A Place in the Auvergne (Part 2): China

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Saturday, 20 December 2008

A Place in the Auvergne, Friday, 19th December 2008

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ARCHIVES 01/01/08 - 15/12/08

Due to a techinical problem with uploading photos onto the original blog A Place in the Auvergne I had to create A Place in the Auvergne (Part 2)

A Place in the Auvergne is - and was always conceived as - a one year project and it will end on December 31st, 2008.

For archives up to and including December 15th, 2008, please visit A Place in the Auvergne

The entries for December 16th and 17th at A Place in the Auvergne are just news, no images.

The entries for December 16th and 17th at A Place in the Auvergne (Part 2) are just images, no news.

I may fix this later.

For now, from December 18th, 2008 service as normal is resumed at A Place in the Auvergne (Part 2) and will end at the end of the year.

INFORMATION EBRU

Unless I am away from 'The Valley', or on an occassional 'newsfast' holiday (e.g between 8th -31st August, 2008), I place information between the photos of my daily life in the Auvergne.

This information comes from the International Herald Tribune, from the edition dated the day after the date of each post, given the nature of newspaper cycles.

I try and find connections between diverse information from around the world, to give the day's events a better sense of narrative. I call this 'information ebru'.

News is not news analysis, news analysis is not editorial, editorial is not commentary (columnists) and commentary is not views (contributors' views). All are differentiated accordingly.

The views, editorials and commentary quoted do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the publisher of this blog.

HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND THIS PLACE

This blog started in a free form manner, but over time it has adopted some basic structure.

Since May the following metathemes are generally placed under the same pictures (unless I am away from 'The Valley' or on a very occassional 'newsfast' holiday e.g. between 8th -31st August, 2008):

Picture 1 and/or Picture of Beech tree:
Agriculture/Food/Water
Picture 2 and/or Picture of Valley:
The Environment
Picture 3 and/or Picture of Silver Birch tree
Energy
Picture 4 and/or Picture of Forest
France
The Last Picture:
U.K

Labels

The labels are a useful way of finding the themes and issues that additionally are currently most holding my attention.

'THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER'

In a new play to the National Theatre in London, 27 actors perform for 90 minutes without uttering a word. The attraction is "The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other," written by the Australian playwright Peter Handke in 1992.

The script has 60 pages of stage directions and no dialogue, although there are bangs, crashes, screams, and laughter.
Handke said that the idea came to in him in the 1980s when he found dramatic meaning in the comings and goings in a town square near Trieste, Italy. "Is there much to discover in it?" he said of his play? "I don't know."

Source: IHT 13/02/08

A Place in the Auvergne (Part 2)

Saturday, 20 December 2008

A Place in the Auvergne, Friday, 19th December 2008

Critics' Picks: Night of the Living Dead

Blog Archive

ARCHIVES 01/01/08 - 15/12/08

VISITORS

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, hardback 2007; Phoenix paperback, 2008

A PLACE IN PARIS

INFORMATION EBRU

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, hardback 2007; Phoenix paperback, 2008