Category Archives: General

Verbalists Education Brazil’s somewhat laid-back answer to the Arab spring works like this: invite your friends on Facebook to a mass barbecue in a public place to protest against a specified injustice. Then wait for it to go viral. The … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Olduvaiblog: Musings on the coming collapse:
Brazil floods, mudslides kill 41 – World – CBC News. People collect discarded food drenched in mud and rain, outside a supermarket in the municipality of Itaguacu, Espirito Santo state, Brazil,…

Originally posted on Weirdfields:
In Brazil, a storm is brewing. Government departments are turning against one another over the issue of whether or not to renege on an international agreement that prohibits the use of so called ‘terminator’ seeds in…

Originally posted on CHINESE WOODBLOCK PRINTING:
DIPTYCHS, TRIPTYCHS AND TETRAPTYCHS This is my long-overdue final posting to the Gusu Beauties series. Among 18th century Suzhou prints there are several examples of two prints constituting a whole image, where the scene…

Originally posted on Coffee & Confetti:
On boxing day I watched a 2001 performance of Cirque Du Soleil’s Alegría. Since a little girl, I have been obsessed with the circus, mainly due to my occasional antics on a trapeze. Whilst…