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My latest book titled, Out of the Ordinary: Popular Art, Architecture and Design, is due to be published in September this year by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book’s blurb by Andrew Chrystall: Out of the Ordinary is one part unembellished documentation and one part verbi-visual equivalent of a Pro Hart work made with nineteenth-century, paint-loaded Read more
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Anna May Wong’s ashes and also her sister Mary’s ashes were buried with their mother, Lee Toy Wong, at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. It’s a Small World, Disneyland, Anaheim. Toon Town in Disneyland, Anaheim. More Disneyland, Anaheim. Clifton’s Cafeteria has closed for renovation. Thank goodness it hasn’t closed for good! Gene Autrey statue Read more
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Derham Groves’ foreword for the as yet unpublished Australian crime novel, Duck Season Death by June Wright The crime novels by the Australian author, June Wright (née Healy), are not known as well as they should be in my view. She was born in 1919 in Malvern, Victoria, and educated locally at Kildara College, Loreto Read more
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Samples of Laurie Baker’s architecture: (1) The Laurie Baker Centre, Trivandrum Ms. Shailaja Nair talking to the first-year students about Laurie Baker and his architecture. (2) The Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum (3) The Indian Coffee House, Trivandrum (4) The Hamlet (Laurie Baker’s own house), Trivandrum (5) Loyola College, Trivandrum (6) Buildings by some of Read more
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After testing the tarpaulin’s strength, Wally needed a jar of “Pileless — Wonder Relief for Piles” … Joseph Stalin — Still a hero in Kerala! Read more
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These felt pen sketches were influenced by the drawings and paintings of Maira Kalman, the author of The Principles of Uncertainty (2007), etc. Read more
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In 2010 I visited Iran, courtesy of a travel grant from the Iran Heritage Foundation, to look at Iranian brickwork. What marvellous brickwork I discovered there! But that is another story. Travelling around Iran (which I found to be quite different to that usually depicted on the six o’clock news, by the way), photographing some Read more
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The cover of Anna May Wong’s Lucky Shoes designed by Huey Groves The book is published by the Culicidae Press and is available via Amazon.com or Culicidaepress.com A review of the book by Zoe Nikakis in Voice in The Age, 10 October 2011 ANNA MAY WONG’S LUCKY SHOES: 1939 AUSTRALIA THROUGH THE EYES OF AN Read more
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Geelong was almost “gone” in the second quarter — three goals down and Podsiadly stretchered off — but the champion side that it is, the Cats fought back and overran Collingwood in the final quarter by six goals — SIX GOALS! — a blow out! But it stood to reason really: Collingwood lost only three Read more
Derham Groves 