Fog

I've made a new resolution to go out and photograph whenever it is foggy.

I want this for christmas

Selected out of an archive of 10,000 photographs, this is a documentation of Modernist architecture in the USSR from 1922 to 1932. Pare approaches the subject matter like the Strugatsky brothers' Stalkers, making journeys into the dilapidated working class quarters of the former Soviet Republics, bargaining for passes into military-industrial sites, and returning with depictions of exquisite objects that have, no doubt, seen better days. The book is, essentially, the final meeting point of the two poles of the Soviet Modernist aesthetic--the gleaming, seamless surfaces, revolutionary optimism and technocratic zeal having long since been overtaken by weathering, their concrete cracked, their artificial, glaring paintwork faded and crumbling and the technical rhetoric shown to conceal medieval construction techniques. Yet the archaeological scale of Pare's project is equally remarkable: an entire illustrated history of a country's Modernist architecture, which easily rivaled in its formal brilliance and the totality of its scope the 'classical Modernist' (and very well upkept) German and Dutch work of the 1920s and 30s.

Drive in Movies

octopussy in the guardian

see I havent even had time to write about our clown dressing up antics on here, the guardian newspaper got there first. well i dont imagine ever wanting to appear in a paper not in some sort of disguise!

err opera

i got recommended an opera called the immortal hour. opera has never appealed to me but this one sounds really interesting. the opera was first performed in the glastonbury festival of the 1920s - before michael eavis was about. In it's day it was more popular than lloyd webber. I love the 1920s.

filming

im thinking of getting involved in a film - its being made for a poetry film festival in berlin. 12 poets have written on topics related to bristol, the subject matter is grimey. it sounds like it is right up my street - a good antidote to the commercial stuff ive been doing - not that i dont enjoy that - its just pressure - itd be nice to do something that doesnt has a purpose

this is where I'm going

I can't wait to do nothing for a week, apart from taking a few pictures, i'm like those japanese tourists that cant enjoy stuff unless they photograph it, oh well.

Life Hacking - eh?

In keeping with the philosophy - ive copied this from a life hacking blog


What will life hacking do for me?

Productivity is within your grasp! Using life hacking tips, you can compress the activities of your daily life into less time, freeing up untold hours to spend reading life-hacking blogs, which in turn will allow you to compress your activities further, freeing up more time to read about life hacking, and so forth. Eventually, and with proper dedication, your life will be condensed into a productivity singularity, an activity so dense that fun cannot escape.

Yeah, OK, but I was looking for something more than a new word for my current slovenly habits. Can I get some actual tips here?

Sure, popular life-hacking blogs include the aforementioned lifehacker.com, 43folders.com, and our own howto.wired.com.

That doesn't sound so bad. That will give me a lot of time to do the things I enjoy, won't it?

That's the problem. Once your reach that point you'll be compelled to life hack even the things you enjoy. Do you like the zoo? Say goodbye to leisurely afternoons wandering from tamarin to tortoise. Once you reach the life-hacking event horizon, you'll be plotting combinatorially optimized zoo routes to maximize exposure to infant vertebrates while minimizing exposure to ecological screeds about endangered wetlands.

Bristol Urban Beach

I saw the new beach from out the back of the severn shed yesterday
they are obviously trying to make sure it attracts an interesting crowd - every Tuesday evening at 6pm they have some sort of ideas think tank type event

Top 100 responses to requests whilst DJing

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=27409#msg51

question: "Could you play some, you know, black music"

response: Look up Derrick May on the Internet.

Next Level Hotel, the Hydropolis

woah! and i thought the 4* hotel i stayed in last night was nice
just found out while doing some image research today they are building an underwater hotel in dubai - for more info http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/

KFC

nice web tool! create your own sign, here's mine


Make your own KFC sign at KentuckyFriedCruelty.com

Another reason not to eat chicken

The Beastie Boys have always had a lot to say about everything from partying and girls to politics, social causes, and the city that they love (NYC, of course). You name it, they’ve covered it without bowing to censorship, so it should come as no surprise that they have decided to speak out against KFC to defend the rights of chickens.

MCA, Adrock, and Mike D fired off a letter to KFC head honcho David Novak, asking him to follow PETA’s recommendations and eliminate the worst abuses that chickens raised and killed for KFC endure, including painful debeaking, life-long crippling, and live scalding.

