Category Art and design
Fifty Shards: Day 23. A bit of Clive James…
Clive James was on the box last night. Charmingly witty with his usual enthusiasm for word-play, I find it hard to believe he has leukaemia even though his face is drawn from it. Recently, he mentioned that he is too ill to travel back to his homeland, and it seems underneath the wit is a forlornness contemplating mortality. […]
Fifty Shards: On Day 22, a morning as it should be
Day Twenty-two: Perhaps because it is July 1 and the beginning of a new month, we are granted the epitome of a summer morning. Clear and fresh, it makes you want to get up and go to work. Temperature: Conforming to my eulogy. Greyscale: Well, maybe this blog needs to change to Fifty Shades of Blue. In E […]
Fifty Shards: Day 21 and TGIF
Day Twenty-one: June 27, 2014. 8.05am. Moody like a spoilt child – the sky that is, not me. No I’m never moody me. Temperature: Comfortable though moody. Greyscale: Grey and moody. In E L James’s words: Moody? Moi? Ain’t no moody biatch. No way!
London: On the longest day, the bestest evening
That view. That light. You couldn’t ask for more. And because the weather isn’t always great in London, you just notice it a little more. We were spellbound after an hour watching the most incredible physical theatre, a circus called Gravity at A Simple Space near the Eye. Perving on the human body has never […]
Foyles foils bookshop decline (plus a Shard)
Shops come and go. They either die a cruel death or move across the road a la any glamour fashion shop on Bond Street. In the last week it has been Foyles turn, a shop in the deeply unfashionable business of book selling. Foyles proves you can still sell a book in a shop. We all […]
Fifty Shards, Day 19: A Summer Shard.
Day Nineteen: June 13, 2014. 8.15am. London in summer. It does sound like an oxymoron particularly for visiting friends. Summer? In London? But ask any Londoner and they’ll say a good summer’s day in the capital is like nowhere else on earth. Except Rio. But maybe we shouldn’t talk about Rio. Temperature: It has been a week […]
Inside Florence’s machine
The flavour of a city comes from the depths of its streets. In this case, very deep streets. For this reason, Florence is the archetypal Italian city, the one everyone thinks of. Darting left, you can escape the throng, hide in another tunnel of darkness, finding your own peace. Puppetman Senior and Mother are in […]
Fifty Shards: Imagine if summer never came
Day Seventeen: May 21, 2014. 8.05am. In science fiction terms it would be called The Dawn of a New Era. Temperature: Just right to be honest. A bit of humidity but nothing to complain about. Except, of course, in The Dawn of a New Era, it speaks of doom and destruction. Greyscale: A grey shard. If […]
At you like a ton of bricks
Brick Lane. Nothing says London better. Take a wonderful sunny day and then you’ve nailed it. Dive in because tomorrow is another day, as they say, and then it could all be so very different cos I remember the days of burnt-out buildings and tatty collectables laid out on blankets asking for best price. Spitalfields […]
Fifty Shards: Picture Perfect on Day 16
Day Sixteen: May 14, 2014. 8.00am. What a day! Temperature: Yesterday was all fire and brimstone. Today, it’s all very heavenly. Greyscale: Now we’re getting into that reflective phase sometimes known as the Shard’s blue period. In E L James’s words: To be honest, I don’t think there were sunny days in Fifty Shades‘s pages so sordid and corrupt of soul are they.
Puppetman by Daniel Coupe 