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Dundee has pioneered radar, keyhole surgery and the adhesive postage stamp to name but a few. The Dundee publisher DC Thomson has been a pioneer in the world of cartoons, bringing us such long running heroes as Dennis the Menace, the Bash Street Kids and Desperate Dan. And today the city boasts a burgeoning digital media sector from which it leads the world in the design of computer games like Tomb Raider, Lemmings and State of Emergency. With the help of revolutionary digital imaging, the University of Dundee's medical research is now world famous. This, along with being home to one of the UKs leading colleges for art and design and you can see why visual storytelling is a very Dundonian theme. Visual storytelling crosses language barriers and reaches out to the world.
Dundee was once the capital of the lucrative jute trade upon which vital links were made with India. It was also a major whaling port with its focus far from home, on the great northern seas. These industries have come and gone but they've imbued the city with a rich history and perspective on the world at large. Today its a cultural hive, headed by DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts) and Dundee Rep but the global focus remains. Under the auspices of the British Council, Dundee Rep toured its Winters Tale to Iran in 2003 and Dundee-based Scottish Dance Theatre toured to Italy and Greece in 2003/04. And when in 2002 the British Council in India opened their pilot Knowledge and Learning Centre in Delhi one of the three UK degree programmes it ran was the pioneering MSc in Computer Games Technology from Dundee's University of Abertay, re-forging old links in a thoroughly contemporary way.
Having been synonymous with jute, Dundee then became synonymous with the unique publishing company DC Thomson who have in their time produced some of the most famous cartoon magazines in the world. But interestingly the icons that DC Thomson have created like the cowhand Desperate Dan with his penchant for cow pie are not in any way parochial. Maybe its this peculiarly cross-borders mindset that attracted US giant NCR to make Dundee a major manufacturing base in the 1960s. NCR Corporation is a $7 billion global market leader in automated transaction machines active in 130 countries. In 2001 they furthered their commitment to Scotland with a new R&D facility in Dundee called the NCR Discovery Centre.
The above doggerel is from the extensive repertoire of Dundonian William McGonagall, probably the worlds worst published poet. In fact hes celebrated for being such a terrible poet. Dundee, it should be becoming obvious, has a playfulness and a sense of humour. The University (mentioned above by McGonagall) on the other hand, although not pretentious is decidedly serious and a world leader in the fields of medicine and biotechnology and the fight against cancer. One of Dundee's greatest academic names was Englishman Sir David Lane. Lane is co-discoverer of the tumour suppressor p53 and one of the world's ten most cited scientists. He describes himself as the guardian of the genome. Along with Professor Sir Philip Cohen (the world's most quoted biochemist), Professor Roland Wolf and Sir Alfred Cuschieri (whose portrait is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery), he was a leading light in Dundee's internationally significant medical research boom and also a significant entrepreneur - in 1996 he founded Cyclacel, raising £34 million in the process. Today, Dundee has one of the largest research communities in Europe with more than 2500 people working in the life sciences sector alone.
And back to computer games: this too is taken seriously in Dundee. Abertay was the first university in the world to run taught courses in games programming and games creativity and artwork. The course is like a magnet to Dundee but also offers students the opportunity to study in Japan and America. To complement the curriculum, Abertay has established IC CAVE (International Centre for Computing and Virtual Entertainment), Europe's first university research centre dedicated to computer games and video entertainment. Russel Kay, the sole PC programmer for the Lemmings game, is now the Professor of Games Technology at Abertay.
One of the city's most high profile computer games whiz kids is Christiaan van der Kuyl, grandson of a Dutchman who came to Dundee during the war to work on submarines. His other grandfather is Polish a typical international Dundonian pedigree. Van der Kuyl is a graduate in computer sciences from the University of Dundee and is the force behind State of Emergency and Tomb Raider.
More than 1500 people are employed in the creative industries. The sector boasts 200 companies with a combined annual turnover of more than £100 million. A £20 million digital media park that is expected to sustain 1000 jobs has been built in the city.
Dundee has a vibrant story to tell but Dundee's preferred way of telling their story is in pictures.
So, whatever language you speak, come to Dundee and see with your own eyes what all the fuss is all about.
Fozzy and Jeebs get the boots on at Dundee Pre-season training
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- Dundee v Livingston, Irn Bru Scottish Football League First Division at Dens Park
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I was fortunate enough, as a Dundonian, to see Alan Gilzean play for Dundee FC in 1963-64.
I was 17-18 and it is impossible to convey what this uniquely talented, heroic gentleman from the local village of Coupar Angus meant to us.
As Scottish League champions, Dundee qualified for the then European Cup (now Champions League), played with distinction and defeated the German champions (Cologne), the Portuguese (Sporting Club), and the Belgians (Anderlecht). Alan Gilzean scored 9 goals in the run, and the Dees only faltered against AC Milan at the penultimate hurdle in the hostile cauldron that was the San Siro stadium, in a game presided over by a referee later found guilty of accepting "unreasonably generous hospitality". (Maldini and Trappatoni of that AC Milan team would, though, become established names in Italian football themselves.).
With a bit of good fortune Dundee could have been the winning finalists instead of AC Milan in 1964 - three years before the first British club - Celtic - won the title in style, and, satisfyingly, against another batch of self-satisfied, preening stars fae ower the Alps.
Dundee FC's European Cup Run 1962-63
September 1962
Dundee 8 (Gilzean 3) Cologne 1
Cologne 4 - Dundee 0
Cologne's goalkeeper injured in Dundee game.
