and has put together a range of the stuff featuring mammoth motifs, black diamonds and lots of chains. It’s called Albion Trinketry and there are some not so good pictures here.

Of the jewellery, Doherty says, ‘Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains… hopefully my ones.’

the weather over the past few days has been Biblical. Horizontal hail. Gales.

As it raged last night a section of Israeli coast was dislodged, setting loose a headless Roman statue made from marble. It was washed up this morning on the beach.

Horsley is no more, and like a lot of people I miss him. Today I came across this, and it made me miss him a little bit more.

Picture (c) Black Poppy

has a new project. It’s called 100 Days of Active Resistance, and is about watching less television, seeing more art (but not contemporary art and probably not earlier prehistoric art, but preferably French 18th c. painting), reading classics rather than the latest best-sellers, slowing down, and not being enslaved to international branding.

The project is sponsored by Lee Jeans and Vivienne Westwood clothing.

in Beirut, as in Iran, are in, according to this report. Beirut has become the plastic surgery capital of the Arab world. Here’s a fascinating (if slightly creepy) photo essay about the roots of it all.