Here’s a wallpaper I made from a photo taken at an abandoned theme park at the top of a hill in San Sebastian (click for full size).
I love abandoned places like this. The park was opened in 1909 or thereabouts, and there are plaques commemorating the monarch coming to visit, but now it’s almost totally [...]
Recently I came across the idea of the competent man, which partly sums up the direction in which I am currently heading. In the wikipedia article the author Robert Heinlein summarises the idea as follows:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance [...]
All over Europe, and much of the rest of the world, there are vast majestic cathedrals dedicated to God. Now that, as society at least, we have pretty much lost God, where are the new cathedrals? Who are they dedicated to? I’ve had a few ideas for potential candidates and I’m going to run a little series exploring each [...]
I find I notice clouds much more in photographs than I do in real life…