Monday 29 November 2010

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was one of the first poets that I ever studied and I'm just about to start rereading 'Goodbye to All That' as part of the research for my current work in progress: Soldbuch.

I recently found this random little Q&A - reprinted from a May 1970 edition The Listener - and especially liked the part about "writing a poem [being] rather like finding the top of a statue buried in sand..."

Saturday 27 November 2010

Rihanna and Richard Mosse

I couldn't help noticing more than a passing resemblance between Rihanna's 'Only Girl (In The World)' video and Richard Mosse's 'Infra'. The latter was shot in Eastern Congo on Kodak Aerochrome infrared film.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

November

Two images taken through windows in London this morning and one from the park yesterday afternoon.