Tag: Public space
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The Story of Techno Viking
I found Matthias Frisch’s documentary about the whole Techno Viking case via another video “The Meme that Sued It’s Creator’ which pretty much sums it up in one line. Matthias Frisch filmed the man who became Technoviking at Fuck Parade in Berlin in 2000, but it later became a meme and out of control of…
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Artistic Protests in Hong Kong
As part of the Umbrella Movement aka Occupy Central in Hong Kong, there have been amazing shots of artworks and symbolic gestures in the streets. Here is a video from CNN-HK of some of the artworks, and it reminds me of other ad-hoc Occupy spaces, how quickly people reclaim the space to make something creative,…
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Skatebank or Skategate
Just come across this, yeah I’m late but I knew it was bubbling in the background. Appalled at the position Billy Bragg has taken though, how the formerly radical has fallen. As someone who has been using the Southbank for decades, and you know, LIVES HERE unlike some (ie. Bragg, he lives in Dorset!) I’ve…
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Royal Stanhope
Doug Stanhope on royalty. Yep, it IS embarrassing, and I wish we’d get rid of them. Or at least take back all our possession they have appropriated and they can pretend to be king and queens but on *their* dime. And find some sad deluded tourists to bow at them, they aren’t my superiors due…
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Get Off Mah Lawn: BPI, Filters & Law
Missed this missive about the BPI…who from personal experience are a complete bunch of numpties, so I approve. All those royalties go to the highest sellers, not the actual poorer/smaller artists. It’s a complete protection racket, and true that the record labels loved underground scenes – like mashups – but publicly didn’t want to be…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…