#grayday — Public Fediverse posts
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This is one of my go-to pick-me-up-and-get-dancing tracks for getting chores done on a gray rainy day. It works every time. The Scumfrog - Robot Heart Burning Man 2014 - #SoundCloud #dancemusic #getupanddoit #rainyday #music #RainyDayTunes #EDM #djmix #scumfrog #JesseHouk #grayday #discochores
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This is one of my go-to pick-me-up-and-get-dancing tracks for getting chores done on a gray rainy day. It works every time.
The Scumfrog - Robot Heart
Burning Man 2014 - #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/I2ULBmU73cfhgxUDRD#dancemusic #getupanddoit #rainyday #music #RainyDayTunes #EDM #djmix #scumfrog #JesseHouk #grayday #DiscoChores #robotheart #burningman #gardening #workseverytime #aprilshowers #discodancepartyday
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
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Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)
7/8
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Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?
6/8
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The second half of Gray’s slogan draws on the Bible – specifically, the description of the sea-monster Leviathan (Job 41.34):
“He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.”
Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: Calvin & Hobbes, avant la lettre
5/8
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A colour print of Gray’s frontispiece to Book Four is held by the Tate
4/8
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-lanark-book-four-p20974
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #print #screenprint #printmaking #visualart
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The frontispiece carries the quotation
“By Arts is formed that great Mechanical Man called a State, foremost of the Beasts of the Earth for Pride”
which is also from Hobbes: “For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE…”
3/8
https://alasdairgrayspace.net/who-is-alasdair-gray/lanark
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #Hobbes #Leviathan
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Discernible landmarks include Glasgow University tower; John Knox’s statue in the Glasgow Necropolis; the Wallace Monument; the Grangemouth oil refinery; St Giles Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; the Forth & Tay bridges; & the experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Also visible are oil rigs in the North Sea, nuclear submarines in the Irish Sea & Holy Loch, & the paddle-steamer PS Waverley sailing down the Clyde.
2/8
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INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?
ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.
I: Just like that?
AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it & honed it down to as few words as possible.It’s #GrayDay! Alasdair Gray’s LANARK was first published on 25 Feb 1981
@bookstodon
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preface/🎨 Screenprint of the title page to LANARK, by Gray & Murray Robertson
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
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Prof Alan Riach – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
8/8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on the sources of the frontispieces for LANARK’s four books, and how Alasdair Gray used them
7/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh)
6/8
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Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?
5/8
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Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: Calvin & Hobbes, avant la lettre
4/8
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The frontispiece’s quotation
“By Arts is formed that great Mechanical Man called a State, foremost of the Beasts of the Earth for Pride”
is based on Hobbes: “For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE…”
The 2nd part draws on the Bible—the description of Leviathan (Job 41.34):
“He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.”
3/8
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gray-lanark-book-four-p20974
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Discernible landmarks include Glasgow University tower; John Knox’s statue in the Glasgow Necropolis; the Wallace Monument; the Grangemouth oil refinery; St Giles Cathedral; Edinburgh Castle; the Forth & Tay bridges; & the experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Also visible are oil rigs in the North Sea, nuclear submarines in the Irish Sea & Holy Loch, & the paddle-steamer PS Waverley sailing down the Clyde.
2/8
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The cover of this edition shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland
1/8
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INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?
ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.
I: Just like that?
AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it & honed it down to as few words as possible.It’s #GrayDay! Alasdair Gray’s LANARK was first published on 25 Feb 1981
@bookstodon
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preface/🎨 Screenprint of the title page to LANARK, by Gray & Murray Robertson
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I saw only 6 people & 4 dogs on #hiking trails in the morning.
#ThetisLake #CRDParks #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BritishColumbia #Canada #landscsape #Scenery #Nature #HikingPhotos #DisabledHiker #DayHike #GrayDay #Lake #Water #WorldInMyEyes #MyNaturePhotos #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #YYJHikes
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"Grauer Tag am Hafen" - diese zwei Beiden genießen die Ruhe... 😉
Camera: Agfa Optima 2 (mod. of 1959/60)
Film: expired Kodak BW400CN chromogenic b/w film
#PortOfKiel #KielerHafen #grayday #believeinfilm #AgfaOptima2 #AgfaoptimaII #135film #Möwe #HafenLiebe #IshootFilm #KodakBW400CN #BW400CN #bnwphotography #35mm #bnw #filmisnotdead #maritimephotography #MadeWithKodak #shootfilmbenice #staybrokeshootfilm #imnordenzuhause #Kiel