Showing posts with label Accidental Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accidental Art. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2021

Normal Service Will Be Resumed &c …


 AUGH!

If anyone's been wondering why I've not responded to emails of late, my broadband has been as dead as a Norwegian Blue for the past couple of weeks. BT (British Telecom) have been living up to their anagram (Besmirch Toilet) by doing fuck all to help.

In the meantime, our temporary office (while our proper  office is being refurbished) is furnished and ready to move in to except BT (them again) are two weeks late in laying on our interweb so everyone is having to work from home.

Everyone except me of course, with no smegging broadband …

So I've been commuting to our Cambridge office where I can get work done but have no access to my personal stuff and will continue to do so until probably next Friday when BT have promised they will have sorted out our new office.

Hence the crapness of today's photo, taken by Alan, the Clerk of Works on what might be a pinhole camera. Having lifted part of the 1960s floor they have discovered a previously unknown seascape with island … or it could just be a damp and manky old piece of plywood.

Anyhoo, while I'm out of contact, feel free to play amongst yourselves and if BT ever get around to fixing my broadband I'll be back with you once I've waded through the gazillion junk emails that wait in ambush.

Monday, September 06, 2021

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Accidental Art - Workshop Tabletop

You know those moments when you simply have to stop what you're doing, clamber up on a tabletop and take a photograph of it and say "Hot damn! I want that framed on my wall"?

The girl who'd been using the table thought I was batshit crazy until she saw the result. Then she complained that "I can't stop looking at it now!" and shoved a load of papers over it.

No pleasing some folk …

Friday, August 20, 2021

Friday Morning Wood

I just love the negative space between this pair of painted pilasters, forming the shape of a kind of upside-down minaret.

Erin does most of our London period house interior design schemes and she's lately tended to use this "distressed" technique a lot. I asked her what it was called and she said she didn't think it had a name, so we've named it Erin's Technique for Going Totally Apeshit With a Paint Scraper.

For me, the jury's out, as I like to conserve original wall finishes rather than attack them like a psychopath, but it certainly produces some accidentally artistic effects.

So here we go with yet another photopost string: Accidental Art. More coming soon.