The palest ink is better than the best memory.
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21st March, 2009
Helvetica Moleskine
I wanted to resurrect this blog as something I could easily add to using my iPhone whilst travelling. This photo of my coveted Helvetica Moleskine is really a test post to determine whether Wordpress 1.2.1 will give me the flexibility to blog easily, and without tedious hitches.
15th October, 2008
Zeit
Time waits for no man. Inspired work by Patrickhh on Flickr - it’s worth browsing his photostream. Taken in Berlin on 10th October 2008. (Hat tip: Headlessness).
12th October, 2008
Bill’s Linotype
Beautiful: “This Linotype was used at a newspaper until my dad moved it here. As a child I learned to do routine maintenance and to operate the machine. It has been used here continuously since 1922. Bill Malley, Two Rivers, Wisconsin 2003.”
From here.
10th October, 2008
Watch your skin… peel
Watch your skin… peel. When I saw this phrase rooted in moss on the dilapidated wall of Abney Park cemetery chapel, my first thought was that it was some comment on the junkies and drunks who hang out there. I was wrong. It’s the work of artist Anna Hatchling Garforth.
It’s beautifully done, and a refreshing change from the usual scribbles and daubs in Hackney (at least, away from the Banksy and Eine epicentre of Shoreditch).
As far as I can work out, the way to get moss growing is to stick some in a blender with some yogurt or buttermilk, and then paint or pour it wherever you desire. Sadly, I can’t see the paintbrush eclipsing the marker pen amongst Hackney’s schoolchildren; but I wish it was a technique I knew about when I was at school. There would be more than a little joy in daubing “Steggy cooks farces” in 12 foot high Baskerville across the front of the cricket pavilion, only to see it enshrined in moss a few days later.
I may even break a lifetime rule and turn up to an Old Boys’ day myself…
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