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Bum Tree

Sadly too late for David's competition but our boys were delighted to discover this at Castle Ward this weekend. (An Arse Chestnut?).

Catch

We just had a meeting there, about stuff and things. Can't really say. But in the thick of it, this old thing came up. It's that laugh at the end.

"Every child is an artist...", Pablo Picasso

...worryingly, mine's David Shrigley.

(Inspired by an Airey Tweet)

Bad Idea

Call me an old stick-in-the-mud but for me (perhaps with this exception) a Swiss Army Knife that is anything other than red is just a knife no matter who's designed it.

The Fallen

It's around this time of year that my wife charges me with the task of clearing all the dead stuff out of the greenhouse. There's plenty of it. Stuff that, over the course of the growing season, has been snipped or knocked off, or has just dropped as it ends it's natural life. Withered, shriveled and decaying, it's all so much more interesting than when it was alive and thriving.

 

 

Irre-wristible?

  

Well actually, I'm not sure about these but they are strangely attractive.

Poster4Tomorrow

"...an open competition inviting the global creative community to create posters to draw attention to, and take action against, the repression of freedom of expression. It's organized by Associazione Culturale GoodDesign together with HM Studio and 4tomorrow. Freedom of expression is a right that the Western world takes for granted. But in many countries, such as Iran, innocent people are persecuted and imprisoned daily due to their pleas for democracy and freedom of the press or for exposing human rights abuses...

"...we're proud to be endorsed by Reporters sans Frontieres, the non-profit organisation that fights for freedom of press across the world, and supported by a jury to select the posters that includes: Marjane Satrapi, the author and filmmaker of Persepolis; prominent Iranian graphic designers Reza Abedini and Saed Meshki; internationally renowned graphic designers Alain Le Quernec, Pierre Bernard and Woody Pirtle; and Tommaso Minnetti and Pasquale Volpe, founders of the world’s largest social communication project Good50x70."

Find out more here.

Cracks and Crevices

 

 

This is all a bit out of order and all over the place but between our camping trip to Castle Ward and our week in the Wet County we got a few days on the west coast following an invitation to piggy-back our friend's holiday in Donegal. And when you're in Donegal, you spend all your time on the beach, whatever the weather. It's the law. For those unfamiliar with the region, the beaches are on the whole superb, generally amazing and on average excellent, with ultra-fine sand and clear, clear water. And geological interestingness abounds. (If you weren't freezing your knackers off, you could imagine you're on some craggy Greek island).

I spent much of my time, when out of the water, peering into cracks and crevices.

Writemaster

Now I love a pencil as much as the next man...unless, that is, the next man is the editor of Pencil Talk, which is where I first saw these beauties, inspired by the classic, now defunct Routemaster bus. Boy, that man loves pencils.

    

With thanks to Thomas for pointing me in the right direction.

Block Head

I couldn't explain the unsettling feeling that I was being watched.