'The Longest Panorama In The World'
Photographer Richard Holt, has just spent 3 years taking 4253 photographs of the north bank of the London's River Thames and seamlessly combining them into one 13 metre long image - the longest panoramic photograph in the world!!!
Available now in hardback published by Vianellolibri of Venice. Around £27 from Harrods, Waterstones, Daunts, Hatchards, all good bookshops and in Museums and Art Galleries
Available now in hardback published by Vianellolibri of Venice. Around £27 from Harrods, Waterstones, Daunts, Hatchards, all good bookshops and in Museums and Art Galleries
Star of TV Show - 'THE MAN IN A HAT'
A Very British 'Bauhaus'
The flats and particularly the bar became famous as a centre for intellectual life in North London, famous residents included Agatha Christie, and regulars at the Isobar included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
.... AND THE SAME TO YOU, MATE!
Saw a very happy finance advisor inside the Wilton Arms pub do this lovely 'Fuck Off' piece of calligraphy!
My Lucky Daddy Long Legs
Fossil Daddy-Long-Legs or Harvester. Jurassic 100 million yrs. I found this on Lyme Regis beach Oct 2008. It was just an ordinary pebble I found - nothing on it - until I dissolved the chalk away from it's surface - by immersing it in Viacal solution - and the insect made it's appearance. Sheer luck!
Writer for TV Show - 'ANATOMY OF A PHOTOGRAPH'
Historian, publisher and broadcaster Charles Mosley. Lit soley by a weak street light some 20 ft away. Eat your heart out analoguists!
Work No.850. Martin Creed Exhibit at Tate Britain, London
Martin's work centres on a simple idea: that a person will run as fast as they can every thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is empty.
This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit. Creed has instructed the runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it. Bringing together people from different backgrounds from all over London, Work No. 850 presents the beauty of human movement in its purest form, a recurring yet infinitely variable line drawn between two points.
One Ichthyosaur Coming Up!
Part of the spine and the boney eye of a 187 million yr. old Ichthyosaur - Excavated by Mary Anning, 1811 - Lyme Regis, Dorset. Exibit: Natural History Museum, London.
And, if you don't want to get as I did double pneumonia and a slipped disc from finding fossils for yourself, then you can comfortably source your own from the Ukfossils site.
Tongue Twister for MARY ANNING
'She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,
The shells that she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure
For if she sells sea shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure the shells that she sells
Terrance Sullivan, 1908
'She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,
The shells that she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure
For if she sells sea shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure the shells that she sells
Are surely the shells that she found shallowly on the sea-shore.'
Terrance Sullivan, 1908
'It's just what I do. I've liked the notion of piercing since I was fifteen. I'm covered in rings - silver, gold and I'm saving up to have the one under my nose made of platinum. I hate tattoos - not my do. I like my hair as well. I've forgotten what it's like to have a purely conventional style, although I could look at some old photos I suppose. No, I'm not an old Punk. Admit-tingly I was a Punk once, but I don't have the politics of it anymore. I'm just me now and that's all I want to say really".
My 'Desert Island Discs' island would be called Pelican Island. Pelicans are my kind of bird. I even know their Latin name - Pelecanus Occidentalis. And my one luxury item would be a Theodolite
'Hey Gang, Let's Do The Show Right Here!'
During a recent TV showing of 42nd Street, on TCM, the sun's rays made this oblique design through my living room's Venetian Blinds and onto the screen.
"This lady was a passenger on a late night Eurostar from London to Paris. All I could see of her was her reflection above me made by the perspex of an over-head luggage rack. I have turned the image upside down then reversed it laterally. She had no idea that I took her picture".
"These shots are typical of what Getty Images take from me. It's a very tricky task to get imagery that will stand out from the rest of their contributers".
'Marsha' - DLR, London UK
This shot is of Marsha for Getty Images. Taken with the kind permission of Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London.
'Two Bar Attendants' Carrara, Italy
Grace & Teresa both work as barmaids in Carrara, Italy. The home and workplace of Michelangelo and where he sculpted 'David'.
'Photo-Fusion' - 2
This shot of Nathan was achieved firstly by making a realistic layout in the application Poser. Then in the studio, getting him to stand in all 6 positions with lights and tripod locked down. The exposure was identical in each shot so as not to nullify the effect of depth through shadows, mid-tones and highlights. The final combination was achieved through layers in Photoshop. I love this picture!
These three clever and funny hieroglyphs are on the women's, men's and disabled doors to the toilets at one of the Basuba Eastern style restaurants in Central London, UK. For aesthetic reasons I have changed the colour of these signs from what was acid red to green. I am hating red these days - sorry about that!
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