In the Studio

 

RED ARROWS fly by YAY

Here are all Mia's Roccotto Chilli's, and its still paying off like a three CHERRY jackpot : ) Of course if Lizzie hadnt watered them while we where on holiday all would be lost, so big thanks from Mia and me for caring for all the Chilli plants while we went away.

CHOCOLATE JABANERO ! I hoped i'd managed to grow one of these babies BUT wasn't sure i had one, they are really tasty and end up a kind of chocolate purple colour. Just need some sun to make them ripen ! Come on summer you elusive bastard get started.

So much fun we forgot to get out of our pajama's !

  

A couple of weeks ago we had a cool visitor to the studio, my old friend Rob Ramsden came down for a few days, he brought quite a few cool projects and devices along with him too.This one ' Pendulart' was great fun and really involving, i should of shot a wee film of it to show how it works, basically the paper swings about and the pen stands still, it makes beautiful patterns, like spirographs but way better, more subtle and complex.

working way the other day, when i noticed a man on the roof over the road, well thats one way to get away from it all. He was so relaxed up there that at one point he took a piss all over the roof. Which reminds me of that story Jackson Pollock used to tell, that one day he saw his dad pissing on  some rocks and the spattered pattern was what inspired his paintings. This is most likely a real  horse shit story but Ha ! imagine what our man on the roofs son will produce.

Here's my best two chilli plants, seeds courtesy of Chris Fowler, who has grown a real spread of varieties for a few years now. I didn't make a record of which seeds they are, so it will be a real surprise when they start to  bear fruit in a month or so.

Comments

[rob]

hi tom

rob swift here

it appears you are wll and very happy!

let's meet up when we are in devon next.

we've been crabbing in stoke gabriel quite a few times this summer and i always wonder where you live when we drive thru your town!

send me your number and address and we'll get together

btw, are they your pics on robert hanson's wall in tatler this month?