Monthly Archives: January 2009

I did two pictures today, but the other one looked a bit funny. It had pencil scribbles unfortunately near where you’d expect wibbly stuff. Here’s the unfunny, serious, watercoloury one. I think the blue added at the end sorted things … Continue reading →

I’ve just signed up for a new course, Applications in Probability. The word “probability” has a contrary provenance. Wikipedia says: According to Richard Jeffrey, “Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ‘probable’ (Latin probabilis) meant approvable, and was … Continue reading →

I went to Abu Dhabi recently. Here’s the view looking from the flat where we were staying: The light changed all the time – so the detail on the buildings in the distance came and went. Here’s one from the … Continue reading →

Image used under terms of GDFL (1) Exhibition in the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, visited 24th December 2008 – plans for Saadiyat Island. Currently this is an island containing little to speak of, in a country which half a century … Continue reading →

December 5th 2008 -Richard Serra at the Gagosian Gallery, Kings Cross, London. there is something playful about people disappearing and reappearing. Is this a slow climbing frame for adults? people have to negotiate their way around one another in the … Continue reading →