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Sleeeeeeeaze it Large and Dark my friends.
For some reason every time I see this place the song Post Modern Sleaze by the popular beat combo Sneaker Pimps (one of the best things to come out of Hartlepool) comes to mind. As a background you may consider a view of their pop video for this catchy ditty. The images in the video have absolutely nothing to do with the picture here - the music's more the point.
Anyway so here we have back at 200 Aldersgate, the empty freaky building which straddles Montague Street in a view much familiar to fellow Flickrites, particularly funkyuk.
Formerly the home of Clifford Chance, one of the City's giant law firms, the building was first conceived in the early 1980's by Fitzroy Robinson as a landmark to go at the end of London Wall. True to the times the design oozes "Thatcher era" 1980's motifs (think pink marble, steel and glass, bold thrusting towers) and is one of those buildings which is a stereotype of those times.
Being of a certain vintage I feel obliged to include a chant of Thatcher, Thatcher - milk snatcher. Chanting this will be the law whenever Maggie's name is mentioned come the revolution (Up the 2nd Revolutionary Front - 2RF forever!).
Meanwhile class... the building consists of two arms at right angles with the apex of the corner above Montague Street - rather bizarrely there's a vaste glass atrium which fills this corner and extends up to the roofline like half a giant pyramid.
The arms themselves are equally as exotic with each consisting of what appear to be towers, each of three windows width, extending to various heights. One could hypothesise that this is a nod to the Barbican and the idea of a castle in The City. The general trend of the towers is to gain height from left to right, culminating in a giant, thrusting, dark tower just to the right of this view - the upper floors in this case are not clad in pink marble (Pink... Marble. Lummee) but instead are a gloomy black. To add to the air of dispondency the upper floors are plant rooms.
Why build a tower for plant rooms? A mystery.
There is a feel that the design tries really hard to be sympathetic to the Brutalist elements of the surroundings... but at the end of the day it just can't help being a monument to 1980's glam, even to the extent that the towers used to have little illuminated globes on the corners.
Clifford Chance fled in 2003 leaving the building empty - it's been redeveloped as an office-cum-residential-cum-restaurant-type-thing which is highly curious. To be honest you can't help feel that it's still not made up it's mind as to it's destiny, and I wish it would get on with it.
So as the building deals with it's identity crisis I'll leave you to tap your feet to the tones of the Sneaker Pimps and...
...enjoy
Ariana Savalas, performing with Scott Bradlee and The Postmodern Jukebox.
See more photos in the review in Flashes And Sounds.
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The first among several resorts in Egypt designed by MGA, the Miramar Hotel in El Gouna established site plan strategies and a design vocabulary that were carried through several subsequent projects, the Sheraton Miramar, built on a jewel-like cluster of nine islands, surrounded by lagoons and sandy beaches, is a 5-star resort hotel consisting of over 400 guest rooms and public spaces. Dramatically sited on the Red Sea, the Miramar was designed to maximize water views and enhance the visitor experience.
A ScotRail HST idles at Pitlochry. A founding image of the Postmodern Traction movement, this picture deconstructs the classical railway image into a combination of geometric shapes and colour imbalances in order to present a familiarity in an unfamiliar perspective.
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Hugh
Wohn- und Geschäftshaus, Münzstraße Ecke Alte Schönhauser Straße, Berlin-Mitte, Modifizierter Plattenbau-Typ WBS 70, 1980er Jahre
Sowden & du Pasquier designs for Arc'74 showroom that held the first Memphis exhibition
in Milan in Sept. of '81. There were 24 different designs of clocks, bowls, lamps and boxes. The clock above called "Plaisant Mainten" is shown in the Richard Horn book on Memphis-Milano pg 89.
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By David Lynch
...just finishing up the latest auto/biography of/about/by David Lynch- 'Room to Dream' - and it's a great read if you are into him and any of his various artforms; I've learned so much! Really very interesting...
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Il 6 aprile 2016 gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, la rivelazione swing americana già fenomeno di Youtube grazie alla cover di Miley Cyrus “We can’t stop”, saranno in concerto in Italia all’Alcatraz di Milano, per l’unica tappa italiana del tour.
Un fenomeno ormai mondiale, con 200 Milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube e 1 Milione di iscritti al canale.
