How It Is: A box of darkness

2009-11-08T22:51:56Z

At the far end of the enormous Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern is a correspondingly huge metal box: thirty metres long, thirteen metres high and sitting on two-metre stilts. One end of the box is open with a metal ramp leading up to the pitch-bl...

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Our place in the world

2009-10-06T22:48:28Z

I finished reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything over a month ago now but the effect the book had on me still lingers. I feel enlightened but also saddened, somewhat like I did as a child when I realised that Santa doesn’t e...

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Illustration Friday: Magnify

2009-09-02T21:45:36Z

I find the idea of God unnerving.

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Life elsewhere

2009-08-29T18:49:27Z

My friend Ludovic in Taiwan is also married to a Taiwanese woman. He does not intend to leave Taiwan though. The way he sees it, it is unfair to expect his wife to leave the country of her birth now that they are married when it was he who had le...

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Paris jaunt

2009-08-26T23:36:20Z

Nancy and I went to Paris just to relax. It sounds flamboyant when I say it, but it is only a couple of stress free hours from London by train. Many people probably take the trip from London just to lunch at their favourite Parisian café. ...

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South Africans abroad

2009-08-12T09:50:23Z

My sister and I met up with my cousin and his girlfriend in London yesterday. They had just arrived from South Africa and we were keen to catch up with them. We found a suitable spot at an outside pub in Leicester Square and as we lazed in the aft...

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Things that have transpired

2009-08-11T12:17:41Z

1. I did a mural. My friend Stephane introduced me to his friend Ray, a rather eccentric American who became rich running a flooring business. He was looking for someone to do a mural of a beach scene on his backyard wall, but of the artists he...

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Say cheese, or stick your tongue out

2009-07-27T23:08:38Z

Since I have effectively been on holiday for about 5 weeks now I have been spending a disproportionate amount of time on Facebook. It’s oddly addictive. I especially like looking at photos, but in doing so I have become seriously irritated by a pa...

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A new chapter

2009-07-03T00:12:33Z

It has been a quiet week. The two tenants I shared the house with have both moved out and now that I out of a job I don’t see my colleagues or have people to talk to during the day. Often the first time I say anything is when I answer Nancy’s call...

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The future uncertain

2009-06-11T22:52:26Z

It never rains it pours they say. Yesterday I was chatting with my housemate about the spate of bailiff notices that have been arriving with an increasing amount of capital letters, red ink and exclamation points on them. It appears that the landl...

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