New’ish year. New inspiration.

I set off before the Christmas break this year with high aspirations of gallery visits, an intellectual reading list and a general full-on immersion into everything cultural. The reality, as so often happens was a heady mixture of family reunions, social engagements and hunting Japanese bargains at Dover Street Market.

Fortunately the first week back in January I had booked a short trip to Venice, four days of nonchalant meandering around this beautiful Italian city built on water. The place was amazing (my first trip) incredible architecture, a million churches, fantastically overpriced Gondolas and an awe inspiring display of sunglasses. Continue reading

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Fresh Meat

Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work… Continue reading

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Fresh Meat

Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work… Continue reading

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Fresh Meat

Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work…

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Life and Death

If you are looking for something unusual to occupy your last weekend of January, look no further than the South Bank Centre.  Continue reading

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Linotype – The 8th Wonder of the World

Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.

It premieres in New York next week, where you will also receive a lead slug with your name, straight from an original, working Linotype press.

Find out more about Linotype: The Film here

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The Unbreakable Project

I came across this very powerful and moving website called Project Unbreakable. The project aims to try and help people who have been sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster. Continue reading

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sKill as: Matt breathes fire!

We don’t normally post these videos on thecrossedcow – we usually post these to our Facebook page, but last weeks ‘Skill As’ was absolutely exceptional and deserves to be posted up here. So without further a do, here is Matt, breathing and juggling with FIRE!

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Black Wednesday…

Two bills up for vote in the US senate will threaten innovation and free speech on the internet. Today is a day of protest Continue reading

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TP on the HP

I’m pleased to have been invited by the editors to post regular points of view on the Huffington Post. Rather then reproduce it all here on The Crossed Cow (in large part because it lacks the requisite stunning visuals to attach) here’s a link to my first contribution that went up last week.

As and when new posts go up we’ll be sure to link back to them here.

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