It’s been some years, but the place is quite different. Flat and angled roofs have been replaced with plain pitched, the timber shiplap fascia boards are mostly gone now, and there are a lot of upvc windows and doors: very common in this coastal north. The perception is that it lasts longer and is more [...]
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Listen to the latest Newcastle Graft Podcast 3 featuring young men with funny accents, and find out. One thing’s for sure: they don’t/won’t/can’t show early career or undergraduate photographers, but they do/will/can show a hotchpotch of auto-selected work from the ‘community’ via the Web2 monster Flickr. And pink gonks.
Podcast 1: Pseudo, and Graft [...]
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Glowbikes originator and geeky colleague Mr Pete, acutely aware of these things, told me of a pair of large Pasmore sculptures in the foyer of the Council offices in Newcastle. These are a few research photographs taken yesterday, and hurriedly developed in Asda in Hartlepool. Grateful thanks to the Civic Centre management team for the [...]
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Someone has gone to all the trouble of revisiting the locations of the film, and taking photos to match various film stills. Lots of stuff that’s not there any more, obviously, and it’s all very interesting.
Owen Luder’s monumental concrete car park is finally coming down, although how soon, who knows. Had an interesting time up [...]
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