These five photos were all taken on a 15 minute walk in London. Look down! there’s a lot of variety at your feet.
1. Water, gas and co.
2. This looks like a slab of fridge cake. (I’m hungry, presumably.)
3. Repeating patterns and flattened gum.
4. Some spectacular tesselation going on over here.
5. Cracks, stripes and cigarette butts.
p.s. Don’t forget to submit a photo!
Good morning ladies and gents!
Firstly, I’d like to say hello to all of my new visitors (thanks WordPress!). I hope you like what you see around here.
Secondly, I’d like to remind you about the COLLECTIVE 5 photo collaboration project. COLLECTIVE 5 is a once-weekly feature involving photos submitted by readers. (All other blog posts are by me, using only my own photos.)
Everyone and anyone can submit a photo, and the (very simple) instructions can be found here.
I can’t wait to see your photos this week!
Love,
Helena.
It is nearly Valentine’s day, and everywhere you look it’s hearts hearts hearts. My favourite kind are the edible and audible kind, such as these, these and these. Tasty!
1. A sad clown with his heart on his sleeve.
2. One of my paintings.
3. Kermit’s tongue.
4. Haribo hearts: small but perfectly formed.
5. Free candy at the Tatty Devine store.
p.s. Don’t forget to submit your photo!
I was never too cool for school. I liked school.
1. Apparently, the cool kids are going to a ‘TrouserArouser warehouse party’.
2. Ian Stevenson is asking the big questions, in street sticker format.
3. Exams finished + glitter on your sparkling-wine-drenched head = COOL
4. The cool kids are clearly deluded.
5. Merry Christmas.
p.s. Submit your photos! Don’t forget!
Hi! COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly feature involving photos submitted by readers. Anyone can contribute! The rules, as well as next week’s COLLECTIVE 5 theme, can be found over here.
This week’s photos (in no particular order):
1. A window in corfu, by Richard Paice.
2. Freddie’s teeth, by Hannah Wheatley.
3. Part of the Lipstick Traces series, by Roger Woodiwiss.
4. A French wasp, dead. By Karan Grover.
5. A decaying tree supporting fungal life. By Scott D. Johnson.
Thanks to everyone who sent in their pics this week – the theme was a bit creepy, but I hope you enjoyed it anyway. Next week’s COLLECTIVE 5 theme is a bit more hearts’n'flowers-ish (it’s nearly Valentine’s day after all), so check it out over here!
We have four limbs; they have as many as they require. There is no predetermination, no predefined norm for structure and appearance. I like it. I like the variation.
1. ChristChurch Meadows, Oxford, at dawn on May day.
2. University Parks, Oxford, on a damp and luminous evening.
3. Blaise wood, near Bristol, on a freezing December afternoon.
4. Tolkien’s favourite tree (so they say) in Oxford’s botanical gardens.
5. After breakfast, somwhere in rural Holland.
p.s. Remember to submit your photo for this week’s COLLECTIVE 5!
Typography: sometimes it’s good enough to eat.
1. I can’t tell whether this is vintage or retro.
2. Can someone tell me what this says?
3. On the Underground.
4. The Brick Lane Coffee now (the Jolly Butchers then).
5. Portobello Road is…er…a wonderland.
p.s. Have you submitted your photo yet?
Cupcakes: They look very good, they taste very good. Enough said.
1. Robots and cupcakes: an ideal combination.
2. Peyton & Byrne cupcakes are topped with decadent dollops of frosting.
3. Stickers from Paperchase; frame from Habitat; Postcard from NYC.
4. Food colouring madness. (We topped them with yellow frosting, FYI.)
5. I got this Sock-cake for Christmas but it’s too pretty to unroll.
p.s. Remember to submit your photo for COLLECTIVE 5!
If I was at school and had to write an assignment about apples, it would go like this: I like apples. They are shiny. They come in red and green, which are my favourite colours. You can carry them around without squashing them. You can put them in dessert as well as main meals and they taste good either way. Plus, I once read that munching on an apple is the next best thing to brushing your teeth if, for some reason, you’ve lost your toothbrush. The end.
1. The real deal.
2. An iPod: more fun than the real deal, but with fewer nutrients.
3. These Bucketmen stickers are allover Brick Lane.
4. Delicious treats at Borough Market.
4. Is she Snow White or is she Eve? (Probably the latter, based on her grin.)
p.s. Submit your photos for COLLECTIVE 5!
FIRSTLY: In case this blog doesn’t let you get enough of me (har har har), you can also follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and now – DRUMROLL – you can follow my blog with bloglovin!
SECONDLY: Don’t forget to contribute to this week’s COLLECTIVE 5. Come on now, don’t be shy! I know it seems like a creepy theme, but I’m sure there are some rotting veggies in your fridge just begging to model for you.
