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The best thing I’ve seen this week:
Can House Trailer from maxy neil bianco on Vimeo.
Michael Smith explains what this is all about much better than I could hope to.
‘Outsider art about outsider art’
25 Friday Jan 2013
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Bow & arrow and portable urinals, off Brick Lane
23 Wednesday Jan 2013
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Pilgrim’s Progress, Aldgate
22 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in London, Photography
This appeared in Aldgate shortly before the Olympics, but it’s proved remarkably difficult to photograph satisfactorily; too much stuff in the way: pedestrians, cars, buses, lorries, roadworks, temporary traffic lights, street furniture, and so on. Yesterday the streets were quiet and the sun emerged for a short while just as I left work.
More photography from Aldgate and around here.
A recording a week for a year – Week 3
20 Sunday Jan 2013
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Space rock, anyone?
Weekly recordings so far:
A gloomy day in Greenwich
19 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in London, Photography
Such was the weather that a good proportion of the people wandering around the middle of Greenwich were sporting expressions similar to these cheery sorts from St. Alfege’s.
Me, I’m daydreaming about sunny days and the re-opening of Charlton Lido…
Towards the light…
19 Saturday Jan 2013
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…of the Aldgate roundabout.
This corner of London has been much improved for pedestrians in recent years; railings removed, pedestrian crossings installed, and generally made less complex to navigate by the fact that you can go in most directions at ground level. But not quite every direction.
Christ Church, Spitalfields; winter sun
17 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in London, Photography
Christ Church, Spitalfields; winter sun, originally uploaded by neilclasper.
The working day much improved by a stroll through Spitalfieds, and a hot pie for lunch.
Christ Church glowing in the low winter sun; a sight that never gets dull, and a reminder that I need to take the camera inside the church sometime soon.
A recording a week for a year: week 2
13 Sunday Jan 2013
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A work in progress; something to come back to later in the week (or year).
‘Everything was moving’
12 Saturday Jan 2013
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I went to the Barbican’s ‘Everything was moving‘ photography exhibition on Friday night. It was fantastic: great choice of photographers, superbly presented (just the right amount of info on the captions: enough to provide context, not so much as to distract from looking at the images), and knocks the National’s ‘Seduced by art‘ into a cocked hat. No ‘interrogation of photography as an art form’, no tedious ‘but is it art?’, just photos doing the things that only photos can really do. The collections of Ernest Cold and David Goldblatt from apartheid-era South Africa were my highlight.
If you’ve not been, go at once (it closes tomorrow).
From the sea to the land beyond
10 Thursday Jan 2013
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I don’t know much about this (has it actually been released properly yet, even?) and I’m not a massive fan of British Sea Power, but I found this incredibly hypnotic, and surprisingly moving.
UPDATE: It does seem to have been released, or at least you can watch it here, on the (seriously under-promoted) The Space. And Caught by the River have posted a review this morning. A weekend treat, then.
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