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Friday 28 March '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Adam and Lisa talking about the Collection, the building and stuff
Topics: 'building' 'construction' 'Lawson Park Collection'
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'
Friday 21 March '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Bank Holiday special for all those still in work - Karen talks about her adventures launching her film Living with the Tudors at the SXSW Festival in Texas and her subsequent week of flu possibly contracted from a Texan re-enactor pictured here.
Local artist Meg Falconer (a Grizedale board member) drops by to talk about her fights against light pollution and mountainbikers in the countryside.
Plus all the usual features, and reports from the week with a selection of farm music from artist Maria Benjamin of London town...
Topics: 'Guest Room' 'SXSW Film Festival' 'Texas'
Wednesday 19 March '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Wednesday 19 March '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Bufo Bufo (the Toad) Spring ball
Now is the time of year for all good toads to go to the ball - this somehow reminds me of some art thing, maybe a good title for the extended Agrifash project, now planned to roll out across Europe
Topics: 'amphibians' 'toads'
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Friday 14 March '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
We hear an incredible 'celebrities in the Lake District' tale; some farm-themed soul music including Don Covay & Bobby Rush and Adam's eBay auction of the week.
We discuss what James Herd, James Howson and Thomas Kirkbride - the three most energetic men in the Lake District - are on site at Lawson Park building...
Topics: 'drystone walling' 'soul music'
Thursday 13 March '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
A typical Lake District-visiting couple
Great local story I heard this week. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were hanging around at the boating centre on Coniston Water and after tea at the truly average Blue Bird cafe (this is sooo hard to believe) Tom hopped up to the hut they rent boats from to ask if they could privately hire the Gondola (a big grand boat) for dinner on the lake.
David (he who told me the story) phoned the National Trust (who own the Gondola) and they just flat went 'no'. David was a bit like, 'are you kidding, do you know who I've got here, like mr and mrs money no problem!' but no, no private hire certainly no food on the gondola. Just as David was turning to tell Tom and Nicole to bugger off, a waitress from the cafe rushed in shouting 'you wont believe this but Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were just in the cafe' so David slightly embarrassed says 'What this Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman here?' - the waitress ignores him and runs off.
A couple of points :
Like no one thought to tell me this story years ago ?!
Tom and Nicole just casually toured the Lake District, going to shit places for tea
National Trust can't see a marketing opportunity when it's shoved hard in their face and rubbed in
BTW Apparently Nicole is much more beautiful in real life...
Topics: 'celebrity'
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Tuesday 11 March '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
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Friday 7 March '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Alistair tells us about a recent meeting with art uberlords the Tate to discuss the upcoming Grizedale project in China, plus a talk he'd done north of the border.
Adam fills us in on developments to do a project at the 10th anniversary Creamfields festival this summer. Well, I guess we have mud in common. Rave on!
Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- Arnofini[1]
- arnold circus[1]
- being different[1]
- bog lawson park garden water walling craft[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- cats[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- complaint[1]
- construction[1]
- Creamfields[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- diary[1]
- disco[1]
- drystone walling[2]
- Egremont[1]
- exploited[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- food kitchen garden[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- geodesians[1]
- geodesic dome[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- GSK[2]
- Guest Room[1]
- guestroom[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- hay[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- honesty shop[1]
- Honesty Stall[2]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- jobs[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kitchen Garden[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- landscape design[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- library[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- meadow[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- mice[1]
- migratory[1]
- moan[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- NGS[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- Old Masters[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[2]
- Peter Inman[1]
- pigs animals field livestock[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- rawnsley[1]
- reactor[1]
- records[1]
- residencies[1]
- Royal Academy[2]
- rural[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[2]
- school[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- shack[1]
- skep[1]
- Slade School of Art[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- song for a circus[1]
- soul[1]
- soul music[1]
- strawberries[1]
- Stuart Bastik[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- ted taylforth[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- Toadball[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- vegetables[1]
- Village Kiosk[2]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
- wildflower meadow[1]
- wildflower meadow gardening toads[1]
- work[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Seven Samurai, Farmyard Radio, Creative Egremont, myvillages.org, Lawson Park Blog
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