pferguson | May 23, 2020
Three People Never Having Met Beneath the sky, the moon – the sun – this ground, this coast, valley, or ridge. Along the long, long trail that is our path through Gully Ravine – or our crest at Lone Pine. I return this day to wanderings across places of conflict and to now distant interests. […]
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Tags: Australia, Border Regiment, Charles Davies Vaughan DSO, Conflict, Dreamtime, Film History, Follow the Sun, Galipoli, Gully Ravine, Inscription, Lyrics, Nottinghamshire, Peter Hart Battlefield Tours, Peter Weir, Pink Farm Cemetery, Rainbows, Russell Crowe, Soundtracks, The Water Diviner, W Beach, Water, Xavier Rudd
pferguson | May 6, 2020
The Sweet Sound that Calls Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a […]
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Tags: Alonenessness, Connection, COVID-19, Dark, Dreamers, Family, Film History, Light, Lovers, Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, Shade, Soundtracks, Storytelling, The Muppet Movie
pferguson | February 24, 2019
The Reminders Before Us And they come back to us in our dreams…in ways that reminders place themselves before us…we see them with our eyes, our hearts…hear their soft rasp beside our ears and at night with a gentle breeze across our pillow – as if their virtual hand remains there to remind us – […]
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Tags: Academy Awards (Oscars), Emily Blunt, Film History, James Cleland Richardson VC, Mary Poppins, Pipes, Soundtracks, Storytelling, Where the Lost Things Go
pferguson | September 9, 2017
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” Joseph Conrad, 1899 In 1978 I read Heart of Darkness. In 1979 I watched Apocalypse Now. I went to the cinema on my own that early evening and still, to this day, recall the opening. Rotating sound across a black screen, jungle, the hint of smoke, silence, […]
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Tags: Apocalypse Now, Darkness, Film History, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Ford Coppola, Heart, Heart of Darkness, Ideas, Imagery, James M. Lundberg, Joseph Conrad, Ken Burns, Less, More, Passion, Photo-Journalists, Soundtracks, Symbolism, The Civil War, The Doors, The Vietnam War, This is the End, Vision, War Correspondents
pferguson | July 26, 2017
Moonstone The 700 little ships of Dunkirk included fishing boats, lifeboats, pleasure boats, private yachts and launches berthed along the River Thames and the southern and eastern coasts of England. There were three routes the boats could take, each journey with unique hazards. Route Z (39 nautical miles) the shortest route, of two hours sailing […]
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Tags: 1940, Battle of France, Caronia, Christopher Nolan, Clem Miniver, Dunkirk, Dunkirk (film), Dunkirk Evacuation, Elvin, Endeavour, Film History, Greer Garson, Hans Zimmer, Hilfranor, Mark Rylance, Mary Jane, Mimosa, Moonstone, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Miniver, Mrs. Miniver (Film), MTB 102, New Britannic, Nimrod (Elgar), Nyula (previously Betty), Papillon, Princess Elizabeth, RIIS I (previously White Heather), Soundtracks, Walter Pidgeon