Sweet as cherry pie. Well, I'm guessing here, I've never had a cherry pie.. Either way this is some fine funk for your Friday, coming to you from Count Yates and the Rhythm Crusaders. Welcome to......
duckrabbit trains a lot of NGOs and it's always interesting to see the pictures they have up on their walls. Oxfam, MSF and ILRI in particular adorn the walls of their offices with superb......
A hypothetical conversation I’ve often had with photographer friends goes a bit like this: ‘what would you do if a company you disagreed with on a fundamental ethical level offered to sponsor your work?’ With......
Yay. To celebrate a new QOTSA album, which you should always do, you listen to this..loud, like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKNKC9iqxpI ...
Decision time is looming in Scotland....the constitutional experts and political pundits are lining up for the debates..........the financial experts are sharpening up their spreadsheet calculations, the orators their rhetoric, and the retired generals their......
Two articles caught my eye this last few days................... Many times people neglect their DSLR because it is too bulky to carry for longer period of time, or because they are afraid to......
The north of Scotland is surprisingly 'far up'. Where I live is about 57.5 degrees north - that puts us on the same latitude as Gothenburg in Sweden, and going left, through both Hudson......
...and the power of nature. How far do you need to travel to hear indigenous people talk passionately about their endangered landscape? About what we had. And about what we're allowing ourselves to lose...... Wales. If this......
"Besides disastrous missteps and slow reactions to a changing media landscape, one of the big problems of the owners and top editors of the failing newspapers is they don’t have a clue......
Today, we start the day with funk in our step. Why, yes, we do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MsPzLU16w...
After writing a recent piece on the rather strange notion of ruin value, whereby architects design their buildings to look good as ruins, I began to drift on to thinking about the idea......
Thank you Ryann Ford. For reminding me of places I'd forgotten about. But which have figured prominently in my life. ...
Aaah..those Poor Righteous Teachers. Where would we be without them? Schools out. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2SrVDr4BIc...
I love this very short radio/animation mash up. Recorded by old colleague of mine at the BBC and animated by Rosanna Wan. Hot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cTYSfUyzCc&feature=youtu.be...
Peter posted a fascinating article last year about Nic Dunlop's book 'The Lost Executioner' and the photographs taken of those incarcerated by the Khmer Rouge prior to execution. ...
Celtic knot. © John MacPherson I wrote a piece last year called The Knots that Bind Us, exploring......
Some are, some aren't. Either way, it's about that time.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOxle8AsHU...
Lots of 'controversy' recently over the 'manipulation' of images and whether they bear any resemblance to reality. One commentator noting that if you want to manipulate your images "beyond what was in front of......
There were several mentions of dementia in the news yesterday, eerily coincidental, as I was in the middle of writing something about the disease. First was a theatre production 'Inside Out of Mind',......
This afternoon I've been making a music CD for someone I love. Hurding up some of the best music I've heard in the last few months (there is so much of it) I came......