Boot Camp – Fucking Things Up, November 21. I have often been told by previous music teachers, “You should learn a piece from the end to beginning, and not form the beginning to end. That way, you don’t become so familiar with only the beginning of the piece and you understand the complexities of the Read More
I set out to map Jerusalem’s cultural sectors through the relationships between its culinary ingredients. The thought, absurd as it might seem, was planted in my brain when I came across a famous adaptation of the 1581 Bünting Clover Leaf wood cut. Near Jerusalem’s Municipal complex, in Safra Square, Arman Darian’s tiles position Jerusalem at Read More
This is Lydia. Lydia is a character in the digital fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Fictionally, Lydia is a Housecarl, someone sworn to serve and protect the Thane, an honorary title granted by the reigning lord to a person of importance in a city or Hold. She is one of many followers Read More
Boot Camp – November 7 The German-Swiss poet Hermann Hesse once wrote, “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” I have always had a Read More
Journalling takes us back some years to the emergence of the middle class, mercantiles documenting many of the more banal aspects of their day-to-day lives in keeping with the running of their households and businesses. Daniel Defoe elevated record-keeping to an art form with Robinson Crusoe, most of which is taken up in detailing inventories and explorations Read More
With the help of a friend I wrote a program in C# that converts text files into images. I’m not a programmer so please forgive me if I haven’t got the lingo quite right. The code was compiled in Unity and the output was converted from a targa file to a PNG in Gimp (so Read More