Tag Archives: art
Sun, Sea And A Whole Lot Of Film
This week I shall step away from actors and internet virals and return back to festivals. I have recently expressed my dislike of the Academy Awards and instead stated my respect for the film festival circuit. Well the awards season is now dead and the festival season is just beginning. […]
International Cervantino Festival….and a hilly place of frogs?
So Mexico is still tingling all my senses and making me glad I decided to up sticks and move all this way to teach English and explore an incredible country with such a rich heritage. So after asking many of my students where I should visit I have acquired a […]
Curly Wurly 19/4/12
Still getting back into the swing of writing after my unexpected hiatus so I’m not picking someone from my list to write about this week, instead a topic sprung itself into my brain today so I’ll be going with that. I’ve been going through some old ideas over the past […]
Trust your eyes?
Can you ever trust your eyes? Apparently not. That is a painting my friends, not a photograph as I had originally believed. Michael Gaskell came to my attention when a close friend recently showed me the magical painting this impressive artist had portrayed for the upcoming movie ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ created […]
Are you Nothing but a Pretend Writer?
Even though art of all kinds, including writing, constantly touts that it’s an open profession filled with freedom and copious amounts of illegal psychedelic drugs, it’s a profession which is still filled with that same snobbery which dogged women authors and the surrealist movement of the late 19th and early […]
An arty London jaunt
I like to think of visits to London as plugging myself in, like a phone that needs recharging, which is very silly. However, the occasional visit does remind me of all the little things I may not have heard about otherwise. If you’re a cheapskate like me have a look […]
You Call That Art…. Oh Alright Then
So again this week’s blog snuck up on me and I felt stumped on what to write about, so I apologize if you feel that this blog seems weaker than what I had previously produced. I don’t usually watch TV. Now I know thats quite a statement and may even […]
Bath Fringe Festival
I love Edinburgh but there are so many other Fringes to explore over summer. Did you know they had Arts Festivals (Fringes) in Brighton, Camden, Buxton, Windsor and Llangolen, North Wales, to name a few? There’s even one in Chelmsford (Essex) called The Altogether Now Festival. Go to your local […]
From a life model’s perspective
Whenever I tell people I’m a life model they go a bit funny. Oftentimes they react with surprise, which you would expect, and sometimes they say things like, “Good on you,” or “well done!” It’s very sweet and they’re probably referring to the amount of confidence they think I must […]
Curly Wurly 28/2/12
Carrying on with the short break from photography on curly wurly (remember there’s still the photo blog!) in an attempt to go back to my roots I’ll be looking at artists that initially inspired me all of those years ago and also looking to contemporary artists- designers, illustrators, painters so […]
