Archive for March, 2008

Blue

Spring cleaning, I found this old oddity that never really went anywhere.

The grey, square table was as smooth as taut testicle skin ready for the tattooist’s needle, polished with window cleaner and lined with smeary arcs near the edges.  Angel was curled foetal with his eyes shut on the splitting red bench, leant into the […]

Friendly Wooden Horses

Heather Jansch makes beautiful, life-sized sculptures of horses using driftwood.

I’ve always loved the worn quality of driftwood and it’s one of those things in the beach that I pick up to keep but then don’t know what to do with.  I came across these sculptures a few years ago and I’m very happy to see […]

Lullaby

Palahniuk likes to repeat himself - churn around his ideas and kick at them from new angles. There’s threads of Fight Club and Invisible Monsters wandering around Lullaby, and it’s like getting all the in-jokes in a film. It’s a satisfying icing on a sweet, sweet cake.
The book’s about an old Zulu culling […]

I wish

I see photoshop as a kind of black magic.  I’m useless at it and far too in love with the traditional mediums to work at it, so I just sit back and say ‘wow’ at these sorts of things.  If I were any good at it though, I think this is the sort of thing […]

Witty Selotape

Mark Jenkins is doing fun things with street installations.

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Vanish

How to disappear in America
This is a remarkably comprehensive how-to guide for people needing to get away without a trace from abusive partners. It doesn’t advocate dodging child support, criminal prosecution or dragging children around with you, which pulls it out of the fuzzy grey area.
It covers everything from how to make sure you […]

Life Lessons

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Steamed

The start of something else.
Steamed

Her thigh piston wheezed, coughing out a trickle of grey smoke and dripping lubricant onto the tiled floor.  She was pressing an oil rag to the hole, roughly stuffing the damp cloth into italicised chasm with a long finger, cursing in short, hard breaths.  Frank wandered over from behind the counter […]

Cut Off

This is the beginning of something bigger.

Cut Off

When I’m inspired and raging about it like the passion is this great beast barrelling around the corridors in my head, I talk to Chloe. She is my idol. We started out just talking online all the time, but then I moved to be closer […]

Wedding Photos

These are the sort of wedding photos I want.

Stacey Kane, Maine

Christobal Perez, North Carolina

Ron Storer, Washington
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