The Clocks

Are going back! Here are some clock-related facts to fill your extra hour.

1.) A tattoo of a clock with no hands represents time served in prison.

2.) According to superstitious souls it is a sign of death if a clock strikes when it has stopped running.

3.) Christian Marclay's award-winning work 'The Clock', 2010 is co-owned by the Tate, the Pompidou Centre and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and is composed of over ten thousand clips of clocks. 

Epic fog

The epic London fog obscuring Barbican's sixties monoliths Cromwell, Lauderdale and Shakespeare earlier today. 

Monday portrait: Dirty White Trash

This creepy crawly projection we found on Barbican's pinterest reminded us of artistic duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster's self portrait. 'Dirty White Trash', top.

Monday portrait: Ernest Hemingway

...in the bath. Photographer unknown.

Grayson Perry table mats

The Grayson Perry mats we made with the artist for Yoox have landed! Available here.

GRAYSON PERRY: “ Why have I chosen to have my tapestry images made into a set of table mats? The Vanity of Small Differences is about taste and class in British society and table mats, like net curtains, caravans, tattoos and having a clean car seemed to be one of the clearer symbols that divided the socio economic classes … when I researched taste for my television series I encountered table mats in all parts of society, protecting a glass coffee table in a hairdressers house, pseudo-ironically arrayed on a vintage dining table and casually strewn ready for breakfast for a man who owns a castle and six thousand acres. So who knows , buy these without fear.”

O'Keeffe

How lovely is artist Georgia O'Keeffe's OK brooch?

O'Keeffe watches over the office in a photo taken by Ansel Adams sent to us from Yosemite earlier this year.

Monday portrait: Sarah Bonetta Forbes

As it is the beginning of Black History Month, this week's portrait is of the fascinating Sarah Bonetta Forbes who was given as a 'present' to Queen Victoria aged 8.

Jil Sander v. Practicality

For his last collection at Jil Sander, Raf Simons re-invented the classic American grocery bag. They look fantastic but their prohibitive expense and impracticality doesn't bear thinking about. 

Naturally, they are sold out.