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[J.Z. Herrenberg]

My architecture addiction is taking over... Liverpool anglican cathedral underneath the bell tower, a f'ugly building (in many ways) but also very impressive. From this angle it looks like something from Judge Dredd

Do you know the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool? It's a wonderfully Tolkienian looking building. I have been there (1987)...

[lukeottevanger]

Though like a lot of Liverpool, it looks better in the dark, as above   

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Though like a lot of Liverpool, it looks better in the dark, as above   

I like the muggers best in broad daylight. 

('Sorry!' said Boris)

[Lethevich]

Do you know the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool? It's a wonderfully Tolkienian looking building. I have been there (1987)...

It's probably the jointly most successful "modern"* cathedral in England, IMO, along with Coventry. It has a more effective unified effect than C, but its simplicity also means that it lacks the impressive ambition of the other. Guildford is notable, but falls short due to the exterior looking like a glorified 70s fire station. I hadn't seen Liverpool at night before, the lighting compliments it a lot better than most gothic ones...

*Discounting deliberately backwards looking ones like Truro and Westminster, which are just ugly IMO.

[Drasko]

Where is that from?

[Lethevich]

Where is that from?

A Sinister Dexter strip from 2000ad, I think the artist was Greg Staples - he did quite a lot of Judge Dredd for that magazine as well. Those signature "splatter" effects are quite distinctive.

[Sergeant Rock]

The great Stevie Wonder.

I just may have found a permanent avatar. 

Think of Ebony and Ivory, try not to hurl...and then get rid of that avatar    Get back to George.

Sarge

[George]

Think of Ebony and Ivory, try not to hurl...and then get rid of that avatar    Get back to George.

Sarge

Is that an order? 

[Drasko]

A Sinister Dexter strip from 2000ad, I think the artist was Greg Staples - he did quite a lot of Judge Dredd for that magazine as well. Those signature "splatter" effects are quite distinctive.

Thanks. I'm not familiar with any of them (strip, magazine or author). Yes, 'splatter' effect in nicely done but it's still just an effect. What I liked was toned down, just blue-orange, color scheme and composition of vast masses of buildings in first picture. 

[Brian]

The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. 

I noticed. You're back to good ol' Dvorak. I think I'll stick with Brian a bit longer. People are used to him/it, I think.

[George]

The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. 

I'll miss seeing Headley every day. 

[Lethevich]

Thanks. I'm not familiar with any of them (strip, magazine or author). Yes, 'splatter' effect in nicely done but it's still just an effect. What I liked was toned down, just blue-orange, color scheme and composition of vast masses of buildings in first picture. 

2000ad was very extensively torrented on Demonoid a few years ago - there was a project to get all 1500+ scanned (with an incomplete collection of them weighing in at about 30gb), so I presume a lot are still in digital form if you want to look for them. It's a brilliant magazine IMO, while I stopped following it, I get major nostalgia It has great universes/characters, and somehow Judge Dredd remained kind of fresh after 30 years - and proved pretty original and creative with a lot in its universe. At a time when other dystopian sci-fi was focusing on the breakdown of society due to a lack of resources/a catastrophe, I just find it funny that a lot of JD's criminals were doing it out of boredom, as many jobs had become mechanised, and they were given a "pension" style income to live on - little things like that make the comic more creative than its copycats.

[Drasko]

2000ad was very extensively torrented on Demonoid a few years ago - there was a project to get all 1500+ scanned (with an incomplete collection of them weighing in at about 30gb), so I presume a lot are still in digital form if you want to look for them. It's a brilliant magazine IMO, while I stopped following it, I get major nostalgia It has great universes/characters, and somehow Judge Dredd remained kind of fresh after 30 years - and proved pretty original and creative with a lot in its universe. At a time when other dystopian sci-fi was focusing on the breakdown of society due to a lack of resources/a catastrophe, I just find it funny that a lot of JD's criminals were doing it out of boredom, as many jobs had become mechanised, and they were given a "pension" style income to live on - little things like that make the comic more creative than its copycats.

I stopped folowing magazines something like 15 years ago but do get occasional bouts of nostalgia myself. And yes, I certainly agree that ennui makes far more elegant reason for corruption than plain need and dire circumstances.

[Brian]

The cover of The Economist this week was a striking photograph of an Iraqi in a dreadful-looking stall of some sort, the building almost falling almost falling apart, the man sitting at his work-bench building an oud. He is an extraordinary craftsman, too, judging from the work which he's putting into it, the glorious beauty of the soon-to-be-finished product, and the meager tools at his disposal. The photo really touched me and I'm sad that I can only use this tiny detail as an avatar.

Here's the photo:



Incidentally, my great-grandmother was one of the finest oud teachers in Turkey; we still have several CDs which were released on major Turkish and "world music" labels by her most prominent students. My love of the instrument and the incredible beauty of this man making something so timeless in a scene which time has left behind combine to make this picture especially meaningful for me.

I noticed. You're back to good ol' Dvorak. I think I'll stick with Brian a bit longer. People are used to him/it, I think.

Perhaps I should switch to Brian. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Incidentally, my great-grandmother was one of the finest oud teachers in Turkey; we still have several CDs which were released on major Turkish and "world music" labels by her most prominent students. My love of the instrument and the incredible beauty of this man making something so timeless in a scene which time has left behind combine to make this picture especially meaningful for me.

Perhaps I should switch to Brian. 

A beautiful and fascinating aside about your great-grandmother, Brian.

Re the other Brian: you are, perhaps more than I am, entitled to using his avatar (in a sort of visual pun)! But I trust you'll allow me its continued use.

[George]

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[Brian]

Re the other Brian: you are, perhaps more than I am, entitled to using his avatar (in a sort of visual pun)! But I trust you'll allow me its continued use.

Thank you. And permission granted, sir. 

[mn dave]

no. it  is not a picture of me. 

[pjme]

Revueltas - because in oktober conductor Dirk Brossé will lead the Brussels PhO in Noche de los Mayas, Villa Lobos ' Amazonas and a Leo Brouwer guitar Concierto ! Students from the GHent conservatory will play the extra percussion. I hope it will all be broadcast & taped.