You sort of forget that your streets have a lot of furniture on them – post boxes, electricity boxes etc. But you wouldn’t if you were in pockets of Berlin. There, stencil street artist Evol has turned those objects into mini high rise flats. I love this! Details are fantastic – those satellite dishes. Plus, […]
Did you see the BBC 4 programme about the Bingo last night? I only watched it to give myself a break from reruns of You’ve Been Framed, but once it started I was totally gripped. It was amazing! For a start you got vintage news footage of the Bingo-mad ladies of Margate, and a glimpse […]
Fresh from the pages of the Daily Mail – source of many an enjoyable homes story I have to admit – is a piece about artist Julie Green who for 13 years has been painting death row prisoner’s last meals onto plates. The Mail didn’t pass any comment about what they thought of this, […]
I’ll start by saying I know nothing about what I’m going to post. Great start! All I do know is it’s called Slum Beautiful, and it’s a site run by someone called Demond Meek, dedicated solely to his photographs of derelict houses in St Louis, Missouri. I think there is something especially strange and striking […]
First things first, here’s a nice picture of the novelist / artist Douglas Coupland looking intense at his escritoire. Judging by those globes (and these dartboards) he definitely seems to have a thing about stacking objects for decorative effect. The desk is part of a furniture collection that Douglas designed with SwitzerCultCreative, and which is […]