As part of my passive conquest to amass as many Ladybird books as I can, I bought the Ladybird book of Weather on Amazon the other day for just less £1. A complete bargain considering I have been searching for this one high and low. There’s not much to say that hasn’t already been said [...]

Not so long ago, the idea of embarking on a driverless monorail to speed across neatly-tended farmlands to your office in the city, was a very real possibility. In some cases it became a reality. I still find it hard to understand why more monorails haven’t been built. I find their sleek design and seemingly [...]

Don’t know much about this lad, Aaron Feaver. But I am really enjoying his photography work. From what I can work out, this fella operates out of the US somewhere and works to a stylised format of treatment on his work. In particular, the photos from his ‘oceanside’ are really ringing my bell. There is [...]

Yesterday was St. Georges’ day here. I’m all for identity and heritage, but when you see idiots in the street with those silly Guinness style hats on that people wear on St.Patrick’s day, I start to feel all bilious and resentful. I’m not going to go into it, but if that was all that England’s [...]

After seeing that the over-zealous ASA banned Courage breweries from using their decades old slogan of ‘Take Courage’ in their new advertising campaign on the grounds of it implying that beer induces bravery, I nearly didn’t add this post. I happen to feel pretty strongly about the hypocrisy surrounding alcohol advertising and can’t understand how [...]

Hermit director and mess-head, Chris Cunningham is back about town this week with his new credit-crunch busting piece of directing for Gucci. Cunningham is the equivalent of a one-man-band  – editing, writing, directing, choreographing and even remixing the music for his work. I have total adoration for his ability to turn most things he does [...]

I’ve seen this book lying around my house a lot recently and have never even read a page in it. I’m not sure where it came from or what it’s about. I just seem to keep moving it to different places like one of those bad-boy teenagers that  keeps having to change schools for bad [...]

It’s a sweltering day in the summer of 1989 and the school holidays are in full swing. Mum and Dad are at work and my brother is looking after me. We’ve just been to the local shop and have come back with two VHS videos (for the price of one). The feel of the sticky [...]