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June 30, 2004
This photo is for everyone that had to get in to work today, despite the tube strike... Shoulda thrown a sickie and gone down the pub!I wish I had known New City Architecture
was on last week when I was in the area...
The exhibition ends on July 2nd.
It looks as though. Rod Mclaren at rodcorp has been taking the same photo's as me. But of course knew that the Gherkin is actually called the Swiss Re building. Oddly the street signs around it still point to the Baltic Exchange, the site of which it is built on. Also on an architectural note, check out the Celluloid Skyline website.
You would have thought, on seeing the words "Alice Cooper Watch" that you were about to see something like a Swatch with a picture of the Grandaddy of Gore on the face... but NOOO!!! get over to nightriderjewelry.com [stop sniggering at the back] and get yourself a genuine second hand Vince Furnier [Alice to you!] timepiece. Odd indeed, with thanks to exclamationmark...
Talking of Rock veterans. I spotted Ozzy Osbourne in Westminster's Portcullis House yesterday! Some sort of follow up to his Olympic torch gig I suppose. Which was strange in itself. Ozzy isn't the sort of name you'd immediately associate with athletics is it?
Categories: Music, London
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Art And The 60's At Tate Britain
June 28, 2004
30 June - 26 September 2004Art and the 60's at Tate Britain is divided into nine different themes which explore the ways that British visual culture was transformed during the 1960s. Each section of this microsite provides a brief explanation of the key themes alongside a selection of highlighted works.
Came by this, via anglepoised.com
The new Robin Rimbaud/Scanner album is inspired by the Nicholson Baker book Double Fold.
Baker is better known for his erotic stories, one of which, The Fermata, is being adapted for the big screen by Neil Gaiman, for director Robert Zemeckis."The Fermata" is a novel about a young man who discovers that he has the ability to freeze time around him and proceeds to use this ability for sexual means!
Categories: Music, Art, London, Books, Movies
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Discovering The Fleet
June 25, 2004
I got back to Clerkenwell today to check out the Discovering the Fleet exhibit, which is part of London Architecture Week.There isn't much more than a few large laminated sheets charting the history of the river and the blue flags marking its course, but it is fascinating stuff. The open-air free public exhibition is on:
Vine St Bridge
EC1
24hrs a day until July 3rd...
I was hoping there would be a little more of what I saw there today on the website. A bit more history and some of the images but I guess its more in context out there... Just check the map for directions. Farringdon station is nearest.
Also part of London Architecture Week... Over twelve hours today (10:00-22:00) Greg Whelan and Gary Winters will attempt to read the entire London A-Z. Starting at opposite ends of the index they will meet in the middle on a street in London!!! I don't know if they'll meet literally or, er, Literally??? [via Rodcorp]
Took this snap of AC vents at 88 Wood Street on the way over to Fleet Street.
Categories: London
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One Phat Deeva
June 24, 2004
Me and Kev spent last night starting a remix of the Mr Timothy track, featuring Inaya Day, 'I Am Tha 1'. Kev got a copy of the OnePhatDeeva track with the Producers pack containing all the necessary bits and bobs, which they claim is limited due to licensing issues... Although they don't elaborate as to what those issues might be... Top track mind you!
I've since discovered why there are so many Space Brothers tracks available on AudioJelly... It's their baby... DOH!!!
Anybody used this yet?
reFresh:reLoad is an evolving online exhibition intended to inspire, provoke, engage and promote. The exhibition is active when your computer isn't. A screensaver application is used to display the exhibition when your computer sleeps. To function correctly you need a permanent connection to the internet. A piece of work is selected and displayed on your monitor. A direct link to the artist's website is available when applicable.
Groovetickets.com are blowing the trumpet for Beatport...
Two searches that produce a high percentage of hits to this site are for the Don't Push Me mp3, although I suspect the searches are for the 50 Cent track of the same name [but if you have downloaded our track, do let us know what you think!] and the Dab Hands Remix of Lou Reed's "Satellite Of Love", from Transformer [released 32 years ago!!!], which is now getting airplay on Radio One and I first heard at Plan B in February.
It's going to be a top tune this Summer [more than likely in Ibiza as the UK seems to be ignoring the fact that it's the middle of June!!! I blame the tennis and Glastonbury. Other than a Bank Holiday nothing is guaranteed to make it rain here more than those two events!
