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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:19 -0600

I’ll admit it, these adverts get to me. And even though...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:23:00 -0600

I’ll admit it, these adverts get to me. And even though I’ve been in Scotland for nearly six months I still get a little spring in my walk when I round the corner onto the Royal Mile and there’s a bagpiper there playing for the tourists.

"That’s the wonderful thing about excellence, James, it’s the option that’s..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:53:35 -0600

“That’s the wonderful thing about excellence, James, it’s the option that’s renewable. The future is not so bleak.”

- Siegfried Farnon

therhumboogie: By Maggi Hambling, I have always had a...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:39:11 -0600

therhumboogie:

By Maggi Hambling, I have always had a proclivity for art made about or relating to water, the sea being the epitome of power and beauty, these paintings could not capture it more perfectly. You get a feeling of energy and power from just looking at them, the brush strokes and texture the water seems ready to wash right through the canvas and into the space they inhabit.

“The older I get I identify with the land which is being eroded, the sea is like time - you can do nothing about it. Death will come, the sea will come. It’s a metaphor for life.”

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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:37:17 -0600

dans240z: Clairton, PA Rolleicord IV, Fuji Astia 100F

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:41:38 -0600

dans240z:

Clairton, PA

Rolleicord IV, Fuji Astia 100F

mills: The wonderful CK/CK shared this photograph, taken near...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:41:28 -0600

mills:

The wonderful CK/CK shared this photograph, taken near London in November of 1942. Breaking between missions flying machines less sophisticated than a contemporary car in a war of annihilation with a nearby and superior enemy, a pilot breaks for a haircut, reading, and a pipe. The insistence on the accouterments of culture, on leisure —the book and pipe, of course, but also the nearly formal attire of the barber and the pattern of the sheet wrapped around his shoulders— seems so British, so laudable, so impossible to imagine today for innumerable reasons one hardly has the energy even to consider.

Tomorrow, The Scottish Colourists and then I’m going to...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:38:16 -0600

Tomorrow, The Scottish Colourists and then I’m going to watch Scotland show England how te play rugby.

Alfred G Buckham Aerial view of Edinburgh about 1920 Medium...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:39:00 -0600

Alfred G Buckham
Aerial view of Edinburgh
about 1920
Medium Silver gelatine print
Size 45.80 x 37.80 cm
Scottish National Galleries

Buckham had crashed nine times before he was discharged from the Royal Naval Air Service as a hundred per cent disabled. Continuing to indulge his passion for aerial photography, he wrote that ‘If one’s right leg is tied to the seat with a scarf or a piece of rope, it is possible to work in perfect security’. Presumably these were the perilous conditions in which the photographer took this dazzling picture of Edinburgh.

Exclamated exhalation underscore gasp. Photography!

"A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:52:30 -0600

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”

- George Orwell (via nevver)

Patience (After Sebald). Dir. Grant Gee. Looking forward to...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:38:09 -0600

Patience (After Sebald). Dir. Grant Gee.

Looking forward to this one.

Birthday dinner: Bottle of Bonny Doon Red (Calif), Oysters, Chateau Briand, Onion Rings, Chocolate...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:57:55 -0600

Birthday dinner: Bottle of Bonny Doon Red (Calif), Oysters, Chateau Briand, Onion Rings, Chocolate Tart-Salted Caramel-Vanilla Marscapone, Espresso.

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:56 -0600

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:50:00 -0600

Gormley at the far end of an abandoned dock in Leith.

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:49:36 -0600

Gormley at the far end of an abandoned dock in Leith.

Five rolls of film into my Rolleiflex and I’m beginning to...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:32:39 -0600

Five rolls of film into my Rolleiflex and I’m beginning to get excited, esp with this through the window of a cafe in Edinburgh crop at original resolution.

Rolleiflex, Velvia 100

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:28:50 -0600

Rolleiflex, Velvia 100

Rolleiflex, Tri-X 400

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:08:09 -0600

Rolleiflex, Tri-X 400

Rolleiflex, Velvia 100

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:45:35 -0600

Rolleiflex, Velvia 100

Rolleiflex, Tri-X 400

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:44:52 -0600

Rolleiflex, Tri-X 400