"You must have a really good camera!"
Twice in the past month dear friends have looked at really good photos I took and said, spontaneously “You must have a really good camera!”
And I do. I’m very fond of my cute little pocket camera. It takes good pics and goes everywhere with me.
But… even though I’m very fond of my camera, it doesn’t take these really good photos ALL BY ITSELF.
I have something to do with that, too.
Seizure: 28th November
“Seizure”, by Roger Hiorns, is one of those ideas elemental in their simplicity. It existed from 3rd September to 30th November 2008, at 157 Harper Road, London SE1.
Hiorns took a derelict flat, in a block about to be destroyed, and made it into a waterproof tank into which he poured 90000 litres of hot copper sulphate solution, and left it for two weeks. The remainder of the solution was pu…
In the Bell Tower
The bell doesn’t swing: it’s rung with a hammer-stroke. When standing close enough to touch, the noise is awesome. So large and deep a sound it’s painful in my ears, a sound that thrums itself down the scale of loudness and is still humming when it’s interrupted with the next vast blow.
Reading Bubblemails (not)
If I don’t log on for a few days, and a pile of Bubblemails have heaped up, I find that the easiest thing to do is to delete them all (except the most recent ones) unread.
Group mods are fond of sending out bubblemails for no particularly good reason – sometimes they say openly it’s just because they haven’t sent one for a while, no better reason than that! – and the information in them, wh…
What is art? Cavorting Sailors
My photos of Shaeron Averbuch’s Cavorting Sailors are going to be in an exhibition organised by the Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, ColloquiArt.
It’s at The GRV, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, 16th/17th March. There’s not a lot of information about it online – I’ll add links …