After 6 yrs, have a parrot again
Little Quaker, no name yet. Adorable: here he is nibbling Coopy’s lady:
EDIT: Great names, thank you. We have a winner: RT @baquetaUk How about Rasputin?
Finnish version of ‘Tricks Of The Mind’ just arrived.
Google translates the title as ‘How I Control The View’.
Appearance and reality: in conversation with Derren Brown
The Open University’s Nigel Warburton talks to psychological illusionist Derren Brown about appearance and reality, and what kind of people are most gullible.
‘Confessions of a Conjuror’
It has been a pleasant day. After a private, and unusually delightful, gig in Stockholm, I gave myself and my extensive team of Coops (PA) and Iain (writing partner) the day off and painted. I have been painting a friend, the free-runner and general embodiment of all that is astonishing Chase Armitage (yes, a par-court giant called Chase: living proof of the maxim that after years of primary-school teasing and slow-burn comfortable associations, people tend to be attracted to careers which suit their names.) Following that I visited an artist friend Patrick Hughes, and had my head cast in plaster in order for a reverse-sculpture of your apologetically infrequent blogger to be created. It’s a little difficult to describe, and I shall blog the results along with the pictures that were taken along the way, but imagine a portrait which, through a compelling trick of perspective, unfailingly shifts and turns to follow you around the room.