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Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Campaigning to build a mass...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:44 +0000

Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Campaigning to build a mass anti-aparteid movement for Palestine

things artists are unlikely to have said

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:14:23 +0000

no. 8 in an occasional series “think i’ll do something nice in yellow” yves klein

a moment from a godard movie i love. (perhaps it’s the...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:45:20 +0000

a moment from a godard movie i love. (perhaps it’s the mozart) i love the audio jump cut to roadworks and drilling

love this logo photourbanism: (via Art of the Luggage Label)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:26:11 +0000

love this logo

photourbanism:

(via Art of the Luggage Label)

in japan, listening to UA

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:22:00 +0000

UA is a japanese singer i absolutely adore - in japanese - but there are some people who should...

BNP could be on Question Time 'once a year', says BBC's Mark Thompson | Media | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:03 +0000

BNP could be on Question Time 'once a year', says BBC's Mark Thompson | Media...

y i like camden

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:37:10 +0100

y i like camden

Video

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:50:07 +0100

… it was then that the whole meaning of my life became...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:36:00 +0100

… it was then that the whole meaning of my life became clear to me.

really? no! REALLY?? no. really.

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:09:00 +0100

bob dylan. christmas in the heart. i’m still recovering.

am i in contravention of section 44 of the prevention of...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:57:00 +0100

am i in contravention of section 44 of the prevention of terrorism act by photographing this

Photo

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:34:07 +0100

experiment with an air pump by joseph wright of derby -...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:33:57 +0100

experiment with an air pump by joseph wright of derby - reproduction hanging on the streets of soho. don’t look for it. it’s gone now.

if you’ve ever visited that benighted city, remember. it doesn’t have much, but it does have joseph wright.

Waiting for contacts

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:02:26 +0100

Waiting for contacts

justin imidge » a farm in belarus

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:39:56 +0100

justin imidge » a farm in belarus: i’ve just added some pictures to my photo website. have a...

the mysterious man on the 115 bus in whitechapel. and his...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:02:00 +0100

what does it all mean?

what does it all mean?

what does it all mean?

the mysterious man on the 115 bus in whitechapel. and his notebook.

he looked like a seedy private detective from one of those black and white edgar wallace b-movies from the 1950s. thinning grey hair, a skinny man probably in his mid-fifties. very shabby clothes. he was feverishly looking at the buildings along commercial road - mostly wholesale rag trade shops - and nervously, frenetically, scribbling in this reporter’s notepad. i just happened to be sitting right behind him. his scribbles were just that, to me anyway, meaningless squiggles on the page. but so orderly, so meticulous.

what can it be. it was like he was an alien from another world trying to make sense of a world he couldn’t understand. there are cases in neurology where, after brain damage, the mind cannot comprehend the significations of the surrounding environment. it is seen, but the brain is unable to map it. the landscape utterly undifferentiated. i can see this building. i know what a building is, but the real building in front of me does not signify ‘building’ … or red handbag … or lover’s face. there was another case of a man suffering from acute short-term memory loss, whose only grip on events was to note down the time - to the second - of everything which happened to him so he could later prove to himself that these events had actually taken place. his long-term memory intact, he knew who he was, could recall in minute detail the detritus of his life before the viral illness which had attacked his brain, but everything since vanishes as soon as it passes.

what sort of nightmare is this man living through to go through this charade of mark-making on paper. is he trying to make sense of a world that he doesn’t belong to? perhaps he sees secret signs, codes, messages, behind the street signage; secret communications hidden to the rest of us.

what does it all mean? but isn’t that the question we are all condemned to ask ourselves, even if we believe that ultimately there is no answer.

maybe they are geniuses after all

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:25:14 +0100

after all the brouhaha (see below) about the macbook pro and snow leopard. the mac genius at the...

Photo

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:29:01 +0100

blagging a free glass of champagne in is

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:52:36 +0100

blagging a free glass of champagne in is

snow leopard hell

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:07:00 +0100

o am i in trouble. last week i eagerly installed snow leopard on my macbook, and became immediately...