Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 9, 2012, 6:13 pm
Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: 1920s, 1921, art, art deco, sven brasch
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 8, 2012, 4:30 pm
Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: 1910, art, art deco, sven brasch
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 4, 2012, 3:42 pm
Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: brideshead, brideshead revisited, evelyn waugh, happiness, happy, quote, venice
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 1, 2012, 5:18 pm
AM Very cold cycle into work as it was below freezing. I bought a (fairly cheap) high-viz jacket a month or so ago and it’s surprisingly warm considering it’s not all that thick. It also keeps out the wind which … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 1, 2012, 4:10 pm
(via zelempa) This picture reminded me of my trip to Castle Howard a couple of years ago. Always been fond of Aloysius. Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: anthony andrews, art, brideshead revisited, illustration, jeremy irons, sketch
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Feb 1, 2012, 3:40 pm
From the 25 year anniversary concert at the O2, London. A wonderful evening last night at Les Mis at the Queen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Still can’t quite believe that I’ve lived in London for over a decade but had not got round … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jan 9, 2012, 5:00 pm
Liking the hair; liking the look. More pictures here. Filed under: objet d'art, photography Tagged: alfred dunhill, aw2011, aw2012, fashion, menswear
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jan 8, 2012, 1:27 pm
(via Cyclists in the City whose own post inspired this one) Sadly – it is quite some years since I was last in the States (10 years ago this year, I think). Regardless – I had never imagined there would be … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jan 8, 2012, 9:47 am
Advertising campaign for British fashion house Topman – Spring / Summer 2012. Photography by Alasdair McLellan. Further pictures / details. Liking the styles; loving the hair. Filed under: objet d'art, photography Tagged: alasdair mclellan, fashion, menswear, ss2012, topman
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 30, 2011, 4:23 pm
In years gone by I have been minded – as we stand at the dawn of a new year – to indulge in something of an autopsy on the year gone by. I don’t feel particularly inclined to do that … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 29, 2011, 8:01 am
(London via Matte Stephens) Back in London as of yesterday mid-afternoon. So good to have down-time and me-time. I have also ‘moved in’ online – by which I mean, I’ve bought the domain theyearzero.org, something I’d been thinking about doing … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 28, 2011, 3:43 pm
Ohhh, that’s very retro… isn’t it? - Mother to me, on seeing my hair cut What do you mean we’re not going to Midnight Mass?! We cannot ‘not go’ – we go every single year! - My brother Bridey to my … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 28, 2011, 2:18 pm
It could have been nice. There was no reason for it not to be nice. It was just that we’d gone our separate ways and lost each other, leaving nothing much in common besides a couple of soft-focus anecdotes, featuring … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 27, 2011, 8:51 am
Return train ticket – £22 People on Christmas day – 12 Church visits – 0 Presents received (Christmas day) – 6 Presents bought (Christmas day) - 2 Nominated driver – 1 Calories consumed on Christmas Day – 4,500 Bouts of indigestion … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 26, 2011, 4:00 pm
This year’s UK Christmas number one. The text of Wherever You Are is a love poem compiled from letters written between the women and their absent husbands and partners. It was set to music by composer Paul … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Dec 24, 2011, 1:38 pm
It’s Christmas Day and the year is 1982; fledgling British television station Channel4 has premièred a 26 minute animated film commissioned especially for Christmas. It will go on to achieve international renown becoming part of both British and international popular Christmas culture. … Cont...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 1, 2011, 6:32 pm
Two people exclaimed to me today that they “liked my new hairstyle”. Only – I hadn’t restyled it… I had, however, got caught in the rain whilst cycling to work; unpleasant. A bit of product (I have to use product … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 30, 2011, 3:47 pm
So I started cycling. Having lived in this city for over a decade, cycling is not something that has ever taken my fancy. For most of those 10 years I’ve lived in zones 2 and 3 – i.e. a few … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 19, 2011, 3:54 pm
The wake up call from reception came at 3 am. That it was going to be a long day was inevitable. It’s a 350 mile round-trip through barren desert in an armed convoy to get to Abu Simbel (from Aswan, … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 18, 2011, 2:41 pm
Not the most scintillating video I have ever posted. However, it does show a snapshot of daily street life in Egypt. This taken in the town of Edfu (which has a large and truly awe-inspiring 2,200 year old temple – … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 18, 2011, 10:44 am
You know those scenes in The English Patient during which they fly low over the Egyptian desert, in a bi-plane? Wonderful scenes from a favourite movie. That’s what I was reminded of as I looked down upon what is basically an … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 9, 2011, 12:02 pm
Click for larger. (via http://bithouse.tumblr.com/) Filed under: objet d'art, photography Tagged: 1930s, john payne
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 6, 2011, 5:21 pm
I walked past Apple’s Flagship Covent Garden store this morning, on my way into work. This was quite early. There was a lone bunch of flowers lying in front of one of the big glass doors; a large television camera … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 6, 2011, 4:14 pm
Model: Mark Ellingboe / Photographer: Bruce Weber Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: 1980s, calvin klein, denim, fashion, jeans, male model
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 4, 2011, 5:05 pm
Filed under: music Tagged: 1980s, morrissey, smiths, there is a light that never goes out
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 4, 2011, 4:40 pm
“I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 26, 2011, 4:28 pm
I watched the movie Tinker Tailor Solider Spy at the cinema on Saturday night. Really enjoyed it. Extremely atmospheric. It’s not high on ‘action’. It’s just not one of those movies. But it is multi-layered, complex, deep, involved. I hadn’t read … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 22, 2011, 4:26 pm
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning– So we beat … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 21, 2011, 3:13 pm
‘Don’t ask don’t tell’ is finally over in America. At last. This video was posted 24 hours ago and it’s already had 1.7m views on youtube. Filed under: in the news Tagged: army, coming out, dadt, gay
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 19, 2011, 4:17 pm
Georgetown University Varsity Track Team – circa 1910. Click for larger That feeling… of having one foot in the past – of belonging to another era. Yeh – that. We danced all night. Source.
