the battleground: part two

It's played a literal battlefield in Richard III and The Dark Knight. It's desolation needing little make-up. It's scale a character in itself threatening to usurp the leading man. It is at once monstrous and pitieous.

the battleground: part one

Ask me my favourite film and I'll be hard pressed to give you a definitive answer. But there's always a few that will forever hover within my top ten. It's a similar deal with buildings. I've no straight forward favourite, but this one will always be in that mythical short list. I love it all the more for it's dishevelled state, looming over the 1930's estates and terraced streets around it.

The battle over it's fate has been long and who knows when it will end, but I'm certain it will never be as magnificent in future incarnations as it is now. This summer I took advantage of the chance to wander around the site, camera in hand, a rare opportunity which more than lived up to expectations.

26.1.09

i like your style...

Currently on stage at the National Theatre in London, this revival of Tom Stoppard's 1977 play makes inventive use of cast and orchestra.

I've just seen a preview and even though it's only 65min long it doesn't suffer from brevity.

A consequence of being a theatre-goer is that you only truly enjoy 1 in 4 or 5 of the productions you see. But that's part of the appeal, as you never know when you might see the next Olivier winner, or a fantastic thespian performance from a young upstart you can tell will go far (Andrew Garfield is my pick!).

So if you can, go grab a ticket as it's over by the end of February.

finally!

Paradise, the animated short by Jesse Rosensweet, which I blogged about in October, is on youtube.

deck the halls

by electric light

d-day

or DIY day.

The hoop experiment isn't my first dabble in reinventing old jewelry. One of my staple necklaces is a real chameleon.

The simplest things are always the best. So cliche, yet so bang on the money sometimes.

shooting hoops

a DIY project.

I've been wanting some hoop earrings for a while now. My earring collection isn't huge and I've been feeling underwhelmed by the volumes offered by them when they're hanging off my lobes. Unwilling to spend money on some cheapass yet still overpriced highstreet offerings (and which unless they're silver kill my ears) I took to the box under my bed containing old and past-it jewelry, and stuff that just isn't currently in rotation around my self.

Voila: my bangle collection. Much loved but in practice rarely worn.


I picked out a pair. Then after dismantling an old pair of earrings and a little plier-work I have myself some hoops without a penny spent.


And a whole lot of life breathed back into something old. Although I would've tried the coloured bangles too, had they matched (I'm not sure I'm ready to take on mismatched earrings).

You read my mind

"A mini cinema inside my umbrella."

- One answer to the question "If I were a designer I would design...", spotted on the Sackler Centre wall during Designerama on 26.10.08