jerome trilles has left the planet ... i've known him since i was seven ... there's hardly anyone left with whom i can disagree passionately

no wonder the weather's turned nasty ...

... his departure has created a vortex

i'd better start suggesting some music for the wake ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM

incidentally ...

james turrell's "tank" ... i had a free ride on this in phoenix a few years ago .... marvellous !

http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2013/04/23/turrells-ganzfeld-experiment-part-2/

cymru am byth ... unless you're a ghost town ... via the excellent iconic photos blog, and onwards in to the e-wilderness

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/boy-destroying-piano-phillip-jones-griffiths/


http://www.fochriwhistory.co.uk/page68.htm

ordnance survey map and google earth links from alan george's encyclopaedic site ...

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/pantywaun.htm

... miners photographed in april 1940 by william vandivert

and what you might see now ...

sometimes a rogue sunset escapes from las vegas and makes its way to europe to afflict our innocent eyes ...

we saw this in the diaghilev show at the V&A, ... but i've only just tracked down this exerpt from the lovely fillum that formed a tiny part of a wonderful exhibition

http://www.newangle.co.uk/#!viewProject&projectID=113

click to the second page of new angle's page for a snatch of dance and imagery

the dancer is begona cao

on the banks of the thames ...

 ... but i know where i'd rather swim

apropos de sumpfinque ... 'cos he's a good 'un

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

.. and i nearly forgot this one ...

of course, ardizzone's debt to daumier's genius is easy to see ...

a lucky find at oxfam ...

sometimes i think there's a little too much girly stuff around the flat ...

extwa, double-bonus, twiple-dividend, gwatuitous wabbitwy

i blame you all ... no one told me coelacanths had relatives

... and belatedly introducing Latimeria's aged aunt, Mawsonia ...

... of course, i'd gladly credit the artist if i knew his/her name

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/20/coelacanths-are-unexceptional-products-of-evolution/

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

you have been warned ...