Archive for December, 2011

Sabotage Times

Posted by MSadmin on 22 December 2011. No comments.

It’s nice to see the work finally getting out there – over the weekend Sabotage Times, the net magazine, published Avatar Omega, the story of my rather lame adventures in Second Life. I always felt Avatar Omega had the potential to go far, and it’s great to get him in a national publication. Read Avatar [...]

Unretirement

Posted by MSadmin on 13 December 2011. No comments.

Well, my first retirement was an unpalatable six months and I’m glad to say I am back in the world of the itinerant artist thanks to Shrewsbury Museum, the good people of Wolverhampton and the agency that mismanages Post Office recruitment. And so to rebuild my frail confidence in my own work and my battered [...]

Littoral

Coastal resorts are like dark places in houses, the places where the natural byproduct of life, the detritus of utility, finds sanctuary from the broom, the brush, the vacuum. People on the fringes of society, the forgotten people, end up dead, institutionalised, or trapped in coastal resorts. They drift in the gentle breezes and buffeting storms of their own unfixed, indeterminate destinies. Eventually they reach the coast, like so much flotsam, and drawn to the coloured lights of resorts they stop, caught, because the sea won't let them drift any further, and they can't turn back.