...Iain Sinclair checked into the Resonance FM 104.4 studio on London’s Borough High Street to read from his new poem, Fifty Catacomb Saints, with live free-improvisational accompaniment by the AMM All-Stars ...
"Fifty Catacomb Saints is our 21st Century Illuminations, only this time the light does not glint from the upturned rose bowl of the Crystal Palace, it is from the gold-sprayed teeth of the dead." #poetry #Psychogeography
https://blackd.substack.com/p/poet-of-london-iain-sinclair-at-80?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1565292&post_id=136753640&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2ip5kl&utm_medium=email

If it's Friday, it must be time for a window.
I'll leave you to create your own narrative about what is going on here though.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Photography #Landscape #View #Psychogeography

another ORT: field recordings out of the unsettling rooms of the former Oxford barracks / Flakkserne in Münster / Germany, manipulated and remixed with recordings from other places, developed out of the psychogeographic field exploration / audiovisual installation "Ort ohne Heimweh" in collaboration with Thomas Gerhards, Werner Rückemann, Oxford barracks, Münster, Germany.
soundart #granularsynthesis #musiqueconcrete #drone #deeplistening #psychogeography

https://open.audio/library/tracks/399982/

Footprints always seem a bit mysterious, don't they? They can so easily bring out the latent Sherlock Holmes in us all.

Who was this person? What were they doing? Where were they going? When did they pass this way? And why?

This is in portrait format - it's really much more interesting if you expand it.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #Footprints #Psychogeography #BlackAndWhite

It's a sunny Saturday in late summer. What better than a walk down by the lazy river? What better than seeing nature reflected to impressionist perfection in the still waters?

Montbretia may be an invasive species, but it's hard not to be uplifted by those red and orange blossoms at the tail end of summer.

This is in square format.

#Photography #Landscape #Flowers #Nature #Water #River #Psychogeography

I am going to #Colfax for #psychogeography on the #trashBike. I have a set of squares from the #internetOfSquares in the basket. These squares represent a self replicating set. I also have a #Geometron #hyperCube with 3 fresh sharpies from last night's trip to target. It's way too hot. I almost forgot my water and only remembered because I stopped to post this.

I am currently making a lot of #cardboard squares for the #internetOfSquares. The #quest I will go on with them is on #southBroadway between #evans and #alameda in #denver.I do not know the most effective way to deploy these squares. This is a #psychogeography exercise, in which the way the memes fit into the #street will unfold as I go on the #derive. Loosely, this is an attempt to interact with the so-called "green mile" and see if we can find a way to connect with that and get free #weed.

It's a public holiday in the UK today - the notorious August Bank Holiday, when half the world is out and about 'enjoying' the last of the summer.

I'm not a great one for crowds and bustle though, so I think I'll just spend the day in my hammock, looking up at the dappled light through the leaves of a field maple, and reading a good book...

#Photography #Nature #Summer #Trees #Psychogeography

Whenever I'm in West Yorkshire, I like to visit Saltaire. At the centre of this model village, built by Titus Salt for his workers in the 1850s, lies Salts Mill. Once the largest industrial building in the world by floor area, the mill is now given over to galleries, shops, and cafes.
It always has works on display by local-boy-made-good, David Hockney, and I sat on the bench here for some time admiring his stuff and its setting.

#Photography #Art #Gallery #Culture #Yorkshire #Psychogeography

For #silentSunday

#copenhagen #refshaleøen #psychogeography

Here's something colourful for a Saturday.

I found this classic, old-school, art materials shop on the Left Bank, in Paris, as I was wandering around the Latin Quarter one day - not far from Shakespeare and Co. It had pastels and pencils by the yard. I do hope it's still there.

This is in portrait format - enlarge to see the whole image.

#Photography #Paris #Art #Colour #Shop #Psychogeography

Here's a litttle offering for #FensterFreitag, culled from my recent trip to London.
This is a view of Canary Wharf - a prodigious battery of cliff-faced buildings; structures made of glass and reflecting nothing but shades of blue and green.
I remember when this was a working dockland, and another time when it was a complete wasteland - maybe it still is.
How long till all these monsters stand empty again, I wonder?

#Photography #Urban #Blue #Green #Pattern #Abstract #Psychogeography #Windows

Here is a typical, summery scene on a UK beach.

My advice is to not go in the water...

#MeerMittwoch #Photography #Seaside #Beach #Sea #Flag #Psychogeography

@bryceb you were saying releaf is a geometry company, I would say geography is a subset of that.

#psychogeography!!

this is a social media for that.

A sleepy alley for #SilentSunday

Kinda wish I was strolling along it right now, admiring the poppies in the hot sun...

#Photography #Psychogeography #Heat #Sun #Industrial

This is Paris in summertime - by night and in the rain. Sometimes these things are best seen from the comfort of a dry room with a window...

This is in portrait format - expand to see full image.

#Photography #Paris #StreetPhotography #Night #Rain #Psychogeography

I have been surprised to find quite how many pictures of shuttered windows I seem to take. No doubt it says something about me, but I'm not sure quite what.

This one appears to show, perhaps, the house belonging to Barbie's slovenly neighbours.

This is in portrait format - expand to see full image.

#FensterFreitag #Photography #Colour #Windows #Blue #Pink #Psychogeography

I started watching Paris, Texas again after many years. #wimwenders great examination of #america and the open #west . I know #samshepard wrote the #screenplay but it feels highly indebted to #bobbylouisehawkins writing. The film shares some #psychogeography with the work of #davidlynch but it's more mature, more #existential ... they don't make them like this anymore, and we're all the worse for it. #cinema #film https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/27/paris-texas-review-harry-dean-stanton-unforgettable-in-haunting-classic

11 years late to this review: "psychogeography as it was before 2000: exclusively used and understood in activist/anarchist/left-wing Marxist terms... not by definition a good thing because the overall tone is one of sectarian self-righteousness gift wrapped in academically sanctified forms." From here http://cryptoforest.blogspot.com/2011/10/psychogeographical-publications-from.html The full text of my contribution to issue 4 of Transgressions from 1998 can be found here https://www.academia.edu/13459469/Moving_Mountains_Shamanic_Rock_Art_and_the_International_of_Experimental_Artists #shamanism #CoBrA #surrealism #psychogeography #RockArt

Who paints a wall that colour, I wonder? And who paints a wall and window surround so nicely, but doesn't bother to paint the window shutters?

There's a whole psychological study to unravel, right here.
"It's not easy being green", as the song goes...

#FensterFreitag #Photography #WindowFriday #Green #Psychogeography

This is in portrait format - you've got to expand to see the full picture.