Its 3.40AM scotch time. I am just back from a 50th birthday party in a giant green house, which is part of the Peoples Palace Museum on Glasgow Green. It was Iain Adie`s birthday, he, I suppose was really the inventor of the Tartan Army. It was a good night with many of the musicians from the Stockwell Triangle performing. But the rest is for when I have finished from the Bank to Bill`s Tool Store. I am listening to Keith Jaretts wonderful Koln concert, I have put it on repeat, oh for the sun streaming in the window when I awake.
Bliss? Yes
Saturday, April 30, 2005
To George Square
Didn`t notice if Wellington had his orange hat on, the sun was still shining!!!
Headed up to George Square, noticed all the white tents, thought the art fair was over, I think its still a tenner entrance fee. I`m glad we still have a democratic arts setup in Glasgow. Does anyone know if Glasgow gets a fair commercial rent for such prime site space. Ok I know they may still have a half day at the end when the poor can get in, so that must be OK!!, it certainly helps keep the Elite out of art. Call me a Phyllis dine , I gave it a miss. After all I was about to pass by Page & Park at Armani, and their might be a treat in their John Street window. Nup no model of a giant dildo being gripped by king Kongs hand in that window. Mabey next time I`m passing, I will check to see if there is a London Bobbies Helmet instead.
Any way, round the corner and straight thru Glasgows all weather, all year round, street cafe scene, got thru that without encountering to many "gaping maws like roll on roll off ferries munching down on", didn`t stop to see, so don`t know what the menu munchies were. Quick Glance into the window of Hutchinson`s Hall, well worth a visit. Very helpful very friendly staff, lovely shop, well stocked and for some strange reason, very heavily stocked with scottish and glasgow made art craft work. ARE THESE PEOPLE MAD , LOTTERY WINNERS ON A MISSION, OR NOT WITH THE PROGRAMME.
RIDDLE ME THIS, YOU NAT TRUST LEFTIES, why aren`t you stocking thirty bob little red glass hearts bundled into chintzie little wicker baskets like GOMA, don`t you realise that you could maximise your city centre square foot profitability if you got rid of all this scottish stuff!!! Lets face it if they are still living and making in scotland they are plainly of international insignificance.
Listen girls, gimmie a phone, and I will
1. Put a list together of some great guys who have learned how to use scottish arts and crafts commissions as a wonderful opencast pit to extract lots of lovely dosh and export it outa here in truely magnificient cavalier fashion. Whas like us? vor sprung dur technik!!!!
2. Help yoose get registered in the Caymans
3. Show you how to buy islands in the sun, lets face it Greek and chums days are numbered.
Round the corner and into Ingram Street, no time to go into Hutchinsons Hall, which is a pity, a truely ecelectic range of artist craftsman designer work all for sale, and not massively overpriced. Made in Scotland by scots and people who have chosen Scotland as their home. If your are a tourist in Glasgow and want a flavour of Glasgow or Scotland to take away, go here. Check my links on the right.
Headed up to George Square, noticed all the white tents, thought the art fair was over, I think its still a tenner entrance fee. I`m glad we still have a democratic arts setup in Glasgow. Does anyone know if Glasgow gets a fair commercial rent for such prime site space. Ok I know they may still have a half day at the end when the poor can get in, so that must be OK!!, it certainly helps keep the Elite out of art. Call me a Phyllis dine , I gave it a miss. After all I was about to pass by Page & Park at Armani, and their might be a treat in their John Street window. Nup no model of a giant dildo being gripped by king Kongs hand in that window. Mabey next time I`m passing, I will check to see if there is a London Bobbies Helmet instead.
Any way, round the corner and straight thru Glasgows all weather, all year round, street cafe scene, got thru that without encountering to many "gaping maws like roll on roll off ferries munching down on", didn`t stop to see, so don`t know what the menu munchies were. Quick Glance into the window of Hutchinson`s Hall, well worth a visit. Very helpful very friendly staff, lovely shop, well stocked and for some strange reason, very heavily stocked with scottish and glasgow made art craft work. ARE THESE PEOPLE MAD , LOTTERY WINNERS ON A MISSION, OR NOT WITH THE PROGRAMME.
RIDDLE ME THIS, YOU NAT TRUST LEFTIES, why aren`t you stocking thirty bob little red glass hearts bundled into chintzie little wicker baskets like GOMA, don`t you realise that you could maximise your city centre square foot profitability if you got rid of all this scottish stuff!!! Lets face it if they are still living and making in scotland they are plainly of international insignificance.
Listen girls, gimmie a phone, and I will
1. Put a list together of some great guys who have learned how to use scottish arts and crafts commissions as a wonderful opencast pit to extract lots of lovely dosh and export it outa here in truely magnificient cavalier fashion. Whas like us? vor sprung dur technik!!!!
