the genuine @rticle
@rticle.bsky.social
Rus (pronounced as in the tail end of Chateau Petrus) or Nico (as in Nicolaas). Last 5 places you might have seen me: St Francis Bay, Warkworth, Takapuna, Devonport, Marlborough
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,305,357!
September 30, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,305,357!
Interesting to note 2 separate accounts describe the road as “not icy (or even wet)” and “when Gallimard's powerful … car left the icy road and ploughed into a tree”.
Did someone skimp in their homework?
More:
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dea...
Did someone skimp in their homework?
More:
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dea...
October 4, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Interesting to note 2 separate accounts describe the road as “not icy (or even wet)” and “when Gallimard's powerful … car left the icy road and ploughed into a tree”.
Did someone skimp in their homework?
More:
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dea...
Did someone skimp in their homework?
More:
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dea...
Also no idea before now of the controversies that swirled about at the time on the cause of the deadly accident on a straight strip of road …
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Seems there are the makings of an interesting movie script in all of this ..
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Seems there are the makings of an interesting movie script in all of this ..
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
October 4, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Also no idea before now of the controversies that swirled about at the time on the cause of the deadly accident on a straight strip of road …
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Seems there are the makings of an interesting movie script in all of this ..
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Seems there are the makings of an interesting movie script in all of this ..
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
These two references might explain some of his thinking at the time …
I had no idea before now that the manuscript of his autobiographical novel “First Man” was only discovered in a valise in the wreck of the car in which he died at age 46 in January 1960 …
www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
I had no idea before now that the manuscript of his autobiographical novel “First Man” was only discovered in a valise in the wreck of the car in which he died at age 46 in January 1960 …
www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
October 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
These two references might explain some of his thinking at the time …
I had no idea before now that the manuscript of his autobiographical novel “First Man” was only discovered in a valise in the wreck of the car in which he died at age 46 in January 1960 …
www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
I had no idea before now that the manuscript of his autobiographical novel “First Man” was only discovered in a valise in the wreck of the car in which he died at age 46 in January 1960 …
www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
Also no idea of the controversies that swirled around about the cause of the accident on a straight road with no ice at the time …
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Might have the makings of a hard-hitting film script in all of this …
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Might have the makings of a hard-hitting film script in all of this …
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
October 4, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Also no idea of the controversies that swirled around about the cause of the accident on a straight road with no ice at the time …
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Might have the makings of a hard-hitting film script in all of this …
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
www.britannica.com/story/how-di...
Might have the makings of a hard-hitting film script in all of this …
www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
Thanks to modern technology for illuminating the location & the route he describes …
maps.app.goo.gl/dUiqAAvSrcoA...
The landscape must have changed quite a bit since … no doubt more vineyards along the route to Villa Valmarana back then …
maps.app.goo.gl/fggeDCpYxcEx...
maps.app.goo.gl/dUiqAAvSrcoA...
The landscape must have changed quite a bit since … no doubt more vineyards along the route to Villa Valmarana back then …
maps.app.goo.gl/fggeDCpYxcEx...
October 4, 2023 at 8:24 PM
Thanks to modern technology for illuminating the location & the route he describes …
maps.app.goo.gl/dUiqAAvSrcoA...
The landscape must have changed quite a bit since … no doubt more vineyards along the route to Villa Valmarana back then …
maps.app.goo.gl/fggeDCpYxcEx...
maps.app.goo.gl/dUiqAAvSrcoA...
The landscape must have changed quite a bit since … no doubt more vineyards along the route to Villa Valmarana back then …
maps.app.goo.gl/fggeDCpYxcEx...
“What would be the point of feeling alive once more in the soul, if I had no eyes to see Vicenza, no hands to touch the grapes of Vicenza, no skin to feel the night's caress on the road from Monte Berico to the Villa Valmarana?"
– Albert Camus, The Wrong Side and Right Side
goo.gl/maps/jKyuuqL...
– Albert Camus, The Wrong Side and Right Side
goo.gl/maps/jKyuuqL...
October 3, 2023 at 9:52 AM
“What would be the point of feeling alive once more in the soul, if I had no eyes to see Vicenza, no hands to touch the grapes of Vicenza, no skin to feel the night's caress on the road from Monte Berico to the Villa Valmarana?"
