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Walking through the square a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about the snippets of information/fabrications that you overhear as you walk through a city. Sounds approaching, passing and receding as you flâneurificate about town.

What’s a flâneur? Webster defines it simply as “an idle man-about-town,” one of those fin-de-siècle dandies who ambled through the [...]

This entry is best read to the sound of Loudon Wainwright’s song, Donations (2Mb mp3 link).

When they go through my wallet and
fish out my license,
they’ll learn my D.O.B
and my eyes were blue.

As for my corneas
I don’t care who gets ‘em,
but all other organs and parts
are for you.

Back in early July, after reading an interesting article [...]

Contrary to my Doctor’s advice, I sat in the direct sunlight to draw this a few weeks ago. I think they call that suffering for your art.

It’s the sculpture by Anthony Gormley in Birmingham’s Victoria Square. I mentioned it a while back. Whilst I was sketching this I started to think about some of his [...]