Friday, August 29

Masks. Nicolas Cage and Lana del Rey via Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Nicolas Cage (Nicholas Coppola)
“I am still legally Nicholas Coppola but I am Nicolas Cage. I had to reinvent myself. ...

As soon as I went into the casting office under a new name and they didn’t know that there was a connection, I got the part. I felt liberated. It gave me the freedom to become what I wanted to be in my dreams.”

Lana del Rey (Elizabeth Grant)
"I think the reason why I started making music and you know [under] the name Lana Del Rey was really just so I always had a vehicle to actually be exactly who I was … like it was actually a way for me [to feel] free enough to be myself and that was my way of choosing to do that.

Thursday, August 28

London street photography, July/August 2014. Part 2

Once again, looking to add to my "London: The Tourist Guide" series, I paid several visits to the capital in July/August this year.

As the title implies, the series linked to above is intended as my representation of the tourist's eye view of London, focusing on tourist spots, tourists themselves or ironically illustrating some cliched aspect of London life (think "This is London" by Miroslav Sasek).

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"Theatreland", Lyceum, doorway, London

Covent Garden, ballet, opera, telephone box, London

Church wall, St Johns, Waterloo, London

Covent Garden, hair, London

Tottenham Court Road, after rain, London

National Gallery, paintings, Ovid, Delacroix, Christ, London

Wednesday, August 27

London street photography, July/August 2014. Part 1

Looking to add to my London: The Tourist Guide series, I paid several visits to the capital in July/August this year.

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Covent Garden, London

Obligatory map shot, Covent Garden, London

Covent Garden, London

Telephone conversation, St Martin's Place, near National Portrait Gallery, London

"Theatreland", Lyceum Theatre, London

Sunday, August 10

Some photos from July 2014 - from Bath, Lyme Regis, Eastbourne and Weymouth

Some photos from last month from Bath, Lyme Regis, Eastbourne and Weymouth.

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[Bath, graduation]

[Bath, tour group]

[Bath, shopping trip]

[Bath, waiting at the station]

[Weymouth, ET and the last supper]

[Lyme Regis, beach scene]

[Eastbourne, lost and found]

Wednesday, August 6

Final summer print sale - CCTV, sunflowers, queue

Here's the prints for the final sale of summer, maybe the year.

Each of the three is £15 plus postage and packing**. And I have four prints of each image, at 15 by 10 inches. One of these print will be ideal to cover the space where that Rolf Harris drawing of a koala used to be.

Please email me at paul.russell99@btinternet.com, if interested.

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***UK/Europe (£4, total price £19), Rest of World (£7, total price £22)

Format: Paper size: 15 by 10 inches. Unframed, unmounted, signed on reverse. Digital C-type print, printed on gloss Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper.

Prints are despatched in sturdy poster tubes!