– Albert Camus, The Wrong Side and Right Side
goo.gl/maps/jKyuuqL...
– Albert Camus, The Wrong Side and Right Side
goo.gl/maps/jKyuuqL...
Despite the popularity of rugby and the All Blacks in Aotearoa/New Zealand, more kids play soccer here, and one other thing: the reason we are so good at sailing is there are more boats per population here than in any country on Earth …
October 2, 2023 at 9:14 AM
Despite the popularity of rugby and the All Blacks in Aotearoa/New Zealand, more kids play soccer here, and one other thing: the reason we are so good at sailing is there are more boats per population here than in any country on Earth …
Thirteen of my last 15 years in Aotearoa living alongside (and sometimes kayaking to across the shipping channel) the Rangitoto (sky of blood) volcano, last active 600 years ago …
www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-...
www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-...
October 2, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Thirteen of my last 15 years in Aotearoa living alongside (and sometimes kayaking to across the shipping channel) the Rangitoto (sky of blood) volcano, last active 600 years ago …
www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-...
www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-...
More important than my CV is my collection of press cards and other accreditation collected in over four decades … even though a misguided career I should have left ages earlier had finances allowed …
October 2, 2023 at 3:36 AM
More important than my CV is my collection of press cards and other accreditation collected in over four decades … even though a misguided career I should have left ages earlier had finances allowed …
Chilling at Strandfontein near Vredendal & outside Dr Mike Levy’s rooms in Sea Point …
October 2, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Chilling at Strandfontein near Vredendal & outside Dr Mike Levy’s rooms in Sea Point …
… & some very basic (raft-building) beginnings for later circumnavigators
October 2, 2023 at 3:00 AM
… & some very basic (raft-building) beginnings for later circumnavigators
Boats have always featured big in my family’s life …
October 2, 2023 at 2:52 AM
Boats have always featured big in my family’s life …
Some inspiration … (and the oxide that is not to be licked!)
October 2, 2023 at 2:40 AM
Some inspiration … (and the oxide that is not to be licked!)
Learnt to make small lost-wax bronze castings and Benin-style cuttlefish castings from Sarah Richards and foundryman Kim Leyland in Lion’s River in KZN … and some silversmithing, jewellery design and cabochon stone setting and tension setting from the 4th students at the old Natal Technikon …
October 2, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Learnt to make small lost-wax bronze castings and Benin-style cuttlefish castings from Sarah Richards and foundryman Kim Leyland in Lion’s River in KZN … and some silversmithing, jewellery design and cabochon stone setting and tension setting from the 4th students at the old Natal Technikon …
Not sure now how to share my landing page … but a few movies there
October 2, 2023 at 2:18 AM
Not sure now how to share my landing page … but a few movies there
Haven’t mentioned the dawg yet. Victoria is no more but she was big in my and our lives for more than a decade and loved the beach, surfing and water in general …
October 2, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Haven’t mentioned the dawg yet. Victoria is no more but she was big in my and our lives for more than a decade and loved the beach, surfing and water in general …
Some of the new flowers in my life …
October 2, 2023 at 1:19 AM
Some of the new flowers in my life …
Who said sketchbooks have to be on paper?
October 2, 2023 at 12:44 AM
Who said sketchbooks have to be on paper?
Skillet pizza 4 lunch today … as pans already shipped … & no kickbacks 4 saying so, but Talbot Forest make the best cheese in NZ …
(don’t forget to fold the overburden over into a perfect cornicione!)
(don’t forget to fold the overburden over into a perfect cornicione!)
October 2, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Skillet pizza 4 lunch today … as pans already shipped … & no kickbacks 4 saying so, but Talbot Forest make the best cheese in NZ …
(don’t forget to fold the overburden over into a perfect cornicione!)
(don’t forget to fold the overburden over into a perfect cornicione!)
Want to invest in African art?
Ask me how!
Ask me how!
October 1, 2023 at 10:59 PM
Want to invest in African art?
Ask me how!
Ask me how!
Happy Ships to Africa … some of the sounds that pervaded my youth
(… catch them on Bandcamp!)
(… catch them on Bandcamp!)
October 1, 2023 at 10:29 PM
Happy Ships to Africa … some of the sounds that pervaded my youth
(… catch them on Bandcamp!)
(… catch them on Bandcamp!)