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 12, 2011, 5:32 pm
More wyrd dreams. Yet it can’t be due to cheese (because I’m dieting and cheese is completely off the menu). It seems likely that last night’s wyrd dream was spawned by the book I’m reading – a fascinating account of … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 10, 2011, 3:52 pm
Six weeks since last I blogged. How fast time passes. It’s been a busy month and a half. I’ve spent time in Poland at a wedding, which was wonderful. During that trip I also visited Auschwitz (just outside Krakow) which was profoundly … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 30, 2011, 5:38 pm
Every single time I eat cheese of an evening (blue cheese on oatcakes if you’re asking) – I end up having vivid, invariably disturbing, dreams. I dreamt last night that I was at someone’s funeral. I don’t know whose. I … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 21, 2011, 4:05 pm
Original drawing, graphite plus blue and ochre crayon on cream paper (1928), by Thayaht. (via artophile.com) Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: 1920s, art, drawing, male, nude, sketch, thayaht
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 19, 2011, 5:01 pm
This post is part three of three. In its entirety it constitutes 2,000 words that I wrote following a fateful flight between Calgary, Canada and London Gatwick last year, but never posted. It’s about a connection I made with a perfect stranger. … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 19, 2011, 4:00 pm
This is a hand-coloured pochoir from La Gazette Du Bon Ton, Issue #1, January 1914, Plate VII. Great silvering to highlight the Doeuillet creation in this high drama scene of the agony of choice. (via artophile.com) Filed under: objet d'art … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 17, 2011, 6:42 am
This is hand-colored plate-signed pochoir print was produced as Plate #50 of issue #7 of the Gazette du Bon Ton – 1921. One of the most dramatic and classic Art Deco images among the many fashion pochoirs devised by Georges … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 17, 2011, 6:34 am
Women stroll down Park Avenue at 34th Street—the evening sun illuminating their sheer dresses—in Martin Lewis’ 1930 drypoint print “Shadow Dance.” (via artnet.com) Filed under: fragments of the past, objet d'art Tagged: 1930s, art, martin lewis, shadow dance
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 16, 2011, 4:36 pm
I seem to have slept fitfully the last couple of nights. On Thursday night I had an unsettling dream about ‘he who is beyond the scope of the blog’. Someone I haven’t seen in person in over two years. I … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 10, 2011, 4:31 pm
This post is part two of three. In its entirety it constitutes 2,000 words that I wrote following a fateful flight between Calgary, Canada and London Gatwick last year, but never posted. It’s about a connection I made with a perfect stranger. … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 9, 2011, 4:21 pm
Some things never change. Adore adore adore Pet Shop Boys. This was released in 1987. This is a year that resonates for me as it was the year I was sent off to boarding school, aged 11. I remember the … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 9, 2011, 2:10 pm
“I was so excited Gallery 1988 LA asked me back to make a new piece for their annual “Crazy 4 Cult” show, now in it’s 5th incarnation. After thinking it over and watching lots of Lynch movies, I was super inspired by ”Mulholland Drive.” … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 8, 2011, 7:05 pm
He was tall, about 6’3, and Greek. A graduate student. We’d spoken on and off for a while and then finally met – this evening. He looked like James Rubin (Chief Spokesman at the State Dept in the Clinton administration). … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 3, 2011, 7:01 pm
(via Michael Sloan) If I have still not made it to the New York office by this time next summer – rest assured I will, finally, stay true to my word and leave the company – irrespective of how much I … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jul 2, 2011, 5:57 pm
Huge Pet Shop Boys fan here. Filed under: music, videos, youtube Tagged: 1980s, pet shop boys
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jun 30, 2011, 4:48 pm
This post is part one of three. In its entirety it constitutes 2,000 words that I wrote following a fateful flight between Calgary, Canada and London Gatwick last year, but never posted. It’s about a connection I made with a perfect stranger. … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jun 27, 2011, 3:24 pm
I recently finished reading Nigel Slater’s autobiography, Toast. I adored it as I knew I would. Read this extract and then buy, borrow or cadge the book; you won’t regret it. Pommes dauphinoise (pages 241-244) When my father was alive … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jun 25, 2011, 4:40 pm
Source: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Filed under: objet d'art, photography Tagged: ballet, dancing, splendid isolation
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jun 25, 2011, 3:29 pm
Far from being recent, the notion of the Olympics as a PR opportunity for the host nation dates back to 1912, when Stockholm provided the first purpose-built stadium, the first concerted Olympic advertising campaign and the first official poster, all … Continue reading →
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Jun 23, 2011, 4:51 pm
Bruce Pennington, British fantasy artist Filed under: objet d'art Tagged: book cover, bruce pennington, children of tomorrow, illustrator, sci fi, spaceship
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