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Category Archives: Film
Mining the Diaries 61: Italy 2005
2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 27th June 2005 This year we have abandoned the Piano Rialzato, though we are still in the sestieri of Dorsodoro. The entrance to number 2796 is through anonymous wooden double doors directly off the Calle … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 60: Wales 2005
Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau 11th May 2005 Drove down to Brithdir to the start, north end, of the Torrent Walk. It was created by Thomas Payne for the Richards family of the nearby Caerynwch estate in the late 1800s. A short … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 59: Germany 2005
Hotel Ritter, Heidelberg, 30th March 2005 Here for a four-day twinning exchange visit with the Cambridge City Council delegation. 7.00 Up promptly and out for a walk. Chilly and drizzling under an ashen sky. Early risers trudging to work – … Continue reading
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Mining the Diaries 58: India 2004
Pink City Camp, Pushkar, 23rd November 2004 A night of tossing and turning punctuated by the sounds of Indian music, campers’ ablutions through canvas and camels grunting and bellowing. A bucket of hot water arrives at six-thirty. The bed is … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 57: Czechoslovakia 2004
Julius Apart Hotel, Wenceslas Square, Prague, 21st July 2004 A highlight of the visit so far: coffee at Café Slavia. The cafe opened in August 1884, poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke was a regular and it was famous for its associations … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 56: The Netherlands 2004
Best Western City Hotel, Groningen, 13th May 2004 Here with Planning Department colleagues on a study tour to look at urban planning and design. Getting around on shocking pink bicycles with back-pedal brakes – impressions of Dutch gables and chestnut … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 55: Italy 2004
Piano Rialzato, Venice, 6th May 2004 The day started with patches blue breaking the overcast sky and promising better things. By quarter past eight, when I went to buy bread and a melon in the Campo Santa Margherita, the sun … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 54: Wales 2004
Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau 11th April 2004 Arrived yesterday – our first stay here. It is wonderfully quiet and feels very remote – hills, birdsong, fragmented fields, sheep grazing, daffodils in bloom and black-fingered oaks about to burst into leaf. Peace … Continue reading
Outrageous Art
The editors of the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (no. 160 Autumn 2023) asked contributors to nominate their favourite outrageous works of art. Architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote offered: ‘Artist Sophie Calle’s Suite Venitienne (1980), in which she surreptitiously … Continue reading
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Mining the Diaries 53: Italy 2003
Piano Rialzato, Venice, 14th September 2003 We set out to walk from the Campo de la Bragora to San Pietro di Castello via Campo San Martin, Fondamenta Arsenale, Giardini Garibaldi, Ponte Santa Anna, a trail described in the excellent Venetian … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 52: Belgium 2003
De Zwann, Scherpenheuvel, Belgium, 30th August 2003 Here for a British-Belgian wedding yesterday. A long and happy day, dancing into the night, falling into bed after two. Breakfast with the wedding guests, who are staying here. Goodbyes, then off for … Continue reading
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Cream Tea
One of the pleasures/challenges of printing with analog photography used to be deciding on what paper to use. Agfa, Ilford and Kodak all produced papers designed specifically to produce images ranging from neutral to warm tones – in the warmest … Continue reading
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Mining the Diaries 51: Cuba 2003
Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba, 17th May 2003 Pavel took us on a tour from the Parque Cespedes to the area known as Tivoli. Called ‘the most authentic picturesque mixed quarter of Santiago’ by our guide book, it’s been settled … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 50: Italy 2003
Hotel Roma, Trieste, 1st March 2003 Early morning at the Serbian Orthodox church of St Spiridione: the Eastern rite rhetoric of colour and gold, of sad-faced icons and star painted window recesses, of a host of candles and sonorous tenor … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 49: Italy 2002
Piano Rialzato, Venice, 16th September 2002 The soundscape is one of the best and most distinctive things about Venice. At home we hear aeroplanes, ambulance sirens and the rumble of traffic. Here there is a sound track playing a continual, … Continue reading