Featured Picture: Bill Withers (Ain’t No Sunshine) taken in 2014. A typical Bill Withers quote: ‘I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.’ Back in 1958 a great survey began with children born […]
Read More Long Lives Study 1958 To Now And Children Who Fought For The Play Street 1972In Lab Rats, Dan Lyons questions the culture of work that’s grown up around the implementation of technologies in the last forty years and how we’ve avoided the things we know we need and have been distracted by the things we don’t. Have quick watch of Marc Marasco’s YouTube summary He talks about organisational developments […]
Read More 2020 Vision: Real Human Ways Of Living And Working Please: Get The Scale Of Things We Do Right, First TimeFeatured Image: And The Migrants Kept Coming 1941 (escaping from National Socialist persecution in Germany) Jacob Lawrence Above: New York In Transit Jacob Lawrence 2001 Look around Britain seventy four years after the second world war and I’d say you’re looking at a big story where the economic, political, and social structures are unfinished, where […]
Read More Working Class And Migrant News: A New Kind Of Mosaic Of Value: Re-Presenting How We Work, Think: Rich In The Local Detail: All The World Is Here…Featured Image: Major Oak charm necklace: Oak theme intertwined with Tibetan Silver Flower Forest Wooden Handmade Heart: £13.00 Wow! What an economic regenerator through Small Is Beautiful prinicples. I met Christine Hassall when I temped at Logobrand. They’re a small is human brand agency in the centre of Nottingham. Christine is their marketing executive which […]
Read More One Day I’ll Write A Comic Soap: (And We Will Be Royally Entertained): Christine Hassall: Art/Design/Photography With Care…Designed With LoveLast night the country voted for a quick exit: for Brexit. Boris stuck to the PR plan of Lynton Crosby, Dominic Cumming, the PR and the soundbites and it was hard for the manifestos of hope to have a moment. What was stunning though, is that although the turnout was on average about 68% that […]
Read More The Attention Of The Conservatives to Working Class People In This Election Has Paid Off. Now The Structures Of Proper, Regular Connection That Are Needed For Health, Wealth And Happiness Need To Be Delivered: Boris: We Are All Equal Here…Featured Image: Gal Dem Article: Caribbean Elders Classified As Having No Status…. In the court 2006: another rehearsal Weeping: why am I silent? Against the law to speak? Dressed to address, yet justice is locked up, coded, password protected. Pronouncements like hexes, spells, sophisticatedly packed with medieval mystery and they speak everyone: barristers, solicitors, […]
Read More One Of Your Employees Was Deported: News As Art From Sneinton To Tanzania‘Ah! Bisto’. Roast dinner season! It’s a legacy between generations: grandparents, parents passing on the joy of a cooked, shared dinner. Like presents and heirlooms, it’s the atmosphere we remember, especially at this time of year. Like many great inventions, Bisto gravy was created through necessity. A Mr Roberts and Mr Patterson, employees of the […]
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