How do you condense a two-day battle into a 30 minute display? Malin Heen-Allan (pictured above), Clanranald director, has had to tackle this very problem for Bannockburn Live which takes place on 28 and 29 June to commemorate the 700 anniversary of the battle. The ‘brutally realistic’ display of the battle will take place three times each day at 12, 2 and 4pm during the two-day event. Clanranald has worked
The recent Oscar winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom tells of the amazing vocalists who often went ‘unsung’. Some of the music business’s greatest backing singers were failed stars, others were simply greasingers without the mania or the will required to be frontmen. One of the very best was Merry Clayton whose vocal on the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter is the stuff of legend. When the Stones were in LA to
Designing a new building for the Glasgow School of Art to sit alongside Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece must have felt like a huge responsibility for american architect Steven Holl. The Reid Building, named after Dame Seona Reid, who stood down as director of GSA last summer, provides a new home for the design school.
How do you make your stovies? Are you a corned beef kinda gal or sausage? Starting this Friday 14 March, the Broomhead Bothy comes to the Broomhead flats in Dunfermline and, in the community flat on the ground floor, will provide weekly cookery and art workshops as well the opportunity to pop in and share stories. Tales of green shield stamps and long gone picture houses are already being shared
Eleanor Macnair recreates famous photographs in play-doh and then photographs the play-doh. See more of Eleanor’s creations on her tumblr.
Avocado Sweet is delighted to welcome food writer Hazel Cameron to the team. We will be featuring regular posts from Hazel’s blog The Grumbling Tummy which she describes as covering food ‘from fine dining to fish fingers and everything in-between’. It can also be reached anytime by clicking on the contributor box on the right. Having roved around the country, Hazel settled back in Fife seven ago where she now
From the wonderful Shaun Usher here is a post from his Lists of Note, the sister site to his Letters of Note: As the Battle of Britain began to take hold in 1940, a bomb fell on an outbuilding belonging to Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England. As a result, the club — rather than halt future rounds of golf — issued an incredible list of temporary golf rules to
Among the many wonderful things about True Detective, the HBO series in which two troubled detectives pick their way through a bleak swampy Louisiana littered with chemical refineries, trailers and serial killers, is its opening title sequence. Backed by the Handsome Family’s Far From Any Road, it perfectly capture’s Rust Cohle’s (Matthew McConaughey) line, ‘this place is like someone’s memory of a town – and the memory is fading.’ The
The video of the Ghostcube may be mesmeric – any suggestions as to what its purpose might be? No words of enlightenment from the designer, Erik Aberg – however he is selling a short documentary on how he made it.
Scottish Pop Household Woes: The Vaselines unhappy about being swamped with junk mail Introducing the work of the brilliant if mysterious Jersey Milk Cow whose drawings expose the domestic concerns of stars of the Scottish music scene, Britpop, football and celebrity chefdom. The artist is currently based in Stockport. Of his website he says, ‘My drawings are posted here – it’s a bit like an online gallery. There was a