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The theme for All The Rage this month is Age and Maturity. Here is more or less what I wrote:

The inspiration for these pictures came from a number of things, but they were definitely influenced by Forced Entertainment: specifically Emanuelle Enchanted, and the Cardboard Sign Photographs they made with Hugo Glendinning, but there’s a little bit of Speak Bitterness in there too.

Please, if you have not already done so, could you make your way to the site of my hitherto secret counting project. Thanks.

This piece originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of All The Rage. It is about “space”.

We have accepted the terms and conditions
We have done the Maths
We have been woken by car alarms
We have allowed our membership to lapse
We have looked, but we have not touched
We have forgotten to buy milk
We have used milk that has gone past its sell by date
We have stopped opening our junk mail
We have sung in […]

During some routine research into oral hygiene technology today, I stumbled upon this mutant toothbrush. Like something out of The Fly. You know, for kids!
I can also imagine the creative discussion that led to this rascular innovation.
A: Increasingly, consumers are becoming concerned with their tongues.
B: If only it were possible to in some way place […]

Here is another numerically ordered piece, originally published in the December edition of the hip, gunslingingly pdf magazine All The Rage.

A few days ago, I dropped a newly-opened 500g tub of Flora margarine, and it landed, openside-down, on the kitchen floor. When I picked it up the entire polyunsaturated block decided that it quite liked it there, and came clean out of the tub.
1. I found that I was, in equal measure, irritated at the […]

Borderline humorous froth

I’m getting to know the tree quite well now. Three* times running this week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the train slowed, and finally stopped completely right alongside the tree. On one occasion for about ten minutes. I must have been sitting in the same place on the train, as each time I had the […]