21 comments:

Anonymous said...

just to say to the man in glasses -why don't we call her the battenbird?!!

Anonymous said...

we'll do it charlie!

meanwhile, this looks like a well dodge bit of sparky work. maybe someon's junk shop. all them cables don't look english for sure. praps she's got mates blackpool?

Anonymous said...

verona or vicenza

Anonymous said...

buck house

downing street

Anonymous said...

lots of wide angle shots on this blog, kind of close up n' personal

we could do with some more pixels in the resolution tho'

Anonymous said...

HA!!!!

Just seen a 13amp plug lurking in the shadows

Blighty after all!!!

(unless of course, someone lugged it all the way over the channel)

Sancha Battenburg said...

Very sharp Dominic - but is the UK alone in the use of the three pin plug?
We will give you a clue - no they are not...

Anonymous said...

in a way, the location is less interesting than the motivation to record this serene, everyday image

the soft colours, the slightly haphazard bunching of wires, and the absolutely lovely dissimilar pairing of turned wood and old glass lamp bases

i am still wondering about that arc of reflection to the right of the glass-based lamp...

Anonymous said...

i agree, it's lovely. There should be a magazine of these not quite perfect interiors. this puts the etc. into living and makes it real

Anonymous said...

is this what they call shabby chic?

Anonymous said...

is there a bed between these two table things?

looks like a northern sort of light, or autumn afternoon

therefore, quite possibly northern spain, cheapish pension

suppose shabby chic is a possible term, although one might venture 'distressed' as a contemporary alternative

Anonymous said...

Looks more shabby shit than chic.
It reminds me of a brothel in Naples.

Anonymous said...

Paris?

Anonymous said...

Ulan Bator, perhaps?

Anonymous said...

Welcome back J th' C

Have you actually been to U-B?

That wine bottle looks decidedly un-Mongolian, although one might expect to find the odd flagon of imported plonk in a yurta/gair from time to time.

Are there many cats in mongolia by the way? All the ones we saw in UB were scrawny beasts who hardly upheld the species felix felix.

I think Jack, you might venture to ask for a little clue, possibly around the subject of Portugal?

We at the dept. are getting a bit flustered over this one

Anonymous said...

I'm going for Portugal too.

Do feel however that Ms Battenburg might let us have a little more idea what this is all about.

If it is a-political, what is it.

Sancha Battenburg said...

You are doing very well without any help. So no clues yet.
Man in dark glasses - you talk like there is nothing if it is not political.
Get with the programme.

Anonymous said...

Everything is political ain't it?

Even being non-commital is core politics these days for the everyperson in the street.

So what is the programme we should be getting with?

My five quid's on a pension in Bilbao or Porto.

And what about the election: anyone voting green?

Anonymous said...

an i forgot to say, battenbird is gettin well pushy

wears it gonna end?

Anonymous said...

You people seem to be having a lively debate, but is this really the forum for a chat room, or should we be considering the role of this sort of online dialogue? If it is about what it's about, what visual or other pleasures, intrigues or irritations does it prompt? The images suggest that whilst there is not always a narrative attached to an image, there is potential for constructed narratives, and/or folklore to be retrospectively or speculatively applied to image. Where this becomes less subjective, or more subject to discussion and argument is another matter. Does this make any sense to the readers...

Anonymous said...

have the cleaners locked up and gone home?