It has been a wild week off and on with troughs ploughing from across the pond and it looks like a polar drift due next week. Topsy-turvy weather patterns play havoc with my wardrobe. One minute I am in Eskimo gear, the next I’m peeling off layers in sweltering in tropical heat, well that is […]
What’s in a name?
I was up in town on Monday, you will have read about that earlier with my Saul Leiter references but with the passage of time and the motion and orbits of the firmament moving rapidly on I could not help but notice how much lighter it was at ‘Pink Pansy’ compared to a month ago […]
Old Buffers
There was a time when I travelled in and out of many rail termini in the UK that I would see hydraulic buffers at the business end of the platform that were cast in Ipswich. Ransomes were all over the place. These days I have noticed a distinct lack of these old buffers with contraptions […]
Up the swanny
I often wonder where phrases emanate from and have done so for as long as I can remember. Language is a curious thing especially when taken out of context or in cases where the context is misunderstood. Coming from up North, my expressions can still confuse people who have known me down South for the […]
The mists of time and in the midst of idiots
The scariness and idiocy of driving standards in thick fog this week has left me speechless. I am glad that I have not had to venture out much onto the highways of England this week but it was always driving in thick fog that scared the bejeezus out of me primarily on account of other […]
Where did October go?
I knew October was going to be a very busy month but I was under-prepared for the eventual outcomes of the month. Being ultra busy with three exhibtions kicking off in the month and Mrs O’s 60th there was little time for much else. Admittedly I’ve got a few technical problems on top of the […]
Learning and the passage of time
Just about 5 years ago next week I walked, if not bounced, through the doors of University Campus Suffolk to start the degree course I ought to have started in 1973. I have spoken about this before and the fact that I could not have produced the degree project I made in 2014 in 1976 […]
Anywhere and Everywhere and the re-emergence of prostitutes on the street
Yesterday afternoon and evening was exceedingly long. I was due to attend the Rooftop Collective at Metro Imaging so I went up early to check out Anywhere and Everywhere – the UCS BA(Hons) Photography Lolondon variant of their degree show. As with last year’s group they used Hoxton Arches, in Hoxton of all places. Such […]
PhotoEast and Contradictions
PhotoEast opened today. It is primarily based on and in the environs of the Wet Dock in Ipswich – signature setting for the long term CONTRADICTIONS documentary based on the ever changing aspects of the docklands of the Orwell. Bill Jackson is running sessions at The Cut in Halesworth. If you have dog, get down […]
It does not have to be sharp
I am a fussy myopic, or at least that is what an optometrist told me back in the 80’s. Apparently, according to him people with my eye condition are more likely to wear the coating off their lenses through obsessive cleaning in the quest for pin sharp resolution. Long-sighted people, he said, could get away […]