Smoke houses in Hastings on the South Coast of England and in Mallaig on the West Coast of Scotland.
Category Archives: Design
Slow quilting
I now have a Museum Association pass, and wishing to exploit it, I found myself paying a speedy visit to the Quilts exhibition at the V&A. This was coincidently the same week that I had a go at quilting myself, using the cut off ends of brown trousers and a Singer sewing machine from Lidl.Continue reading “Slow quilting”
Old English architecture, as seen
Polling station
Britain’s polling stations. A school hall, a church hall, a sign outside in black text on cheap white paper. The booths are tacked together flimsey hardboard and unfinished 2 by 1. The voters mark the papers using pencils tied to the booth with string; a vote is a simple big cross, that you may seeContinue reading “Polling station”
Performance, handling & glide
Words used in descriptions of both cars and razors in consumer magazines.
Matlock Thermal Spring
[FAG id=4537] The mill in the photos is the Cromford Cotton Mill of Richard Arkwright. As we toured the mill, I was struck with the way Arkwright worked things out. He worked out how to process cotton using a machine; he designed the mill as a fortress, with good defences as the machinery was unpopularContinue reading “Matlock Thermal Spring”
Paint by numbers
The inside of a Paint by Numbers kit.
Camera Obscura
Rebekah Cameron built a camera obscura and devised these experimental shots. Pearls, rich colours, fruit and silver objects come out particularly well on the camera obscura lens. The lighting is instantly reminds us an old master portrait.
Polaroid
The Polaroid is now a museum piece. There is much pleasure in taking a polaroid. Each shot is treated as special, there is the mechanical sound and feel of the paper ejecting, the waiting and watching and the slow alchemical change on the surface of the paper. I wonder if someone will make a digitalContinue reading “Polaroid”
Oxford map
ARTWORK
Coffee Table TV 