From Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a (brilliant and witty) story about a man who turns into a woman, this bit is set around 1750:
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us. For example, when […]
I found this fantastic picture when browsing a stock photography site a little while ago:
I don’t know whether the artist intended to write ‘looser’ or ‘loser’, but I like to imagine he or she spelt it that way on purpose, rather than it just being poor spelling (although this is entirely possible, the graffiti […]
I feel a new direction coming. Maybe it’s just because it is the end of a long summer, but I feel as though things are moving around me again. I’m feeling less attached to things I have been pursuing over the past year or so, as though my self is being emptied ready for something […]
What are photos?
It's something I've written briefly about before, but after being away and having lots of photos of my travels to look through it's a thought that has come back to me. I'm talking about photos in the snapshot sense, or perhaps in the "holiday photos" sense, rather than the pictures you would find in a gallery. I […]
A reflection on some aspects of what music means to me. I haven't written poetry in years, and it probably shows; but it feels like a good idea just now.
Silence,Sound,Serenity.
From abstract to emotion,An idea in motion.
An image, a form,An ocean, a storm.
A fire, a call,A moment, a fall.
Lonely people, lonely time,My memories which are not mine.
The voice of […]
It appears in my links down the side of the page, but in case you hadn't noticed it toothpaste for dinner is one of the most amusing websites around (well, assuming you have the same warped sort of humour as me). Drew, the guy who runs it, posts a comic every single day, have a scroll through some of […]
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.
"In […]
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.
I found this interesting video whilst looking through archive.org.
The description on the site says the following:
Through religion, philosophy, psychology, art, and architecture, RADIANCE presents light as a universal symbol of life. This film invites the viewer to see how images of light continue from ancient cultures through modern times, connecting the visions of people throughout […]
Just a quick post to say I found a couple more excellent Bill Viola videos worth checking out:
The Reflecting Pool
Documentary
Last week I went to an exhibition in London by the artist Bill Viola called: “LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project”, which was fantastic.
I had not heard of the artist before, but apparently he is pretty famous in the video art world. His exhibition is a collection of videos, most around ten minutes in length, relating to […]
Looking around on the internet I stumbled upon a flickr group entitled “simulacrum”. It seems to be just lots of pictures of things that people have seen which they think are simulacra.
Some of them are really good, takes a little while to realise why they are simulacra. A bit of a different take on things […]
Take a look at some of these storm pictures, absolutely stunning.
You can find out more info about them here.
I’d love to see something like a super cell, or a hurricane, before I die. To experience nature it’s all its beautiful yet terrifying glory. I guess we can see that in all of nature though, it’s just […]
Wallpaper this time: (Click here for full size)
Been having a go with Photoshop, made this which I was quite pleased with:
I’m using it as my new display picture.
Thanks to: http://intao.deviantart.com/
It still feels like autumn..
What does it mean to be alive? To have breath? To be conscious? I personally don’t believe that is sufficient. Are you alive if you willingly let your life be controlled by something external to yourself? For example, your poloticians, the TV, a “lifestyle”. Of course, it is impossible for these […]
(Click for full size)
Thanks to SPB for creating the image.
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated […]