For our final project in Photoshop class, we had to create a 3D animation. It could be anything we liked, whether for personal or professional use. Adding sound (in a separate program — in my case, iMovie) was optional. In fact, the only criterion was that it be a minimum of 10 seconds long. I [...]
What’s in an accent? Years ago when I was on the London Underground, there was an Irish drunk sitting opposite me. He was a merry drunk, but I didn’t want to engage him in conversation because he kept asking people around him some rather personal questions, and in those days I wasn’t very good at [...]
I’ve been wooed by a little knight recently: his name is Sir Banjo of Shyhound, and I am quite smitten… (Part of my composite photo project for my Photoshop class… more soon!)
One thing I miss about living in London is the conversations I have with black cab drivers. I always ask them if they’ve ever had any famous people in their cab, and I’ve yet to hear “no” for an answer. It’s a good way to break the ice on a brief journey. London cabbies are [...]
I really, really, REALLY want this movie poster… Can you guess why? 
P.S. It’s not because it would look incredible framed!
I adore this series of maps by Yanko Tsvetkov, aka alphadesigner, a London-based Bulgarian graphic designer with a wry sense of humour. As a British-American who has lived on both sides of the Atlantic, and who also has strong ties to Spain (mother lives there) and Bulgaria (father lives there), with other more extraneous connections [...]
I’m a lousy baker. Truly! Mr. Fizgig makes the cookies in our house. There’s something about following a recipe that I find difficult. In this way I take after my mother who claims she’s never made the same thing twice. (She also always said Never learn to bake a cake – an example of the [...]
Sir John Gielgud once said about the actor Edward Woodward: But that is not a name! That is a fart in the bath… Which rather reminds me of these book jokes that my brother, Normz, and I used to enjoy (and make up) when we were kids: The Open Kimono by I. C. Morhair Tiger’s [...]
In 2000, I was painting a wall with a roller-brush. I happily swooped the roller down the wall, and the streak of paint left behind looked like a Hallowe’en ghost costume – you know, like a sheet: round top, two holes for eyes and a raggedy bottom. I was delighted to be so surprised, and [...]
