STIRCRAZY | Sunday, October 25, 2020
#STIRCRAZY: it doesn’t matter how creative you are, how big your Netflix/Spotify/Bandcamp wish list is, or how many books you have to read, the body just needs to move sometimes and experience the great outdoors. A glimpse of decent weather and we were out like a shot. #autumn #virginiawater #cascades #waterfall
KEITHJARRETT | Thursday, October 22, 2020
#KEITHJARRETT: devastating news that the unassailable brilliance of his piano playing has gone, almost certainly forever, after two strokes leave him barely able to play with one hand. Explains his long absence from the scene. Can’t even blame this on 2020. All the best to the man. #jazz #genius #pianist
THEROADAHEAD | Wednesday, October 21, 2020
#THEROADAHEAD: I am glad that I had a chance to be carefree and experience the world, even if that time feels impossibly long ago. While frivolous travel by air and road is wrapped in guilt now, travel and migration is basically the story of the human race. It’s what we do. #travel #mexico #foto8 #hostgallery
KEEPUPART | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
#KEEPUPART: this lovely little canvas arrived from the street artist @<a href=”https://www.instagram.com/xlvii“>xlvii who is from my old manor and doing some great work - and this series is especially topical right now with the arts struggling in the face of so much government indifference. Support your local artist or @<a href=”https://www.instagram.com/xlvii“>xlvii if you can. #art #covid #streetartist
ARTHUR | Saturday, October 17, 2020
#ARTHUR. I am baking. My neighbour knocks to relay a message: can you pop round to Arthur’s? There’s no electrics, the fuse box looks fine, except, ah, the RCD. It trips the moment we plug the washing machine back in. Fine. Change the plug. Trips again. Broken washing machine. Disconnect, drain, shove it out the back, heaviest thing in the house. Then it turns out his phone isn’t working. The half-arsed fitters who turned up yesterday to plug in a panic alarm didn’t do a very job of plugging things back in. Phone fixed. This is absolutely, far and away, the most excitement I’ve had all week. Arthur is 97 next month, been here since 1956. Shashi is in his eighties and these guys meet up every single evening for a drink. #friends #goodneighbours #richmond
AUNTIE | Wednesday, September 30, 2020
#AUNTIE: all my late dad’s sisters adored my dad and treated me like a jewel, they showered me with love and affection and kindness. I don’t have favourites, but I knew Babyfoi the best from spending so much time with her. She had a pretty hard life, and my dad and myself were always trying to help and keep a lookout for her. Her late husband, my uncle, was one of dad’s best friends and he gave me my name: Vishal. It means ‘great’ or ‘wide’ or ‘unstoppable’ and I can only lay a clear claim to the last and am unlikely to ever make the second in my lifetime, and aspire to the first posthumously. My awesome Babyfoi passed away yesterday and my family shrinks again. My dad had a massive family, he was one of eleven, and it was truly amazing, in hindsight, to visit and be surrounded by family. I have never, ever, witnessed my entire family of uncles, aunts and cousins all in the same place at the same time, and never will. There’s only 3/11 left. I took this picture in 2001 in the family home in #Pondicherry. The house was gifted to the ashram by my philanthropist grandfather on the proviso that his family would live there. It’s been empty for some time, and will surely revert to the ashram. I hope they make great use of it and restore the life it must have seen back in the 1950s. #family #aunties #india
SOTT | Friday, September 25, 2020
#SOTT: picking a favourite @prince album is pointless, since the standards were so mind-bogglingly high, but this stands-out as a universal high-water-mark in his life. I remember so many trips to the shops to turn this album over in my hand and look at it until I could afford it, and finally listening to the beast with the lyrics in my hands. Who the heck has time to do that anymore? I am pretty excited about the book in this package, and the unreleased material, but really, I want to hear the remastered sound, because the original is terrible. This still cannot mask the album’s genius and proves his point that people will forgive the sound on the strength of the material. #signofthetimes #signothetimes #signothetimessuperdeluxe #vinyl #prince #superdeluxeboxset #1987
DESIGN | Sunday, September 20, 2020
#DESIGN: so @teflonmonkey posts this a few days ago, which I clock, going, yeah I need to refresh my twenty-year-gone design chops and sort this out, that looks like a good place to start, oh hello postman, it’s the size of an atlas. Great homework, thanks Derren. #design #logos #branding #taschen
