Posted in Memory, References and signposts, tagged baum, edge hill, wizard of oz on September 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In 1900 a book called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published. Author L. Frank Baum stated that he intended to write ‘a series of of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with…horrible and bloodcurdling incidents’.
Despite this intention I found the film version terrifying in parts [...]
Posted in References and signposts, tagged appleseed, woodbrooke, birmingham, psychogography on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Getting excited now about the weekend course we’re facilitating at the end of August:
The Map is Not the Territory: an introduction to Appleseed
Friday 28 August 2009 – Monday 31 August 2009
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
There’s a fee for this residential weekend, but there’s financial help available if that’s a problem.
The blurb says
The title quotation, which reminds [...]
Posted in References and signposts, tagged brighton, psychogeography, I-Spy, virgin, clock tower on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Having used a fairly recent (1992) I-Spy book as the springboard for a flight of fancy, I thought it would be fun to get one of the older ones and see what differences there might be. I-Spy on the Pavement came out in 1961, the year I was born, so that’s the one I decided [...]
Posted in References and signposts, tagged brighton, psychogeography, peel, mere england, bucks, buckinghamshire footpaths, buckinghamshire, #hopenothate on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The next legs of the journey will take me through Buckinghamshire. This being the case, I have picked up a guidebook of sorts: Buckinghamshire Footpaths, by J.H.B. Peel, found in Wigtown (‘Scotland’s book town’) while on holiday. Buckinghamshire Footpaths was published in 1949, when a Britain battered by war was re-creating itself, and part [...]
Posted in References and signposts, tagged bibendum, festival of britain, gehazi, glentrool, Gordon McGregor, I-Spy, michelin, product, Product magazine, psychogeography on June 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Psychogeography, the practice of creating new visions of the urban environment through mindful walking, is everywhere these days. Pick up a comic book for instance – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910 – and there, alongside A. J. Raffles, Orlando, MacHeath and Ishmael, is Iain Sinclair, ‘the country’s leading proponent of “psychogeography”‘, in the [...]
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