December 2011
Petition: Allow Industrial Hemp to be Grown in the... →
out-kasted:
Lost opportunities for farmers and businesses have real consequences. With over $419 million in estimated U.S. retail sales, American companies making hemp products have no choice but to import their raw materials because American farmers continue to fear they will be prosecuted due to an outdated federal policy which confuses non-drug industrial hemp with drug varieties of...
What I Learned Today: The different uses for...
iamstevierae:
FCB Cadell
edwardianscotland:
If you are in or within reach of Edinburgh, I can highly recommend the FCB Cadell exhibtion at the Gallery of Modern Art. It’s a visual feast.
Here’s Cadell in his elegant studio in George Street, with one of his most famous paintings.
The Harbour Window
edwardianscotland:
(From the RA http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=ART133)
By Stanhope Forbes. It’s Cornwall of course, but I can imagine this scene in the lovely East Neuk of Fife.
More from the Argyll Works...
edwardianscotland:
Before the Great War there was a thriving motor industry in Scotland. Argyll motors deliberate marketed to women, as you can see from the above advert, which makes them rather dashing for the period.
The hero of Green Grow the Rushes, Ralph Erskine, rather reluctantly, gets into the motor business in Scotland and makes a great success of it, marketing shooting brakes...
Industrial magnificence
edwardianscotland:
The Argyll Motor Works, Alexandria
Two Novelists in the family...
edwardianscotland:
John, of course, needs no introduction. Anna wrote under the name O Douglas and her first novel was published in 1912. One of her most successful works was the deliciously titled Pink Sugar.
(picture thanks to http://lettersfromahillfarm.blogspot.com/2009/01/pink-sugar-by-o-douglas.html)
Edwardian Scots aristos: 1. The Duchess of...
edwardianscotland:
By Sargent of course. Who else does one go to?
Cadell - The orange blind
edwardianscotland:
Matt Tams™: Just a dull, picture-less update. →
matttams:
Okay, so after considering too many topics to count for my product/thesis next semester, I’ve managed to reach a final three which I think I’d be happy choosing from:
Design for minimal living
Design for reducing materials and processes
Brand expansion
I think all three are subjects which I…
