Aug 30th, 2007
Hearing a strange rumble late on Monday night we dismissed it as anything significant – only to wake and find that the entire end wall of the next tenement along from ours had collapsed! Thankfully we are in the middle of a row and I think our building is a little bit more well maintained [...]
Aug 24th, 2007
Instead of needing to arrange a raiding party to storm my old family castle I could now just step up and buy it!
From The Courier
“A HISTORIC west Fife castle has gone on the market.
Once home to flamboyant Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Fordell Castle comes with a price tag of over £3.5 million—and its own [...]
Aug 21st, 2007
A few of our friends put on a electronic music showcase on Saturday – giving us a taste of just what the get up to when they hide in their bedrooms hunched over laptops. Held in a local dive the music was good despite a thin attendance due to some of the worst weather of [...]
A couple of work projects have seen me spending a fair bit of time over the last few months down in Ayrshire, a hour south west of Glasgow on the Irish Sea.
In particular I’ve been documenting Irvine, a sea-side town that with an interesting harbour that we are exploring the regeneration of. The harbour was [...]
Aug 20th, 2007
Last weekend we gathered our first taste of the festival glut engulfing Edinburgh. We ducked over for a day trip and squeezed in a fair taste of the gazillion things the Fringe Festival has on offer.
The weather could only be described as ‘Scottish’ so the street atmosphere was a little lacking but we spent the [...]
Aug 11th, 2007
French tightrope walker Didler Pasquette recently attempted to walk between 3 of the Red Road Flats (above) – one of Glasgow’s more famous mega housing tower complexes built in the sixties. The event, title Highwire was part of an arts project for the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Arts. The set-up was fantastic with huge [...]