journal
updated (with a bit of luck) weekly - most recent entries at the top
england
y i like camden
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees And I found her bitter And I reviled her. arthur rimbaud like
bucolic in britain
decided to escape london for a few days at the end of august. rain in the lake district? who’d’ve thought it? the most rain sodden weekend
in kensington gardens
commisioned by j.m. barrie, the author of peter pan — the little boy who wouldn’t grow up, from sculptor george frampton in 1902, installed in kensington
urban myth
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls
30 st mary axe
with holland house — opened 1914, designed by the great dutch ‘father of modernism’, berlage like
notting hill carnival 2008
… carnival is a pageant without footlights and without a division into performers and spectactors. In carnival everyone is an active participant, everyone communes in the carnival
serpentine summer pavilion, 2008
the frank gehry designed summer pavilion for the serpentine gallary in london, last year, 2008, compare with the SANAA pavilion, a huge contrast like
notting hill
living in notting hill at the time of the movie of the same name with julia roberts and hugh grant, i dutifully went to see it at the notting hill coronet.