Fresh fruit in London
Apr. 28th, 2005 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
My new piece for Design Observer went up today, a thing about graphic design on small European labels: Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places.The Bush Hall show last night went well. Also managed to catch a couple of interesting art shows. The first, highly recommended, was Kutlug Ataman's Kuba installation, a vast array of TV screens in front of shabby chairs in an old post office sorting office at 21 New Oxford Street. Each screen shows a Kurd talking about his or her life, and the stories all begin to interlock as they accumulate in your mind.
The other show was Beck's Futures at the ICA. The winner, Christina Mackie, was, for Hisae and me (and The Guardian), the least interesting participant: we spent about an hour, though, with Luke Fowler's excellent, disorienting documentaries. What You See Is Where You're At, Fowler's 2001 film about R.D. Laing's Kingsley Hall refuge for the (correctly) insane, was particularly powerful. The Kingsley Hall project lasted from 1965 to 1969, and the film is full of broody shots of Laing himself, a strong early influence on me, participating in sessions with the inmates.
Off to catch the Eurostar to Paris now to get photographed by Stephane Sednaoui for the flyer for the New York art show with Mai Ueda!
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Date: 2005-04-28 09:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-28 10:17 am (UTC)You seemed slightly hesitant about which button to press on the i-Book, and then surprised, occasionally, at the results. I have to ask why?
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Date: 2005-04-28 10:23 am (UTC)Have you got any plans to do some shows in the States anytime soon?
Off to catch the Eurostar to Paris now to get photographed by Stephane Sednaoui for the flyer for the New York art show with Mai Ueda!
And does the above mean you are coming to New York?!
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Date: 2005-04-28 10:44 am (UTC)Thanks for the recommendation.
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Date: 2005-04-28 11:17 am (UTC)'Well, folks, I seem to have triggered the wrong electronic bleep there; not quite sure how that happened, but there you are.'
Excellent gig, although it seemed to take for ages to get the balance right between the microphone and the i-Book. Fond as I am of the backing track for Going for a Walk with a Line, I do rather like the words, too. Or perhaps it was just where I was sitting....
Oh, and I loved the revised lyrics to Robin Hood (heard those OK, so I'm not sure what I'm complaining about really).
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Date: 2005-04-28 12:33 pm (UTC)flyer
Date: 2005-04-28 12:43 pm (UTC)i'm curious who is going to photograph you for fantastic man. i like benjamin alexander huseby in their staff.
do you like some contemporary photographer's work? you seem more interested in design. i liked those ryan mcginley's pictures he took of you for index.
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Date: 2005-04-28 12:45 pm (UTC)Have you got a larger version of that pic? I want to read with the worms are saying.
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Date: 2005-04-28 03:04 pm (UTC)so when are in paris?
i heard it's quite soon.
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Date: 2005-04-28 04:26 pm (UTC)What do you think of the semi-recent revelations that Beck is a scientologist?
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Date: 2005-04-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-04-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-29 08:33 am (UTC)"Read entries passim, dreary," she simpered like a crone, "keep up!"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/2005/04/20/
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Date: 2005-04-29 10:19 am (UTC)Rob :)