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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 57m
A photograph of hained books in a chained library from the quoted post. I have added '- Adiuvate nos!' as if being said by one of the books.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 14h
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you have Richard Jugge’s 1552 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament or some copy of it.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 14h
Does the devil have a wooden leg in the woodcut?
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 17h
St Andrew's, High Ham This wooden lock case houses a locking mechanism still in use.
Photograph of the inside of a wooden church door.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 17h
The church at Low Ham Churches Conservation Trust Gone 4pm at which point the rocket launcher (presumably, from one of the crusades) keeps visitors away.
A church with what looks like a mobile army rocket launcher outside.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 18h
St John the Baptist, Pitney (locked)
Rusted metal grave cross lying against ivy clad wall in churchyard.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 18h
St Michael's, Somerton Wyverns, I reckon.
The wooden roof of a church with much decorative carving and creatures who I suspect are Wyverns but it is not possible to count their legs, if they have any.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 22h
Empires fall. Gang leaders Strut like statesmen. The peoples No longer seen for the armaments. So the future lies in darkness, and the forces of right Are weak. All this you saw When you destroyed your torturable body. Bertolt Brecht
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 22h
On the Suicide of the Refugee W. B. I hear you raised your hand against yourself, Anticipating the butcher. Eight years in exile, watching the enemy’s rise, Driven at last to an impassable border, You passed, they say, a passable one.
Collage. The line drawing of Walter Benjamin from the quoted post placed on a photograph of Bertolt Brecht such that it appears Brecht is looking at him. The text is my version of Brecht's poem using various sources.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 23h
Age of Reason Henry IV pt1 'Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, By those Welsh women done, as may not be Without much shame retold or spoken of.' One senses the audience knew, some at least, what those Welsh women done (allegedly). bsky.app/profile/mark...
A close-up of Westmoreland, as he speaks those lines above, looking down in horror.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Age of Reason Henry IV pt1 Tom Fleming's eyes when he says 'night-tripping fairy'.
Henry IV facing us but his eyes looking up almost into his eyelids.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Age of Reason Henry IV pt1 How is it that Henry IV knows stuff that seemingly he didn't know only moments before? • the first scene is a bit clunky and only meant to fill us in and set things up. • Henry IV is being deceitful. • he receives a letter midway. A letter arrives.
Four stills from the TV programme showing a letter arriving, being passed around and finally being read by Henry. I've put a hand written letter on parchment as a background.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Age of Reason Henry IV pt1 How to do the first scene is up for grabs. They start with something like a soliloquy although some servant is awake to hear Tom Fleming recount the recent horrors and tell of the planned crusade that will heal all. No, not some servant it transpires, he's Westmorland.
Three characters in a darkened room. Henry IV sits facing us. To his right, slightly behind him, stands Westmoreland, arms folded. In front, John of Lancaster, slumped head on hand on table, asleep.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
IV. Allegretto www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZR7...
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Janáček - Sinfonietta | Simon Rattle | BRSO
YouTube video by ARD Klassik
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Collage. A photograph of a court with four men all wearing wigs, three probably judges, looking in my direction. I've added the back of my head in the bottom left corner. It appears I'm looking towards them. I'm going to quote post it with music from Janacek. The Photograph of the court was taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rainer Werner Fassbinder 🎬Love Is Colder Than Death
A man sits in a stationary car with his elbow out of the window.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📷 Max Oettli (National Library of New Zealand)
A man sits in what appears to be a stationary car. A woman behind walks past.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Harry Stammers St Mary's, Winterbourne Abbas One of his wall-mounted memorial/niche/architecturally framed/stone sculptures in stained glass kind of thingies. 1949.
Stained glass window with Mary and child surrounded by an architectural frame as if they were in stone mounted on a wall.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sign saying 'Warning buried grease' on a beach. I have added the tops of the heads of Olivia Newton John and John Travolta poking out from the sand.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Picture of me sprawled on the floor before a church door. Sign says 'Take care stones slippery when wet.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Master James of Saint George, better known for his castles in North Wales rather than for this gem in Weymouth. Probably contemporary with Beaumaris.
