Ugly Surfaces?

Ugly surfaces?
We can find this models everywhere in the perifery of Lima and small towns in the provinces near lima there are no visibles boundaries anymore

Global Cities Exhibition in London

There is a very interesting exhibition called Global Cities in the turbine hall of Tate Modern until 27th August 2007. Click here to view info on the web.

Floral adverts in Lima

Visit London -Japan

London flight

Lima at Night

Privacy Glass

Visual Pollution

São Paulo goes advertising free - images by Tony de Marco on Flickr:



Unsurprisingly, the International Herald Tribune is not convinced...

Recently there was an action in London for environmental purposes to switch off electric lights for an hour across London, including the advertising in Piccadilly Circus, but unsurprisingly not that many companies took part...

Switch it off! details:

article on what happened with links to photos

What Piccadilly Circus advertising usually looks like.

(original post by Zoe 4th August 2007)

thoughts

THE SHOW IS OVER
THE AUDIENCE GET UP TO
LEAVE THEIR SEATS
TIME TO COLLECT THEIR
COATS AND GO HOME
THEY TURN AROUND
NO MORE COATS AND
NO MORE HOME

Christopher Wool, 1990 (painting)

Man muß kapieren, daß Theaterspielen nichts mit psychologie zu tun hat, daß es auf Vorstellungskraft ankommt - und Vorstellungskraft bedeutet, sich in Gedanken ein Bild von etwas zu machen. [...] Vorstellungskraft bedeutet ein eigenes Bild der Realität zu schaffen'
Els Dotterman, actress, in Luk Perceval: Theater als Ritual, ed. Thomas Irmer (2004)

Translation: You have to understand that theatre performance has nothing to do with psychology, that it's about the power of the imagination - and the power of imagining means being able to create an image of something in thought. [...] The power of imagining means being able to create your own image of reality.
Els Dotterman, actress, in Luk Perceval: Theater als Ritual, ed. Thomas Irmer (2004)

(original post by Zoe 30th June 2007)

Society

On Monday it was announced on the BBC that Britain has been found to have the lowest level of social mobility across a range of first world countries - due to our class system and education system. And that it is getting worse.

Some links to articles about this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,2111617,00.html

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/LSE_SuttonTrust_report.htm

(original post by Zoe 29th June 2007)

KFC in Kuwait

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kfcq8cropped.JPG