Colourscape-1, originally uploaded by meltingman. Never underestimate the power of colour and light. I’d never been in one of these things before, and it was great. An inflatable canvas world, populated by people in single-colour capes, lending the whole thing an air of Logan’s Run. The unnatural pinks and  purples and the wandering saxophone troupe [...]

Long photos are great. A by-product of the introduction of video to Flickr, long photos differ from short films in subtle ways. I’m not sure that there is a rigid definition of what constitutes a long photo, but to my mind  they work best when they have a fixed viewpoint and don’t zoom or pan. [...]

  inportant notice, originally uploaded by meltingman. I share this for many reasons, though that it asks me to isn’t really one of them. Just found it on my desk. It came through the letterbox last summer.  I find it strangley moving that someone went to the effort of printing off a load of these and then [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } squares, originally uploaded by meltingman. I love the light at this time of year. As the sun stays low in even the midday sky, it seems to skid across the surfaces [...]

Large cat, originally uploaded by meltingman. The new turbine hall installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is good. As soon as you push through the plastic curtains and find yourself looking at banks of bunk beds, it feels like a sort of mass evacuation isolation ward. There are raised wall-mounted industrial lights and a constant dripping. Like [...]

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Christmas decorations and reflections Originally uploaded by meltingman

Anyone else watching the sky this afternoon? It’s been changing every five minutes. It’s pretty spectacular.

About 20 minutes ago.