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Universal Challenges: Part 1

April 13, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m having an epiphany. My moment of revelation actually lasted about ninety minutes. It wasn’t the first time I was traumatised by a television. That happened first in the World at War in the scene where a chicken farmer was splashed by brains. The mood music and laconic narration of Laurence Olivier helped fix this scene forever in my memory. We were shown how the grey matter that had just been thinking terror had sullied the splendid military uniform of a man for whom executions were timed as a newsreel opportunity. Such was Himmler’s power that people slaughtered other people just to appease him. Such was the wilful ignorance in Nazi Germany that this wasn’t considered abnormal behaviour.

Natural recovery underway at the many scales of a local woodland I walked this morning.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: george monbiot, lia mills, libran writer, photos, seaspiracy, the guardian, the world at war

Hens’ Teeth

March 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I had to go to the dentist recently because a damaged molar needed attention. A week later, I returned to have no more than a few proud microns of enamel polished down in order that my jaw would close properly.

Jaws are truly remarkable things. Ask a jawless lamprey sucking on mud soup if they suffer jaw envy. Ask an oral cancer patient if they’d thought much about their jaws before calamity struck?

A titanium mandible in an oral cancer survivor.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, cancer, dublin dental hospital, lia mills, melvyn bragg, photos

Not Just Another Book

January 16, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Imagine imagining publishing a book that would sell for £16,500 per copy. I mention ‘per copy’ lest you think that’d be the price for the whole print run. Yes, The Sistine Chapel is a brand-spanking new, limited edition, three-volume book available now from your nearest Callaway Arts & Entertainment supplier. I’d ask ‘wtf’, ‘why’ and ‘who’ but I think you probably beat me to it.

I took this image earlier today. The low angled morning sun turned the roiling green sea to jittery, jingly, shimmery brown. The wind was howling so I used the Dun Laoghaire pier wall as a shield.
The Muglins Lighthouse – © Simon Robinson 2021
Fuji X-T4 | Sigma 150-600 F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | 225 mm | 1/1000s | f/16 | ISO 3200 | handheld

I took this image earlier today. The low angled morning sun turned the roiling green sea to jittery, jingly, shimmery brown. The wind was howling so I used the Dun Laoghaire pier wall as a shield. I set the aperture to f/16 to maximise the depth of field, set the shutter to 1/1000 to minimise the shake with the big lens, handheld on a windy day. Then I overexposed the distant lighthouse with an ISO of 3200. And hoped the two image stabilisation technologies – OIS in the lens and IBIS on the sensor – would do their thing.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, ManRom2021 Tagged With: birds, booklink, edwin lutyens, lia mills, photos, sunflowers, thomas pakenham

Time Reverses

December 22, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

I was reading about entropy and time just before I went to sleep last night. I was so fired up about what I read that I disturbed my wife’s sleep with some mad ramblings about video frame compression and diffs. Effectively, what I was saying was that, as a kid, I had read so much science fiction about time travel that I’m inclined to believe it’s possible. It’s not that I have faith that time travel will occur, it’s more that I can’t ignore the possibility.

Front and back scans of three pressed flowers.
Desaturated but for red.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brian christian, cancer, lia mills, photos, scanography, time

In The Mail Today

September 22, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

A book hit the mat this morning, dropping from the letter box. The Dublin Review announced itself with a satisfying thump. The 80th edition has an essay by Lia Mills which I read again. I write ‘again’ because Last Word originates from this household and as biased as I might be, I still think it’s a great read this second time, my first reading having been just before it was submitted.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: books, lia mills, the dublin review

Other People’s Words

September 2, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

Other people’s thoughts often provide the focus for my own musings. And I’ll admit that there are many days when I think that other people’s words convey my thoughts better than I can express them for myself. Today has been one of those days.

This seal isn’t alone surfacing for oxygen today.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: belarus, birds, irish independent, irish PEN, lia mills, photos, thejournal.ie, tim harford

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