El

@unevendays

Has far too many books. Interested in SFF, comics, archaeology, folk music, folklore. Nerd. Crabby old cactus. Adopted Aberdonian. 🩷💜💙 Mastodon: wandering.shop/@unevendays Storygraph:

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El@unevendays· 27d

On the negative this is my new view - but I'll take it!

A train wall with a very tiny sliver of window visible mostly hidden by the seat in front

El@unevendays· 27d

On the plus side, this is the view, and I'm not, as yet, being gently broiled

The silvery Tay, overcast sky, a bird flying past

El@unevendays· Jun 27

I did a workshop with AJ from the Pottery Throwdown and I just picked up my fired creation today! I am definitely not a natural at this and it was very apparent that my blob was worse than anyone other than the literal small children but I had fun

Gormless blob with bulgy eyes, a gaping mouth and a spike on top of its head

Side view showing more spikes down his back and spots on the side

El@unevendays· Jun 27

Eric Roberts at the top of the stairs always dressed for the occasion

El@unevendays· Jun 26

I went to a writing workshop that turned out to be blackout poetry. Task: make something gay out of Fourth Wing. This is what I came up with

No one stays forever. We live long enough with worry, combust. We left long silence. The sun is returning. Tense, my gaze flies straight

An offering, a response. My emotions scattered. I didn't know. I know you my ruin

Waiting I hold my breath. She's the center. I can't counter.

She's gone. I drop to my knees. I didn't leave her.

El@unevendays· Jun 20

And the National Library of Scotland where I saw a Gutenberg Bible, and ‘Daemonologie' by King James VI, 1597

Huge Bible with two columns of text and some illustrations

The Gutenberg Bible

In the 1440s, German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400-1468) began the printing revolution in Europe. Before this, texts were handwritten or produced from carved wooden blocks.

Gutenberg's press was more fully mechanised than others of the time. Text could be printed more quickly, at less expense and with greater accuracy than before. By 1455, Gutenberg's printing experiments culminated with the production of about 180 copies of the Bible, the first substantial book printed in Europe with moveable metal type.

To manage its great size, the Bibles were bound into two parts: the first include the first half of the Old Testament, with the latter half and New Testament included in the second.

Today, 49 copies of Gutenberg's Bible are known to exist and only 21 of those are complete including the Library's copy.

A small book with dense text

'Daemonologie' by King James VI, 1597.

El@unevendays· Jun 20

Also visited the Lewis Chessmen

Chess piece with a pointy hat, sword and shield, and a cartoonish face with wide eyes

Chess piece with a crown and a sword across his lap. He looks a bit like one of the dead from LoTR

Berserker chess piece chewing on the top of his shield

Chess piece with a horn in one hand and clutching the face with the other

El@unevendays· Jun 20

Also saw works by long-term partners Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun - I read The Two Roberts by Damian Barr about them and highly recommend it

Robert MacBryde (1913-1966)

Still Life, about 1947

Oil on canvas

In the early 1940s, Scottish artist Robert MacBryde moved to London with his long-term partner, fellow artist and creative collaborator, Robert Colquhoun. There, 'The Two Roberts' joined a vibrant bohemian scene of leading artists and poets. This still life was painted in their Bedford Gardens studio, where the two artists lived and worked together. MacBryde presents the unexpected combination of a curved slice of melon and a sharply patterned backgammon board. The juxtaposition of the soft and the angular, and the exposure of the objects' interiors, plays on their gendered symbolism. Two enigmatic shadows cast over the table add an unsettling note to the composition. Intensely influenced by George Braque's work, MacBryde earned himself the nickname 'MacBraque'

Bequeathed by Miss Elizabeth Watt, 1989 (GMA 3497)

Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962)

Artist (Self-Portrait), about 1940 Oil on Canvas

In the early 1940s, Scottish artist Robert Colquhoun set up in London with his long-term partner, fellow artist and creative collaborator, Robert MacBryde. There, the 'Two Roberts' joined a vibrant bohemian scene of leading artists and poets of their time. Painted in his mid-20s, Colquhoun's closely observed self-portrait shows the confident young artist at the beginning of his career. Responding to fellow artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jankel Adler, his style soon evolved, while the human figure remained a central focus. Describing his new vision as 'many sided', for Colquhoun each new painting represented'...a kind of discovery, a discovery of new forms, colour relation, or balance in composition'.

Purchased 1990 (PG 2815)

El@unevendays· Jun 20

Saw some cool art at Modern 1 but this is one for the Who fans - Daphne Oram, co-founder of the Radiophonic Workshop, by Victoria Morton (2014)

Brightly coloured painting of Daphne Oram sitting at a desk writing with her equipment around her

In her painting, Victoria Morton (born 1971) evokes the pulsating music of trailblazing electronic composer Daphne Oram (1925-2003). Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957 where she created sound effects and otherworldly scores to dramatise radio and television productions. Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) later created the iconic Dr Who soundtrack there. Oram invented Oramics, a process for synthesising sound by drawing shapes directly onto film. She commented: 'Once the composer can write without the limitations of performance his palette is extended enormously... Rhythms become anything the composer can visualise ... Timbres have no registration and theoretically any sound, musical or otherwise, is within his grasp.'

El@unevendays· Jun 20

Saw the Joan Eardley exhibition at Modern 2 today which was fantastic. There's no point in me taking pictures of the whole painting when you can see them already but here are some details. I love how dynamic the waves are and the little blue door.

