Monologic idiolect

Compact day

I was just talking talking talking and, by the time I looked at my watch, there was just no time left so I asked her if I could see her one more time and  she said yes and asked me to call the photographer for next time; I will tell you the rest of the story another time.

medtemer

Clear day

will I need an umbrella tonight?

I saw Jupiter.

Multiset

sunny

We are wardrobes wanting to be shipping-containers.

Kitchen sink

the jam jar

Going to the Victoria & Albert museum makes me happy but I am no royalist.

reponses

answer to the Who am I post from yesterday:
from top to bottom
  -Denis Hopper's caravan
  -Glen E. Friedman's garden gate
  -Wilhelm Sasnal's kitchen tap
  -Walker Evans' memorial
  -Bernhard Willhelm's  bento box
Did you think it was funny?

Who am I, Who am I

          knock, knock!

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drip drip drip trip drip

tap tap tap

yum yum

distopia

It got to the point where we did not go out of the house for days. We went down the road to the 24 hours store for essentials and...the kids went to school on their own and they would bring some milk on their way back. I bought a digital copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica and I started reading that and when the kids got home, I had lots of stories to tell them and in a way that sort of made up for all the things they did not learn in class. We talked a lot about the persecution of the Jews and infinite sequences in mathematics and abstract impressionism; about industrialization as well. That really fascinated them. Sometime, Gilles did an entire track in one day and we danced to it in the evening. There just was no going back.

weeeeehiiiinnnngggggggg

foreshadow

did you think I would quit

cars 2

I went to see Lee Friedlander at Timothy Taylor yesterday. It was fabulous beautiful thank you Timothy.

There is one week left to see it. You should. Lee Friedlander is my Düsseldorf school all to himself. I sware I didn't know about his car photographs, the old ones and the new ones, when I said I was shooting from my car boot sometimes last year. of course I never followed up on my idea and now that I have seen Lee's work well, it's pretty pointless isn't it… I will never do anything anywhere near as good as what he has done and he has done it for exactly the same reason I intended which is to include the ugliness of the modern car into a "classic" landscape shot and tame one's own demon. I know I know

Still got that bloody white plastic chair in the garden...what do I do?

I have just spent a bit of time on my Google Reader and seen more fashion photographers rip off not so fashionable photographers and there are tons and tons of shows and prizes and books and Kathy Grayson at Art From Behind still makes me laugh and yes I did miss the exhibition of Pablo Bronstein at the ICA. I'm gonna listen to Lindström and Christabelle Lovesick to console myself.

Limbo

Carrot cake and humbug

things to do

If you have not been to see the Thomas Struth exhibition at the Whitechapell Gallery and stood very close to the print and looked up, particularly the photograph of the building site of an oil rig in China, you have lost a great occasion to feel small, and that is hard to do when you live in a city, and you have missed out on the retrospective of one of the best photographer in the world today. I didn't think the documentary in the Zhika Auditorium was very good but it is necessary to sometimes be reminded why exhibitions like this one are good for: you get to see many aspects of our society in one brief moment and under one roof, making it easier for our little brains to synthesise an otherwise overwhelming world.  Later, I got the same feeling from Abelardo Morell black & white 110x110mm (aprox) print of two 2000 pages books facing each other.It is so powerful and esthetically perfect that it made me feel small again.You can see and (and purchase) some of Abelardo Morell work at my favorite gallery in London Michael Hoppen  . It is raining.

Hyde Park

Peter Zumthor summer Pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery is simply beautiful. Yes, it's a bit crowded at 3 in the afternoon, but in my head I can remove the students and eat my cherry.