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Tag Archives: Dulltown
I’m always drawn to areas of town, like this one…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary word is, lectisternium.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hm… I don’t know who this land belongs too, but considering that it is right in the middle of the city centre, you’d think that they’d keep it a bit more tidy, … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, adjectives, archeology, art, arts, brain, colours, composition, cool, creation, design, drama, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, expletives, finance, Grumpiness, Hull.UK., humour, information, irony, learning, money, observations, people, photography, politics, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism, swearing, sweating, thinking, words
Tagged a second photo!, art, arts, click here, composition, crap, discovery, Dulltown, humans are stupid, in the corner, it's the same thing again, juxtaposition, madness, observations, rubbish, ruined world, serendipity, sleek and stylish, sleek train, style, surrealism, words
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Well, here’s an odd photograph…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary word is, preterpluperfect.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well… What’s going on here?It’s an odd one, isn’t it? When I take the slightly longer walk into town, Dulltown centre, I would walk past this… this… well, I don’t know what … Continue reading
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Tagged a good photo?, a puzzle, an old dock, art, arts, boards to walk on, composition, discovery, dock, drunks, Dulltown, handrail, madness, observations, photoshoping, preterpluperfect, railings, serendipity, stairs, strangness, striped pole, style, surrealism, words, yellow
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Mayonnaise coming out of a hole in the ground…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: amentum, pallescent, theotokos, jesserant, quodlibet, and delundung. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Extra marks will be awarded … Continue reading
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Tagged a punch on the shoulder, amentum, art, arts, conversation, delundung, Dulltown, fat head!, Hull city centre, jesserant, madness, pallescent, queen victoria, quodlibet, random dictionary words, serendipity, spoems, style, surrealism, The Hull Surrealist League, theotokos, toilets, Tony Mayonaise, under the Queen, words
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A short rant, about local architecture…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s white china teapot is the one shaped like a really unpleasant dream.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here’s a photograph.It’s not one of my ‘art’ photographs, it’s just a picture I took a few days ago to illustrate a piece that … Continue reading
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Tagged arse end, art, art criticism, art gallery, arts, call it a dock!, city centre, City of Kingston-upon-Hull, dock, Domes, Dulltown, Hull, I like domes, madness, not an art photo, observations, on sticks, shopping centre, style, surrealism, ugliness, Victorian style, water
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Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: varsovienne, seneschal, lupulin, ringent, iriscope, chavender, and paratonic. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor turn … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, cafe, chavender, cloaked vampire, cyclists!, dictionary words, discovery, Dulltown, excuses for being late, Howlin Wolf, iriscope, lupulin, madness, name change, observations, overheard, paratonic, phones, poor thing!, Professor Mouldie, raidy-raidy?, ringent, seneschal, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, varsovienne, words
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This is not art. No. 56….
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s existential angst is centred around the word, economics.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, it seems ages since I did a post that has the title, This is Not Art.Dear reader, here we go! Oh, even the sweeping, flowing white substrate … Continue reading
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Tagged apray paint, art, art criticism, arts, by the railway tracks, clean it up!, discovery, Dulltown, economics, existential angst, grafitti, gravity?, grey, humans, humour, in jail, madness, observations, orange, painting, police?, red brick wall, serendipity, style, surrealism, swearing, this is not art, white, words
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Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary word is, podophthalmous. Hey, your new spectacles make you look quite podophthalmous! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 506. I’m sorry I’m late, but I was thinking about the time when woollen leg-warmers were … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, Captain Beefheart, conversation, discordant, Dulltown, how does that make you feel?, journalism, leg-warmers, madness, madness., nicely discordant, nonsence, observations, overheard remarks, podophthalmous, polyphony, serendipity, spam, spectacles, Stephen Sackur, style, surrealism, the word NOW, words, you Big Dummy!
