Wednesday 16th May 2012 - Sunshine Lighting.
Weather predictions for today: A glowing sunny dawn. A disparately arid mid-morning, painful hale by lunch, fork lightning for afternoon tea, a rainbow by home time & a sleet by bed.
Can’t we have decisive weather these days? Like this lovely polaroid?
Photograph by Jennifer Evans.
Thursday 1st March - Spring Chickens.
Raoul Ubac shows us how Thursday evenings can be for some people.
“You mean to say, there’s ANOTHER day of work ‘til the weekend?”.
I count myself out of that category, of course.
Wednesday 29th February 2012 - Leap Day Traditions.
Watch out fella’s. ‘Tis the day women have traditionally been permitted to pop the ever edifying question.
Colleagues tell me there is an Absolute Radio mic set up in Golden Square for the ladies wanted to propose to their loved ones ON AIR.
How many public marriage proposals have been reluctantly rejoiced to prevent the sheer horror spread through their partners body? And to save the hollowing guilt from slapping their souls dry? I’d say it’s a pretty high number. Thanks to Absolute, I imagine this number will only increase today.
Photograph by Dave LaChapelle.
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Monday 6th February 2012 - Truffaut’s ‘Would-be’ 80th.
Francois Truffaut was one of my favorite directors (The 400 Blows, Jule et Jim, Stolen Kisses, Shoot the Piano Player & his short Antoine and Colette amongst the faves) so it’s only fitting that I revive the blog with him kick-starting it from beyond the grave.
Thought it’d be quite nice to have a picture of my dear Mother up too - just because I like it so much and because it’s much better to use one’s own materials than using others on the web. Obviously.
Here’s to you, Francois.
Wednesday 14th December - Pre-Christmas despair?
Mickey has hit a tiny nail firmly on its tiny head that so many of us fail to recognise.
We’re too poor & too busy to shop! Forced shopping (much worse than forced fun)? For other people? Whaaa. Lets postpone christmas ‘til we can actually enjoy it. Say, for next summer?
I reckon ol’ Mick was moping around Oxford Street on Saturday whilst this was painted. The place was like Parisian strike. The people, the desperation, the rush, the intensity. The triviality!
Good luck to those of us who haven’t yet begun to engage with Christmas. The inevitable Mighty Ducks 2 on Christmas Eve may just be the catalyst to banish that Scrooge-like-mood.
(Source: workshoperotica, via idontwantsex)
Monday 12th December 2011 - Never mind The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
…David Fincher has gone all animation on us in his new installment of ‘Aliens’ entitled, aptly, Fruit Club. This leaked production still shows us just how months of design indecision have ripened to rather tasty results.
Word on the street is that the story line takes place in human bellies as a new strain of mutant food types develop brains that become poisonous upon digestion.
(via mollymillions)
Friday 11th November - Spiritual Photography for a spiritual day (11/11/11).
Akin to the late Victorian trend, Memento Mori, ‘spiritual’ photographs chillingly place loved ones in the same frame as deceased relatives; a tool to keep them in their minds eye, and to dispel an impending feeling of loss, if only momentarily.
On the 11th of the 11th, 2011 - Remembrance Day, I see it an apt occasion to show some Victorian works I’ve been fascinated for a while.
Keep wearing your poppies, if the England football team don’t.
New theories will continue to be manufactured about today, but as the circle/ district line platform operator at Victoria station says, the only thing to be wary of is to ‘have your self a beautiful day ladies and gents. Driver, do your thing’.
That means keep going, to you and me.
Thursday 3rd November - It’s just a day for Cattelan & Kafka.
Wednesday 2nd November - The winter sun is swept into perspective…
…Sooooo lets go and spend £10,000 on Queen Victoria’s under crackers.
Sobriety and hindsight are almost as dangerous as the purchased goods.
Monday 3rd October 2011 - Knox walks.
Guilty, or not guilty?
A tangled web of deceit, or an innocent (and hopelessly naive) participant in a sex game gone wrong?
Sunday 2nd October 2011 - Bombastic Scots feel the burn with bulk bargain booze ban.
Supermarkets and local off license’s in Scotland have been discouraged from offering super-cheap deals on alcohol (yet Tesco online deals remain ‘because they deliver to areas of England’).
A bit flakey there, guys.
Saturday 1st October - Freak weather smiles on the UK.
So, 1st October 2011 is officially the hottest 1st October on record.
Brighton beach will inevitably become a haven of red and a bath of beer bottles. Gaggles of women will pluck the courage to go topless, and feel liberated for the afternoon. Packs of blokes will wear reflective sun glasses to cloak their wandering eyes, and feel empowered for it.
The Indian summer has finally spoken after weeks of hearsay.
Long may it continue!
Friday 30th September 2011 - Taxi?
A record heat wave, pay day, Friday night, independent salvation. The facts are preemptive.
How many more contraceptive pills, kebabs, taxi’s and new phones will be bought due to the above elements?
Back to the phone box we go. Good. Undervalued piece of design if you ask me.
Photograph by Pierre Faure.
Thursday 29th September 2011 - NATIONAL COFFEE DAY.
Although I just love a good cup of coffee, I’ve never had one quite strong enough so that see faces in the empty cup.
Enjoy a strong couple today to pick your melting limbs from the burning pavements.
Wednesday 28th September 2011 - Drive? Stall, more like.
The film ‘Drive’ (you know, the poster with Ryan Gosling that plasters the underground?) had its first Orange Wednesday treatment today.
I saw it, with a sell out crowd, at the Odeon Covent Garden - and was expecting great things. Michael Mann, a dizzying score, an ultracool plot, Carey Mulligan. The ingredients were bought, prepped and ready.
And then the film began. Ummm. OK.
Verdict: A slightly-above-average mature cheddar. Fantastic moments, but probably requires better crackers and onion chutney to make it worthwhile. Knightrider continues to be more relevant in this genre-happy flick.
