Kozakiewicz name origin

Pole vault rules
Pole vault measurement
Polish pole vaulter female

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Exhibition dates: 13th December 2014 – 19th April 2015

Exhibition coincides with the culmination of the Thomas Walther Collection Project, a four-year research collaboration between MoMA’s curatorial and conservation staff

The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor

Unknown photographer
British ‘Chute Jumpers
1937
Gelatin silver print
5 15/16 x 6 15/16″ (15.1 x 17.6cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther

OMG, OMG, OMG if we had tele-transportation to travel around the world, I would be at this exhibition in an instant. Please MoMA, fly me to New York so that I can do a proper review of the exhibition!

Not only are there photographs from well known artists that I have never seen before – for example, the brooding mass of Boat, San Francisco (1925) by Edward Weston with the name of the boat… wait for it… ‘DAYLIGHT’ – there are also outstanding photographs from artists that I have never heard of before.

There is so much to li

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If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you will know that I hate cycling. Yet — prize-winning fool that I am — three times I’ve embarked upon multi-day cycling adventures across mountainous terrain.

In 2017, Edita had the brilliant idea of quitting our jobs and cycling from sea level to the summit of Chimborazo, the furthest point from the centre of the earth (we didn’t actually cycle all the way — we got off our bikes to climb the last bit). I turned the adventure into a book, Feet and Wheels to Chimborazo, which is undoubtedly the funniest book ever written about two people cycling from sea level to the summit of Chimborazo and getting off their bikes to climb the last bit.

One of the biggest logistical challenges that we faced was that I had barely straddled a bike since mullets were in fashion and Bon Jovi were riding high in the charts. I therefore had the equally brilliant idea of hiring a pair of pushbikes and cycling the North Coast 500 (or NC500) as a warm up, a touring route up and down (then up and down again several more times) the bac

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