Yes, even “Uncle” Frank had parents, but what Francis and Rosemary thought of his purple home décor was not recorded by the Life photographer, John Olson, back in 1970 when this photo was taken.
(Click this small picture to reveal the whole purple gloriousness of Franks lounge area)
This image is another treasure released from Life magazine’s [...]
Who was this animator? He appears to be working on the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp (Click for full crew list on IMDB). Can you name him?
You can find his picture alongside ten million others in Google’s new image archive of Life magazines photos. A staggering ninety seven percent of the [...]
I’ve just finished reading a book thrown out last year by the college library, that was written by Stewart Brand way back in 1987. It’s called “The Media Lab - Inventing the future at M.I.T”1 and it lays out a future where pretty much all human experience in the developed nations will be mediated, [...]
Whoever was in charge of page layout at The Independent Magazine last Saturday (18th October), should really have brought this amazing juxtaposition to the editor’s attention before publishing. (Click to enlarge)
Top left shows the long term civil rights activist and member of the House of Representatives, John Lewis, while the right hand page extols [...]
A gruesome and grisly recipe book by Martin Howard and Colin Stimpson. Yes that’s the same Colin Stimpson as is featured in the blogroll to the right.
I never realised he had such a morbid streak.
The book contains lots of useful and tasty recipes, including instructions on how to cook Flat Jacks:
(Click to [...]
Regular visitors might have noticed that Articles & Texticles has changed its appearance.
After a couple of years of using the lovely minimalist theme called “plaintxtblog” designed by Scott Wallick, I’ve now converted the site to a theme called “Shades of Gray” which is based on a very advanced sandbox design by, er, Scott Wallick.
Shades of [...]
I should have guessed that corporate bean counters were at work the day I was presented with a user feedback survey to fill out during my weekly visit to Collective. I got a distinct whiff that someone, somewhere was trying to cut some of the more fringe activities and services that the BBC is [...]
I’m getting nothing but server errors and page not founds when trying to connect to Hans Bacher’s swathe of blogs.
Has he had another of his famous hissy fits with Blogger? Will he bounce back with yet another cleverly named blog? I hope so. I’ll let you know if I find anything.
Meanwhile, this [...]
I hardly noticed that one slipping by. Must be getting blasé. Most of them are robots and spiders, anyway; Not real people.
Bad Behavior has blocked 1552 access attempts in the last 7 days.
Well Chuffed
One of the interesting dynamics of publishing a blog is the positive affirmation bounced back to the author in the shape of comments left by readers.
In the case of many artist’s blogs, it seems that the need for positive affirmation ( call it ego strokes if you will ) is one of the [...]