to Arild and Joakim, a.k.a. Eriksen + Skajaa, for taking first prize at the Europan Norway award ceremony last night. for those not in the know, Europan is a big deal (12.000 euros worth in fact)
i watched 2 talks this week about using bacteria to 'grow' architecture'. the first about 'metabolic' architeture by Rachel Armstrong I found unconvincing and to be honest, ofensive to my eyes. put her in a ring with Mr. Larsson and I know where my money would lie...
Bjarke Ingels x The Mountain x The Notwist x some surprisingly flexible young men =
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in an attempt to prove to myself that idleness can be educational, i'm not only nurturing my relationship with the (highly addictive) TED (we decided to have an open relationship), i'm also spreading some love across the podcast world. here's last night's bedtime entertainment...
last Sunday Arild and I saw the Radical Nature exhibition at the Barbican. maybe another £8 poorly spent, but there was a couple of nice parts... one being the wooden hut in the courtyard with free pink tea, another being the projects by Agnes Denes...
Arild brought Tinariwen to my attention, and as it turned out i had already downloaded the new album 'Aman Iman' (the result of last.fm spying) and their first is on spotify. it's what i am mostly listening to this week... Tinariwen's website tagline is this...'Legendary poet guitarists and soul rebels from the southern Sahara desert.' ...yeah! i managed to bypass the youtube photographic montage videos for this...
Arild is one of my oldest and most loved friends. though we rarely get to meet these days, i can confidently say he is the most constant and influential person in my life. i'm happy that the sunshine held out until he left for Morrocco...
on Monday the storm clouds descended. i nearly missed seing Why? because of the river flowing down my road. in the end i did make it, albeit late (headline band on before 9? what?) i just about managed to force my way into the crowd enough to be able to see all components of Why?'s heads (standing on tiptoes and utilising my contortionist skills)... naturally i ended up with the speakers at my left and a group of rude, obnoxious teenage boys to my right (including the spawn of Zeegen)... i'm not usually a violent person but... anyway... it WAS a good show. and I got to hang out with Ridda (a.k.a. clarelevitt.com) after too. she's pretty good...
