The Artists of Fitzroy Crossing.
The New Yorker last week had a long article on indigenous australian artists, which provided certain cautionary tales about the market, among other things. The aborigines have the longest continuous history of art ma[…]

Things I’ve cooked (part 1 of many)
So, last night it was hot, the sort of weather where cooking becomes a chore even for those of us who love it. But for some reason I still wanted to, so made for the quick and easy Squid Salad!
Get some squ[…]

Conduit right: I’m thinking that the Conduit Mandee links to below should perhaps be this Conduit, which I haven’t seen before but which looks at a cursory glance to be flash-heavy and fine.
I am attracted to the thought, though, that ea[…]

Look, look – Indie is king. 28% of platinum albums in the UK last year were on indie labels. Actually further perusal of the story tells you that the true figure is 39% but that included albums which went multiple platinum – which is a di[…]

What’s worse than pushing your way through a knot of late-afternoon drunks spilling out of the pub and over the pavement? Being one of them.
Now I make no secret of my loathing for drinking out of doors. Sweating it out on stony pavements or u[…]

HOW CAN I NOT HAVE SEEN THIS ACTOR AGAIN?
In Howard Hawks’s mostly unoriginal (it’s almost a remix of Rio Bravo) but very fine 1967 western El Dorado, a teenaged girl shoots John Wayne early on, because she believes he is a hired gun who […]

possessing photographs
My sisters like to accuse me of inventing memories that never happened in the first place. Older sister says this because the memories are so obscure, and seem to have no place in the order of other memories; like the time the[…]

Bridget Riley at Tate Britain: Size Does Matter
Some of the later work is rather limp, though I like some of her vertical/diagonal grid paintings, with colouring that may be on some scheme that I’ve not grasped yet, but is anyway sometimes comp[…]

Everyone loves cheese right? Cheese Net certainly do. You might expect a site with some rather good info on cheese but it is also garnished with a cheese of the day, troubleshooting section called Ask Dr Cheese and a Cheese Poem of the week. Their fa[…]

A Computer called LEO
There have been enough documentaries covering Station X, Alan Turing and the Enigma code for most people to make a decent stab at some of the details of the birth of the digital computer. But aside from the urgent need to get on[…]