Graham Holliday's Blog, page 12
November 28, 2014
utter failures
Just when you think it’s all over, it might not be. This bit of news about the utterly disastrous development destruction of Hà Nội’s wet markets over the past decade or more may just mean I have to make a few adjustments to one chapter. It’s good news for Hà Nội, although way too late […]
November 27, 2014
fast food
Fast food? Senegalese style. In Saint Louis. Photo by me.
rough book
The working copy of the galley of my book looks pretty rough by now. However, I won’t have to open the pages of this version ever again. This is heading for storage.
the way they degrade
“More than one million vinyl records have been sold in the UK so far this year” reads the headline. While there are many reasons why this is the case – read the article – for me, these three are key, “Some records, I like the way they degrade. It’s like a photograph fading, it’s part […]
November 13, 2014
the graham greene trilogy
Little viewed on YouTube, there is a series filmed in 1993, by the BBC Arena programme (complete with Brian Eno intro music) about the life of the author Graham Greene. If you have ever enjoyed his books, the series is well worth a watch. Of Greene’s years as an Mi6 station officer in Sierra Leone, […]
cosmic comet song
Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 […]
November 12, 2014
minimal palms
0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner Fineliner pen, on Moleskine plain paper notebook.
November 11, 2014
palm trees of dakar
I’m starting to think about Project K, which I’ll be working on more or less full-time throughout 2015, and how I want to illustrate it. I’d like to do more sketches, but nothing really like those I’ve been doing up until now. It’s more about finding a detail in a scene to focus and expand […]
November 10, 2014
black hole
30 minute doodle. 0.1 mm nib, black ink, Steadler pigment liner Fineliner pen, on Moleskine plain paper notebook.
