Resolutions don’t work for me. If a change needs to be made, why not make the change right away? But seeing as it’s a new year, why not move to make positive change starting now? I write in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2018, strong coffee to hand, hypnotic music unfurling. The world […]
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BowieNeverJaded
“Ideas arrive at such a speed, it’s like watching a fast-motion film of a flower blossom.” This is Brian Eno describing what it was like to work with David Bowie. Creativity was a never-ending torrent. The search for inspiration was a constant. There was and is too much going on in Bowie’s world to view […]
Melt
How do you feel inside when all around you is frozen? The smallest gesture can have the most profound and unexpected impact. The smallest gesture can melt the ice. Every year as the festive mania heats up, I revisit a 2010 post by dearly departed and eternally mysterious blogger The HRD, entitled You’ve been shopped. […]
From golden child to idiot
When you are on a winning streak, there will inevitably come a moment when you are not. The forces of the universe are all conspiring in your favour. Then they are not. You are still you. The sum total of you remains. The essence of you, what makes you you is still there. So what […]
All we really have is now
“All we really have is now.” So says Brix Smith Start. All we really have is our words, thoughts and feelings about this current moment.
A black & white week: Stagulent statuary, coffee, space broccoli
What would seven days in your life look like without colour, without people? Here are my pictures of a monochromatic week in the life of one @mjcarty. Fresh from last month’s #Inktober daily drawing challenge, my lovely friend Kate Griffiths-Lambeth set me another challenge, one that she herself was also undertaking. Take a photograph a day […]
Sweet emotion
What is it to feel? What puts you in direct touch with your feelings, your emotions? Serendipity around sweet emotion inspired this post. For me and for so many people, music is the most direct route to the sweetest emotion. Music is a language that cannot be spoken. Yet it can say everything that needs […]
Light in the dark, window into the soul
There is always light to be found. There is always light trying to find you. The light can change you, transform you. Wednesday, I glimpsed the lovely sight of a row of commuters through a train window. Each finding their own fuel for the freezing morning grind in the light emanating from the rectangles in […]
#Inktober 5: Pumpkins, poppies, pink balaclavas
My final selection of pictures drawn for #Inktober – a month-long challenge to produce an ink picture every single day. I made it through! Viewers of a sensitive disposition be warned: Pink balaclavas are to be found herein… Sunday 29 October 2017 Decaying open-air coffeeshop pumpkin flower vases of our time. Based on a photo […]
#Inktober 4: Buddha, Vader, Frank Furter
Inktober – a month-long challenge to create an ink drawing every day throughout the month of October. This is my first ever time Inktober-ing – and this post is my fourth weekly round-up of pics! Absolutely anyone can Inktober. If you’ve not yet done so and fancy giving it a while, why not, eh? I’d […]
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