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A few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s elephant in the room is the one drinking cappuccino out of a bucket using her trunk. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 427. I’m sorry I’m late, but I had to scrape a Banksy off … Continue reading
Posted in academia, animals, archeology, art, conversation, cool, creation, drawing, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, music, observations, overheard, radio, serendipity, spam, surrealism, swearing, words, writing
Tagged art, arts, Banksy, Carton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, conversation, discovery, drawing, expletives, face mask, history, instruction, late, madness, music, name change, observations, overheard, pencil dots. smudges, radio, serendipity, Sherlock Holmes, shrubs, spam, surrealism, time, words, writing
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Oh, let’s get that lino print out of the way…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s carefully chosen colours are: ragged red, bruised blue, yawning yellow, tired turquoise, growling green, foolish fawn, aching azure, and that funny green-grey that you mixed up to paint the walls of the hall, staircase, and … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, art, brain, cafe, colours, composition, creation, design, fine art prints, food, history, humour, information, irony, lino cut printing, lino printing, puzzle, seeing, style, surrealism, thinking, words
Tagged A4 size, abstract art, art, arts, black and white, black ink, colour, edition of ten, history, Japanese paper, Kizuki paper, lino cut printing, lino print design, madness, mini-series, rambling on, style, surrealism, swastika, symbol of light, window left open, words, writing
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Indifferent fish and smeared guns, avoid excitement…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s wrinkled old black and white snapshot is the one of me and Hedy Lamarr in a Hollywood bar – you can see she’s becoming angry trying to get me to understand frequency hopping. (HL) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> … Continue reading
Posted in academia, archeology, books, brain, celebrities, food, history, humour, information, instruction, learning, reading, serendipity, words, writing
Tagged 1930s style, 1934, advertising, avoid excitement!, celebrities, dictionary word, faintness, history, honey soap, instruction, Lady-day, mackerel, Michaelmas, musty and pithy, proverbs, red gills, serendipity, style, The Daily Express Enquire Within, threepennyworth, Vaseline, words, writing
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Do you like films or plays?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s unusually long quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I recently finished re-reading – oh, and jolly good it was too! Now the room was empty. Objects lay, stood, sat, hung … Continue reading
Posted in archeology, art, books, brain, celebrities, drama, Film, history, humour, money, observations, reading, seeing, style, theatre, thinking, writing
Tagged a waste of wood, actors, art, arts, celebrities, drama, films, Harold Pinter, history, local theatre, London Threatres, Metropolis, No Man's Land, Nosferatu, observations, plays, stage design, writing, Zabriskie Point
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Childhood moon thinking…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s aspidistra is the one looking rather embarrassed and sheepish about its brown leaf ends. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I recall, as a child walking along with some relation, I forget who it was, on a cold crisp winter’s … Continue reading
Posted in brain, creation, design, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, observations, physics, puzzle, religion, school, science, seeing, thinking
Tagged aspidistra, astronomy, Big God, children, crescent moon, discovery, eclipse of the sun, God's trick, history, leaves going brown, moon, moon following, moon thinking, observations, puzzle, religion, serendipity, sun
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The lino print idea continued…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s novel expletive is, Sleeping Cripe! ‘Cripe’ being an obvious euphemism for ‘Christ’. Note: For some reason ‘God’ seems to be a milder and more acceptable expletive than ‘Christ’ – me, I think it’s to do … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, brain, cafe, composition, creation, design, drawing, fine art prints, humour, information, learning, lino printing, prints, seeing, surrealism, thinking, Uncategorized, words
Tagged a dull idea?, art, arts, black border, cafe, dictionary word, drawing, expletives, history, jumping about, lino cut printing, lino print design, naff, sleeping cripe!, style, surrealism, words
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It’s a photograph of a spillage…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: bumbling, rhapsodic, sallow, fiducial, soldatesque, intertidal, and Zwinglian. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I suppose this photograph could have been quite boring had I not composed it so well. ‘”Composed it so well”, Dave?’ Yes, … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, art, brain, colours, composition, conversation, cool, creation, history, information, observations, photography, seeing, serendipity, style, words
Tagged art, arts, bright colours, bumbling, colour, composition, conversation, dictionary word, discovery, fiducial, history, intertidal, iridescence, observations, oil, photography, rhapsodic, sallow, serendipity, soldatesque, specrum, splitting sunlight, style, thin film, words, Zwinglian.
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