Horst - V&A 29.xi.14

Protege of Hoyningen-Huene
Bauhaus under Gropius
"The only real male elegance was English"
Beaton
Lee Miller

Dali (1943)
Mainbocher Corset 39 ***
A torturous item of clothing
Original & Touched-up
Original better as clothing more artificial

Isherwood

Lisa Fonssageives 39 *
Nude behind veil Louis 14th style
Hand only thing in front of veil plus slit of raw reality down right

Hats by Best Lord Taylor 43 *
Red White Blue triangle
3 women reading papers

Dress by Sally Victor - Muriel Maxwell * 39
Red and white lipstick and sunglasses

The Easter pose

Patti Smith v Sitting Bull

top by Annie Liebowitz

Georgia O'Keeffe v Patti Smith

by Alfred Steiglitz & Lynn Goldsmith

Memories - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Looking at my niece's sketch book, textiles and artwork



Jogging around St Stephen's Green, Dublin



Taking my photos for the Disposable Memories project including a fiddle shop with Meabh. Sent my London and Dublin pics off with a young bloke to Barcelona

Extra: got home from Dublin and left waiting for me on my pillow was my older son's first ever mixtape called P1AN BE

Track of the Day

Leaving Me Behind - Nick Drake (a rarity not on the studio albums)

Reminds me of this photo I just bought a print of - Nick Drake moving at a different pace from the day-to-day world, not quite of it - which in turn reminds me of my friend Steve who was also not cut out for this world - greetings Steve (and while I'm at it Ian Harris whose birthday has just passed) - miss you both...

The world humes on at its breakneck pace
People fly in their life-long race
For them there's a future to find
But I think they're leaving me behind.

The chances they come, but the chances have been lost
Success can be gained, but at too great a cost
For some there's a future to find
But I think they're leaving me behind.

Uncanny, you wonder whether he had this picture (by Keith Morris from Five Leaves Left) in mind.

Guardian Angel - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Finding out that Big Art Mob has been shortlisted for the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards

Finding out that Picture This has 11.5% of its users spending over half an hour per session on the site (and 4.7% over an hour!)

Meeting Zoe Margolis (Girl with a One-track Mind) in the flesh at the climax of the Cultural and Creative Leadership Mentoring Programme at the ICA

Picture This - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Hanging out at the Photographers' Gallery with Picture This folk including Martin Parr, Alan Hayling, Brett Rogers, Liz Gordon, Joy Gregory, Ed Thompson, and the Renegade posse.

Walking home in the wee small hours

Walking N half-way to skool

Photo courtesy of Lucinda Chua

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Rufus Wainright showboating at Hammersmith Odeon - a performance of great variety including a moving rendition of John McCormick's Macushla (apologies to any gaelic speakers for my spelling) [= heart-throb]



Visiting Emily Allchurch's exhibition with Malcolm Garrett, Buzzcocks designer



Walking across height-of-autumn St James's Park in the low afternoon light

Tower power

Top: Emily Allchurch after Bruegel - Tower of London (2005)

Bottom: Bruegel - Tower of Babel (1563)

Tower of London courtesy of Emily Allchurch

The Art of London - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

A talk by gifted and original photographer/artist Emily Allchurch at Channel4, followed by a lovely chance encounter with her later at Frost & Reed gallery in St James's where her current exhibition Urban Chiaroscuro is hanging. She's clearly a great lover of London.

An autumnal afternoon walk through St James's Park with artist Laura Williams, creator of Aluna, the lunar clock - a hugely ambitious public artwork destined to appear on the north bank of the Thames opposite the Millennium Dome at the site of the East India docks. Another lover of London.

Watching the Marx Bros in Duck Soup with the Enfants Terribles - D schticking himself - especially the mirror scene

Bonus pleasures:
Finding out, out of the blue, that Big Art Mob has been shortlisted for a BIMA Award in the Art & Culture category

A splurge at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly including Peter Ackroyd's new book about the Thames, Robert Harris' new thriller, the first Biggles book for N, Michael Ondaatje's new novel for U, and a John Updike for book group

Deep Joy - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Meeting Peter Hook of Joy Division - he signed my copy of Atmosphere. Atmosphere is used in Anton Corbijn's film Control to mark the discovery of Ian Curtis' death and his ascent into the atmosphere



Watching the offline of the first episode of Picture This featuring Martin Parr and my dealer Alex Proud - on the train to Aardman Animation in Bristol



Reading with D in the garden, in the fading light of an autumn evening

Talk talk - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Talking about young documentary-makers' work with Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen, Patrick Uden and Peter Dale



Talking Public Art with Peter Jenkinson



Getting an advance ticket for Anton Corbijn's Control at the Phoenix, East Finchley with Joy Division's Pete Hook in attendance (3rd Oct)

All Greek to me - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Lower Soho - Greek Street - shades of Francis Bacon and Absolute Beginners



Smoke and chat with Annie - showing her Picture This



Night flowers