Michelangelo, high culture and the world cup
Here’s a picture I took recently in London. I like the mix; icons of high culture juxtaposed with a current symbol of global popular culture:
magritte-ish
I’ve been away on holiday and will post a few images from my trip soon. In the meantime here’s an image I took yesterday whilst walking in Hampstead. I think it has a surreal, Magritte-like feel:
changing into heels
This woman was changing into heels on Friday night on the corner of Frith Street. it almost looks like two different people but it’s one woman, different shoes: Here’s a photo I took a few years back of a friend of mine changing from her work clothes to her salsa dancing outfit:
illusion of the day
Saw this today; also noticed that the Latin text to the right of the figure says “perdidi diem” which translates as “I have lost the day”.
fashion bits: woman with paris skyline tights
I am partial to interesting tights as some of my friends and family know … this evening I managed to snap this woman as she was getting off a Northern Line train; she was donning a rather fetching pair of Paris skyline tights:
japanese toe socks at dance class yesterday
Jen and I both turned up in Japanese toe socks for our Afro Cuban dance class yesterday;
glamour and surrealism in N2
saw this the other day … i’ve taken several variations of it – here’s the black and white version:
Architectural abstract: construction in Soho
Here’s a picture I took a couple of days ago of some construction work near Soho Square. I like the mix of the old church and the building work; seeing history juxtaposed with the new is very typical of London. The multiple grids, angled lines and the splashes of colour all contribute to an abstract … Read more
Wooly-lashed mannequin in Brixton
This was one of a group of mannequins in a shop window in Brixton market; it was the lashes that made me settle on this one. I like the ambiguity of this image – it could be almost be a pastel or watercolour, or a faded picture of a 60s fashion model:
Composition with pumps and found baguette
The other day I came across the controversial image of the Angel of the North sculpture with the baguette projected onto it as part of a supermarket advertising campaign. I found the image striking, surreal and sacrilegious… I must have been thinking about it as I came across one of my “objet trouvé” compositions also … Read more