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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Blue Sky Thoughts
It’s one of those weeks when I’m out, about and away and obsessively in search of free wifi because the data roaming is firmly off. Which means it’s a week of living on my wits blog-wise: Limited editing and battery … Continue reading
Posted in Life encounters with the Artist
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Garden Design as Art?
Can garden design be considered an art-form? Half asleep the other morning, I caught a fascinating debate on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme on a call for garden design to be upgraded from the lifestyle pages to the culture section. … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-cultural dialogue, Encountering Art
Tagged art, Garden design, Garden Museum, Japanese garden, Louisa Buck, photography, postaday2011, Tatton Park
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Sunday Selections: Japan is Art
It’s Sunday and that’s the cue for another trawl of the digital archive for bits and pieces that otherwise won’t see the light of day. The idea comes from Frogpondsrock, and the idea is to extract forgotten photos from the … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-cultural dialogue, Encountering Art, Life encounters with the Artist
Tagged art, Japan, Orientalism, postaday2011, Visual Arts
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Spinning on a Sixpence
Today I am not going to write about whether gardening is art; that delight is saved for a day next week. Instead I want to welcome all my new subscribers, and thank each and every visitor to this blog over … Continue reading
Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
Catching up on some reading yesterday, I came across an interesting item published in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago about whether you can teach creative writing. Unsurprisingly, it prompted mixed views. But I found it of interest because … Continue reading
“Life’s a Bitch”: The Apprentice
Posted in Life encounters with the Artist, Life's a Bitch
Tagged graphic blog, iphoneography, photo blog, postaday2011
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Social Media Loser
It’s official. I am a Twitter failure, a social media loser. On any view of things, coming across the name ‘Ryan Giggs’ through the voice of a BBC Radio 4 news announcer is not really indicative of social media success. … Continue reading
Truth Through Art: Beatrice Gibson at Pavilion
One of the more enduring and intriguing aspects of the arts is the flickering line between ‘truth’ and ‘fiction’, and more particularly the extent to which fictionalised art film may represent a reality more than a ‘truthful’ documentary. Beatrice Gibson‘s … Continue reading
Posted in Encountering Art, The Arts in Leeds
Tagged contemporary art, House Mother Normal, iphoneography, postaday2011, Visual Arts
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A Patch of Grass
Walking through the park the other day, I was reflecting on the whole business of inspiration, creativity, sources, making… all the sorts of things in fact you invariably end up thinking about when walking aimlessly through a park with no … Continue reading
Posted in Life encounters with the Artist
Tagged creativity, iphoneography, photography, postaday2011, Visual Arts
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Sunday Selections: Paris in the Rain
Another Sunday, another set from the overlooked archive inspired by the Sunday Selections of Frogpondsrock. Technology moves quickly. It seems only yesterday that camera phones took postage-stamp sized images which couldn’t even be easily downloaded. No wonder these images were easily forgotten. … Continue reading
Posted in Encountering Art, Life encounters with the Artist
Tagged Paris, photography, postaday2011, Visual Arts
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