[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-weekend-pics":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Lots of scattered bits to post today. Here are some doodle portraits I made in my notes at a planning meeting on Saturday for the upcoming \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/index.htm\">SCBWI conference\u003C/a>:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/margnatas-4815e6bc16.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAfter the meeting I made a quick visit to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.handmadeandbound.com\">Handmade & Bound\u003C/a> book-art and zine fair near Euston station. I recognised a few people from Caption, and bought a couple comics off \u003Ca href=\"http://www.marcellerby.com\">Marc Ellerby\u003C/a> and also bought a remarkable screen-printed album from  \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mpawson.demon.co.uk\">Mark Pawson\u003C/a>'s table by Canadian artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mungbeing.com/issue_10_info.html?author=Owen%20Plummer\">Owen Plummer\u003C/a>. I don't know anything about Plummer yet, but the book I bought, \u003Ci>Flip-Flop Prophets\u003C/i>, is published with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mpawson.demon.co.uk/dernier.html\">Le Dernier Cri\u003C/a> and has lots of intriguing drawings that have traces of Aztec influence, maybe some early Chagall, and some pop stuff. I guess it's what people would call Outsider Art. Does anyone know anything more about him? \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/handmdnbound-ac79137c2b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are the fireworks on \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackheath,_London\">Blackheath\u003C/a> (a Saturday celebration of Wednesday's Guy Fawkes' Day), which started out marvellously, but then the cold and damp caught up with us and we had a cold and soggy trudge home and put on the cocoa as soon as we got in the door. The funniest thing was watching the buses drive across the heath as though nothing were happening, and during a particularly spectacular set of fireworks, a big Asda lorry grandly pulled through and it looked like a giant advert for a not particularly spectacular supermarket, all to the strains of Abba's \u003Ci>Money, Money, Money\u003C/i>. Classy.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/blackheath-61256bffd7.jpg\">","2008-11-09T23:12:00.000Z","weekend-pics",[],"weekend pics",1776628723871]