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Narcissism

Beltane was pretty damn good.

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2009 05 02 james Comments (0)

St Petersburg

Arrived into St Petersburg late on Sunday, after a minor delay departing both Edinburgh and then Frankfurt. After some transportation issues, made it to the hostel which reminds me of one I stayed at in Prague – an extremely un-prepossessing stairwell (visually and nasally) but perfectly reasonable accomodation within. Based on the condition of the [...]

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2008 06 05 james history
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Art in Cairo

Visited the utterly deserted museum of Mr Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil, which contains all the pieces he collected over his lifetime, displayed in his former residence. I knew in advance it contained eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works, but was rather taken aback by the collection – it has pieces by all the ‘core’ Impressionists, and assorted hangers-on: [...]

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2008 04 14 james Comments (0)

Teddy internals.

Found by Warren Ellis, the artist’s site is awesome: skeletons of teddy bears in felt. Slightly creepy but also damn cool.

2008 04 02 james Comments (0)

Museum of London, Crack

Went to visit the Museum of London at the end of my last London trip, it’s pretty interesting, though currently undergoing some major refurbishment, so will require another visit. One interesting aspect of the museum is that at this point I’ve encountered various somewhat-related fragments of London history: Roman pieces from TimeTeam, Saxon from Bernard [...]

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2007 12 30 james books
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