I am happy to announce my very first one-page Role Playing Game (or at least my first attempt at one): MYSTIC LODGE FRACAS. ‘Tis the season for one page RPGs at Itchio, where my first ever game now languishes (BE SURREAL, which needs some little fixes I think). All this obsessing about tarot led me…
Carved in Dundee
World Cup Fever has not completely abated; many supporting Norway this weekend…
Double Dumas
When the troubles of the world overwhelm, read some Dumas — and the troubles of the past are there to distract you! All the terrible things that happened in the past are there to amuse and/or horrify you as entertainment. Perspective, I guess? I recently learned that Etteilla turns up as a character in Alexandre…
Recent Reads
I am endeavouring to be better with keeping track of my reading; unsurprisingly, much of my reading has been non-fiction like the glorious catalogue for the tarot exhibit at Accademia Carrara, which is not only full of gorgeous plates, but there are even English translations of all the essays in the back (ah, those blue…
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Today the massive upload — well, one of them! I have a few massive uploads to come. But this one is the Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A which included a huge amount of materials from the beginnings of the couturier’s life to the afterlife mostly represented by current designer Daniel Rosenberry, who channels…
Review: Grace Pervades
Feeling the spur to finish my recap of June’s adventures as the month draws to a close (unlikely to finish that in time but hey, I am trying), I decided to do something that requires less effort than an exhibition reel — especially since the next one in line is Schiaparelli which may require two….
The Sun & The Moon: Saatchi
I am grateful to my partner in art crime, Stephanie, because she asked if I were going to this exhibit and I had not really considered it, but then here was another poster in the underground passage to the V&A as I was on my way to Schiaparelli (yes, soon…) and I thought huh, just…
The Symptomatic Surreal
Today it’s time to swing by the Sigmund Freud Museum in London to see ‘The Symptomatic Surreal’ a voyage through the mind of Leonora Carrington as she reels from the horrors of the Second World War and the those of incarceration in a mental institute. I think this crystalises the moment when the narrative shifts…
The Tate: From Tanks to Tracey
No trip to London feels complete without a stroll to the Tate — at least one of them, often both. This time around a brevity of time even for one, and yet I still seemed to take too many photos. Sometimes they turn out quite lovely like this image of the Millennium Bridge on the…
Tarot Cultures
Let me first say that Tarot Cultures was fantastic. Jess, Helen, James, and Vana not only had the daunting task of wrangling an international conference of folks coming from all over the globe, but due to a strike action and a refusal to cross the picket line (solidarity!) they had to move the entire thing…