Comsat Angels X closed eyes = U2 X yellow glasses
Friday, May 13, 2016
Monday, May 09, 2016
Neue Pinakothek, Munich 2
Hans Von Marees
Goldenes Zeitalter 1 1880
Cezanne
Blue & gold
Klimt
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein *
05
Early Art Deco
Only the skin is not abstracted, and the cloth
Framed face
Die Musik 95
Gold & turquoise
Stone v foliage
Schiele
Agonie 12
Stained glass style
Cf Klee
Franz von Stuck
Die suende 93
Cf Klimt
Munch
Very dim view of Woman
Thomas Austen Brown
Mademoiselle plume rouge 96
Klimt derivative
But nice roughness beyond face
End
Goldenes Zeitalter 1 1880
Cezanne
Blue & gold
Klimt
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein *
05
Early Art Deco
Only the skin is not abstracted, and the cloth
Framed face
Die Musik 95
Gold & turquoise
Stone v foliage
Schiele
Agonie 12
Stained glass style
Cf Klee
Franz von Stuck
Die suende 93
Cf Klimt
Munch
Very dim view of Woman
Thomas Austen Brown
Mademoiselle plume rouge 96
Klimt derivative
But nice roughness beyond face
End
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
2nd visit
9/8/16
Max Klinger
Else Asenijeff
c1900
Marble
Gem eyeballs
Maillot
Venus au collier
1818-28
Classical deco
Baudelaire - paradis artificiel
Vuillard
Scene in cafe
c1908-10
Lautrec (Degas)
Perfect sketchiness
Van Gogh
Blick auf Arles 1889
Natural framing
Sunflowers 88
Aquamarine bg
Clean
Plain near Auvers 90
Dynamism of brushstrokes - and falseness/invention
Gauguin
Die Geburt 96
Christian nativity informs
Puvis
Girl by sea c1882
Blue & yellow
Modern classical
Watts
The happy warrior 84
Burne-Jones palette & subject
Redon
Rodin
Helene Von Nostitz 1907
Fine, ethereal exaggerated by marked raw stone
Manet
Dejeuner in studio 68
Enigmatic challenging woman in bg
Front male is off centre gaze
Bosey
Cropped bg friend photographic vibe
Trubner
Christus im Grab 2 74
Caravaggio heritage
Feuerbach
Nanna c61
Leighton
Medea 70
Another Leighton woman
Cf Turner for aliveness of boat scene
To part 2
9/8/16
Max Klinger
Else Asenijeff
c1900
Marble
Gem eyeballs
Maillot
Venus au collier
1818-28
Classical deco
Baudelaire - paradis artificiel
Vuillard
Scene in cafe
c1908-10
Lautrec (Degas)
Perfect sketchiness
Van Gogh
Blick auf Arles 1889
Natural framing
Sunflowers 88
Aquamarine bg
Clean
Plain near Auvers 90
Dynamism of brushstrokes - and falseness/invention
Gauguin
Die Geburt 96
Christian nativity informs
Puvis
Girl by sea c1882
Blue & yellow
Modern classical
Watts
The happy warrior 84
Burne-Jones palette & subject
Redon
Rodin
Helene Von Nostitz 1907
Fine, ethereal exaggerated by marked raw stone
Manet
Dejeuner in studio 68
Enigmatic challenging woman in bg
Front male is off centre gaze
Bosey
Cropped bg friend photographic vibe
Trubner
Christus im Grab 2 74
Caravaggio heritage
Feuerbach
Nanna c61
Leighton
Medea 70
Another Leighton woman
Cf Turner for aliveness of boat scene
To part 2
Saturday, May 07, 2016
Who flies the fliers?
6/5/16
On the flight home from HotDocs in Toronto I was sitting beside an off-duty Air Canada pilot and an old Canadian fella of Irish stock. The pilot was off to London for a long weekend with his older son of two. I filled him in on a few places to check out given his son's interests. He told me a bit about how they route transatlantic flights between Toronto and London, based on the wind patterns. I asked him to rate our landing out of 10: he gave it 7. He told me about how narrow the English Channel looks from the cockpit. It turned out his mother, born in Luton, was brought up in Bournemouth and left for Canada after the war. I wrote this note to Noah (in Bournemouth) on the plane to Toronto a week before:
" On the plane map (on the plane tv) there was a view as we left London where it sweeps in from the south and the only place labelled other than London was Bournemouth of all places!"
