IMAGE THIEVES AT LARGE: BEWARE !

Guilty:

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/

fashla2002/album?.dir=/fc2fre2&.src=ph

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fashla2002/

detail?.dir=/fc2fre2&.dnm=1dfescd.jpg

A casual look at my stats tonight made me curious about a Yahoo URL which was browsing my Paris photos. Lo and behold, a snap I took of a nude statue in the Jardin des Plantes in June 2005 is up for sale on Yahoo, part of the "photo album" of fashla2002 who, as far as I can tell, is ripping off every image they can copy from private and public sources, including museums, and blithely selling prints of them via Yahoo...

(read the rest on BLAUGUSTINE)

COME AND SEE THE SLIDE SHOW

I've just posted The God Interview pages here and also on my blip.tv page . I was going to add a soundtrack but that made the file even bigger than it is so it's a silent movie. Any animated film makers out there want to do lunch with me?

(MORE on the main Blaugustine)

COMIX THING REPORT

It went well apart from too heavy baggage and too exorbitant taxis but I sold a lot of books and met a lot of good people and was pleasantly dazed after a good day amongst the comics.

(MORE on the real Blaugustine)

SHAGGY BLOG STORIES

Order your copy here, today, from Lulu, who has agreed to donate their profits to Comic Relief.

Whatever your opinion of charity fund-raising and associated celebrity shenanigans, the money will definitely help those less fortunate than ourselves and this particular project is as grass-roots as grass roots can be. Conceived and edited by Mike Atkinson ,100 funny blog-posts from UK bloggers were selected from all those who instantly responded to his invitation to participate (I'm in with my story about boots not made for walking, posted on December 5, 2004).

(MORE at the regular Blaugustine)

IT'S OFFICIAL: GOD LAUNCHES IN APRIL

and if you are in London at that time you are cordially invited to

THE CARTOON MUSEUM
35 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HH

on Thursday, April 12, 2007

6:30 - 8:30 pm

for the launch of The God Interviews

(MORE at the usual Blaugustine)

VERY GOOD PLUS SLIGHTLY BAD NEWS OF THE DAY

Let's get the bad-ish out of the way first.

I am not on the Blooker Prize short list announced yesterday. The GivingAnOrderToTheUniverse technique is humbug bullshit and malarkey even though I did the visualisation and everything. I was so sure that The God Interviews would be on the short list that my acceptance speech was all ready, thanking everyone in the known and unknown universes. Am I dejected? No. Merely discomfited. What "comfited" means I do not know but in French confiture is jam, so what it means to me is that there is no jam on my bread. However I have the bread (not the money but the talent) so who cares? I'm even wishing good luck to those who are on the short list. That's the kind of magnanimously cool character I am.

And now for the good.

(MORE at the usual Blaugustine)

The aptly named Never Neutral blog is known on several continents by connoisseurs of finely-tuned poetry, prose, photos, observations, critiques and lovingly selected links to music, comics and videos and I had the joy of a visit this week from Ernesto Priego, the never neutral blogger par excellence.

(MORE on Blaugustine's main blog)

FIRST, A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS

Qarrtsiluni has a new theme this month: Ekphrasis which means " poetry in dialogue with visual art" and you are invited to submit words inspired by images which will be posted on the site, or images to inspire someone else's words. Three images by me are currently on view in the gallery .

Elsewhere, Nicolas MacDowall of the Old Stile Press has been creating some marvellous visual presentations for many of their books, among which is my version of the sombre and action-packed thriller known as the Apocalypse or, if you prefer, the Book of Revelation. I have no theory about what it all means but the language was inspirational and demanded strong imagery. It's up on this page of my artists books section, in advance of Nicolas posting it on the Old Stile Press blog, which you should be visiting regularly to keep pace with these indefatigable makers of beautiful books.

No comments: