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Sketching in the Olympic Park
Walking round the Olympic Park with HTA Sketch Club admiring the set piece buildings and retreating to Hackney Wick for a pint and review of our work. I didn’t get much drawn but for other people’s super views of the velodrome and other sites go to:
http://www.hta.co.uk/news/posts/september-sketch-club
Steve Tomlinson of the London Legacy Development Corporation showed us round.
Back at Stratford International a week later enjoying it’s Futurist drama.
Reunion 12 October 2013
A long, relaxed walk around London with Ali Stephen, Campbell Reid, Duncan McKinnon and Kevin Allsop. 25 years since we all went to college together. It was just like I remember it: a day spent looking at architecture, getting a few drinks, arguing about politics and ending up looking out of place and unpopular in a disco.
Whilst I’m not sure the sketchbook helped my disco credentials, the benefit of the twenty five years is that I no longer have to care.
Looking forward to doing it again in another 25 years.
Golden Wedding 5 October 2013
Celebrating my parents’ Golden Wedding at Kinellan House: good food, speeches, slides and a song.
Later on we saw a bit of Fiddler on the Roof.
A good day.
Uncles – 22 September 2013
Keith and Marc sleeping on the couch after Sunday lunch, as they tend to do.
Sandy spinning Fraser. David to follow.
The Invisible Man at the Festival – August 2013
Each year, Edinburgh has about 13 festivals and about 4million people turn up to watch what’s going on. Just now it’s full. As in most things, it’s the mediocre that predominates, whether it’s dull stand ups from dull BBC panel shows or formulaic street performers. There’s always good stuff too and the whole office went to Kazakoshi, Japanese drumming by these guys:
This was pretty ecstatic.
Whilst it’s hard to capture the transformation in the streets, it’s fun to try. From an attractive, temporary (“pop up”?!) cafe the street performers don’t seem so bad.
Ash Gupta and brave designers 14 August 2013
The original mini weighed 617kgs, the new one weighs 1510kgs. Lighter cars perform better so that’s fifty years of car industry design development heading in the wrong direction. I met Ash on the train and we talked about designers who are brave enough to imagine how technology can change the way we live, for the better.
Disruptive technology is what the digital camera was to the film camera, and what the electric car might be to the internal combustion engine. Ash now markets disruptive technology:
http://www.guptapartnership.com/homepage.html
He is now part of the launch of BMW’s electric ‘i3’, getting the car industry back on track perhaps. Antonio Sant’elia would be proud.
Two chemists on the train 3 July 2013
Two slightly mischeivous chemists brightened up the journey home from London.
Dunc & Sonia and Castleward on the BBC 30 May 2013
A meal out with Julie, Sarah, Sonia and Dunc (he’s the one on the right) at Porto and Fi on the mound. The little courtyard on the west side is about the nicest place in Edinburgh for a drink on summer evening. Food was good for four out of the five of us.
I’d started the day in Derby for the start on site ceremony for our Castleward project. This was filmed by the local BBC, who turned up a bit late, so we did the event twice. Surprisingly (in my view) the 3 speeches were better the second time.
The local news report: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sb8lfy95ihyhbd/bbc%201%20east%20midlands%20%2030.05.1338.wmv
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