Posts Tagged ‘ psychogeography ’

Digbeth – a video “Type and Architecture” tour

Here is a Google Map with tons of videos featuring "typographic historian" Ben Waddington all placed around Digbeth — it's the stunning work of Nicky over at Digbeth is Good. Or you can watch all the vids one after another.

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A to Zedding

Random trips around the A to Z, glorious psychogeography: “A-to-Zedding is much more than just a hobby. It’s an intellectual, spiritual and deeply personal pastime. The A-to-Zedder’s dream is to visit and gain a deep understanding of every ‘square’ in their chosen A-Z map.”

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Recording 11-11-11

On the eleventh of November a disparate group of psychogeographers, artists, bloggers, photographers, bus drivers and babies spent eleven hours on Birmingham’s number eleven bus starting after eleven am. Here the recordings – text, photo, video, mapping are being collated.

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The psychogeographers on the bus go round and round

The psychogeographers on the bus go round and round

One thing those old Hebrew storytellers had  was a grasp of the symbolic power of encircling a town. When Joshua brings down Jericho it’s not the brass arrangement, it’s the ongoing circumnavigation. So if there was an easy way to surround one of Europe’s largest cities you’d do it, wouldn’t you? Luckily there is — the eleven bus. The number eleven skirts the city of Birmingham, the 11C clockwise, the 11A anti, taking in all of its great suburbs as far from the city centre as you can get without ending up in the wider conurbation. At two hours 45 minutes long it’s one of the longest bus routes in Europe, and if you stop on you can go round and round again. And that’s what we’re doing on Tuesday the 11th of November. From 11am, around 30-40 people (we reckon) will be spending 11 hours on the 11c bus, photographing, recording, blogging, drawing, mapping, writing about the experience. You’ll be able to watch some of the action on the web as it happens. There are few rules, we won’t be together (unless by chance we meet) and we’ve not divvied up tasks. This will be a random, personal,...

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Ben Waddington's walking tours of Brum return at Plus + Festival

Ben has a wonderful knack of these tours, mixing history, design and a hint of psychogeography. There are a few types (sorry) of tours: "Digbeth Type Tour: Exploring use of typography and handwritten letterforms in industrial Digbeth side streets. The area's history revealed through its use of type. Baskerville's Birmingham: the history of Birmingham's most famous typographer, John Baskerville (1706 – 1775). Artifacts, locations and type specimens associated with Baskerville will be visited, around Birmingham City Centre. Blue Plaques tour: The history of Birmingham and of the Blue Plaque itself: changing and improving designs, layouts, type use &c. The tour also covers plaques other than Blue; many forms of wall mounted commemorative texts around the City Centre. City Type Tour: Birmingham history as shown through its typography. Civil, monumental and commercial use of typeforms will be explored in Birmingham City Centre."

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