A writer-cum-archaeologist I've known for probably way longer than both of us dare to work out - goes by the name of Steve Toase - (which is a good job, as that's his name) contact me about a commission he's been…
Art
Artists and their work. Original creation that’s not crap. Man made stuff for the senses that the senses haven’t sensed before.
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- Never Play Chess with a Cricketer
- Daren the taxi driver / artist
We should all encourage my old friend, (yes old) to add more to his new blog : ** 60000 miles per year . ** He's an actual artist - an award winning Fine artist of a brilliant calibre ( par exemple ) who is undoubtedly…
A Midsummer Night's DreamLast Wednesday evening, I had a thought. I was stood in the magical grounds of St. Dogmaels Abbey (which I waxed lyrical about a few days ago in [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-08-01-abbey-watch|this…
- Backstage
We've moved our camp up to the crew camping area, 'back stage' at the abbey. This is the view from our tent. As I type this I can hear the second dress rehearsal in full swing. What a fantastic privalage it is to be…
Globe Theatre On Tour's King LearI may as well get this out of the way first: The Title Role of King Lear was played by Joseph Marcell, who played Geoffrey in the massive 90s mainstream TV hit : The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . To be honest, I was a tad…
- The Fresh King
A place not to far from home, lies an eighteenth-century country house situated on the banks of the River Ure. We got to know it's grounds like the back of our hands, thanks to helping out and running several events…
- Spiegeltent Harrogate
For the past couple of years around this time of year, an incredibly 'Harrogate' corner of Harrogate - nestling behind the Crown Hotel in Crescent Gardens, has been enhanced, for two weeks only (as part of the Harrogate…
- Atom Panopticon
I visited_ The Atom_ this evening. In Wycoller, Lancashire, near a row of gnarled old trees wrapping their limbs around what looked like a row of gravestones - slabs of rock forming ancient 'vaccary walling' (a sight…
Royal Hall HarrogateI like the original name for Harrogate's Royal Hall : Kursaal. It means 'Cure Hall' in German and was a popular format for public entertainment venues of the sort, in Victorian times - particularly in Spa towns. This…
- Mixed Musical Arts
A venue who's day job is a cage MMA fighting arena was taken over by Nokia UK and La Blogothèque last night to host "Lumia Live". The second leg of a tour which marries interesting music with utterly original venues.…
- Lumia Live Sessions
Out of the blue the other day, I received an invite from Nokia. From what I can make out, Lumia Live Sessions, presented by Nokia is part showcase of a couple of interesting looking bands (more on those in a bit), part…
- Iconic Dublin
If you know one thing about Dublin, it's Guinness. If you know two things about Dublin, it's the Guinness and the literary greats the city has fathered such as Beckett, Joyce, Swift and Wilde. Pick up any mainstream…
Top 10 niche groups on FlickrAs far as social networking goes, flickr is undoubtedly, my all time fave. It's defiantly the network I've spent the most time on. Like so many other flickreenos, photography is something I've been 'into', boder-line…
Titus SaltToday we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were…
Further experiments in LomographyUnexpectedly, I got two disks in the post this morning. A couple of weeks ago I'd posted a couple of film off to be processed - one of which, I'd forgotten about for years. The nerdy short-hand of what's going on here:…