On Sunday we went for a walk up from Bibra Lake. Whilst at the lake we found an egg exposed out on the sandy bank. It looked like a duck egg and it was still warm to touch. There were some pairs of ducks roosting, head under wing, further down on the edge of …
Dreamed I had written a book entitled “Goodbye and good luck: sustainability and death”
from http://www.newsweek.com/2007/11/01/a-maritime-pompeii.html By Barbie Nadeau Newsweek Web Exclusive Updated: 1:06 PM ET Nov 1, 2007 The San Rossore train station on the edge of Pisa, Italy, is a lonely stop. Tourists who visit this city to see its famous leaning tower generally use the central station across town. But San Rossore is about to …
The Cemitério das Âncoras (The Anchor Graveyard) on Ilha de Tavira (Algarve, Portugal) holds the remains of large anchors which apparently formed the weights for large nets (the technique of “armações de atum” invented by the Phoenicians). The nearby town of Tavira was historically devoted to tuna fishing before the industry’s declined and collapsed.
The Autopsies project This project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth century was transformed by the advent of new forms of media–the typewriter, gramophone, and film, for example–the arrival of the twenty-first century has brought the phasing out of many public and private objects that only recently seemed essential to “modern life.” …
I was stuck on a bus opposite the library when the hail started. Is there a specific word for book/library destruction?
Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear I was wondering whether to pursue this book and decided not to on the basis that I do not want to talk about fear and pain — irritation, intimidation, or even permanent harm — in my work. Nevertheless a good review by Geeta …
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