Cycle-Powered Cinema Photograph 3
Images, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph of bicycles mounted in generator stands at Gap Filler's cycle-powered cinema. Cyclists are pedalling the bicycles to provide power for the cinema.
A photograph of bicycles mounted in generator stands at Gap Filler's cycle-powered cinema. Cyclists are pedalling the bicycles to provide power for the cinema.
Close up of an oven element which has blown and partly melted. The photographer comments, "After the Christchurch earthquake on the 22 February we had no power for about 4 days. We finally got electricity again from the electricity companies' mobile generator the size of a big van. We turned on the oven and there was a loud vibrating hum and this was the result".
Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."