Friday, 31 August 2018
A Bit of Fun (2)
Thursday, 23 August 2018
A Bit of Fun (1)
I am a moderator on a Facebook group that has 72,000 members. I offer here a sample of some of the things I have posted over the past few months:
I'm listening to Brinsley Schwarz, led by Nick Lowe, singing Happy Doing What We're Doing. Listen here.
Monday, 20 August 2018
Painting of the month (83) August 2018: Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is a
photographer who specialises in female portraits emulating various iconic
images of women. Her most famous work, Untitled
Film Stills (1978-1980) is a set of 69 monochrome portraits based on Hollywood
movie stills intended to subvert the role of women in the film world. Some of
her other work includes fashion shoots, album covers and a few short films.
She has also produced
images parodying historical portraits, centre-folds and publicity shots.
They are deliberately clichéd. She is a true artist in the sense that she
creates images which reflect the society we live in and holds up a mirror for
us to examine our values.
In case you had not
realised every one of these photos is a self-portrait of the artist!
Saturday, 4 August 2018
REPOST: How Beer Saved the World
I am enjoying trawling through some of my favourite posts and publishing them again - I think it's better than posting nothing at the moment, (which would be the alternative)!
How Beer Saved The World
I'm here to defend the good name of beer and to tell you how it saved the world. Really.
Many scientists and anthropologists now believe that it was not the desire for bread that kick-started the agricultural revolution that ended hunter-gathering 9,000 years ago; it was the yearning for barley to make beer. This led to inventions such as the plough, the wheel, irrigation, mathematics and even led to writing! This cascade of world-changing innovations was brought about by the desire for beer.
In ancient Eygypt workers were paid in beer so we could say that we wouldn't have had the Pyramids without beer. There are those who claim it is one of the major food groups because of it's nutritional content.
In modern times it played an important role in refrigeration, the discovery of germ theory and modern medicine.
However, in Medieval times when water was too dirty to drink, possibly it's most important function was to support the population. Beer was safe to drink and men, women and children drank it morning to night, certainly in England.
That possibly is still the case in some parts! Cheers.
Many scientists and anthropologists now believe that it was not the desire for bread that kick-started the agricultural revolution that ended hunter-gathering 9,000 years ago; it was the yearning for barley to make beer. This led to inventions such as the plough, the wheel, irrigation, mathematics and even led to writing! This cascade of world-changing innovations was brought about by the desire for beer.
In ancient Eygypt workers were paid in beer so we could say that we wouldn't have had the Pyramids without beer. There are those who claim it is one of the major food groups because of it's nutritional content.
In modern times it played an important role in refrigeration, the discovery of germ theory and modern medicine.
However, in Medieval times when water was too dirty to drink, possibly it's most important function was to support the population. Beer was safe to drink and men, women and children drank it morning to night, certainly in England.
That possibly is still the case in some parts! Cheers.
I'm listening to Billy Joel's
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
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