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  seandodson 6:11 pm on May 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: architecture ( 31 ), berlinifcation, casteford, david cameron ( 7 ), design ( 42 ), harold pinter, kioskisosk, London ( 21 ), redordead, spitalfields ( 2 ), the new socialism, wayne hemmingway   

  Bookmarks for May 27 

  

  Castleford gets this spectacular S-shaped bridge over the River Aire.

  + Futher evidence of the “Berlinification” of London. Wayne Hemmingway, of RedorDead, proposes a “pop-up shop” to serve up outside City Hall.

  + Johann Hari lays into David Cameron and reminds that he once said his wife is “highly unconventional” because “she went to a day school.”

  + First look at the Velo-style bike hire scheme for London (thanks Zlata), including a nice graphic of how it will look in Spitalfields.

  + The New Socialism. Wired identifies the revival of the left.

  + How Harold Pinter loved cricket. Maybe that was the origin of his obsession with pauses.

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  seandodson 1:44 am on December 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cricket ( 2 ), culture ( 96 ), drama, harold pinter, literature ( 39 ), milosovic, nobel prize, pinter obituary, Politics ( 83 )   

  Harold Pinter: the ‘playwright of the pause’ finally passes away 

  Just wanted to note the passing of Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas eve. Actor, playwright, nobel laureate, cricket lover, political activist and, as Nick Cohen points out, apologist for Milosovic.

  He was one of the few artistic greats I ever witnessed in the flesh: performing in his own play, the Hothouse, at the Comedy Theatre in 1995. I was a first year undergraduate and it made such a lasting impression on me that I went on to discover both Brecht and Beckett off the back of it.

  In its obituary the New York Times notes his “gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence [which] made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation”. Despite Johan Hari’s protestations that Pinter was full of  “commonplace insights” I think he constantly tapped into something more often profound.  His contrarian stance will be sorely missed, not just in theatreland.