Author Archives: John B Ledger

A lost gem (intelligent constructive criticism of Barnsley)

I’ve finally found out who the narrator of this lost gem was. Ian Douglas Nairn “a British architectural critic and topographer.” Although I come from an art, and ‘that bloke who walks everywhere [in the age of cars]” background, I find a lot similarities with this video and the documentation I’ve been doing of thisContinue reading “A lost gem (intelligent constructive criticism of Barnsley)”

New books

A Walk Down The Hallam Line: a personal account of the West Riding of Yorkshire A Walk Down The Hallam Line@Blurb.com http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5273100-a-walk-down-the-hallam-line-a-personal-account-of This account has culminated from years of wandering and musing around an area loosely centered around Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley and Sheffield. It has been displayed in an arrangement of photographs taken between 2008Continue reading “New books”

The Strokes, and The Retrofication of 8 Bit

At least until the time of their breakthrough, The Strokes were the most Self-consciously Retro band. However, is it just a self-conscious retrofication styled on past bands, and the accompanying fashions? Or is there also a massive absorption of other now-retro cultures, such as 8/16 bit computer game tunes? Games which were beginning to beContinue reading “The Strokes, and The Retrofication of 8 Bit”

Something in The Way

There is something in the way that prevents me from reaching a wider philosophical enlightenment, and beyond what I thought was just a stage of melancholic existence; much desired (and much-needed), it feels like the inevitable next step that is forever delayed. For some years now my belief is that the ‘something in the way’Continue reading “Something in The Way”

Rebuilding The Flattened

Rebuilding The Flattened Trawling Back all the tweets http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5122312-rebuilding-the-flattened ‘Pancake People’ “…today, I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available”. A new self that needs to contain less and lessContinue reading “Rebuilding The Flattened”

The outdoors has become the factory

The outdoors has become the factory. It has become that inhospitable environment that people were once relieved to clock off from. A few straggling pedestrians are battered by the production-line-motion of road transport noise, violent to the senses; repetitive noises once the preserve of the heavy industries and 20 century-style wars; floodlights that obliterate allContinue reading “The outdoors has become the factory”