July 2011
9 posts
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he ‘s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he ‘s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still...
“The President’s daughter, The Chief of Staff’s daughter, a...”
– I’m loving re-watching the first season of The West Wing. So fast and snappy, not to mention gut-wrenchingly hilarious.
WatchA Productive Landscape for the Lower Lea Valley
James Kirk:
Produced for the first year of my Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the University of Westminster, the animation describes a masterplan for the Lower Lea Valley from Canning Town to Walthamstow Marshes. A gridded timber plantation and testing ground for a new sustainable architecture. The initial proposal is a school of joinery and...
“The more time I spend looking at Cathedrals, their communication and mission...”
– Ned Lunn on Cathedrals: heritage tourists to faith tourists.
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chaptertwelve replied to your post: #hash[twitter]tag
But… that’s so sensible.
I take myself far too seriously sometimes. That said, spending much of this evening playing catch with a a beautiful, energy-filled toddler removed quite a bit of that, at least for a while.
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#hash[twitter]tag
There seems to be a trend for utilising hashtags that include references to terms such as “tweet” or “twitter”.
Two recent example include #diemeistertweeter to follow Glyndebourne’s live broadcast of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , and The Royal Opera’s use of #madamatwitterfly for their big screen performance of Madama Butterfly.
These tags are jokey and...