Untitled. 2014.
#Horizontal
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People often comment on the number of overhead utility lines in Japan. Well this street in Richmond San Francisco has its own fair share of lines. 2014.
#urban #city #street
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Today a bee suckles the nectar of the red currant bush. More signs that Spring is here although a heavy cloud hangs overhead.
#nature
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It is an Ethan Hawke tour de force. He deserves the Oscar but I suspect he won't win it.
Iya Valley. Shikoku. Japan
#ForestFriday #nature #photography #EastCoastKin
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The River Frome in the Cotswolds in the early days of Spring.
#scape #landscape #nature
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March and the first blossom on the cherry emerges. As AE Houseman wrote:
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
Besides the extraordinary craft I love the fact that delicate beauty can be created using IT and pixels. David Hockney
21st April 2021, Yellow Flowers in a Small Milk Churn, 2021
iPad painting printed on paper
A post on Twitter reminds people of something many have forgotten: When the Great East Japan Earthquake happened 15 years ago, LINE - now Japan's most popular messaging app with 100M users - didn't exist. It was actually developed in response to the disaster.
This months final guest on #mk3d this month was the #iconic Twiggy ... @Dave_norris_lps is going to have to watch the #twiggydocumentary with me this weekend
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The Japanese Tattoo and Britain during the Meiji Period
Noboru Koyama (Cambridge University Library) is an online pdf with info about Chiyo. www.eajrs.net/files/happyo...
However I should not have been that intrigued as the Japanese government cracked down on tattooing, and artists like Chiyo were forbidden from tattooing Japanese citizens. However, a loophole allowed them to tattoo Western travellers visiting Japan.
This advertisement comes from A Handbook for Travellers in Japan, written by Basil Chamberlain and W B Mason, and published in 1891.
I've written about the tattooing of members of the British royal family and hence was intrigued to see that the tattooist Hori Chiyo was retained by Arthur & Bonds.
Waiting 1... All Taken while waiting in line to be photographed..
1. #MonicaBellucci
2. #TimothéeChalamet
3. #ChaseInfiniti
4. #JessieBuckley & #PaulMescal
#blackandwhite #bn #bw #blackandwhitephoto
📽 #movielovers #filmcommunity
#eebaftas #baftas #bafta @bafta
>> SWIPE >>
Waiting 2... All Taken while waiting in line to be photographed..
1. #GlennClose
2. #ChloéZhao
3. #AimeeLouWood (Dancing)
4. #ChaseInfiniti (again -because of the smiles)
#blackandwhite #bn #bw #blackandwhitephoto
📽 #movielovers #filmcommunity
#eebaftas #baftas #bafta @bafta
>> SWIPE >>
Christian Bale once gave the best piece of advice ever for those who love their food and want to eat lunch in London. It was to buy a return Eurostar ticket and eat in Paris.
(Why? Because it would be better: true. And even including the fare...cheaper. Also true.)
#MK3D #Teamphoto for March at the #BFIIMAX @bf
Andrew Kötting, Mark Kermode, Twiggy, Edgar Wright and Amma Asante before Mark Kermode in 3D on Monday 9 March 2026 at BFI IMAX, London.
Yuko Shimizu, a New York based award-winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt #Tuesday
As A Pale View of Hills is now showing in cinemas this is why it doesn't work as a film.
grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
A question is whether QE II can be excused for her appalling lack of judgement because of the second son syndrome? My opinion is that she cannot and it was just a cynical sense of being superior to hoi polloi.
Why the US intervention is just - in a long sorry tale - another disaster. Even in the 21st century - in Iraq and Afghanistan - they have never learned. It's not even a complicated history to understand.
Has the Spanish Armada been holding off for a few weeks?
Advisor to Boris Johnson says it all.
Following Edgar on #mk3d this month was Amma Asante talking about her upcoming films, Smilla’s Sense of Snow and Billion Dollar Spy .
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Marugame. 2025.
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Some good news: some of the art of the Setouchi Triennale will be open regularly this year.
davidbilla.net/art-setouchi...
#Japan #art #SetouchiTriennale #ArtSetouchi
At last a morning where there is no fog but a splendid sunrise.
#stunday #scape #landscape #clouds #EastCoastKin #nature
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Burj Khalifa. Dubai. UAE. 2014.
#classicmono #EastCoastKin #urban #architecture
#photography #BlueSkyArtShow
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Pepsi also advertised in Egyptian kid's comics at the time. This comes from a 1952 comic called Sinbad.
