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Tags: Tony Hart, Little Big Planet, Quarry Street art shop
Date: 21 January 2009 10:11:10
Also, just wanted to add another mention to the fond memories of Tony Hart. I never got to meet him, despite living in the same sort of area and shopping in the same art shop (the wonderful Quarry Street art shop in Guildford which is a total cavern of artistic delights and staffed by extremely lovely people) (in fact I often find the shop a very calming oasis of peacefulness in the otherwise craziness of the bookshopcoffeeshoppubbookshopcoffeeshoppubbookshopcoffeeshoppub which is the town centre. BUt I digress)...
That said I did bump into Tony at the shop once but was far too scared to even say something. He was, for many of my generation, a huge inspiration when it came to art and the tv shows were, as he wanted them to be, something that drew people into (yes I know) to a world of enjoying artwork where previously it might have been scary or unfriendly. I never had anything in the gallery, which I now find myself sad about when I'd never really thought of it beforehand, and had been looking forward to Tony judging the entries to the Duke Special art competition and seeing what was said. The gallery music was used in Little Big PLanet recently so that caught daughters imagination too, something which I hope Mr Hart was aware of, just how far his legacy spread and how the ripples kept growing. In fact LBP is a perfect successor to TH's attempts to put creativity into everyones hands, because everyone can be creative.
Anyhow, I witter on, but just to add a bit of blather to the mountain of fond memories that many people are coming up with. It's funny, Tony, LBP and Duke Special in one post, three of my favourite things and more linked that I would have imagined before I started to type...