marginalia
is the Latin word for 'things in the margin', and refers to writing or decoration in the margins of a manuscript. I am exploring the edges and margins of our world through photographs and writing....from February 5, 2011...
I was too busy writing elsewhere to write here this time last year. So many words, so little time...
Roughly translated...
English • Afrikaans • العربية • Беларуская • Български • Català • Česky • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • فارسی • Français • Gaeilge • Galego • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • Latviešu • Lietuvių • 한국어 • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • Malti • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk (Bokmål) • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Shqip • Srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Kiswahili • ไทย • Tagalog • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • ייִדיש. • 中文 / 漢語
Monthly Archives: April 2007
how to make a quilt using Rasterbator
Recently someone visited here asking about making a quilt using Rasterbator – *free* software (online) or download from here that enables you to print your own images big. I wrote about making a large image of Marica, and how I’d … Continue reading
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music man
Renaissance man, Mark Bernstein asks, “How would you know?” What Mark is writing about is how does one discover and enjoy the varieties of music that surround us. It’s a very good question, and one I’ve written about here before … Continue reading
Posted in music of the spheres
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planning for success
A few years back I used to use one of those industrial strength planners. You know, with the clippy-in pages, and black leather binding. When I arrived it looked like I was about to convert you…’Have you accepted planners into … Continue reading
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if joy is the engine…
…then hope is the fuel. If I got nothing more from Hillman Curtis’s book, then perhaps that message is sufficient – although perhaps insufficient for the price. Creating short films for the web is less of a text on how … Continue reading
Posted in book pile, reflective practice
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give the direct oval a half hour’s practice each day…
The first time I saw this kind of penmanship was in an old “Speedball” lettering book, long since vanished. Speedball made the nibs, and the book was a combination instruction manual, and of course, if they inspired people, somewhere along … Continue reading
life
A week or so ago I noticed one of my colleagues drawing during a meeting. Who doesn’t draw at meetings – for some time I thought their sole purpose was to engage people in a reflective drawing interlude. Back to … Continue reading
just a tiddler
Yesterday one of my colleagues asked me about putting a wiki on a standalone pc – he helps run a business on the side and he’s heard me rant about having procedure manuals on a wiki. I was initially thinking … Continue reading
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true colours, 2007
Loving long weekends lots. I noted that this time last year I wrote about sorting the colours for this space – and Dr. Max Lûscher said, ‘Your Existing Situation – Is seeking a solution to existing problems or anxieties, but … Continue reading
eating out
Valentina, Steve, and kids washed up on our beach today, fresh from the cultural delights of Sunday yum cha. Their youngest is four. He probably has popped in and out of restaurants since the age of – well – conception… … Continue reading
Posted in 100 things, I and the Bird, urban diary
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let us prey
Yesterday, while doing my daily lunchtime writing, I was watching a gull and I began to wonder if the most successful species were omnivores. Gulls will eat most anything, and there’s lots of them. Kakapo are vegans, and there’s not … Continue reading
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