The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. It is a private garden created by Charles Jencks. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals.
“I want to go to there…”
The artist has another sculpture at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/N0106132.1 A beautiful installation that one can roam around and through. A truly wondrous experience.
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
~Isabelle Eberhardt
~Dubious limerick by, The Mor-Ríoghain
*Unfortunately, I’ve no idea who took the photo. If anyone does recognise it, could you let me know, please, so that I may credit it properly?
“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”
~Emily Dickinson
*Photograph is the property of The Mor-Ríoghain. On the off chance that anyone would like to use it, please, just ask permission.
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
~Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Oh how I YEARN for this to have included: a welder’s torch & helmet, balletic “break dancing”…and a Jennifer Beals cameo!
(Yes, yes, she had a dance double in the original but I’m quite happy to overlook that fact because… c’mon… Jennifer Beals!!
However, I am incapable of hearing “What A Feeling…” now without thinking of this, THE most brilliant parody/salute ever! The magnificent Robert Webb on the BBC’s “Let’s Dance For Comic Relief”:
Take My Breath Away (Glee Cast Version)
Wow… just…WOW!
I’ve been a fan of Berlin for quite some time now… adore Terri Nunn’s voice! Honestly, I didn’t expect to like this cover because of the fact that I’m such a huge fan of the original. However, I’m also most definitely a fan of both Dianna’s and Naya’s singing, so perhaps I should not have been surprised. At any rate though, yeah, I’m gonna go with the extremely obvious pun: Dianna and Naya did indeed ‘take my breath away’!
They nailed it! I also now want to hear them sing “The Metro”, “Masquerade” and “Sex (I’m A…). Perhaps especially that last one… considering all the trials, tribulations and perceptions/mis-conceptions there are regarding Quinn Fabray, it would be interesting, to say the least!
Keith Haring (4 May 1958 - 16 Feb 1990), Photographed by Annie Liebovitz
“My contribution to the world is my ability to draw… Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of ‘life.’”
(Source: juliansarks)
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF GAYS DESTROYING THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY. *OBVIOUS SARCASM*
