Found my old photobucket account earlier today, forgot I even had it. Better yet, I found some of my old sketches from school…
If I remember rightly (and in no order in particular): Sam Guthrie, Bobby Drake and Joseph. As well as a few nameless made up fellas.
1997. I don’t even know if I have these sketch books any more, damn pleased I took photos.
I’m in Canada, writing from my second hotel of about four I think for this trip. The first night, in the Wyndhams, my body clock was still adjusting. At 4am my eyes opened like it was 9am and kicked me up into the day. Damn. “Best start work then…”
First, coffee…. and this is what I’m faced with -
There isn’t much tech in the world that I don’t get on with, however coffee machines (along with most fax machines) would be on the very short list if I ever made one. In fact, I just did and look – they’re at the top.
Were there any instructions for the machine anywhere in the room? No.
Any tips or pointers on the actual machine itself? No.
Brilliant.
Tweet tweet -
About 90mins later, this appeared -
What’s the twitpic behind the link?
Well… THIS:
How freaking amazing is that? My tweet, illustrated.
To give you some background, I stumbled across Irkafirka sometime ago now, back when they randomly sketched one of Benny’s tweets. I thought it was amazing and started following them. Both on Twitter and on RSS. Irkafirka illustrate tweets. Randomly. And they’re awesome.
Yesterday they did one of mine and I’m grinning form ear to ear.
Thanks to both of you, Chris and Nick. I’m made up.
Cheers.
Moleskine entry: August 23rd, 2009
“Hair and make-up sir?”
“Um… Oh… Er..”
“Is the anything in particular you want doing?”
“Um… A photo?”
“Ok well some boys want their hair and make-up done, some don’t. Some just want to walk on… eau natural.”
What do you think?
Am I a hair and make-up kind of guy or not? You know me, right?
No crazy exploits this time ’round.
No bonkers make-up or dodgy eyeliner, just some good old fashioned basic foundation, a friendly photographer and of course, a smattering of James Whatley.
Hey all,
Was wandering over Waterloo Bridge on Saturday afternoon and I caught sight of the Anthony Gormley statues that formed a part of his exhibition at The Hayward Gallery -
Unfortunately the whole thing’s over now… but I had to blog about it – there were just SO many of them..!
I took a couple of pics below…
This one – you can just make him out – lonely old chap that he is…
And this one…
Two in here – one on Waterloo Bridge itself and there in the background – there’s another one on the National.
I’m SO glad I caught these – I think they’re being taken down today – which to be honest is a real shame…
Having been there and experienced the almost comforting feeling of these figures looking down on me – I just got the feeling that this is one of those pieces of art that ideally would remain forever…
Much like when there was a similar work in Liverpool a while back and everyone wanted those to stay too..
Beautiful.
You can see more on this video interview that I found over on the BBC… worth a look – if only to get an idea of the scale of this project..
Just… Just watch it – you’ll see what I mean…
EDIT – thanks to regular reader – Nechbi – for a link to a great panoramic picture of some more statues…
Nice one dude.
