Missing Welsh history
Beginning to regret having jumped so eagerly into the project to write about the 40 missing years of Welsh history in Craig-y-nos Castle. It looks like being much more time-consuming that I envisaged. Both the BBCWales online site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw.shtml
and Carole Reeves from the Wellcome Trust for Medicine are proving to be extremely helpful. On the other hand I am going to use as many tools of new technology as possible to speed up the research.Hopefully the end result will be an online collaborative effort. Charles Leadbeater, (www.charlesleadbeater.net)
a leading writer on innovation and creativity, is already pioneering this approach to writing books. He has just published his latest book online and is asking for contributions before it goes finally into hard copy.
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2007/01/adopt_an_artworkfor_free.html
I I love it!…adopt an artwork for free! Why are all the best ideas soooo..simple! This is the answer to all those pieces of artwork lying around. Well, it's a thought.
I love Artsjournal(http://www.artsjournal.com)
Death on camera www.guardian.co.uk
Today's leader in The Guardian "Death on camera" articulates the feelings I have not been able to find words for after seeing Saddam Hussein hanged on YouTube.
"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man," wrote George Orwell after witnessing a hanging.
While Dr T Hargey, Chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford pointed out the implications of the day they chose:
"While the barbaric tyranny of Iraq's former dictator must be condemned, the rushed judicial killing of Saddam Hussein on Eid al-Adha ( the holiest day in the Islamic calendar) is a grave and revolting provocation."
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/
The Walker Arts Centre blog asked Tyler Green to nominate his Top Ten art shows in 20006.
Interesting but, you've guessed, all American.
Eagle chick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTCfmwRA4A )
Just found another comment about my video on the 8 week old European chick owl. Uploaded 4 months ago it has had 1,412 hits. It never ceases to amaze me about the kind of stuff that folk like to view on YouTube. It is as if this video sharing site offers an opportunity to view an hitherto unrecognized area of our lives that is neither personal nor public.
