#Bruntsfield

[scotianostra]

A very kind guy gave me a camera he no longer need, it;s a proper DSLR, Canon, with a lens that can be added, with super zoom, I need to get the hang of focusing though, was out at Bruntsfield Links today trying it out and a number of the zoom pics are blurry, I think these two came out ok though.

#Edinburgh #scotland #scottish #edinburgh castle #bruntsfield #bruntsfield links #new camera

[embraphotos]

Montpelier Park, EH10

#Montpelier Park #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Scotland #United Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2022

[thilleshiem]

Repost from @korabytk • Great to recently welcome our friend @samheughan to KORA, meeting the team, sampling our @sassenachspirits cocktail and enjoying an evening meal.. Photo credit 🎥 @samheughan .. #korabytk #samheughan #kitchingroup #neighborhoodrestaurant #bruntsfield #korabytomkitchin @tom_kitchin #tomkitchin #fromnaturetoplate https://www.instagram.com/p/CodTNKQyMAr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#korabytk #samheughan #kitchingroup #neighborhoodrestaurant #bruntsfield #korabytomkitchin #tomkitchin #fromnaturetoplate

[sgiandubh]

Anon rebelde.

Muy buenas noticias para los negocios de Sam. Su asociación con una estrella Michelin para su ginebra y su whisky es todo un acierto. Restaurantes de nivel superior con clientela selecta que pueden apreciar la bebida sin la sobreetiqueta OL

Dear (returning) Anon Rebelde,

Siempre es un placer leer tus preguntas/comentarios. Y gracias por venir aquí tal como eres, en tu idioma nativo: ¡esta página se enorgullece de recibir a todos los shippers con los brazos abiertos, en cualquier momento!

Y ahora, por tu pregunta, que en realidad es un comentario, muy bienvenido:

'Some very good news for Sam's business ventures. His partnership with a Michelin star for his gin and whisky: now, that's quite something. High-level restaurants, with a select clientele who can appreciate his spirits without associating them to OL.'

Yes. These are very good news, indeed. As far as I could check tonight, the gin is still not on the online menus of any of the four venues Kitchin owns in Scotland (The Kitchin, the Scran & Scallie gastropub, Bruntsfield restaurant KORA and The Bonnie Badger Inn in Gullane). However, the whisky is, except for KORA - with a rather steep price tag and exclusively served at the bar:

At least two of these are on a personal to-dine list and I whistled in awe at the spectacular French wine selection of The Bonnie Badger. On the UK's hospitality scene, Tom Kitchin is a bit of a superstar, since 2007, when he got his first (and, to date, only) Michelin star at just 29 years old - youngest chef ever to get it, worldwide - and after being in business for just about 6 months. That also means he's somewhat controversial, being accused of digging in the staff's tip box from time to time or shouting and banging pots and pans - the usual cantankerous demeanor of a true hands-on chef, a notoriously demanding job. He can't be worse than Marco Pierre White, though (whose memoir, Devil in the Kitchen, I warmly recommend, by the way).

That being said for pure context, I am over the moon for S. Great job and so well deserved! As for OL, well: I found it very interesting that the farther we go away from the EDI flagship restaurant, the less relevant and present it is -"in collaboration with SH from OL" at The Kitchin, then 'The Sassenach by SH' at the gastropub (EDI aswell) and then just 'The Sassenach' at the inn (coastal village). And that, Anon, is a very clever strategy: it means the locals will appreciate it for what it really is - a probably excellent blend.

Grandma's bragging about his 500-ish bottles first white label bourbon batch sounds ridiculous, when compared to this:

Eres siempre la bienvenida, Anon Rebelde!

#anon #BoozeWars

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

As chef Tom Kitchin comments, the restaurants of his Kitchin group such as The Kitchin, (in Leith) the gastropub The Scran & Scallie (Stockbridge neighbourhood) and the KORA bar (Bruntsfield neighbourhood) and The Bonnie Badger (located in the heart of East Lothian) will be the first venues in the UK to serve SH's Wild Scottish Gin. There is no mention of any other restaurants in Edinburgh or in the rest of the UK serving or promoting SH’s alcohol.

