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DISCWORLD: WYRD SISTERS

The sixth book in the Discworld series, published 1988. In 1995 it was adapted into a BBC Radio 4 radio play. Later in 1996 it was adapted to a theatre play by Stephen Briggs. It was also a turned into a six part animation in 1997,

SYNOPSIS

“Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle.

Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine, particularly when the blood on your hands just won’t wash off and you’re facing a future with knives in it…”

QUOTES

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.”

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.”

“And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.” 

“‘Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of gossip about witches being bad for your health. He'd been told not to let witches pass, but no one had said anything about apple sellers. Apple sellers were not a problem. It was witches that were the problem. She'd said she was an apple seller and he wasn't about to doubt a witch's word.” 

“Magrat knew she had lost. You always lost against Granny Weatherwax, the only interest was in seeing exactly how.”

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DISCWORD: SOURCERY

The fifth book in the Discworld series published in 1988.

SYNOPSIS

“All this books and stuff, that isn’t what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry.

All is not well within the Unseen University. The endemic politics of the place have ensured that it has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University’s most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety…”

QUOTES

“Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.”

“Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.”

“Despite rumour, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”

“’Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.’”

“THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. ‘What does it contain, then?’ ME. ‘Besides you I mean!’ Death gave him a puzzled look. I’M SORRY? ‘I meant,’ said Ipslore, bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that makes living worth while?’ Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.”

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DISCWORLD: MORT

The fourth book in the Discworld series published in 1987. It was adapted to a graphic novel in 1994 and a stage play 1996. In 2004 it was broadcast as a radio play on BBC Radio 4.

SYNOPSIS

“Although the scythe isn’t pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants’ revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can’t refuse. As Death’s apprentice he’ll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn’t compulsory. It’s the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life…”

QUOTES

“THERE’S NO JUSTICE, THERE’S JUST ME.”

“THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.” 

“Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF THE BAY OF MANTE, HAVE YOU? he said. ‘No, sir,’ said Mort. FAMOUS SHIPWRECK THERE.  ‘Was there?’ THERE WILL BE, said Death, IF I CAN FIND THE DAMN PLACE.”

“‘It's beautiful,’ said Mort softly. 'What is it?' THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. ‘Is it like this every night?’ EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. ‘Doesn't anyone know?’ ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? ‘Gosh!’ Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.”

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DISCWORLD: EQUAL RITES

The third book in the Discworld series published 1987. It was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Women's Hour' the same year as its release, in a 10 part series.

SYNOPSIS

“They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard – by mistake. Everybody knows that there’s no such thing as a female wizard. But now it’s gone and happened, there’s nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin…”

QUOTES

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.”

“She loved her brothers, when she reminded herself to, in a dutiful sort of way, although she generally remembered them as a collection of loud noises in trousers.”

“She had found them lodgings in The Shades, an ancient part of the city whose inhabitants were largely nocturnal and never inquired about one another’s business because curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet.”

“The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbours.”

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DISCWORLD: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

The second Discworld novel first published 1986. Adapted into a graphic novel and television adaptation.

SYNOPSIS

‘What shall we do?’ said Twoflower.

‘Panic?’ said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer – in this instance by the imminent arrival of a very large and determinedly oncoming meteorite – circumstances require a very particular type of hero. Sadly what the situation does not need is a singularly inept wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world. Equally it does not need one well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind of its own. Which is a shame because that’s all there is…

QUOTES

“The very fabric of time and space is about to be put through the wringer.” 

“An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”

“Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”

“Or maybe they’re just keen on killing people. That’s religion for you.”

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DISCWORLD: The Colour of Magic

The first book in the Discworld series, first published 1983. It has been adapted in to a graphic novel, a two part television adaptation and a computer game.

SYNOPSIS

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.

But just because the Disc is different doesn’t mean that some things don’t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea…

QUOTES

“Magic never dies. It merely fades away.” 

“Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.” 

“On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.”

“If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE

Born: 28th April 1948, Beaconsfield

Died: 12th March 2015, Wiltshire

Spouse: Lyn Pratchett

Children: Rhianna Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was an award winning author and creator of the Discworld series along with other fantasy and comical works.

He sold over 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages and was the United Kingdom’s best selling author of the 1990′s. Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998, he was later knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. 

1989 saw him win the British Science Fiction Award.  In 1994 he was  the British Book Awards' 'Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year'.  The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was recognised as 2001′s best children's book published in the UK wining him the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians. The 2003 Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel was awarded for Night Watch. In 2005, Going Postal was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. He won the annual Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2004, 2005 and 2007.  He received the New England Science Fiction Association Skylark Award in 2009 and in 2010 he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. 2011 he won Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, a lifetime honour for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2010 presented him with the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for I Shall Wear Midnight.

