Re: [xmca] How to do things with paint

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Totally cool, your link at
http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/mural-of-the-month-nuclear-dawn/
 .

So we are implicating in animating the dead hand of the past? Darned, so
hard to keep it all straight.
:-))

mike

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes.  It'd be hard for me to miss this one as the painting and filming is
> going on outside my house.  :)
>
> On the radio show broadcast (the link is on the website) the presenter
> pronounced mural as 'murial'.  I wondered whether he was somehow thinking
> or conflating mural with memorial.
>
> I had a chat with the project lead today.  It seems to be quite a personal
> project for him, he wants local people to participate in doing some of the
> painting.
>
> Apparently this other mural is much more widely known, I wonder if anyone
> in CA recognizes it from a t-shirt?
>
>
> http://londonmuralpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/mural-of-the-month-nuclear-dawn/
>
> Round the corner from the windmill mural is the actual windmill, which is
> out of sight to most passers by.  The house that I live in is one of the
> few dating from the time the windmill was in use, circa 1850.  However, the
> building of these houses actually put an end to the use of the sails of the
> mill due to less exposure to wind, so I'm told.  The mill was thereafter
> powered by steam before the business of making flour was relocated.
>
> Huw
>
>
> On 19 May 2012 01:17, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That is a really interesting story, Huw. To me what stood out was the
>> fragility, the ephemerality
>> of the murals and the work it takes now to "re-store" them to their state
>> "in the beginning." There appears to
>> be a lot of work around on the relation between material and ideal in
>> museums and such places these days.
>> mike
>>
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone interested in social influence of murals might be interested in
>> > this.
>> >
>> > http://claphamfilmunit.com/if-walls-could-speak/
>> > http://claphamfilmunit.com/new-projects-coming-soon/
>> >
>> > Huw
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