Lily goes off from time to time and sites down quietly with her pens – like lots of six year olds do – to create something. Usually it’s a card or a picture, but sometimes it’s something a bit more … Continue reading
Category Archives: Art / Design
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Manchester International Festival – ‘The Great Indoors’
Ace day on Saturday – we took Lily and Elsie into ‘The Great Indoors‘ a wonderful collection of children’s creative activities and performances all over the insides of Manchester’s Town Hall, as part of the Manchester International Festival. We met … Continue reading
Danny MacAskill’s work on the Doves latest video
Danny MacAskill’s rise to fame has been rapid this year due to some great viral stuff involving his Edinburgh street exploits on youtube. Top tune, too…
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Cannondale Six Carbon – my lovely new bike
Had the great pleasure of building up my new bike from Wheelbase on Wednesday night. Just waiting for a slighly nicer day than today to take it for a spin… it’s light, as it looks, and I’m sure it’s going … Continue reading
Lily dancing to Boards of Canada
Had a nice teatime chill with Lily and Elsie last night whilst Katie went out tot he gym for the first time since Elsie was born… including some freeform art dance by Lily, totally unprompted, to my favourite album of … Continue reading
On The Nikon D200
Staying at Phil’s house for a few days over the weekend gave me an opportunity to play with his ‘work’ camera’, the Nikon D200. It was a stunning experience. The inordinately heavy body gave the camera an unrivalled steadiness, meaning … Continue reading
Half term day out: Crosby and Knowsley
Taking advantage of the pretty much unprecedented February clear spell, I took full advantage of a day’s leave booked to spend with Lily. Katie’s half term doesn’t coincide with Lily’s which is a bit crap, but we had such a … Continue reading
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World War I Soldier Formations
There’s something intriguing about large scale interactive things like these World War I Soldier Formations For someone to have the balls and patience to organise it is just beyond me. It’s also deeply metaphorical about art; that it only exists … Continue reading
A great half term day out
It’s Lily’s first ever half term – and yesterday we had the day together – and what a corker it was. We dropped Katie off at work in the morning then went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to look at … Continue reading
Life imitating Google Maps
Oscar Wilde said that Life imitates art more than art imitates life. Here’s a nice thought At the Royal College of art in London, Robert Sollis has created Google Carpet. Made from individual carpet tiles, each is a square of … Continue reading
Cats in a record shop
Was sent these by email and they made me giggle. Cat listening to bluegrass: Cat listening to rap: Cat listening to AC/DC: Cat listening to Techno:
Golf Ball Fell Race 2007
It’s not unusual for Fell Races to have odd names… ‘The Trunce’, ‘The Trog’, ‘Old County Tops’, etc. The Golf Ball race is so names because of the strange huge golf ball like communications tower new Loveclough on the northern … Continue reading