Stonehenge in Glasgow

I snapped these photographs of Jeremy Deller's inflatable Stonehenge whilst visiting Glasgow to take part in the Glasgow Artist Bookfair a few weeks ago.

I was attempting to capture the same view points of my Stonehenge postcard collection.

 





 

           

 

What is it ? Wildman Life Drawing Class: Progress Report.

 

The First Sasquatch ?

This image of a smiling, seeming Sasquatch is from the cover of 'Bickerstaff's Boston Almanac' for 1785. The image is actually a crude copy of the famous illustration of a chimpanzee from Edward Tyson's pioneering work of primate morphology 'Anatomy of the Pygmie' (1699). It is likely the first printed image of a primate published in North America, and may have contributed to the popular conception about what a Sasquatch looks like. 

Note about the cover image -  from Brian Regal's book,  Searching for Sasquatch; Crackpots, Eggheads and Cryptozoology

Here is a rather damaged copy of the said chimpanzee illustration.
Even this anatomically correct chimp is rather anthropomorphic in its gate and posture.
















'Anatomy of the Pygmie' (1699)

Some more Sasquatch like creatures.

These specimens where found amongst the lead figure exhibits of Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood - note the country Parson in the left hand-side of the picture for a sense of scale.

I have been asked to run a Wildman Life Drawing Class for the Hayward Gallery's 'Wide Open School ' .
It will run on Thursday the 28th June in two sessions - one in the morning the second in the afternoon.
It costs £10 or £5 concessions.

click here  for more details and to book tickets.

Haunted House !

Place five pence in the slot and watch out for ghosts!

Automata from Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood.

Dolls made out of Shoes & Animal Bones.

I visited Edinburgh's  brilliant Museum of Childhood last week.
I found two unusual exhibits in the Doll and Automata room,

a Shoe Doll  from East London , made in 1905

 

and this strange Bone Doll.

Edinburgh Museum of Childhood.

Holy Week: Thek's Tomb

I've had this image of Paul Theks Tomb sculpture on my desktop for quite sometime.
Over the Easter period I thought of it .

Holy Week : Palm Sunday in Fitzrovia

 

At last I've managed to film this religious feast/festival. Every year  the parishioners of All Saints Church, Margaret Street, Fitzrovia walk the streets north of Oxford Street, singing & carry palms in remembrance of Jesus Christ's entrance into Jerusalem. Its quite a spectacle and unexpected thing to stumble across.

Werwolves & Spiritual Equipment

I picked up two books in the basement of Any Amount of Books on the Charing Cross Road.

Werwolves, from the library of Jeremy Beadle.
The inside cover is stamped . . .

From the amazing book collection of Jeremy Beadle, MBE, TV Presenter ,Writer , Hoaxer ,curator of oddities , philanthropist and book collector - 12.4.48 - 30.1.08

He had one of the biggest true crime collections in the world, it amounted to thousands and thousands of books.

The second book is nearly 100 years old, it is a bound collection of spiritual booklets by the Brighton based Charles H.Usher.
I've looked up his name and came across a number of his pamphlets on a website that warns, 'as C.T.Studd (the great missionary) might say : Most of these books are not for the 'namby-pamby-milk-sop-softie' Christain'.

Here are some of the titles for sale,

We Wrestle NOT!
The Titanic Tragedy God Speaking to the Nations
Origin of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
& Visions by William Booth - (Founder of the Salvation Army.)