...I can feel it on my skin.
People watching by MACBA
08 February 2011
27 January 2011
Penguin Great Ideas and bloody great covers
So recently I've been reading and writing alot more than i had been for a long time. it's been creative and inspiring.
There's an english bookshop on the corner near my work that i've been going into every few days for the last couple of weeks...but why? i discovered they stock the Penguin Great Ideas series of books - short works by different philosophers and writers from Ancient Greece and China to Victorian Britain and pre-war Germany. The authors range from Schopenhauer to Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Kant, Freud and beyond...
Of course they're mind-bendingly and head-scratchingly brilliant reads in themselves, but the cover art elevates them to a whole new level. i spent half an hour in there just fondling and staring at the covers today. I would have bought a few, but think a whole lot of other people must have the same idea - each one had been handled to death, and i like to get crisp pages for my money when i buy a new book. ok, i bought one.
the covers literally blow me away. it's such a perfect example of how good design and the right typography can make a good thing AMAZING.
here are a few of them. lush.
There's an english bookshop on the corner near my work that i've been going into every few days for the last couple of weeks...but why? i discovered they stock the Penguin Great Ideas series of books - short works by different philosophers and writers from Ancient Greece and China to Victorian Britain and pre-war Germany. The authors range from Schopenhauer to Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Kant, Freud and beyond...
Of course they're mind-bendingly and head-scratchingly brilliant reads in themselves, but the cover art elevates them to a whole new level. i spent half an hour in there just fondling and staring at the covers today. I would have bought a few, but think a whole lot of other people must have the same idea - each one had been handled to death, and i like to get crisp pages for my money when i buy a new book. ok, i bought one.
the covers literally blow me away. it's such a perfect example of how good design and the right typography can make a good thing AMAZING.
here are a few of them. lush.
09 January 2011
December snow - an ode to clouds
Happy New Year to all...
Here's hoping the task of making and sticking to new years' resolutions won't be too troublesome...
So to begin 2011, i made a little film set to music (not sure if film is the word to use as it was so basically done). The view on my way home to england from spain was so beautiful that i had to record it. It was originally supposed to be the unedited video uploaded with a song, but i got very carried away and i ended up chopping a few parts up to the music...it's been a really long time since i've gone near any video-editing software though, so it was avery refreshing little exercise.
anyway, here it is, it's a little ode to my love of clouds and the british countryside covered in snow (they sort of blended in together, it was gorgeous) and one of my favourite songs at the moment too - Fuzzy by Radiosofa.
Here's hoping the task of making and sticking to new years' resolutions won't be too troublesome...
So to begin 2011, i made a little film set to music (not sure if film is the word to use as it was so basically done). The view on my way home to england from spain was so beautiful that i had to record it. It was originally supposed to be the unedited video uploaded with a song, but i got very carried away and i ended up chopping a few parts up to the music...it's been a really long time since i've gone near any video-editing software though, so it was avery refreshing little exercise.
anyway, here it is, it's a little ode to my love of clouds and the british countryside covered in snow (they sort of blended in together, it was gorgeous) and one of my favourite songs at the moment too - Fuzzy by Radiosofa.
09 November 2010
BCN - "sexy beer?"
I love the cerveca men of Barcelona.
a photo i took on las ramblas one mild november evening.
commercial bits - www.la-boca.com
Soo....to catch up! - a very small, edited selection of some more photos I shot for www.la-boca.com - an online guide to what's on in and around Barcelona.
RITA ROUGE - BCN
FANTASTIK shop of world-wide paraphernalia, BCN
commercial work - HOXTON HOTEL
Some commercial work for the Hoxton Urban Lodge Hotel in Shoreditch, London.
22 October 2010
17 October 2010
flores viejitas
Everything beautiful dies in the end.
The effect of five days on my beautiful dahlias.
“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
(Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being).
15 October 2010
Lomography
This is one of my favourite photos ever, taken with my dearly beloved lomo.
This was taken way back at uni in falmouth of three of the most beautiful souls I have ever known....rachel arguile, libby grace freshwater and adam boon. gorges.
“The surrealists advocated the transformation of human perception and experience through greater contact with the inner world of imagination” (Warner Marien: 2002: 257).
The second photo for some reason came out alot darker and clearer than the first, and that to me is the beauty of lomography...each photo has a beautiful and surreal quality caused by the light-leaks.., one of the many inevitabilities and joys of using a toy camera made mainly of pastic!
12 October 2010
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