York travelogue

[hudebnik]

A picture of the Creation pageant wagon, some time on the first day: there's a firmament, and the ocean, and the land, but not much else yet. The sun and moon came later, not to mention the flowering and fruiting trees, the fishes and whales in the seas (one of which spouted at the audience), and the beasts of the fields, which were all cool effects using technology available in the 14th century.

There were eleven plays in this year's sequence, which was performed in a four-stage pipeline at four performing venues around the city. We got to see the first two or three at the first venue before going to join the Abraham-and-Isaac pageant wagon (#7), which we then accompanied on its journey. We also got to see the Repentance of Judas (#6) several times, as it was rather long and just ahead of Abraham-and-Isaac in the pipeline. After we performed for Abraham-and-Isaac for the last time, we were asked to return to the second venue where the Harrowing of Hell (#10) was nearly finished, but the Last Judgment (#11) was running behind at the first venue, so they needed ten or fifteen minutes of music to fill in the gap. (It seems that pipeline bubbles are an ancient problem.)

I've tried embedding these as IMG tags, and they appear broken, but they seem to work as hot-links. Anybody know how to get embedded images to work better in Dreamwidth?

Comments

[siderea]

There's nothing weird about how Dreamwidth handles image tags. It's just ordinary HTML. It looks like Google Photos does not play nice with embedding, oddly. (If that's what's happening, I congratulate them for attaining this philosophers-stone level technological development, of finding a way to bork deeplinking.)

[hudebnik]

Yes, that's what I was starting to suspect.

I also wanted to post a read-only link to that entire image folder, and haven't found a way to do that: when I choose "share folder", I get a link that allows anyone with the link to ADD things to the folder as well. I can't believe that capability isn't supported.