Sunday 24 October 2010

Lost Steps on Resonance FM


Ways of seeing London…

Lost Steps is a weekly radio show broadcasting in London on Resonance 104.4FM.

Each week we explore aspects of London's artistic and cultural landscape. Our guests are generally artists, writers, film makers, bloggers, academics, publishers etc.

Lost Steps is presented by Malcom Hopkins and produced by Nick Hamilton.

Wednesday 15 September 2010

HAHA! vs BOMBASTIC > ROUND 2


DEAR FRIENDS, ARTISTS & ASSOCIATES.....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A MULTI MEDIA BUMP & GRIND, NOD & CLAP, LISTEN & HIDE, MOVE & DROP, POP & HOP !! at HAHA! vs BOMBASTIC > ROUND 2 on Thursday, 23rd September 2010 PRIVATE VIEW 2PM - 11.30PM!! RED GALLERY 1-3 RIVINGTON STREET E2 DRESS CODE >>>> red&blue ALL WELCOME AND LET THE BATTLE COMMENCE!!!!!!!

Sunday 12 September 2010

Jazzman Podcasts


Jazzman Radio is a FREE worldwide internet radio service for everyone. We get all the main soul/jazz/funk collectors, DJs, beat-diggers and vinyl freaks from Europe, USA and Japan to show off their wax just for you. You're gonna hear jazz, Northern, electronica, latin, titty shakers, library, afro, modal, funky reggae, weird stuff, ska, soundtrack, ethnic and all flavours in between right here. All you need to do is click on the show you wanna hear, sit back and let your musical journey begin...

Friday 23 July 2010

Work:Ethic Podcasts

Here at Work:Ethic we love our music and want to tell everyone about the stuff we love so we've put this together for your listening pleasure. The music we feature comes from the top, middle and bottom of our record collections. There's going to be old music and new music. Serious music and silly music. Mixed and unmixed. We don't really care about genres and pigeonholes and hope you don't either. You might not like everything we put on our podcasts but we hope you find them interesting all the same. Above all, we hope you enjoy them and keep tuning in.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

The Southampton Arms

The Southampton Arms, NW5 (Photo taken with Hipstamatic for iphone)

DĂ©riveLab : Project 2


DĂ©riveLab : Project 2
Sound and Interaction
multimedia approaches to creatively inhabit contemporary cities

The Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC). 16 Acton Street, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9NG |

Open Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th July 2010 | Private View : 22nd July. 6-10pm | Lab open by appointment 12th - 22nd July

Wednesday 14 July 2010

London Shop Fronts


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An English Journey Re-Imagined

"Make Tea Not War"

Kentish Town Stencil Art (photo taken with iphone)

Moore Outside

"I personally believe that all life is a conflict; that’s something to be accepted, something you have to know. And you have to die, too, which is the opposite of living. One must try to find a synthesis, to come to terms with opposite qualities. Art and life are made up of conflicts.

I think really that in great art, i.e. in the art I find great, this conflict is hidden, it is unsolved. Great at is not perfect. Take the Rondanini PietĂ , one of the greatest works of Michelangelo. It is not a perfect work of art. There is a huge arm remaining from the earlier statue which was later changed into the PietĂ . It has nothing to do with the composition. Nevertheless, it was left there."

Henry Moore.

http://mooreoutside.wordpress.com/

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Rapha London

This May, for three months only, the Rapha Cycle Club will open in London. A unique combination of gallery, shop and café, the Cycle Club is a meeting place where riders can share their passion for road racing.

A full calendar of events including film and music evenings, book and product launches, evening screenings of races, regular group rides and Rapha customer and club evenings will enable visitors to immerse themselves in road cycling throughout the summer. This unique cycling experience may be called a 'Club', but membership is free. The only qualification is an interest in the sport of road racing.


