Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Guardian Angel - Today's Happiness Experiment entry




Finding out that Big Art Mob has been shortlisted for the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards

Finding out that Picture This has 11.5% of its users spending over half an hour per session on the site (and 4.7% over an hour!)

Meeting Zoe Margolis (Girl with a One-track Mind) in the flesh at the climax of the Cultural and Creative Leadership Mentoring Programme at the ICA

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Magic Show - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry




Breaking in to see the Boss and the E Street Band at the Millennium Dome with Rubensteen - Nils' solo on Promised Land



Lunch with the fellas from Holler in Islington, with post-prandial stroll back into Clerkenwell in the cold afternoon winter-opaque air



Finding 3 space invaders around EC1

Bruce Springsteen Magic Tour
set list (partial from memory) December 19, 2007
London, O2 Arena

Radio Nowhere **
Lonesome Day
Magic

Because the Night [he can never get it back from Patti]
She's the One
Living in the Future

Promised Land (Nils solo) ***
Waiting on a Sunny Day (great singalong)
Heart beat track from Magic – Devil’s Arcade *

The Rising
Long Walk Home
Badlands

Jungleland * (Big Man shaded face solo)
Born to Run
Dancing in the Dark

America Land ** [a touch of the Pogues with a dash of Woody Guthrie]
Santa Claus is coming to town

Saturday, October 27, 2007

We'll always have Paris - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walking through the Place des Vosges and the Marais en famille - the enfants terribles' first visit to Paris



Dinner with Marco and Christian Preart at Marco's new pad in the Rue de la Roquette, 11e



Finding a Space Invader on arrival at Place Leon Blum

Monday, October 08, 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Receiving two RTS Innovation Awards nominations for Big Art Mob and Empire's Children

Family rock-out on Friday evening

Route march to skool with the enfants terribles - beautiful, fresh autumnal morning

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Talk talk - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Talking about young documentary-makers' work with Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen, Patrick Uden and Peter Dale



Talking Public Art with Peter Jenkinson



Getting an advance ticket for Anton Corbijn's Control at the Phoenix, East Finchley with Joy Division's Pete Hook in attendance (3rd Oct)

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Mr Blue Sky - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Walking across St James's Park and through St James's in the bright sunshine



Reading a Lew Archer detective book (The Blue Hammer) set in the hippy-dippy early 70s



Playing on the Big Art Mob

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Suzy queue - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Campari & soda with my old friend and fellow company director Sue overlooking Borough Market - the sensible way of doing an AGM



Listening and chatting to Susan Greenfield, chief exec of the Royal Institution, about science, society and the impact of technology



Snapping public art around Blackfriars, in particular the Lever Bros building, for Big Art Mob