Little Sophia, off to Australia. Exchanged her for a piece of paper at the airport last night! Thats what parents get when they send off an 'unaccompanied minor' - a receipt!

An early breakfast and last minute look at a text book then off to Ladies to be there by 7.30....Exam starts at 8.30 Good luck to all the kids on the island.

My Thanks to Chandana Dissanayake for letting me know Dr. R.L. Spittel's birthday today. The picture is from an album of pictures dated 1939.Chandana Dissanayake's article may be read here.

Film... old fashioned lovely film with a secret process.

PLEASE DO NOT MISS THIS EXHIBITION - IT IS BRILLIANT.The posters designed by C.K.L.Samarasingha and G. S Fernando for the Government Tourist Bureau are gems; Reggie Candappa's work is also superb.Reproductions are available for sale at 3000/- and postcards at 350/-Anura Saparamadu has been collecting classic posters of Ceylon for a long time. Through the years his poster collection grew ...

Daido Moriyama and William Klein at the Tate ModernCLICK HERE for interview with Mark HudsonCLICK HERE link for exhibition at Tate Modern

The photographers include (in alphabetical order):Alefiya Akbarally, Kannan Arunasalam, Timothy Barco, Aaron Burton, Stephen Champion, Dipti Desai, Jagath Dheerasekara, Liz Fernando, Indunil Munasinghe, Abby Robinson, Q. Sakamaki, Dominic Sansoni, Olivia Bonnal Sansoni, Devaka Seneviratne, Ruvin de Silva, Avani Tanya, Deshan Tennekoon, Yannik Willing.The issue features text contributions by :Shehan Karunatilaka, Sasanka Perera, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Indi Samarajiva, Shruthi Mathews, Roel Raymond, ...

An exhibition by the design team at BAREFOOT at the Barefoot Gallery.

CLICK HERE A house in Colombo designed by Channa Daswatte.from The Wall Street Journal.

Who is this 'Cop Shiva' - the arrester becomes the arrested.

Laki Senanayake at his home in Diyabubula in 1994.

Tissa Ranasinghe, at the Lionel Wendt in 1999.