Project LV One – Day 45 – Catching Up

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Guthlac

Newgale Beach Still trying to catch up with things from my trip to west Wales.   Here is the wonderful Newgale which, like most of west Wales, suffered during the winter storms.  Still the summer is just around the corner and lets hope they have a great season – might help them  start to get over the winter.

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Project LV One – Day 44 – Student Show

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Guthlac

Oh the joys of attending final
Degree shows… Actually it is quite interesting if a little confusing – you are surrounded by over excited as well as over Ernest young adults who want to have creative career. Some of them may succeed but most may find other things to pay the bills.

Anyway good luck to them all and may they succeed in whatever they do.

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Project LV One – Day 43 – Hi Fidelity

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Guthlac


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On the final day of my latest cultural tour of Britain we stopped off at Bristol.  This was a first for me as I had never properly visited the city before.  I had passed through the city when I was young and had had a business meeting on the outskirts the city itself was a mystery.

One of the shops I visited was a music store that could almost have been out of the movie High Fidelity.  This is the first time I have been in such a store for a very long time.  To add to the whole retro feel the chap behind the counter, perhaps the John Cusack character in the movie, started to play Burlesque by Family, a local band who I really liked in the 1970’s.  However, to prove this wasn’t the 70’s I noticed that now vinyl is sold by the GSM, much as quality of paper is.

 

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Project LV One – Day 42 – crappy wifi

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Guthlac

Another day another hotel and the wifi is shocking. I’m at the top of the hotel and I can only assume the base station is in the basement! I downloaded this image from Dropbox using 3G on this phone and the same image to my iPad using WIFI – I don’t think I need to say which was quicker.

The castle BTW is Laugharne Castle which is just around the corner from Dylan Thomas’ famous garden shed where he wrote Under Milkwood – this is a very pretty part of the world even when it is drizzling.

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Project LV One – Day 41

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Guthlac

On my travels for the next few days…today by the coast at Newgale, Pembrokeshire.

Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Project LV One – Day 40 – A horse… a horse my Kingdom for a horse….

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Guthlac

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Whilst walking around Leicester this morning I came across this sign which made me chuckle.   The site of the world’s most famous car park is now the centre of frantic activity as the visitors centre takes shape.  Whilst across the road the Cathedral is getting a major face lift which will befit the final resting place  of one of the best known monarchs.  Anyone would think that a State funeral is going to happen soon.

Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield.
We must be brief when traitors brave the field

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Project LV One – Day 39 – Books and Ideas

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Guthlac

Arthur Scargill

Most of today has been spent putting together the first of the 12 books I hope to make for Project LV One.  These things time, experience has taught me that if I were to rush this then I would be disappointed.  However, whilst I have been doing this another idea has been rolling around the vast caverns of my mind and in a way it is all thanks to this man – Arthur Scargill.

30 years ago this year he lead one of the proudest and by many standards moderate unions on one of the most disasterous political/industrial  actions of modern British history.   The whys and wherefores can be argued elsewhere but at the end of the 1985/5 miners strike the coal industry was left on its knees and the thing that Scargill predicted would happen happened – most of the deep mine capacity in Britain was closed.   However, if it had only been an industrial dispute then that would have been bad enough but mining for many villages it was their death.   Many thousands of people were effected by the outcome of the dispute and many still carry the scares both physical and emotional.

So 30 years later is the idea of the project – hardly original I know and at the moment that is all I have to go on.  Well that isn’t true but at the moment the other details I think need to be worked on just a little more.   Just one though does occurs to me as I write this.  30 years ago I had not idea that I was able to produce a reasonable likeness of someone by using just a pencil.

Whatever happened to the Heroes…No More Heroes

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 38 – Compton Verney

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Guthlac

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Beyond the art collections and exhibitions there is a wonderful parkland that you can explore.  As with much of what is supposed to be natural in England this is totally false and man made.  This time the park was laid out by Capability Brown.  So much for the rural idil

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 37 – Hands

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Guthlac

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Under the right circumstances the iPhone really produces a powerful image.

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 36 – Rodin and Death

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Guthlac

Rodin

Last week I visited Compton Verney and saw their excellent Moore and Rodin exhibition.  In the grounds of the house the copy of the Burghers of Calais that is usually found outside Parliament is to be found.  This celebrates(?) the siege of Calais by the English in the 15th century when an awful lot of the occupants of Calais died.   Death was also in the air this morning as a young family of Blue Tits fledged from a nest box in the garden.  For reason best known to themselves Blue Tit seem to fledge when the weather is quite miserable.

In one sense this is a good introduction to the hardships of their short lives because few of the fledglings will last much beyond the day as they are predated by other animals needing to feed their young.  Even if they make it to adulthood they probably won’t last for more than a couple of years in which their lives would be hard and mostly spent either feeding themselves or the broads they bring into this world.

 

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At times life can be really shitty.

 

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