touch synaesthesia ... it may be new to scientists, but not, i suspect, to some artists

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16298-first-cases-of-touchemotion-synaesthesia-discovered.html

some details from tom denny's windows in tewkesbury abbey

Installed in 2002, the windows mark the nine hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Benedictine monks to Tewkesbury in 1102. Their theme is the Benedictine motto ‘Laborare est Orare’ (to work is to pray).

http://www.tciwh.org.uk/church-activities/tom-denny.pdf

an amusing little almond cake, pleasingly moist with a covering of cashew flakes, created by the arch kitchen goddess sheila evans, at bancffosfelen on wednesday last

granary at aldbourne

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-310540-granary-west-of-farmhouse-aldbourne-warr

tristan's belated technical & aesthetic catch-up ... LED illumination ... it really does make a difference to your appreciation of colour and texture in the paintings at the national gallery

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/press-and-media/press-releases/paintings-newly-illuminated-at-the-national-gallery

http://ledsmagazine.com/news/8/4/13

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9115741/National-Gallery-saves-Titian-masterpiece-for-the-nation.html

although the hooks was rarther tricky

i don't have a television, or take much interest normally ...

... but this billboard made me smile ...

... and so does the sign behind it

every time the balloonist tried to land, the breeze took them too close to the hedges of the little fields

 

bogus man rising early to study his book of bronze

sweet genius ... via metafilter ...

http://vimeo.com/57395065

she's only gone and bought me ...

... another wonderful book !