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  • 25 May 2012

    helloyoucreatives: Check out Hunter S. Thompson’s RED MENACE A reminder to @PodRED that I still have a heavy duty forties beauty under my bedside table that you promised to fix.

    helloyoucreatives:

    Check out Hunter S. Thompson’s RED MENACE

    A reminder to @PodRED that I still have a heavy duty forties beauty under my bedside table that you promised to fix.

    Source: artpixie

  • 16 May 2012

    Street Art of the Day: A new Banksy has surfaced on the wall of a Poundland shop in London, and it depicts a child of Asian origin hard at work sewing Union Jack bunting. (Embiggen) Chances are, the location of the work is significant: In 2010, Poundland launched an investigation after it was discovered that a 7-year-old boy was working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop, producing items for the store. A spokeswoman said at the time: “Poundland does not tolerate child labor under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children.” [highsnobriety]

    Street Art of the Day: A new Banksy has surfaced on the wall of a Poundland shop in London, and it depicts a child of Asian origin hard at work sewing Union Jack bunting. (Embiggen)

    Chances are, the location of the work is significant: In 2010, Poundland launched an investigation after it was discovered that a 7-year-old boy was working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop, producing items for the store. A spokeswoman said at the time: “Poundland does not tolerate child labor under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children.”

    [highsnobriety]

    (via helloyoucreatives)

    Source: thedailywhat

  • 14 May 2012

    Taken with instagram

    Taken with instagram

  • 8 May 2012

    Determining if a sentimental item is clutter or a treasure | Offbeat Home

    I’m not sure if I can commit to this level of de-cluttering. On the other hand, I am slowly being eaten by my kipple.

  • 7 May 2012

    Taken with instagram

    Taken with instagram

  • 5 May 2012

    Went to see Jeremy Deller / David Shrigley at the Hayward Gallery. Deller’s work is the kind of ‘art as social research’ that’s really up my street - sometimes dark and / or humourous, but always a somehow affectionate examination of ‘people’. Many highlights to the show, which is essentially a two decade retrospective, but I do believe my favourite was in the Project Space upstairs - and, unlike the rest of the exhibition, free to the viewing public. Our Hobby is Depeche Mode is a collection of memorabilia and an as-yet unreleased film directed with Nick Abrahams. The film, ‘The Posters Came from the Walls: or How Basildon ended the Cold War, and other stories’, is a wonderful story of the people from Moscow, to Tehran, Cambridge to Pasadena, who have found in their love of Depeche Mode a community of likeminded souls and - in some cases - a kind of political identity (“We are Depeche-ist. Like Communist, like Fascist”). A couple of brief video clips can be seen here: http://www.jeremydeller.org/ The show finishes on 13 May, but it’s open til 8pm on Thursday and Friday - very worth the effort.

    Went to see Jeremy Deller / David Shrigley at the Hayward Gallery. Deller’s work is the kind of ‘art as social research’ that’s really up my street - sometimes dark and / or humourous, but always a somehow affectionate examination of ‘people’.

    Many highlights to the show, which is essentially a two decade retrospective, but I do believe my favourite was in the Project Space upstairs - and, unlike the rest of the exhibition, free to the viewing public. Our Hobby is Depeche Mode is a collection of memorabilia and an as-yet unreleased film directed with Nick Abrahams. The film, ‘The Posters Came from the Walls: or How Basildon ended the Cold War, and other stories’, is a wonderful story of the people from Moscow, to Tehran, Cambridge to Pasadena, who have found in their love of Depeche Mode a community of likeminded souls and - in some cases - a kind of political identity (“We are Depeche-ist. Like Communist, like Fascist”).

    A couple of brief video clips can be seen here: http://www.jeremydeller.org/

    The show finishes on 13 May, but it’s open til 8pm on Thursday and Friday - very worth the effort.

    Source: theposterscamefromthewalls.com

  • 18 April 2012

    One of the areas I work on at PHF is our Special Initiative Learning Away: a five-year action research project founded on a belief that high quality residential experiences, embedded in the school curriculum, can provide extremely powerful learning opportunities for children and young people.

    Most people looking back on their school days can remember one really powerful learning experience that took place outside the classroom - be it a day trip or residential. In November, I went to visit The Canterbury High School’s week-long Year 10 residential at the Carroty Wood centre near Tunbridge. A colleague of mine has written up our experiences for the latest Learning Away newsletter (out today), with one particular teacher commenting:

    My major highlight was seeing students overcome their fears and support each other. This was then reflected in their speaking and listening presentation assessment where they discussed what activities they had enjoyed and what they had got out of completing each activity. It was amazing to see some of them increase by a whole grade.

    Click here to see the full newsletter article - along with an update on publications and evaluation, a residential and outdoor learning news roundup, and the latest on the Learning Outside the Classroom Schools’ Mark.

    To sign up for future copies of the newsletter, email learningaway@phf.org.uk

    Source: phf.org.uk

  • 8 April 2012

    My week off work - in instagram.

    Source: instagr.am

  • 6 April 2012

    thingsorganizedneatly: Christoph Meier, Setting #14, 2008 16mm-Projector, Super-8-Projector, 3 Slide projectors

    thingsorganizedneatly:

    Christoph Meier, Setting #14, 2008

    16mm-Projector, Super-8-Projector, 3 Slide projectors

    Source: hoolawhoop.blogspot.com

  • 31 March 2012

    A week’s annual leave - ten days of yoga, drawing, reading, films, visiting friends, fussing the cats, cooking and eating. Day one: a trip to Crystal Palace park. A bit blustery, but dry. We saw the remains of the Palace pleasure grounds, the hedge maze restored by the Guides, and the lower lake and its dinosaur trail.

    A week’s annual leave - ten days of yoga, drawing, reading, films, visiting friends, fussing the cats, cooking and eating.

    Day one: a trip to Crystal Palace park. A bit blustery, but dry. We saw the remains of the Palace pleasure grounds, the hedge maze restored by the Guides, and the lower lake and its dinosaur trail.

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