Posted in Art Projects, Phone Photos, kipling, tagged beige extravaganza, kipling, stuck in bed on 28 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m making progress, I have washed and dressed and even made it down the stairs today!
All this progress is peppered with long intervals in bed, but I don’t feel quite as helpless as I did (which is good, I’m not good at being helpless).
With the ability to sit in a chair came an upgrade to [...]
Posted in Phone Photos, tagged picnic, stuck in bed, sushi, view from the floor on 27 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, I’m stuck in bed for the next week or so… this isn’t going to be fun for poor Batman!
I’ve decided that the best way to keep from going crazy is to try to keep busy, so I’m trying to take photos and do some work on the Beige Extravaganza while unable to sit up!
This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ambulance blogs, bed bound, family, gp, medicine, nhs, politics on 27 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is not usually a political bog, there are plenty of better-informed people out there to do that for me.
However, sometimes my own experiences coincide with political topics, and it only seems right to discuss them.
You may know that I grew up in the States, and moved to the UK when I was 18, so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cloudy skies, musings, the inexpressible beauty of gas works on 25 August, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m having a bad day.
Nothing in particular, just one of those days when things that should be really easy take up hours and hours that you had planned to use in all sorts of productive ways. The kind of day where it’s raining and your bus sails right past you…
But I found this photo on [...]
Posted in Art Projects, Drawings, tagged beige extravaganza, experiments, Photography, sketchbook on 20 August, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m trying to get used to merging two halves of my creative method (oooh, look at that, it sounds like I have a plan and everything!).
One side of it is the photographic modus operandi, which usually involves picturing the entire finished project in one quick mental image and then trying to recreate it. The other [...]
Posted in Artists du Jour, tagged ansuman biswas, anthropology, blog, discussions, history, labels, manchester hermit, museums, skull on 18 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came to this a little late to become entirely involved in it, but I think it’s interesting nevertheless.
Here’s a paraphrased summary of the project from the Manchester Hermit’s blog:
Ansuman Biswas confined himself to the Gothic Tower at the Manchester Museum, with no physical contact with another human being for forty days and forty nights.
Biswas [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged presents, ribcage necklace, untamed menagerie on 17 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know I’m a bit biased, but they are pretty damn cool.
How could one fail to be impressed with this?
It’s a perfectly timed late birthday present, just when I was starting to feel a bit un-birthday-ish (it takes me a while, ok?).
I spent a few minutes identifying all the different bits, and then wore it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged core 10 steel, family, manchester, mosi, muserum of science and industry, sunshine, toy cars, unexpected ephemera on 13 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been sightseeing this last week, we had rellies in town and gave them a bit of a whirlwind tour.
We went to the Museum of Science and Industry and decided we didn’t want to work as a hand at any stage of industrial textile production, but that we quite liked engines and other things that [...]
