This famous corkscrew was designed by the same man who invented gearing for bicycles and quick release mechanism for bicycle wheels. Tuilio Campagnolo.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
corkscrew
This famous corkscrew was designed by the same man who invented gearing for bicycles and quick release mechanism for bicycle wheels. Tuilio Campagnolo.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
morandi
I used to think that the magazine Modern Painters was both interesting and worth my time. I'm pretty sure that I'm less pretentious than my younger self although the proliferation of posts about italian bikes, famous chess gambits, glitch and Damien Hirst may suggest otherwise. My time seems to be more precious now too. The 1997 summer issue of Modern Painters contained the most eloquently written article about an artist that until then, I'd never heard of. That artist was Georgio Morandi. The author was Siri Hustveldt. Modern Painters has never been the same. Neither have I.
petrosian vs. spassky October 28, 1966
A wonderful game with a double exchange sacrifice, plus a Queen sac delivering the coup de grâce. The strategical basis for all of this is the great strength the White Bishop has in e6 as it is working in tandem with the White Queen on the diagonals attacking the Black King, and Black's misplaced Knight on the side of the board. Great game by Petrosian.
bicycle. beautiful. bicycle.
1. The Rider by Tim Krabbé
Krabbé is probably best known in this country as the author of the novel adapted as the film The Vanishing, but in his native Netherlands The Rider is his bestselling book. As a young man, Krabbé's forte was chess - in his late teens, he was inside the top 20 players in Holland - and he only discovered a talent for cycle-racing relatively late in life, in his 30s. That new-found passion eventually found its way into this autobiographical novella about a bike race in south-west France, but the chess knowledge still figures as Krabbé narrates the intricate battle of tactics and psychology as the race plays itself out against the bleak landscape of les causses. Like much of Krabbé's oeuvre, The Rider has a strange, dark, philosophical flavour: it is both a paean to pain and a hymn to the fellowship of the road. Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing.
Krabbé is probably best known in this country as the author of the novel adapted as the film The Vanishing, but in his native Netherlands The Rider is his bestselling book. As a young man, Krabbé's forte was chess - in his late teens, he was inside the top 20 players in Holland - and he only discovered a talent for cycle-racing relatively late in life, in his 30s. That new-found passion eventually found its way into this autobiographical novella about a bike race in south-west France, but the chess knowledge still figures as Krabbé narrates the intricate battle of tactics and psychology as the race plays itself out against the bleak landscape of les causses. Like much of Krabbé's oeuvre, The Rider has a strange, dark, philosophical flavour: it is both a paean to pain and a hymn to the fellowship of the road. Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing.
Friday, April 10, 2009
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