Functionalist dreamscape / post-modern nightmare. Switch off your shield, switch off and feel.

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Joined August 2011
My photo-essay ‘A Design For (Modern) Life’ is in the latest Neighbourhood-themed issue of @modernistmag A 70th anniversary love letter to Parkleys estate in Richmond, our local oasis of midcentury modernity, it name-checks Bowie, Nairn, and Monster energy drinks. Link in bio.
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There’s a proverb in Naples about people who don’t necessarily know much but like to sound like experts when things are easy. It goes quando il mare è calmo ogni strunz e marenar, or “when the sea is calm, every asshole is a sailor”
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I’ve put a new John Barry comp together. I’m quite excited. Bond themes, plus obscurities from Man In The Middle, Dutchman, The Chase (US single version)…magical stuff. acerecords.co.uk/somethings-…
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I just donated to 'Books for Spellow Lane' to help repair our library and replenish books for the kids. Every bit helps! Please donate, like, comment, and share to spread the word. 📚❤ #SupportSpellow gofund.me/814d0f6f
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Just a reminder that Britain is full of headteachers of outstanding schools in multicultural areas who just quietly get on with the job and don’t make stupid pronouncements on here for attention
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The Paris Review mourns the loss of Edna O’Brien (1930–2024). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive. theparisreview.org/interview…
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At Gatwick - Britain’s sheux-iest airport.
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“I’ve got a tattoo of Kunta Kinte on me arm, I’m not racist” is a new one for me
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sometimes ppl ask why they got blocked and it's bc you posted something annoying so i looked you up, found your address, went to your home, snuck inside, looked in your wardrobe, and didn't like what i saw
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Celebrating 70 years of local modernism at Parkleys estate, Richmond.
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the modernist magazine, issue 51 has landed - Neighbourhood. the-modernist.org/collection… – at Salford, England
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The Kugelhaus, or "Ball House," in Dresden, 1928 — housed exhibition rooms and a restaurant —destroyed by the modernist-hating Nazis in 1938.
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Re-thinking much of what I’d presumed about early 60s Cardiff having just watched this. Check it out if only to visit a time before the city centre became a Cwmbran tribute act (without the free parking).
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This was Eveything 💥
The "Buffalo Gals" music video encapsulates what I meant by "...the innovation in Hip-Hop was primarily driven by its diversity." It features Latino, Black, and White Breakers and Graff artists and women, who, by the way, aren't being sexualized. I'd be remiss if I didn't add that the song was produced by a British punk rocker named Malcolm McLaren and featured the World's Famous Supreme Team rapping and scratching. FYI, they were a part of the five percent nation of Islam. "Buffalo Gals" literally shows how authentic Hip-Hop by the early 1980s included Religion, Race, Gender, and Ethnicity. If Hip-Hop were purely "Black culture," it would have been birthed somewhere in the South, Georgia, the Carolinas, or something. But it wasn't. Hip-Hop exists because of the unique social, political, and economic circumstances and the vast mix of cultures in NYC, particularly the Bronx. If you lack the wisdom to evaluate information, you'll resist the truth, in my words. I lived what I just wrote, though, so whether you accept it doesn't make a difference because I saw it happen.
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Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything
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Had a splendid day in tropical Tory-free Wales, where my daring to drink water as well as beer led me to being labelled ‘a water guy’.
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In 1947, a large series of posters was commissioned and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. PSA (Public Service Announcement): Out of Harm’s Way poster by Leonard Cusden (1947).
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all my tweets are about wearing nice little outfits — fair wages to buy nice outfits — housing to store those outfits — free healthcare so you can wear outfits — dealing with climate change so you can wear cool jackets — walkable cities so people can admire your outfits
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