This woman brought along her own patriotic ground tarp for volunteer poppy assembling and planting at the WWI memorial installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by artist Paul Cummins at the Tower of London.
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London photos: assembling poppies
Volunteers assembling the stakes for the ceramic poppies at the WWI memorial installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by artist Paul Cummins at the Tower of London.
The poppies sit between two series of rubber washers and bolts. You can see the top assemblage here:
London photos: pallets of poppies
Ceramic poppies — sans stalks — await implantation at the WWI memorial installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by artist Paul Cummins at the Tower of London.
We planted 5,000 poppies during my volunteer shift this past Sunday.
London photo: planting poppies at the Tower of London
Last month I posted a photo from the WWI memorial installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by artist Paul Cummins taking shape at the Tower of London. Yesterday, I did a shift as one of the volunteers who are “planting” the ceramic flowers in the moat… which is not a place most people ever get to visit. I’ll be sharing up-close photos from the work and the poppies all week.
Summer in February movie rating: red light
Real-life historical drama about a woman artist ignores her work and focuses instead on a tediously tragic romantic triangle.
London photo: “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red”
Volunteers at the Tower of London “planting” red ceramic poppies for the installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.”
A Promise movie review: the waiting is the hardest part
This dreary, drippy period romance is sorely lacking in juicy melodrama and some sizzle among supposed stifled lovebirds.
Forgotten Men documentary review: antiwar hopes from between the wars
This 1934 English antiwar propaganda film is a fascinating and, in retrospect, bittersweet document of the brief era between WWI and WWII.
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (86th Academy Awards) review
There is a single thread running through these shorts, and it is deeply existential and irreducibly personal: How do we save ourselves?
BBC to mark WWI with *four years* of programming
This sounds amazing. What WWI stories do you want to see covered?
