David Brady
@antiprofessor.bsky.social
Crabby, dopey, fussy, grumpy, lazy, messy, nosy, pesky, queasy, rusty, sneezy, teasy, wheezy
Well, this was a ride! Published just 15 years after the Allied Victory
Extremely self-serving and boastful throughout, quite technical, more than would be allowed today, ending with a fascinating disquisition on the fall of the Third Reich, and what Tank-Boy would have done to stop it
Extremely self-serving and boastful throughout, quite technical, more than would be allowed today, ending with a fascinating disquisition on the fall of the Third Reich, and what Tank-Boy would have done to stop it
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Well, this was a ride! Published just 15 years after the Allied Victory
Extremely self-serving and boastful throughout, quite technical, more than would be allowed today, ending with a fascinating disquisition on the fall of the Third Reich, and what Tank-Boy would have done to stop it
Extremely self-serving and boastful throughout, quite technical, more than would be allowed today, ending with a fascinating disquisition on the fall of the Third Reich, and what Tank-Boy would have done to stop it
I'll just pop back into my sarcophagus
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I'll just pop back into my sarcophagus
Что дѣлать?
Or as I like to say: What is to be done?
Or as I like to say: What is to be done?
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Что дѣлать?
Or as I like to say: What is to be done?
Or as I like to say: What is to be done?
It's undoubtedly the sort of place where Jack Lemmon thinks - incorrectly - he will be safe from Virna Lisi in 'How to Murder your Wife', 1965
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It's undoubtedly the sort of place where Jack Lemmon thinks - incorrectly - he will be safe from Virna Lisi in 'How to Murder your Wife', 1965
One of the weirdest illustrations in 'Delirious New York', showing the imagined interior of the Downtown Athletic Club - a locker room the size of a skyscraper - captioned [after Corb] : "A machine for Metropolitan bachelors", with the unmarried macho men wearing boxing gloves to eat oysters
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
One of the weirdest illustrations in 'Delirious New York', showing the imagined interior of the Downtown Athletic Club - a locker room the size of a skyscraper - captioned [after Corb] : "A machine for Metropolitan bachelors", with the unmarried macho men wearing boxing gloves to eat oysters
The founding of OMA
Madelon with Rem, Zaha and the Zenghelises, posing in front of a variant version of 'Flagrant délit'
Madelon with Rem, Zaha and the Zenghelises, posing in front of a variant version of 'Flagrant délit'
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The founding of OMA
Madelon with Rem, Zaha and the Zenghelises, posing in front of a variant version of 'Flagrant délit'
Madelon with Rem, Zaha and the Zenghelises, posing in front of a variant version of 'Flagrant délit'
She's famous for her painting 'Flagrant délit', 1974, in which the Rockefeller Centre bursts in to catch the unfaithful Chrysler Building in post-coital bliss with the Empire State Building; note the discarded prophylactic on the bed, a Goodyear blimp, and the rug of the grid of mid-town Manhattan
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
She's famous for her painting 'Flagrant délit', 1974, in which the Rockefeller Centre bursts in to catch the unfaithful Chrysler Building in post-coital bliss with the Empire State Building; note the discarded prophylactic on the bed, a Goodyear blimp, and the rug of the grid of mid-town Manhattan
To the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre at the Royal Academy to see poor halfwitted Will Gompertz bedazzled and bamboozled by funny clever sparky octogenarian Madelon Vriesendorp, recipient of the Soane Medal 2025
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
To the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre at the Royal Academy to see poor halfwitted Will Gompertz bedazzled and bamboozled by funny clever sparky octogenarian Madelon Vriesendorp, recipient of the Soane Medal 2025
Le Chef de la Gare en travaille forcément
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Le Chef de la Gare en travaille forcément
Lee Miller found beauty in ravaged post-Liberation #Paris when she arrived there in August '44
"girls, bicycles, kisses and wine and around the corner sniping, a bursting grenade and a burning tank"
Law student Christiane Poignet looks like a character from Sartre's «Les chemins de la liberté», 1945
"girls, bicycles, kisses and wine and around the corner sniping, a bursting grenade and a burning tank"
Law student Christiane Poignet looks like a character from Sartre's «Les chemins de la liberté», 1945
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Lee Miller found beauty in ravaged post-Liberation #Paris when she arrived there in August '44
