January 2010
29 posts
Country Bizarre presented by excellent blog Caught by the River
Shingle Street on BBC Radio 4
Dungeness is place to listen and to watch. It is a place to watch new land being made by the sea’s shovelling of shingle; a place to watch the manufacture of power, a place to watch the migrating birds and moths find a transitory refuge. But watching is about far more than just looking, as writer and naturalist Paul Evans reveals in this powerful and haunting...
The BBC’s trailer for the Winter Olympics in pretty darn good
Made by Studio AKA and Jon Klassen
Emile Hyperion Dubuisson
And I thought I was cold….
I really like the RSPB’s new Bird Identifier
Helped me identify this pigeon
(only kidding…)
Following on from previous post about the book Real England and thoughts on the destruction of public spaces for bland commercialism - I guess we ought to be thankful that some of the more crazier ideas never came to fruition.
Here is some idiot suggesting we build a multi-storey car park in Trafalgar Square
Of course, someone else suggests building an airport over and above the River Thames
Virgilio Ferreira
Ethelbert and Elizabeth White - Portrait by Nina Hamnett (1918)
Nina Hamnett was known as the Queen of Bohemia, she hung out in London and Paris during the inter-war period and associated with many of the avant-garde crowd.
Portrait by Modigliani 1914
Endlessly fascinated by life around her, she found a rich source of subject matter in cafés and pubs, the circus, the boxing ring, and the...
Lhasa de Sela 1972-2010
Saw her play at the Jazz Cafe in 2004 - brilliant gig. Sadly she died earlier this month.
Her records are really good:
La Llorona
The Living Road
Here’s some good footage:
Ethelbert White
One of England’s greatest twentieth century painters, poster artists, illustrators, wood and linocut engravers, Ethelbert White was educated at St. George’s College, Weybridge, and briefly studied art at St. John’s Wood School of Art in 1911 and 1912. Marrying at the age of nineteen he and his wife spent much of their years touring England in a caravan and...
John Buckland Wright
In the 1930’s, 1940’s and early 1950’s three artists did a great deal to launch British engraving into the exciting waters of contemporary European art: the New Zealander John Buckland Wright and two Englishmen William Hayter and Anthony Gross. They all had French attachments and were quite independent of the influences of earlier and highly successful...
urubbu
Real England by Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth subtitles his book ‘The Battle Against the Bland’, but unfortunately and sadly it appears to be a battle that is being lost. In the book the ‘bland’ is the global corporate/government mass eradication of any individuality, local uniqueness, organically created, real places. The battle is being lost in pubs, shops, public...
Wild Swimming
Writer Sarah Cuddon reflects on what draws people into the open sea and the wild water of rivers. She talks to Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, about the real experience and metaphorical significance of wild swimming, with reference to Byron, Mark Twain, Iris Murdoch and others writers ‘hungry for water’. With music by Dvorak, Portico Quartet and...
Inspiring wood craft by Josh Finkle
The Zen principles of Aesthetics are derived from the Buddhism beliefs of Anicca or Impermanence where “everything, without exception, is constantly in flux, even planets, stars and gods”.
THE PRINCIPLES
FUKINSEI (imbalanced) Asymmetry, odd numbers, irregularity, unevenness, imbalance is used as a denial of perfection as perfection and symmetry does not occur in nature.
KANSO (simple)...
From previously mentioned blog The Blended Lifestyle - The Canon Frome Court Community
Canon Frome Court Community was founded in 1979. We do not have a common philosophy or political stance, though there is a prevailing sympathy with green issues. People choose to live at Canon Frome for varying reasons. The farm is the main focus of community life, but for individuals there is a wide variety...
William Eggleston
