http://www.shitbirthday.org Shit Birthday Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:50:34 +0000 http://www.shitbirthday.org en http://www.shitbirthday.org/Shame-Steve-Mcqueen http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Shame-Steve-Mcqueen Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:50:34 +0000 Shit Birthday 2635185 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0000_Layer 5_2048.jpg" border="0" width="698" height="350" width_o="698" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0000_Layer 5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0001_Layer 4_2048.jpg" border="0" width="698" height="350" width_o="698" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0001_Layer 4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0002_Layer 3_2048.jpg" border="0" width="698" height="350" width_o="698" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0002_Layer 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0003_Layer 2_2048.jpg" border="0" width="698" height="350" width_o="698" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0003_Layer 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0004_Layer 1_2048.jpg" border="0" width="698" height="350" width_o="698" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2635185/image_0004_Layer 1_o.jpg" align="left" /> ShameSteve Mcqueen 2011 Steve Mcqueen's new film shows the tale of Brendan, a sex addict barely coping with the needs of his addiction while trying to balance a normal life. Fassbender's character is in total isolation and only in feeding his addiction can true relief be found. Lust probably one of the most relatable subjects, Mcqueen has touched upon an idea so powerful it has your heart pounded throughout. Shame / IMBD tom http://www.shitbirthday.org/Paul-Harrison http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Paul-Harrison Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:23:39 +0000 Shit Birthday 2630101 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2630101/96356-L-1_2048.jpg" border="0" width="784" height="475" width_o="784" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2630101/96356-L-1_o.jpg" align="left" /> Paul HarrisonRecent years have seen the faltering of economic growth, the erosion of the welfare state and the disappearance of social consensus. Nowhere have these processes cut more deeply than in the inner city, where industrial decline, low income, persistent high unemployment and housing decay are fuelling crime and racial tension to create our most daunting social problem. Combining interviews and eye-witness accounts with his own analysis, the author provides a portrait of the underside of the affluent society and the hidden human costs of public policies. From dying factories to social security offices, from single mothers to street thieves, it offers an insight into the realities of deprivation and social conflict in Britain today. ref. > Patrick Keiller francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Buccleuch-House http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Buccleuch-House Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:20:41 +0000 Shit Birthday 2627788 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627788/stoke_panorama_small2.jpg" border="0" width="638" height="350" width_o="638" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627788/stoke_panorama_small2_o.jpg" align="left" /> Buccleuch House2012 The 1930 Housing Act enabled Local Authorities to work with the voluntary housing sector. This sector was dominated by women's organisations and the Act provided a new avenue for increased participation. The company known as the Women's Pioneer Housing Ltd was run as a Co-operative Society, employing its own woman architect, Gertrude Leverkus (1899-1976) to design each flat. There were four different styles on offer to suit diverse needs and by 1936 it provided 36 developments in London and one in Brighton. The National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS) had urged the government and local authorities since 1947 to build low cost rentals but shortage of land made single-unit dwellings expensive. NAWCS representatives were impressed by the model Buccleuch House, Clapton Common, London E5 with its 96 flats plus communal facilities for single women, which Hackney Council had built and invited them to visit in 1951. ref. > Women’s Housing Associations francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Knut-Asdams http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Knut-Asdams Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:32 +0000 Shit Birthday 2627577 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627577/wpid-1273681898image_web.jpg" border="0" width="644" height="350" width_o="644" height_o="350" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627577/wpid-1273681898image_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> Knut AsdamAbyss, 2010 43 min, 35mm Transcript “What’s the first thing you notice in a place? it’s not because it has nice curves or proportions, it is if their are people in it or not. If you go into an empty restaurant you don’t think if it is beautiful or not, you think if it is safe to eat at. The derelict place is caught between meaningless and meaningful. Its