February 2012
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21 hours
Wednesday, many weeks gone I went to a lecture at the LSE. It was hosted by NEF (New Economics Foundation) in partnership with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. It was chaired and introduced by Anna Coote and saw contributions from Juliet Schor, Robert Skidelsky and Tim Jackson. The aim was to put forward the case for a 21 hour working week as an alternative to the common situation...
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Steve and I are going to //BUZZCUT// in Glasgow this March.
Yeah we are.
January 2012
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“at long last,
have we found
a real piece of
television
television?”
From Slave ships to Spaceships: Janelle Monae and... →
I found this essay as a follow up to the screen-shots I posted of shared imagery used by Maya Deren, Sun Ra and Janelle Monae earlier in the week.
whitemystere asked: Those hooded figures look like they've come from the short film Meshes of the Afternoon , interesting.
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Your TV Channels Will Disappear
This is the first post tracking some ideas towards a new piece of work that I hope to develop, coinciding with the analogue TV transmitters being switched off across London on the 18th (?)April 2012.
I’ve always found TV interesting as a medium. Until widespread internet access in developed countries (because of course there are plenty of places on earth that don’t have easy access...
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Alec Stevens: Blog →
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The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says there is nothing natural or inevitable...
– The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
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Musak
Earlier this week I watched a really well researched documentary about improvisation in music. It was written and presented by Derek Bailey and broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. You can watch it now on UBUweb.
I felt it warranted a post on this here esteemed online publication because there were so many sections that prompted debate. In section III Bailey is doing a talking head bit alongside a...
randemo asked: Yes G! @@Whaat plans for a super olympian YEQQR are in store/?
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On The Edge →
Here’s a great documentary, first broadcast on Channel 4 in the early 90’s. It’s about improvisation in music and it’s written and narrated by Derek Bailey.
December 2011
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Performance Artist Kalup Linzy and the Art of... →
Red Carpet Premiere Of ‘Elmina’ Starring Akorfa... →
Hopefully going to this tonight in Wood Green!
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The Printernet: TONIGHT !! →
theprinternet:
TONIGHT - dwellerforward present Part 1 of The Printernet all up in your browser, forever & ever. Amen., the first of a four part series video work by The Printernet. This will be followed by drinks at The Pembury Tavern on Amhurst Road. Part 1 - The Printernet have a go at re-making a music…
November 2011
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dwellerforward present The Printernet all up in...
dwellerforward:
The Printernet - the band that have given you such hits as Are You Ready For Love? and Thaw’s Anthem - are back with a four part series of web-streamed videos, specially created to launch the dwellerforward Tumblr, with a live introduction to each from the duo. They meet native Britons·they are thrown into the future·music videos become in-depth critiques of contemporary cultural...
DotDotDashDot: Emerging artists and filmmakers on... →
Oh yeah!
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I had a go at making my first hair-care advert. All was going smoothly until I thought I heard someone upstairs….
October 2011
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Blog ‹ Wunderbar Festival →
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books,... →
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Unknown Unknowns
My friend Richard recently reminded me of a famous quote of Donald Rumsfeld. The infamous passage formed part of a Press conference at the NATO headquarters in Belgium in the summer of 2002. You might recognise it.
“The message is that there are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we...
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE CURSE OF TINA PART TWO →
Blog | the new economics foundation →
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Thanks Katherine.
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE CURSE OF TINA →
September 2011
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August 2011
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band names
shekton:
gile:
shekton:
gile:
pickled hen
pidgeon pen
nosey parker
broken wren
plant
knuckle fuck
band names:
nanny teapot
the shakey shakes & the snakey snakes
the john jacksons & the jack johnsons
plastic brags
say this with a foreign accent
you has explodeded
spanner bang
spelling bee
celophane mains
silly mook
jellotape
peabutt nutter
the felt tips
roger...