Views From the Top
In its last days, announcing a new collaborative site dedicated to Gateshead’s Trinity Centre and its magnificent Owen Luder Car park.
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Joycean walking
Photos using a new point-and-click camera on its first walkabout yesterday. I didn’t take these photographs mind, still preoccupied greatly by its film version. More on both of these to come, although fear not, this site isn’t going to turn into a gadgetboy camera fan site, no siree.
And while posting these, into the event horizon that is a Firefox live RSS reader came this goodie:
It’s Bloomsday tomorrow and I am celebrating with a walk in Newcastle UK . I have generated a walk based upon the lotus eaters section of James Joyce ’s Ulysses. This is made possible by Conor McGarrigle Joycewalks interface which uses the googlemaps api. This is part of the 1000 Joyce walks event.Sctv, TransitLab, Jun 2008
And testing this new thingummybob which reblogs, found on Sctv’s page linked there above. Not sure yet. About either the camera or the reblog button. The Lotus Eating style walking is definitely going to happen, sadly without the substances. Come along, if you can.
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John Duncan’s Belfast
John Duncan’s ongoing Boomtown series of photographs of the streets of Belfast are a reminder of how damaged the city had become and how long it can take to recover. The pictures have a resonance here across the water where the same kinds of economic collapse (shipbuilding in particular), have produced large areas of wasteland with apparently nothing happening on them for decades.
And then all of a sudden, brightly painted board fences are thrown up, concealing well, what? Shops? Block paving, black bins with gilt ornamentation, mildly rococo ironwork, the continuing homogenisation of our public space. The remarkable thing about these photographs is that they could actually have been taken anywhere.
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