One of Pete Ashton’s posts got me wanting to write furiously in his comments thread, so a) I must be feeling better and b) it’s more polite to use up my own bandwidth for the purpose, especially since it’s turned into a mini-article. So here we go. As ever, please question, disagree, add, whatever.
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Although the formal handshaking presentation thingy isn’t until Dec 13th, the Reflect Tyne 07 winning photos are going to be shown next Thursday as part of The Art Works‘ monthly First Thursday wine and nibbles night. I’ll be showing an additional four of the photographs from the Swing Bridge Sense of Place series, to accompany [...]
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Sunderland, Darlington, Newcastle, Durham all appear full of people who’ve been rendered psychotically miserable by SAD at this time of year, in a way that never really happens dahn sarf. The Venn diagrams which represent Moseley’s online world have been full of the new phenomenon of LOL-cal Politics, and from the same sources comes the [...]
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photo credit © Bruton Stroube
This photo has been doing the rounds a bit just lately, causing David Hobby to want to paint his whole studio white. This is what my retouching tutor calls a comp, and I’m posting it partly to remind myself of the heady heights I’m supposed to be reaching this month.
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