Actor Gerard Butler, who probably best known for his starring roles in the Phantom of the Opera and 300 has spoken about his love of solitude:
I know I have within myself… a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can’t because I’m generally very fun […]

The Anechoic Chamber at Orfield Laboratories Inc., Minnesota, is officially the Quietest Place on Earth. How would it feel to experience negative 9.4 dB?
Silence is a truly rare thing. All reverberation is removed… all sounds that aren’t coming from your own body disappear. After a few moments in the anechoic chamber, you’ll begin to feel […]

A room can be considered as a private sanctuary, the door being a physical and psychological boundary between interior and exterior life. The closed door provides an atmosphere of meditation, isolation, anonymity and also eroticism: intimacy and a feeling of confidence.
When closing the door the doorknob is pulled towards the inside of the room, […]

A Beacon in Treacherous Waters
Bishop Rock is the smallest island in the world, and one of the most remote locations in the British Isles. Open to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean, the original lighthouse tower was swept away in 1850 and had to be rebuilt. The present building was completed in 1858.
In medieval […]