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Friday night at The Miller. [photos post]

Last night my friend Viv Schwarz had a launch party with Alexis Deacon to celebrate their new children's book A Place To Call Home. They had the party….

hard core blue skies waiting and watching There wasn't much fun being had in the Fun House and the ghost train monsters were so hungry they started to eat the train cars Some nice found type and some stars and stripes and something else

I always find fairgrounds to be full of joy and yet somehow a bit depressing. I think that strange dichotomy is probably why I like them. Well, that and the wealth of visual delights in the form of hand-painted lettering, bad portraiture, oddly dated pop culture references, and people-watching. Yesterday was a bank holiday, and [...]

Last week I went to take photos of the Excalibur Estate in Catford, the estate of prefab houses that was built by Italian and German POWs during WW2, which has recently been in the news because of controversial decisions to tear it down. The estate's been on my list of things to visit for a [...]

You've probably seen a number of reports and photos from the protest for The Alternative that took place on Saturday. Maybe someone you know was there. Maybe you were there. There were a bloody large number of us there. I was there….. [continued]

Fans of light trickery and abstract imagery should visit this exhibition before it ends on March 27th (and hope when they get there that it's not too crowded)…..

This week the Grant Museum re-opened in a new location, although if you were to visit the new venue and didn't know it was a new venue, it wouldn't be at all obvious. Housed in an Edwardian library, a double-height room with a balcony on the second level, it feels as though the collection had [...]

Last week I happened to be on a bus which stopped outside the River Cafe opposite Putney Bridge tube station. I was gasping for a cup of tea, so it seemed like a lost opportunity not to duck inside and have one, especially I'd been promising myself a return visit ever since the first time I went there a few years ago. [...continued]

I love the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, although I don't visit it often enough because it's on the opposite side of London to me. A little while ago I happened to pass it on a bus, so I jumped off to have a quick look around, for the first time in a couple of [...]