That's better....'tis summer after all
It’s a beautiful, glittering blue sky day. After what seems like weeks of drizzle and torrential rain everything is again defined by the sharp relief of summer light. I am emerging from a muffling cold reluctant to leave, so took … Continue reading
The Illusionist performs.....
As much as I love the odd Disney/Pixar 3D spectacular, there is something reassuring about watching an animation done the old-fashioned way. The new film from Sylvian Chomet, The Illusionist, is his first full length feature since Belleville Rendez-Vous (Les … Continue reading
Shhhhhh...I can't hear them!
On this day in 1965 The Beatles played to a record 55,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York. Beatlemania was at it’s height and the concert set a new precedence for large scale performance. The volume of the screaming … Continue reading
To the left, to the right.....
Josephine Baker rose from a life of hardship to become the sensual and sensational darling of Art Deco Paris. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1906, working for an abusive white woman at the age of 8 and dropping out … Continue reading
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If Andy Warhol were alive, he’d be the ripe old age of 82 today. Whatever you think of his art, he undeniably changed the visual landscape of the 20th century, putting to canvas a potent mix of consumerism, death and … Continue reading
© klaus pilcher
For the last 2 years Vienna based photographer Klaus Pilcher has had behind the scenes access to the city’s Museum of Natural History. The result is a continually developing body of work evoking it’s unseen archive of nature – Skeletons … Continue reading
Not so hard to do!
I’ve recently moved house and hankering after great images to put up on my walls. Lesley & Pea’s Aardvark Manifesto would do the trick – lovely letterpress and such wonderful words to live by! I don’t have a TV to … Continue reading