The pilot didn't realise there was an airport in Luton now. We compared notes on sons growing up. The character patterns of his two boys was similar to my own. He only ever gets a day in London when he flies in. He generally avoids London as the bus in after night flights is interminable. His plan for the evening after the 9pm landing was to head for a beer or two with the boy in Soho before checking in in St John's Wood. The 18 year old drinking age was viewed positively. There are few greater pleasures in life that one-to-one travel with your children.
On the flight home from HotDocs in Toronto I was sitting beside an off-duty Air Canada pilot and an old Canadian fella of Irish stock. The pilot was off to London for a long weekend with his older son of two. I filled him in on a few places to check out given his son's interests. He told me a bit about how they route transatlantic flights between Toronto and London, based on the wind patterns. I asked him to rate our landing out of 10: he gave it 7. He told me about how narrow the English Channel looks from the cockpit. It turned out his mother, born in Luton, was brought up in Bournemouth and left for Canada after the war. I wrote this note to Noah (in Bournemouth) on the plane to Toronto a week before:
" On the plane map (on the plane tv) there was a view as we left London where it sweeps in from the south and the only place labelled other than London was Bournemouth of all places!"
The pilot didn't realise there was an airport in Luton now. We compared notes on sons growing up. The character patterns of his two boys was similar to my own. He only ever gets a day in London when he flies in. He generally avoids London as the bus in after night flights is interminable. His plan for the evening after the 9pm landing was to head for a beer or two with the boy in Soho before checking in in St John's Wood. The 18 year old drinking age was viewed positively. There are few greater pleasures in life that one-to-one travel with your children.
Friday, May 06, 2016
Recent Happiness Experiment entries
FRI 6th May
A parting hug with Mike with the promise of reunion in September
Sitting next to an Air Canada airline pilot on the flight home from Toronto
Watching Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall (in How to Marry a Millionaire)
THURS
Reading Skinny Dip in the sun in Philosopher's Walk, University of Toronto approached by a colourful sparrow
Chatting to the owner of She Said Boom! record store in Roncy where I bought D Jane's Addiction on his recommendation
Dinner with Mike Victoria & Francesca listening to the Quint monologue from Jaws in Canadian French
WED
Showing Tattooed at Short Form Video panel at University of Toronto/HotDocs
Mexican al fresco in Kensington Market
Breakfast with Matt from Marble at Easy Over
A parting hug with Mike with the promise of reunion in September
Sitting next to an Air Canada airline pilot on the flight home from Toronto
Watching Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall (in How to Marry a Millionaire)
THURS
Reading Skinny Dip in the sun in Philosopher's Walk, University of Toronto approached by a colourful sparrow
Chatting to the owner of She Said Boom! record store in Roncy where I bought D Jane's Addiction on his recommendation
Dinner with Mike Victoria & Francesca listening to the Quint monologue from Jaws in Canadian French
WED
Showing Tattooed at Short Form Video panel at University of Toronto/HotDocs
Mexican al fresco in Kensington Market
Breakfast with Matt from Marble at Easy Over
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Toronto 2 & 3
Sun 1 May
* Roncy
* Museum
Reading Carl Hiassen - Skinny Dip in the university stream-ravine park on drizzly Sunday afternoon
Watching Gary Newman in LaLa Land with Ed Gibb
Kind of Blue afternoon nap in room overlooking roof of Royal Ontario Museum
Mon 2 May
* Museum
* university street to TIFF
Breakfast at Easy Over
Brian DePalma doc presented by Jake Paltrow at TIFF
Key lime paleta lolly at Carnita
* Roncy
* Museum
Reading Carl Hiassen - Skinny Dip in the university stream-ravine park on drizzly Sunday afternoon
Watching Gary Newman in LaLa Land with Ed Gibb
Kind of Blue afternoon nap in room overlooking roof of Royal Ontario Museum
Mon 2 May
* Museum
* university street to TIFF
Breakfast at Easy Over
Brian DePalma doc presented by Jake Paltrow at TIFF
Key lime paleta lolly at Carnita
Sunday, May 01, 2016
Toronto 1
* Toronto: High Park/Roncy
* Kensington Market
* Queen St
Chilling in Kensington Market with Mike in the sunshine
Sitting at the bar eating and chatting to the waitresses at Cubanos, Roncy
Having breakfast at Ace Cafe, Roncy with Mike and Francesca
* Kensington Market
* Queen St
Chilling in Kensington Market with Mike in the sunshine
Sitting at the bar eating and chatting to the waitresses at Cubanos, Roncy
Having breakfast at Ace Cafe, Roncy with Mike and Francesca
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Recent Happiness Experiment entries
Fri - Belfast
Preparing The Superhuman Body Handbook with Ryan outside a cafe in the Belfast sunshine with Ryan. Chatting with Kev and Emma-Rosa outside the same cafe in the same sunshine.