Categories: Music
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Epstein Express
June 22, 2004
Been pacing the streets again with the digital camera. Well when the rain has let off. Got a few shots in Fleet Street that I'll get posted here soon...There's this close up from the Express Building for now and a digital zoom [hence the lack of quality] of one of Jacob Epstein's nude sculptures made in 1907 for the outside walls of Charles Holden's building on the Strand [now Zimbabwe House].
Considered shocking by Edwardian standards, they were later hacked and mutilated for 'decency', hence the state they are in now...
I imagine Epstein's most famous piece is his Rock Drill, used on the cover of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's album of the same name.
Categories: Music, Art, London
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London's Subterranean River Fleet
June 21, 2004
This is all can find about London's Subterranean River Fleet after spotting a trail of blue flags marking its old route today on the railway bridge across Clerkenwell Road today at Farringdon. The one just outside Turnmills/Anexo. I didn't have time to stop, but I'm hoping to get down there later in the week as I'll be in the area again...
Great tune from J&S Project... Thanks for visiting the site guys. Nice bit of Tech House [if that's what it's still called these days?]. Give it a listen. I don't know if their signing of the guestbook was coincidental with the link to this site at milton.splinder.it as they both originate from Italy!?!?!
Check out these Defunct Amusement Parks via exclamationmark!... Thanks for popping by Mark... who spookily looks not a lot unlike me in his photo... and we're the same age. Woooooooooooh!!!!! [cue Twilight Zone music]. I'll have to try and find a similiar picture and do a comparison.
Categories: Music, London
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No Maps For These Territories
June 18, 2004
It seems that I need to get myself a Multi Region DVD player if I want to see the William Gibson documentary, No Maps For These Territories... Amazon have this Daytek P818 for 35.00 UK pounds. Which tells me it's got to be pants. Hasn't it? Gibson was keeping a Blog until last September, but claims he can't write a novel at the same time. So it has gone the way of his Yardshow website.I wonder why Jenny Holzer doesn't have a dedicated website/Blog? It seems to me her work would be ideally suited to an online presence.
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I've Been Locked Inside The Cabinet Of Busted Wonders!
June 16, 2004
The weird and wonderful Cabinet Of Busted Wonders have linked this site, so get over there and have a look at the illustrations/graphics and various meaningless meanderings... Well, actually they probably mean something to them, but they seem pretty random to me :) [not that thats a bad thing of course].
Another mention in thingsmagazine.net as well as exclamationmark!, a veritable treasure trove of cyber ephemera [ooh, get me!] has meant that traffic has increased again, so if you are a first time visitor, or even if you've been before and not bothered, please leave your mark in the guestbook. It's over there on the dresser by the door.
Some of the illustrations reminded me of the Martin Millar books of the 80's, although they have probably all been reprinted with different jackets now...
tapeworm.org is an online music collaboration project...
And shinyshiny.tv is a gadget blog for girls, which I think it's safe for boys to look at [no strange vibrating gadgets to be found!] although the design is predominantly pink!!! Found via the guardianonlineblog
Check this digital clock out. fantastic!
Categories: Web, Books, Blogging
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Some Nice Photoblogs
June 15, 2004
Over at Lightningfield with some interesting shots from a train window with the shutter on repeat... and a bit of a mixed bag at bluejake.com. I prefer some of the archive stuff to the current page.
Eyestorm.com was brought to my attention via a link over at chromasia.com
It has a brief biogs on a lot of contemporary artists as well as works for sale [at a price of course!].
Categories: Web, Photography, Blogging
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Photoshop Keyboard
June 14, 2004
This falls in the "one of those things you didn't realise you need until you see it" category... Created by worldtechdevices.com it is apparently available in the UK through creativevideo.co.uk although I couldn't see it on their website when I looked.Via spudart
Get along to see The Garden Of Earthly Delights installation in Brockwell Park.
From 17th May – 18th July 2004. Open dawn till dusk. Entrance is free.
In the Walled Garden, near the duck ponds! See also, 198Gallery. Art education in and around Brixton.
