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Mashups And Montages

Mid-century Mashup

A collection of digitally enhanced images, created using various apps, from photos taken on my iPhone SE and processed in Instagram, then up-pixellated using the iResize app on my Mac Pro.

I present them in no particular order. They have, however, all been created within the last three years. If you see a hypertexted title, it means there’s an original song by your’s truly, or my alter-ego Thom Topham, for you to have a listen to – so headphones or speakers ON!

Giant Jack Russell

Lightbulb Moment

Urban Fall

Thought Bubbles

Canal Sunsets

Honeycombe Holiday

Eternal Flame

Hope And Fabric

The A Team

Just Be You Tiful

Lily Rose Shard

Most-Podern

Self Pixtrait

Retro-graphic

Flowering Rotunda

The Windmills Of My Mind

City Scopes

Soho Lights And Sights

Patterns Of Xavier

Whitstable Wonders

Olympic Park

Hello Habibi

Trails Of The City

Industrial Bouquet

Black Dog

Allies and Alleys

Serge In The South

Bouquet Of Barbed Wire

Shard Gardens

Swimming In Wine

Brutalism And Bouquets

The Lady In Black Alley

Shining Star (a time of love)

Autumn Eyelights

Floating Garden

Hooks, Lines And Sinkers

A Train Runs Through It

The Keeper Of The Keys Oh My God

WILL

Floral Street

The Waiting Womb

Urban Splash

Junction Conjunction

Blue Sky Thinking

Beauty And The Beach

Watching The Lights

Cabbage Patch Doll

Creative Union

Fating For The Wall

High And Dry

Flowerdots

Leaf It Out

Trails of The City

Flowerdots Too

Flowers In The Alley

Floral Tribute

Flowershop Dot Com

Justice For Grenfell

Flower N’ Power

Michael Mashup

Orchids And Cyclist

Mixed (up) Media

Purple Reign

Old Oak Lane Exit

Autumn Circles Falling

Cross Dressing

Flower In The Attic

Me Myself And I

Nana Dot Com

Seasonal Cycles

The Sky’s The Limit

Tower Of Flowers

Pixel Painting

Melded Montage

Mastaba Mashup

I hired a rowing boat at the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park, where Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s magnificent masterpiece domintates the lake, and took several photographs.

The Wonder Of Wild Flowers

Cornish Dream

Centrepoint Customised

Digital Arch

Horses For Courses – More Soho Stories

Together

A Bouquet Behind Liberty

Gay Ghetto

Sky Walkers

Snow Globe

The Lady In The Tower

Matera Montage

Digital Vertical Distraction

Low-fi Flowers

Yellow Hip-Pop Art

Cafe Culture

Floral Junction

Towers And Flowers

Mid-century Mood

Heaven’s Gate

Psychedelic Station

The Garden Of Earthly Delights

Flower Boy

2014 Revisted Via My Old iPhone 4S (which died). Part 1.

28 Aug

The title speaks for itself.

This is most definitely a photo blog, but I will probably feel moved to comment on pics in passing.

I’m writing this in the early house Bank Holiday Monday in N.W London. The stragglers from Carnival are still dribbling by on this sultry, late summer night. I just had a joint on the balcony, accompanied by a V&T. So I’m feeling creative, having just up-pixellated (I think I invented that word) all these pics using the iResize App.

2014 was an interesting year. In August, I’d literally moved-up-in-the-world (to an even better loft apartment in the same complex but one floor up!) and had a brief but wonderful autumn holiday in Barcelona with my mum (aged 86 at the time), Mike, Sylvie and Thibault Swindells, and my teen nephew Leon Bahar. I also released my pretty-damn-rocky album The Hanging Baskets Of Babylon (why not click to listen to it, as you peruse the pics?), which is available to stream and download on all the usual digital suspects. Most of it is collaborative, with some cool high-caliber American musicians: Jay Tausig, Ralf Lenz and former Captain Beefheart (yes really!) drummer Robert Williams, amongst others.

I’m just going to post the photos in the order that they appear in the desktop file.

Ten

Abandoned Morrocan Pouf

Grand Union Canal Towpath, Harlesden.

Allotment Artichokes

Bath.

Arches

Parc Del Clot, Barcelona.

Autumn Glory

Roundwood Park, Harlesden.

B4 It’s Begun

Elephant and Castle. These bleak and strangely evocative subways no longer exist.

Park Guell

The view of Barcelona from Gaudi’s surreal, pleasure garden is quite breathtaking. You can see the scaffolding around the towers of his ever-evolving masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia, in the centre of the pic. It looks like the great man also invented ‘upcycling’ with his imaginative and creative re-use of broken crockery. Mind you, he probably broke it on purpose.

Marina Marinara

Barcelonetta.

Metro Windows

Barcelona.

Barchitecture

Barcelona is full of architectural and visual contrasts and surprises at every corner. It’s such a great walking city too. And there are cable cars, a funicular railway and even escalators (up to Park Guell) to help with the hills.

Billy Fury Way

I find this so evocative. It’s over the road from West Hampstead Overground Station.

Wharf

Grand Union canal. Harlesden.

Hidden Tiger, Surpised Cat

I found the kid’s tiger bike in the street. I thought one of my neighbour’s children would appreciate its retro, wooden charms. JJ, my wonderful cat (he passed earlier this year aged 19) looked somewhat taken aback by this territorial intruder.

Lemon Grey Horizon

Cawsand Bay, Cornwall.

Chiswick Mall Sunset

Hipster Hangout, Hackney Wick

Damnation Alley

West Hampstead.

Derelict Sunset Reflection

A beautiful 50s block overlooking Hammersmith Bridge which has since been demolished (criminal!) to make way for yet more tiny, anodine, dreary unaffordable apartments (with river views) and no architectural merit whatsover.