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When Pressed
Issue 1: The Twentieth Century Never Happened

When pressed to say something, when pressed to utterance, we have the responsibility of response. Sometimes the most responsible thing to say is nothing at all, which is not nothing, since it is (often) a (profound) response. Saying something more than nothing entails a risk, it risks [...]

Guide to Jandek
Seth Tisue

Officially, Jandek is not a person.
Albums and live performances are credited to “Jandek”, but the man on the album covers and on stage is “a representative from Corwood Industries”. Corwood is the record label; “Jandek” is the musical project. Both are directed by the same individual. The trinity of Jandek, Corwood, and [...]

The Individual in a New Environmental Age
Because I was Invited

For better or worse, we have already altered our ecosystems very drastically, and we do find ourselves in a managerial position where major research and major managerial decisions have to be made. What we have to do, then, is to find ways of revising ourselves so [...]

Yesterday morning I was dragged from my desk for a very pleasant walk through Sydney Park — some welcome sunshine on the winter solstice.
I spotted a tradesman’s ute parked rakishly by the way, notable at first for its tidiness, and then for the stencils on the duco announcing the ‘eco-friendly’ removal of pests. Signs of [...]

Most people who visited the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout during the 1950s and 1960s would remember, with affection, the world famous White Cats. This family of friendly felines lived in a ‘cattage’ on the roof of the Pylon Lookout, (14 steps up a ladder from the Parapet Level). Here they had their own merry-go-round, [...]

Feeling A Little Lost Lately?

The map shows the percentage of lost in each region. The black-colored regions are areas of the world where there are few if any believers in Christ.The white regions show a high percentage of people who profess Christianity. The United States represents one of the few areas of the world where [...]

M.C. Escher (June 17, 1898 - March 27 1972)
Puddle (Woodcut 1952)

“Wherever he names the time (la bonne heure) in La Vita Nuova, Dante finds it in terms of the number nine: “Nine times already since my birth had the heaven of light returned,” “so that almost from the beginning of her ninth year she appeared [...]

The previously unknown species, the Yariguies brush finch, Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum has striking black, yellow and red plumage. (Blanca Huertas - AP)

“9th October, 2006, Lauren Drake, AP, BOGOTA, Colombia –
A colorful new bird has been discovered in a previously unexplored Andean cloud forest, spurring efforts to protect the area, conservation groups said Monday (…)
The bright [...]

Look Up And Marvel!

Upton, Lincolnshire, UK – A huge, pink pig, with legs to spare. (© Ian Loxley)

At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them. Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’. If [...]