Angus does love cleaning the faces of his family. Also any other faces.
Terry Halliday: “In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I was asked a surprising question. Fu Hualing, an academic authority on China’s rights advocacy and defense lawyers, asked: Did I know that a disproportionate number of China’s leading rights lawyers were Christians? He guessed about 40 percent.”
The Urban Sketchers website is really cool. This drawing is by Ilaria Petrussa.
Here’s another one.
Eleanor Doughty’s urban plein air sketches are wonderful.
I had never heard of takkyu-bin but it sounds great. At least in Japan. Can’t imagine it working reliably in the U.S. or Europe.
I wrote 5600 words today so I decided to reward myself with the Queen of Cocktails.
a silent adventure
Whenever people speak in L’Avventura I find their talk intrusive. I imagine a Phantom Edit of the movie that removes all the scenes in which people speak, and in which all sounds are replaced by one of Eno’s ambient compositions, so I could then contemplate the evocative images without distraction.
