Archive for the ‘Oddities’ Category

Mar 8 2010

Shots from the Studio

For the hundredth post: the first in an occasional series, miscellaneous shots from around the studio…

Mar 3 2010

BBC-O-Gram

Got this from the Guardian data blog, via Mark E’s Ireallylovemusic site which in turn got it from Information is beautiful – what with all the hoohah over 6 Music it’s pretty interesting to see how the annual budget for the BBC is divided up. Fascinating stuff

Feb 26 2010

There was an old lady…

Bought this book for my boys yesterday (I’m a sucker for beautifully designed childrens books) Such a unique way of presenting the old tale and at the end her eyes close after she eats the horse. We also have another version by Jan Pienkowski (who did Meg & Mog and the classic Haunted House pop [...]

Feb 22 2010

Psychedelic Pink

A current big hit in our household are the Pink Panther cartoons from the 60’s and 70’s with variations on Henry Mancini’s excellent theme to by Walter Greene to accompany them. One of my favourite episodes is this tripped out classic from 1968, the Panther goes into a weird bookshop and strange things start to [...]

Jan 15 2010

Rave Wars 7″ with free figure

A mysterious package turned up yesterday, inside were three 7″’s titled Rave Wars, each complete with an original Star Wars figure attached to the front in the style of the old Palitoy figures of yesteryear. Whoever sent them must have figured me for a follower of the dark side as I got Darth vader, a [...]

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