What TV shows did you watch as a kid? When Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens the jobs of actors, special effect stunts persons and extras in TV and film, because of the realism achievable by simulated scenes and unlikely animated characters, I wonder why a string-puppet, with his strings obvious, and his nature as an inanimate … More Why, oh why did we love Muffin the Mule?
‘Jamie said: Rivers do not sleep, not the River Brú anyways …. And did you know that Brú means crushing? Jamie said, … My teacher said that is what it means and that it is good because rivers are important, but also bad, because if it is strong, …, it might crush fish and rocks … More BOOKER: This blog is about Elaine Feeney’s (2023) ‘How To Build A Boat’.
Sometimes we cannot, and maybe should not, visit the dark places into which our friends have trodden, and hence the idea of walking a mile in your shoes is exactly the wrong definition of empathy. I do not know the shape of your pain nor the wide extent of its blank landscapes, Amie, and your … More Imagining my friend Amie on the request of her dear mother.
What’s your favorite time of day? If twilight were a person, they would fade From you only to become a dusk That merely exchanged their doubleness, made Soft and loving by its own scent – the musk That made me feel a love, though enacted, Had something true in it. In some ideal World, we … More Twilight piece
Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Three {Thursday, Friday and Conclusion on my week}) This is Part Three (including Thursday and Friday and a summary to follow) There is Part One of a Festival Diary (Saturday to Tuesday inclusive) on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/23/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one/ Part One (Appendix FOR Wednesday) is on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/24/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one-appendix-a-wednesday/Part Two is at: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/27/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-two-howsons-art-dr-bendor-grosvenor-britains-best-known-figure-in-the-discipline-known-as-art-connoisseurship-says-of-howson-what-an/ Of course … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Three {Thursday, Friday and Conclusion on my week})
Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Two [Howson’s art]). Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Britain’s best-known figure in the discipline known as art connoisseurship, is quoted in the Edinburgh City Art Gallery webpage on their Peter Howson retrospective, saying of Howson: ‘What an artist. They’ll be talking about him in a hundred years’ time.’[1] Is that … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Two [Howson’s art]). Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Britain’s best-known figure in the discipline known as art connoisseurship says of Howson: ‘What an artist. They’ll be talking about him in a hundred years’ time.’ Is that a good assessment?
How would you design the city of the future? Augustine conceived a city of God Whose main pleasure was to view the torment Of the damned in Hell. Most cities since Replicate that idea, the many By the privileged few, are now downtrod In the city itself, long hours are spent Draining life out of … More The City of God
Where did your name come from? “Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen (Greek: Στέφανος Stéphanos), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or … More Steven! Where are You?
Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part One {Appendix A – Wednesday}) A continuation of https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/23/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one/ Part Two on Peter Howson is at https://wordpress.com/post/stevebamlett.home.blog/10977 Part Three (including Thursday and Friday and a summary to follow) The last part of this diary ended thus: “Wednesday dawns and bathed and sitting tapping here, I find myself in … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part One {Appendix A – Wednesday})
What motivates you? One of the finest discoveries of that lump of unnecessary reflection, that social psychology was in the 1950s, is Bandura’s concept of ‘self-efficacy’. Of course the concept had a history in less flashy theory and experimental work – on regulation of behaviour and so on – but Bandura has always made his … More Engagement trumps motivation
There is an Appendix for Wednesday at this link: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/24/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one-appendix-a-wednesday/ Part 2 is about Peter Howson and on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/27/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-two-howsons-art-dr-bendor-grosvenor-britains-best-known-figure-in-the-discipline-known-as-art-connoisseurship-says-of-howson-what-an/ Part 3 will be a continuation and summary of learning in the week from Wednesday. It will include Thursday / Friday. I am starting this diary entry on Tuesday and Geoff and I have been here … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part One – Saturday to Tuesday):
What positive emotion do you feel most often? Our culture is a strange one. It tends to fear emotion, or at least the expression or display of emotion. It prefers to see ‘affect’ as psychologists dub it as an unnecessary excrescence or a survival from a more primitive state of human development either as a … More The fallacies of binary evaluations of emotion.
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