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Homer on Bare Walls

Another Simpsons scene someone has painted on an otherwise bare wall. Some past examples:

Not so Bare Wall

Clementine, Oh Clementine

No Bare Walls Here

We went to see the Zurbaràn exhibit at the National Gallery, which featured quite a few crucifixions in deep chiaroscuro. I was curious to see this detail, the shadow cast by the nails in Christ’s feet tell us the time was 3 o’clock, the biblically recorded time of the event.

Foule

We took the train into Victoria, then made the mistake of walking to the National Gallery past Buckingham Palace just as the changing of the guard was set to begin. We were penned in and were allowed to go neither forward nor backward for about 20 minutes, stuck in a crowd of tourists with volunteers warning of pickpockets. But, of course, nothing can be said to have happened unless it’s been captured on a phone.

Dance

Deadhead

…possible addition to the Looking Down project…?

You Were Always on My Mind

Bus View

Greetings, Citizens of the New Magicians of the Queens

This is a Google translation – I was unable to do better with other online translation services but I feel like the noviomagorum is being translated in an non-idiomatic way… and not how you expect to be greeted for pizza.

Window

Bell Tower

Cathedral

One of these things is not the same

Love’s End?

Last month we went to see the big Tracey Emin retrospective at the Royal Academy. The best work, for my taste, were the large paintings from her latest period, which she considers a kind of rebirth. For me, the earlier work was very much like reading a teenage girl’s private diary, full of adolescent anger at people who “just don’t understand me,” and extremely narcissistic (to be fair, private diaries probably are all mostly narcissistic, albeit not often shared publicly). I took a lot of pictures – here they all are in roughly reverse chronological order (click on any one of them to see them all full-sized):