I wrote a little while ago about how I felt I was maturing in the aesthetic, this growth is coming to a head now, everything around me has taken on a slightly different colour, a slightly different façade. For example, over the summer I have developed a broader range of things which I see as valuable, and […]
I’ve been learning about the brain over the last few days and it has helped me re-realise the magnificent complexity of the human body and the ethical issues surrounding scientific progress. Resources have been piled into brain research over the past 100 years or so, yet we are still totally clueless about how most of the […]
I'm feeling a real sensitivity to the aesthetic at the moment, a real harmony with my own thoughts and senses. Sometimes I have these periods, often only moments, when my mind really wakes up and comes into focus. It's as if everything around me takes on a subtly different form for an instant, and then […]
Check out this amazing video from photographer Gregory Colbert. There's also a full length version of the film available on DVD, although it's quite hard to come by. It makes up part of an entire Ashes and Snow project, made up of films, installations, photographs and novels, you can find out more about it here.
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I've been ill the last few days; nothing serious, just a cold, but I find it remarkable how easily something can overwhelm my body. When I am ill I feel as though I lose a lot of control over my mind, not being able to focus my thoughts, and my body becomes heavy and uncomfortable, unwilling […]
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, […]
It feels as though spring is on its way. I woke up yesterday, after a particularly windy and rainy night, to find dazzling warm(ish) sunshine streaming in through my window. As I emerged for my walk to campus I got that feeling, that only comes during this small window of the year, of the impending […]
Today's update is a simple homage to the beauty of fog. I find it amazing the way it can totally transform the environment, making everything beyond the few metres around you invisible, creating such beauty but also incredible isolation and even fear; who knows what waits in the mist?
Pictures here.
Having spent a fair amount of my time in the city recently (London to be precise) I have started to realise these subtle, and not so subtle, differences between the city atmosphere and the town or country atmosphere. Apart from the obvious differences in the surrounding environment, I feel differences in the entire life form […]