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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 13, 2022March 21, 2023

a year ago

A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home. May 2021: I had a short break in Aberdeenshire staying in the Aberdeen Arms, Tarland … Continue reading a year ago

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 10th Earl of Crawford, 2.5, 3000 feet, 3000 ft, 44 Midstocket Road, a gate, A Man Unknown, a right-of-way dispute, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A Thousand chances, a tomb with a view, A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe, a year ago, A year ago I had a short stay in Aberdeenshire. It felt like returning home., abandoned, abandoned farm, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Arms, Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Aberdeenshire, Aboyne, Acanthus, acanthus leaf, acanthus leaves, Admiral Fallow, Alexander Robb, an electric razor: donated, Angus, Antionetta, Antiquary, ARCADIA, as that swift eternity ended, astra castra numen lumen munimen, Ballintomb, Belle and Sebastian, Beyond the Strath, Blackford Observatory, bleet, bleeting, body found on Lecht, Body snatchers, body snatching, Braid Hill Observatory, Bridge of Allan, Cairngorms, Charles 10th Marquis of Huntly, Charles Brand Ltd, Charles Gordon, Charles Soutar, Chasing the sun, Circus Delrium, Class of 1990, climber, climbing, collapse of the Mortlich Monument, comet seekers, commercial forestry, contexto, Corgarff, Deborah Levy, Demolished, Desecration of the Earl of Crawford's tomb, Dexter Britain, dissection. Aberdeen Medical School, Distant Skies, Distant Sky, Doric, doric pillars, Dr Peter Gordon, Drain, Duguid, Dunecht, Dunecht body snatching, Dunecht House, Dunecht observatory, Dunecht Outrage Recalled, Dux, Earl of Crawford, Earl of Crawford's Body stolen, electric razor, fascination of absence, film, Films about ruins, Fort, gateway, General Scipio, George Saunders, Gibbie McIntosh, Gilber Farie, Glenkindie, gnarled oaks, Hale Bopp, Helen Jane Stewart Duguid, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, house painter, Hugh Munro, Huntly, I am mindful of human weakness, I made the following short films based on some of the places I visited., Iron cross, James Dyas Davidson, James Ross, John Glennie, Julian Barnes, ladder, lambs, Latin, lecht, Lecht body found, Lindertis, Lindsay, Lindsay crest, Locherie, Lochery, Lochrie, Logie Coldstone, Lord Lindsay, Mantel Pieces, Margaret Cruickshank, Marks & Spencers, Medical Student, Monument, Mortlich Hill, Mortlich Monument, Mortlich obelisk, mountain, mountains, Mrs Scotland, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Mutual Improvement Society, Nabob, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, November 1912, oblelisk, Observatory, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Omphatyp, On the level, Oor big braw cosmos, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peer's body that was stolen, Peter Gordon, Peter Ross, poacher, poem, Poem six, Poems, poet, poetry, portico, Punic War, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Rachel's scarf, ransom, Rat catcher, Real Estate, Rebecca Pidgeon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, Sandwiches, Scipio, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sculpture, sheep, sheep amongst the ruins, shepherd, Sir Hugh Munro, skiing, sleepwalking, Snooker, snow storm, Social maverick, Social subjects, South Milton, South Milton cottage, Spanish Oaks, St Nicholas Street, Strathdon, Student Union, Tarland, telescope, The Antiquary, The Atmosphere, The Lass o' the Lecht, The Rebel Antiquary, The stars my camp, The stars my Camp [9111212], Thousand Chances, Tillybin, time passes listen, to the hills, Tollafraick, universe, Unknown man, ut per vias aeris, vaga ferus avis, vagrant, vermin killer, walking, We live between the microscope and the telescope, whaup, whaups, woodland

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 5, 2021March 10, 2023

Scotland’s peaks named after him

Lindertis House, in the Angus foothills, was the home of Sir Hugh Munro. It had its roof removed in the 1960s,and in the 1980s it was demolished completely by Charles … Continue reading Scotland’s peaks named after him

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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 15, 2021March 6, 2023

Have you climbed a MUNRO?

Lindertis House, in the Angus foothills, was the home of Sir Hugh Munro. It had its roof removed in the 1960s,and in the 1980s it was demolished completely by Charles … Continue reading Have you climbed a MUNRO?

Categories: Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, ScotlandTags: 3000 feet, 3000 ft, a gate, a right-of-way dispute, A Thousand chances, abandoned, Andrew Robert Gordon, Angus, Antiquary, Belle and Sebastian, Bovaglia, Bovaglie, Charles Brand Ltd, civilisation, climber, climbing, Daley, Dark Lochnagar, Demolished, Dexter Britain, Doncamatic, Dr Peter Gordon, gateway, Girnoc, Girnock, gnarled oaks, Gorillaz, Have you climbed a MUNRO, Hole Ousia, Hugh Munro, Julian Barnes, ladder, Lemon Table, Lindertis, Lindertis House, Mossgrove, mountain, mountains, Munro, Munro's, Munro-bagging, Nature, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On the level, on your toes, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, roofless, ruin, ruins, Scotland, Scotland's peaks named after him, Sir Hugh Munro, Social maverick, Spanish Oaks, Stuamach, summit, The Antiquary, The lemon Table, The Rebel Antiquary, The stories of a small glen, Thousand Chances, to be humbled, walking

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 30, 2017January 31, 2023

A lot of hot air

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist: NADAR: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. A lot of hot air: … Continue reading A lot of hot air

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