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I bought this at the Gwen John exhibition in Cardiff, intrigued that an artist was writing to a dead artist about their lives. I had not heard of Celia Paul before (I’m not a great follower of modern art), and I’d disliked Margaret...
I brought my big honking Pentax 645 to a car show recently. The only lens I own for it, the 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645, was mounted, and I had spooled some Ilford HP5 Plus inside. I shot two rolls, actually; here are the shots I liked...
My Dad, Harold D. Burk (1909-1978), passed away in the Bronx, New York, OTD in 1978. He was five weeks from his 70th birthday. I've added Dad to Find a Grave here with a bite-sized bio, noting his service in the US Army during World War...
Had what felt like a minor lightbulb moment in response to this observation from Warren: Imagine a story where the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned. A day would seem twelve hours long and the...
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A new Jess Kidd book is always something to look forward to and this year we’ve had two of them: first, Murder at the Spirit Lounge, the second book in the Nora Breen Investigates series, and now Little Spark, a standalone novel set in...
Hmm... well since it was never born it can never die. 'It' was/is/will never 'be' - life doesn't noun although humans appear to! Words appear to be 'pockets of power'. We make them into things. MEANING: starts with 'me' and are the same...
Yes. The holiday season is finally over so now I can get back to doing more of nothing in particular. That's not strictly true. Everyday opens up like some swirling black hole of strange activities that I just fall into. Before long...
I received a digital proof of this from NetGalley, courtesy of the folks at Random House and Vintage, so thank you to them for that. Switzy is the twelfth book from this year's Booker longlist that I've read, and it might be the one...
Adding a Dark Mode toggle to your website is a nice touch that many users appreciate. When implementing one, the default instinct for many developers is to reach for a simple binary switch: Light on one side, Dark on the other. While a...
Back in March I wrote about my new retro motherboard rack using BILLY bookshelves, which someone submitted to the Orange Peanut Gallery. It was a bit of a silly post, but it did solve a real issue I had. The email responses I got were...
Few writers exert as powerful a hold over young theatre-makers as Federico García Lorca.Part of it is the poetry. Part of it is the politics. But mostly it is because Lorca offers emerging companies the opportunity to make theatre about...
Great work there, Slickerman*Still alive to this very day, by all appearances
I recently encountered smart glasses in real life for the first time. Not in a shop, at a technology conference, or in a demonstration video. Someone I was spending time with was wearing them. I didn't know that at first. We were walking...
facade of Joanine Library, University of Coimbraestablished 1717WikiOne of the primary functions of libraries was to protect books from the physical effects of climate, theft, vandalism, and bugs. And the role of library historians is...