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John Macpherson posted this on May 17th, 2012 Boat art © John MacPherson
Did Jackson Pollock like boats?
He was born a long way from the sea, in Wyoming.
But if he did have a boat…. ….just supposing for a moment that he might have had one…
Would it’s hull be any more artfully damaged than any other boat’s hull? Rocktearscrapepullgrindscratchmarked?
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John Macpherson posted this on April 24th, 2012
Fishing off Mallaig. Isle of Rum behind. © John MacPherson
I was standing on the jetty in Mallaig. Fishing boats everywhere. A man working in one small inshore boat below me. Engine tinkering. Grubby coveralls, filthy face, matted hair and workworn hands, attached to an aged frame, more than 6 decades of [...]
John Macpherson posted this on November 14th, 2011 I like duckrabbit. Because its all about storytelling, and art. But mainly because its about teaching those things too. Thats what’s really important. Good art can affect people, but learning how to create art can change people’s lives. Its powerful stuff.
Room 13 Hareclive School, Bristol
Room 13 anyone? Heard of it? Yes! [...]
David White posted this on November 23rd, 2010 Roger‘s now infamous image, saved recently for the nation by the National Media Museum in Bradford, has led to the author
being banned from the World Press Awards. It has come to light that the photographer posed himself in the image “Pasha and Bayadére”, and that he tied
up one of his subjects so that [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 3rd, 2009
duckrabbit posted this on November 1st, 2008
In Africa the Congo has become synonymous with suffering.¬† Generation after generation screwed by European plunderers and African dictators alike.¬†¬† Its a cesspit of selfish foreign policy, not least the World Bank and the CIA, who historically stuffed juggernauts of dollar filled brown paper bags down Mobutu’s insatiable pockets.
Few journalists have been as [...]
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