Historic number though not logical sitting as it does next to seventy six. Question raiser. Shiny brass on a black satin background.
Archive for the ‘the art gallery’ Category
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013View of part of Liverpool from the Maritime Museum
Monday, April 1st, 2013Wonderful view of part of Liverpool from the Maritime Museum. It’s a great blend of the historic and the modern.
Soup and fork
Monday, April 1st, 2013Latest in a series of surreal photos not taken by Salvador Dali. A fusion of food and art. click on the photo to find out where we were.
Sleigh
Sunday, March 31st, 2013Sleigh’s interest in reworking art historical movements, from the renaissance to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is reflected in her explicit paintings of male nudes, which subvert the art historical tradition of a male gaze directed at a naked female body. In addition to her focus on gender, she painted individuals affectionately and honestly, often including normalising details such as body hair. In this way she implicitly critiqued the idealisation of the human body in art, aiming to combat its objectification. Sleigh’s female gaze still has a powerful impact and the formal qualities of her painting seem poignantly contemporary.
Reproduced without permission from the Tate Liverpool. You have to ask yourself whether Sleigh would have written this herself. I may be wrong but she probably “just painted”.
Pommes de terre a la provencal
Sunday, March 31st, 2013I like a spud: baked spud, chips, pommes Lyonaise, mash, shepherd’s pie, pommes Boulangere, gratin, fried, sauteed, steamed, plain boiled, Jersey Royal, King Edward, Maris Piper, Desiree, Charlotte, Pink Fir Apple, Dauphinoise, roast, crisps, salt and vineegar, plain, ready salted, cheese and onion, beef, roast chicken, jacket, skins, Fondant, Gallette,crushed, Rosti, Parisienne, french fries
The drill hall
Saturday, March 30th, 2013There is something dark about the mask on the wall outside the Drill Hall – especially as dusk is approaching and you can see the light through the eye sockets
A fleeting moment in history
Friday, March 29th, 2013A collection of videos, once treasured, now consigned to history. Unwatchable though once unmissable, I found little difficulty in discarding. No wistful last looks back, metaphoric glance over the shoulder. Just cold emotion.
floral arrangement in the snow
Thursday, March 28th, 2013There’s something WI flower show about this image or maybe even the Chelsea Flower Show. It would be a hugely expensive display to put on at Chelsea because of the cost of creating the artificial snow and stopping it from melting in June, or whenever they hold it. I’m not so bothered about the WI. They could arrange a flower show to suit. Not that I’m a member, obv. It would be quite easy for them to say “lets have another cake competition ladies” and to sling on a frozen flower exhibit/competition at the same time. They must have lots of baking competitions. That and knitting. It’s what they do, how they roll. That and calendars but we won’t go there…
There particular flower pots are better presented frozen and covered in snow because that way you can’t see that they have had the proverbial stuffing knocked out of them by footballing kids (also rugby and cricket – whatever the weather and time of year).
I will leave you with a message of hope. I hope it starts to get a bit warmer, melts this now and lets the flowers start growing again.
Ciao
Ropes
Thursday, March 28th, 2013I like a bit of rope. Not the synthetic plasticky stuff you get these days. You know the good old fashioned rope they used to use in the days of sail. Good old fashioned rope is the sort of rope you want to own just to have, just to say you’ve got some in the garage or somewhere. Somewhere safe anyway. I don’t think I’d want to leave it in the shed. If she’d let me I’d probably have it coiled up in the corner of the living room, tidy. It can look very tidy coiled up in a circle on the deck of a ship. The rope in this photo isn’t coiled up nicely I know but there’s a time and place for coiling and obviously this wasn’t one of em. Anyway, like I said, I like rope.
Baker’s Dozen?
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013Work this one out. It’s at Tesco.
nibbles at the intercontinental hotel park lane
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013This was a slightly surreal weekend. We went down 1st Class on the train to London and were staying at the Intercontinental Park Lane. That day the standard class carriages on the train were packed with members of the Unite Union going to a huge rally in Park Lane – protesting at government job cuts.
We were all going to the same destination except they were in the park and were were in a luxury 5 star hotel gazing down at them in the park.
Let them eat cake (olives) I shouted before ducking so that they couldn’t see who said it. I didn’t really:) I’m not that kind of guy.
We went out for an Indian meal with our friends Graham and Carol and then on to see Paul Merton at the Strand Theatre (I think it was the Strand – it was certainly on the Strand).
A good time was had by all. The photo is of the posh nibbles in the cocktail bar of the Intercontinental. V nice though at that price you would expect them to be.
Ciao
snow no snow
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013What would Sherlock Holmes have made of this photo? Did they have cameras in his day? They certainly wouldn’t have had cars as he always used to take the third Hansome Cab along. Who said cars had anything to do with this photo anyway?
How did I manage to take this photo anyway? How could I have been there but not my car? I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, and for Sherlock to sort out.
Office lights at HMS Belfast
Monday, March 25th, 2013Took this one whilst walking along the gantry at HMS Belfast. Seriously interesting ship to visit btw. All boys own stuff. You can sense adventure.
Periscope on the port bow!!!
Introducing the new Philosopherontap logo
Sunday, March 24th, 2013Could have just slipped this one in quietly so that you would eventually notice it being used and then say to yourself “oo that must be the Philosopherontap logo. Haven’t noticed that one before. Must be new.”
I didn’t. This is the new Philosopherontap logo designed by local Lincoln artist and friend Carole Daynes. It’s going to be used as the featured image on posts that don’t contain any other images.
There will more than likely always be an instance of it on the front page of the site. I did consider having it in a permanent spot on the screen but I quite like the letterbox shaped image just showing the eyes so that stays.
Carole has also illustrated the forthcoming The Abandoned Sandy Shoe and Other Chinks in the Curtains of Life – the first book in the Philosopherontap literary back catalogue:)
For those who are interested, although you cant see from the picture it must be a hot tap – we don’t do cold at Philosopherontap.
Now you know.
Tata.
Burning McAfee software
Sunday, March 24th, 2013Burning McAfee software is very simple – even your mother in law could do it:)
That’s all.
PS are you coming to the Philosopherontap Book1 Launch party on May 8th. Check it out here.