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Today, I think we could have a photograph…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s elephant in the room is the one interrupting the chess game with loud, silly suggestions to the players. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh, here it is! No, it is not as mysterious as it seems. I’m sure can … Continue reading
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Tagged A new road, art, arts, chess game, Cosmic camera, cranes, discovery, Dulltown, Dulltown Marina, elephant in the room, funnel and mast, observations, puzzle, Railway Dock, reflections in water, Russian camera, rusty ships, serendipity, silly suggestions, sky, style, surrealism, teenage years, Trawler, tree, water, words
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Yes, he was walking ahead of me…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s nicely named moths are: the Early Thorn, the Mint Moth, the Frosted Orange, the Narrow-Bordered Bee Hawk-Moth, the Purple-Bordered Gold, and the Satellite. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, I was walking along, I often walk along, I crossed … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, design, discovery, Dulltown, eye-catching, following, leopard skin?, moth names, moths, observations, serendipitous, serendipity, style, supermarket, surrealism, t-shirt, the Early Thorn, the Frosted Orange, the Mint Moth, the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth, the Purple-Bordered Gold, the Satellite, words, yellow steps
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Just a few shortish items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected colours are: badminton brown, rugby russet, football fawn, boxing blue, hurdling heliotrope, yachting yellow, diving dun, cycling crimson, bowls black, billiards blue, and of course, golf green. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 notes, advice to young artists, art, arts, badminton brown, billiards blue, bowls black, boxing blue, conversation, cycling crimson, discordant, diving dun, Dulltown, excuses for being late, famous after death, female email?, football fawn, hurdling heliotrope, lovely horrible, madness, male email?, name change, NFTs?, odd riff, overheard, rugby russet, serendipity, sorry I'm late, spam, spiky, style, surrealism, taste in music, Uncle Dave, words, yachting yellow
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Some overheard and misheard snatches of café conversation…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is another from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s very solid, but witty, 1871 novel Devils: The scoundrel really did have talent. Stepan Trofimovich assured me once that the most sublime artists could also be the most terrible … Continue reading
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Tagged 1871, alamental, artists and scoundrels, beet-nup?, Booticks?, Cafe Conversation, Colin, creativity, Devils, Dulltown, Dulltown UK, furf?, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Londfon, madness, misheard, overheard remarks, pankers, peacock, pedda?, possessed?, scoundrels, Stepan Trofimovich, witty
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Something happening on the street…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s great fat walrus is the one sitting behind the wheel of his stationary Range Rover, with its engine running, staring into space and smoking and sucking on his pipe. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was a week or … Continue reading
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Tagged an observation, big and fat, Boris Bastard, Boris Johnson, brick wall, cycling, dark red bricks, Dulltown, engine running, graffiti, incompetent, observations, out shopping, pavement cyclists, pipe smoking, Range Rover, serendipity, spray can, useless, vandals, walrus, X marks
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The King in Yellow, and Grey…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s phrase is – Happy Christmas to all my readers! Ha!… I’ve always wanted to say that!… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is a photograph I took here in Dulltown three or four months back. A few minutes ago, … Continue reading
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Tagged 50-50, choosing a title, composition, cone, Dulltown, found art, grey, grubby, gutter art, gutters, Happy Christmas, lost pen, no parking, promoting, pushy artists, puzzle, readers, self assured, self confident, split cone, street art, The King in Yellow, traffic cones, tuxture, undecided, vertical line, yellow
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A few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s moths are: the Bird-cherry Ermine, the Feathered Thorn, the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, Dewick’s Plusia, the Nut-tree Tussock, and the Riband Wave. If I was on the lookout for a new charge on my heraldic shield … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC radio, Dewicks' Plusia, Dulltown, excuses for being late, face cream, Howlin' Wolf, impala, moth names, name change, New Clear Balm, overheard remark, peanut butter, Smokestack Lightnin', the Bird-cherry Ermine, the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, the Feathered Thorn, the Nut-tree Tussock, the Riband Wave
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This is Not Art. No. 54…
But first…Dulltown UK: Today’s elephant in the room is the one hogging the TV remote, insisting on watching Strictly Come Dancing.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This beautifully executed, and visually devastating piece would dominate any space it was placed in. It is large, it … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, abstract painting, arts, Arty woffle, Colours, composition, discovery, Dulltown, Dulltown UK, dumpster, elephant in the room, found, found art, graffiti, grey, No 54, observations, red, serendipity, Skip James, Strictly Come Dancing, style, surrealism, this is not art, TV remote, Violet, waffle, woffle
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Discarded vinyl flooring, anyone?…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: amice, bellarmine, sempster, lansquenet, exarch, and tutenag. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Extra marks will be awarded … Continue reading
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Tagged amice, amusing, bathrooms, bellarmine, blue cubes, composition, dictionary words, Dulltown, exarch, flooring, found art, freckles, illusion, kitchens, lansquenet, lino., photographic composition, photography, Professor Mouldie, sempster, serendipity, surrealism, three-d, three-dimensioinality, tutenag, vinyl flooring
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Interwoven FCs?…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s novel pencil sharpener is the one shaped like a penknife – note the stylish nacreous effect on the plastic side covers.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A few days ago, I showed you a small preliminary sketch for another of my … Continue reading
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Tagged about A4 in size, abstract art, black and white, black sky, composition, Dulltown, French curves, grain silos, hugging, in buckets, interlocked, Japanese Kizuki paper, lino cut print, moon, nacreous, nice paper, night bird, oil-based inks, planet, raining, raining cats and dogs, raining stair rods, side covers, siling down, surrealism, unusual pencil sharpener
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