DT recommended Collapse by Jared Diamond recently when we were hiding out off the west coast of Scotland. There was a degree of confusion in the recommendation because I had …
Art by perpetrator – from reportage to pornography
A compelling article in the UKs guardian newspaper elegantly charts the artist’s inadvertent glorifying of war, leading to the stepping aside of the modernists, and the immediacy of contemporary media …
iPod Spears the Nostalgic Heart
I was a late converter to the iPod. The download generation is inherently lazy; there is no appreciation of the physical artefact, there is a distraction from the moment at …
A Small Step in the USA
I heard yesterday that Revolver are to undertake some distribution of PILGRIM in the States. The numbers being spoken off are pretty small – comically small actually – but it …
Goodness, Mercy and the Canonmills Heron
I attended a funeral this morning. There seems to be an ever increasing number of these in my life – and looking at the age and condition of many of …
The Point at the Point of the Ocean
We planned a route to the West, figured where there was the least likelihood of people, and effectively left the world. I hadn’t been through to the west coast of …
From whence arises this dystopic cry?
I was on the train out of town this afternoon, sleepy and stale, watching a small boy speaking with the conductor and unaccountably finding myself welling up with tears as …
Big, Big Baby
Ron Mueck has an exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy this summer. I am still not decided one way or the other how I feel about his work – but …
Avant-Indie Imperialism
Anyone noticed how the download generation have no idea how to dress? anyone noticed how everyone in left field, avant-garde, experimental, edgy, transgressive, dark, black, counter culture (and so on) …