If KFC treated dogs and cats the way that it treats the nearly 800 million chickens who are killed each year for its restaurants, the company would be facing felony cruelty-to-animals charges. Chickens are probably the most abused animals on Earth, enduring a lifetime of misery, and KFC has a responsibility to ensure that chickens raised for its restaurants are protected from the worst cruelties.

http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/w-whykfc.asp

who did damien rip off? err, africa?

Encrusted with nearly 9,000 diamonds and worth £50million, one is the latest work by the notorious artist Damien Hirst.


The other is mass-produced in China and costs a mere £128.

My Gosh. There are skulls made out of diamonds, rice, lentils, sequins, pearls, beads, plastic and fabric in every high street in the country so why did the daily mail decide to pick on a piece of chinese jewellry to point out damien hirst is a rip off merchant?

Lets face it - everyone loves skulls! I love the damien hirst skull, just not the price tag, it's probably a rather unethical art buy too. Last Monday, the former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor went on trial in The Hague for war crimes in which diamond trafficking played a major role. just four days before the hirst skll was unveiled

But if coincidence, is it fair to make the link? Should every starry-eyed young couple looking for an engagement ring have to worry about how diamonds are mined in Africa? Need Hirst feel guilty that Taylor allegedly supplied weapons to gangs terrorizing Sierra Leone in the 1990s in exchange for diamonds?

hmm. Watch this space for the 'answer back' object !

i like this guy - i tried power dressing for a bit in the 90s when i worked for IBM. people really didn't like it
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43032

EARWAX

http://www.discogs.com/release/740449

slow to cotton on (it came out last year) i played this record 4 times in one night its BIG

one of the best known antidotes to breakcore

earplugs are available from specsavers optitions, but you must get rid of any excess earwax before getting them fitted

narchotecture

apparently afghanistan is pretty hot right now on the new architecture front

im gonna find some pictures for the blog but in the meantime...

http://www.el-cartel.net/new/

http://www.cuisining.com / birthday party

its me sophie and ed dmx

buf selection april 07

CD ready - email me for a copy

tracklist:

Give It What You Got 4:20 B.T. Express
You Make No Sense 2:20 ESG
Reduction 5:26 Material
Inmate Man 2:32 Steve Grossman
Greenery 1:51
Trojan Horus [Part 2] 2:29 The Black Dog Silenced
Wake The Town 3:24 Fat Eyes
All he Time The Lyric A Rhyme 3:44 Tippa Irie
Southern Comfort 5:01 Burial
You Hurt Me 5:22 Burial
Laff At Em (Give It To Me Remix) 3:28 Timbaland, Jay-Z, & Timberland
Oh No (Sentimental Things) (DJ Oxide Remix) 4:36 The So Solid Crew ft. Romeo, Lisa Maffia & Megaman Clear 2:28 Cybertron

Tim Eve at the great wall of china

im printing out Tim's photograph at 2x3ft for my wall its pretty wicked...

Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum

I took this on monday

Model World

I love Naoki Honjo's work

Go Future Days!

Ellen ALien rates my mates tune!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-chart.aspx?id=617&chart=133

I am the Skulldisco Superfan!

I love Skull Disco, The tunes of Appleblim and Shackleton, they tickle my earbones and kneebones.

Drive in Movies

Ive never been to a drive in movie, It'd be cool to white out a billboard and have an impromptu drive in movie in the street...

http://www.theplayers.fm/

a new site where you can geek away your time looking for mixes you like of the electronic music variety

Bufferzone Online

Hello this is Buf. Im using this blog as a place to post ideas, photos, music, links etc and to keep track of my stuff online. The stuff that goes on here is the more personal work that I continue to produce in the form of ideas, photos and music.

To see my photos go to www.lizeve.com, www.fotohaus.co.uk/liz and www.fotohaus.co.uk
To hear about my photo / writing projects with partner in crime Emily Kearns go to www.eeek.org
To see the agency that deals with my architectural work go to www.arcaid.co.uk
To see my myspace go to www.myspace.com/lizzieeve
To check out me and my dj partner in crime su-real go to www.myspace.com/octopussy2