Month: May 2022
The best of the UK’s most epic walking trails in 2-3 days | United Kingdom holidays | The Guardian
If you can’t spare a week to walk Britain’s mountain trails, coastal tracks and riverside paths, head for these expert-picked highlights Source: The best of the UK’s most epic walking trails in 2-3 days | United Kingdom holidays | The Guardian
Balcanoona
The drive on the Outback Highway from Hawker to the National Park Head Quarters at Balcanonna in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges was north via Parachilna and Copley, and then east via Nepabunna and Italowie Gorge. It was uneventful. The highway to Copley followed the old Central Australia Railway, which closed in 1980 when the standard gauge Tarcoola–Alice […]
Melting Imagination
BLKN Mobile – Melting Imagination Cover / Saša Đorđević (Some Call Us Balkans – CC BY-SA 4.0) Melting Imagination The exhibtion BLKN Mobile – Melting Imagination is the result of a month-long Artist Residency in Banja Luka, ASSEMBLING BL(KN). With the scope of creating a collective of Artist-Travellers, through a process of mutual learning and […]
Photos from Spaghetti Pilgrimage
For May's Erratic we teamed up with Flatpack Festival for a pilgrimage to Spaghetti Junction to celebrate its 50th birthday. We had a great turn out of 25+ people and the weather was kind, which all made for a delightful and profound day. The walk began in Victoria Square and from there we made our […]
Points d’ouïe et audio-récits, Médinas et alentours
Paysages sonores partagés Workshop Desartsonnants, autour des relations architecture/paysage sonore, accueilli par GFI Universty, École Polytechnique Supérieure d’Architecture de Sousse. Février 2022 Lieux d’exploration, la Médina de Sousse et ses alentours, ainsi que celle de Kerouan Nous arpentons, avec les enseignants et les étudiants, la Médina de Sousse. Tout d’abord à oreilles nues, puis micros … Continuer à lire ... "Points d’ouïe et audio-récits, Médinas et alentours"
Walk 106
Farm Coulee walkKeeping my eye out for deer, in order to divert the dog's attention before she sees them. She corners a porcupine under a rusted farm implement, half overgrown the X, half grown the porcupine, the dog cautious enough. There are hawks and Great Horned owls, skunks and coyotes, an owlet flapping among the spruce trees, ticks and ducks and badgers and us.Location: Outside of Lethbridge, AlbertaLength: 2 kmCompanions: Rose-DDate: 28 May, 2022 [...]
The Great B [Audio walk]
The Great B2022 Distance: 3,5 kmTime: 45min The Great B2022 Medium:Audio walk with theatrical elements Duration:45 minutes Maria Marinopoulou The Great “B” is an audio walk along the most notable points in any Balkan city: the mosque, the river bridge, the outdoor market and the orthodox church. During the walk, the listener becomes witness to […]
Landscapes of visual repetition
The allure of seeing the world from above is so closely associated with the discipline of geography that some degree programs even suggest that students who “prefer the window seats on airplanes” might be potential future geographers. And while there are many reasons to be cautious about the totalizing perspective of the “God’s-eye view,” aerial images still nevertheless invite… Continue reading Landscapes of visual repetition →
Hookina Creek: deep history
Two months after the camel trek from Blinman to Lake Frome we returned to the Flinders Ranges to walk in the Vulkathunha–Gammon Ranges National Park under the auspices of the Retire Active SA Bushwalkers. On the way to Balcanoona we stayed at Hawker in the southern Flinders Ranges and in the afternoon I went looking for the […]
How Soundwalks Are Helping Me Appreciate My Surroundings — The Good Trade
Soundwalks are ‘any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment.’ Here’s how our editor is using them to counter the increasingly automated noises we hear everyday. Source: How Soundwalks Are Helping Me Appreciate My Surroundings — The Good Trade
leaving Lake Frome
The morning (1/6/21) of our short walk away from Lake Frome to our pick up point for the return to Blinman was heavily overcast. We could see rain in the northern Flinders Ranges. Lake Frome appears to be an intersection point between the winter rains from the south and the monsoonal rains from the north. […]
The Planets App
Experience the famous orchestral suite "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, played by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, as an interactive audio walk in a park near you. All you need is a smartphone and headphones. Der Beitrag The Planets App erschien zuerst...
Two Tree Plain
We camped overnight on the plain between Chambers Gorge and Lake Frome after we walking over the low scrub plain with its Eremphila duttonii We had walked alongside Chambers Creek as it made its way east to Lake Frome. Chambers Creek started at the eastern mouth of the Chambers Gorge — for some reason it […]