It is a friendship based on mutual interest in benefiting: “I promote your drink, and you promote my local restaurants in Scotland.” Since MiK1, when Tom Kitchin and his restaurant were part of the show, Tom has tried to attract his new diners - Outlander fans tourists visiting Scotland - by offering Sassenach whisky cocktails 🥃 in his restaurant, and now will be promoting a new cocktail with Wild Scottish Gin 🍸 This is about how SH's booze came to the UK by Tom Kitchin’s hand in Scotland; otherwise, nothing would be known about SH’s Gin in a universe of over 110 Scottish gins and over 60 distilleries currently producing gin in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@Scottish Field

By the way, michelle_methven_productions and its team were in charge of SAM HEUGHAN x SASSENACH GIN. SH forgot to mention it. - Photographer @dave_foster_ - Camera and drone @johnduncanfilmmaker - Camera @jonnielewisfilm

[sshannonauthor]

Sorry this is really random. I’m going to Edinburgh soon and recently saw on your Instagram story you were sharing about a bookshop there, I’m pretty sure you’d written on the wall or something? I’d love to visit but couldn’t remember what the shop was called!! Thanks so much.

The Edinburgh Bookshop on Bruntsfield Place – it's lovely.

#sshannonauthor asks

[izzyliker]

hello your post about queer cafes just floated across my dash and i live in edinburgh and was wondering what the cafe is you were talking about? thank you!!

kafe kweer !! it’s in fountainbridge/bruntsfield depending on how you see it

[platosshadowpuppet]

Ban: to officially or legally prohibit

Please could residents of the Bruntsfields area please stop writing in about the banshee. We are aware that she is contravening noise pollution guidelines and staff will serve her an injunction as soon as we locate effective enough ear protection.

#fantasy #low fantasy #magical realism #fiction #fae #micro fiction #writing #microfiction #edinburgh #uk #monsters

[craigieblogexclamationmark]

Makes The Whole World Kin - Synopsis and my thoughts on potential adaptation

A burglar enters a home through a window. He lights a cigarette, he doesn’t rush his job. He takes care and time to assess his options. There’s a dim light coming from a nearby room. He hopes to find something valuable there. He enters to find a man asleep but who soon wakes up. The burglar points his revolver at the man and asks him to raise his hands. The citizen only puts up his right hand, explaining to the burglar he can not lift the other due to inflammation in the shoulder from rheumatism. This surprises the burglar. The burglar reveals that he also suffers from this in his shoulder. 

They then compare their injuries; how long they have had it, and the various different medications they have used to combat the injury, the time of day it affects them most. Just general complaints they have about the injury. They get so comfortable the burglar sits down on the edge of the bed and puts his gun down. Eventually, the burglar asks if the citizen wants to leave and go for a pint, even offering to help clothe the man struggling to do so because of his injury. The citizen accepts and the burglar says he will pay for the drinks as they walk off into the night. 

Notes

I think this is a very funny short story with a clean and simple twist.

It reminds me of the short stories in The Acid House by Irvine Welsh, which I am a big fan of. I think it could be adapted to be close in tone with this and also in the setting. I imagine the home being one in Morningside or Bruntsfield. With the characters even talking in Scots dialect.

I think the first half could play out in a tone similar to The Killer dir. By David Fincher, especially the first scene in that film. No dialogue, slick, exciting. 

The second half flipping on these expectations and taking the story down another path.

[thomasfilmblog]

Exercise 2

The location I visited was Bruntsfield Links Playpark. While walking through the meadows I came across a park that instantly transported me back to my childhood. Sitting in the deserted park I took in the scene, the weathered equipment, the graffiti covered benches, and the distant sounds of swaying swings and cars. It was an overcast day and the soft light added an eerie atmosphere to the place. 

Being there made me reminisce about simpler times, where I'd play with nerf guns and capture climbing frames as if they were space stations. The wave of nostalgia was powerful, and I realized how many other had shared the same memories in that park and others like it. But there was also a tinge of sadness as I vividly recalled those moments of jumping off swings and stomping up slides. It hit me that I could never go back to those days. My 20 or so minutes in this time capsule prompted me to reflect on my current experiences, living in halls, the routine walk to Merchiston, and more. This place reminded me to make the most of where I am now because one day il look back and be unable to relive these moments.

#Youtube

[scotianostra]

Bruntsfield Crescent.

The houses here were designed by the duo,  David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, who  perhaps are more famous fro their Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland books. 

