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Brizzle → BKLYN 2018
I love New York but more specifically I love Brooklyn. Sure in places it is still a bit gritty and god knows elsewhere it is hipster central but something about it always feels…right…to me. Part of the reason for that I suspect is it remains one of the greatest places in the world to see…
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Better Cities (S1e00)
Alphaville This is a prototype of what is intended to be a regular email newsletter on the topic of ‘Better Cities (towns and villages..)’ that I will be doing for work but I wanted to (i) see if I could find enough interesting content to use (ii) see how long it would take to put…
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Beyond Banksy: Growing up with Graffiti in Bristol. Ignite Swansea #1
It should have gone something like this.. This is the old Children’s Hospital in Bristol — it was replaced by somewhere significantly more modern in 2001 but in the 80s this was it. I spent about a decade as an outpatient — sometimes needing to make weekly visits. It was on one of those regular trips though that my…
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Paris: Graffiti Paradis
I worked out it had been 25 years since I last visited Paris — it was a Sixth Form school trip so my memories are pretty vague anyway — so I decided that as part of my break from work to de-stress a bit I’d give it a go. I had two main reasons; (1) I wanted to try…