Nov 27th, 2007
We had an enchanted evening wandering around the east end & Merchant City last night taking in the Radiance festival of light. Unusually for this time of year it was clear night and some of the installations looked magnificent. The cathedral(above) had an evocative coating of light adding another layer to its creepiness and at [...]
Nov 24th, 2007
Just back from a great set by Flying Lotus at Glasgow’s finest dirty electro evening, Numbers and killing time while Chhay whips up some late night noodles to satisfy her savoury cravings. Well worth checking him out if you like scratchy bleepy stuff with a hint of dubstep.
Nov 23rd, 2007
We are back home so I’ll catch up and post a few photos of the trip both here & on our flickr page of the next week or so. Had to mention this rebel first however, who seems to be stirring up a media storm back home – at least his technique is good in [...]
We had a great time in San Francisco although things didn’t always go according to plan – at times it seemed like everything we wanted to do was canceled or closed. Still days were spent exploring the various neighbourhoods and by night we visited a cross spectrum of San Fran’s ‘dive bars’ – it seems [...]
Nov 20th, 2007
Oakland was our decompression chamber – a relaxed couple of days before we headed into San Fran. Our friend James gave us a tour of the East bay including an awesome breakfast at a Thai temple in Berkeley and some stunning views from the Oakland Hills (below).
We then spent the afternoon cruising the various districts [...]
Nov 11th, 2007
just finished 10 whirlwind days in the big apple, summary below more detail and photos once I get back to Glasgow;
our general routine, wake.. breakfast: mmm bagels & cream cheese, museum: whitney, met, moma, moving image, PS1, lunch: uighar, dim sum, greek, venuzuelan, neighbourhood: lower east side, brooklyn, east village, SoHO, chinatown, brooklyn, midtown – [...]
Nov 1st, 2007
Haven’t been up to much recently as we are heading off for a couple of weeks in New York and San Fran – should be fun. We had a couple of friends up from Glasgow over the last weekend and turned out as the Adams Family at a southside Halloween do but otherwise had a [...]