Doffy’s exhibition, IceSpace, at Pages last night was a huge success. Obviously, we forgot to take any pictures until after almost everyone had left, but it was packed from beginning to end. With several photographs already sold, make sure you come and check out the show before the end of the month.
Check out this catalogue.
Dear David , thank you for a great day it was nice for Dad to have a good face-to-face, though I remembered after that I had meant to talk to you about Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin.
Do you know I dont think your hair is suited to such a big beard because it’s growing like your hair used to when you were a kid. Do you remember? It only grew upwards in a great bush (though softer than the beard). If you could take it down a few inches it would be easier for you to maintain. This is your Mother speaking …. I do think its a nice colour, although there is too much of it.
I am also worried about your diet, or lack of it. You cannot survive on tea and fizzy drinks. Could you at least start the day with some cereal or brown bread and yoghurt. The yogurt we buy is a Savers plain one from Sainsbury’s and its only 54p for a big 3 portion pot and is probiotic . We have just had Uncle Mick to stay who has had a fungus nail bed infection for years and it was pretty nasty to look at. Aunty Eva once had it in her toes and it healed after she had a better diet with more cereal and she cut down on foods that had yeast. So soda bread and less cheese and more cereal would be better for you to keep healthy. Also, not so much caffeine and sugar as well as things like beer. I just want you to keep well and have all the health and energy that you will need for the years ahead.
I really enjoyed the book, thank you so much for lending it to me.
Lots of love,
Mum
This is one of those things that you either know about (and have been waiting in anticipation for a long time) or you don’t (and you find the whole thing very confusing).
So the Puffin Designer Classics Collection is the same idea as the Penguin Designer Classics Collection that were sold last year and now (the Paul Smith one in particular) change hands on Ebay for around £1000. (If you don’t believe me then click here and consider yourself corrected).
The idea is to have very famous artists, designers and architects design books that are limited to only 1000 copies and therefore slowly increase in value.
We’ve had so much interest in these that we are unable to hold stock for any one person on goodwill. If you are interested in buying one of these books then email us at info@pagesofhackney.co.uk with the amount you are willing to pay from £100 upwards. A decision will then be made on 2.9.2010.
We have:
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Designed by Antony Gormley.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Designed by Frank Gehry
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Designed by Sir Peter Blake.
Just finished reading this and it’s a piece of pure escapism. One part a Grimm’s Fairy Tale the other a Guillermo Del Toro labyrinth. But definitely suitable for both children and adults. Here’s the blurb:
In the garden behind the cottage grows an ancient oak that hides a secret. The young boy who lives in the cottage couldn’t care less about the tree and certainly doesn’t know it is enchanted. But the faeries soon change this . . . They cast a spell that causes the ancient oak to swallow the boy whole. As the seasons pass, the boy trapped inside begins to experience the world as a tree and regret his cruelty toward nature. But the oak does not let him go. Then a new family with a young girl moves into the cottage. The girl senses magic behind the mystery of the boy who disappeared there many years ago. Will she discover the faeries and what they’ve done? And, more importantly, will she be able to break the spell?
Ice Space – Doffy Weir
Private View – Thursday 2nd September 6-9pm
Show runs 2-30 Sept 2010
For 30 years Doffy Weir has stalked the canals and derelict industrial sites of East London with her camera, transforming the unlikely subjects into beautiful, surreal and tranquil otherworlds.
I get totally absorbed and excited by floating detritus which most people find ugly. I abstract forms and shapes, playing with light and skewing dimensions to create enigmatic and strange landscapes.
Click on the picture to see what 21st Century Moomin look like. Courtesy of Bjork.
Wu Ming describe themselves as a a mysterious collective of guerrillla novelists from Bologna, Italy. They are anonymous and no pictures of Wu Ming’s members have ever been published.
Their story starts with the Luther Blissett Project, an unlikely name selected (for reasons unknown) from a black footballer who represented Watford and AC Milan (but mostly Watford) during the 1980s. The project began in 1994 with hundreds of European artists, activists and pranksters adopting and sharing the same identity. They all called themselves Luther Blissett and started to raise hell in the cultural industry. It was a five year plan. They worked together to tell the world a great story, create a legend, give birth to a new kind of folk hero.
This Robin Hood of the information age waged a guerrilla warfare on the cultural industry, ran unorthodox solidarity campaigns for victims of censorship and repression and – above all – played elaborate media pranks as a form of art, always claiming responsibility and explaining what bugs they had exploited to plant a fake story.
Blissett was active also in other countries, especially in Spain and Germany.
December 1999 marked the end of the LBP’s Five Year Plan. All the “veterans” committed a symbolic seppuku (samurai ritual suicide). The end of the LBP did not entail the end of the name, which keeps re-emerging in the cultural debate and is still a popular byline on the web. Luther Blissett’s face was created by Andrea Alberti and Edi Bianco in 1994, by morphing old 1930′s and 1940′s portraits of WM1′s great-uncles.
Wu Ming will be coming to Pages of Hackney on October 12 2010.
