I grew up in the Swinging Sixties, and as my parents were an architect and an artist our house was full of the latest trendy…
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I grew up in the Swinging Sixties, and as my parents were an architect and an artist our house was full of the latest trendy…
1 CommentI’ve just got back from a trip to Moscow and was planning to write a few posts on some of the things I found there;…
1 CommentMany years ago I bought a facsimile leather late medieval wallet and coin purse from the Louvre shop in Charles de Gaulle airport. The wallet…
Leave a CommentI’m delighted that Sally Potter’s film Orlando, based on the book by Virginia Woolf, is now available on iTunes. Orlando is one of those books…
Leave a CommentFor me the years 1968 – 1969 were a perfect storm for three reasons. Firstly I saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at the…
1 CommentJust a quick couple of pieces of news: 1) There won’t be a post for a couple of weeks as I’m off on my hols…
1 CommentThis week I learned that the English actor Bob Hoskins is retiring because of Parkinson’s disease. It’s sad news. I’ve always admired his work so…
3 CommentsThis week I attended a one-day education conference in Lancaster House, hosted by the British Government as part of the diplomatic activities surrounding the Olympic…
3 CommentsI live in Romsey which is a little market town on the eastern edge of the New Forest in the UK. It’s an ancient place.…
2 CommentsI love computer animation and ever since I had a BBC B 32K computer in the early 1980s I’ve been trying to teach myself how…
1 CommentSilent Science Fiction movies are understandably dominated by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) which is a truly astounding piece of German Expressionist film. Two years before…
2 CommentsHaving your friend to paint your portrait is always nice, especially if they’re a famous artist. Unless your best mate was Otto Dix, the Expressionist…
1 CommentH. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds was first serialised in Pearson’s Magazine in 1897. By sheer luck, many years ago, I came…
15 CommentsThey Came from Mars, by W. P. Cockcroft, was first published in 1934 as the story “Cataclysm” in the British boys magazine Scoops. It was re-issued…
3 CommentsUpdate: Consensus of opinion is that the font made it looked too like a comic book so I’m going to rethink the titling. In the…
2 CommentsA little while ago I wrote about the Eagle Comic in the early 1960s. The Captain was a similar magazine from the beginning of the…
Leave a CommentI’ve just been to see the play Mary Shelley by Helen Edmundson, performed by the Shared Experience theatre company at Winchester Royal Theatre. It was…
1 CommentThe Symbolist and Decadent movement in European art has always been overlooked. It stands between the twin monoliths of Impressionism and Cubism, and is overshadowed…
Leave a CommentA few days ago I saw The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe. It was huge fun, especially for someone who used to sneak out…
1 CommentI’ve chosen the second issue of the 70s British SF magazine Science Fiction Monthly because that’s the one that started it all off for me…
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