Tuesday 30 December 2014

Friday 26 December 2014

all over my big toe

"ALL OVER MY BIG TOE" featuring "Nymph and The Scorpion", a sculpture by Lorenzo Bartolini, early 19th century & Hammurabi's law code carved into a slab of stone, Babylon, 18th century BC

Wednesday 24 December 2014

bumpy ride

"BUMPY RIDE" featuring cyclist Thorwald Ellegaard (1877-1954), published by Everyday Press, 2014 & street in Cahors, France 

Sunday 21 December 2014

they told me to get stuffed

THEY TOLD ME TO GET STUFFED featuring "Acrobat and Young Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, 1905 & Hotel Franke, Berlin, 20th century

Wednesday 17 December 2014

u s s r

USSR featuring detail from Artistin Marcella by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910 & El Lissitzky's design for a red flag, 1927 

Friday 12 December 2014

ancient beauty

ANCIENT BEAUTY featuring Princess from the Akhenaten family, Egypt 1353-1337 BC & the Chapel of the Ascension, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Wednesday 10 December 2014

wall weary

WALL WEARY featuring reclining nude by Georges Braque, 1935 & the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem

Friday 5 December 2014

who're you calling a hooligan?

WHO'RE YOU CALLING A HOOLIGAN? featuring London card captioned 'Thinking of you' & Florentine painting of the Martyrdom of Savonarola in the Piazza della Signoria, late 15th century

Wednesday 3 December 2014

don't wind me up

DON'T WIND ME UP featuring 'Woman with Fan' by Pablo Picasso, 1905 & 'Rat' by Boyd Webb, 1981

Monday 1 December 2014

piping hot

PIPING HOT Postcards featuring tap from Elan Vital Range by Susan Fredman Design Group, 2014 & Vogue cover by George Wolfe Plank, 1913

Wednesday 26 November 2014

beauties in the eyes of the beholder

"BEAUTIES IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER" Postcards featuring Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer by John Singer Sargent, 1901 & Pablo Picasso photographed by Man Ray, 1932

Friday 21 November 2014

one on the house

"ONE ON THE HOUSE" Postcards featuring Franz Kafka's house, Golden Lane, Prague & "Bufet Koruna", Prague, photo by Jaroslav Kučera 1972

Tuesday 11 November 2014

classy refuge

"CLASSY REFUGE" Postcards featuring 'La Carriole du Pere Juniet' by
Henri Rousseau, 1908 & Moscow Metro station Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square) by architect Alexei Dushkin, 1938

Sunday 9 November 2014

playing with fire

"PLAYING WITH FIRE" Postcards featuring The Match Seller by Otto Dix, 1926 & Karl-Marx-Allee, Friedrichshain, Berlin, photo by Max Galli 

Wednesday 5 November 2014

doomsday dominatrix

"DOOMSDAY DOMINATRIX" Postcards featuring Pamela Anderson (in Barbed Wire) 1996 & The Last Judgment by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1535-1541)

Sunday 2 November 2014

cycle siesta

"CYCLE SIESTA" Postcards featuring "La Sieste" by Vincent van Gogh 1890 & cyclist Dominico Momo France, 1908

Tuesday 28 October 2014

telly till the cows come home

"TELLY TILL THE COWS COME HOME" Postcards featuring Bakelite Bush TV 1949 & The Farm Gate by Stanley Spencer 1950

Sunday 26 October 2014

the great and the small

THE GREAT AND THE SMALL Postcards featuring 'Volunteer' by Jeff Wall 1996 & Jaipur, India photo by Marc Riboud 1956

Thursday 23 October 2014

five in the morning

FIVE IN THE MORNING Postcards featuring a mural depicting stilt dancers in Tanzania 1980s & Night Mail at Didcott Railway Centre, photo by P.N. Bartlett (date unknown)

Tuesday 21 October 2014

the human condition

THE HUMAN CONDITION Postcards featuring Échange platonique (platonic exchange), photo by Nicolas Martinie & the Mont Blanc Tunnel during a power failure

Thursday 16 October 2014

queen of tarts

QUEEN OF TARTS Postcards featuring London prostitute's publicity 1990s & Crown Jewels, Tower of London 

Monday 13 October 2014

"walk out"

"WALK OUT" Postcards featuring Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks & Malshanger House in Hampshire, UK painted by Clewin Simon Vernon 20th century

Wednesday 8 October 2014

tsunami surfer

TSUNAMI SURFER Postcards featuring the pier in Hastings UK & ancient egyptian painted statue 

Thursday 2 October 2014

happy, are we?

HAPPY, ARE WE? Postcards featuring scene from a camping fair in Essen, Germany, photographed by Marga Kingler 1959 & 'Mickey' in Disneyland, Orlando,US

Saturday 27 September 2014

it's my carnival hat!