Tube: Brixton, Train: Herne Hill, Buses: 2,3,35,37,68,196,201,322,432,468,690,P4
Categories: Art, London, Photography
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Ray Charles RIP
June 12, 2004
Ray Charles' death probably isn't news now but the all the fuss over Reagan made me miss this Thursday... There's a new PornTsar track about ready to roll... So watch this, actually, that space. I'm re-designing the PornTsar site as we speak [yeah, I know this isn't really speaking!].Actually been making the effort to take the camera out and about this week. I never bother if I'm just doing the same old journey, even though I should. Got a snap of this great, stencilled I presume, bit of graffiti just outside London Bridge station today
Currently reading through hiphopmusic.com's archives... Found via abstract dynamics.
Categories: Music, Art, London, Photography
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Random London Architectural Features
June 11, 2004
A few images from the City of London... Three impressive buildings in one spot...Got at in Photoshop!
Categories: London, Photography
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Abba To Zappa
June 10, 2004
I see the Observer have purloined that Mini-Pops spreadsheet game that was doing the rounds earlier in the year and turned into a bit of Flash... Originally conceived by flipflopflying.com. I assume they were asked! The posters up the escalators at Brixton Station look cool though...Found myself in the city by that "Gherkin" thing, whatever it's really called...
In 1999 Space Invader, a Parisian artist, cemented tile mosaics of the pixelated invaders in a few public places and inspired a whole bunch of imitators who spread the the little critters around the world.
So Invader then launched a global multiplayer offensive through his Web site, space-invaders.com.
The site lets you buy maps of invaded cities as well as do-it-yourself kits. But it's not cheap! There is also an instruction book planned for 2004 that explains where to plaster the creatures and how not to get caught. The game is far from over.
Categories: Art, London
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What? No Marianne?
June 08, 2004
Exactly... We went to see Black Rider on Monday only to find that Marianne Faithfull was otherwise "indisposed"... Not to worry though, her stand in was a star. In fact a great cast all round. Sam described the whole thing as Tim Burton does Cabaret. Which I think, pretty much sums it up. Although your normal theatre goer would probably disagree. I don't know much about Robert Wilson, apart from his collaborations with Tom Waits, who I doubt I will ever get to see live. So this may be the closest I get.
I've never been a great fan of William Burroughs but his text for this is oddly funny considering the subject matter and his history with firearms! Musically, the band pulled off a fantastic interpretation of the album and there were some extraordinary vocal performances. I was a bit wary of the fact that the performance was to be two hours long. The album [not the easiest listen in the world] was only 45-50 minutes... or whatever vinyl albums used to be? I'm sure it was only a single album... or was it? Anyway. The two hours flew.
We saw Chris at the weekend too... And off we went to Edward Hopper at the Tate. Expected to like this more than I did. Apart from the obvious works the rest look like painting by numbers pictures. Or as Chris said, "something your auntie would knock out" [or words to that effect!].
Many reviews I read didn't like the works with people in them. They were Hoppers' only saving grace in my eye. He was certainly a "scene" painter of some skill but I wouldn't say he was a Realist at all.
If you are thinking of going wait till the frenzy has died down. You'll spend ages trying to get a decent look at anything you like and spend ages looking at something you don't! Nice to see Chris though.
Categories: Music, Art, London
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Bar Code Art
June 04, 2004
Scott Blake's site, Bar Code Art is the work of a man fixated on those little black and white labels... He is 27, originally from Tampa, Florida and currently living in Omaha, Nebraska in a house known as the "What Gallery" where he and his girlfriend put on art shows in the basement.I've included this print as it's a free download so I figured Scott wouldn't mind. There are plenty of others though and lots of links. Check it out. Scott's work has appeared in many publications including FHM and a book on Madonna in Art. I came across this site via artofthepixel - where there are many more pixellating links for you to follow!
Also, have a look at space-invaders.de for lots of cool SI clone games, merchandise and a history of the grandaddy of arcade games!
Categories: Art, Web
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Found Photos
June 02, 2004
If you've got the patience to wait for these to download over dial-up it's worth the wait....Bighappyfunhouse.com has a bizarre selection of photographic randomness. Of course if you have a broadband connection you're laughing : )
Via Thingsmagazine.net again... as was my diversion to digressmagazine.com where there is this interesting rumination on the nature of mix tapes.
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