King Edward VII Recreation Ground
My brother and me in King Edward's Recreation Ground, Willesden. Years later, I did a painting of this place.
New camera
I just bought a camera and this post is simply marking that fact, with the first (published) photo taken with it.
Moira Furnace
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
It is a most important industrial monument, since it is remarkably well-preserved, and dates from a formative period of the Industrial Revolution.
Dinosaur skeleton automaton (video 00:17)
In the window of the Victorian Model Workshop, Ferrers Centre, Staunton Harold.
We built sandcastles that washed away
We built sand castles that washed away, I made you cry when I walked away…
Smoking woman
This photograph I took in Tooting from the top deck of a bus in 2015 is getting a lot of views in my Flickr account.
It is of a woman having a cigarette in an alley just off Mitcham Road, by Tooting Broadway. She appears to be pregnant, is what it is, I think.
Repost: “Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe”
In celebration of the Hubble telescope’s thirtieth birthday, I’m reposting this article from Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), as I love the image on this glass photographic plate.
Buildings in London that are gone now
Change is good, generally. It keeps us from stagnating. The challenge of new ideas and new ways of doing things is good for our brains and drives adaptation and innovation. It underpins our evolutionary development.
In London, despite many years of imposed austerity and economic and social decline for the general population, property developers continue to be busy, avariciously gambling on unsustainable future growth that fails to account for the exigencies of the pivotal era we live in, by which I mean, the Climate Emergency in particular, but also, the social policies that are disenfranchising the working population, the rise of nationalism and so on.
This (photo) reminds me of that (painting)
The photograph on the left is one I took of a decorative old water pump in the garden of Paycocke’s House, in Coggeshall, Essex in the summer. The painting on the right is one I painted in 1986 called The blue conduit…
Chewing through a building (video 0:44)
Walking down Old Street on my way to work one morning, I happened to catch a glimpse of this impressive machine taking down a building.
Diorama (video 01:09)
diorama
/ˌdʌɪəˈrɑːmə/
noun
a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.
HISTORICAL
a scenic painting, viewed through a peephole, in which changes in colour and direction of illumination simulate changes in the weather, time of day, etc.
a miniature film set used for special effects or animation.
It was a very good year: rural Hungary in 1985
After graduating from art college in 1985, I went to stay with my grandparents at their smallholding in southwest Hungary for a couple of months, from August to after the grape harvest in late September.
It was a summer of good food and drink, simple labour, reflection, and some loneliness.
