I’ve started and abandoned about five blog entries in the past week and half. They’ve just wittered, or meandered off the point. I make no guarantees that this won’t do the same… Continue Reading…
Random stuff…
A couple of weeks ago I had a very fun photo session with Photography student Helen Lambert, she’s currently living up here but from September will be at uni in the leafy suburbs* of London.
Below are a couple of the photos, for those who don’t want (or care) to know what I look like, look away now.
I decided that this week I was going to do a video of my world. I sort of have, but with a few missing continents. If I actually filmed what I did this week mahoosive chunks of it would have involved; me staring at a tiny computer and trying to think, being distracted from thinking by listening to Radio Four podcasts, eating, sleeping, accumulating enough bits of newspaper to run my own newsagents*, eating Brie, swearing at my phone, and cat annoyance. Continue Reading…
This is Sutton Scarsdale Hall. Or rather this is what’s left of it.
Number of photos on this page reduced because my server was crying… So these are on Flickr as are the rest of the set, all 79 of ‘em, here in my Flickr set.
So we’ve done, what I wear. Now it’s your turn. All two of you so far, but anyone can join in this one at anytime….
The two joinees so far are both male, which does seem to make a difference, in that there isn’t a great deal of difference. I don’t think this is because men are less interested in what they wear per se, just that the choice of men’s clothing is frankly limited. Especially in the West. Yes you can have a wardrobe of forty odd different t-shirt designs, ten completely dissimilar shirts and trousers in every fabric going. Basically though it’s the same three items of clothing. I imagine that a large part of this is down to socially acceptable, it being the case that even on avant garde catwalks the sight of men in a frock is still considered daring. And not just in the Daily Mail.
A while ago I was half watching something on television and someone commented that the human world is different to animals and birds, as in the animal kingdom it is the males that make the effort, whereas for humans it is opposite. It hasn’t always been the case, and certainly in some non-Western cultures male dress continues to be highly impressive. In Western Europe male extravagance in dress was common and regarded a symbol of status. Continue Reading…
So as promised (or threatened depending on your perspective) this is what I wear.
A couple of comments to begin.
Firstly my head isn’t in any of them, the photographer of the first two (my mother) just about blinded me with the flash and I looked as though I had spent all night at Rock City. In the last photo it is because B appears to be more interested in my shoes. They’re good shoes though, so fair play.
Secondly I realised afterwards that three typical outfits is nigh on impossible for me. Ain’t hindsight a wonderful thing? They’re photos from three days this week, and I tend to be from the variety is the spice of life camp. There are some commonalities though, mentioned below, so they’re not totally non cohesive.
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