These photos were taken on a walk in Sussex called the Robertsbridge Circular. Your eye is attracted by the colour of the fruit and leaves along the hedgerows and in the orchards, especially rich in the autumn evening light.

I took a series of photos in Clapham Junction a couple of days after the extraordinary riots that took place on the high street. I was looking for shattered glass, which was easy to find, and the cobweb like shapes it makes.

At that time, there were international film crews shooting reporters against the back drop of the burnt out party shop and there were many glass fitters at work replacing shop fronts.

By coincidence,  I am researching the look of shattering glass for a motion graphics project. This lead me to this post on The Art of the Title. It is a title sequence for John Carpenter’s The Ward. The glass is CGI.

Here is an update on a previous post about my own NHS reforms.

I visited the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition ‘Dirt’, a tour of our relationship with dirt, illustrated by different places and times. One of the places was the 1938 Finsbury Health Centre, a modern and pioneering design which helped to advance healthcare in Britain. On show was a drawing by Tecton. It contrasted a run down, victorian waiting room and the words ‘Lack of confidence in everything!’ with an airy spacious clean lined entrance hall, who’s ‘glass bricks, clean surfaces and bright colours produce a cheerful effect’ and an ‘ air of efficiency gives confidence to the patients’.

I was interested in this as it seems to fit in with my ‘keep to the notice boards’ policy change.

>> RIBA image

A small change in behaviour can have big results. A study has shown that the words used by GP receptionists when booking appointments and positive messages in posters can dramatically reduce missed appointments and save a great deal of time and money. This is a very clever change – a  free ‘tweak’ to cut costs. (I wonder if this method could have been applied to other areas in the public sector to reduce the vast cuts.)

Here is a brief interview on the Today programme. with Professor Robert Caldini.

This is one of my favourite lighting conditions; bright colours  illuminated and standing out against a dark sky.

A view of the royal wedding from the side of the mall, through a cardboard periscope, an iphone and the Hipstermatic app. A swift glimpse of the main events is probably what most of the crowd bound spectators saw. It reminded me of being on safari. Cameras are at the ready, jostling for the best chance of a shot, anticipation and luck are involved, and the moving subject is hard to spot in the melee of the surroundings.

The biggest full moon in eighteen years shone on the weekend of the 19th March. A super moon happens itself when the moon is closest to the Earth at the same time as it is ‘full’. (more).

Close to the Earth, the moon looks huge.

Seeing the blue water, the reflection of light and dark trees reminded me of Munch’s atmospheric studies of the moon on water.