Observations

Observations

 
View fullsize So, I’m now knee-deep into a PhD @thebartlettucl on television, architecture and the city, looking at how British TV from the late 50s to the 90s became a new kind of “public space” where ideas and opinions about the nation and its
View fullsize A RANDOM ASSORTMENT FROM BIRMINGHAM So great to be back in the city. 1. This is the best picture of the new New Street Station (Foreign Office Architects RIP) you’ll ever see, trust me. I didn’t mean to make it look so pretty (it&rsquo
View fullsize Ominous sky. South London. No filter etc.
View fullsize Scenes from ‘Extinction Beckons’, the Mike Nelson exhibition at the Hayward Gallery @southbankcentre It’s a little like being INSIDE a William Eggleston photograph. Closes tomorrow: last chance.
View fullsize What an oddball! In Cambridge today. Popped into Murray Edwards College, formerly New Hall, designed by Chamberlin Powell & Bon (1966)… @murrayedwardscollege One of the less mentioned of Cambridge’s postwar modernist buildings thes
View fullsize KETTLES YARD A perfect, sunny, warm May day to visit @kettlesyard in Cambridge (quite possibly the most relentlessly English, artsy-Fabian-bourgeois place I’ve ever been… EVEN ALDEBURGH!) Good old Leslie Martin though. Such a lovely in
View fullsize Nice to say hello to this old friend while in Birmingham last week. Birmingham New Street Signal Box (1966), by Bicknell &Hamilton, assisted by John Hoile and Diana P Quin with RL Moorcroft, regional architect for British Rail (as was). &ldqu
View fullsize Currently head-over-heels in love with the work of immense photographer @anasamoylova ESPECIALLY the current project, Image Cities…. Feminism, space, the body, advertising, architecture, imagery, the neoliberal city, OH YES! Bring. It. On.
View fullsize At the circus.
View fullsize I’m so proud of this incredibly delicious fish stew I’ve just made I’ve become one of those people that post the food they just made. Apologies. Wish you could all eat it.
View fullsize Still waiting for winter to disappear…
View fullsize I’ve been learning some new photography skills. Behold! The results of my first attempt using a medium-format camera, and a studio. Can’t say I knew exactly what I was doing with all the lights (wires + perilously delicate equipment + I

 

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