IT'S MY CARNIVAL HAT! Postcards featuring Vogue magazine masthead 1892 & Unidentified Londoner, photo by Mary Cortez and Desiree Ortega from My Journey - stories of London migrants 

Tuesday 23 September 2014

he promised to paint me after he'd finished with her


He promised to paint me after he'd finished with Her Postcards featuring Jimmy Paulette + Taboo! in the bathroom, N.Y.C. 1991, photo by Nan Goldin & Lucian Freud painting The Queen 2001, photographed by David Dawson

Monday 15 September 2014

a piss & a prayer

A PISS & A PRAYER postcards featuring Ireland 1976, photo by Josef Koudelka & 5th Avenue NYC, photo by Louis Stettner 1976 

Thursday 4 September 2014

'you looking at me?

'YOU LOOKING AT ME? postcards featuring fisherman in Brittany, France, photo by Toby Granville & Water Lilies by Claude Monet, early 20th century

Friday 29 August 2014

who is she!

WHO IS SHE! postcards featuring Industrial painting on models by Pinot Gallizio 1958 & El militar y la señora by Goya 1778-1779

Monday 25 August 2014

big shots

BIG SHOTS postcards featuring Recruit First Day Activities U.S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois & Hollywood graphic from 'Wish I were here' series by Don Preziosi and Newly West 1984

Sunday 17 August 2014

crap role

CRAP ROLE postcards featuring actor James Dean 1950s & detail from 'Basic Essential' photo by Michael Kelly 1987

Wednesday 13 August 2014

would you like a lift?

WOULD YOU LIKE A LIFT? postcards featuring Jeanne Samary by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1878 & Reims in ruins, France early 20th century & dining room in family chalet resort in Feriendorf, East Germany 1980s

Friday 8 August 2014

why shouldn't I be comfortable?

WHY SHOULDN'T I BE COMFORTABLE? postcards featuring Venus Asleep by Paul Delvaux 1944 & bullfighting arena in Nimes, France

Monday 4 August 2014

peace in our time

PEACE IN OUR TIME postcards featuring Trooping the Colour, London & 'Teds' photographed by Roger Mayne, UK 1956

Monday 28 July 2014

Wednesday 23 July 2014

here we go, here we go!

HERE WE GO, HERE WE GO! postcards featuring vase with Pentathlon athletes, Euphiletus, Athens 520 BC & 'Agony Point' Darjeeling Hill Railway, 19th cent. India

Saturday 19 July 2014

f.t.l.o.g. & bespoke framing

f.t.l.o.g. & bespoke framing Postcards featuring the frame of The Last Judgment by Luca Signorelli (1499-1504) & For the Love of God by Damien Hirst 2007

Tuesday 15 July 2014

in two minds

IN TWO MINDS postcards featuring Mir Musavvir,self-portrait, page from the album of Prince Salim, India 1555 & the great staircase, L'Hôtel Frascati in Le Havre

Friday 11 July 2014

marchers with woman

marchers with woman

By a near-unanimous vote of the Young Unknowns Postcard Council the winner of the Find-a-Title competition for the previous to last collage is Mr R. Henry from Cornwall for his entry "Football Gaff"

Sunday 6 July 2014

f.t.l.o.g. & checkered floors

f.t.l.o.g. & checkered floors Postcards featuring Steel Zinc Plain by Carl Andre 1969 & For the Love of God by Damien Hirst 2007

Wednesday 2 July 2014

Postcards featuring Swedish publicity for telia mobitel & Giraffes at Twycross Zoo in UK
* find a title for this collage and the author of the best one will receive a signed print of the same 

Friday 27 June 2014

lily of the valley

LILY OF THE VALLEY Postcards featuring London prostitute card 1990's & detail from Les Nymphéas (Waterlilies) by Claude Monet

Tuesday 24 June 2014

I want to go out and play too!

I WANT TO GO OUT AND PLAY TOO! Postcards featuring Dahlia 7 weeks by Mark McEvoy 2012 & Rome in 1953 photographed by Herbert List

Friday 20 June 2014

Titled

Postcards featuring Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill,1940 & the Sphinx of Saake, Giza, Egypt

Saturday 14 June 2014

we could be hereos

WE COULD BE HEROES Postcards featuring Che Guevara from "Heroes" poster & a sculpture of athlete by Félix Joffre at a swimming pool in Roubaix France 1938 (Che Guevara was born on this day 86 years ago)

Wednesday 11 June 2014

barcelona 2

BARCELONA 2... Postcards featuring Gbenga Samuel Okunowo footballer Barcelona F.C. 1998-2001 & 1986 reconstruction of the Mies van der Rohe German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona 

Saturday 7 June 2014

immigrant

IMMIGRANT Postcards featuring "Vairumati" by Paul Gaugain, 1880's & Straße by Alexander Rodtschenko, 1932
Paul Gaugain was born on 7th June 1848

Wednesday 4 June 2014

who needs arms?

WHO NEEDS ARMS? : Postcards featuring "Untitled" by Mira Schendel 1963 & "Ghost" by Ron Mueck 1998

Saturday 31 May 2014

time for change

Time for a change : Postcards featuring a photograph of a woman sitting yawning at a typewriter, taken by Photographic Advertising Limited in 1950 & London, early 20th century