If I look to the side from my desk, I see this wall out my window:
If I look to the side as I go to get a tea, I see this beguiling path:
Looking to the Side
Chorizo
For Thing-a-day today, I wanted to do a photograph of Chorizo in a Madonna-and-child pose with one of our project managers, but both he and she were noncompliant, so I contented myself with documenting the tail-end of a soporific afternoon meeting, and, well, taking Chorizo’s senior photo.
Attentive Visit to Walton Park
Today for Thing-a-day I went to a park near work that I’ve walked past hundreds of times before and looked for things I hadn’t really seen.
Dinosaur Plea
More Thing-a-day: We have a little hole in the wall in our back stairwell, and for a while, it had a plastic mouse in it. Eventually it was replaced by a plastic dinosaur, and later the dinosaur got an angry sun beating down on it. Today I decided to give the dinosaur a voice:
The plea reads:
We don’t need manned missions into space! That is mere vanity! For now, we are getting better information from probes and rovers! Let NASA focus on cataloguing, tracking, and developing strategies to deflect meteors that are heading for Earth! Learn from our experience! Quickly! Before it is too late!
A Heartfelt Catnip Toy
So far so good on www.thing-a-day.com this year. Mr Bun is not thrilled about my new sewing machine, so today’s thing is for him.
This particular thing is made of silly Valentine’s Day fabric from the remnants bin (I know, hard to believe!), stuffed with batting with a fragrant catnip center. I felt a bit bad about my sloppy hemming – I have a lot to learn about sewing (machine and manual) on a curve. Did he like it anyway?
Oh yeah.
Catsnake
I’m doing Thing-a-day this year. Here my first thing cowers as Mr Bun peeks out the window.
This particular thing is made of felt, buttons, and polyester batting, and is inspired by this: www.geist.com/comix – Thanks, Eve Corbel!
Darkrooms
There are still a (vanishing) few left.
This project, shot on 4x5 film, documents London's remaining professional darkrooms.
Bush’s Image
Don’t miss this article by Errol Morris, in which he discusses press images of George W Bush from his terms as President.
U.S. President George W. Bush walks back to the Oval Office after making remarks on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at the White House in Washington March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)
Deconstruction
GOP100 – Deconstructing Dumbo, self-published book with 100 deconstructions of the Republican Logo. Collaboration with Felix Sockwell. 5×5, 100 pages, saddle stitched.
“We’re All Gonna Die”
“100 meters of existence”
Part of a stream of photographs, stitched together, depicting 178 people that walked past the same spot over the course of 20 days. At the site, a ribbon invites you to scroll through time, sometimes making eye contact, mostly not.
I am pretty sure the appeal of this series has nothing to do with my recently having a birthday!