One Dead Man Photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released 7th edition of Schmap Rome Guide:
Hadrian's Villa
http://www.schmap.com/rome/activities_guided/p=13544/i=13544_57.jpg
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=rome&sid=activities_guided&p=13544&i=13544_57
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
some global facts [unreferenced though]
heres a little dose of reality for us coming to the end of our formal education and embarking on a 'professional' career!
see this book for some great insights into global knowledge systems...
Designing Universal Knowledge, Gerlinde Schuller, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008
see this book for some great insights into global knowledge systems...
Designing Universal Knowledge, Gerlinde Schuller, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008
Monday, 30 March 2009
The Bund Tourist Tunnel, Shanghai
"A pedestrian transit tunnel crosses the Huangpu River from the Bund. Passengers board slow-moving powered vehicles which travel along the tunnel, with light effects projected onto the walls of the tunnel. These effects are marketed as a tourist attraction."Thought this idea of practical transport solution come tourist attraction might be interesting for a few projects. For more photo's search Flickr, there a a few different light effects. It's a bit like Willy Wonka, you can watch it here.
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
The School of Life (Project Update)
This project is about traveling less but seeing more, it is about how economic and environmental factors appear certain to change our travel habits, and how we ought to respond; It is about holidaying at home.
It explores how the recently abandoned Sheffield City Airport may be reinvented into a holiday destination (of sorts), and why we should expect more than cheap flights to Spain from a strangely beautiful expanse of tarmac lying hidden among the City’s seven hills. Inspiration from the project comes from Des Esseintes and Baudelaire , two of literatures least intrepid but most thought provoking travelers. The Villa of Des Esseintes (from J.K. Huysmans 1884 novel A rebours. (See Chapter2) provides the ideological standpoint for reconsidering the notion of tourism.
‘For a proud but small minority open to poetry of a different sort, there’s at last an ideal travel agency to hand.’ 1
My Client is the School of Life’, a unusual travel agency who dispute the notion that our holidays ought to be about escaping reality, and instead propose that they should serve to enable us to understand the world in which we live. They offer holidays to the neglected corners of the everyday life, such as Holidays up the M1, a Holiday at Heathrow and weekends dedicated to looking at the sky.
My research has involved membership of the Sheffield Aero Club, thanks to John Dawson (who has both literally and metaphorically taken me into the clouds); and long days spent writing this report at Woodhall Services on the M1 watching the world go by.
It explores how the recently abandoned Sheffield City Airport may be reinvented into a holiday destination (of sorts), and why we should expect more than cheap flights to Spain from a strangely beautiful expanse of tarmac lying hidden among the City’s seven hills. Inspiration from the project comes from Des Esseintes and Baudelaire , two of literatures least intrepid but most thought provoking travelers. The Villa of Des Esseintes (from J.K. Huysmans 1884 novel A rebours. (See Chapter2) provides the ideological standpoint for reconsidering the notion of tourism.
‘For a proud but small minority open to poetry of a different sort, there’s at last an ideal travel agency to hand.’ 1
My Client is the School of Life’, a unusual travel agency who dispute the notion that our holidays ought to be about escaping reality, and instead propose that they should serve to enable us to understand the world in which we live. They offer holidays to the neglected corners of the everyday life, such as Holidays up the M1, a Holiday at Heathrow and weekends dedicated to looking at the sky.
My research has involved membership of the Sheffield Aero Club, thanks to John Dawson (who has both literally and metaphorically taken me into the clouds); and long days spent writing this report at Woodhall Services on the M1 watching the world go by.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
An addition to the reading list?
TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY, by Umberto Eco.
I've just started reading this as my bed-time book and (thus far at least) it's a really good read with a lot of relevance to our studio themes..."Faith in Fakes", as you can see opposite, is its subtitle.
So far it has been dealing with issues of authenticity, has touched on theme parks and our concepts of reality. Can recommend it!
See:
http://martucci670umd.blogspot.com/2008/04/umberto-eco-travels-in-hyper-reality.html for a good synopsis of the book (I've not yet read enough to do it justice!).
I've just started reading this as my bed-time book and (thus far at least) it's a really good read with a lot of relevance to our studio themes..."Faith in Fakes", as you can see opposite, is its subtitle.
So far it has been dealing with issues of authenticity, has touched on theme parks and our concepts of reality. Can recommend it!
See:
http://martucci670umd.blogspot.com/2008/04/umberto-eco-travels-in-hyper-reality.html for a good synopsis of the book (I've not yet read enough to do it justice!).
Thursday, 26 February 2009
'Touring Britain'
'Touring Britain' is a series of two TV programmes on BBC4, exploring the use of the travel guides. The first programme, which screened this evening, looked at the impact of the Baedeker guide:
"Cultural historian David Heathcote uses his favourite old 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore modern-day Britain, discovering unexpected delights and hidden treasures which were popular with Victorian tourists but are rarely visited today. Following in the footsteps of early American tourists who arrived off the boats in Liverpool, he takes the advice of the Guide and discovers 'the most fashionable of Welsh watering places'. The Guide then recommends a trip to the salt mines, popular with American visitors 100 years ago and, surprisingly, just as interesting today. He then travels on to Manchester, recommended by Baedeker as a hotbed of music, politics and radical thinking and discovers that the spirit of what attracted the curious visitors 100 years ago lives on. The journey ends in York where modern day tourists follow in the footsteps of their Victorian counterparts and enjoy the magnificent medieval city and cathedral. As he travels, Heathcote explores the story behind the guide books that were so influential in creating the independent traveller as we know it today."
It can be found on BBC iPlayer here.
Next week's programme will look at the Shell guides for motorists that were produced from the 1930's.
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