ISIBAISIA
ISIBAISIA stands for “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. As I get older, I find myself wanting to use this phrase more and more, hence my need for an acronym. Which, I note, other persons are...
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The artistic retreat from beauty
Like many people, I like photos like this: Not photoed by me. I wish it had been photoed by me. But, not. It makes me think of David Hockney, who also likes leafless trees. I’ve said it before and I’ll...
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They’re about to dig up the road
Another quota photo, because: another busy day. I may have time later to do something for here, but don’t want to have to be bothering about this. So: Again, photoed quite recently. Well, this year....
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Photos are back!
Or it looks that way. Here’s one I took in 2007 under a London railway bridge, somewhere: Appropriate now, I think you’ll agree. I’ve included “Art” in the categories list below. Since there seems to...
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A year ago today …
I was in St Cyprien, in the extreme south of France, staying with my extreme south of France friends (aka GodDaughter2’s family). Roof clutter ancient and modern, wires, orange tiles, fishing...
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Perpignan photos
A year ago yesterday I was in St Cyprien, and a year ago today I was in Perpignan. However, I was in Perpignan again on January 9th of this year, when the weather was much better and hence so were my...
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Art machines in all our pockets
Taken by a friend, beside one of the Walthamstow reservoir: The point of showing this is that it is such a fabulously vivid and artistic photo, yet it was taken with a mobile phone. Here’s another...
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Fifteen dancing ladies in 1923
I have now well and truly caught the Shorpy habit (from Mick Hartley mostly). Usually the photos at Shorpy are of Americans, but these ladies dancing (or just posing?) on a beach are British, although...
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Yes, I do like these optical tricks that computer graphics makes it so easy for computer graphicists to play on the world. Says Steve Stewart-Williams of his latest discovery in this genre: If you...
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Millais statue close up
Yesterday, I had another go, since I was passing that way, at photoing the Millais statue behind Tate Ancient, following an earlier effort last week (number 2 of these). The light was the same as then,...
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Adam Nathaniel Furman – Colourful Modernist
Here we go. Colourful Modernism is on the up-and-up: Design education “brainwashes” students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, according to Adam Nathaniel Furman, who said a group of London...
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WHAM!
While searching the photo-archives for something else completely, I came across THIS!: I photoed the above in the summer of 2016, in the Tate Modern gift shop. Art galleries fascinate me, even though I...
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China Monty
Last night, as already mentioned earlier today, I went to Sainsburys in Wilton Road. On my way there, I passed the Royal Trinity Hospice charity shop, also in Wilton Road, where I photoed thus, through...
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A garden centre in Vauxhall
Just after checking out that China Works Tower, on May 25th, I walked along Black Prince Road, under the big railway that goes into Waterloo, and turned left into Newport Street. There I came across...
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Now thrive the scaffolders and the craners
Quota photos, yes, but I trust amusing ones: That’s the Tate Modern extension nearing completion, photoed by me five years and one day ago. So not really now. But the scaffolders and the craners do now...
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John Duffin painting on Blackfriars Bridge ten years ago
Ten years plus a few days ago, I was checking out the work that was beginning to be done making the new BlackFriars Bridge railway station. And today, I checked out the resulting photos, Here are six...
View ArticlePoetic perfection in a reopening pub
Rebecca Day tweets: I’ve spoken to regulars Chris and Jimmy. Jimmy hasn’t gone to bed after his night shift tarmacking the roads. He had a shower and came straight here. He described the taste of his...
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The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
The Broadgate Tower, because I like it. This particular City of London Big Thing is in a slightly different style to the more celebrated Big Things just to its south, in that it is one of those towers...
View ArticleThoughts provoked by a Paul Graham piece about privilege
Paul Graham: There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although the concept is overused, there is something to it, and in particular to the idea that privilege makes you blind — that you...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about French military disappointments (and so does...
These disappointments happened in 1870, 1914, 1917, 1940, 1944(?) and 1954. We don’t talk about them in chronological order, because we started with 1914, which was the failed French Ardennes...
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