The street full of imposing Baronial villas. has had some alterations over the years, but nothing major, one architect involved was  Robert Lorimer, who also used the Baronial style in his work, so they work was in keeping with the original concepts, Lorimer designed  Scottish National War Memorial and The Thistle Chapel among other things.

Professor James Lorimer father of the aforementioned Robert lived at No 1 Bruntsfield crescent form 1873 until his death in 1890.  James  was an authority on international law and was Regius Professor of Public Law at the University of Edinburgh from 1862 till his passing.

The house was acquired by the hospital towards the end of the 1920s. The terrace is outstanding for its impressive sweep, good quality design. 

The properties in Bruntsfield Crescent had an overall average price of £650,000 over the last year, so they’re not cheap! 

A wee bit history on the area, the original name for the area was "Brounysfelde" or Brown's Fields, after the owner of Bruntsfield House, built on a pocket of land granted by the Crown within the Burgh Muir, which nowadays is split between, and known as The Meadows, and Bruntsfield Links.

A note in appendix 2 of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1306–1424, records a 1381 charter from the reign of  King Robert II, which grants to William Lauder the lands of "Burrowmure in Edinburghshire", which had previously belonged to Richard Broun of Boroumore.

Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost of Edinburgh, acquired from his father, Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt., in August 1497 "the lands of Brounisfeld, with the manor-house and gardens, park, herbarium, etc., except for one perticate of land at the east end, adjoining the ditch thereof, in the common muir of Edinburgh.", that now being The Meadows and links.  In 1603 Sir Alexander Lauder sold it to John Fairlie of the family of Braid. Fairlie carried out extensive work to the original building, which is incorporated in the present mansion

The manor house,  known as Bruntsfield House, still survives but is much changed from what it once looked like. The following two pics are less than 120 years apart.

William Fairlie of Brounsfield, was still in possession after the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. He sold Brounisfield to George Warrender of Lochend, several street names bare the name Warrander in the area, indeed in my last post from my pics, the former church was once Warrander Church.

Bruntsfield House passed into Council ownership and since the 1970s has been incorporated into James Gillespie's High School as the school's main admin block. The house was categorised as a Listed Building by Historic Scotland in the early days of that agency.

#edinburgh #Scotland #scottish #bruntsfield #bruntsfield crescent #history

[embraphotos]

Bruntsfield Place, EH10

#Bruntsfield Place #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Scotland #United Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2023

[weegiewargamer]

Exercise 2

  The location I visited was Bruntsfield Links Playpark. While walking through the meadows I came across a park that instantly transported me back to my childhood. Sitting in the deserted park I took in the scene, the weathered equipment, the graffiti covered benches, and the distant sounds of swaying swings and cars. It was an overcast day and the soft light added an eerie atmosphere to the place. 

Being there made me reminisce about simpler times, where I'd play with nerf guns and capture climbing frames as if they were space stations. The wave of nostalgia was powerful, and I realized how many other had shared the same memories in that park and others like it. But there was also a tinge of sadness as I vividly recalled those moments of jumping off swings and stomping up slides. It hit me that I could never go back to those days. My 20 or so minutes in this time capsule prompted me to reflect on my current experiences, living in halls, the routine walk to Merchiston, and more. This place reminded me to make the most of where I am now. 

[saoirse-gillespie-film-blog]

Helping on Other Form Shoots

Hazel had asked me to help on the Lifeline shoot as her boom op while she recorded sound. As we’ve worked together before and this has been a good experience I agreed to help out! 

I joined the crew of Lifeline for a test shoot on Monday 27th March which ran from 6pm until around 9pm (for us sound people). Myself and Hazel set up and tested the sound equipment to make sure everything was in working order during this time.

Tuesday the 28th was the first night of shooting. I showed up to the location at Bruntsfield Links for the call time of 7pm and we shot until wrap which was about quarter to 12am. This ran smoothly and I had a lovely time working with Hazel and the entire crew! I helped Hazel set up the lav mics and mic the actors and then boom opped the entirety of the shoot. Hazel gave me a listen to the recordings between takes so we could assess position and level changes if needed. Overall a very good on set experience!

#filmform

[ivanwainwright]

Film Form Critical Reflection

 I am happy with my role of Producer on Lifeline, though I am very aware of the points at which I was at fault. I am not incredibly experienced in the role, so the process was a lot of learning for me.

