Monthly Archives: May 2010

Pesky animal surveys scene

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Stephen Foster

and notes an abundance of bloody rabbits. He’s gone missing twice today on account of these creatures; this shot was achieved with a telephoto lens.

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Blogospheric confession

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Stephen Foster

The blog has to own up and discard its aura of coolness – it likes the Winner of Eurovision 2010 and it particularly loves the Cockerney-Germanic enunciation which starts about half-way through. It wants certain other offences to be taken … Continue reading →

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Master Bedroom

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Stephen Foster

There may be certain blog visitors who are familiar with scenes like this, albeit in untidier surroundings. Andrew Wyeth

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The Rolling Stones

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Stephen Foster

There’s old footage film of them on the telly, the Exile on Main Street anniversary stuff. The thing that I’m noticing, which I’ve never really put my finger on before, is that they have no particular style, it’s like they … Continue reading →

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Old favourite picture

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Stephen Foster

I was fiddling the prints and postcards and ticket stubs and photographs around on the wall beside my desk today (I was trying to draw a picture of one of them); it’s a kind of palimpsestic jumble of images, variously … Continue reading →

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Little moments to cherish

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Stephen Foster

Or as TS Eliot had it: these fragments I will shore against my ruins. I was just thinking about this time a year or so back when I mentioned to these mates from Stoke about how I’d done this reading … Continue reading →

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Harry the sporting poodle

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Stephen Foster

Dylan met this turbo-charged individual the other night; his owners had four dogs, Harry, who was young, was the most recent arrival and came with a story (had been locked up all day somewhere) and was the apple of his … Continue reading →

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‘The object of art…

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Stephen Foster

…is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity.’ That’s what Giacometti said. He could talk the talk as well as, er, walk the walk: A Giacometti anecdote: the artist refused to take his GP’s … Continue reading →

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Making Money

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Stephen Foster

Amis’ zeitgeist-capturing 80s novel has been turned into a two-parter by the BBC. I loved the book when I read it, which was at a time when I was young and impressionable. Like much of Martin Amis it’s principally about … Continue reading →

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Sean Scully

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Stephen Foster

I post one of his periodically because I love them, to provide a thread and keep the block conceptually intact, and to provoke OId Stokie into making his remarks about his Mam’s old rug. Montserrat

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