My friend’s grandfather was an artist, and during the war he was conscripted and put in charge of designing camouflages. When we were recently working on a project to do with camouflage as an interiors inspiration, I remembered this, and down the Google rabbit hole I went.
Sure, it’s an art installation by Turner Prize winning Glasgow School of Art alumnus Martin Boyce built in Münster (in 2007, finger on the pulse).
There’s nothing on TV right? Everyone says it, and everyone else agrees. If you don’t like gruesome medical stuff and aren’t interested in Yeovil Police Force stopping drivers without insurance, there’s nothing. I’ve been ‘reduced’ to watching reruns of Tonight Matthew-era Stars In Their Eyes on Challenge. Until, that is, I discovered a new […]
That’s the Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, if you’re not familiar. Apparently when RIBA ran a poll to find out the best British-designed building of the past 175 years, this was the winner. And it is pretty amazing, inside and out. I’ve been taking it for granted, because the building – or […]
I’m from the land of redheads and people hollering out their thoughts about that. There are hundreds of ginger lovelies in Scotland, I still notice it when I go home. And, who else was brought up on Charlie Brown books and remembers that Charlie was majorly in love with Little Red-Haired Girl? These two experiences […]