Un tour che parte nel 2015 dagli Stati Uniti passando per l’Asia ed approdando in Europa nel 2016 con oltre 80 date confermate. Immaginate canzoni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears or Taylor Swift riportate indietro di 70-80 anni…
Gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (o PMJ, come ormai vengono chiamati in tutto il mondo) sono una mini-big band swing a tutti gli effetti, ma con qualcosa in più: uniscono il perfetto stile “d’epoca” ai brani moderni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears, White Stripes o Taylor Swift rielaborandoli come se fossero arrangiati per Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland o Nina Simone. I PMJ colmano il divario tra le generazioni, suonando melodie a tutti familiari con arrangiamenti che intrigano tutte le età.
Embroidery floss on burlap.
Text reads:
"In days gone by,
A work like mine
Would have admirers all in line.
No more are home arts
Prized like rubies,
Today we must have
perky boobies."
(continued in next photo)
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Photographer: Derek Baker
Fantastic group of musicians and singers. If they come to your town, don't miss them. You will be thoroughly entertained. I didn't have the best seats, I was in the balcony.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
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The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building operated by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. It is located in the Loop, across Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park. Originally the central library building, it was converted in 1977 to an arts and culture center at the instigation of Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg. The city's central library is now housed across the Loop in the spacious, postmodern Harold Washington Library Center opened in 1991.
As the nation's first free municipal cultural center, the Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's most popular attractions and is considered one of the most comprehensive arts showcases in the United States. Each year, the Chicago Cultural Center features more than 1,000 programs and exhibitions covering a wide range of the performing, visual and literary arts. It also serves as headquarters for the Chicago Children's Choir. MB Real Estate provides events management for the center.
a funny shot of my sister, who has aspriations to be on america's next top model. Swing and idiot pilot text, I took lots of pictures of her.
Sydney’s Frank Gehry Building boggles the mind!!! What does it make you think of? If you have not heard of the contemporary architect Frank Gehry then I suggest you look him up pronto! Some of his most famous designs are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague and The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle... just to name a few. His building in Sydney is part of Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS) and houses the Business school. The inside is just as imaginative as the outside and would have a huge impact on the minds having their education inside! Normally I would shoot these shots with a polariser on my lens to see through the glass but with the beautiful blue skies with high white clouds it suited the images to have them act as mirrors to the sky! Franks designs are associated with the Deconstructivist movement, which is a postmodern architecture movement that appeared in the 1980s. This building was completed November 2014, so it's fairly recent.
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2003-5 Postmodern Religious Art Rituals
Build Your Own Religion 2003-4
CARDBOARD PLACE OF WORSHIP
In this performance people in Leicester at “Seen 04” I invited the audience to build an interreligious structure out of cardboard and then put on clothing in preparation for an interreligious disco dance (birdie song meets different prayer forms). People are then invited to do a GOD? shout, where they all shout out together what the word means to them, whether good or bad. Images of the performance are from Leicester and Peckham but I dont have any of the dancing yet. The performance was also at Peckham Square in London (top right) and at the Association of Teachers of Religious Education near Glasgow 2005.
B’Y’O’R’ PLAYSET
A boxed set of a collection of religious figures and buildings. The Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Tribal, etc etc figures are cut in 2 and can be combined in different ways as can the buildings.
They can also be put onto scalextric cars and have races. This is the original pic and mix religious playset. First exhibited in the Quaker Gallery, London, March 2003.
This was the beginning of the development of “Divinityland”
Interreligious DSS Art Flat 2003-4
WORLD CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART - The Launch of Morecambe as a tourist destination for the 21st century.
Artists were invited to come and stay in Morecambe at Padgett’s live in gallery-studio-study-centre-monastery-type-thing. All they needed to do was to give a call to arrange a date for pilgrimage/holiday. They would help furnish the flat with art, craft, furniture, videos, books, food etc on a theme of contemporary religious dialogue - sacred and secular.
Images below are from the opening party on 30 December 2003. There was belly dancing, poetry from John Hindle, a biscuit man pilgrimage to religious sites and the interreligious disco dance.
The traditional catchment area for Morecambe was Bradford and surrounding areas. These places have a large mixed race population so this new initiative of artist Anthony Padgett welcomes people of all faiths. For fun in the sun that also creates world peace. Anthony invites artists from all faith communities to stay at his DSS flat and transform it into a public interreligious centre.
Beauty surrounds and health abounds is the motto of Morecambe and nothing can be more beautiful than bringing together people of peace in such a world class setting.
