Mc Luhan '62

Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence. [...] Terror is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time. [...] In our long striving to recover for the Western world a unity of sensibility and of thought and feeling we have no more been prepared to accept the tribal consequences of such unity than we were ready for the fragmentation of the human psyche by print culture.

had to blog this

Aah, sweet!

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=151931508083111702

and here's another one

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5752494390378871865

As you may be able to guess I'm getting very skilled at dissertation avoidance techniques!

U2 Bomber

Check out this fantastic piece of editing. Not the greatest U2 fan but the Bomber-Bush version makes it all ok.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230

My God

THe lead singer of this band is very sexy. theyre playing on

Nov 14 2006 8:00P

Scala

London

im going to try and woo her. she is very woo able.

http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy
check it out.
and there music is good.
the name of the band translates as tired of being sexy. well im not tired yet so keep going ladies.
ok im not posting till im finsihed my poxy dissertation so bye!!!!!

dublin-oddities

things i have found in recent wanderings

instant art refreshment!!

the vending machine project kicked off this week as part of dublin fringe festival.
60 artists.
10 - 20 pieces each
€5 a piece
3 vending machines

Here's to buying art in a train station!!

The last music post (for the moment)

this is going to be rather good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/index.shtml
(don't forget your dancing shoes, or at least very mashed shoes)

The Knife are coming

14TH OCTOBER - UK, LONDON, THE FORUM

The Forum

he music of The Knife will be performed from a stage for the first time ever. These performances will be accompanied by the images of Andreas Nilsson, which will take the form of various projections along with different kinds of constructions.

Andreas Nilsson gives his description:

Karin and Olof will be placed in an altering video-landscape between solid and transparent images. These images will content-wise bring forth the mood that is the ordinary and the simple, but at the same time with an underlying subliminal feeling of that which we run from. A pretty harsh vision.

Spinal Tap!

Hey yall
check out this cool photo. Its me 2 weeks ago in hospital recovering from meningitis. NICE. I got a spinal tap and more needles in my arm than John Lennon. Anyway sorry for the morbidty but i was aware of not posting on the blog which is
A: cus I didnt bring my camera home
B: I was Battling for my life.

so here for posterity is a pic o me.
Your allowed make nice sympathetic noises in the comments box. and i'll make upbeat jaunty replys...

London night explorers

http://www.nighthaunts.org.uk

invitation

Back

in this blog. Welcome back from holiday everyone (if you are). Jane (formerol.com, was at a platform dinner) needs a 3 d artist (presentation renderings). Anyone interested should contact Jane@formerol.com

Many greetings

H

Back

in this blog. Welcome back from holiday everyone (if you are). Jane (formerol.com, was at a platform dinner) needs a 3 d artist (presentation renderings). Anyone interested should contact Jane@formerol.com

Many greetings

H

BANKSY

This guy is cool!
Finn I think you will love this shizzle
http://www.banksy.co.uk/films/index.html
http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html

Studio space

Does anyone know what is going on in our so already cropped studio space? For all who hasn't been in there lately, Lynn's office has got an (temporary?) extension that takes the space of two desks. Is there a smaller amount of students coming year? It is a new college CCTV control room? Is it Jurgens office? Now I do understand the need for new windows because with the old ones we would have got into situations where students passing in the studio would have tipped each other out the window. These probably are stronger and can hold the weight of one adult body. Maybe the permanent use of the scaffolding could be a solution for the lack of space. New hallways from and to the stairs, lift and workshops. It can also serve as a nice place to have exhibitions in the metal structure or projections and graphics on the fabric wrapped around it. Or do we have to look for inspiration at Serpentine's raise-able roof?

Streetlife

After the soundsystems cleared Notting Hill was left with a mess. Two days of colourfull Carnival, big parade and a load of sun showed me London as I have never seen before. Streetlife; one milion people dancing, talking, singing and drinking, could london ever be more fun?

Cycling pays off!

Hello all ex, current and future platform 8rs, I want to draw attention to the fact that we we're last years most environmental friendly platform when it comes to means of transportation. I like to give some attention to a group of Bicycle couriers in the Netherlands that will do an overnight ride from 400 kilometers through the Netherlands. All to attract people to other, more friendly ways of transportation.

Predictions about the growth in traffic for western europe say that there is almost a dubbel amount of road transportation in 2010 compared to 1990. This growth has lead to a heavy increase of polution in the air especially in the city's. Do we really need all this traffic on our roads? As a Cyclist I say no! Not as much and not as destructive. There are many opportunities when it comes to environmental friendly ways of transportation. The bike is where part of our future lies, no pollution, no noise, no sleepingdisorder, no increase of blood pressure en above all no stress!

Keep up the cycling and check these links:

http://dutchmessengers.nl/index.htm
http://www.dutchmessengers.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3928#3928