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Blog Archives: 06.11

28.06.11 Handmade Paper



Lovely handmade Japanese paper with Inkan stamp.


24.06.11 Villa Vals





An incredible ski villa dug out of the mountains surrounding the Swiss village Vals. www.villavals.ch


21.06.11 Superb Fruit dove



Superb. Fruit Doves


20.06.11 Spy Studio QR Code



The Spy Studio QR code in magenta.


20.06.11 Bouncing around at 19 months



16.06.11 Karacho Paper







Back to Japan. A couple of very fine papers I picked up whilst in Kyoto called Karakami or 中国纸 . The motif is created using original woodblocks dating back almost a century ago. -Aziz


15.06.11 Mime Artist Stag Do







The first half of the my brother’s mime artist stag do on the weekend. A very civilised cycle down the regent’s canal tow path before things deteriorated into drunken chaos. – Nick


10.06.11 Matt Stuart







I once attended a talk by photographer Matt Stuart at secondary school and recently stumbled across some of his work. His perfectly executed street photographs wonderfully capture the ‘decisive moment’ of various situations with fine comic results. – Nick

More here mattstuart.com


09.06.11 Volcano Plume Explodes With Lightning







Incredible photographs of a lightning storm illuminating the ash cloud above Chile’s Puyehue volcano. More at National Geographic…


08.06.11 Hair product



Supermarket in Guatemala. – Aziz