Sand castle on a beach.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe (National Library of New Zealand)
Inside of a block of flats we are looking at the top part of a stairwell it seems. At the top, a woman, side on to us, seems to be either still or moving slowly towards the stairs as if on a travelator. Large glass windows are her background.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe (National Library of New Zealand)
High up on the walled roof of a block of flats washing is hanging on lines. A town and hills can be seen beyond. A woman hanging washing can just be made out.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe (National Library of New Zealand)
Looking at the top of a high rise block of flats.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Throw the vandals in court Say the bells of Newport All would be well if, if, if Cry the green bells of Cardiff Why so worried, sisters, why Sang the silver bells of Wye And what will you give me Say the sad bells of Rhymney Idris Davies
A photograph close-up of Idris Davis.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They will plunder willy-nilly Say the bells of Caerphilly They have fangs , they have teeth Say the loud bells of Neath Even God is uneasy Say the moist bells of Swansea And what will you give me Say the sad bells of Rhymney
A map showing the areas mentioned in the poem, all in South Wales.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh what will you give me Say the sad bells of Rhymney Is there hope for the future, Cry the bells of Merthyr Who made the mine owner Say the black bells of Rhondda And who robbed the miner Cry the grim bells of Blaina youtu.be/O2oK6pMv14g?...
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The Choral Project - Bells of Rhymney
YouTube video by ChoralProject
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Made it, Ma! Top of the wave!
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's expanding all the time. I use it a lot.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are in one of the counties covered, then this site is useful www.stainedglassrecordings.org.uk/search-resul... As Steve has mentioned the fourth is from a design by J.H Dearle (The Visitation). He was still alive. Burne-Jones was long dead, his old designs being re-used.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe Orari Gorge Station (National Library of New Zealand)
A flawed photograph but I have cropped out most of the flaw that appeared towards the bottom right corner. Sheep have been gathered on the side of a hill. A man looking towards them with two dogs bottom right.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe Grasmere Station, near Cass (National Library of New Zealand)
I think there are five sheepdogs in total on the trailer of a van. Mountains and clouds in the distance, behind.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe 'Mounts Silberhorn and Tasman, Hochstetter Icefall and the Tasman Ridge' (National Library of New Zealand)
We see a man standing on a ledge on the side of a rock face looking down towards a glacier. Behind is a snow capped mountain and ridge.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe (National Library of New Zealand)
An assortment of mountain gear, including rope and boots with crampons, hanging from an upright ice-axe against tent canvas. A still life.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Details from the painting in the quoted post trying to indicate that the man with one glove beside him is lyying in wait for another man coming his way.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
His bare hand is by the hilt of his sword. In the distance a man and a woman are coming his way!
A detail of a man and a woman walking in a formal garden.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crispijn de Passe the Elder The Met (Object Number: 2001.115)
The drawing of the print above.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564–1637) Labours of the Month: December Engraving 😠 (British Museum D,6.33) The Met has the drawing (see next post in thread)
We see a man and a boy stroking a fire. I've shown a detail of an andiron alongside those from the quoted post.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A photograph of an older Douglas Sirk with film posters of four of a number of films that starred Rock Hudson. Tarnished Angels, Magnificent Obsession, All that Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks, again. Really looking forward to seeing the others.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the truth or else nature changed her course in his beginning who in the course of his life many things unnaturally committed.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is for truth reported that the Duchess his mother had so much ado in her travail that she could not be delivered of him uncut, and that he came into the world with the feet forward - as men are borne out of it - and (as the fame runs) also not untoothed: either men out of hatred report above
Collage. Holbein's Thomas More and my collage portrait of Shakespeare with a cut-out portrait of Edmund Kean as Richard III (by Drummond) in front. I have left a feature of my collage app around Edmund Kean, a thin blue rectangle with some function symbols in three of its corners.
The text is from Thomas More's unfinished English version of Richard III.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anon, anon, sir.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why, Love forswore me in my mother’s womb, And, for I should not deal in her soft laws, She did corrupt frail Nature with some bribe To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub; To disproportion me in every part, Like to a chaos, or an unlicked bear-whelp, That carries no impression like the dam.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Should be a book cover or actually is a book cover?
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe Pancake Rocks (National Library of New Zealand)
A man (Charles van der Plas) stands on rocks with the sea in the distance. The rocks are distinctive, like towers made of stacked pancakes.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe Home Guard (National Library of New Zealand)
A group of men in a clearing in the bush surrounded by trees and other vegetation. Very difficult to make out individuals from this distance but I have provided a detail of a man looking towards us through a camera or some kind of view finder.
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📷 John Pascoe Sandfly Bay (National Library of New Zealand)
A sandy beach then sea and the sun glistening on the water. Vegetation overhangs the top of the photograph, rocks and trees to our left. The footprints of the photographer come towards us before veering off towards the bottom left corner.
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