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Showing posts with label old stuff is better than new stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old stuff is better than new stuff. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

The Slow Life

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No, Norcia isn't like this. But it sort of feels like this, in a way that's hard to describe. I do my laundry by hand, on ...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

How to ignore the outside world

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Yep. I remember never having any money because I could never make it to the bank for their stupid "banking hours" which were lik...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Tradition

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Procession through the town on the Festa di Sant Antonio Posted by Hilary White on Monday, 26 January 2015 What I like about Norcia is not ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Marginalia

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This is a capital from a 15th century graduale (in the British Library,) with a little miniature portrait of St. Benedict and there'...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

1977

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Star Wars. Fuel crisis. Fleetwood Mac. I was eleven when this album came out. I still remember every single word of the lyrics. ~...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

How it was done

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Back when a book was a precious work of art. In monasteries, novices were never allowed near a psalter book. Part of the training of a yo...
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Oooooooo! Puuuurdy!

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Doing a bit of research. It looks like there's other people who like this stuff . Stuff like this: (These go by way too fast, b...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Ancient Japanese building techniques: We're doing it wrong

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Natural building primer

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A friend in the UK has expressed an interest in building her own house, and we were talking about our shared ambitions to not live in the st...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Living in Rivendell

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I want to buy a piece of property, and then get this guy to come over to Italy and show me how to build my own house. ~
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Women, Art and The Real

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The Independent is having a hissy-fit over someone telling the blunt truth about the absurdities of the contemporary art world. But he shou...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

All change is bad, even change for the better

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I like to say, " All change is bad, even change for the better ", but I always mentally put scare quotes around "better...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Pretty stuff

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I've no spare dosh at the moment (got to pay off my art class bills first) but when there's a little more, I'm gonna buy me some...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

So. Much. Tweed!

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The London Tweed Run: what England is supposed to be like. ~
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Friday, April 13, 2012

They don't make 'em like they used to

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Most priests used to be like this: " Kids. Can’t stand ‘em. Monsters of ego, every one. You know how you can tell a kid from a leec...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

On re-creating the Renaissance education

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So, I took today to work on my book and I've been reading a little of Leon Battista Alberti's "brief" treatise On Painti...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

Senior National Gallery Curator Admits Modern Abstract Art is Crap

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Well, almost... Mark Leidhauser has held in his hands more great works of art than any king of pope or Medici ever did. A senior curator at...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Brutalist by name, brutal by nature

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Intelligent comment from the Adam Smith Institute on why the British Housing Estates need to be knocked down as soon as possible: Opposition...
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Monday, November 07, 2011

Not the only one

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who thinks old things are better than new things. There's a whole internet world of starry-eyed nostalgists out there. (I just made th...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

And now, back to what's really important

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Clothes. We just started watching Downton Abbey tonight, with episode one. All sorts of interesting characters and plot and whatnot, all ver...
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