixer

Blue Angels Over Nashville

June 12, 2014

Digest, photography

Blue Angels
@blueangels @USNavy @kronnews @WSMV @WKRN @nc5The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron – better known as the Blue Angels – flew their jet fighters over downtown Nashville this morning (June 12, 2014) as part of the festivities for the Great Tennessee Air Show in Smyrna over the coming weekend. #nashville #photooftheday #thebest_capture #ig_masterpiece #nuriss_tag awe_inspiringshots #pro_ig #global_highlights #igworldclub #ig_select #editoftheday #capture_today #waycoolshots #featuremeinstagood @instagood #igcapturesclub #ig_masterpiece #ig_great_pics #sky
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David Hume’s Golden Toe

June 11, 2014

David Hume is regarded as one of the principal authors of the Scottish Enlightenment.

This statue is one of the most prominent fixtures along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, the cobblestone street that winds from Hollyrood Park to Edinburgh Castle, thru the heart of the “Old City.”

Visitors rub the big toe of the old sage’s foot, so that over the years the green bronze patina has been rubbed away to reveal one big, shiny toe.

David Hume’s Toe@edinspotlight @EdinChamber @visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUK

Visitors to #Edinburgh’s #RoyalMile will rub the big toe of #Enlightenment philosopher @DavidHumeQuotes statue for luck.

#edintravel #midlothian #urban #instatravel #travelgram #photooftheday #thebest_capture #ig_masterpiece #nuriss_tag #awe_inspiringshots #pro_ig #global_highlights #igworldclub #ig_select #editoftheday #capture_today #waycoolshots #featuremeinstagood @instagood #igcapturesclub #ig_masterpiece #ig_great_pics #tweegram #picoftheday #instadaily #bestoftheday
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#GoT Winter is Coming – In The Middle of Summer

June 10, 2014

Digest

The tenth and final episode of Game of Thrones Season 4 will be broadcast this coming Sunday night…

There are 52 weeks in every calendar year, only ten of which are graced with new episodes of Game of Thrones.

This is all the proof that you need that there is no god.

@GameOfThrones @GoThrones_BOT @acastofkings @GeorgeRRMartin_
No more #GoT after 6/15? Then #Winter_IS_Coming#GameOfThrones #GoT #GoTSeason4 #TakeTheThrone
#WinterIsComing #television #westeros #sevenkingdoms #gameofthronesseason4 #valarmorghulis
#takethethrone #jonsnow #daenerys #season4 #iceandfire
©2014 [email protected] aka @driver49

Double Rainbow in Edinburgh

June 9, 2014

Our first day in Scotland in October, 2012:

DoubleRainbow over St. Andrews Square @edinburgh #Scotland@TalesOfOneCity @edinspotlight @EdinChamber @visitscotland @GreatBritain @TwitterUK#edintravel #midlothian #rainbow #urban #instatravel #travelgram #photooftheday #thebest_capture #ig_masterpiece #nuriss_tag #awe_inspiringshots #pro_ig #global_highlights #igworldclub #ig_select #editoftheday #capture_today #waycoolshots #featuremeinstagood @instagood #igcapturesclub #ig_masterpiece #ig_great_pics #tweegram #picoftheday #instadaily #beautiful #bestoftheday ©2014 [email protected] aka @driver49

#GoT: Is Jon Snow the “True King” of Westeros?

June 8, 2014

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In which we speculate on the true identity of a fictional character…

There is a scene in the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones where Eddard Stark is perusing the Book of the Great Houses of Westeros and discovers that while all the Baratheon issue are “black of hair,” Joffrey, King Robert’s supposed son, is, like the Lannisters, “gold of hair.” That’s the point when Ned figures that Joffrey is in fact the issue of incest between Queen Cersei and her twin brother Jaime Lannister; it’s all down hill for Ned from there until the axe comes down on his neck in Episode 9. Oops.

Ann and I have been drilling into the back story of the TV series and the book, and have come to believe that one of the secrets buried in the story conceals the true identity of Jon Snow, he of black hair and the Night’s Watch.

Part of the back story is: Raeghar Targaryen – the son of the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen – abducted Ned Stark’s sister Lyanna, raped and impregnated her; these are among the circumstances that led to Robert’s Rebellion, the war that ended the nearly 300 year Targaryen dynasty and put Lord Robert of House Baratheon on the Iron Throne. After the rebellion, Ned finds his sister in Raeghar’s captivity, and she extracts a promise from him before she draws her last breath.

Nobody knows for sure what that promise was, but Ned returns shortly thereafter to Winterfell with a baby boy, much to the consternation of his wife Lady Catelyn, who assumes the boy is Ned’s bastard child by another woman and shuns the kid for his entire life. Ned never lets on that the child may be his nephew, not his son.

But if Jon Snow is the son of Raeghar Targaryen, shouldn’t his hair be platinum blonde like Danaerys? (OK, this is not advanced genetics theory, just work with me here…)

So here is our theory: that some how, in passages unwritten from before the books and series begins, Robert Baratheon and Lyanna Stark ‘hooked up,’ and the child she bore is the result of that liaison – and thus the child entitled to inherit Robert’s throne (not withstanding his still obvious bastard status, unless Robert and Lyanna were secretly married…)

Before they parted company in the first episode – Ned Stark on his way to King’s Landing to become the Hand of the King and Jon Snow on his way to The Wall to join The Night’s Watch – Jon asked Ned about his mother.

“We’ll talk about your mother when I return,” Ned says to Jon.

Unfortunately, Joffrey Baratheon’s sentence and Illyn Payne’s sword prevent that from every happening…

I think we’ve figured it out: @JonSnowBastard = #TheTrueKing? @GameOfThrones @GoThrones_BOT @acastofkings
#GameOfThrones #GoT #GoTSeason4 #TakeTheThrone
#WinterIsComing #YouKnowNothing #JonSnow
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Kilchurn Castle…

June 8, 2014