Dundee's goalkeeper injured in Cologne game. Ugly revenge stuff in Cologne.
Sept/Oct 1962
Sporting Lisbon 1 Dundee 0
Dundee 4 (Gilzean 3) Sporting Lisbon 1
March 1963
Anderlecht 1 Dundee 4 (Gilzean 2)
Dundee 2 Anderlecht 1
April/May 1963
AC Milan 5 Dundee 1 (Cousin)
Dundee 1 (Gilzean) AC Milan 0
Was at the home ties against Sporting Lisbon, Anderlecht and Milan - a sellout and record crowd for Dens IIRC.
Milan went on to become European Champions.
1964 - In the month I left home for work down south, Dundee and Spurs were undergoing a lengthy discussion on the sale of "Gilly". He ended up going to London around the same time as I did, but unlike myself, he became a legend there - "The King of White Hart Lane". He also played with great class, as usual, for Scotland including in the defeats of England.
The media, and some other crap that came with fame, were a turnoff for this man who retains his simple Scottish rural dignity even today, and has only recently reluctantly come back into the spotlight to the great joy of so many of us north and south of the border.
The book "In Search of Alan Gilzean" is an essential read for fans of Dundee, Spurs and football in general. Laboriously- researched and well written by Northern Irish author James Morgan, who seems a true gent, too, going by the book, and his videos on youtube. Videos of games follow, courtesy of youtube contributors:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYsDK6rIslc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRjh7Vjj7bs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDw4Fn2G03U
The Royal Mail driver is Henry Smith - legendary professional goalkeeper with Hearts for hundreds of games. (476 appearances). Was at Leeds United before that and latterly at Ayr United.
He knows we have three Dundee supporters in the family, but still behaves like a real gent!
I pull his leg about how he dropped a package he was handing to me at the front door once. When I opened it later it contained a Dundee FC shirt our daughter had ordered. Spooky.
December 2010 - Linlithgow. Coldest December for a century.
Helping are two neighbours, while I, er...........took this photograph.
- Dundee v Livingston, Irn Bru Scottish Football League First Division at Dens Park
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Dundee FC Supporters Club Association Player of the year awards at the Hilton Hotel
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Dundee's two senior football clubs, Dundee FC and Dundee United FC have stadia next door to each other. In this shot, the blue ground (behind the block of flats with the blue stripe) is Dens Park, home of Dundee FC, while the further away ground, with the tangerine seats, is Tannadice Park, home of Dundee United FC. It is supposed to be the case that the goals at the two closest ends of each ground are closer to each other than they are to the ones at the other end of the pitch, but that may be an urban myth. This shot was taken on a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of 2011-12 season. Had I taken the shot a little earlier, you would have been able to see the (rather sparse) crowd in Tannadice Park. It was to disperse rather rapidly as United slumped to a 1-0 defeat against Dunfermline.
Top table guests at Dundee FC Supporters Club Association Player of the year awards at the Hilton Hotel
Back row ((left to right) - MC for the evening John Brown, DFC Supporters Society director Dave Forbes, Dundee CEO Scot Gardiner, Former Dens captain Bobby Glennie, Charlie Duthie of sponsors Tay Taxis, Dundee kit man Davie Craig, Alan McMurtry of sponsors Wave 102
Front row ((left to right) - Dundee FC Supporters Club Association's George Harris and wife Anne, John McKelvie, Dundee manager Barry Smith, Dundee goalkeeper Robert Douglas, speakers Graeme Mackie and John Gahagan
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Seven year old Carrie-Ann Taylor shows her support for the Tele campaign before the Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
© Derek Taylor
Shot a portrait of Dundee Football Club’s physiotherapist Karen Gibson, one of a growing number of female physios working with professional football clubs in Scotland. This shot was one of a series for an article to be published on the club’s official website www.dundeefc.co.uk later this week. Lit with a Canon 430ex, mounted on a VAL (Voice activated lightstand) and bounced off the wall and ceiling to right of camera - flash fired via a YONGNUO RF-602 radio trigger
Dundee FC Supporters Club Association Player of the year awards at the Hilton Hotel
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Dundee FC Hall of Fame inductee Pat Liney sings for his supper - leading the dinner guests in a few choruses of 'Hail, Hail, the Dees are here' - Dundee FC Hall of Fame Dinner 2011 at the Invercarse Hotel
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Barry Smith - Formartine United v Dundee, pre-season fixture at North Lodge Park, Pitmedden, Aberdeenshire
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Javier and Miguel Artero sign autographs - Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
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Barry Smith - Dundee v St Johnstone - Pre-season Friendly at Dens Park
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Craig Robertson with fellow Dundee fans, Andy Dow and Ryan Ireland at Dundee FC Supporters' Society 'Doo in the Voo' at Deja Vu nightclub on Saturday evening - Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
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The Euro 12 football championship, Wimbledon, the Open Golf have all come and gone, the Olympic Games are in progress, but the real action started today - football is back, in Scotland at least!
Dundee replaced Rangers in the SPL, and Killie's first game of the season was at home to the 'new boys'. Plenty of football, but no goals.
Crowd - Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
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Richard Horsburgh paid £900 to be part of the Dundee squad for next season - Dundee FC Hall of Fame Dinner 2011 at the Invercarse Hotel
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Craig Robertson and Dens youngster Leighton McIntosh tussle for the ball - Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
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Dundee v St Johnstone - Pre-season Friendly at Dens Park
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Craig Robertson on the ball for Lochee United as Andy Dow and Miguel Artero watch - Craig Robertson Testimonial, Lochee United v Dundee FC Select at Thomson Park
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