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This video is a trailer for The Miners’ Hymns, an homage in film and music to the coal mining history of North East England.

Collaged from footage excavated from the BFI National Archives and local archives by artist/filmmaker Bill Morrison, the film is a powerful and poignant evocation of a recent past that is widely forgotten. The work was made ( Read more... )

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From The Boston Globe:

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a ( Read more... )

As of this weekend, I will have been back in Vancouver for a year, after spending seven months convalescing, recovering on the beautiful Sunshine Coast.  If you need a place to find yourself, gather your thoughts and ambitions, a place where you can be safe, I cannot recommend this area enough.  It was a good seven months, for the most part, where ( Read more... )