Dinner on Meabh's birthday in Rush
An overwhelming, humbling, cheering flood of kind comments in response to my announcement about leaving C4
Sat - Rush
A run down to the sea and meditation on the beach in Spring sunshine
Visiting the GPO where I saw an original Proclamation and found one of Una's relatives on the official display of Easter Rising combatants (Patrick Donnelly) with Elizabeth & Des
Guided 1916 tour of Glasnevin cemetery including Michael Collins' grave, again in the spring sunlight
Preparing The Superhuman Body Handbook with Ryan outside a cafe in the Belfast sunshine with Ryan. Chatting with Kev and Emma-Rosa outside the same cafe in the same sunshine.
Dinner on Meabh's birthday in Rush
An overwhelming, humbling, cheering flood of kind comments in response to my announcement about leaving C4
Sat - Rush
A run down to the sea and meditation on the beach in Spring sunshine
Visiting the GPO where I saw an original Proclamation and found one of Una's relatives on the official display of Easter Rising combatants (Patrick Donnelly) with Elizabeth & Des
Guided 1916 tour of Glasnevin cemetery including Michael Collins' grave, again in the spring sunlight
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Christy Moore 5/3/16 RFH
- Viva la Quinta Brigada **
- liberty hall song, Easter Rising commemorations 3/16 - What Will It Take to Make Us Angry *
- Bees Wing
- The Tuam Beat
- Ride On *
- The Voyage
- Missing You
- North & South of the River
- Delirium Tremens
- Yellow Triangle
- Lisdoonvarna
Star spot #350
1/4/16
Jonathan Ross
Jewish Museum
Moses, Mods and Mr Fish: The Menswear Revolution
with N
Jonathan Ross
Moses, Mods and Mr Fish: The Menswear Revolution
with N
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Friday, April 01, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry
Watching The Trial of Roger Casement (1960) at the NFT
A street food lunch of: Madagascan curry, Spanish sherry, apple & mint juice, Apple & cinnamon crepe and coffee
Easter dinner gathering of the 4 of Us plus 2 nieces & friend marking the Easter Rising with a classic photo
A street food lunch of: Madagascan curry, Spanish sherry, apple & mint juice, Apple & cinnamon crepe and coffee
Easter dinner gathering of the 4 of Us plus 2 nieces & friend marking the Easter Rising with a classic photo
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Artist & Empire 2
Henry Nelson O'Neill
Eastward Ho
1857
Farewell to England
Scottish soldier and wife (Tate B)
Home Again
1859
Spiral flow down gangplank
Cf Burne Jones angels
Karsh
Buchan
37
Aquiline nose
A John
TE Lawrence
19
James Sant
Capt. Colin Mackenzie
1842
Nolan
Woman & Billabong
57
Dejeuner Manet
In the cave
57
Hew Locke
E Colston
E Burke
Restoration
06
Photo + 3D worth exploring
Eastward Ho
1857
Farewell to England
Scottish soldier and wife (Tate B)
Home Again
1859
Spiral flow down gangplank
Cf Burne Jones angels
Karsh
Buchan
37
Aquiline nose
A John
TE Lawrence
19
James Sant
Capt. Colin Mackenzie
1842
Nolan
Woman & Billabong
57
Dejeuner Manet
In the cave
57
Hew Locke
E Colston
E Burke
Restoration
06
Photo + 3D worth exploring
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Change for Life
a stream never stops flowing
your breaths never stop blowing
your blood never stops flowing
change is life
your breaths never stop blowing
your blood never stops flowing
change is life
Monday, March 14, 2016
Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry
Rabbit spotted in remains of the Frisbeedrome, Hampstead Heath
Watching The Night Manager with
U
Dinner in Highgate with D & Frankie
Watching The Night Manager with
U
Dinner in Highgate with D & Frankie
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Star Spot #102
Charles Dance
12/12/03
Parliament Hill - Shepherd's ??
Lord Sebastian Coe
11/12/03
restaurant Chelsea
David Frost
11/12/03
restaurant Chelsea
Chris Evans
c10/12/03
4Learning
12/12/03
Parliament Hill - Shepherd's ??
Lord Sebastian Coe
11/12/03
restaurant Chelsea
David Frost
11/12/03
restaurant Chelsea
Chris Evans
c10/12/03
4Learning
Friday, March 11, 2016
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
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