I went to Kendal on New Year’s Eve. It’s a lovely little town nestled on the edge of the Lake District. It’s the first time I’ve spent any time there, despite passing through it a lot.
Weir and bridge
A view from Kendal castle over to the Lake District
Took a trip out to Salford today. Started off at the People’s History Museum, then walked along the River Irwell to Salford Quays.
Quite a lot of graffiti and street art along the way.
I went to The Lowry and the Imperial War Museum. Really good exhibition called The State of Us at The Lowry, about the interface between biology and technology.
Also really liked Lowry’s paintings – I hadn’t realised that he did a lot more than just iconic paintings of factory life. I really liked ‘Portrait of Ann’. The graphic style. And it’s very enigmatic.
There was a factory one of my hometown, Wigan, looking pretty industrial back in the 30s or so.
There was a particularly depressing exhibition about Yemen in the IWM.
Very grim stuff – so much suffering.
You get some nice views over the river around Salford Quays.
I think I would like some kind of virtual experience where I have my own Memory Palace, the method of loci, the visual virtual space in your head where you walk through as you recall things. But not just for recall, for construction too. I would invite other people in and they help me build it and I help on theirs too, we build them together.
Some kind of mashup at the intersection of hypermedia systems like HyperCard, MOOs like LambdaMOO, commonplace books, blogs, microblogs, personal wikis.
I wonder if this is some terrain where Spritely is going? That would be rad.
I saw David Thomas Broughton play in Lancaster tonight, supported by Bell Lungs. They were both great.
It was the 15 year anniversary of Broughton’s album The Complete Guide to Insufficiency. I saw him play 15 years ago in Leeds when I was at university.
