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March Movies

March 30, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

March has been a month of many memorable things including three movies. You may dismiss the idea that an octopus could be dreaming of electric sheep but you shouldn’t ignore these three utterly different expositions of the cinematographic arts.

Horses with wings might fly me back to Paris one day soon.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, cannes film festival, jérémy clapin, little moon animation, movies, netflix, peter debruge

’20 Favourites Short List

December 9, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The Shard First Night 2019
50 time lapse frames on tripod
Fuji X-T3 with MTO 11CA lens
1600 mm f/10 ISO 6400 1/4 sec

It should be a simple thing, to know which is my favourite book that I have read this calendar year.

Because I keep an idea of my favourite books over time, a relative assessment always brings with it the question of absolute best. Absolutes refer to testable truths but what is truth?

I tend to read a lot of books about science. The extraordinary thing about reading recent books on science is the number of times that you read phrases like ‘no one knows if this will prove to be the case’. I find this uncertainty very reassuring. The demand, indeed the onus, on us all is to keep reading to keep learning.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: ahmet altan, animation, Bill Bryson, booklink, brian greene, colum mccann, david eagleman, peter wohlleben, photo

Animated Protest

October 19, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Final Say March, London 2019

It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by since we walked into the Final Say March while in London. We weren’t taking part but we did watch it travel down St James Street. And I photographed the passing action via the reflections in a puddle. Huge numbers of voters took to the streets to demand that the final Brexit decision should be made by the public. It wasn’t to be.

And I all I have to show for it are twenty or thirty photographs of a puddle.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, brexit, final say march, gif, pandemic, photography, travel, zoom

Ingenuity Engines

August 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson 3 Comments

We were living in Houston when John H. Lienhard started broadcasting a novel radio series from the University of Houston. The Engines of Our Ingenuity is still a weekday National Public Radio program having been first aired locally on KUHF-FM Houston back in 1988. I used to listen to it as often as I could while commuting and I’ve often tuned to it when I’ve been back in Houston.

The format is simple. Each episode is a three minute story to illustrate how human creativity impacts culture. Today, there are over 3200 episodes on the website free to hear and/or read.

  • Sunflower, bee and a fish © Simon Robinson 2020
  • Peacock at buddleia feeding station © Simon Robinson 2020
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, booklink, houston, innovation, john h lienhard, ken torrance, matt ridley, npr, patents, photos, radio

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