He was awarded ten honorary doctorates: 

1999, the University of Warwick

2001, the University of Portsmouth

2003, the University of Bath

2004, the University of Bristol

2008, Buckinghamshire New University

2008, the University of Dublin

2009, Bradford University

2009, University of Winchester

2013, The Open University for his contribution to Public Service 

2014, University of South Australia 

In 2010 he was made an adjunct Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, with a role in postgraduate education in creative writing and popular literature.

2007 saw him diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s, Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Following this he began campaigning to raise awareness of the disease, donating a millions to Alzheimer’s research the following year. He filmed a special BBC documentary chronicling his experience with the disease and became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK.

In 1971, aged 23, his first book The Carpet People was published. The first Discworld novel The Colour of Magic was published in 1983 the start of the phenomenally popular series of 41 books. In 1986, Equal Rites the third Discworld novel was broadcast on radio’s Woman’s hour due to it exploring in part feminism, this was the most popular book to be broadcast.

His legacy is a fantastic collection of stories entertaining young and old.

The Discworld Series:

The Colour of Magic 1983 

The Light Fantastic 1986 

Equal Rites 1987 

Mort 1987 

Sourcery 1988 

Wyrd Sisters 1988 

Pyramids 1989

Guards! Guards! 1989

Eric 1990 

Moving Pictures 1990

Reaper Man 1991

Witches Abroad 1991 

Small Gods 1992

Lords and Ladies 1992 

Men at Arms 1993

Soul Music 1994

Interesting Times 1994 

Maskerade 1995 

Feet of Clay 1996 

Hogfather 1996 

Jingo 1997 

The Last Continent 1998 

Carpe Jugulum 1998 

The Fifth Elephant 1999 

The Truth 2000 

Thief of Time 2001 

The Last Hero 2001

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents 2001 

Night Watch 2002 

The Wee Free Men 2003 

Monstrous Regiment 2003 

A Hat Full of Sky 2004

Going Postal 2004

Thud! 2005

Wintersmith 2006 

Making Money 2007 

Unseen Academicals 2009

I Shall Wear Midnight 2010 

Snuff 2011 

Raising Steam 2013

The Shepherd's Crown 2015

He also co wrote Good Omens with Neil Gaiman. The "Long Earth" series, written with Stephen Baxter. As well as numerous other books related a separate from the Discworld series.

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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

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Spring Shower, British Summer, Average Autumn, Usual Winter

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Polo Ralph Lauren advert campaign for their Wimbledon sponsorship.

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Scott W Mason

Scott W Mason is a British Fashion Illustrator with a First Class Honours in Fashion Photography. He specialises mainly in illustration and photography and likes to develop and experiment with new ways of combining these two art forms.

This is a selection of male fashion illustrations, make sure to take a look at some of his other works on the following sites;

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Jean-Michel Bihorel - Flower Figures N°02

Jean-Michel Bihorel is a 3D artist based in Paris, France.

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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home

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Sarah Lamb

Sarah Lamb is a dynamic realist painter. With a classical skill, through transparency, depth and texture she captures minute details of everyday objects in her dramatic collection of Still Lifes.

Mrs. Cooch's Blueberries

Irises for HKM

Sunflowers

Jeff's Old Bottles

Lilacs

Camellias (with pink)

Heirloom Tomatoes

Hydrangeas and Berries

Pansies

Homage to Thiebaud

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The Goldfinch (Het puttertje)

The Goldfinch is a 1654 painting by Carel Fabritius of a chained goldfinch. It is an oil painting on panel of 33.5cm x 22.8 cm (13.2in x 9.0in). The painting is of a European goldfinch perched on top of its feeder attached to the wall.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painting depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an large pearl earring. It is oil on canvas and is 44.5 cm high and 39 cm wide (17.5 in by 15 in). It is estimated to have been painted around 1665 as it has no date on it.

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Anonymous Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus has installed their latest public interventionist project, “Consumerist Christmas Tree”, as part of Lumiere, a citywide celebration of light that takes place in Durham, England. To construct this 9 meter high tree, the group asked people to donate their plastic bags in exchange for cloth ones, resulting in a donation of around 4,000 bags. In addition to the tree, Luzinterruptus created strands of garland by installing lights in leftover bags and hanging them across streets.

For more information please visit - Lumiere Festival