1970, Tokyo, Japan. Issei Suda (1940-2019) was a Japanese photographer who walked and photographed on the streets of Tokyo during the 70s and 80s

'London', Chelsea (2024) by Marek Krumpár marekkrumpar.com

'Gloomy Old London' by Harriet Lawless harrietlawlessartist.com

It ain't much, but it's honest work. 🐟 📸 okirakuoki

Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara, series on the bond between her 88-year-old grandmother Misao and her odd eyed cat Fukumaru #womensart

I have questions.

'The Mouth of the Thames,' (1994) was to be one of Michael Andrews' last pictures; it comes from his great project 'The Estuary.' The fascination with the river was stimulated by personally felt associations with Charles Dickens and JMW Turner.

I’ve never seen a Victorian organisation run a ‘Father’s Club’ before. But, St Hilda’s East did because lots of ‘quiet middle-aged…rather tired men’ were not being served by the too active men’s clubs. Instead, they invited Shoreditch’s older men to sing a few songs in their garden. Strangely, cute.

Never give up . 😍

One of my favourite startup genres is “we named our product so badly our first ad campaign is dedicated just to that”

really struggling with these new versions of 'rock, paper, scissors'

best 18C guidebook name of the day: "Roach’s London Pocket Pilot" (1793). sounds euphemistic, let's be honest here.

something so deliciously modern about the window pane advertising here COF FEE TEA in the coffee-rooms of one of Covent Garden piazza's brothels, either Haddock's or Douglas's (1743) collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/1070...

love this Georgian party boat! (courtesy of www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...)

make your mind up - which is it?! [once again I stumble across a favourite OCR error]

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), a woodcut illustration of personified frogs in costume acting out scenes from Kabuki plays. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Text by rawpixel

She promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where she survives as a soldier of fortune…

Morris Kantor (1896-1974), “Untitled (A Posthumous Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” (1922), oil on canvas, 76.2 x 86.4 cm.

they should make a jackie chan game like the new bond one where you're just having slapstick fights. there should be a button to yell "sorry!" or "i don't want any trouble!" while you're smashing someone's skull with a mop

For #caturday, a thread of Chinese cat night-lights, porcelain figures made since the Ming period, often for the export market. A candle was placed inside with the light shining through the cat's eyes, reportedly intended for children afraid of the dark & perhaps also to scare off rats

Lamppost with lots going on. Trafalgar Square.

'The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, London' (1878) by James Tissot (Private collection)

Wonderful cast-iron ornament in Leeds' Kirkgate market hall

Prove you are human before you can proceed to the next page. Fuck....

Good evening. This week's theme was People of London. Hope you enjoyed it. Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

"In 1629, a French company of all-female players had performed in London but found themselves ‘hissed, hooted and pippin-pelted from the stage’ for their breaking of gender convention (not to mention being French)." > some sentences in my book are in the style of Edmund Blackadder, apparently.

spent a couple of hours today skimming through old Time Outs today, onwards. came across an advert for the most of its time thing, Marc Bolan's "first book of poetry" ... I have to say the title leaves me a little skeptical of its merits.

really ruin my perfume bottle? only serve to confirm my insanity? put me off olives?

On the tube

hope everyone is watching A Very Peculiar Practice tonight [10:20 BBC4] ... there will be horrible echoes of present day for dejected employees of UK universities ... and its also genuine comic genius in a very 80s style

for anyone planning a quite reflective stroll from Finsbury Park to Manor House, I can confirm that now is not the time.

the builders make important archaeological discovery

I'll be on this panel about the legacy of the 1851 Great Exhibition, on 7 June as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, if anyone plans to come - would be lovely to see some familiar faces! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/revisi...

'Piccadilly – Drawing Room Day' (1883) by Edward John Gregory www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-deta...

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The Painter and the Model, 1952 by Antonio Bueno

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

METRO TIME 75 Paname 1960s les archives de la Ratp avec la station Nation ??? qui était alors le terminus de la ligne de Boissy-Saint-Léger (qui ne devait pas encore s'appeler ligne A).

lovely OCR error in British Newspaper Archive: "was a gunner on a merchant weasel during the last war"

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Budapest has over 4000 internal courtyards, Marchand Meffre documented many of them. marchandmeffre.com/budapest

Yoshida Hiroshi helped revive woodblock prints in 20C after inroads made by photography. He travelled widely, absorbing western influences in portraying light and depth. He visited India often in 1930s ~ and here’s some of what he saw (Udaipur Castle / Kailasa Temple, Ellora)

Sally Prangley, contemporary US artist known for her work with wire, textiles and beads #womensart

1 - The Rising Sun, Wych St, c.1900, shortly before destruction 2 - this chap looks like he’s had a bad time at the Law Courts nearby 3 - the squat guy looks like a landlord’s man, the one with the stick an old soldier 4 - the guy with no collar maybe an actor in digs (plenty), then the shopgirl

"Watson, imagine the cold calculating heart that retains the aisle seat on a packed 73 bus when the window seat beside her becomes vacant, and upon that empty seat places her handbag. Such a woman is capable of anything."

The hills are alive with the sound of moosic

These rather beautiful floor tiles are in the vestibule of Saint Alphonsus Church on London Road in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by Peter Paul Pugin, it was built in 1905. #glasgow #architecture #tiles #tiling #church