#FF Funky Friday.

This song was only the second ever released on Sugar Hill Records...and the first female group rap record. The first was the epic Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang. Meet Gwendolyn Chisolm (aka 'Blondie' -......

Prestidigitation.

We went to the beach one day. My son and I. A small boy, just three years old and full of wonder. The fair had arrived! And was just setting up. Dodgems, whirlers, ferris wheels, candy......

£10000 payout (plus costs) for man arrested for taking a picture of a bank.

Anthony Finnegan, 45, from Castlefields, Shrewsbury, was arrested for taking a photograph of the doorway of the NatWest branch in Mardol Head in the town in July 2009 – leading to a three-year battle......

“It’s not crack or anything, but it’s still really bad”.

This is brilliant. (Thanks @lucas_jackson_) http://youtu.be/Bt9zSfinwFA...

Richard Bram’s London Underground ‘street’ photos are superb.

Guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Check them out here. 'I've spent far too much time on the London Underground. I don't do this because I particularly like to, but because it......

Alexia Foundation (Launch New Website).

On the 21st of December,1988, 270 innocent people were lost in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Alexia Tsairis, age 20, a Newhouse School of Public Communications student at......

Would you like a smoke?.

  I met them in a high coire. Two tired hikers. In Coire Mhic Fhearchair, to be precise. In the late evening. Summer. If you are in the mountains it is good to be precise. Otherwise......

It’s only a story..

I saw art being created last week. It was inexact in many ways, and a dispassionate observer might describe it as 'messy' (art is like that!). It involved some struggle. Some people cried during it. There......

Newsflash: call for proposals from Side Gallery, Newcastle.

EXHIBITION PROPOSALS We are continually looking for bodies of work that fit within our programming agenda at Side Gallery. If you would like to submit work for consideration, please see the notes below: 1. As Side Gallery......

#FF Funky Friday #2.

Last Friday, this was what I was hearing. Not good. This Friday, this tune is what you'll be hearing. Good. This one's for Mal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRZq3J0uz4  ...

click #36 click.

36 tales. Each and every one crafted. Every one worth your time...Once you jump in, you may never return..just don't say I didn't warn you: ...

#FF Funky Friday.

Spanky Wilson? Always: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCeaYsTy-C8...

Here’s where the story ends...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n35C0j3LLB0...

Ron Haviv responds...

Here. Sigh.    ...

Questions Without Answers @VIIphoto.

That's the title of  VII photography's new book on war. In an interview just given to the publisher Phaidon, the CEO of VII, Stephen Mayes states 'I think at VII we’re not trying......

@VIIphoto agency, Ron Haviv and the world’s two largest arms producers.

'If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.' James Nachtwey, founder member of VII Photo Agency. On the 5th of Apil 2010 Wikileaks released a classified......

Dear @StephenMayes @VIIphoto.

I sent this email to @StephenMayes (CEO of VII) today. No response. You can help get an answer by tweeting this post. You can also @ in the other photographer/owners of VII photo agency. Then......

#FF Funky Friday.

    Funky Friday is a little bit late today due to me having to drive back up from sunny Cornwall to the sprawling metropolis of Brizzle. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yG7QeVdKfQ...

Funky Friday.

In case FF is experiencing technical difficulties,and is not going to be delivered by its regular contributor I'm taking the liberty of offering the wonderful Mike Steiphenson/Burundi Black. If the real FF appears, then......

What a web we weave.

"Yo pider! Thats a fine web." I told the orb-web-spider as I clambered up onto the kitchen......