Weekend 568.1
(1) NYC Subway Maps: Historical Maps (1a) Subway Art Card for the MTA by Visual Storyteller Feifei Ruan (1b) Commuter Rail Guide designed by Joan Charysyn (1975)
Category Archives: Museums
Weekend 565.0
In all our photography, working in a two-dimensional medium, we try as much as we possibly can to light for a third dimensional result having roundness or stereoscopic effect.— Karl Continue Reading →
Weekend 560.0 (Music-Drama Vinyl Saturday)
Pelléas and Mélisande “Phonographic editions of this masterpiece are going to help make perceptible to a greatly broadened public those elementary truths that even many naïve and badly informed music-lovers Continue Reading →
Feast of the Epiphany
(1) Examining the Adoration of the Magi (The Met)(2) Why Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh Matter (The Imaginative Conservative) (3) Look at the Revival: A poem by Theresa Lola (The National Continue Reading →
2022: Year-in-review
A couple of paragraphs to close out 2022. This is the year I said goodbye to London and put an exclamation point on Kingdom Hearts. I spent a night in Continue Reading →
Catholicism in England
“This is your dowry, O Holy Virgin, wherefore, O Mary, may you rule over it.” One of my first daytrips in London was to Tyburn Convent. This was still at Continue Reading →
Weekend 534.2
There is a painting at the National Railway Museum in York by Abraham Solomon titled ‘First Class: The Meeting, 1855’ highlighted in ‘Railways for Ever!’ which is narrated by Sir Continue Reading →
Weekend 529.0 (Towton and York)
“This battayl was sore foughten, for hope of life was set on every parte and takynge of prisoners was proclaimed as a great offence, by reason whereof every man determined Continue Reading →
Weekend 503.0 (Three Cups Walk)
Spent the weekend in Ely/Cambridge. The highlight was The Stained Glass Museum in Ely. I’ve started an album on Flickr and will publish a proper post in the not so Continue Reading →
Weekend 496.1 (Thomas Becket Exhibit)
“Chosen before the foundation of the world in Christ, Saint Thomas in his propitious birth lit up the capital of the British Isles, London.” – Edward Grim, Life of St Continue Reading →