The RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Barbican
GodDaughter One’s Mum and Dad are members of a theatre-going gang, who take it in turns to organise for them all to go to the theatrical performance, about every month or so. Tonight it was Antony and...
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Strange home decorating photo
This is a strange photo, which looks somewhat like Modern Art, but which actually isn’t (a pleasing phenomenon which I referred to in passing in this recent posting of mine). What it is is a photo of...
View ArticleBMdotcom mixed metaphor of the day
I just heard ITV News describe South African politician Jacob Zuma as being “mired in a whirlwind” of something or other. Controversy, or some such thing. Yes, this. Next thing you know, he’ll be blown...
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Everyone can now do beautiful “art” with one click
The relationship between, and influence of, photography on artistic painting has always been intimate, and profound. I can remember when landscape and figurative painting was everywhere. That would be...
View ArticleDeidre McCloskey on how genetic diversity in a rich Africa will yield a crop...
I’m reading Deidre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Equality, the final volume of her Bourgeois trilogy. I hope that in this volume, at last, I will read evidence concerning McCloskey’s thesis about how the Great...
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Bright sea foam – dark sky
I think this is an amazing photo: Taken by 6k. Amazing colours and contrasts. It has a sort of Paradise Lost feeling about it. Paradise is the beach. But the sky causes Paradise to be Lost, temporarily...
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Centre Point – lit
Here’s the original, i.e. the Hartley version: And here’s another way of looking at the same thing, i.e. cropped into a square: I have long believed that the Le Corbusier version of the Modern Movement...
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This is not a Cape Sugarbird
I’m talking about this: What chance does Western Civilisation have if people get basic facts like this wrong? It’s a Malachite Sunbird. This is a Cape Sugarbird: This being a South African bird...
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Octopus and mantis
Friday, so cats and kittens, or other creatures, and again, I go to 6k to get my posting here sorted on what is turning out to be a rather busy day, involving claims by my computer that its Antivirus...
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And remove dentures
6k and I continue to amuse one another. Most recently I amused him with this. And, even more recently, like: just now, he amused me with this: It’s one of these, which he linked to from this posting....
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I’m photoing in the rain
Contrary to English myth, and myth elsewhere for all I know, it doesn’t actually rain that much in England, and when it does, it doesn’t usually rain that heavily. The reason we fret about rain so much...
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So much for logic. More World Cup torture, for England anyway. By the end, it wasn’t even close. Looking back on it, it seems to me that what England did in this tournament was what France have done...
View ArticleBMNB dot com sporting quote of the day
Following England’s fine series-levelling win against South Africa in Cape Town, ESPNCricinfo’s George Dobell rhapsodies about Man of the Match Ben Stokes. It’s all good, but I especially liked this...
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Bird wearing trousers
A secretary bird: One of the photos linked to from this 6k posting.
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6 for 7
I love it when this kind of thing happens: Except of course when it happens to one of the teams I support. Which it didn’t because this was earlier this morning in Australia’s Big Bash League, and who...
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“The turquoise really was that turquoise …”
I love this photo: For all the reasons he says, and particularly because of (see above) the turquoise bits on the left as we look. And this lighthouse photo is pretty nice too. Again with the crashing...
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Taxis with adverts – July to December 2019
I know I know. There’s only one person in the whole world who likes clicking through huge collections of photos of London taxis with adverts on them. Me. But such galleries of persuasive transport are...
View ArticleFeline Twitter dump
I earlier promised a creature-related Twitter dump. It turns out it’s pretty much all cats: Another optical illusion that works on a nonhuman animal. Can cats pass the mirror self-recognition test?...
View ArticleJokes about a broken blog
Not mine, thank goodness. 6k’s. A few hours ago, 6k told the tale of his broken blog, in the form of a blog posting which he had to put instead, at first, on Facebook. I LOLled at this bit: I’m...
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Statues do matter
Or so the recent dramas in Parliament Square would suggest, during which graffiti was attached to the statues of Churchill and Lincoln. Cue angry history lessons from Old People. So here are a few more...
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