mEcHaNicAL hOrSe

Strange things are afoot at Banham Zoo where they also have what appears to be a mEcHanICaL hOrSe next to the Suffolk Punch paddock. This really is a superb piecs of artwork made from old agricultural implements, although the artist is sadly anonymous.

wiCkeR MaN 2oo6

Time to celebrate Beltane today in a time-honoured way of decorating our wiCkeR mAn.
Rest assured though that ours is more appropriate than that of the cult British 70s film of the same name and we don't set it alight.

bEdLaM

I found this one on my mobile phone! It reminds me of Skrik (The Scream) by Edvard Munch and is almost certainly a picture of one of our family during one of our bedlam moments!

diNoSauRs

Crikey, birds in the woods are getting a bit big.


Couldn't resist these prehistoric offerings, which are so much more than statues...

YuLeTiDe aRt

Well 'tis the season to be jolly, so I use this festive image from out kitchen door to use the words of Slade, the great 70's Rockers from the Black Country, MeRRy cHriStMaS eVeRyboDy and a Happy New Year for 2006.

tHe aRT oF cOncRete

Whilst using the extensive, traffic-free, and remarkably under-used cycleways of Stevenage a few days ago, I stumbled across this little smiling family. There is probably some deep inner meaning to the development of the new towns hidden here - the smiling nuclear family of the 70's. Very reminiscent of the famous concrete cows of Liz Leyh.
I am sure there are more gems ike this hidden by Stevenage Borough Council. If I find more I'll post them.

kAleiDasCopiC aRt

Now I'm hooked; even the most mundane photos can be transformed with a bit of image manipulation.
With risk of misquoting Ripley's trademark "believe it or not..." one image is a pair of glasses next to a glass paperweight and the other is a badly focussed pine cone on my wooden kitchen table.
Amazing what a bit of technical jiggery-pokery can achieve!

eVoLutioN aT tHe oFFicE

OK, so my initial idea has moved on, morphed, or evolved, depending on your viewpoint.
I am still very much sticking with the notion of using a mobile phone camera oNLy as the instrument to capture my aRT, but today's photos from the oFFiCe were less than inspiring so I have applied some artistic effects to enliven them.
They're still everyday objects, an in fact one of them is a recycled and reprocessed shot from an earlier post.

And I still pose the question: 'buT iS iT aRt?'



Additionally, my phone is now being upgraded to a Nokia 6230i with, among other 'non-phone-related-but-nevertheless-essential' features, comes with a 1.3 Megapixel camera, which I find a staggering achievement.
Hopefully this will help me get some clearer shots in the future...