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It’s not that often that I look at art these days and think “wow”, but for some reason, I’m just intrigued by these cut paper creations, all from A4 paper. They’re maybe amazing because I’ve got such wobbly hands that I could never ever get near making them. Wow. |
A brief intermission for some ‘objects’ from Lily’s early life
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Just rearranging a few things on the hard disk and came across these things that I’d put on an early version of this website but were’nt there any more. I think they’re worth having albeit in the archive.
Varying from some pencil drawings of Lily and her cousins Matthew and Angus, to some early artwork by Lily and her very first sporting certificate !! |
Lily’s artwork
Nice prolitariate posters
The Tour de France gathers pace (or rather loses pace) as the race its the mountains today – when the going get tough….
I’ve browsed to these posters (Promoting the Discovery Channel riders) on show in the US at the moment – I just love the style of them. More posters in the series here
… and today, I watched…..
A very simple but strangely compelling and lovely video called Where the Hell is Matt?.
I saw you in a crowd
A new set of six photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr. “I saw you in a crowd” is a mini, virtual show of some photos from my recent work trip to London. I was lucky enough to not be in a rush wherever I travelled, so i ended up walking to all the meetings. The temptation to take shots of all the landmarks was avoided and I got this idea into my head about isolating colours. I’ve done this a few times before and it’s fairly easy in Photoshop, but it’s a challenge to pick the right images to do it to. I think they’ll work better printed up than on the screen – they need a bit of space around them.
Parking Spots
Parking Spots – a nice concept – toy cars juxtaposed into real life. Lovely.
Are You Worthy?
Found a great Photoshop Contest called “Are you worthy?”. Some top public information-type images that are poignant at times and downright hilarious at others.
A clampdown on the freedom of artistic expression
Yes – I’m afraid all my paranoid fears are coming true. I was filling in time whilst changing trains at Birmingham New Street station by taking some photos of peoplle moving around the station, when I was ‘picked up’ by two undercover police officers interested in what on earth I was doing documenting a potential terrorist target like Birmingham New Street station. They took down my credentials and had a look at some of the photos. I didn’t even have time to edit the images and apply all the necessary filtering and cropping to make them look good – so slightly embarrassing on that score. I was a bit upset that they didn’t find my photos suitably controversial to censor them. Thast would have made me a more robust and convincing artist, but at least it means I’ve formally struggled to defend my art in the eyes of the law. Sort of.
Frozen barbed wire
Strange things afoot in Helmshore today. Ice winds and driving sleet and snow combined with a temperature above melting point – all the trees and fences had this layer of ice on them and thre trees made a crackling sound in the wind. Chilly. Background is our house in the distance.
Why the Chicken Didn’t Cross the Road
Ace photo on my friend John’s Flickr site. I seem to be having a bit of a Flickr intensive revival at the moment. John’s travelling around the world (again – twice in three years!) and sending some ace shots back. Have aloot at the set if you’ve got time…. gorgeous snaps.
San Francisco, the model city
A lovely bit of photo-tweaking and a nice Photoshop tutorial showing you how to make normal cityscape photos look like those architectural cut-out models.