The Oh Hellos
So, I had a pretty special night this week. I went to a fifty-people-only gig in a Texas backyard to see some poetry and music. I was imagining something cottagey, cobbled and nooky when I made my way to the gig. But of course, that was just misplaced English imagination. Instead, the horizon was panoramic, [...]
More Than Animals – The New Stoney Album
My mister is just an incredible songwriter. Believe me. It’s not even bias. I’ve watched him work on this collection of songs for years now and these last few have been pretty epic for us. High highs and low lows. Brutal and beautiful. And there have always been these songs and they are very much [...]
Marching Bandass
Happiness is hula hoops and marching bands in one scenario. It makes me want to finally get an adult sized hoop and so I can learn lots of new tricks. Although I sincerely doubt I’ll ever make it look as cool as these girls! The annual Honk TX festival of street marching bands never fails [...]
SXSW 2013
Austin is teeming, burgeoning, pulsating, bursting with SXSW this week. I have not been near it by dint of other busy-ness, kids at my ankles and no camera (I think it would just frustrate me; I love taking pictures of all the SX visitors). Happily it came to visit me. I love having British minstrels [...]
The Susurrations of Murmurations
I’m nearing the end of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein (fact: his middle names are in honour of his piratical uncles) and I am enamoured by the way that birds have become part of the climactic drama– listening, flocking and acting as messengers and heralds: Very great indeed was the commotion among all [...]
Light-motif
I went to north Texas this week and it was deep-seepingingly precious, it means so much when good friends share their hearth with you. Winter was sharper up there and the light was different, oozing in for long moments from its horizon perch. It helps to find different light. And almost as if (or perhaps [...]
Some Beautifuls:
1. Slow-time Pen-Friendship. I sent my friend a real letter with some real drawings and some real poetry snippets and she sent me back a real letter, with real drawings and real, embroidered leaves. When I got her letter, it made me beam from the inside out. 2. The God of Small Things by Arundhati [...]
Town on the Town:
My little London shadowboxes have gone out for the evening. You can join them for a spot of vintage and fair trade shopping here tonight with the wonder-stars Hold Vintage (Pictured below. Photo by Daniel Austin Read) and Purse & Clutch.
Recent Recommendations: Music
Music: (Fleet Foxes + Sigur Ros + Mumford & Sons = Of Monsters and Men)
Mothership
There’s a piece of old Judeo-Christian wisdom that says do not despise the day of small things. The day of small things — these small people in my life, this is their day. This is their day to receive the first, hearty and essential building blocks of love and identity and language and trust and [...]
Hannah Stoney is a British artist and writer.