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Knots by R. D. Laing
Posted Apr 22, 2012
I recently mentioned this book on a thread..which is all about use of language..well specifically the modern English language in the context of his book.
This quote is to do with childhood, something I've also written about on a thread.
'..It is our duty to bring up our children to love,
honour and obey us.
If they don’t they must be punished,
otherwise we would not be doing our duty.
If they grow up to love, honour and obey us
either we have brought them up properly
or we have not:
if we have
there must be something the matter with them;
if we have not
there is something the matter with us.
(Knots - R. D. Laing, (1970) Knots. London: Penguin.)
Excerpt taken from,
http://www.oikos.org/knotsen1.htm
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If you are at all interested in the way the English language can be used and abused in relationships it is well worth a read.
Of course poetry plays with it, hence the richness of that tradition here, but literature is a context where that is all in the open and is openly playful..it does not have the sinister aspect of the destruction that can be wrought in families, when you can be mentally tied up in knots..
Children are very vulnerable psychologically.
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More about Laing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing
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Ribwort plantains
Posted Apr 21, 2012
The last two in this album are Ribwort plantain. I ate a few buds today..later in the summer they will be everywhere. I had some for lunch.
Very delicious mushroomy taste and crunch.
http://bit.ly/JWF29U
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Photography
Posted Apr 15, 2012
A bit like the music journal. And anyone is free to post a link to theirs.
I'm intending to do some landscape photography this summer. A lot on the web, I find gimmicky, made with all manner of filters, highly distorted lenses..and 'trying to hard' compositions.
That's just my taste though.
I found this site of landscape photography from last year with some good stuff. I quite like the first one...but especially fifth one down.
The third one is an example of trying to hard..I really don't like it.
For me, it gives little 'space' to the viewer and imposes its vision on you in a one dimensional way..I like to enter good art and dream a bit in it.
Many artists struggle with this 'giving space to the viewer', lightness of touch, so you form a relationship with the viewer. I think its the hardest thing about any art.
http://www.take-a-view.co.uk/2010_winners.htm
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Smoking.
Posted Apr 13, 2012
I hear today on news they are talking about making packets plain to prevent youngsters starting to smoke. Apparently in Oz they are choosing a yucky olivey green colur.
It might work there. It won't here...whatever colour is chosen. Very quickly street culture, artists, designers will be creating all manner of stuff in that colour and it will become ultra cool...that happened with the 'death' cigarettes..though that was far more predictible.
I see the only thing working is for thorough research to be done to find a water tight branding that will appear uncool..but this might be morally unacceptable. Even so there is no water tight branding that can be made uncool by clever manipulators.
Capitalism will almost certainly make money out of this...and morality won't be a part in any case.
I'll stick to my plans for panoramas of English countryside. Tedious post modern rebellion is starting to really get on my nerves...hey it's uncool..but that's for me...wrong age..and roll-up addict 
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StumbleUpon?
Posted Apr 13, 2012
I just stumbled 
upon this site/way to explore the web that looks really cool when doing research about panoramic photography.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/about
Haven't yet joined...so can't really vouch but their Twitter looks interesting.
Anyway I wanted to share it in case anyone else finds it good and useful
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