Sunday, May 28, 2006

The Madness wall


In 1982 high above Slaithwaite (`Slowit`) in West Yorkshire stood this almighty Hollywood sign. Quality signage with chunky serifs. 24 years on, what has replaced it on the mural palimpsest?

Friday, May 26, 2006

Ragnar`s Shed the Golden Hall



The entity that is Ragnar`s shed has demanded publicity. It is the shed equivalent of the Portrait of Dorian Gray, absorbing entropy so that our lives remain changeless and youthful. It also functions as a shed, and contains multitudes. It is visible from space, on Google Earth. See more on Ragnar`s `Reader`s Sheds` link above.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

A puzzle rapt in an enigma


Eglinton road gets symbolic. The picture comes unglued. Has the idealized image of Edwardian family bliss been finally discarded and left to disintegrate in the street? Is this a spectral image in the life of the house that once stood here? A synchronistic apport grieving the decay of the family? Or has someone just dumped an old jigsaw? All of these and more?

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Eltham`s Beltane Offerings



The merry morning of May dawns to scenes of immolation. Secret cultists have gone by night to meet the returning sacred powers of Spring. Reverence the sacrifice!

Friday, May 05, 2006

Banksy Minimalism



Like a graffiti equivalent of listening to Radiohead, the location for this cri de coeur was chosen carefully, stencilled on a bench near the ballast wharf on Greenwich peninsula, facing the lonely Thames like an invitation to drowning.