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Saturday 3 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Adam, Karen and Lisa bring you a surprise outside broadcast from a glamourous mystery location in London town. They're there trying to choose nice things to style and furnish Lawson Park with, so will be addressing burning issues such as
"Swags - too 2006, or worthy of reinvention?"
and
"The return of the coloured bathroom suite - should we start the trend?"
Topics: 'outside broadcast' 'London'
Friday 2 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Backdoor bees
Farmyard Radio sadly failed to transmit from a distant yard this week - the beautiful farms of Nanlin, Gwandong province of southern China where director Adam is shepherding artists for the 'Happy Stacking' project.
The great Fire Wall of China got in the way Dorian suspects...
See the Happy Stacking project website to see what we're up to uncensored.
Topics: 'China' 'censorship' 'residencies'
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Friday 25 April '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
We'll be taking a break from the mike today as everyone's at a GA Board meeting and you wouldn't want us to broadcast that.
On the plus side the arrival of a new mixer and mikes means you'll notice a massive audio quality upswing next week though of course the content will remain just as bad.
A bientot!
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Friday 18 April '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Adam, Alistair and Lisa talk about the unseasonably cold weather, how the pick up lost its wheel and what it is like to hitch hike in the Lake District. Other hot topics will include the progress of the drilling crew and other building works. Delicate issues like why the A Foundation wont pay up and why the Chinese Embassy has declined Adam's visa application will be skirted round.
Topics: 'weather' 'Liverpool' 'money' 'China' 'ground source heat pump'
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Thursday 17 April '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Go Alistair
Alistair does dynamic as he wrestles with the Box of Kurt Schwitters over in Langdale. The site is the garden in which Schwitters made his Cumbrian Mertz barn (funded by New York MoMA), now in the ownership of Littoral - an arts agency based in Lancashire. They are bringing the buildings, garden and Mertz barn back into use as a research/education centre. We are planting some of the Box as one of those urban place signs
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Thursday 17 April '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
The Great Table of Cumbria
Oh boy, what a table, the conference table at the Malcolm Wilson Rally Headquarters in Cumbria. I was at a meeting there, something called Culture Cumbria - I know a contradiction in terms, but.
The venue was supposed to illustrate the great things of Cumbria, this mighty table must be one of them. The whole place was a kind of heart of Darkness experience, plastic trophies everywhere and a racing driver wife sensibility throughout married to this manly beast of design excellence. Looks like the kind of thing that a man that does all his Christmas shopping in Halfords would come up with, 'what's wrong with a steering wheel cover, an ideal ladies gift'.
The meeting did its usual Cumbria centric fanfare of self importance we were told that the Kendal Mountain Film Festival was the most diverse film festival in Europe, thats a film festival centred around one screen over a weekend, blows Edinburgh and London outta the water, The clue to the falseness of this statement is in the title of the festival - Mountain Films, not really leading in terms of diversity being mostly about mountains. Other great things we have include the largest outdoor art festival in Europe, all run on a budget of 30k - Munster shmunster. I could go on, but it really is too embarrassing.
Topics: 'Malcolm Wilson Rally' 'Culture Cumbria' 'furniture' 'film festivals' 'self-importance'
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Embarrassing? This certainly is. Aren't you on the Board of CC? I suggest you remove yourself. Or are you simply arrogant and hypocritical? Oh, but you're in China. Right on!
Brenda, while the tone of voice is wrong the message is right. If Adam hopes to bring some sanity through cynicism to yet another backslapping culture initiative who only know how to waste money and not value it then good luck to him.
I am on the board of CC and principally because any organisation wishing to access the very large sums of public money distributed by this quango were informed that could not even apply unless they were members of this constructed group. I am cynical because it is too painful to be straight about these things. I try to be honest about what I do, the openness of the blog entries are meant to express that. I would like the arts to have some integrity - it seems that most arts activity in Cumbria is knowingly dishonest - this misinformation causes all sorts of problems not least with credibility but more importantly with how Cumbria sees itself. The starting point for change and improvement has to be an honest appraisal of where we currently are. Within the meetings of CC I am articulate and critical in a serious way, however I am not sure if the content of these meetings is exactly readable blog material - although saying that the new Cumbria Tourism study is a hilarious read. If you are interested in more detailed analysis I would be happy to forward documents.
Re China I find it a bit rich that the west seems so comfortable in its criticism. Per person Chinese people contribute minimally to carbon production having in the main none of the luxuries of the west. Politically it is hard for the west to point fingers, we live under a system that promotes inequality and goes to war with 'other' ideologies and religions. We live in a system that controls it's people very effectively. And by the way people are people, if you have a look at the blog from China I think that is evident. The work we are doing there is in a small eco village and a highly idealistic company that is trying to forge a 'new way'. I hope that we can bring some of that idealism and ambition back to Cumbria. And yes I am arrogant and hypocritical, but then we all have faults don't we.
Friday 11 April '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Friday 4 April '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Friday 28 March '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Adam and Lisa talking about the Collection, the building and stuff
Topics: 'Lawson Park Collection' 'construction' 'building'
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Thursday 27 March '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
The over zealous apprentice was apparently killed for overdoing it with this column and is buried under it
When Ruskin was in charge of the Oxford museum, he, following his own doctrine that the architect should have practical skills - insisted on building one of the columns himself. It was later rebuilt by the builder. I feel a column coming on.
Topics: 'architecture' 'Ruskin'
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Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- being different[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[2]
- construction[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- fungi[1]
- furniture[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- Guest Room[1]
- handling[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[1]
- residencies[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- self-importance[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- soul music[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- Texas[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- USA[1]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Farmyard Radio, myvillages.org
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I'm a great fan of the pastel coloured suite, I believe its an absolute no no when you intend to sell/move on so maybe Lawson park is the perfect place for a bit of pale blue or lemon.
Lisa Stewart, May 6, 2008 16:00
I think if you are going for colour in a bathroom suite you need to get away from pastels and get vivid with it...
Dorian Moore, May 8, 2008 17:56
so... what happened?
Dorian Moore, May 11, 2008 16:52