INTERRELIGIOUS ART FLAT WALLPAPER 2004
Wallpaper from the travelling interreligious art flat - exhibited at Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Starting from the rainbow swastika is Hindu, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Shinto, Jain, Buddist, Daoist, Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Protestant Christian, Wiccan, Bahai and finally nuclear power.
Interreligious Races 2004-5
Races were held in Slupsk (Poland), Schindler's Factory (Poland), at Liverpool Biennial 04 and a commemorative painting was made of a race behind the Midland Hotel (Morecambe). In Slupsk and Krakow (as part of the Castle of Imagination Live Art Festival 2004) Buddha, Jesus, a Rabbi, Krishna, Mohammed and a Witch raced. The winning divinity was prayed to. The Witch won both races. In Slupsk the racing vehicles were tied to a candle phallus on Padgett’s head and he charged around a central plinth. The winning deity was placed on a plinth and prayed to as the candle was lit. In Krakow members of the Divinities were cardboard cut-outs fixed to chairs which members of the audience pulled in across the factory floor.
"Divinityland Races" 2004 -Acrylic on canvas 60 x 120cm
Racovian Sawing Trick 2004
In Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2004 Padgett annointed himself with water filling an upturned statue of Jesus Christ whilst he put on Jewish pants (IN NOMINE PATRE - in the name of the Father), Christian Robes (ET FILIUS - and of the Son), Muslim Hijab (ET SPIRITUS SANCTI - and of the Holy Spirit).
He sawed the statue in half. Then placed each part of clothing with a body part of Christ and with a vessel containing water that had filled the statue.
“IN NOMINE PATRE, ET FILIUS, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. AMEN.”
This performance in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, related to the 17th century Racovian Heresy. The Unitarian doctrine that Christ is just a man. As opposed to the Trinitarian view that God, the Holy Spirit and Christ are one. Trinitarians persecuted Unitarians (eg of the Racovians in Poland and Unitarians who fled to the USA) and Monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) remain divided still.
The statue of Jesus took its place on top of a racing car.
Interreligious
Gameshow & Cabaret 2004-5
Have a flyer. Welcome to Divintyland in Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Contestants undressed mannikins in religious clothing then combined them in their own styles. Contestants were judged by the audience on their fashion and also on how well they did the Interreligious Disco Dance.
RELIGION CABARET
Performed at Magnet Bar as part of Liverpool Biennial, funded by the aFoundation. This included a Grand Prix where the audience constructed their own God and raced it on United Nations Humvee cars. The winning God was worshipped.
"Life is an Interreligious Cabaret old chum..."
"Religion makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round..."
"Do the interreligious disco dance..."
biennial2004.blogspot.com/2004/09/disco-art-religion.html
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Disco Art Religion
"Just got back from the Magnet club having watched Anthony Padgett's live art performance. Not sure if he was celebrating religions or taking the piss, it was a good laugh but he seemed quite earnest that the audience should join in and pray to the little plastic doll. A couple from the audience dressed up and raced a mixture of gods round the room in remote control cars and we all joined in the inter-religious disco dance. People who are offended by a picture of a part of the body being hung from St Luke's church should definitely try and see this show. Except you can't because it was only for one night but he's showing 'DivintyLand' Interreligious Themepark at the Quakers Meeting House on saturdays.
posted by Ian Jackson @ 11:09 PM"
Edinburgh Fringe 2005
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Il 6 aprile 2016 gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, la rivelazione swing americana già fenomeno di Youtube grazie alla cover di Miley Cyrus “We can’t stop”, saranno in concerto in Italia all’Alcatraz di Milano, per l’unica tappa italiana del tour.
Un fenomeno ormai mondiale, con 200 Milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube e 1 Milione di iscritti al canale.
Un tour che parte nel 2015 dagli Stati Uniti passando per l’Asia ed approdando in Europa nel 2016 con oltre 80 date confermate. Immaginate canzoni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears or Taylor Swift riportate indietro di 70-80 anni…
Gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (o PMJ, come ormai vengono chiamati in tutto il mondo) sono una mini-big band swing a tutti gli effetti, ma con qualcosa in più: uniscono il perfetto stile “d’epoca” ai brani moderni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears, White Stripes o Taylor Swift rielaborandoli come se fossero arrangiati per Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland o Nina Simone. I PMJ colmano il divario tra le generazioni, suonando melodie a tutti familiari con arrangiamenti che intrigano tutte le età.
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