Notes from 2025

• Jess Wasson's Sydney Sweeney

  28 September 2025

  The campaign behind this Sydney Sweeney shoot was somewhat controversial. But Jess Wasson's pictures are beautiful.

• RIP Computer Magazines 1990-2010

  15 September 2025

  When computer magazines were inspiring, beautiful and ads were ads.

• Show Me The 808

  07 September 2025

  2010's pop, Roland 808 shout-outs, playlists and live coded music. This is the Internet I love.

• Books I Enjoyed - Summer 2025

  02 September 2025

  Books I enjoyed reading during the Summer of 2025.

• Ethel Cain - Fuck Me Eyes

  30 August 2025

  She's no good at raising children, but she's good at raising Hell. What a line.

• Interactive Portraits

  30 August 2025

  Jeremy Cowart's dynamic and interactive portraits. Why is there not more stuff like this?

• Reading Things About Maps

  30 August 2025

  Things I've been reading about maps.

• Four More Great Live Performances on YouTube

  30 August 2025

  Lainey Wilson with Heart Like A Truck, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z with Empire State of Mind, Phoebe Bridgers with Georgia and Dizzee Rascal and Florence Welch with You've Got The Dirtee Love are four more great live performances on YouTube.

• Porsche Classic Models

  25 August 2025

  Porsche has a nice way of showing their historical models. 9xx numbers mean more to car people than HTTP status codes mean to computer nerds.

• Halsey's Badlands (Live From Webster Hall)

  24 August 2025

  I quite like Halsey's Badlands album, but the Live From Webster Hall version is on another level. So much intensity in the crowd participation.

• Four Great Live Performances on YouTube

  18 August 2025

  Beyoncé with Irreplaceable, Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks with Fake Plastic Trees, Little Simz with Venom and Anne-Marie and Aitch with Psycho are four great live performances on YouTube.

• Romy's Mid Air Album

  17 August 2025

  My most listened to album over the past two years. Still perfect. I won't skip any, but Loveher is my standout track.

Notes from 2019

• Peter Lindbergh's Gigi Hadid

  23 December 2019

  Vogue Arabia's Gigi Hadid cover was one of Peter Lindbergh's final shoots. Black and white, stripped back, with a simple textured background and unretouched, this is a typical, beautiful Lindbergh image.

• Camilla Akrans' Jennifer Lopez

  22 February 2019

  Anyone could take a beautiful picture of Jennifer Lopez. I love that Camilla Akrans and Harper's Bazaar didn't settle for that.

• Alasdair McLellan's Beyoncé

  19 January 2019

  I love this Beyoncé picture by Alasdair McLellan. I love it almost as much as [Drake]

Notes from 2018

• Tim Walker's Emma Watson as Belle

  26 October 2018

  The pictures I love are stripped back. The simpler the better. I don't like props, themes or elaborate production. All things that Tim Walker is master of. I shouldn't like his Vanity Fair portrait of Emma Watson and yet I love it.

• Peter Lindbergh's Cara Delevingne

  01 July 2018

  I get butterflies looking at Peter Lindbergh's portrait of Cara Delevingne.

Notes from 2017

• Jake Michaels' Palm Tree

  27 November 2017

  Jake Michaels is a serious photographer with high profile clients and a beautiful portfolio. As a sideline he also goes under the name Joke Michaels, sharing many of his clever street pictures.

• Boo George's Nautical Alessandra Ambrosio

  29 October 2017

  This is the second Boo George shoot with Alessandra Ambrosio that I’ve made a note of. If I had to pick the perfect fashion picture, this would be it.

• Steven Meisel's Make Love Not War

  16 October 2017

  Steven Meisel has been responsible for many of Vogue Italia's most controversial shoots. The Guardian described his 2007 Make Love Not War shoot as "the most nauseatingly tasteless fashion pictures ever”.

• Robert Viglasky's Rainy Oxford

  27 September 2017

  Robert Viglasky is a movie stills photographer with a sideline in street photography. I love how his pictures of Oxford capture the weather.

• Boo George's Pregnant Alessandra Ambrosio

  18 September 2017

  Alessandra Ambrosio has done everything. Without noticing, you likely come across a picture of her every day, but this Boo George one of her pregnant is different.

• Rankin's Heidi Klum

  17 September 2017

  Why I love this Rankin series of Heidi Klum pictures that made me want to learn to take portraits.

Notes from 2016

• Roland Garros

  12 June 2016

  Crowds at Roland Garros for the 2016 French Open.

• Colour of YouTube

  21 April 2016

  Predominant colours of most popular user generated Bobbi Brown videos on YouTube.