This here is exquisite. I’ve loved this song ever since I first heard it, and the harp just adds an extra layer of floatyness to it.
World Poetry Day
It’s World Poetry Day, and some of my most memorable commissions are for hand-written poetry – here’s one from last summer, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18:
Written at 12″ x 16″ size, freehand.
Calligraphy box
I made this! No more coffee jars for pens, shoeboxes full of ink, or nappy boxes full of paper*
There’s space for paper, greetings cards, seven bottles of ink, a water jar, eight dip-pens and brushes, and a handful of pens, scalpels and stirrers.
Noise – Find me a cup!
If you’ve somehow missed this, you need it:
Penguin cover design post
This is a seriously dedicated long post by Josh McPhee on classic Penguin crime covers from the sixties, which of course I’m going to have to riff on heavily this week.
Noise – Dorothy Ashby
I have listened to about… thirty seconds of this, and need to share. I’ve never heard of Dorothy Ashby before in my life, but this is exactly why I love browsing music. Ace!