Kester Brewin

Tag: Travel

  • Off.

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    This blog is off for a week. Iona. No internet. No phone. No CCTV. No police. Whiskey, northern light, golden sands. And rain probably, but who cares?

  • Snake on a Plane | In-Flight Mobile Use

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    Oh dear. The inevitable has happened: someone’s come up with a way for us to use our mobiles when on the plane. “I’M ON THE PLANE” Next up: ‘mobile free areas’ on planes, and stickers telling people to keep their voices down. I think it’s sad, to be honest. Planes were one of those places…

  • Hidden Trees and Weeds | The Interstitial Jesus

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    I have been reading, sitting quietly with, meditating on Richard Deakin’s wonderful book, Wildwood – A Journey Through Trees. Having previous written of his swims around England, this book is simply a series of reflections on the transformative power of this ‘fifth element’. Much of it is taken with stories of sleeping out in the…

  • Soliton | Signs Book Launch

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    I’m very pleased to have been asked back to help facilitate the Soliton Sessions 07 in Ventura. If you’re in that part of the world I can’t recommend it highly enough; last summer’s sessions really were one of the highlights of my year. On the Friday night (10th August) we’ll be doing a book launch…

  • Gravity and Grace (2) | Leaving the orbit of a large Mass

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    In the last post, about Herzog’s new(ish) film The Wild Blue Yonder, I mentioned that much of the footage was shot on a Space Shuttle mission. From the haircuts it looks early ’90s. May be even earlier. That or NASA have some serious fashion issues hanging over. Going into space has always been a huge…

  • Gravity and Grace (1) ¦ Wild Blue Yonder ¦ Living Between Two Oceans

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    Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the…