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Red Alert Confirmed?

Yesterday we published a promotional video which included a RED ALERT warning.  It’s why a red top was worn as symbolism!

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Well, well, well. This morning residents of Sydney, Australia were greeted by an epic unprecedented red dust storm causing widespread disruption.  Dust storms are common in the country but nothing on this scale has been witnessed by those alive today. The dust cloud was some 400 miles long and travelled over 1,000 miles down Australia’s east coast. It was formed from dust whipped up in the dried out basin of Lake Eyre. 

Health hazards aside residents were in awe of the spectacle. Comments included, “The sky was bathed in a red hue…. it was like waking up to see Armageddon… it was the weirdest thing I’d ever seen, like waking up on Mars.” So has Mother Nature confirmed that we are on Red Alert?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-s0nENyQ4w

Turner and the Masters

Tate Britain has put on a new exhibition entitled ‘Turner and the Masters’ - an unforgettable show which places some of JMW Turner’s most dramatic paintings alongside beautiful masterpieces by the likes of Rembrandt and Titian.  The exhibition shines a light on the British painter’s obsession to be as good as if not better than his contemparies. Turner’s working-class background and relentless ambition led him to proclaim, “I am the great lion of the day”. 

We’re intrigued at the timing of the exhibition given the prominent role in Charles Lamb’s jounral of William Turner’s painting ‘Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps’ which Lucy Ebbs suggests (page 289) is an analogy of the need to withdrawn when required to do so. 

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 Are we to ignore the words of Mother Nature at this time?

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