May 2010
3 posts
WatchThis is a quite wonderful piece of timelapse photography, from a quite wonderful photographer - Serge Brunier (http://www.sergebrunier.com/galerie.html).
The scale of the piece, the timeless motion of the stars across the desert sky is evocative of primeval man watching nightfall and finding God in the heavens above him. The wonder of it all…
WatchI love this video. It was at Tate Moderns Pop Art exhibition last year - the Japanese master of zeitgeist, Takashi Murakami, directed the piece. What I love about it is that Kirsten Dunst is having so much fun. It is a great song. I love Japanese culture. It was directed by Murakami. YouTube banned it (it shows anime boobs!). Oh - and it has Kirsten Dunst in it.
All in all - a great way to...
February 2010
2 posts
WatchIt’s been a while. Am loving this video - reminds me a little of “Eraserhead”, but maybe that’s just me. Either way - it’s quirky and has Lego - what more could you want?
November 2009
7 posts
Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill at the...
“Over a period of 10 years from 1905 to 1915, three outstanding young sculptors emerged in Britain; Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill. The radical impact of their work was to transform British sculpture.”
Three of my favourite sculptors together in one exhibition featuring around 90 works from sketches to sublime sculpture. In their day they were at the bleeding...
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
Having a keen interest in photography and indeed undertaking my first professional portrait shoot next month, I was keen to visit the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery as a matter of “study”.
I like the NPG - it has an atmosphere to it that other galleries some how do not. I put this down to the gallery appealing to a wide variety of interests and artistic taste.
Earlier...
Joe Lally →
I am going to see Joe Lally when he gets to Kingston in London at the end of the month.
The last time I saw Fugazi was on their first ever European date at the now defunct, Sir George Robey in Finsbury Park. It remains one of the best gigs I ever saw. During the day I had been involved in a riot at a student demonstration. All hell broke loose when some of the crowd started throwing sticks...
WatchI love the inventiveness within this video - the animation is superb, very simple, yet extremely complex to pull off and plan - all the frames must first be created and placed within their context on the larger frame.
Must have taken hours - and I stand and clap in awe!
October 2009
7 posts
Someone Once Told Me →
Someone Once Told Me is a photo blog with a nice twist. It is the brain child of Mario Cacciottolo, who describes it thus:
“We are all shaped by the things that someone once told us. The words we hear impact on us, whether we want them to or not, and it’s undeniable that they have a power.
Someone Once Told Me is essentially a means for me to practise my photography and to give me...
Bamboo bikes in Africa →
This seems like such a good idea - cheap (well kind of!), effecient, green and pragmatic. Though I have all sorts of nerdy questions about it - such as just how does the bottom bracket affix to the frame and how does it cope with the stresses placed upon it?
The bottom bracket (the axle for the pedals) is in steel - but joins two pieces of bamboo. In a “traditional” bike it would...
Wooden Bicycle →
This looks stunning - the concept is great, though riding would be the key thing. I expect it’s not a great ride, though it would turn heads and that’s important too.
There is some great detail - check out the rear of the frame - the twisted wood will flex and absorb the shock. Personally I like hard-tails - but this does look great.
I will have to dig out the story on the BBC...
