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Ade Rowbotham: August 2007
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Friday, August 10, 2007. This Exists' on Flickr. A This Exists Flickr Group. Now exists. Submit your own photos and they could receive a prestigious spot on the This Exists blog. Get joining ». Wednesday, August 01, 2007. I highly recommend Thirty Thousand Streets. Ndash; peculiar short stories based around the experiences of a young man living in London. They are written by Zeno Cosini. And feature excellent illustrations by The Eyechild. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This Exists on Flickr.
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The Eyechild: July 2009
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Thursday, July 30, 2009. Has anyone else noticed that the met office is, well, a bit shit? As meteorologists never tire of telling us, theirs is an 'inexact science' which is sort of fair enough, but in which case, can you hold off on the press releases anticipating a 'barbecue' summer, which as I glance out of the window at the default grey, rainy, humid July English weather, patently hasn't manifested. Aw, thanks guys. Shame it was bollocks though, eh? I'd have preferred it if you'd told me the events ...
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The Eyechild: November 2008
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Saturday, November 22, 2008. The magnification also knocked my depth perception for six, and approaching a kerb I attempted to circumnavigate it as one might a stile in the countryside – with huge steps that seemed to connect with the pavement a moment after I expected them to. I started to feel a bit queasy, and took off the specs. Whoah". Because the difference it makes to my mid-to-long range vision is striking in terms of clarity. Whacked on. Blurrier. Fuzzier. Thursday, November 06, 2008. This count...
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The Eyechild: Psygnosis
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Sunday, July 26, 2009. An enduring, marginally endearing memory of my secondary-school era was of traipsing to my classmate Chris Pinchbeck's basement in Heaton Norris to play (or mostly watch him play, in all honesty) the new generation of computer games on his then state of the art Amiga 500. Moment, followed by: "I gotta gets me one of these.". Indeed, the cover for the game was created by artist Roger Dean, responsible for amongst other things, the original Virgin Records logo and covers of various a...
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The Eyechild: Hunterian Museum
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Sunday, June 14, 2009. I went to the Hunterian museum this Saturday gone, which is situated a (sling-shot) stone's throw away from the John Soames house, on the Southern Side of a garden square in Holborn. It was as part of an illustration short course I've been doing, and the purpose of the trip was visual research, sketching and drawing. No photography was allowed (due to the sanctity of human remains, y'dig? Highlights for me included (in no particular order):. The club owned by one on the 'Beadles' r...
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The Eyechild: February 2009
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Thursday, February 19, 2009. I read today, via a link from the man like Ade, (and as reported by Creative Review). That Sheffield based exponents of all things vector The Designer's Republic. Offically went bump, sometime in mid-January of this year (shows how up-to-date I am). The Designer's republic, to me, always had a fairly strong 'house style'. They were your go-to designers for a certain icon-rich, vector-y cool, that was, to be sure, oft imitated – the most obvious exponents of this typ...The kin...
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The Eyechild: March 2009
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Monday, March 30, 2009. I'm getting bored of this poster now. Thanks to Sigh 9 for kindly pointing me in the direction of this Flickr pool. Which contains numerous examples of that poster I was whingeing about. I can probably put this sucker to bed now. This is my favourite, I think. This evening I watched the Werner Herzog documentary 'Grizzly Man' about the reclusive guy who fed himself and his girlfriend to bears in 2003, Timothy Treadwell. Saturday, March 28, 2009. There's that phonemenon, largely su...
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The Eyechild: April 2009
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Friday, April 17, 2009. Saturday, April 04, 2009. I'm having a flutter on the gee gees today, on the Grand National. First time I've I'm ever placed a bet, though I'm not much of a gambler generally, apart from those little insta-rubbish lottery scratchies ("Oh, I've won a quid, I'll buy another one, oh, I've lost"). Ahem Hope that doesn't happen. Thursday, April 02, 2009. And hey, w-what's this, National Rail have just created an application of their own, reportedly inferior, for £4.99. Tha...Still, why...
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The Eyechild: January 2009
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. The remit of the night was 50s Rockabilly, with a DJ spinning 7 inches and a live band with a luscious singer who looked like she'd just stepped off the set of South Pacific. All of which was fine, but I was mostly absorbed in staring at the sartorial pageant surrounding me. Of particular note were a triumvirate of angular-looking girls who stood by the bar staring waspishly about and boozing, who sort of resembled 50s Super-villainesses in mega-tight leggings, and beehive hai...
