I’m behind on a lot of things right now thanks to a bad case of RSI, but I’ve been meaning to post about this. Dusk and Blackdown’s album Margins Music has finally been released and, along with it, a stunningly produced video. It’s not a music video in the usual sense – it cuts [...]
Reading: JG Ballard High Rise
Listening to: Theo Parrish First Floor
Iain Sinclair in the LRB on the razing of East London for the 2012 Olympics:
The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism. War by other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, [...]
Above: J. Mourinho, kode9 and Burial in a press briefing. Not pictured: Burial.
Just a few short notes because I’m too deep in comp studying to do any more for the next while:
John says the long-awaited second issue of Woofah is currently at the printers and should be hitting shops shortly. More of the [...]
A ‘wot do u call it’ moment from the early days of UK Garage. This DJ Magazine article from early 1997 was, apparently, the first and last word on ‘raggage.’ I was curious but skeptical. What kind of name was that? And why would I go for junglish house [...]
A while back at BLDGBLOG: ‘Drains of Canada – An Interview with Michael Cook’ – fits well with my troglodyte bit (also John Eden’s sewering in Bow E3), and reminds me to do a tribute that I began but never posted two years ago.
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“…a triad of paranoia, sleep deprivation and heavy medication [...]
Colonies gone native in the infrastructure, perennial fixation of the urban industrial psyche.
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“The southern end of the tunnel is flooded, an invitation to a refreshing swim. For a moment it seems that others have already followed this invitation and are now splashing around a deep pit in the tunnel’s middle, their muted laughter drifting towards [...]
Disconnected: In more ways than one. I’m moving this week and likely won’t have much access to the internet for several days. So no posts and patchier than usual email response.
Monu: It’s not new but I recently discovered a copy of Monu at the local newsagent. Monu simply stands for Magazine on Urbanism. [...]
The new squirrels? (photo by ldpix)
Vancouver after a 14m rise in sea levels. Flood maps by Alex Tingle (via WOEBOT).
Erotics of annihilation. Diesel ‘Global Warming Ready’ ad campaign.
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Children of Men
Finally managed to see Children of Men this past week, a full month after its North American release. It more than [...]
This week, Simon Sellers at Ballardian interviews Geoff Manaugh, owner of BLDBLG, a blog of “architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures.”
Statoil refix via Mcann
Manaugh says:
It was no longer just an ‘architecture’ blog; it had its own direction and orientation, and it was even verging on science fiction in some ways. Short stories in [...]
I spent Thursday wandering through Montreal’s lower-St. Laurent neighbourhood (and beneath it in the Metro – the only subway I know of with rubber wheels) making audio recordings. The aural pull of a walk like this leads to a very different experience of the city. You move slowly, adopting odd strides at times [...]