September 23, 2009

dan hill's life on mars

Dan Hill’s post at City of Sound about the dust storm is the perfect complement to Tom Coates’ gallery on Flickr.

At first it seemed like a very odd sunrise. Then we realised the red wasn’t a sunrise red, but something duller, earthier. A kind of powdered mineral deep orangey-red, like vermillion or cadmium perhaps with a dash of ochre … or like dust from the parched interior of Australia, in fact.

Complete with personal photos inside and outside his house; worth reading in full.