| Apr 27, 2012 | Landscapes: Horizon | | | |
Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of Utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist.
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Exhibition: Landscapes: Horizon
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| | Apr 26, 2012 | Landscapes: Ports, harbors - harbours and docks | | | |
This online exhibition is part of a growing series showing diverse types of landscapes and cityscapes. Enjoy.
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Exhibition: Landscapes: Ports, harbors - harbours and docks
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| | Apr 22, 2012 | Landscape: Deserts and Dunes | | | |
Desert
1. A barren or desolate area, especially:
a. A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
b. A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
c. An apparently lifeless area of water.
2. An empty or forsaken place; a wasteland.
3. Archaic A wild, uncultivated, and uninhabited region.
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Exhibition: Landscape: Deserts and Dunes
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| | Apr 22, 2012 | Landscape: Cityscapes - A Pictorialist Perspective | | | |
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Alfred Stieglitz
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Exhibition: Landscape: Cityscapes - A Pictorialist Perspective
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| | Apr 22, 2012 | Landscape: Cityscapes - Urban - Urbanscapes | | | |
"There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time."
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, (Random House, 2002)
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Exhibition: Landscape: Cityscapes - Urban - Urbanscapes
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| | Apr 15, 2012 | Skyscrapers | | | |
English: skyscraper
French: gratte-ciel
German: wolkenkratzer
Italian: grattacielo
Portuguese: arranha-céu
Spanish: rascacielos
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Exhibition: Architecture: Skyscrapers
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| | Apr 15, 2012 | Still-life: Glassware | | | |
Cleaning Glass
THERE is an account, in one of Hugh Conway's novels, of two bachelor brothers whose glassware was the envy and despair of every woman who was admitted into their home. However careful and experienced a housekeeper she might be, none of their visitors had ever been able to get her servants to attain the brilliancy shown by the glass on the table of the bachelors. At last the secret was confessed by the brothers: "We always do the glass ourselves."
Since it is the fashion to use a great deal of glass on the table, this secret is valuable at present. But it is by no means necessary for a housekeeper to do the glass herself; she will find that a satisfactory degree of success can be more easily secured if she will take the trouble to train her servants to clean the table glassware in the right way. A small wooden tub should be used in order to avoid scratching the glass. Make a strong suds, having the water no hotter than you can put your hand into comfortably, and wash each piece of glass carefully with a soft cloth if plain, and with a soft brush if the glass be cut or imitation of cut. Then rinse the glass in clear water of about the same temperature, drain, and while the glass is still warm, wipe with a dry linen towel, rubbing rather hard to give a polish. The naked hands should not be allowed to touch the glass. The brilliancy given to the glassware by this process will be ample repayment of the extra labor involved.
The Illustrated American, October 4, 1890, Vol.IV, No.33, p.58
(Accessed: Google Books, 15 April 2012)
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Exhibition: Still-life: Glassware
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| | Apr 14, 2012 | Nature: Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen | | | |
Early account of Daguerreotypes of a bull and a cow...
Unidentified Daguerreotype/ Artist
Durham Bull, Henry Clay, Two years old, bred and owned by A. Bolmar, West Chester, Pa.
1853, March (published)
Magazine illustration, from a Daguerreotype
The portraits of bull and cow on opposite page, engraved from daguerreotype likenesses, are specimens of what may be attained by scientific and judicious crosses of choice native stock, with selected thorough bred Durham bulls. They are grade animals, the bull being 15-16, and the cow 7/8 Durham, and are fully equal in some points to thorough breds. They were bred and are now owned by A. Bolmar, of West Chester, proprietor of the celebrated boarding school Institution, which bears his name, and whose herd of cows and heifers, 41 in number, all of his own raising, and more or less mixed with Durham blood, have been pronounced by good judges superior as a whole to any dairy of the same number in this section of country.
"Improved Stock", The Pennsylvania Farm Journal, March 1853, Vol.2, No.12, p.379
(Accessed: Google Books, 15 April 2012)
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Exhibition: Nature: Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen
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| | Apr 8, 2012 | Newsletter 6.03 - April 9, 2012 has been emailed | | | | The Luminous-Lint Newsletter 6.03 - April 9, 2012 has been emailed to all those on our mailing list and you can subscribe to these free newsletters if you haven't already done so.
Past issues of the newsletter are in the library on the Luminous-Lint website. Best, Alan
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| | Apr 8, 2012 | Landscape: Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanes | | | |
A reflective walk along a leafy track...
Lane a narrow road, especially in the countryside
Path a road or way, especially a narrow trodden track
Pathway another word for path
Track a path or road with a rough surface
Trail a path through the countryside, especially one designed for walking for pleasure
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Exhibition: Landscape: Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanes
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