nasa's fillum of the transit of venus in several different spectral filters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9rM8ChTjY

some words in your shell-like, guvnor ?

if you didn't have chance to read the book ... rory stewart's two part series on afghanistan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jb9fn/Afghanistan_The_Great_Game_A_Personal_View_by_Rory_Stewart_Episode_1/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jk7qd/Afghanistan_The_Great_Game_A_Personal_View_by_Rory_Stewart_Episode_2/

and you can always read the blog from his day job...

http://rorystewart.co.uk/blog/471-the-acquisition-of-knowledge

vivat regina !!! ( i )

listen up, bros !
http://www.frequency.com/video/ronald-binge-elizabethan-serenade/17537232
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYCfkWLWZI

vivat regina !!! ( ii )

écoutez ...


http://www.feelmybicep.com/2009/10/15/grace-jones-pull-up-the-bumper-larry-levan-garage-mix/

helen gahagan in she c.1935

helen gahagan was quite a lady ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gahagan

A.N.OTHER in a famous disney production c.1937

the loved one has been trying to coax me in to summer colours

just in case there may be one amongst you who doesn't revere steve bell ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stevebell?INTCMP=SRCH

trouble at the bank ... spanish STYLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iop2b3oq1O0&feature=share

the ceiling in the cafe at the wellcome collection ... upside down for no good reason

what are YOU wearing to the street party ? union jacks are everywhere in jubilee year but there are better looking materials ( from an occasional series, fashion fabrics to die for, part 99 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Olbion

about ten years ago, i stripped a dilapidated old english country chair and re-painted it ... the wood seems to have shrunk and i'll have to re-glue it

quoted on BBCradio2 earlier this week ... "if i were two-faced, would i be wearing this one ?"