A NEW APPROACH… I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot recently, about getting back to writing longer pieces and reinvigorating this outlet for some musings on a variety of topics that interest me and that rise through the background fuzz of daily life to demand a bit more attention… In response to these thoughts […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
It is with huge sadness that I have to write that my good friend William Mitchell is no longer with us, having passed away recently at his home in Cumbria. Bill was a singularly creative and endlessly entertaining man who I was lucky enough to get to know through this very blog. One of my […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
A photo from this weeks Guardian, has really captured my imagination. It captures the time immediately after the partial eclipse seen across large parts of the US, as the sun moves out from behind the moon. There, clear as anything is the unmistakable silhouette of the International Space Station, on board of which are six […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
The recently reformatted and republished Taschen version of “The Book of Miracles” is truly a wondrous thing. A mirror to the hopes, beliefs and fears of the northern European Renaissance mind, it is a collection of nearly 170 mesmerising watercolour and gouache paintings, that illustrate through a fantastic combination of bold images and vivid colors, […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
A new book This is Mars has just been published that collects together some of the most striking black and white images of the surface of Mars I’ve ever seen, none of which have previously been published. These amazing pictures were taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which entered the Martian atmosphere in 2006 and […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
A quick post to capture some thoughts on a fascinating conversation I had with my friends Bill & Joy Mitchell a week or so ago, and the barely believable story that Bill helped designed a train, and not just any old train. The famous Blue Pullman luxury train that set speed records between London & Manchester throughout the […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
When I started this blog as something to keep me occupied until I found another job after our life affirming round the world trip, I could never have realised just how important it would become to me. This post is my 500th since April 2010. In the intervening seven years of writing about all kinds of weird […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
We went on an office trip to Berlin at the end of last year and I was talking recently to one of my work colleagues Ian, about the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe by the American architect Peter Eisenman. I said I hadn’t read much about Eisenman’s work over the last few year’s and wondered […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
Without doubt one London’s finest modern sculptural masterpieces is perversely, also one of the most difficult to find, hidden away as it is in a beautiful green mosaic tiled (originally Carrera marble) and glass enclosed courtyard at the heart of one of London’s least known modern architectural gems. The sculpture is easily one of Jacob […]| Joe Blogs / JVB
I’ve been reading about the recently announced Santiago Calatrava designed centerpiece of the Greenwich peninsular development, now named somewhat prosaically as Peninsular Place… The b…| Joe Blogs / JVB