street van

This is brilliant:

What the street van saw.

Some textures from my travels

I love it (as sad as it is) when I come across textured things....... 

Some architecture from Belgium and Holland.

I went on a little trip around some parts of Belgium and Holland and took a lot of photos... here are some I took of particularly interesting buildings :) 

Thinking tree

While not doing all my English essays, I've acquired a thinking tree. It's right outside my window, and it's very nice. I thought sharing it was a better use of my time than doing work. 

It is a good tree, no?

My favourite things.

It may well be a good idea for me to rename my blog: Diary of an Art student masquerading as someone who knows enough about the English Language to do a degree in it (?!!!). 


So, after a day of phonetics and literature reviews (?!?!), I felt a wallow in self-pity session coming on. I am choosing to re-package that as 'some of Mary's favourite Art works'. This will make me feel better. :)

Cornelia Parker's 'Cold Dark Matter: an exploded view' 1991

(above two) Fletcher Benton's 'Truckin' Geos'

Me, plus a little section of mosaic from Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell.

Christian Boltanski's 'The Candles' (I saw at the Shadow exhibition at Compton Verney 2007) 

(Above two) from Mike Nelson's 'The Coral Reef' installation.

Umberto Boccioni's 'Elasticity' 1912

Umberto Boccioni's 'Unique forms of continuity in space' 1913

Yeah, this has made me feel better. 

Scary but good. Scarily good?

I love Jamie T, and I love this video even more because at first it seems.... a fairly standard 'amateur' style, relaxed film. But it just.. isn't. And what it actually is (although probably meant to be funny) really freaked me out. I felt within my comfort zone, and because of that, the unexpected oddities were even better. Definitely worth a watch :)


Plus the song's ace. 

History of Art

Just completed my history of Art exam. Whilst I quite enjoyed the majority of the course so far, I can honestly say I really never want to see these two paintings again. You know when one of the things you really didn't want to come up on an exam turns up an just brightens your day...

Rembrandt's 'An anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp' (1632) (above)

Perugino's 'Lamentation over the Dead christ' (1495) (below)