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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Brockwood Park School Pavilions Project Update January 2012
Brockwood Park School Pavilions Project, a set on Flickr. Due for completion in July this year, work on the pavilions is really moving forward, with most of the major construction work completed. Currently the verandahs and walkways are being built … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brockwood, Hampshire
Tagged balcony, beams, boading school, brockwood park school, oak frame, pavilions, skylight
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Winchester Architecture – Kingsgate and Canon Street
Continuing my tour of the Listed Buildings of Winchester, today I covered Kingsgate Rd/St and Canon St. This area is to the south of the city centre, outside of the old walls. From the medieval gate, Kingsgate Street runs directly … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, History, Travel
Tagged architecture, C17, C18, georgian, georgian road, kingsgate, medieval gate, winchester
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Winchester Architecture – Wales Street / St Johns / Chesil Street Areas (The Soke)
Ther is a suburbe at the est gate of sum caullid the Soken: and is the biggest of al the suburbes longging to the cyte of Winchester. Minns says:- The Soke, so called from the Saxon soc, which signifies a … Continue reading
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Winchester Architecture – Broadway / Eastgate St / Colebrook Area
An architectural tour of the Listed Buildings in the Broadway, Eastgate and Colebrook areas of Winchester, in the east of the city. These buildings include The Guildhall, St Johns Chapel, mills, old hospitals, shops and houses, and are mostly from … Continue reading
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Climate Change Deniers ‘Orchestrate intentional and malicious campaign’
He is one of the most vilified men in the highly vilified field of climate science, yet Professor Michael Mann is surprisingly jolly. Despite being the focus of a brutal campaign orchestrated by the fossil-fuel industry and senior politicians within … Continue reading
Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 3: Vitality – The Energy Body
Selected extracts from the third chapter (Part 1) Prana is the energy permeating the universe at all levels. It is physical, mental, intellectual, sexual, spiritual, and cosmic energy. … Prana is special because it carries awareness. It is the vehicle … Continue reading
Buddhism Now and Zen by Felicia Lamport
Illustration by Edward Gorey
City Lights – Charlie Chaplin
Continuing through those films I haven’t seen in the IMDB Top 50, No. 46 is City Lights , released in 1931 as the era of silent movies was coming to an end. 81 years later, I suppose this kind of … Continue reading
Just About Everything That is Wrong on Wall Street
The stunning reality is that five years into the financial meltdown, it’s business as usual on Wall Street – outlandish rewards for insiders with downside for almost everyone else. Occupy Wall Street protesters are right – something is wrong – … Continue reading
Dear Dad
Dear Dad I miss you. Where are you? I know you are not coming back, nor can you hear me, but I am going to write. You have a special place in my heart that only Dads can have. And … Continue reading
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
Number 47 of the IMDB top 250 films is Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It features a pervy fifty year old detective suffering from acrophobia, falling obsessively in love with a blonde woman, young enough to be his daughter, whilst … Continue reading
Landport Architecture, Portsmouth
Today I walked around the Landport area of Portsmouth, seeking out those buildings not destroyed in WWII. Landport was a development outside of the original city’s defences and dockyard. Being near to the naval base, it was heavily bombed in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photos, Travel
Tagged architecture, charles dickens, portsmouth, slum clearance
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Russell Brand and Daniel Pinchbeck have a chat under a neon fish in front a pagan altar
In this video, Russell and Daniel talk about consciousness, media, conditioning, drugs, physics, capitalism. Some quotes: RB: “People have been – beyond trained – coded to not anticipate change, to think that change is implausible, like we’ve had revolution bred … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Intelligence, Life, Nature, Video
Tagged passive consumers, spiritual being, states of consciousness, tower bridge
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Paths of Glory – Stanley Kubrick
I am going to watch those films in the IMDB Top 50 I have not seen before. I started today with Paths of Glory directed by Stanley Kubrick. It’s a 1957 film set in World War I staring Kirk Douglas. … Continue reading
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Bruce Lee and Krishnamurti
Bruce Lee, while injured, spent many months reading and studying. He was particularly drawn to the work of J. Krishnamurti. During this time, Lee discovered that truth cannot be structured or confined and that ‘styles’ or ‘ways’ separate man.
