notes.husk.org. archive page 2 of 8.tagged guardian.

“ I’d prefer to hear from a nurse, a secretary, a sales assistant, an office worker, a taxi driver. Even, believe it or not, an average middle-ranking journalist. I want to hear from people like me, like us, who live alone - sometimes through choice, often through circumstance - and are happy doing so. Their views would also, I suspect, be rather less rose-tinted than those of a writer who needs the solitude to work on their latest novel. ”

Unreliably Witnessed: Real people live alone too

This is a good response to an interesting but flawed Guardian Weekend article about living alone.

2012-03-20

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Tea cup and saucer, £27.50, plate, £27.50 and teapot, £65, from alimiller.co.uk. (via)

Weirdly, the Observer doesn’t mention the fact this is as used by Sherlock. Personally, I like the isobars, but the ships and crowns are a bit twee.

2012-03-14

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“ Some began to suggest that there should be a permanent record of the tweets, before Twitter sent them into timeline oblivion. A male Irish software engineer and writer, Paraic O’Donnell, whom I have never met, only discussed chamber music with online, very kindly offered to build a permanent home for the tweets, which goes live today. ”

Linda Grant, on Twitter’s tales of sexism. The entire article is worth a read, but the fact that someone decided to build athousandreasons.com to preserve the posts is what caught my eye.

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“ The super-rich index is made up of items that are, let’s say, different. A Russian sable coat at $240,000, a facelift for $18,500, a thoroughbred yearling racehorse at $319,340, a Sikorsky helicopter at $14.8m, an arrangement of flowers changed weekly for six rooms at $98,100 or a year’s tuition at Harvard at $52,652. It is, in a dark way, hilarious that a Harvard education counts as a luxury good. ”

John Lanchester: Why the super-rich love the UK in The Guardian.

2012-02-13

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“ When Eridu or the palaces and piazzas of Renaissance Italy were shaped, architecture was the most expensive and prestigious of all cultural endeavours. Today we spread our wealth more thinly, spending ever more on disposable consumer junk, building more roads to serve ever more grim private housing estates, unsustainable supermarkets and distribution depots (and container ports and their giant ships), and the landfill sites we appear to need to shore up our insatiable, throwaway culture. ”

Jonathan Glancey’s swan song as the Guardian’s architecture critic: Passport to the planet.

2012-01-20

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styledeficit:

“1895: A woman holds an early Kodak camera which was sold with the film already loaded. The entire camera was returned to the factory for film processing”

Via The Guardian.

This is still a popular pose for photos of top-viewfinder cameras. I like that she’s carrying a second camera, too.

2012-01-19

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megpickard:

(via Eyewitness: Olympic test event | World news | guardian.co.uk)

2012-01-16

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jocochrane:

New refreshed g2. Carey Mulligan shot by Linda Nylind

The cover picture of the story I quoted earlier. Also, a new design for G2 to go with the reworked front page guidelines.

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“ This is exactly the kind of film I want to be making. I don’t want to be making big, silly films. ”

Carey Mulligan’s words to Steve McQueen when trying to win the part in Shame, from her interview in the Guardian: ‘I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for a decade’.

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guardianFront by magCulture on Flickr.

I’m hardly the first person to remark on the Guardian’s front cover reworking, or the amusing juxtaposition (someone give those editors a bonus), but I thought I’d like to record it anyway.

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2012-03-31

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