Weekend 389.0 (Cosmos ‘Versailles Tetra’)

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Winston Smith

“Envision the extraordinary brilliance and effects of the light in sun and moon and stars, in the dark shades of a glade, in the colors and scents of flowers. Then Continue Reading →

Weekend 388.0

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) World’s Fair Beer Relaunches With a New Recipe (Knoxville Mercury) (2) Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely? (The Week)

Write this story…

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Winston Smith

…winner gets homemade fish n chips or bangers and mash. The illustration was done by Clarke Hutton for A Picture of Britain.

Weekend 387.1

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Winston Smith

A quote from The Prayer of Love and Silence by a Carthusian. “In order to free oneself and become detached from things, one must see them in their true perspective, Continue Reading →

Weekend 387.0

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) Dust My Shoulders Off (YouTube) (1a) Edward Hopper related posts from the Limestone Archives: Weekend 272.0 (22.2 x 21.5 x 9.8 inches) Subcityscape Weekend 270.0 (…in the shape of Continue Reading →

Weekend 386.0 (I am old and I wouldn’t mind dying)

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) Monasteries of the Mind by Victor Davis Hanson “In reaction to the growing globalization of the Roman Empire, elite corruption, the banality of bread-and-circuses, and the end of the Continue Reading →

Weekend 385.0

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Winston Smith

“I have found the still point around which the whole country revolves without knowing it.” – Thomas Merton A quote from The Prayer of Love and Silence by a Carthusian. Continue Reading →

Weekend 384.0 (…you know I never meant to see you again…but I only passed by as a friend)

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) How great were the 80s (asks the aged Xer)? Phil, Clapton, and Jeffrey Tambor in the same video. (YouTube)

Weekend 383.0 (…try to catch the deluge in a paper cup)

Posted on March 4, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) Super Tunnel: Join engineers as they build a massive new railway deep beneath the streets of London. (NOVA) (1a) 5 Key Lessons from 10 Cities at Transforming Transportation 2017 Continue Reading →

Weekend 382.1

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Winston Smith

(1) The British Castle—A Symbol in Stone / Friday, April 7, 2017 – Sunday, August 6, 2017 (Yale Center for British Art) (2) Creative Space: Jane Smith