Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier died at 83 in 2009. In her spare time she liked to walk the streets and take photos but she didn't really go on about it so it was basically a secret.

In 2007 an auctioneer bought a box of over 100,000 of Vivian's negatives and unprocessed films. Turns out she was 'one of greatest street photographers of her day' and never bothered to tell anyone.

Unbelievable. Amazing. Sad. Inspiring.

Happy Christmas!

My Christmas morning usually entails chocolate (coins this year) and a new book (A signed copy of Simon Garfield's Just My Type). We're a man down this Christmas (one brother in Vancouver) so it's just the 4 of us and the dog... eating, drinking and squabbling the day through. Love it.

FlyLo + Thom

Yes, this is good.

Lovely Cards / Worthy Cause

A friend Nessa Darcy designed these beautiful Christmas cards and is selling them in aid of the charity Azafady Madagascar. To purchase donate to her fundraising page (incl. €2.70 for postage) and email her your details: cakesforlemurs{at}gmail.com

Young Montana

Thanks to Al, I can't get enough of this man right now.

Dobie - Cloud 98 3/4

This song reminds of being 13 or 14 on a family holiday to Kerry. I had this on tape (nicked off my brother) with a load of hip-hop/ambient/trip-hop stuff off late-night radio and I would keep rewinding it and playing it over and over and over. It's still great...

To Kerry!

I'm heading to Kerry for the long weekend (+ one day) and the sun is shining right now so fingers crossed it lasts. These sunglasses are part of a new illustration to commemorate the Summer and volcanoes. Stay tuned.

All in All

Great song from Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record. Get this album!

Good words.

Fred Free is an American artist I came across on deviantART in 2007 and have followed ever since. He posted the following on his journal today and I found it so uplifting I'd like to share it...

"it's been 20 years since i quit my full time tedious and taxing architect job to go figure things out while wandering around europe for what seemed like forever at the time. it was about 7 weeks. i'm bringing it up (again) because the choice i made back then turned out to be a huge life-turning around move that affects everything about my world to this day. and all in a good way. so if you ever find yourself in a rut you think you're stuck in for the rest of time - a few years out of college like i was - or whenever - just do what you have to do and make your own life again. it'll most likely be worth it. [end of sermon]"


Image from Fred's deviantART page.

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