Slightly off topic & made more so by the good stuff Max has been posting below (thanks for that) but I have to pledge my love for Ron & Russell of Sparks here. Mainly because in their 38ish years together they’ve been frequently bizarre, almost always easy on the ear & consistently original. But also because I just noticed their show at The Forum In Kentish Town on the 20th March hasn’t sold out yet. As criminal as this is it means there’s still something useful you can get for £20. A little older maybe but no less spectacular.

5 great Sparks tracks here: Wow!

Some people tell it, some people live it.
These ones live it.
And have beautiful and poetic tattoos.
And a blog too…

Today I feel I’ve posted more blogs about blogs than usually…
(Maybe it’s true.)

usually, I am not into re-posting. Maybe it is an ego thing like: “I only show what/who I discovered, not what/who I WISH I did… But I am an introspective and consensual person (sometimes… within myself, you know? OK, shut up!) and when some things are so bigger than me, I can’t do anything but give in to re-posting. Here, some black tulips as photographed by Miguel Villalobos, initially posted by Diane Pernet on ASVOF.

Photography usually is a pale reflection of reality (whatever “reality” is), transposed through an imperfect means. But some people manage to make things look better than they do in reality. To them I say thank you.

hand-tattooed by Adam Sage of brighton (for those who remember, adam was featured in issue zero in the same shoot as Thomas Thomas formerly known as French Thomas).

(photography by Emma Engkvist, Jermaine Francis (Art direction: Christophe Brunnquell), Lele Saveri, Adrian Wilson, design by Yours Truly)

The Queen by the Grace of God and Uncle Sam make sure that the Canadian cannot free itself from the Powers of money. No one is taking care of the garden, which cannot sustain the weight of the Olympic Tower.

Queen Anacaona, hanged (Las Casas, Destruction of India, 1598) – Th. de Bry

Anacaona, postcard (Brooklyn NY, 2009) – anonymous