Friday 2 July 2010


Interior of the Blockhaus d'Eperlecques (photo taken with iphone)

Sunday 27 June 2010

All Systems Go at the Departure Gallery


'Statue, Limehouse (replica)',
Black Paint, Dust and Screws on Oriented Strand Board and Timber with Red Rose, 3300x1230x1230cm,
2010

Limehouse/Southall

Site of Clement Atlee's Statue, The Highway, Limehouse, London

'Statue, Limehouse (replica)' (2010)-Steve Smith, 'All Systems Go' at the Departure Gallery, Southall.


Friday 25 June 2010

Miniscule at Oblong Gallery

'Reassembled remnants from material collected in North, East and West London',
Found Billboard Posters on Brick, 2010


Thursday 24 June 2010

Street Football

Whitechapel, London. (taken with iphone)

Freedom Sound at Rays Jazz Cafe, Foyles

Ray's Jazz

Freedom Sound

Friday 25 June 6pm

Freedom Sound

DJs Simon Fraser and Steve Smith play an eclectic mix of Jazz music, selecting the best old and new jazz from their diverse record collections. Strictly vinyl only, many of the records will have been unearthed in the racks of our very own and much loved Ray's Jazz shop.

The Café at Foyles


Wednesday 23 June 2010

All Systems Go



ALL SYSTEMS GO
A group exhibition of artwork by:

David Angus, Louise Ashcroft, Aglae Bassens, Nathan Birchenough, Claire Blundell-Jones, Helen Collett and Lois Macdonald, Lawrence Daley, Danielle Drainey, Sandra Erbacher, Rita Evans, Rafael Farias,Doug Jones, Helene Kazan, Jonathan Kipps, Paul Lewthwaite, Jo Lathwood, Ben Lloyd, William Mackrell, Nicola McCartney, Savvas Papasavva, Rob Pugh, Ilona Sagar, Tracy Sarroff, Steve Smith, Jackson Sprague, Andrew Sunderland, Unidentified Art Group: Robert Hunt, James Pepper, Rosanne Robertson, Imogen Welch, Rich White, Sarah Tew, Sam Zealey.

Private View: Friday 25th June 2010, 6.30pm- 9.30pm. Refreshments will be served. Free taxi shuttles from Southall Station (12mins from Paddington). Free haircuts from a professional stylist will be available as part of an installation by Unidentified Art Group.

Exhibition: Monday 21st June - Sunday 4th July 2010. Open 7 days a week, 10am-5pm.

All Systems Go brings together a diverse group of artists who work in relation to physical and conceptual systems, which they have created or adapted as frameworks for artistic experimentation. Patterns, rules, collaborative techniques, interventions, mechanical systems and improvisation provide structured starting points which open up a multitude of possibilities for exciting artistic outcomes.

This show is the latest in Departure Gallery’s acclaimed series of exhibitions and residencies on The International Trading Estate, Southall. The exhibition explores the contradictions and parallels between systematic experimentation in contemporary art and the industrial systems used in the factories and distribution units surrounding our vast warehouse space.

Address: Departure Gallery, 7 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Southall, UB2 5LF.

Getting There: Take national rail from Paddington to Southall (12mins), then buses 105, 195, H32 or 482 to Brent Road (5mins). Cross over and walk down Brent Road until you see the estate entrance. Ask the security guards in the cabin to direct you to warehouse 7 Trident Way. Trains and buses run regularly until midnight. On the private view night there will be a free taxi shuttle from Southall Station, Merrick Road (follow signs as you exit the station).

For more information please contact LouiseAshcroft@DepartureGallery.com, 07861 375101.


Tuesday 22 June 2010

New

This blog takes the concept of the original Golgonooza blog leaving the original purely the forum for the art writing that I have developed over the 4 years that I have worked on it, for my art writing please go to Golgonooza. The Golgonooza Scrapbook will feature looser, more random posts of things that find that I find on my journies around London and elsewhere but also online and recommendations that come my way from other sources.