"girls, bicycles, kisses and wine and around the corner sniping, a bursting grenade and a burning tank"
Law student Christiane Poignet looks like a character from Sartre's «Les chemins de la liberté», 1945
"girls, bicycles, kisses and wine and around the corner sniping, a bursting grenade and a burning tank"
Law student Christiane Poignet looks like a character from Sartre's «Les chemins de la liberté», 1945
Nuns evacuated during the siege of St Malo, 1944, by Lee Miller
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nuns evacuated during the siege of St Malo, 1944, by Lee Miller
Lee Miller's uniform as a war correspondent, and her Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Lee Miller's uniform as a war correspondent, and her Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex
Vinous mosaics in the middle of Reims
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Vinous mosaics in the middle of Reims
At the Musée de l'Automobile in Reims; the existence of a panhard must, philosophically, imply the existence of a pansoft
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
At the Musée de l'Automobile in Reims; the existence of a panhard must, philosophically, imply the existence of a pansoft
Imagine booking your #London Airbnb in the grand-sounding "Kensington Mansions", only to discover it's this filthy hell-hole on top of the District and Piccadilly tube lines
The looming grotesque in the dusty pediment is a portrait of the grasping landlord
The looming grotesque in the dusty pediment is a portrait of the grasping landlord
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Imagine booking your #London Airbnb in the grand-sounding "Kensington Mansions", only to discover it's this filthy hell-hole on top of the District and Piccadilly tube lines
The looming grotesque in the dusty pediment is a portrait of the grasping landlord
The looming grotesque in the dusty pediment is a portrait of the grasping landlord
Ah yes! The jungle. Famously characterised by intricate plumbing
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ah yes! The jungle. Famously characterised by intricate plumbing
This block of flats stands out from the houses in Philbeach Gardens, my immediate thought was it must be post-war infill, perhaps middle to late 1950s?, following a random German bomb strike in WWII
The Survey of London explains that a V1 doodlebug hit the Gardens in 1944, doing a lot of damage
The Survey of London explains that a V1 doodlebug hit the Gardens in 1944, doing a lot of damage
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This block of flats stands out from the houses in Philbeach Gardens, my immediate thought was it must be post-war infill, perhaps middle to late 1950s?, following a random German bomb strike in WWII
The Survey of London explains that a V1 doodlebug hit the Gardens in 1944, doing a lot of damage
The Survey of London explains that a V1 doodlebug hit the Gardens in 1944, doing a lot of damage
Alternatively, it may be that you need to loosen this cover, but do not attempt this without a proper pair of plumbers grips
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Alternatively, it may be that you need to loosen this cover, but do not attempt this without a proper pair of plumbers grips
Well of *course* they do, I knew that!
So the screw cover is the flat disc here
So the screw cover is the flat disc here
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Well of *course* they do, I knew that!
So the screw cover is the flat disc here
So the screw cover is the flat disc here
Perennially fascinated by this set-back Victorian terrace of maisonnettes in Clapham Road, Stockwell, with its bold cartouche of the date of completion of refurbishment, 1916, in the pediment
It is called Belle Vue Gardens on my old street map
It is called Belle Vue Gardens on my old street map
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Perennially fascinated by this set-back Victorian terrace of maisonnettes in Clapham Road, Stockwell, with its bold cartouche of the date of completion of refurbishment, 1916, in the pediment
It is called Belle Vue Gardens on my old street map
It is called Belle Vue Gardens on my old street map
St Matthew, Brixton Road, one of four so-called "Waterloo Churches" dedicated to the Evangelists, built in different parishes of Lambeth, all designed by Francis Octavius Bedford, 1822-24
It derives from the fractionally earlier St Pancras New Church, but the tower is pushed from the W to the E end
It derives from the fractionally earlier St Pancras New Church, but the tower is pushed from the W to the E end
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
St Matthew, Brixton Road, one of four so-called "Waterloo Churches" dedicated to the Evangelists, built in different parishes of Lambeth, all designed by Francis Octavius Bedford, 1822-24
It derives from the fractionally earlier St Pancras New Church, but the tower is pushed from the W to the E end
It derives from the fractionally earlier St Pancras New Church, but the tower is pushed from the W to the E end