Links September 22nd to October 3rd

Was barked at with ‘love’ on one of my favourite local radio stations this morning. The usual hosts are on holiday in sunny Devon, and although I knew this, my sleepy Saturday self hadn’t remembered until the ears had been assaulted by several shouty minutes and random pointing at nobness. You know the kind: he’s a nob, she’s a nob, and of course he’s a nob too. I described it “like a gang of 9yr olds overdosed on sherbert fountains. They’ll be guffawing about poo next.” Of course little boys who guffaw about poo, guffaw even more when snipped at by someone with socks older than their bigger, hairier brother, so much fun was had by all. Here’s the listen again link.

In other news, there’s LOADS of work to see out there, including some of my lith prints in the Greenfield Arts Gallery at Newton Aycliffe and lots more shows coming, including Martin Parr’s only UK extravaganza at Baltic later in the month. More on the time I first came across Martin Parr after we’ve seen his show.

Forgetting amateur radio subs, which famous photographers do you think might call you ‘love’? David Bailey, definitely. Also Patrick Zachmann, David Lachapelle, and possibly Weegee although it’d be hard to decipher anything he was saying with that accent, and that damp cheroot. We’re rather a polite lot, on the whole.

Finds for September 22nd to October 3rd:

• Lit & Phil News- Independent Library Newcastle – Just look what we’re missing! John Davies, Sirkka Liisa Kontinnen, Simon Norfolk, all in the amazing setting of the world’s oldest public library. (Is it?) There are too many things happening at the moment, lots to see, not enough time.
• Hunting, Fishing, & Shooting the Working Classes | Variant issue 34 – Maximal protracted immersion: work like Amber (essay)
• Prix Pictet – Shortlist 2009 – Shortlisted Artists – Includes Andreas Gursky’s picture of rubbish tips & Chris Steele Perkins. All well known luminaries.
• Tim Rudman | Home – London 3-day lith printing workshops: November 2009 now confirmed
• getting there slowly… | monaxle : blog – Letter from Alex’s Medway Plod.
• Life in a picture 20 years on – Byker Revisited at Side Gallery, Newcastle | Culture24 – Will definitely be going to see this, and the films too. Thoroughly recommended.
• BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Sydney dust storm – Incredible orange skies. Dust everywhere.
• The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation – One Man and His Blog – Discussion on the recent WP hackings and suggestions for improvement bu WP and other entrants to the platform world.
• 1337arts – Project Icarus – “On Sept. 2, 2009, we launched a digital camera into near-space to take photographs of the earth from high up above. (see “Flight”)”
• National Portrait Gallery – Twiggy: A Life in Photographs -

Marvellous cheekbones.

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