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Prince Regent Pub Sign
My local pub is the Prince Regent in Herne Hill, and now that its summer its lovely to sit outside and watch the world go by. It also seems to have the biggest pub sign I have ever seen, but it seems to have worn away. Being obsessed with halftone printing I was wondering what…
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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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The Peripheral
‘He seemed genuinely mild, amiable, but also singularly alert, in some skewed way, as if there were something else looking out, around corners, swift and peripheral….. And the peripheral thing was right there, peering around some inner angle, taking her measure.’ Zero History p.70 & 71 has become…
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Home Work + Office Work jacket
Years ago when Labour and Wait were in their old shop they stocked some surplus stock french workwear jackets. They always sold out instantly and it was good luck if you could nab one. I got a few. So began the endless search for the perfect, work+work jacket.
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Space Oddity
I don’t know where or when I first saw Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Project’ photo of ‘Clean room, Indian National Satellite Insat 4B, Arianespace, Guiana Space Center [CGS], Kourou, French Guiana, 2007’ but everything about it is perfect, the colours, the objects. The whole collection of photo’s are great, but the spartan clean rooms with their…
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