Category: Observation

Climate Ireland

Ireland’s Climate Status Tool provides interactive access to the Climate Status Report Ireland (CSRI) 2020.
Letter from Alaska II

“One good man in a hundred is a freak, a man lit up by a light from within. The other ninety-nine are just what the social order makes them”. – George Russell This is another excerpt from an upcoming book of letters from Arnold Marsh 1890 to 1977, this one to his sister Sylvia. It’s wartime (WWI)…
Portrait of Havana

A series of intimate vignettes are woven together by the memories and dreams of people in central Havana.Directed by Giovanni P. Autran 2016 New Orleans Film Festival – World Premiere2017 Maryland Film Festival2017 Marfa Film Festival2017 Brooklyn Film Festival2017 Boston International Film Festival2017 Indie Grits Film Festival2017 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival2017 Woods Hole Film Festival2017…
How Loneliness influences our Wellbeing

By Ashley Fetters When Daniel Russell and his colleagues at UCLA set out to create a standardized way to measure people’s loneliness in 1978, what they came up with was arguably the least fun 20-item questionnaire in history. On a four-point scale from “never” to “often,” it asked individuals: How often did they feel they…
Graffiti Details

Graffiti EurotrashA very graphic collection of details and scenes featuring street graffiti – sprayed, stencilled, painted, carved and chipped. Captured over various visits to Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, and other cities around Europe. Photos by Greville Edwards
Understand a Picasso

• Picasso’s Night Fishing at Antibes” SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: Rudolf Arnheim, “Picasso’s Night Fishing at Antibes” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism — Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter, 1963), pp. 165-167 Douglas N. Morgan, “Picasso’s People: A Lesson in Making Sense” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter,…
More Extraordinary than Reality

• In this video, Mary Ellen Mark describes capturing iconic photos, pushing one’s limits and finding intimacy in a shot. Mary Ellen Mark’s latest project is to revisit Tiny from the documentary “Streetwise” and tell her story today. Learn more about this project through her Kickstarter campaign: http://goo.gl/ISH8I5 View an interview with Mary Ellen Mark…
Real World Forensics

In recent years the little-known research group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. While providing crucial evidence for international courts and working with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International and the UN, Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on…
Cool Hunting

A really smart and established website that selects interesting content from around the web. Home
Millennials Observed

Making Sense: Were you born in the last 30 years or so – Listen up! Excerpt of Simon Sinek from an episode of Inside Quest. 15 minutes worth watching and 27 million plus views on Twitter, and over 7 million on YouTube.http://www.insidequest.com/ This clip published on YouTube Oct 29, 2016 Millennials From Wikipedia, the free…
We Photograph Things That Are Meaningful To Us

Birdhead ‘We Photograph Things That Are Meaningful To Us’ TateShots Shanghai based photographers Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, aka Birdhead, make art about everyday life in their home town. The duo take us on a tour around the Chinese city to discover how they work. In 2004 artists Ju Weiyu (born 1980) and Song Tao…
The Theory of Beauty

TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins. • Uploaded on YouTube Nov 16, 2010