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

 

On

 

 

 

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 KeysOh 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

IS

 

Leaf It Out

 

 

Trails of The City

 

 

HO

 

 

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

 

 

All images, words and music © Steve Swindells. All rights reserved. October 2017.

 

 

 

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

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.

 

Alfresco Dining Afloat

 

What a cool invention – that’s the first time I’ve seen such a sliding/canvas roof thing! Sydney Gardens, Bath.

 

Diversity

 

Summer Rites.  Tobacco Dock.

 

 

Ella Ella Ey

Soho.

 

 

End Less

 

Soho.

 

 

Save

 

A TV interview with… a homeless woman? A drug abuser? Or maybe both. Outside Poundstretcher in Harlesden.

 

You lookin’ at ME?

A fox in a derelict site by the canal at Ladbroke Grove.

 

You’ve Been Framed

The view from Mike and Sylvie Swindells’ terrace in Larkhall, Bath. Thom Topham is my Bowie-esque alter-ego.  Double album coming soon.

 

 

Park Guell Gatehouse

Barcelona.

 

 

Happy Daze

 

Me and Lex on holiday in Kingsand, Cornwall in May 2014.

All photos © Steve Swindells.  Part 11 coming soon.