by Anna Blanch on January 28, 2012

The beaches are clean. the water is warm. The landscape is rugged and unruly. the water is warm. I love the landscape of Scotland. I love the beaches of St Andrews. but they are not warm. no siree! Not Warm Not even a little. Music by Organic sound. Video by Bleurfangers. _____________ Connect with Anna [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 27, 2012
This is the story of a city built on coal. The film illustrates the fact that Australia’s Newcastle, like its British counterpart, has developed into a large city but still retains its essential mining atmosphere. The great steel industry which feeds on its black gold is shown in full blast. But the film reaches beyond [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 26, 2012

This post was originally published on Transpositions as part of the Domestic Arts symposium held in January 2011. At the time it was named as a Freshly Pressed Post by WordPress, and then a featured post for the Photography. All of that is wonderful, of course, and I am grateful. But this post represents so [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 24, 2012

When I made the decision that I was heading to Australia, the next decision almost made itself. Where? I could just tell you outright where I’m going. But, what would be the fun in that… Instead, let me do some educating! It is what I do, after all! Australia is a large country. If you’ve [...]
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by Anna Blanch on January 17, 2012
“The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 14, 2012
Today is the third part of my #project333 for the grad student set up. In the first post I explained the project, in the second, I shared my list, and today, I share some observations about #project333. Observations scarves and tights I wouldn’t say I have a scarf-problem but I would say that I realised [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 12, 2012
Today is the second part of my #project333 for the grad student set-up. In the first post I explained the project, in this one, I share my list, The rules are simple. 33 items for 3 months. more details here. Let me remind us of the process: Take inventory. [I detailed this process in the [...]
by Anna Blanch on January 11, 2012

I’m a lateral thinker inclined to make connections between seemingly unrelated things. In writing about 19th century women poets lately I’ve been thinking about the challenges of their domestic lives in the midst of their creative pursuits. I was also challenged by Joy’s recent post reflecting on Billy Coffey’s thoughts on ‘naked writing.’ It got [...]
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