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Pottermore Christmas present
Couldn’t resist wrapping some design books for my colleagues in a Harry Potter style. Had fun mixing a vintage royal mail stamp with Hogwarts. Owl post!
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History of the Brockwell Lido
Tabitha’s history of the Brockwell Lido The Brockwell Lido has been going since 1938. We all like the Lido’s fresh water and on summer days its very nice and cool. A range of people have chosen this place because its very cooling in the summer and its busy over the years.
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Calder
Who has an Anthony Calder sculpture in their living room? Josep Lluís Sert
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One is starved for Technicolor up there
When Peter Carter, played by David Niven bails out of his burning plane, with no parachute and survives, it is because his angel, Conductor 71, has missed him in the english fog. Conductor 71 is dispatched to earth to convince Peter that he must return with him to heaven. Heaven is black and white and earth…
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Because I just went gay all of a sudden
Aunt: Who are you?David: Who are you?Aunt: But who are you?David: What do you want?Aunt: But who are you?David: I don’t know. I’m not quite myself today.Aunt: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.David: These aren’t my clothes.Aunt: Well, where are your clothes?David: I’ve lost my clothes.Aunt: But why are you wearing these clothes?David:…
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Surfing the web with Marshall McLuhan
Happenstance or coincidence for the third day in a row I have found myself talking to somebody about this page from the medium is the massage. The contrast between the businessman and all the establishment ideas he stands for and the anti-establishment act of surfing is great. But I was wondering what had happened to the…
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Space Oddity
The colours on this photo are retro because its an old photo, no instagram photo filter trickery here, the world was this colour back then? The original is here. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: In the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles M. Duke [left] and commander…
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney & Beaton
Everything about this photo is perfect, its absurdly English, because Hockney and Beaton are sort of english archetypes. It was taken by Peter Schlesinger and there is a great interview in the Guardian explaining how it came about. He describes it as, ‘I like the way their poses contrast – they’re doing different things yet…
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Space Oddity
Kathryn Thornton is repairing the Hubble telescope, I have cropped the square format of the image so the earth is no longer visible behind her, please check out the original. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: This STS-61 onboard photo depicts Astronaut and mission specialist Kathryn Thornton performing the 2nd extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of…
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