Happy Summer Solstice 2025! And to celebrate, here’s Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men by the Sea from 1817 showing the 1816 Year Without a Summer.
Two Men by the Sea / Caspar David Friedrich (1817)
Category: Art
Nice Seagull, Shame about the Bin…
Another yarn-bombed post-box after the one I found in Malton – this time it can be found in the rather lovely Runswick Bay! It’s slightly smaller than the Malton topper, however the views more than make up for the reduction is size.
It’s just a shame that bin is there…
The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840
It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!
Sandsend, Yorkshire / Thomas Girtin (1802)
The old bridge at Sandsend, painted in 1802 by Thomas Girtin. Image taken from Yale Center for British Art’s catalogue.
A Yarn-bombed Postbox in Malton
In Malton yesterday I happened to stumble across this rather fabulous Easter-themed yarn-bombed post box just outside of Malton Post Office. Anyway, here are some photographs of it before the April showers soak it through and wreck the yarn.
Continue reading “A Yarn-bombed Postbox in Malton”View of Heath Street by Night / Atkinson Grimshaw (1882)
A somewhat moody piece for these dark December nights – Atkinson Grimshaw‘s View of Heath Street by Night.
Visit York Art Gallery
The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
Autumn Fattens Fish and Ripens Wild Fruits / Takeuchi Seiho (1925)
1925’s Autumn Fattens Fish and Ripens Wild Fruits by Takeuchi Seihō (1864-12-20 to 1942-08-23)
Bop Spotter
Bop Spotter is an interesting little curio; take an Android phone, set it to run Shazam on a loop, and then hide it somewhere (in this case San Franciscos’s Mission district) with a solar panel attached and suddenly you have the the culture-tasting equivalent of ShotSpotter, generating the unique soundtrack to a particular location. San Franciscos’s Mission is, of course, a very particular environment with a distinct feel too it, so it’d be interesting to see how it would contrast with other locations around the world – though I do suspect that most would end in the brief bang of a controlled explosion.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Concept Art / NASA (1973)
A lovely spot of concept art from what became July 1975’s Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Via NASA.