A personal website written by Richard Gaywood.
I write about Apple at TUAW, technology and science at Action at a Distance, and about food at Objection: Salad!. I'm on Twitter too: @penllawen. I put pictures on flickr and Instagram.
Michael Wolf takes stunning photographs of dense high-rise housing in Hong Kong. They are all of this style — symmetric, oppressive compositions of seemingly endless buildings and walls and windows, with nary a glimpse of sky or land, hypnotic in the sheer mass of humanity they represent. There’s more at Architecture Of Density.
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Ullswater, one of seven pictures from our trip to England’s Lake District that are now on flickr.
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Right here, right now. This is the view from our hotel room’s balcony. There’s also champagne and the best wife ever. How’s your day going?
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Danielle and I went to the Bristol Harbour Festival today and ate our way around the food market. I took a few photos I liked, of which this is one; please click here if you would like to see some more.
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On Sunday, Danielle and I visited Portmeirion village, in north-west Wales (official site, Wikipeida page) — which is mostly famous as being used extensively by cult 60s British TV show The Prisoner.
It’s a very strange place. Designed by architect Clough Williams-Ellis over fifty years in a supposedly Italinate style, it was supposed to show how it is possible to create buildings that did not detract from the landscape they sat upon. In practice, it has buildings in oddly different architectural styles, painted in bright pastels, and abounds with tiny little details, jokes, and quirks everywhere you look. (It reminded both myself and Danielle of Carmel-by-the-sea in California, if only for the all-you-can-eat buffet of architectural styles.)
Trompe l’oiel tricks abound. For example, this wall had three windows in identical styles — but the middle one of the three was a painted-on fake:
Elsewhere, two sides of a wall delimiting a small plaza contained two sculpted viewing ports — one real, one fake:
You can see more of my pictures from Portmeirion in this flickr set.
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She is one impressively photogenic dog. She sometimes digs at one of our living room blankets for ages to get it into a shape she’s happy with. About three quarters of the time, this process ends with the blanket on the floor and Daisy flopping down onto the bare sofa with a deep sigh.
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Home-made pizza (by PenLlawen)
Topped with chorizo, fresh mozzerella, caramelised onions, and mushrooms.
I’m still not quite there with my pizza base; some tweaking of flour type and rising time is necessary, and I think I need to buy a pizza stone. It was still delicious though!
Oscar had an accident at the park today. He was on a roundabout and decided to let go whilst it was still going round. The force propelled him off and as he fell the metal bar swung around and hit...
That’s true whether you are a Christian or an Atheist.
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Well, I guess I don’t need a cat now.He died as he lived, suffocated by a bat-pig hybrid.
Now, with this, the “Yo, dawg…” meme has very nearly achieved theoretical perfection.
This is why I am glad to be an only child. I would be so mad if one of my dumb BROTHERS got to be the one to marry mom.
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