Big Dipper in the Garden.

These images are created by placing Tea Lights in The Garden to represent the positions of stars and constellations. The Big Dipper is a group of the brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. There are seven stars in the group and Polaris, the North Star can be located by following a line from the two pointer stars, on the inside of the bowl. The Big Dipper swings around the North Star like the hands of a clock.

Nino, Tako & Merve.

I can hear them singing again, it's the same old tune, they need to expand their repertoire, I keep telling them. I can feel a mini revival coming on. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It was an exclusive, shame to say they didn't win, it's still a sore point, here you go.

Version #1. Eurovision Song Contest insider info!!! Meet JUSHI. The Romanian 1999 Eurovision Song Contestants. They are rehearsing in Nino's sisters garage, until they reach the big time, which will begin when they win this years contest in Israel May 29th.

The 3 piece will continue working in Tako's Salon by day and going through their choreography by night. Merve is Nino's dad and Tako is Nino's girlfriend. You must be dying to hear their song. It's called 'Kescho Mi Mi,' which loosely translates as, '**** on me. 'From the top guys.

Version #2. Exclusive! Inside the Eurovision Song Contest, 1999 in Israel. Meet JUSHI. The Romanian entry. Look at them rehearsing in Nino's garage. Listen to their song. It's called 'Kescho Mi Mi,' which loosely translates as, 'Same outfit, different venue.'

Only 3 weeks ago, Merve's career as a professional body builder ended in scandal. Say no more. Merve formed the band after discovering Tako somewhere very obscure, believe me. His lifetime thirst for fame, is but a routine away, choreography being his secret weapon.

Tako would be the first to tell you, JUSHI, is a happening. The culmination of a bizarre chain of events and here the dream begins. Ladies and Gentlemen, a big hand, PLEASE!
Look at them, they just don't know when to stop.

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I often joke that I can still hear them singing the same old crappy song and now I must set them free, or let them start singing in the head of someone else, as well as my own ....

Stay tuned for:-1, Kay: The Student on Acid from Germany. (True Story.) 2, S#: The Call Centre Associate from Croydon. (True Story.) 3, Rodah & Ronda: The Conjoined Twins. (Based on a true story.) 4,The Lesbian Wedding in Islington. (True Story.) And more.

Pleiades in the Garden.

The 3rd example in a series of three. See Orion's Belt and Big Dipper.

Using glass jars and bowls to house a small flame, positioned together in a sequence. Tea Lights in the Garden representing stars and constellations. See The Ingenious Plastic Lamp to discover where the journey began and the inspiration was formed for these starry garden installations.

The Pleiades, a star cluster, is a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

Also known as the sailing ones, flock of doves or the seven sisters.

Can you heal the World?

IMAGINE an environment, an inhospitable place where Human life (as you know it) can no longer be sustained or exist; it’s happening now, an air of inevitability is sweeping your planet. Through explosions in populations and the depletion of resources, through famine, pandemic, war; you can picture a landscape of world-wide desertification, you can hear the glaciers melting, feel the continental shelf moving, believe the impetus is changing.

During the 17th Century it was Galileo who developed the use of the telescope; at the expense of his eyesight, pointing his instrument sky-ward, even at the Sun. In 1660 he happened upon the four largest moons of Jupiter, he collected proof that Copernicus was correct in his theory about the Earth orbiting around the Sun. This went directly against the teachings of your church, i.e. the Earth is at the centre of the Universe, and the Sun revolves around you.

By the late 18th Century we had discovered how to capture images through the invention of photography, leading to broadcasting, newsreel and the transmission of LIVE international events, creating the global village. We had invented flight! In 1969 we landed on our Moon: Perhaps our greatest footstep. The great exploration continues. We did look back at ourselves; we saw our home, a button, in mother-of-pearl, tossed into an endless, velvety, midnight lagoon.

‘The Earth seen from space gave the environmental movement its most powerful icon.’ (Owen-Jackson 2002).

The human race continues to exploit its fascination with imagery and iconography and the gift of flight; a trajectory which is proving epic and tragic; unfolding in real time; before our magnificent eyes.

Today, people, backed by governments and multinational organisations are taking space exploration very seriously. Its big business, despite the environmental impact: Hoping that when the Sun does finally expand to envelop the Earth in its wake you can relocate and continue to procreate eternally. Hitching a ride to another sustainable biosphere; architects of intergalactic real estate; dwelling in a new eco-home.

Through the gift of insight and vision, higher order thinking, we have come to realise (across the millennia) that discoveries and innovations in science and technology have universal and perpetual implications. We can perceive what lies ahead, forecast future events; reflect upon the concept of ‘Mother Nature’. We can comprehend our demise as a species, marvel at the prospect of synergising with machines.

Can you heal the World?
What will climb out of the swamp to inherit the Earth?
When will Capitalism eat itself?
What does make the World go round?

We have conscience; that makes us unique; we know that the environment is our responsibility. This perception of duty is bourn of instinct; quickened by technological advances and intensified by the visualisation of our impact. New discoveries are timely, of the moment; they can alter situations irreversibly and improve the quality of life. The Industrial and Information Revolutions have changed our lives forever, defining new opportunities and possibilities, influencing the way that society is designed and built, changing infrastructure and world order.

We have discovered a new way of thinking about our home in this galaxy. We must empower those who will be making the choices and solving the problems of tomorrow to face the consequences of their future. Harnessing a new way of designing, manufacturing and consuming which sustains the precious relationship we have with our local / global / universal community, its unique diversity and ecological fragility. When the youth of today sing the anthem of tomorrow, let it be their song; and let the song go on.

2 postcards purchsed from The National Museum of Film Photography and Television in Bradford, recently renamed as the The National Media Museum. Culled from Sketchbook #93.

Newspaper Collection.

For sale or will swap. Anything considered.

My newspaper collection is getting too big.

We are pleased to offer for sale, or swap, a collection of 10 or more UK news items, related to the women of Windsor.

A comprehensive list can be provided upon request. Will mail to anywhere in the universe.

The Call Centre Associate from Croydon.

Not that I have a habit of writing letters and never posting them, but having the habit of never throwing anything away that I have written or received, may I present the first of many unsent letters.

January 9th 1999.
Dear#
Thank you for your splendid letter. Now Christmas has sparkled itself out, we are winter wayward. Skinny dipping in January and whiskers on kittens.......blah blah.
Let me introduce to you a colleague from work called S# and his cashmere lined leather gloves. He's so pissed off because he hasn't had a shag since Princess Diana died, and he told her on more than one occasion not to go to Paris.
S# and I work(ed) in Disconnections on the 23rd floor, of a 23 storey, 1970's concrete hexagonal building. S#, bless him, wishes that this building would collapse, just one floor, and crush the foyer, reception and security desk, wiping out the security guards who point and whisper as he makes his entrance and exit by the revolving doors. (Was this a premonition?)
S# is a mind blowing guy with a mini pot belly and a collection of 20 or more unisex leather belts, some of them woven. Introducing example 1, "My painting and decorating belt," example 2, "My Princess Diana in Angola belt."
S#, with a mouth big enough to swallow an orange when fully open is not a person to double cross, at your peril. For he may WILL your breasts to turn square and go mouldy at the edges or WISH that your entire record collection WARP.

Yours.

S#, If your reading, get in touch.

Big chrome ball self portrait.

Me

Bristol

2009

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