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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon Albarn, David Livingstone, David Peters, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, Deborah Levy, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Do not say we have nothing, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Due North, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Eyre Terrace, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, films on Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, From Scotland with Love, Full of Energy, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, George Saunders, Gilmerton House, Girdwood, Glasgow, Go North, Half of a yellow sun, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, It is by living we learn, James Clerk 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patriotic, Paul Buchanan, PE1493, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter's films on Edinburgh, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Polaris, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Richard Holloway, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, Rodney Tunnel, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, rugby, Saughton, Scotland, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, she said, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Silvermills, smash out into the sunlight, Smash out into the sunshine, Social maverick, Spurtle, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, St Leonard's Improvement Scheme, statue, steam laundry, Stockbridge, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Sylvia Plath, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The cost of living, The friends of liberty, the gate of Angels, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, the laundry problem, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The Scottish National Exhibition, the texture of time, The Ticking of Two Clocks, The wall, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, thistle, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Tomas Transtromer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Umberto Eco, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Waiting for the last bus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Playfair brought light

The architect William Henry Playfair brought light to specimens in jars. More than two hundred years later so did Kathleen Jamie in her book FINDINGS. I was born in Edinburgh … Continue reading Playfair brought light

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical Education, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Anatomical Museum, Anatomist, Anatomy, Antiquary, Architecture, Body snatchers, Burke and Hare, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Robert Knox, Edinburgh, Findings, form, Hole Ousia, inside, Kathleen Jamie, light, Museum, museums, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On the Other side of the fence, outside, pathologising, pathology, Peter Gordon, Playfair, rebel antiquary, Resurrectionist, Royal College of Surgeons, Scotland, Scotland's oldest museum, skeleton, Social maverick, specimen jars, specimens, Surgeons Hall, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal College of Pathologists, time passes listen, William Henry Playfair, Window tax

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Playfair

In the Scotsman of last week I read that the University of Edinburgh has made it’s archive open to all [as a work in progress]: I have found mysel’ wonderfully … Continue reading Playfair

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Alexander McCall Smith, Antiquary, Architect, Architecture, archive, Edinburgh, gentle gardener, Hole Ousia, light, Michael Kiwanuka, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, rebel antiquary, Scotland, shapes, Silent as light, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes, University of Edinburgh, William Henry Playfair

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 13, 2016January 26, 2023

‘Wrecking Edinburgh’

The following is taken from “Wrecking Edinburgh; the story continues” by David Black, which was published in the Scottish Review of Books, 3 September 2016:

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'a mad God's dream', 'the golden turd', 'Wrecking Edinburgh: The story continues', 3 September 2016, a glorious architectural setting, Adam Smith, Alan Bennett, Antiquary, Arthur's Seat, Athens of the North, Auld Reekie, Ben Hur, Beyond the Fringe, by far my elder brother in the muses, Canongate, Charlton Heston, cooper spiral, Crichton's Close, David Black, David Bowie, David Frost, David Hume, Developers revive bid to revamp Old Royal High, Dr Peter Gordon, Dudley Moore, Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, glittering Forth, Henry Cockburn, Historic Royal High School gates restored, Hole Ousia, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, James Boswell, Jonathan Miller, Laurence Olivier, Little Sparta, Marlene Dietrich, meet you at the statue in an hour, Moultrie Kelsall, musis respublica floret, my elder brother in misfortune, New Hope at last for old Royal High, New Town, Old Royal High School, Old Town, Patrick Geddes, Peter Cook, Peter Gordon, Pierrot, Pioneer planner, poet, Rabbie Burns, rebel antiquary, Richard Demarco, Robert Fergusson, Roger McGough, Ronnie Barker, Royal Mile, Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish Review of Books, Smith's notion of moral optimism is dead, Social maverick, SRB, St James Development, St Mary's Music School, student accommodation, The Antiquary, the city was the leading character in its own extraordinary drama, The gateway, The Liverpool poets, the muses, The Rebel Antiquary, the school motto declared that the muses were of national importance, This should be a music school, Thomas Carlyle, town planner, Turquoise Pantomime, Waiting for Godot, we are surely very narrow if we understand only one culture (they talk of two cultures - but it seems to me there are twenty two. And all of value), William Henry Playfair, Wrecking Edinburgh, Ziggy Stardust

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