2. Help yoose get registered in the Caymans
3. Show you how to buy islands in the sun, lets face it Greek and chums days are numbered.
Round the corner and into Ingram Street, no time to go into Hutchinsons Hall, which is a pity, a truely ecelectic range of artist craftsman designer work all for sale, and not massively overpriced. Made in Scotland by scots and people who have chosen Scotland as their home. If your are a tourist in Glasgow and want a flavour of Glasgow or Scotland to take away, go here. Check my links on the right.
Friday, April 29, 2005
I went to the Bank
I went to bank for the studio today, and remembered to take a camera with me at long last!
I have been meaning to put up a site about the detail and details that I come across as a result of both working and living in the heart of a busy city like Glasgow. In Glasgow like any city around the world you are bombarded with detail, whether you notice it or not, and very often its the detail, rather than the grand architectural and cultural statements of a city, that impact on us as visitors and inhabitants.
I thought at first I would just do a photo diary, but as I started clicking images today, I found that I had something either to comment on, critise, praise. I was not creating art photography, but merely capturing what had come about at that click in time, but as I clicked, opinions formed.
So here we go!
Personally I would not have thought that such a bland place as a bank, would have been a starting place for a journey, but I had not waited long and it was a sunny day.
Journey 1
On leaving the bank, I did a right up Queen Street, crossed over and headed for GOMA, as I passed a little fashion boutique called STONS, I thought "that was a good image" but I had passed it (I will go back tomorrow). A quick tour round the ground floor in GOMA presented me with some familar and unfamilar images, it was a pleasant comfortable experience.
However I really was heading to the un-arti Bill's Tool Store over in the Barrowland area of the city. To set myself up for that impending retail experience, I decided to drop into the GOMA shop on the way out. I am sure that it does well, but it was a dissapointing experience. It seemed to carry as much stock in a very small space , as I was about to be confronted with, in the not so cavernous Bill's Tool Store . It was like walking into a pound shop, that sold, pile it high, art, but not at pound shop prices. It sold the usual eclectic mix of international art nicks and nacks interspersed with some token Glasgow stuff, well what I really noticed was Mackintosh bits and pieces. Most of the culture sector are highly vocal about toshienalia or Macincrap, however if its made in Glasgow, or even Scotland, and to a good standard, I can see little harm in it.
Any way!, left GOMA same way as I came in, thru the Saturday Night Fever entrance way. Don`t know why they went to the expense, at the time, of Nikki Saint Phalle, when they could have got Glasgow entertainments Entreprenur, Frank Lynch to do not only as good but better a job. He might even have done it for nothing if they had named a floor after him!
Just think The Frank Lynch Gallery at the Top of GOMA. Brings back memories of the old Green's days.. ahhh!
Any way, again, this is the first image that hits you as you go out the middle door, it`s right below Wellington's horses arse.
I have been meaning to put up a site about the detail and details that I come across as a result of both working and living in the heart of a busy city like Glasgow. In Glasgow like any city around the world you are bombarded with detail, whether you notice it or not, and very often its the detail, rather than the grand architectural and cultural statements of a city, that impact on us as visitors and inhabitants.
I thought at first I would just do a photo diary, but as I started clicking images today, I found that I had something either to comment on, critise, praise. I was not creating art photography, but merely capturing what had come about at that click in time, but as I clicked, opinions formed.
So here we go!
Personally I would not have thought that such a bland place as a bank, would have been a starting place for a journey, but I had not waited long and it was a sunny day.
Journey 1
On leaving the bank, I did a right up Queen Street, crossed over and headed for GOMA, as I passed a little fashion boutique called STONS, I thought "that was a good image" but I had passed it (I will go back tomorrow). A quick tour round the ground floor in GOMA presented me with some familar and unfamilar images, it was a pleasant comfortable experience.
However I really was heading to the un-arti Bill's Tool Store over in the Barrowland area of the city. To set myself up for that impending retail experience, I decided to drop into the GOMA shop on the way out. I am sure that it does well, but it was a dissapointing experience. It seemed to carry as much stock in a very small space , as I was about to be confronted with, in the not so cavernous Bill's Tool Store . It was like walking into a pound shop, that sold, pile it high, art, but not at pound shop prices. It sold the usual eclectic mix of international art nicks and nacks interspersed with some token Glasgow stuff, well what I really noticed was Mackintosh bits and pieces. Most of the culture sector are highly vocal about toshienalia or Macincrap, however if its made in Glasgow, or even Scotland, and to a good standard, I can see little harm in it.
Any way!, left GOMA same way as I came in, thru the Saturday Night Fever entrance way. Don`t know why they went to the expense, at the time, of Nikki Saint Phalle, when they could have got Glasgow entertainments Entreprenur, Frank Lynch to do not only as good but better a job. He might even have done it for nothing if they had named a floor after him!
Just think The Frank Lynch Gallery at the Top of GOMA. Brings back memories of the old Green's days.. ahhh!
Any way, again, this is the first image that hits you as you go out the middle door, it`s right below Wellington's horses arse.
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