about letting go, first it’s slow, you only notice it in the eyebrow, the walk, the speech, then the body sinks and goes down the ground, and gravity takes hold. At first you don’t notice it, at first it’s too slow. It’s like you can’t move it now, you can’t do anything, it’ll do something by itself later, all you can do is be around something, I dont know what to do, I don’t know how to handle this I have no idea, I guess in a while I could just get up. It’s broken down as your routine, as your habits, it’s the way you see yourself everyday, it’s all you built up around to keep your body and the things around you the same everyday. And when one of those things stops working, Everything shifts.” ref. > Abyss francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/John-Carpenter http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/John-Carpenter Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:20 +0000 Shit Birthday 2627273 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627273/Screen Shot 2012-01-18 at 01.59.18.png" border="0" width="661" height="360" width_o="661" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627273/Screen Shot 2012-01-18 at 01.59.18_o.png" align="left" /> John CarpenterDark Star, 1974, Teaching Bomb 20 phenomenology, In this scene we see Doolittle convince the newly formed character of Bomb 20 to not explode in the ships loading bay, here we see Dark Star evoke a crash course in philosophy. ref. > Patrick Keiller francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Hackney-Audio http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Hackney-Audio Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:40:27 +0000 Shit Birthday 2627787 <img src="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627787/common.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="396" width_o="640" height_o="396" src_o="http://payload16.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2627787/common_o.jpg" align="left" /> Clapton Common Recordings of passerbys answering questions regarding LCC's Buccleuch House and its state of disrepair. Hackney, E5 Recorded by Georgia Trower & Francis Qureshi &#9835; 01 Clapton Common.m4a http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5683236/BFAYR2/Recordings/01%20Clapton%20Common.m4a &#9835; 01 Clapton Common 1.m4a http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5683236/BFAYR2/Recordings/01%20Clapton%20Common%201.m4a &#9835; 01 Clapton Common 2.m4a http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5683236/BFAYR2/Recordings/01%20Clapton%20Common%202.m4a &#9835; 01 Clapton Common 3.m4a http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5683236/BFAYR2/Recordings/01%20Clapton%20Common%203.m4a francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/James-Turrell http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/James-Turrell Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:25:53 +0000 Shit Birthday 2627793 James TurrellRoden Crater Excrept from BBC Imagine, November 2008 I first experienced Turrell's work at the Gagosian gallery in late 2010, a barrage of constant, pure, balanced colour left me speechless, his works are sensory experiences like no other. I found that his work which appears quite cold, stark is a first impression, but once you experience it, the physical attributes to his work are merely that, apparatus to these naked observatories unlike anything we've ever seen before. ref. > James Turrell francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Patrick-Kieller http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Patrick-Kieller Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:44:49 +0000 Shit Birthday 2540984 Patrick KeillerLondon, 1994 85mins Colour 35mm Patrick Keiller's extraordinary portrait of London re-imagines the city through the explorations of an unseen 'researcher' Robinson and his similarly unseen companion, the film's narrator (voiced by Paul Scofield). ref. > Patrick Keiller francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Knut-Asdam http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Knut-Asdam Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:12:46 +0000 Shit Birthday 2534788 <img src="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2534788/Screen Shot 2011-11-28 at 20.05.47_2048.png" border="0" width="1440" height="802" width_o="1440" height_o="802" src_o="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/1987/2534788/Screen Shot 2011-11-28 at 20.05.47_o.png" align="left" /> Knut AsdamTripoli, 2010 24 min, colour, stereo. "Tripoli emphasizes political history and architectural traces through the preserved relics of our recent past." While prevailing to visually stun me Tripoli hits hard confiding in us humans presence and perception of architecture in a worldly, somewhat distant formality, I found myself comfortably lost within. watch. > Knut Asdam francis http://www.shitbirthday.org/Release-Fourteen-Fifteen http://www.shitbirthday.org/following/shitbirthday.org/Release-Fourteen-Fifteen Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:12:43 +0000 Shit Birthday 2534747 Release Fourteen + Fifteen Solid to the thought January 2012 Hello, we are Shitbirthday, to navigate this website use your keyboard's arrow keys. ➞ Yours, Francis, Jamie & Tom