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Monday, August 06, 2007
Refreshed and bursting with vim.........






Hello, been away for a week and have done several things.

Found the best stone in the world:










Photographed an idiot:







and discovered a most delightful book from 1944 - 'Seashore Life and Pattern' by T.A.Stephenson, then Professor of Zoology at the University of Wales. He says: '..if men of science will respond to the overtures of artists and boldly confront the question whether natural beauty with all the ennobling emotions which it begets may not be something deeper and more systematized than a wayward subjective reaction to mere matter, they may soon discover fresh vistas opening out before them, so enlarging the scope of their own endeavours.' which is a big sentence and an enlightened sentiment. It's a lovely book, but weird.
In it are designs drawn from sea-life. Imagine your marine wallpaper looking down at you
like this: or this:or best of all this:It would make you feel like Poseidon and Amphitrite.

1 Comments

Can I have figure 6 as a banister for my stairs?

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 06/08/2007, 23:07  

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