# half year (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover half year. Page: Feed: --- ## [Samba in São Paulo + percussion classes + university](https://runarcn.no/samba-in-sao-paulo-percussion-classes-university/) _2026-08-18 · runarcn · runarcn.no_ I've begun returning to work now. My work in the archives has begun, and I have recently also been put to help with the organisation of the scores. When I first applied for this exchange I thought most of my work was going to with music and social projects, as was advertised. After being here for half a year I have realized that this isn't really that accurate. Instead it feels like, based on both… ## [The Making of Michael Collins](https://www.irelandsown.ie/the-making-of-michael-collins/) _2026-08-18 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ Thirty years after its release, Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins remains one of the most important and influential films ever made in Ireland. Combining epic storytelling, powerful performances and a remarkable recreation of a pivotal period in Irish history, it brought the life of Collins to the screen in a way no previous production had achieved, \[…\] ## [And the band played on …](https://www.irelandsown.ie/and-the-band-played-on/) _2026-08-18 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ Anthony O’Hagan remembers the dedicated musicians who went down with the Titanic Among the many stories that emerged from the sinking of the Titanic, none has travelled further or touched more hearts than that of the musicians who played as the ship went down. Their courage has become one of the defining legends of \[…\] ## [Making Butter Used to be a Weekly Chore](https://www.irelandsown.ie/making-butter-used-to-be-a-weekly-chore/) _2026-08-18 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ EUGENE DALY continues his series on various aspects of Irish folklore and customs BEFORE THE advent of the creamery in the last century, butter was ‘made’ at home. It was generally a weekly chore. Before the era of the separator, which separated the milk from the cream, the fresh milk was kept in vessels \[…\] ## [Mother Jones – ‘The Most Dangerous Woman in America’](https://www.irelandsown.ie/mother-jones-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/) _2026-08-18 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ By Mary A. Moloney, marking 250 years of the USA Patty Hearst? Bonnie Parker? No, this was Mary Harris, a native of Shandon, Co. Cork, better known as Mother Jones, a prominent labour organiser, activist, and defiant supporter of workers’ and union rights. In 1903, Mary appeared in a West Virginia courtroom, charged with defying \[…\] ## [Ireland’s first view of television](https://www.irelandsown.ie/irelands-first-view-of-television/) _2026-08-18 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ Television was seen in Ireland for the very first time in May 1951 at a public demonstration booth during the Royal Dublin Society Spring Show in Ballsbridge. This milestone exhibition introduced live television technology to the Irish public years before a domestic broadcast service was established, writes Éamon Ó Buadhacháin We know that RTE \[…\] ## [reflection on summer creative retreat 2026](https://ardens-asides.bearblog.dev/reflection-on-summer-creative-retreat-2026/) _2026-08-16 · ardens-asides · arden's asides_ One of my current art inspirations is Katie Moody , a mixed media sketchbook artist who makes dreamy loose landscapes in cheery colors. She shared on Instagram that she would be one of the featured artists at the online Summer Creative Retreat hosted by Peggy Dean of the Pigeon Letters. Since the event was free (with the ability to replay recordings for an additional week), I knew it would be a… ## [inside my art bag august 2026](https://ardens-asides.bearblog.dev/inside-my-art-bag-august-2026/) _2026-08-16 · ardens-asides · arden's asides_ Whether you call it nosiness or curiosity, I have always been interested in peeking into what other people carry around with them on a regular basis. From backpacks, purses, makeup bags, to art bags, I love a good video, photo, or blog post that let's me snoop through what other people find precious enough to keep on their person. I even peruse the What's In My Bag subreddit where people regularly… ## [Day 189: Drained Creek Two](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-189-drained-creek-two/) _2026-08-14 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I photographed this creek in the woods that has dried up. How recently, I don't know. The roots are exposed, and sticks have fallen in. ## [Reconsidering SailfishOS as my daily driver](https://runarcn.no/reconsidering-sailfishos-as-my-daily-driver/) _2026-08-13 · runarcn · runarcn.no_ I'm having some second thoughts about running SailfishOS as my daily driver ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZgEQSiJLbJHw) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Day 188: Drained Creek One](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-188-drained-creek-one/) _2026-08-13 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ Instead of being filled with water and turning the surrounding land into sludge and mud, the former creek is dry and dusty. ## [Day 187: Bird Feeder in the Woods](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-187-bird-feeder-in-the-woods/) _2026-08-12 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I photographed this bird feeder in the middle of an overgrown area of vines and leaves. I also introduce a new theme of photos on dpanphoto. ## [\[photodump\] analogs from travels in Brazil](https://runarcn.no/photodump-analogs-from-travels-in-brazil/) _2026-08-11 · runarcn · runarcn.no_ Some I've taken with my mju-II while travelling in Brazli ## [Day 186: Monument Under Renovation](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-186-monument-under-renovation/) _2026-08-11 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ At a historic park during sunset, I photographed this view with the US flag during a brief moment of golden hour sunset for landscape photography. ## [Commodore John Barry – Father of the American Navy](https://www.irelandsown.ie/commodore-john-barry-father-of-the-american-navy/) _2026-08-11 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ As America marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, Eamonn Duggan recounts the remarkable story of Wexford-born Commodore John Barry, the pioneering naval commander who rose from humble beginnings in Tacumshane to become celebrated as the ‘Father of the American Navy’ and one of the heroes of the American Revolution. This year is the 250th \[…\] ## [Lucky or Unlucky Numbers?](https://www.irelandsown.ie/lucky-or-unlucky-numbers/) _2026-08-11 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ AIDAN MURPHY looks at the role numbers play in our everyday lives Numbers play an important part in our lives – our age, date of birth, calendar dates, telephone numbers, car registrations, the amount of money in our bank accounts or, at times, what we owe the bank! Without numbers our daily lives would grind \[…\] ## [Limerickman was prisoner of Japanese for three and a half years](https://www.irelandsown.ie/limerickman-was-prisoner-of-japanese-for-three-and-a-half-years/) _2026-08-11 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ ROLE OF THE IRISH IN WW2 by Con McGrath Limerick man Timothy Falahee, who spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese, including ten long months in the construction of the Bangkok-Burma railway From Templeathea near the village of Athea in west County Limerick, Timothy Falahee set out in 1935 in \[…\] ## [Just A Memory – The Old Telephone Box](https://www.irelandsown.ie/just-a-memory-the-old-telephone-box/) _2026-08-11 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ By Patricia Doyle The sun shone from a clear blue sky on a Saturday, in June in the late 60s, as I waited patiently outside the telephone box at Saint Luke’s Cross, just a stone’s throw away from the historic toll booth that had been there since the 1880s. This tiny octagonal building had once \[…\] ## [The Woman Who Built Ireland’s First Aeroplane](https://www.irelandsown.ie/the-woman-who-built-irelands-first-aeroplane/) _2026-08-11 · Shea Tomkins · Ireland's Own_ HARRY WARREN profiles the first woman to design, build and fly her own plane For many years the name Lilian Bland rested quietly at the edge of Irish history, appearing only occasionally in books and articles about the earliest days of flight. Yet hers is a story that deserves to be told in full. It \[…\] ## [Writing something personal for the first time in a while](https://runarcn.no/writing-something-personal-for-the-first-time-in-a-while/) _2026-08-10 · runarcn · runarcn.no_ It's been a while since I wrote something personal on this site. ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tFDDEXMFRwbw) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Day 185: Reach for the Sun](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-185-reach-for-the-sun/) _2026-08-10 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ In this small garden, I take a photo of these flowers. The image is straight out of camera, because sometimes editing makes things look worse. ## [Day 184: Tiny Wooden Canyon](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-184-tiny-wooden-canyon/) _2026-08-09 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ While I don't dedicate myself to macro photography, I pay attention to the small details in nature. The vibrant orange of wood looks like a canyon. ## [Day 183: Ever Changing and Growing](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-183-ever-changing-and-growing/) _2026-08-08 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ This photowalk in the woods helped me listen to nature. A lot has changed since the last time I visited this trail, from big to small. ## [Day 182: Sanctuary in Progress](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-182-sanctuary-in-progress/) _2026-08-07 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ For a photowalk, I visit this wildflower garden as birds flutter to this spot. Listening to wildlife helps me stay tuned to nature photography. ## [Day 181: Skin Scraping](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-181-skin-scraping/) _2026-08-06 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ Deep in the woods, some hikers have left carvings into the bark of trees, leaving them vulnerable to disease. I photographed a particularly bad example. ## [Day 180: The Half Year Reflection](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-180-the-half-year-reflection/) _2026-08-05 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ It's been half a year since the 1Day1Photo series started. This is my ranking of all the photos I have captured and published on dpanphoto. ## [july 2026 capsule](https://ardens-asides.bearblog.dev/july-2026-capsule/) _2026-08-04 · ardens-asides · arden's asides_ Thankfully, since I last checked in, my back has been doing much better, though sometimes my bad posture still gets the best of me and I need to be more consistent with preventative stretches. A lot happened in July. Pumpkin is still having ongoing health issues, but she has a new primary care provider. She was seemingly on the mend with her second course of steroids, but the periodically vomiting… ## [Day 179: Roots and Soil](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-179-roots-and-soil/) _2026-08-04 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I set my camera and wide-angle lens on the ground and capture the detail of the dry surface soil through photography. ## [Day 178: Native Planting](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-178-native-planting/) _2026-08-03 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ On my photowalk through this park, I found a wheelbarrow full of grasses and plants. I captured it for some wide-angle photography and moved on. ## [Day 177: Cross the River](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-177-cross-the-river/) _2026-08-02 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ The Delaware River at sunset was a great location to take some landscape photography, even if the bridge was getting in the way. ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aYkgMKaC6unJ) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux.](https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/) _2026-08-02 · runarcn · runarcn.no_ Since Android is becoming increasingly more locked down and slopped, I'm jumping ship. ## [Day 176: Invisible Force](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-176-invisible-force/) _2026-08-01 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ When I'm not at a photogenic location, I pay attention to my surroundings and take pictures of the interesting details to make a good photograph. ## [Day 175: Still Summer After All](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-175-still-summer-after-all/) _2026-07-31 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ A summer photowalk down Main Street and Delaware River inevitably means I run into some bugs. And I forgot my bug spray. ## [Day 174: Riverside Sunset](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-174-riverside-sunset/) _2026-07-30 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ Classic landscape photography with a sweeping view of the Delaware River for the daily photography newsletter. ## [Day 173: Perfect Treehouse Spot](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-173-perfect-treehouse-spot/) _2026-07-29 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I missed the perfect exposure settings for this photograph, but it doesn't matter that much. It worked out fine. ## [Day 172: Power Grid](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-172-power-grid/) _2026-07-28 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ The power grid is a miraculous countrywide machine. It looks messy, and needs maintenance at times, but I think we take it for granted. ## [Day 171: Off the New Block](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-171-off-the-new-block/) _2026-07-27 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ A street photography-themed photowalk for 1Day1Photo, where power lines cross a residential building while jazz music plays nearby. ## [Day 170: Chip Off the Block](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-170-chip-off-the-block/) _2026-07-26 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ This photograph met two criteria for me, as I walked down a small town Main Street and practiced some fundamental photography composition rules. ## [Day 169: Old Historic Hall](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-169-old-historic-hall/) _2026-07-25 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I went to a small town in Pennsylvania and photographed the borough hall. Nearby, some picturesque rivers and bridges. ## [Day 168: Nothing Matters More Than the Light](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-168-nothing-matters-more-than-the-light/) _2026-07-24 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ Here's a bird — a titmouse — from my backyard. While it's not a colorful bird, the beam of light directed at the feeder makes it interesting. ## [Day 167: Thistle Fiber](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-167-thistle-fiber/) _2026-07-23 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ As if I haven't taken enough monochrome images on dpanphoto, here's another one from a walk in the park with a weird plant I haven't seen before. ## [Day 166: Car Front Grille](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-166-car-front-grill/) _2026-07-22 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ Automobile detail photography with the shiny car logo in focus. For 1Day1Photo, I get home from a simple photowalk and start organizing my images. ## [Day 165: Hot Damn](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-165-hot-damn/) _2026-07-21 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ This is the best image from several different attempts. I got home and realized I captured the beautiful wooden texture that I wanted. ## [my birthday - or a brief intention for my late 30s](https://ardens-asides.bearblog.dev/my-birthday-or-a-brief-intention-for-my-late-30s/) _2026-07-21 · ardens-asides · arden's asides_ Despite having to go in for work, this is the first birthday I haven't been flooded with anxiety for a long time. It's not about getting older as I have felt relatively neutral about aging compared to many of my peers. But I have spent the last few years in a depression fog that intensifies around my birthday. This isn't where I thought my life would be at this point: leaving teaching behind (for… ## [Day 164: The Empty Playground](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-164-the-empty-playground/) _2026-07-20 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ At an empty children's playground, I captured this square monochrome image of a tic-tac-toe board. Through post-processing, I tuned the shading. ## [Day 163: Bowl of Branches](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-163-bowl-of-branches/) _2026-07-19 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ This is a monochrome image with branches and leaves, with dull grays in shaded areas. It is cropped just tall enough to show the branches. ## [diving back into my sketchbooks with bird studies](https://ardens-asides.bearblog.dev/diving-back-into-my-sketchbooks-with-bird-studies/) _2026-07-18 · ardens-asides · arden's asides_ In second grade, I borrowed The Tale of the Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter from our library and was utterly enchanted by her darling watercolor animals. Ever since then, I had a deep desire to write and illustrate my own stories; however, even though I had plenty ideas for characters and plots, I did not have a knack for art. I still gravitate toward illustration and animation, including reading a… ## [Day 162: Hidden Through the Forest](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-162-hidden-through-the-forest/) _2026-07-18 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ I learned about low-key monochrome photography and tried to make a dark image with patches of sunlight highlighting the background in the woods. ## [Day 161: Tiles of Architecture](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-161-tiles-of-architecture/) _2026-07-17 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ An unconventional inspiration method behind this monochrome architecture photo: the Wikimedia Commons gallery map. I don't know its actual name. ## [Day 160: Few and Far Between](https://www.dpanphoto.com/day-160-few-and-far-between/) _2026-07-16 · dpanphoto · dpanphoto_ View some monochrome abstract photography taken in a music and arts building underground. The random architecture is cleverly designed.