this is brilliant and i'm not sure how i missed it. the story of the quest for a logical foundation to modern mathematics in the late 19th and 20th century (and the link between logic and the mental illness from which many of the protagonists suffered), all seen through the lens of bertrand russell's life.
(see digital prints) i'm not sure why it took me so long to work this out. they're photographs. i wander round taking photographs of things. i bin most of them. i work on some of the others in photoshop. i bin most of the results (the two prints in the previous entry both got binned in the end). i take them to brent at resolution creative and we decide how to print them. it's precisely what you do with photographs. mine just spend a little more time in photoshop.
there's a really good article in last edition of the london review of books: 'the darwin show' by steven shapin (sadly not online), a critical overview of last year's darwin anniversary mega-fest, which untangles the man, his various legacies and his adoption as a mascot for assorted - often inappropriate - causes (dawkins and darwin, for example, would not have sat comfortably down to tea with one another, though darwin would probably have made more of an effort).
the article contains a particularly interesting passage.
one of my favourite places in the world, this morning
it's not as fluid, there's no handwriting, it doesn't have that dog-eared, coffee-stained physicality but the great thing about using a mac as notebook is having a near-infinite wastebin for trawling through.
i could look at this picture for a long, long time...
photo: nasa/gsfc, modis rapid response
it probably generates bad voodoo even to say so but a third novel seems to be underway. it feels like push-starting a train. then again it always does.
kit kats are to get fairtrade certification. i don't know which is more depressing, that nestlé should have pulled off such a pr coup, or that the fairtrade foundation should have handed it to them on a plate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/07/fairtrade-kit-kat
