Flight Paths

Wonderful. Did you take these Chris? Makes me want to go down to Richmond to make a few. Will do that eventually.

Not me – travelinlibrarian…

Yes, would be good to have some from Richmond. I also have those night time Richmond Sainsbury’s shots from our reconnaissance mission…

I don’t think I’ve actually seen any of those pictures. Stick them up when you have time?

Sounds like Rufus Wainwright maybe?

I love this song – it’s Radiohead’s ‘Like Spinning Plates’, from their mini-album of live performances I Might Be Wrong.

But this video seems to have disappeared, at least when I view the site in IE. Hmm.

Should be fixed now.

This is a riff on the Refugee Week logo, inspired by this 2002 MORI poll on perceptions of asylum seekers in the media.

I’d like to develop this some more, however the positive and negative words aren’t quite right yet… any suggestions?

NEGATIVE: desperate, abandoned, alone, bereft, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, destitute, destroyed, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, helpless, homeless, lost, oppressed, pathetic, pitiful, tragic, wretched, bogus, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, sham, spurious, scrounger, borrower, dependent, freeloader, supplicant, persecuted, afflicted, disturbed, harmed, injured, oppressed, persecuted, worried, abject, abused, burdened, distressed, enslaved, exploited, helpless, maltreated, mistreated, subservient, suppressed, tormented, tyrannized,

POSITIVE: skilled, accomplished, brilliant, clever, capable, experienced, expert, gifted, intelligent, keen, masterful, powerful, practiced, prepared, proficient, qualified, responsible, sharp, skillful, smart, talented, trained, strong, able, alert, alive, bright, comprehending, creative, discerning, enlightened, exceptional, imaginative, perceptive, profound, rational, ready, resourceful, well-informed, wise, witty, committed, devoted, enthusiastic, hard-working, purposeful, single-minded, wholehearted, welcome, accepted, agreeable, appreciated, cherished, desirable, desired, esteemed, good, grateful, honoured, invited, pleasant, pleasing, sympathetic, wanted, embraced, admired, adored, cared for, comforted, cultivated, defended, embraced, imagined, loved, nourished, nurtured, revered, safeguarded, sheltered, shielded, supported, sustained, treasured, valued

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbStQSQcCU

‘Duty Free’ by Lebusque. Fantastic.

That is both an amazing digital effect and extremely creepy when thinking about it in the context of this novel.

Huysmans

I don’t think mad scientists are necessarily devoted to evil. I prefer the term, “misunderstood.” As in the cause of a mad scientist tends to be, most of the time, misunderstood by the general public. Perhaps in many cases this can be seen as evil, but for there to be an evil one must also define a good. Both definitions are arbitrary and neither can exist without the other, thus the application of one versus the other suggests the influence of a societal convention in order to categorize that which is foreign and unconventional.

Huysmans

Thanks Huysmans! I did debate whether it was actually too creepy to put up, and in bad taste… but decided that visitors should make that judgement.

[...] then words that we use to describe our friends (positive and negative) – exactly the idea behind this piece I had recently completed on Flight Paths. We then went on to look at some examples of media stories [...]