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And what rough beast…
it’s hour come round at last, slouches towards Stratford to be born?
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Making Maps
As its name suggests, the Ordnance Survey grew out of a military operation: specifically the attempt to control the Highlands of Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion of 1746. A military engineer called Lieutenant Colonel David Watson was … Continue reading
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‘What the hell was Colin doing with a Limehouse minicab driver in Belfast? ‘
A really nice bit of flaneury at Homo Ludens, which identifies exactly what makes the former docks at Wapping in London such a profoundly dispiriting, disorientating experience.
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Architecture and Ai Wei Wei
Transcription of an interview with Ai Wei Wei. He’s doing the answers. Pictures are by me. What is the method of construction of your latest exhibition? This is Chinese household furniture that folks have been using for thousands of years. … Continue reading
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Born To Work
More images from Born to Work by Nick Hedges. What is so astonishing about these pictures is the way they are so vivid even if the world they inhabit is gone for ever. Nick manages to simultaneously capture the human … Continue reading
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A True Commonwealth
Jordan Baseman’s excellent art piece which was displayed at the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh earlier this year tiptoes cleverly around some of the aesthetic and political issues that surround Britain’s civic modernist heritage.
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The Town Hall That They Had To Move
The mining town of Kiruna is not a normal place. For a start its 145km north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden and for another the mine that it was built to serve is thriving. It costs about four times … Continue reading
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The High-heeled Psychogeographer
This is the transcript of a discussion with Laura Oldfield Ford, artist, publisher of Savage Messiah and citizen of Dalston, London. It took place during an 11 mile walk around the Olympics Site undertaken in early 2009, around the time of … Continue reading
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Yet another horrendous piece of graphic design plops through the mat of the poor benighted inhabitants of London’s Olympics boroughs and yet again they as one recoil at the hideosness of the logo. (A hideousness which I want to explain … Continue reading
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Sean Connery, Sidney Pollack and a couple of architects.
You are watching a screen. Sean Connery, I mean, James Bond has his linen jacket hooked over his shoulder on his finger. He walks towards us through a sunken courtyard beneath a strange concrete superstructure and then through a set … Continue reading
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