So, few nights back. Standing on the terrace, chatting with my mate from next door. He’s telling me about his experience of running the Tokyo marathon the day before. Shoes this, rain that, 10 kilometres here, and then, he said to me “was the best bit, I ran past Jesus”. And he describes it..he runs [...]
A good art director can make or break your pictures, give you a beautiful spread or a fish supper wrapper. Here’s the website of one of my favourite magazine designers, Tom Brown of Canada. Beautiful work. And I’m glad he’s updated his website….
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I’m up in Hokkaido, so whilst I’m busy, here’s some new music to listen to, a new album ‘I’m New Here’ from Gil Scott-Heron (whose dad, Giles ‘Gil’ Heron, was the first black player to play for Celtic FC)….
from the BBC website, found via EPUK towers….
“Don McCullin, an internationally-regarded British photojournalist particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife, examined the underside of society - the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished - in this moving 1989 film for Newsnight.
Newsnight’s librarian Adam Gotch chose this film because it was one of [...]
Whilst out runnng this morning, training for my April marathon, and listening to my iPod , I heard sandwiched between The White Stripes and Bob Dylan a podcast of my good friend Jason Eskenazi talking on the Studio360 radio show about his time working in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a security guard, and [...]
As newspapers the world over struggle and close down, it’s refreshing to write of a new one starting up in Scotland- The Caledonian Mercury, named after The Mercurius Caledonius which was Scotland’s first print newspaper, founded in 1660 by Thomas Sydserf. We wish it well.
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