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Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, and Benny Green at Bermuda Onion Club
No full textRay Brown, Jeff Hamilton, and Benny Green at Bermuda Onion Club, Toronto, September 1992. 11 x 14 inch black and white photograph by Barry Thomson (Toronto, Ontario)
Twenty-Five in B&W: An Improviser’s Gallery
No full textThe Toronto-based photographer and jazz aficionado Barry Thomson has been shooting photos documenting the Toronto jazz and improvising scene for years. CSI/ECI is pleased to be able to publish a small selection from his vast archives, including short comments and recollections associated with each photo. At the 2011 Guelph Jazz Festival, Thomson and CSI Co-Editor Daniel Fischlin discussed making at least a small portion of the archive available to the general public. The following gallery hints at the rich stream of superb improvising musicians that have passed through Toronto in the last twenty-seven years or so—the earliest photos in this gallery date back to 1985
Exposure of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Seawater and the Effect on Their Physical Performance
No full textAn innovative testing methodology to evaluate the effect of long-term exposure to a marine environment on Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRPs) has been investigated and is presented in this paper. Up to one-year ageing was performed in seawater, to simulate the environment for offshore oil and gas applications. The performance of an epoxy and epoxy-based GFRP exposed at different temperatures from 25 to 80 °C was quantified. The materials were also aged in dry air, to de-couple the thermal effect from the seawater chemical action. Gravimetric testing and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) were conducted in parallel on progressively aged specimens. The effect of specimen geometry and the anisotropic nature of diffusion are comprehensively discussed in this paper. For the quasi-infinite specimens, the results show an exponential increase in the seawater absorption rate with temperature. The methodology allowed for the prediction of the diffusivity at a temperature of 4 °C as 0.23 and 0.05 × 10-13 m2/s for the epoxy and the epoxy-based composite, respectively. The glass transition temperature reduces as sea water is absorbed, yet the sea water effects appear to be reversible upon drying
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Romin P. Thomson "40 Under 40"
No full textColor studio portrait of Romin P. Thomson for "40 Under 40" story, taken in the Benson room 211 photography studio
Cristafrons Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson 1993
No full textGenus Cristafrons Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson, 1993 Cristafrons Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson, 1993: 31. Type species. Cristafrons praescientis Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson, 1993, by monotypy. Remarks. Cristafrons shows an unusual set of characters. Feldmann et al. (1993: 31) remarked that the general form was similar to species of Notopocorystes. Cristafrons can be readily distinguished from Palaeocorystidae by the prescence of only a single lateral spine and a narrow, non-bifurcate rostrum. The well-defined cervical groove and the hepatic and postfrontal areolations, however, are unusual for Raninoidea, whereas those features are commonly found in Palaeocorystoidea. The thoracic sternum of Cristafrons is ‘not cleft longitudinally’, i.e., the medial line is absent (sternites 1‒5 are described), members of Raninoidinae typically having a medial line up to sternite 5 (Fig. 44C, D). It is unlikely that Cristafrons belongs to Ranininae, which has wider carapaces and two wide lateral teeth. Exposed pleurites are not described in the type series: they may be concealed by matrix or were overlooked in the original description, which states that the type specimens ‘are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London’ (Feldmann et al. 1993: 33), where only two specimens could be traced by us. The majority of the type series appears to have been forwarded to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), under ‘ Cretiscalpellum praescientis ’ (see also http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/data/access/fossildatabase/filter.php?taxonKeyword= CRUSTACEA). A re-examination of the type series is called for in order to resolve the precise taxonomic placement of Cristafrons.Published as part of Van Bakel, Barry W. M., Guinot, Danièle, Artal, Pedro, Fraaije, René H. B. & Jagt, John W. M., 2012, A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) 3215, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 3215 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3215.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/524864
Figures of Speech: Place - Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt
No full textEvent as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh City of Literature & the Scottish Storytelling Centre present figures of speech. " ... Our hosts Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt take us on a tour through nature, landscape, community and the language of place, whilst also discussing their own experiences of writing and working in Scotland."
Figures of Speech: place. One of a series of events covering six universal themes (music, friendship, future, love, place, big ideas), each event explores literary blockbusters, hidden gems and modern classics.
Our expert guides will take us on a journey through Scotland’s iconic books and stories, navigating the dazzling array of new voices, and presenting newly commissioned work by artists responding to each theme.
'Let us take you on a journey across the curious contrasts and contradictions that define Scottish literature.
In our first season (May - July), we'll be covering Music, Friendship and Future. On May 20th writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan and author Arusa Qureshi will be exploring Music, and presenting a newly commissioned dance piece from poet and performer Katie Ailes. Poet Michael Pedersen and author Val McDermid will be diving into Friendship on June 24th, with music from Kim Carnie. And on July 22nd, poet Russell Jones and writer T.L.Huchu will be looking to the Future, with new poetry from Jeda Pearl.
The second season of Figures of Speech (September - November) will take in Love, Place and Big Ideas. On September 23rd Gaelic poet Peter Mackay will talk love with romance writer Jenny Colgan. Visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson will drop a pin in the literary map with a discussion on Place with poet and film maker Roseanne Watt on October 21st (postponed to February '23). The season concludes on St. Andrew’s Day (November 30th) with some Big Ideas from Professor David Farrier with activist and author Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.
We want to welcome as wide an audience as possible and extend this conversation across Edinburgh, Scotland and the world. All the events will be recorded and made available online a week later, and both the live and recorded events will be supported by BSL interpretation.
Beethoven's View of Scotland
No full textAlthough Beethoven never visited Scotland, he had three main connections with the country: his numerous settings of Scottish melodies; his reading of literature about Scotland, especially by Walter Scott; and his correspondence with George Thomson of Edinburgh. From these three sources he learned much about the country and its music
Beethoven's View of Scotland
No full textAlthough Beethoven never visited Scotland, he had three main connections with the country: his numerous settings of Scottish melodies; his reading of literature about Scotland, especially by Walter Scott; and his correspondence with George Thomson of Edinburgh. From these three sources he learned much about the country and its music
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