Wednesday, 30 December 2009

a diary of traces # 16

Pipifax and Panlo, if not in the first rank of music hall performers, were certainly in the second. They now appear to have all but disappeared from most records as well as from memory.

However the brochure for the Royal Variety Performance of 1912 has the two at the top of the list of performers; and a scan of the May-June 1965 edition of Bandwagon tells us that Panlo was one of only 6 trampolining artistes who could, in 1910, "... execute the acrobatic feat in which a tumbler executes the round-off, flip-flap and double back somersault on the ground."

Contact points/future directions

Conceptual robotics
Pre industrial memory
Mud pooling effect
Ephemeral downstreaming
Defective ad replacement
Spiritual concrete
Red maintained

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Difference makers - Jung

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."

The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man, C G Jung

INTJ

Anthem?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLOBVvzU4W8

Thursday, 24 December 2009

Unheeded fictions - part one


The Mothered Finch
Maudlin, melancholic, claustrophobic.

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

a diary of traces # 15

"Wha for Scotland's king and law
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa',
Caledonian! on wi' me!"

Bruce at Bannockburn
Robert Burns

Friday, 18 December 2009

a diary of traces # 14


The height of hat fashion in 1920:


Where have all the hat makers gone?

Friday, 11 December 2009

a diary of traces #13

"Duty does not imply restraint".

The Happiness of Duty, from The Pleasures of Life, Lord Avebury

a diary of traces #12

Entry on 'Billiard Amateurs':

"A member should be encouraged to play for some permanent memorial of his skill, not for the sake of being a shilling or two in pocket. This distinction may make all the difference in the world in the character and spirit of the contest."

Five Hundred Points in Club Law and Procedure (Twelfth Edition), R.S. Chapman

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

a diary of traces #11

Dreams mentioned in popular song:

"They say that Crazy Horse had the power to dream himself into the real world, and leave the illusion behind."

(The Song of Crazy Horse, J.D. Blackfoot)

"Did I dream you dreamed about me?"

(Song to the Siren, Tim Buckley)