Artistes

Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

1 February 2010
By John A Smith
Sand Painting – Xenia Simonoff, Ukraine’s Got Talent

Jayne-Amelia recommended a favorite video on YouTube, the phrase Sand Animation caught my eye so I had a look, the video was so delightful and moving I decided to find the artists web-site if possible, I found some more of her amazing work on ArtisticThings.com. Xenia Simonoff or Kseniya Simonova is a sand painter who...
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Stephen Fry was there!

30 January 2010
By John A Smith
Stephen Fry was there!

Today I had a look at Stephen Fry’s web-site, actually I only opened it to create a new tab in my browser to go to some other web-site, but while there I noticed that he had been at the launch of the new Apple ipod. I had a quick read of his post and decided...
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Driving The Saudis

21 January 2010
By John A Smith
Driving The Saudis

Giovanna recommended a video on facebook; “Anybody in Memphis? Go check out Jayne Amelia Larson in her one woman show – a must see!!!!!”. I had a look at the video on youtube, see below, and decided that if I’d been in Memphis I would go to see it. It’s a one woman play, “Driving the...
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Cute With Chris

3 January 2010
By John A Smith
Cute With Chris

Showed David this hilarious video made by a BLOGger who receives incessant e-mails that annoy him. I suppose anyone who runs a web-site gets questions that are answered on the web-site, rude comments on your personal opinion, irrelevant questions and points and these can be annoying sometimes.
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Jeremy Hardy

27 November 2009
By John A Smith
Jeremy Hardy

This evening I went to the Lawrence Batley Theatre to meet up with Rudi to see Jeremy Hardy, the satirical comedian. He put on a very good show for us. He said he liked Northern Audiences, talked about middle class attitudes and satirized the Government, the evening was very pleasant in a subversive way. Jeremy Hardy...
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Al Murray on God – MySpace

3 November 2009
By John A Smith
Al Murray on God – MySpace

I saw the video below on MySpace by chance – the video speaks for itself – very funny man! Like most people I imagine, I first experienced the “Pub Landlord” on televisions “Happy Hour”, a must not miss programme. God is British – Al Murray live at The O2Al Murray – The Pub Landlord | MySpace...
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Cousin John’s Vernissage and Finissage

8 June 2009
By John A Smith
Cousin John’s Vernissage and Finissage

Giovanna posted some photos of Cousin John’s Birthday/Retirement “Vermissage” Party and “Finissage” on facebook. It seemed to have gone well, there were lots of guests. I sent an e-mail asking how it went.
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Iwan Llewelyn-Jones

31 January 2009
By John A Smith
Iwan Llewelyn-Jones

This evening Francis and I went to Holyhead for a piano recital by Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. It was quite a good concert except that he played the more well known Chopin and Mendelssohn pieces first, in my opinion he should have ended with those, I mentioned this to Francis, and as we walked through the car...
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