Curious Expeditions
Under a heading of Librophiliac Love letter is a collection of photographs of beautiful libraries.
This is the library at Strahov Monestery in Prague
and
The Museum of Lost Wonder
Plenty to explore here.
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Two Interesting Websites
Just discovered two very interesting websites:
Curious Expeditions
Under a heading of Librophiliac Love letter is a collection of photographs of beautiful libraries.
This is the library at Strahov Monestery in Prague
and
The Museum of Lost Wonder
Plenty to explore here.
Curious Expeditions
Under a heading of Librophiliac Love letter is a collection of photographs of beautiful libraries.
This is the library at Strahov Monestery in Prague
and
The Museum of Lost Wonder
Plenty to explore here.
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Saturday Morning Frivolity
Always carrying my digital camera pays off sometimes.
Spotted these wonderful examples on the streets in my home town.
Patience is exhausted.
No don't.
I don't think they want visitors.
Slippery customers these Enlish.
And when a well known greeting card and gift shop closed in the town.
Spotted these wonderful examples on the streets in my home town.
Patience is exhausted.
No don't.
I don't think they want visitors.
Slippery customers these Enlish.
And when a well known greeting card and gift shop closed in the town.
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Maurits Escher
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Mazey Day
My favourite day of the year is Mazey Day. This is one of the last events of the Golowan Festival which takes place in Penzance in the last week of June.
There is so much to see and I have taken so many photographs over the last five years that it is too much to put into one post. So this post is about the fantastic creations that are paraded through the streets.
These are from various years from 2006 to 2010.
Golowan Festival Website
Photos on Flickr
There is so much to see and I have taken so many photographs over the last five years that it is too much to put into one post. So this post is about the fantastic creations that are paraded through the streets.
These are from various years from 2006 to 2010.
Golowan Festival Website
Photos on Flickr
Friday, 22 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
More Frivolity
Should have saved this for December. But what the hell, the shit's in the shops already!
Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Clangers!
A bit of Tuesday morning frivolity...
Clangers
The Clangers Election Broadcast
Cult TV
Brilliant. Thanks BBC!
Clangers
The Clangers Election Broadcast
Cult TV
Brilliant. Thanks BBC!
Sunday, 17 October 2010
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Love this video, amazing visuals.
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello - 2005 from debora censi on Vimeo.
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Curiouser and Curiouser
The Cabinet of curiosity I blogged about here does not actually exist. It is a wonderful Trompe l'Oeil artwork, made all the more remarkable by the fact that it is not a painting but is constructed from slivers of inlaid stone.
This explanation is from here
Amazingly, this is not a painting! It’s a picture made of a mosaic of tiny slivers of inlaid stone. It was done about four hundred years ago by Flemish artist Domenico Remps, and usually it lives in a small institution in Florence called the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
The subject is a so-called cabinet of curiosities. These were little display collections of natural and artistic curiosities, placed in specially made cabinets by wealthy collectors between four and three hundred years ago. They went out of fashion as collections of such things became too large and specialised for a small cabinet, but they are the ancestors of today’s museums.
Trompe L’oeil is french for Trick the Eye. The idea of pictures in this style is to be so realistic that, ideally, viewers might be deceived into not realising that they were looking at a picture rather than the real thing.
This explanation is from here
Amazingly, this is not a painting! It’s a picture made of a mosaic of tiny slivers of inlaid stone. It was done about four hundred years ago by Flemish artist Domenico Remps, and usually it lives in a small institution in Florence called the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
The subject is a so-called cabinet of curiosities. These were little display collections of natural and artistic curiosities, placed in specially made cabinets by wealthy collectors between four and three hundred years ago. They went out of fashion as collections of such things became too large and specialised for a small cabinet, but they are the ancestors of today’s museums.
Trompe L’oeil is french for Trick the Eye. The idea of pictures in this style is to be so realistic that, ideally, viewers might be deceived into not realising that they were looking at a picture rather than the real thing.
Victorian Surrealism
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Blogs as Wunderkammern
Wow!! This is exactly how I think about mine!
The difference is that mine isn't very public, I have one invited reader and I gave my son the link. There may be others who have stumbled here...Welcome to the flotsam and jetsam of my mind.
The difference is that mine isn't very public, I have one invited reader and I gave my son the link. There may be others who have stumbled here...Welcome to the flotsam and jetsam of my mind.
More Books
A trawl through the charity shops in my home town yielded two cracking books.
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Anthony Beevor
Image source
And Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret History of the Natural History Museum
Amazon Image
The Beevor book covers the events inside and outside the bunker. I watched the German film Downfall a while ago. Bruno Ganz was excellent as Hitler.
In my opinion there are three films to see regarding the Second World War
Downfall
Schindler's List
Conspiracy with Kenneth Branagh
I haven't seen Cabaret for a while, but I think that should receive an honourable mention.
Schlindler's list is a very difficult film to watch, heartbreakingly so at times. That and Downfall convincingly portray a society where every social and cultural norm have broken down.
The Fortey book looks fascinating. The Natural History Museum is not just a cabinet of curiosities but a whole building. Now we are beginning to make scientific sense of everything and that adds another layer of interest.
Both £1.50 each. Bargain.
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Anthony Beevor
Image source
And Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret History of the Natural History Museum
Amazon Image
The Beevor book covers the events inside and outside the bunker. I watched the German film Downfall a while ago. Bruno Ganz was excellent as Hitler.
In my opinion there are three films to see regarding the Second World War
Downfall
Schindler's List
Conspiracy with Kenneth Branagh
I haven't seen Cabaret for a while, but I think that should receive an honourable mention.
Schlindler's list is a very difficult film to watch, heartbreakingly so at times. That and Downfall convincingly portray a society where every social and cultural norm have broken down.
The Fortey book looks fascinating. The Natural History Museum is not just a cabinet of curiosities but a whole building. Now we are beginning to make scientific sense of everything and that adds another layer of interest.
Both £1.50 each. Bargain.
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Bulb mania
I love the Eden project in Cornwall and being local I can take advantage of the all-year free entry ticket.
These are some shots of the Bulb Mania displays taken in May 2006.
I'm not the most expert of photographers but I always manage to take good ones at the Eden project.
These are some shots of the Bulb Mania displays taken in May 2006.
I'm not the most expert of photographers but I always manage to take good ones at the Eden project.
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