there are only straight-ish lines in nature ...

a stay-at-home afternoon ... just look outside; it is dark, it is windy, and it is very, very wet

pianist angela hewitt writes about a daunting challenge

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/19/angela-hewitt-battle-bach?INTCMP=SRCH

and, by way of a change .... stick yer headphones on ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mgw8pV4iPM

... as she scampers through a bit of ravel

cave to canvas

http://www.cavetocanvas.com/

cave to canvas is a treasure trove

i've just visited the most recent 125 pages ... umpteen to go

philip pullman on the delight of engaging with the grimm brothers' style of writing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/21/grimms-fairy-tales-philip-pullman?INTCMP=SRCH

investment opportunity ...

... mobile kerbside crematorium business for sale ... place your deposits in my swiss bank account now !

bae joonsung in the korean exhibition at the saatchi

a prolific korean artist who overlays multiple photographic and hand painted images behind a lenticular screen

as you walk past the painting so whole figures appear and disappear and are transformed within one coherent picture space

http://www.baejoonsung.com/artworksLentiCanvas_2010.html


... and there was another one ...

up close, you can smell the turpentine

i've only just become aware of

Adolf Wölfli

since we saw two of his large coloured drawings in the "maps of the mind" exhibition at the caixa forum art museum in barcelona

not the kind of man you'd want to be let out of the asylum, ever, but an inspired and fascinating "driven" artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQHYK6RNlk

enough beef for a month ...

... enough beef for two months

clapham junction by carol weight, and subsequently, tristan forward

stuff at sheffield park station on the bluebell line ... including the 75 year-old cleaning hero, ?chris carter?

time to fly home

dun shoppin

from drawing board to, er, um, drawing board

mannequins looking hot in the old town tonight

the two litre mojito

surfing before sunrise at la barceloneta

http://w20.bcn.cat/Guiamap/Default_en.aspx#x=32340&y=80428&z=4&c=&masc=&filt=&data=&w=1380&h=787

el born ... recommended rehydration station