Wednesday 30 September 2009

ALL HIS OWN WORK

An old WW2 cartoon drawn by my father Leslie Grimes for the London evening star.
It's seemed to have got topical again or are we always in a war?

Begin the day as you mean to go on


Tuesday 29 September 2009

Cartoon to make myself unpopular with about half the population


RECESSION

Powerful drawing by Jacob Burck on the American depression of the thirties.
Maybe an up to date caption would be "JOBS,NOT BONUSES"

Monday 28 September 2009

Sunday 27 September 2009

MUSIC CENTRE

Why do the old fashioned LP seem to give so much more satisfaction than CDs? Is it the size and the art work covers? the care one needs to put it on the turntable including checking the stylus for fluff?Or maybe even the sound?
Afraid most of mine in bad condition,have been to too many parties and not cleaned enough but those clicks have become part of the music and full of memories.
CDs seem without soul in comparison. As for those new fangled players that are worn round the neck with wires to the ears and a thousand tunes inside?
I have a vast collection of 78s and a wind up gramophone but that's another story.

Friday 25 September 2009

BLOGGERING


BLOG IN A SPOT


Tired joke

Guess I'm in trouble with this one.

NOT FOR THE LADIES

F1 this weekend,a chance for the ladies to do some ironing or take the dog walkies.
I usually see the first half but sleep through the second.
Was a time when motor racing showed true grit.. as here, Brooklands,I was taken there as a child but alas remember very little go full screen

PS rather odd drawing above.All the cars appear to be floating about 8 inches above the road.

Thursday 24 September 2009

REMBRANDT 1606~1669


Catch those early etchings

OPEN ENDED

The matron swore by this stuff when I was at my prep school.

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Wiltshire hills

Wet and windy Wiltshire~~~~~~Wacom tablet, ten minutes ago.

Eri

Studio ~ 35mm film Olympus OM4. Scanned to computer image.

HIGH TIDE

Looking across to West Mersea from the Strood causeway,
traffic comes to a standstill at high water.
photo~ Mersea Pearl

Monday 21 September 2009

RAY ISLAND

Lugsail dinghy on Strood channel

PONDS VANISHING CREAM FAILURE

When I were but five or six my family went out for a Sunday walk but I elected not to go.
Killing time I explored my mothers dressing table and found a bottle of Ponds vanishing cream.
Having heard the Invisible Man serial on our radiogram I liberally smeared it on all visible parts then when I heard the family approaching went and stood in the hallway to test it out.
Was most disappointed when they said "Hello Goggy"(my family nickname)and walked straight past me.

Mersea Island Essex 1941

A British Pathe film about Mersea Island on the Essex coast during WW2. James Wentworth Day was a frequent visitor to our house on the marshes there. It was a beautiful part of England then,completely unspoilt and I count myself very lucky to have spent my boyhood sailing boats and riding bicycles round the countryside.
Oddly enough James Wentworth Day hated what the government agricultural people were doing to the local farmers but this film doesn't show it.
This film is laughably old English but just look at the background! (go full screen)

Sunday 20 September 2009

MY FRIEND MEI

Growing by the minute. Kumiko says she will be coming over next September for a visit.Cant wait!

HANDYMAN


LITTLE BO PEEP

Has lost her sheep,
but at least she wont be catching E coli 157

SUNDAY SUPLEMENT


Risque but nice

Friday 18 September 2009

Wednesday 16 September 2009

Tuesday 15 September 2009

Blossom Dearie


To Yukie,Eri,Masako,Hina,Mika,Yumiko,Kumiko,Mei,Urara. Come again soon.

Advertising art

Good on drawing bicycles,bad on faces.

Yesterdays art student

Before the Turner Prize

Monday 14 September 2009

VENUTI~LANG~ROLLINI~HANSHAW


=MUSIC

HAIR TODAY,GONE TOMORROW

35mm film.Olympus OM4

MOTORCYCLING

So much more fun without helmets or roads.

Sunday 13 September 2009

SUMMERS END

Olympus SLR E~500 Digital

PHOTOFILE

Sheerwater..Longleat Estate. Olympus C-8080

SUNDAY CORN

Saturday 12 September 2009

I have "DAISY" withdrawal symptoms.......so.


Not sure if it's Max Raabe or all those nice ladies who look as if they've all come out of the drawing room.

STUDIO


work still in progress,acrylic with too much detail to wade through!

Friday 11 September 2009

West Mersea Harbour

Photo by Mersea Pearl

The Strood

Photo by Mersea Pearl

Doing the"E" rounds

THIS OUGHT TO MAKE ALL GRANDPAS FEEL WARM & FUZZY... A six year old goes to the hospital with her grandmother to visit her Grandpa. When they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her Grandma and bursts into her Grandpa's room... "Grandpa, Grandpa," she says excitedly, "As soon as Grandma comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!" "What?" said her Grandpa. "Make a noise like a frog - because Grandma said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disneyland !!!"

PHOTOGRAPHY

A touch of the sixties



We all sang this one.

TOYS TO DIE FOR

1930 Tin Racing car


Clockwork gunboat and crew


Motorcycle and sidecar



antique tin fort and soldiers,made in Germany.