Thursday, November 19, 2009
The London Perambulator - short clip and screening
The London Perambulator will be screening at Cine-City Brighton Film Festival next week - Nov 26th. There'll be a Q&A afterwards with me and Nick Papadimitriou hosted by Grant Gee.
Here's a small snippet of the film to give you a taster.
Info and booking for Cine-City is here - also check out the fantastic Jem Cohen programme
Here's a small snippet of the film to give you a taster.
Info and booking for Cine-City is here - also check out the fantastic Jem Cohen programme
Labels: iain sinclair, london perambulator, nick papadimitriou, psychogeography, Russell Brand, will self
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Topographical Podcasts
The first two episodes of Ventures and Adventures in Topography are now available as podcasts here
This show has brought with it a wonderfully intense period of focused walking following in the footsteps of a different author each week. Today's show (off to the Resonance fm studio in about 2 hours) is a trip through the pages of Pathfinder's Afoot Round London following on from a stonking walk from Grange Hill to Loughton.
(photos by Peter Knapp)
Labels: topographics, ventures and adventures in topography, walking
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Venture and Adventure in Epping Forest
I should be asleep - resting for tomorrow's (now today's) walk and field recording for Ventures and Adventures in Topography radio show on Resonance 104.4fm. The next show is on Pathfinder's Afoot Around London published in 1909 so me, Nick and Pete are going to attempt to follow the walk from Grange Hill to Waltham Abbey - a meniscus grinding 10 miles. I've been trying to read up a bit before heading off into Epping Forest and have been skimming through EN Buxton's classic turn-of the C20th Epping Forest, Addison's book of basically the same name but with a longer subtitle and delving into Iain Sinclair's London Orbital.
The first two episodes of Ventures have gone really well - I sometimes think radio is my favourite medium (then I get hold of a camera again and film something absorbing). The podcast of the first show, where we fleshed out some of the ideas that we'll be following in the series, is available to download now.
In the second show we headed off to Maxwell's Monks Park a place that has intrigued me since I first picked up the book and have now discovered features in Patrick Keiller's early short film Stonebridge Park.
So many books we could do - we'll have to just keep on tramping
The first two episodes of Ventures have gone really well - I sometimes think radio is my favourite medium (then I get hold of a camera again and film something absorbing). The podcast of the first show, where we fleshed out some of the ideas that we'll be following in the series, is available to download now.
In the second show we headed off to Maxwell's Monks Park a place that has intrigued me since I first picked up the book and have now discovered features in Patrick Keiller's early short film Stonebridge Park.
So many books we could do - we'll have to just keep on tramping
Labels: epping forest, topographics, ventures and adventures in topography
Sunday, November 08, 2009
What I'll talk about on Lost Steps on Resonance 104.4FM
Going in to doing a pre-record with Malcolm Hopkins and Nick Hamilton for their show on Resonance fm on Monday. I'll be talking about this blog and some of the things that have inspired it and arisen from ideas that I first noted down here. Below are a collection of tags that I'll mostly focus on - probably
caledonian park, claybury, derive, finsbury, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, ian bourn, islington, john smith, landscape film, leyton, leyton marshes, leytonstone art scene, locative arts, marsh lane, michael bentine, moblog, patrick keiller, penton, placeblogging, pleasure gardens, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, claybury, derive, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, caledonian park, finsbury, leyton, leytonstone art scene, marsh lane, michael bentine, leyton marshes, patrick keiller, penton, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, pleasure gardens, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, walking, walthamstow, walthamstow marshes, wanstead, wanstead flats, will self, william kent, william margrie,
caledonian park, claybury, derive, finsbury, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, ian bourn, islington, john smith, landscape film, leyton, leyton marshes, leytonstone art scene, locative arts, marsh lane, michael bentine, moblog, patrick keiller, penton, placeblogging, pleasure gardens, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, claybury, derive, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, caledonian park, finsbury, leyton, leytonstone art scene, marsh lane, michael bentine, leyton marshes, patrick keiller, penton, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, pleasure gardens, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, walking, walthamstow, walthamstow marshes, wanstead, wanstead flats, will self, william kent, william margrie,
Labels: ian bourn, john smith, landscape film, locative arts, moblog, placeblogging
Thursday, November 05, 2009
What If... Britain had pulled out of the EEC...
An intriguing idea and timely given the ratification of the Lisbon treaty - see which version of history you prefer
http://ping.fm/ouOfz
An intriguing idea and timely given the ratification of the Lisbon treaty - see which version of history you prefer
http://ping.fm/ouOfz
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Lammas Walk
Received this by email. I did a beating of the bounds around the Leyton Marshes Lammas Land when I first moved to the area - wonderful way to connect with the landscape in a ritualistic perambulation. Walthamstow Marshes is a similarly blessed spot and deserving of such veneration.
The Lammas Lands Defence Committee invites you to join us for our annual Autumn Walk around Walthamstow Outer Marsh on
Sunday 1 November.
Meet us at the Lee Valley Ice Centre car park, Lea Bridge Road at 2.15pm (Buses 48, 55, 56). Or meet up for lunch first at the nearby Princess of Wales.
The walk will take about 2 to 2 and a half hours and will end at the King's Head Bridge near the Ice Centre.
Please wear sensible flat waterproof shoes or boots!
More information from Katy 0790 415 9398 or Laurie 0208 539 3330.
Barry Buitekant
The Lammas Lands Defence Committee invites you to join us for our annual Autumn Walk around Walthamstow Outer Marsh on
Sunday 1 November.
Meet us at the Lee Valley Ice Centre car park, Lea Bridge Road at 2.15pm (Buses 48, 55, 56). Or meet up for lunch first at the nearby Princess of Wales.
The walk will take about 2 to 2 and a half hours and will end at the King's Head Bridge near the Ice Centre.
Please wear sensible flat waterproof shoes or boots!
More information from Katy 0790 415 9398 or Laurie 0208 539 3330.
Barry Buitekant
Labels: lammas land, walthamstow, walthamstow marshes
Friday, October 16, 2009
Lost Steps on Resonance 104.4FM
Malcolm Hopkins from Housman's Bookshop and producer/ sound artist Nick Hamilton (who made the rather brilliant Foot and Mouth series) have just started a new show called Lost Steps, on Resonance 104.4fm.
I've nicked this blurb off their website:
"Lost Steps is a series of weekly radio programmes, exploring lost London.
Over the weeks, Malcolm Hopkins will be inviting a spectrum of invited guests to discuss and appreciate aspects of London literature and culture we seldom get to hear about; seldom reaches the mainstream media, and is often neglected as time passes by. London's history is steeped with obscure and often clandestine reference."
There have already been some fascinating broadcasts which you can catch-up on here: http://www.loststeps.org.uk/Broadcasts.php
I'll be joining them for an episode in November which I had better prepare for I suppose.
I've nicked this blurb off their website:
"Lost Steps is a series of weekly radio programmes, exploring lost London.
Over the weeks, Malcolm Hopkins will be inviting a spectrum of invited guests to discuss and appreciate aspects of London literature and culture we seldom get to hear about; seldom reaches the mainstream media, and is often neglected as time passes by. London's history is steeped with obscure and often clandestine reference."
There have already been some fascinating broadcasts which you can catch-up on here: http://www.loststeps.org.uk/Broadcasts.php
I'll be joining them for an episode in November which I had better prepare for I suppose.
Labels: london, psychogeography, resonance 104.4fm
