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June 27, 2008
Sorry, been enjoying the Euro 2008! I thought it would be stress free with no England. So living where I do, Lambeth, I thought I'd follow Portugal and get into it a bit more seeing the flags flying, hearing my neighbours cheers etc.And then they got knocked out...
So I thought I'd follow Croatia as I had them in a sweepstake.
And then they got knocked out...
So I thought I'd follow Russia for the Chelski connection.
And then they got knocked out... Come on Spain!
I hope England qualify for the World Cup. Then I'll only have to be disappointed once.
Other than that it's been relatively quiet. A couple of dinners, birthdays and a wine tasting. Spent a bit more time re-thinking the website design I've had on the cards most of the year and considering an OU Web Applications course.
We're off to Warwick tomorrow so this may be last post of June. Just re-charging vaious camera batteries. I'm hoping it'll be better than when we were there earlier in the year. It snowed then! But I suspect it may rain.
Been looking at a few things online... That's my Wordle Cloud above.
The 3rd-5th July sees Neurotic: Punk's Not Dead at the ICA.
"For three nights, big pogo-ing robots will come to punk gigs in the ICA theatre, and we will question how learning develops through the empathetic responses of the brain. Artist Fiddian Warman has played the punk records he collected as a young man to his robots, 'programming' them to become punks just like he was".
On Tuesday 1st July check out SpeedDataRadio.
"Eavesdrop on multiple fascinating conversations at once and, if a chair becomes free, direct the discussion yourself. Part conference, part absurdist theatre"
SpeedDataRadio is part of Lift at the South Bank Centre and is followed by the UK premiere of Manu Luksch’s Faceless.
"Constructed entirely from CCTV images obtained under the Data Protection Act, Faceless draws us into a nightmarish vision of society under surveillance. Faceless features the voice of Tilda Swinton".
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This Is A Random Feature
June 07, 2008
As the sun looked like it was going to hold out for the weekend we headed for a pub garden today. Namely the newly revamped Devonshire in Balham.Maintaining its classic Victorian look the place is vast! With a bar up front, restaurant tables at the rear and a classy garden, even better than last Saturday's at the Dolphin. They do a mean sausage and mash as well. Muffs Of Bromborough sausages actually. We'll be popping back here a bit I reckon.
I've started a new group, over at flickr, called Random Features. This is my "Orange Grill" effort. Check out the link below and contact me if you think you might have something to add.
I stumbled across Richard Skelton's The Landings blog somewhere, possibly at Sven's Weblog. There's an interview with Richard over at Foxy Digitalis that will give you some idea of where he is coming from. His work, audio and visual, has a sense of space, place and memory. Musical Psychogeography I suppose. Richard's works are released, under various guises, through his "private press" Sustain-Release. In very limited editions.
A while back I downloaded the component parts of Nude by Radiohead to remix, but never found the time to start it. James Houston has gone one better in my opinion. Pop over to the rather excellent Vimeo to see the video of his Big Ideas [Don't Get Any] track played on old computer hardware including a printer and a scanner. It takes a bit of patience to get to the parts recognisable as Nude but it's worth the effort. Brilliant stuff.
Categories: Music, Art, London, Photography, Blogging, Food & Drink
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Out To Sea The Gormley's
June 06, 2008
As our train wasn't leaving until 4.15 and the sun was out we thought we'd do the touristy thing and take the City Explorer open top bus tour of the city. So off we went on a meandering circuit of the Liverpool city centre, taking in the Three Graces, The Cavern Quarter, The Phil, both Cathedrals, St. George's Hall and a whole lot more. During which our all singing guide "Liverpool Lou" mentioned the Antony Gormley Another Place pieces on Crosby Beach that I thought had gone about two years ago!So we were dropped off near Moorfields Station, where an extraordinarily helpful ticket seller voluntarily gave us a leaflet of Sefton Coastal Walks. More for the next visit I think, given we were short of time and unsure how far we were going to have to walk when we got there.
Down in the station, after stopping to gawp at the installation, Turning The Place Over, we boarded a Northern Line train to Blundellsands & Crosby. A quarter of an hour later we were walking towards the dunes past some fantastically large detached residences... Beyond which were the Gormley statues. Easy! We only spotted about 20 of the 100 pieces, but didn't have time to wait for the tide to go out, as we walked on to Hall Road Station for the train back.
All that and back home in time for tea!
Check out my wobbly video of Richard Wilson's Turning The Place Over.
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Tate & La!
June 05, 2008
We popped up to Liverpool today to see the Klimt exhibit at the Tate. It's a decent enough exhibition but a tad misleading in that I'd wager that less than 50% of it is actually the work of Gustav Klimt. Not that I have anything against that. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see some of the Weiner Werkstatte [etc] pieces... But the way the show was billed would lead you to believe that the majority of the work would be Klimt's.One floor is in fact not even original work but a replica of the Beethoven Frieze! Still, I imagine it all got put on here, rather than London, as part of the City Of Culture malarkey! Well, I think you got short changed.
Think I'll go to Vienna instead.
Far better, in fact, was The Twentieth Century: How It Looked & How It Felt exhibit on the 1st and 2nd floors.
We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the Albert Dock avoiding the rain and eventually trying to find our way through the work being done to extend the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to get to Malmaison for dinner. It was worth finding though. Pistou, duck egg and asparagus soldiers starters were followed by guinea fowl with chorizo & sun-dried tomato risotto and Herdwick lamb. And a bloody good bottle of Etim, a particularly nice Spanish Grenache.
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