Curious and ancient things

Barbican Estate located in London, constructed between the 1960s to the 70s by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.

Sainsbury's talcum for men packaging design material, 1978. From the Sainsbury Archive.

At St. Andrew’s in Norfolk

Oil on canvas , 100.5 x 125 cm.

GIANT WEEVIL | source

Compiègne, Oise, mai 2026.

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1917

Dorotheum

Scanned from Retail and Restaurant Spaces by Kristen Richards (1999)

by Maxfield Parrish

I've only gone and bloody done it, finished my toff for my new Slug's Lament cult! Most of this is from this year's wh+ miniature, The Summons (I took one of the skellies out, snipped the necromancer off the grave, and built up a place for Naps to stand out of green stuff). Zombie Napoleon is from Eureka Miniatures. I made a flagpole out of toothpicks and the flag out of the tube tomato puree comes in.

Earthworm

There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.

Pegnitz, 2026-05-17