Kester Brewin

Category: Resources

  • Glass Works

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    Just wanted to flag up Saga Arpino’s site cataloguing and promoting her work. A recent post-grad of the Royal College of Art, Saga is fine artist, a Vaux accomplice, and her award-winning work in glass is fantastic. Order some for your space now. Technorati Tags: Architecture, Art, Glass, London

  • Noise Mapping | Sound Pollution | Aural vs Visual

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    Via TimeOut, the London Noise Map. It’s a pretty sophisticated resource, with maps produced by postcode, time of day, major roads excluded or included etc. What’s interesting about the article that accompanied the piece in TimeOut is that it showed that Londoners find road noise to be their great source of irritation. In a world…

  • Contemplative Youth Ministry | Being Present to ‘The Other’

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    I volunteered to be part of the ‘grid blog’ flagging up Mark Yaconelli’s book ‘Contemplative Youth Ministry’, and duly received a copy to read from the publisher. It’s very good. We were traveling up to Iona with some friends, one of whom was also reading it, and she was also very positive. A quote I’d…

  • Generocity

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    My brother in law, Simon, and his partner Maro are going to be heading out  with VSO shortly. They’ve started a blog which I’ve added to my sidebar, and I thoroughly recommend passing by there. The strap-line they’ve come up with is ‘Bringing Global Justice Home’ and what I really like about what they’re doing…

  • Final Salute | Pulitzer Feature Photography Prize

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    Full series of images from Tom Heisler’s excellent winning series [ here ] Technorati Tags: Iraq War, Pulitzer, Photography, Terrorism

  • Off | Bandit Baker

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    I’m Scotland-bound later today for an Easter break. They have bird-flu there. Great. Should be nice and quiet 😉 I think they’ll have wireless, but probably only the bakelite sort that sings out ‘The Archers’, so doubt I’ll be posting or commenting, though I’ve set up a couple of things pre-post for the GridBlog. Have…