Friday, November 21, 2008

Saturday, November 15, 2008

lovely video of cartoonist iconoclast/iconophile steve bell hard at it












the goddess of small things hath brungen home a second-hand postcard carousel ... every home should have one


NB we are living in a time when one of the great paradigms is "shifting" ...


our changing understanding of mind and brain were "illuminated" in this week's "in our time" discussion on BBCradio4, which was about neuroscience

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00fbd26

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_change


fortnum and mason's xmas window 1a




dear diary ... to fortnum and mason's at four in the morning to photograph the window display ... it is the best time of day because there are few passers by along the narrow pavement, and because the darker street doesn't present such a complication of reflections ... even so, you have to wait for traffic to pass, but can't avoid the reflections of the brightly lit shops across the street, a vast black screen held behind the camera by a team of assistants also wearing black would be helpful ... i made a technical mistake and should have used a smaller aperture, so sometimes the camera has autofocussed on the window pane rather than on the tableau within ... i'll go back soon and try for some sharper images ... click on these pictures for fuller detail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christen_Andersen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17860/17860-h/17860-h.htm#Plate_02

last years christmas windows were on november 10 2007 and november 17 2007

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-mason-windows-on-less-windy_17.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-mason-windows-on-less-windy.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-twelve-drummers.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-ten-lords-leaping.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-eight-maids-milking.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-six-geese-laying.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-four-calling-birds.html

http://emotionalblackmailers.blogspot.com/2007/11/fortnum-and-masons-two-turtle-doves-and.html