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Unofficial Britain: The Tower

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 30/08/2014
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We have contributed a short piece called The Tower to Unofficial Britain which you can find here

Unofficial Britain is a new hub for unusual perspectives on the landscape of the British Isles, exploring the urban, the rural and those spaces in between. It is the creation of Gareth E. Rees, author of the highly recommended Marshland: Dreams & Nightmares on the Edge of London, published by Influx Press. He is also author of The Marshman Chronicles and is now broadcasting weird missives from the coastline of East Sussex.

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Now playing: Githead – ‘Transmission Tower’ from Landing

Tags Birmingham, Edgbaston, Gareth E. Rees, Marshland, Short Story, The Tower, Tolkien, Unofficial Britain

Observation Psychogeography Some Questions of the Drift

Some Questions of the Drift

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 30/10/2013
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Weather vane, NSEW, blue sky, light — Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy

“I ask you:

– What is the weight of light?“

– Clarice Lispector

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Merchant's House, Kirkcaldy — Merchant’s House, Kirkcaldy

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– What are the colours of time?

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Merchant's House Kirkcaldy II — Merchant’s House Kirkcaldy II

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– What are the sounds of the stones?

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– When does the inside become the outside?

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Rosyth Church - East Gable Inner - from West — Rosyth Church – East Gable Inner – from West

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Gravestone, decay, erosion — St Cuthbert’s Churchyard, Edinburgh

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– What is the material of memory?

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– What would the trees think?

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Scot's Pine - Devilla Forest, Fife — Devilla Forest, Fife

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Limekilns, Fife

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– What is the geography of a butterfly?

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CIMG1841 — Lochore Meadows, Fife

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– What is the shape of flight?

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– When does the local become – the universal?

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Burntisland from The Binn

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– Where does the sky begin?

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Digbeth Derive — Digbeth, Birmingham

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– What is the taste of place?

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Digbeth Birmingham — Cafe now Open – Digbeth Birmingham

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WP_000110 — Custard Factory, Digbeth

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– Where are the energy flows?

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WP_000105 — Abandoned factory, Digbeth

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– What is the future of the past?

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Watching over Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow — Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

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– Who watches the watcher?

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George Square, Glasgow

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– Who controls this space?

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– Who determines the boundary?

CIMG1210 — Hadrian’s Wall

Berlin Wall — The Berlin Wall

Keep Out — Limekilns, Danger, Keep Out

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Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow — Sauchiehall Street Glasgow

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– Where is the coldness of the sun?

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– What is the gravity of the moon?

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at Mogwai play Zidane, Broomielaw, Glasgow

Rosyth Station, Car Park

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– Where is the boundary of night?

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Under Regent Bridge, Calton Road, Edinburgh (Callum Innes installation).

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Where is the future of freedom?

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Stirling Jail car park mural. Detail from Freedom Versions v.1

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– What is the distance of love?

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Berlin Wall, late 1980s. Looking towards the East

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Opening quote from Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star.

The photos of the Berlin Wall are from an inter-railing trip in the late 1980s. It was a coincidence to rediscover them in an old shoebox on the day that it was announced Lou Reed had died. I can still vividly recall a lurid, orange BASF cassette being pressed into my hand in the school playground. “Listen to this!” It was a recording of Rock n Roll Animal. Things changed.

I can still remember a number of the cassettes that travelled in the rucksack on that inter-railing adventure. Berlin was certainly one of them.

Now playing: Lou Reed – Berlin. RIP LR.

Encounters Field Trip Observation

Ephemera: Dead Cars Dream …

Post author By Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
Post date 22/07/2013
4 Comments on Ephemera: Dead Cars Dream …

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Now playing: Poltergeist- Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder).

Photographs taken in Digbeth, Birmingham.

Tags Alchemy, Birmingham, Dead Cars, Digbeth, Fife Psychogeography, plant growth, poetry

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