ART: ɑːt (noun) 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
2. the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
“the visual arts”
“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop … A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.”
via Daily Omnivore
As I aim to post more often here these notepads will become much a more stripped down round up of recent links and findings that didn’t quite make it onto their own entry.
I’ve been cleaning up old posts on here. Please have a look.
Things after the break.
This fortnight’s dose of links and internet things.
Above is the railway line down by the Bristol Cut.
“The New Cut is an artificial waterway which was constructed between 1804 and 1809 to divert the tidal river Avon through south and east Bristol, England. This was part of the process of constructing Bristol’s Floating Harbour, under the supervision of engineer William Jessop. The cut runs from Totterdown Basin at the eastern end of St Phillip’s Marsh, near Temple Meads, to the Underfall sluices at Rownham in Hotwells and rejoining the original course of the tidal Avon.”
A batch of biweekly links and things. I actually prepared this a week ago and forgot to post it so who knows some of it might still be relevant.
We had a bit of snow round here last week, it slowed things up a bit.
Happy Mother’s Day.
This week’s links and internet. Put together through a mixture of cut and paste and ifttt procedures.
Be kind. Be useful. It’s not complicated. Most other things are a bonus.
There are things after the jump. ↩
I’m scheduling these to happen on Sundays now, as I have said before the page builds itself during the week and it’s just a case of slight formatting to get to publish it.
Paul Greer 