STAGECRAFT

"A theatre is... where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to, and what they really are."

– Tove Jansson Moominsummer Madness (1955)
 

ALL PRESIDENT AND CORRECT

President's Day Greetings to my American cousins, courtesy of The New Yorker...

The artists: Lee Lorenz, Aleksandra Kuleka and Barry Blitt

Images © The New Yorker

CLEVER ENDEAVOUR

Like Morse and Lewis before it, Endeavour, is full of sly little smarty-pants touches for the eagle-eyed to spot: sometimes clues to solving the mystery, sometimes just little jokes or references worthy of Morse's cross-word obsession.

In the recent Series Three, just out on DVD, the opening episode, Ride, contained a brief shot of a dead student lying on the window seat of his college room...

...in a pose clearly intended to evoke Henry Wallis' 1856 painting, 'The Death of Chatterton', depicting the demise of boy poet, Thomas Chatterton, who, at the age of 17, committed suicide by arsenic poisoning.

THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL

I love posters!

Always have! 

My Dad was a commercial artist before WWII and he passed on his own passionate love of poster art: the medium and the message...

Here's a cache of great vintage posters designs down the years from a fabulous upcoming auction at New York's Swann Auction Galleries.

All we need now is a lottery win!