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| 29 Apr 2008 02:03:29 pm |
 The language of marketing in Utopia; |
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I have recently taken an interest in the language used to market new homes.
Offering more than a fabulous luxury apartment these glossy brochures promise an improved quality of life.
I witnessed he most blatant example of this kind of marketing on a visit to Glasgow earlier this year.
The developers promote life at 'UTOPIA' while ignoring the violent history and terrible reputation of the newly 'revitalised shawlands'.
The reality of utopia (under construction)
The following is an extract from the very optimistic promotional material at Utopia
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Category : culture
| By : Elaine |  Comments [69] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 29 Apr 2008 01:46:14 pm |
| Landmark...a mark on the land? |
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Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.
In modern usage, it includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure. In American English it is the main term used to designate places that might be of interest to tourists due to notable physical features or historical significance. Landmarks in the British English sense are often used for casual navigation, such as giving directions. This is done in American English as well.
A variant is a seamark or daymark, a structure usually built intentionally to aid sailors navigating featureless coasts.
A daymark is a structure such as a tower constructed on land. While similar in concept to a lighthouse, a daymark does not have a light and so can only be used during the day.
The term daymark may also refer to the pattern in which a lighthouse is painted, making it more easily identifiable during the day, and many disused lighthouses remain useful daymarks |
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Category : glossary
| By : Elaine | Comments [72] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 25 Apr 2008 01:38:13 pm |
| Cavan Burren tomb |
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the "Calf shed" on the Cavan Burren.
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Category : archeology
| By : admin | Comments [307] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 25 Apr 2008 01:34:21 pm |
| How to link images from the file upload |
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Once you have uploaded an image using the file upload system.
click on the file in question copy the URL in memory e.g CTRL + C or apple +C
Then create a new post and if the file is an image you have three options.
IMG - Use this mostly to add an image to the blog
IMGR - - Use with text right
IMGL - Use with text left
example here
Code : img tag here // image location // close image tag  |
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Category : archeology
| By : admin | Comments [337] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 23 Apr 2008 08:21:17 am |
| Conversations with artists |
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Category : General
| By : Bryonie | Comments [70] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 22 Apr 2008 10:53:43 am |
| Anniversary of the Mass Trespass, April 24th, 1932 |
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I came across this today as its anniversary is coming up.
On April 24th 1932, between 500-600 ramblers walked from Hayfield in Derbyshire to Kinder Scout, a high plateau in the Peak District, roughly halfway between Manchester and Sheffield.
The great issue which motivated the protesters was access. Their area, the Peak District, composed of moorland and mountains, was bad farming land and used mostly to graze sheep or to keep game birds. Kinder Scout itself was used to hold grouse for local landlords. These gentry only occasionally went shooting and Kinder Scout was worked only around 12 days a year. The rest of the time the land was essentially deserted, and walkers were not allowed.
The trespassers demanded change: the landowners should open a public path through Kinder Scout, allowing local walkers to ramble through when the land was not in use. But behind this demand there were deeper questions. By the 1920s and 1930s most ramblers were working class. With so many unemployed, rambling grew in popularity. Tens of thousands of workers used their Sundays to go walking. By 1932 it is estimated that 15,000 working class ramblers left Manchester every Sunday.
Motivated by Socialist ideals, as they marched they sang the "Red Flag" and the "International." The trespass proceeded to the plateau of Kinder Scout, where there were violent scuffles with gamekeepers. The ramblers were able to reach their destination and meet with another group. On the return, the protest was met by a strength of the Derbyshire constabulary and five ramblers were arrested, with another detained earlier.
The 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass caused a national outcry and the campaign for a right to roam on open countryside was placed firmly in the public eye. The mountain was 'nationalised' in 1949, under the National Parks Access To Countryside Act, and there is a plaque at its foot celebrating the Mass Trespass. Ironically the mountain is suffering acute erosion due to its popularity with walkers today.
Original article from the Guardian, April 25th, 1932: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1932/apr/25/1
An account in The Socialist Review, April 1999: http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr229/renton.htm
Erosion on Kinder Scout today, from the Guardian, April 21st, 2008: http://www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.net/paperstoday/index.php?do=paperstoday&action=view&id=11700 |
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Category : walking
| By : Gareth | Comments [358] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 16 Apr 2008 04:22:49 pm |
| video's |
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Uploaded to youtube are videos showing the creevelea ironworks, the mine on King's mountain, neolithic and medieval walls in the Cavan Burren, working at the Arigna coal mine and the Arigna train.
Video's can be seen by going to: www.youtube.com/daithi4u |
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Category : archeology
| By : David | Comments [258] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 15 Apr 2008 08:31:52 am |
| Geological Survey of Ireland Maps 6 inch |
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Category : archeology
| By : anna | Comments [79] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 15 Apr 2008 08:26:13 am |
| Geological Survey of Ireland Maps 6 inch |
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Category : archeology
| By : anna | Comments [93] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 10 Apr 2008 04:01:31 pm |
| Nestled Deep in Glencar Valley... |
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Our home lies deep in a wooded Irish Valley known only to the Eauzone team. Here in a place undetectable from land or air, is bottled one of the greatest discoveries since penicillin. Eauzone’s properties make it not just the purest water known to man, but an elixir guaranteed to enhance mind and body. The water has being purified through the ages, far removed from the human pollution of the modern age
Unfortunately the above hyperbole is the actual promotional material for EauZone water from Glencar. Incidently I found the factory easily on the floor of Glencar Valley.
http://www.eauzonewater.com/ |
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Category : Industrial
| By : Gareth | Comments [75] | Trackbacks [0] |
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