Thursday, January 30, 2014

waldemar, carry on up the rococo ... nuff said, do watch !

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03slvhy/Rococo_Travel_Pleasure_Madness_Pleasure/
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Monday, January 27, 2014

nice observation on the benefit of piano practice during nine-minute interview with rusbridger for a german tv channel

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http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel-guardian100.html we englischers can listen to the whole of the conversation in th...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

waldemar ? and how do you spell januszczak ? that man is so totally unpardonably sans souci ...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03sg830/Rococo_Travel_Pleasure_Madness_Travel/
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saturday ... vexed by my inability to sleep late, i wake at five and read the introduction to japanese drawings by j.r.hillier, studio vista, 1965, chucked out by the library because it was too old ... and scan in some favourites

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hillier, himself a collector, writes that artists such as these made a living from paintings and ...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

phew !

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parked the truck in reigate high street for a compulsory driver's rest break ... popped in to a stationers to get th...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

a bit of self-decontextualization ... or is that re-contextualization ?

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tiepolo, still ... i'm blundering my way through alpers & baxandall, the benefit of which is a new motivation to visit venice, wurzburg, and new york ... i just need that winning lottery ticket !

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sing ! sing ! sing ! .... FOXP2 ... lea velez has "facebooked" an interesting article from the spanish newspaper el pais that forced me to check out the gene and the protein it expresses in wikipedia ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2 http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2009/11/11/actualidad/1257894012_850215.html ...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

collecting for the royal marsden on putney high street

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popped in here, too ! but looked at the price list and then at what was being served, and decided to conserve my cash

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedcms/sets/72157637116711404/

popped over to walthamstow ... as you do !

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... the art weren't bad, neither ! http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/

this morning's lurid domestic scene was me in pyjamas on tiptoe on slippery chair, torch in one hand, camera in the other, photographing a welcome visitor way up near the kitchen ceiling

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Friday, January 17, 2014

ceres paying homage to venice by veronese ... oh ! but i really do want to go back to venice before too long

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3BT

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A tiny hawthorn bush, but not at all young, and long since “topiarized” into an elegantly gnarled ellipsoid, stands leafless and grey-brown...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

alvi does glue ...

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... here's one he made earlier

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whaddya mean ... de-contextualized ? images begged, borrowed and or stolen from .... pauline at http://www.theoldposthouse.co.uk, eric ravilious, and last but never least, dame lady duchess the marchioness her rightfully royal highness, the mistress of the rag rugs, sheila evans, nominally titular queen of the gwendraeth valley

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they also serve, who only stand and wait ...

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When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to ...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

europa ... why every girl should have swimming lessons ... note the master's inspiration in the veronese, where the bull bends his head to lick her dainty toes ...

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