125 days ago by Eddie

So I was just cruising the internet one night a few weeks ago and came across a story about the best pencil in the world. Being that I am a self styled neo-luddite who is always looking for ways to prove that to myself and others, I instantly decided that I had to have some of these great pencils. I ...

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131 days ago by Clive McGoun

As I introduce students in the UK to the joys of online readings through a virtual learning platform, students in Greece protest at the lack of books (yes, paper books …) available in cash-strapped high schools. Because of cut-backs, many schools can’t afford to supply textbooks in the w ays in whic ...

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142 days ago by Clive McGoun

My eight year-old came home recently with a request. She needed an ink pen which she would start to use in October in her literacy classes. An ink pen. Only after pushing her on what she thought was meant did we arrive at the idea that the teacher wanted her to have a fountain pen. I was pleasantly ...

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155 days ago by Clive McGoun

John Coffer lives on a fifty acre farm three miles outside of Dundee, New York. Home is a wood cabin. Aside from various subsistence activities on the farm John is also a master and teacher of wetplate photography. I learnt about his life from Ben Wu and David Usu who made this film about him: COFFE ...

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181 days ago by Sara Bowen

I would have spent the day in the studio today, except that dearest husband is working in Sydney during the week at the moment and so Saturdays and Sundays are now IMPORTANT FAMILY TIME. I should have spent time in the studio today because I need to sort myself out, shake myself up and DO SOME WORK ...

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211 days ago by Clive McGoun

the young are still the enemies of uniformity, and the Internet, as it extends its reach into all the nooks and crannies of our days, is looking more and more like an enormous conduit of conventionality. What are Facebook and Google but giant institutions, arms of the new establishment? What are sma ...

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