Close up on waves: dark sea below and dynamic white and blue spray

Close up on a snowy landscape with what could be a bird on a fence

Close up of a small building with a triangular roof in snow

Close up of a row of cottages with a blue door in the middle

El@unevendays· Jun 20

New variation of a classic:

Statue of Wellington on a rearing horse. One of the horse's legs has a traffic cone upside down stuck on it. A pride progress flag flies in the background

El@unevendays· Jun 19

Saw a cool fungus in the graveyard

Tree in a graveyard in front of a church mostly hidden by foliage. A lot of old gravestones and tombs. One the tree is a large fungus

El@unevendays· Jun 19

Another lovely Queer Folks' Tales tonight with plenty of emotion, laughs and community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A stage with uplights in rainbow and four chairs

El@unevendays· Jun 6

Frankie says don't be transphobic (Holly Johnson in Spring's Somewhere: For Us)

And how times have changed?

Everything's queer now in pop music, isn't it? We've got Chappell Roan and Olly Alexander, Mika, Scissor Sisters, and Orville Peck, who I love... It's a great era for being queer in music. It's just such a shame being trans is not included in this fabulous era and mainstream press and others are trampling on trans people for some reason

El@unevendays· May 20

A fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap - no pictures of the bands themselves but Utopia Avenue and Frozen Gold from Espedair Street are the ones that came to mind

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell. A pinkish cover designed to look a bit like a record

Espedair Street by Iain Banks, with the black and white cover. There's a guitar and crossing stage lights

El@unevendays· May 11

Feel like I am listening to Gallants very neurotypically (this is since Friday and doesn't count the plays of the live performance stream or in my car today)

Last.fm screenshot showing top albums of the last 365 days: Verbathim by Nemahsis 336 plays, How to be Human by Cat Burns, 250 plays, Gallants by Jim Moray 117 plays, Skulk by Jim Moray 70 plays

El@unevendays· May 2

Post your warning sign

Possible risk of unexploded bombs/ warning sudden drop

El@unevendays· Apr 18

We had something similar once, not sure if there was something wrong with that batch of Tomorite?

A ginger cat sits in a terracotta flower pot next to a bottle of Tomorite

El@unevendays· Apr 16

I wondered what happened here, must be a bsky fail

El@unevendays· Apr 11

Ready to go #AsOne

Fresh baked hazelnut and chocolate cookies, coffee in my Grace Petrie mug ("the images that fucked ya were a patriarchal structure") in front of a small desk calendar with a picture of Chloe Rollie and some fidget toys in the shape of a pangolin, a hippo, and a platypus

El@unevendays· Apr 8

The play was great, by the way. There isn't a raised stage and we sat at the front so we were very close to the action. Some people in our row got slightly closer than they probably expected!

Stage set for Medea. A yellow coloured wall with patches in the plaster and a wooden door, garden table and chairs, a clothes airer, a statue of a goddess, a backgammon set, various other detritus of life

El@unevendays· Apr 4

Seen from the bus window: an abandoned mirror-ball balloon bumbling along like a sad tumbleweed

Blurry photo of a round mirrored balloon on a pavement

El@unevendays· Apr 3

Does anyone know why this would happen - a phantom repost? Would it be someone has deleted it?

Bsky notification saying 'reposted by 1 repost' and then 'no reposts yet'

El@unevendays· Apr 2

Your first Doctor Your favourite Doctor Your favourite companion Your favourite story

Paul McGann in his Wild Bill Hickok costume

Peter Capaldi staring intently and holding out one hand

Lovely Caroline John as Dr Elizabeth Shaw, wearing her hair pulled back and a protective suit, looking extremely sceptical as is her wont

Still from Heaven Sent with the Twelfth Doctor in front of the diamond wall

El@unevendays· Mar 26

Spring?

Three daffodils just about to fully flower sit surrounded by snow

El@unevendays· Mar 21

Going to see a thing starting at 7, so there wasn't a lot of point going home so I went into the ice cream parlour for a coffee (they stay open late), and I got this adorable mini ice-cream with my coffee

A mug of coffee with a tiny ice cream cone in a tiny milk churn

El@unevendays· Mar 15

Doctor Who: Flux. Status: Fluxxed. Everyone was lovely although I didn't say much to any of them! Jodie liked the Stuart Manning poster and Ncuti liked the magazine and had a little leaf through before he signed it for me.

Stuart Manning poster for The Woman Who Fell To Earth signed by Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill. The poster shows Thirteen in Twelve's outfit in space above the earth with vivid colours behind herm the text is drawn as if in neon lights. The subtitle is Time, Space... Sheffield

Somewhere: For Us cover starring Ncuti Gatwa signed by him. The cover shows Ncuti in front of the TARDIS which has a can of irn bru on the top. K-9 is on a plinth with a traffic cone in ace colours on his head a la Duke of Wellington in Glasgow - the plinth has the intersex symbol. There's a planet in lesbian flag colours and bi flag colours and the windows in the TARDIS are also in flag colours. A Saltire flys in the background

Red Scharlach art of Kate Stewart and two Osgoods with the text Science Leads, Awesome follows, signed by Jemma Redgrave

Class series 1 audio drama from Big Finish, signed by Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, Scott Handcock, and Jason Haigh-Ellery, and a big finish postcard of Ianto, Rhys and Tosh from Torchwood signed by all 3 of them

El@unevendays· Mar 14

Excuse me what

Restaurant receipt showing "buttnut tart"

El@unevendays· Mar 14

Well this isn't terrifying at all

El@unevendays· Mar 13

I didn't take any photos because I felt too awkward but my other half did: