Scorchio! The UK is set to experiencing a two-day heatwave this week with temperatures in some parts of the country expected to top 40 degrees, which will break the record for highest ever recorded temperature in this country. While it’s certainly very uncomfortable (our houses aren’t built for such hot weather), I’m not sure the…
The bottom half of this image is from 1968 and was part of the ground-breaking Kodak Colorama campaign, 1950-1990, which depicted a wholesome, idyllic version of American life. This hugely successful advertising campaign found an amazing home in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, where the panoramic images hung in the main concourse. For four…
If anyone is interested we will be running bus tours into Mordor this summer – don’t miss your chance to picnic on the plains in front of Mount Doom. The local Mayor has asked that visitors refrain from throwing jewellery into the fires of the mountain as it is clogging up the plumbing.
Not much to say about this one, just some kids queuing up, to leap to their doom in a giant swirling vortex. Or maybe they are going to a better place. Who knows?
Put this together for my own amusement, combining a vintage Swiss tourism poster, a illustrated poster of Lake Grasmere and a pulp illustration of a Plesiosaur attacking a submarine crew. Once I was finished I began to feel really sorry for poor Timmy. 🙁
I made this artwork by combining the sinister figures from a pulp sci-fi novel cover and a happy biker from a pleasant vintage tourism poster.
Beams – a digital collage using the painting Portrait of a Youth, c. 1495/1500 by Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere or Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere, part of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC collection: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.437.html I chuckle to myself, wondering what this Florentine artist would make of me digitally cutting up his artwork…