              Before we began writing, the group faced some disagreement about what outline we wished to adapt. While some argued that Fiontann’s was ideal, Sophie felt far surer of herself to adapt Robbie’s outline into a script. She made a convincing argument, and the group was motivated to change.

              In the pre-production process, I was faced with tasks largely unfamiliar to me, including heavy scheduling, location agreements, the casting process, and group organization. Though my communication with the camera department was lacking, I managed to arrange a schedule for the shoot within a couple days of the final draft of the script. This later proved to be one of the most useful skills I learned while making the film.

              Location scouting was difficult, there were many suggestions from the group, but ultimately John found an ideal area by Bruntsfield Links. This would necessitate shooting on a weekday to minimise busyness, as well as discussion of the logistics of shooting on parkland. I managed this by ensuring that at all points no crew or cast would set foot on the Links, thus negating the need to acquire location agreements from the council. For the party scene, we elected to shoot at India’s flat, which was a ground floor location. The issues in the location process were largely around technical problems; though we were able to scout at the phone booth location fine, we did not schedule for a scout at the flat.

              Casting was a good experience, and I think it will help me in further directorial projects to have been on the producing end of the process now. We received a good number of auditions, and eventually decided on two very talented actors. The crew were enthusiastic with them, and India coordinated costumes very well. We called them in for a read through in the week before shooting, though Michael (the older actor) could not make it and phoned instead, but this arrangement helped me get to know them and arrange specifics for scheduling on set. We also cast Kyle from our course in an additional role.

              As we approached the shoot, we realised that the previous schedule was unsustainable without having scouted India’s flat well, so we added an additional night on the shoot to allow for an additional recce day. The extra day was very useful, and I am glad that I put it into the schedule. The fact that we managed to arrange it is a testament to the communication skills that we attempted to build as a group.

              It was at this point that we coordinated additional crew as well, recruiting five additional crew members. They would all prove to be invaluable on set, and the shoot would not have been possible without them. As a producer, the larger crew posed some issues with forms and permissions, but I was happy to fulfill this in exchange for the help on set.

              The first day recce was key in establishing a coherent reschedule for the following days. The second day was more stressful, though in the first AD role that I took on set I was able to manage the pace to something comfortable. Issues mostly arose in rearrangement and adding shots from DOP and director without first running this by me, which would have been useful, but once I pulled them aside to discuss plans, we managed to correct this. I was very happy with the third day, and John’s editing process meant that all notes for pickups were easily available and scheduled ahead of time. The final shoot day was equally smooth, a little shorter than the others. We had to reshoot and relocate a bit more to accommodate the busy foot traffic in the area, but it was nothing unmanageable.

              In post-production, I attempted to coordinate the editing process, though this was by far the area of producing I know the least about. I wish that it was here that I had made myself more involved, and it is a testament to John as editor and Hazel as sound designer that without my producing skills being especially developed they managed to turn out a strong product.

              The overall skill that the making of Lifeline taught me is one of group coherency; most issues that arose in the process were ones where the group were uncoordinated or in disagreement, and the places that I excelled and fell behind in my producing were the places where I was able or unable to provide a driving voice towards coherency.

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[hazelsbilmflog]

Sound Tech Recce (01/03/23)

On the 1st March, our group (Lifeline) held a lighting rehearsal/sound tech recce at our location, a telephone box on Bruntsfield Links. As HoD of sound, my objective for this was to practise using the MixPre’s Advanced Mode, in which you can use multiple mics to create a polywav.

After a massive upheaval of equipment, we finally made it to Bruntsfield Links. As other set up lighting and camera kit, I worked on getting the boom set up - which proved slightly more difficult considering we forgot to book the boom pole… lolz In the end it was fine, as Ivan humbly stepped into the role of human boom pole. After this, I synced and set up the radio mic, fitting this on to our stand-in, Sophie. The rest of my night was spent getting comfortable adjusting the gains of individual tracks in Advanced mode, soloing these etc.

Once home, I transferred the sound files onto my computer and opened them up in ProTools. Here, I tried to checkerboard and decipher which track was what mic by listening. Overall, I feel very prepared for the shoot and excited to push myself beyond my comfort zone in terms of both sound recording and design!