Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time? I can’t even remember the last time I willingly sat in a pub with a friend or group of other people and certainly can’t now remember why I found it a satisfying or pleasurable thing to do. As a boy, drinking … More Goodbye intoxicated outings.
For Part 2: A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: (2) Hidden ingenuity and affordances to thought and meaning in the Art of Printmaking: use this link. For Part III: A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: Exhibitions in National Galleries of Scotland: (3) Making Space for a Reason. But what reason? (Part 3 of Edinburgh blog). … More A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: Exhibitions in National Galleries of Scotland: (1) Introduction
The most important invention in your lifetime is… The term invention has an interesting etymology, for the idea of merely ‘coming upon’ or even ‘discovering’ (taking a cover from something previously hidden under that cover) is a relatively passive idea compared to the concept of ‘creation’, although in practice it involves activity of an equal … More Try this for ‘significant invention’! LOL. The decay of the idea of ‘invention’ and making space in the cosmos for the creative life-forces may be all that matters.
‘Orpheus is as old as storytelling itself. He opened his mouth and all of music and all of poetry fell out. … Two thousand years of passing mentions later, can O and E, released from the weight of their histo-ry, make a new fate? Can the myth be escaped?’[1] So starts Tom de Freston with … More ‘Orpheus is as old as storytelling itself. He opened his mouth and all of music and all of poetry fell out.’ This blog explores Tom de Freston with Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s 2017 book ‘Orpheus and Eurydice: A Graphic-Poetic Exploration’.
Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. Night sweats the body until it awakes, unsure whether the flakes of skin it makes are signs or symptoms of some eternal loss, or something even more infernal. Consciousness follows on, and then some light Registers at eyes locked in sleep till tight with gunge, as, … More A bad start to my perfect day!
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? I feel I need to get this prompt out of the way, for it poses as a question whilst being, in my view, at least, nothing of the sort. However, I do not say that believing that there are no … More “… all things pass and nothing stays, and comparing existing things to the flow of a river, he says you could not step twice into the same river”. Hence: ….
A blog written for an Open University Course on Sunday, 17 Jan 2016, 15:35 Reflection, Psychological Theory and Multi-Modal Resources In considering some of the issues raised in the Region 09 Cluster 1 Forum on a Psychology Year 2 undergraduate course, especially a request that some model answer be provided, I decided to write this. … More Reissue (a sample on online teaching – by modelling expectations): ‘Reflection, Psychological Theory and Multi-Modal Resources’.
Describing Lou Reed’s response to an interview in ‘one British magazine’ around the time of the artist’s 60th birthday, Will Hermes say: ‘Reed brusquely parried questions involving his history (“I’ve lied so much about the past I can’t even tell myself what is true anymore”),…’.[1] This is a blog reflecting on Will Hermes (2023) Lou … More “I’ve lied so much about the past I can’t even tell myself what is true anymore”,…’ (Lou Reed). This is a blog reflecting on Will Hermes (2023) ‘Lou Reed: The King of New York’.
Write about your first computer. I think the Amstrad pictured above, here operating as a word processor,is how I remember my first computer, which I bought in the 1980s after getting my first full-time permanent job as a Lecturer in English at the Roehampton Institute in London. Amstrads were neither original nor particularly good but … More Imagine a world without Windows … and software a language not a set of icons.!
‘Dreams are like angels / They keep bad at bay, bad at bay / Love is the light / Scaring darkness away, yeah!’[1]. A great film sometimes discovers what is great, truly beautiful and scary simultaneously in queer culture. This blog reflects on All of Us Strangers, a film by Andrew Haigh seen at the … More ‘Dreams are like angels / They keep bad at bay, bad at bay / Love is the light / Scaring darkness away, yeah!’ This blog reflects on ‘All of Us Strangers’.
Sunday, 12 Aug 2018, 19:47 Visible to anyone in the world Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 12 Aug 2018, 19:49 The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (exhibition): Rembrandt: Britain’s Rediscovery of the Master The reviews of this exhibition sometimes play the ‘great master’ game: The Guardian’s reviewer says of the use of Glenn Brown, in … More The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2018 exhibition): ‘Rembrandt: Britain’s Rediscovery of the Master’ (reissue)
W.H. Auden, in his poem O Tell Me the truth About Love, mentions amongst his many happenstance encounters with people who claim to know, or ‘looked as if ‘ they ‘knew’ about it, and the passing written references in history to times when it appears it did not pass without effect: “…. ; / I’ve … More A blog on finding a second-hand copy of his ‘Tell Me the truth About Love: Fifteen poems by W.H Auden’.
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