Aging gracefully in the Provand’s Lordship – medieval dwelling and the oldest remaining house in Glasgow. Because what better way to make me feel better about my birthday than surrounding myself with things even older than I am.
Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
Provand’s Lordship
Posted: May 17, 2016 in PhotographyTags: architecture, art, Bengal, bengal cat, Bengal Cats, Bengals, birthday, cake, cats, friends, fun, Glasgow, history, Minerva, Nikon, Nikon D800, Persian, persian cat, persian cats, Persians, photography, Provand's Lordship, Scotland, sculpture, St Mungo, St Mungo Museum of of Religious Life and Art, Star Wars, tourism, Wilfred
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The Electric Gardens II: Lux Botanicum
Posted: November 29, 2015 in PhotographyTags: art, Botanic Gardens, Electric Gardens, events, Glasgow, Lux Botanicum, nature, nightlife, photography, Scotland, sculpture, The Electric Gardens, WEF2015, West End Festival
吹上浜砂の祭典 – Fukiagehama Sand Art Festival
Posted: June 27, 2015 in Art, PhotographyTags: animals, art, cute, 鹿児島, 鹿児島県, festival, festivals, Fukiagehama Sand Art Festival, Japan, Kagoshima, Kyushu, matsuri, photography, red panda, red pandas, sculpture, travel, travel photography, zoo, zoos, 吹上浜砂の祭典, 九州
I was recently asked to explain where I’d visited in Japan using Game of Thrones as a rough geographical guide. I replied that if Tokyo were King’s Landing, then where Colin and Kim now live is the blazing south of Dorne, and my former home of Akita would be the frozen plains of Winterfell. Never was this more apparent than when we paid a visit to the Fukiagehama Sand Art Festival: rather in contrast to the snow festival I’d seen whilst living in the north.
霧島 – Kirishima
Posted: June 25, 2015 in PhotographyTags: art, cat cafe, 猫カフェ, 草間彌生, 霧島, 霧島神宮, 鹿児島, Japan, Kagoshima, Kirishima, Kirishima jingu, Kyushu, museums, neko cafe, photography, sculpture, shrines, temples, travel, travel photography, Yayoi Kusama, 九州
The plan had been to drive up to Miyazaki on the east coast but, as we set out on the road that morning and the skies became increasingly dismal and torrential, we decided it might be an idea to stay slightly closer to home rather than suffer an 8-hour round trip to stand outside in the rain.
The Electric Gardens
Posted: February 22, 2015 in PhotographyTags: art, Botanic Gardens, Electric Gardens, events, Glasgow, nature, nightlife, photography, Scotland, sculpture, The Electric Gardens, wef2014, West End Festival
A fantasy of light and sound at Glasgow’s iconic Botanic Gardens – part of the West End Festival 2015.
Kelvingrove
Posted: January 16, 2015 in Art, PhotographyTags: architecture, art, art gallery, culture, gallery, Glasgow, history, Kelvingrove, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Mark Liddell, museuma, Paddington, Paddington Bear, photography, Scotland, sculpture, Van Gogh
With a few hours to kill before a cinema trip – and our intended movie being less than high art – Kim and I decided to get our culture on and took a day trip to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.
Kabocha (“Pumpkin”)
Posted: January 12, 2015 in Art, PhotographyTags: art, body art, Gillian Turner Ink, Glasgow, Japan, Japanese, Japanese art, kabocha, Mark Liddell, Matsumoto, photography, pumpkin, pumpkins, Scotland, sculpture, tattoo, tattoos, Yayoi Kusama
My one condition to myself on getting tattoos was that any image I’d have engraved permanently on my body had to represent a significant milestone in my personal history. The difficulty, however, was never in thinking of historic life markers to commemorate, but rather in choosing a single image which encapsulated that period in my mind (and, equally pertinently, which I’d be happy wearing on my skin for the rest of my life).
