http://www.elasticnovice.com The 'Elastic Novice' Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:54:27 +0000 http://www.elasticnovice.com en http://www.elasticnovice.com/589158/Cy-Twombly http://www.elasticnovice.com/589158/Cy-Twombly Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:54:27 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 589158 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/589158/df.jpg" border="0" width="461" height="360" align="left" /> Hero and Leander (To Christopher Marlowe) - 1985 Cy Twombly www.cytwombly.info http://www.elasticnovice.com/589158/Cy-Twombly http://www.elasticnovice.com/531358/Sir-Robin-Knox-Johnston http://www.elasticnovice.com/531358/Sir-Robin-Knox-Johnston Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:48:58 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 531358 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/531358/Suhaili for webm.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="360" align="left" /> Single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe - 1969 Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE www.wikipedia.com “There was a small diver’s lifejacket on board, but again I did not use it. It got in the way for one thing, and if I had fallen overside, although I would have swum in the direction of the nearest land, one has to be realistic, and it would probably have been best to get it over quickly.” http://www.elasticnovice.com/531358/Sir-Robin-Knox-Johnston http://www.elasticnovice.com/530913/Norman-Wilkinson http://www.elasticnovice.com/530913/Norman-Wilkinson Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:48:33 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 530913 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/530913/e4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="268" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/530913/e2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="268" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/530913/e3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="268" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/530913/e.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="268" align="left" /> Dazzle Camouflage - 1917 Norman Wilkinson www.risd.edu / www.wikipedia.com "Its purpose was confusion rather than concealment. An observer would find it difficult to know exactly whether the stern or the bow is in view; and it would be equally difficult to estimate whether the observed vessel is moving towards or away from the observer's position." http://www.elasticnovice.com/530913/Norman-Wilkinson http://www.elasticnovice.com/528695/William-Friedkin http://www.elasticnovice.com/528695/William-Friedkin Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:50:42 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 528695 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/528695/the_french_conection.jpg" border="0" width="456" height="360" align="left" /> The French Connection - 1971 William Friedkin www.mubi.com "the film’s grimy realism (and downbeat ending) was a big change from the buff-and-shine gloss and good-guys- always-win heroics of most police dramas..." http://www.elasticnovice.com/528695/William-Friedkin http://www.elasticnovice.com/528742/Michael-Schnabel http://www.elasticnovice.com/528742/Michael-Schnabel Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:50:05 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 528742 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/528742/landtag_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="262" align="left" /> Landtag I Michael Schnabel www.michaelschnabel.com http://www.elasticnovice.com/528742/Michael-Schnabel http://www.elasticnovice.com/527798/Ernest-Hemingway http://www.elasticnovice.com/527798/Ernest-Hemingway Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:39 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 527798 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/527798/hemingway460.jpg" border="0" width="552" height="360" align="left" /> The Old Man and the Sea - 1951 Ernest Hemingway www.life.com "No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things". http://www.elasticnovice.com/527798/Ernest-Hemingway http://www.elasticnovice.com/527201/FFFound http://www.elasticnovice.com/527201/FFFound Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:25:04 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 527201 http://www.elasticnovice.com/527201/FFFound http://www.elasticnovice.com/516505/Steve-Prefontaine http://www.elasticnovice.com/516505/Steve-Prefontaine Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:20:40 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 516505 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/516505/StevePrefontaine-1.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="360" align="left" /> American long distance runner - 1951–75 Steve Prefontaine www.wikipedia.com "A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more." http://www.elasticnovice.com/516505/Steve-Prefontaine http://www.elasticnovice.com/512367/Kim-H-ltermand http://www.elasticnovice.com/512367/Kim-H-ltermand Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:19:41 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 512367 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/25305/512367/Kim Hltermand - Photography 3.png" border="0" width="584" height="360" align="left" /> Woodland - 2007 Kim Høltermand www.holtermand.dk http://www.elasticnovice.com/512367/Kim-H-ltermand http://www.elasticnovice.com/511896/About http://www.elasticnovice.com/511896/About Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:42:16 +0000 The 'Elastic Novice' 511896 Shy Neighbourhoods "So much of my travelling is done on foot, that if I cherished betting propensities, I should probably be found registered in sporting newspapers under some such title as the Elastic Novice, challenging all eleven stone mankind to competition in walking. My last special feat was turning out of bed at two, after a hard day, pedestrian and otherwise, and walking thirty miles into the country to breakfast. The road was so lonely in the night, that I fell asleep to the monotonous sound of my own feet, doing their regular four miles an hour. Mile after mile I walked, without the slightest sense of exertion, dozing heavily and dreaming constantly. It was only when I made a stumble like a drunken man, or struck out into the road to avoid a horseman close upon me on the path--who had no existence--that I came to myself and looked about. The day broke mistily (it was autumn time), and I could not disembarrass myself of the idea that I had to climb those heights and banks of cloud, and that there was an Alpine Convent somewhere behind the sun, where I was going to breakfast. This sleepy notion was so much stronger than such substantial objects as villages and haystacks, that, after the sun was up and bright, and when I was sufficiently awake to have a sense of pleasure in the prospect, I still occasionally caught myself looking about for wooden arms to point the right track up the mountain, and wondering there was no snow yet..." The Uncommercial Traveller - 1859 Charles Dickens www.gutenberg.org http://www.elasticnovice.com/511896/About