sarahwimbledon

2007-05-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

really chuffed....this is the work i made based on this blog, lino prints of a couple of the buildings on different bits of paper copied from the paula the tutors website...

2007-05-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

im thinking i might get me camera out the next time im in liverpool?? take some photos of stuff before it goes...

2007-05-10T08:08:00.000-07:00

these warehouses on stanley dock are amazing buildings and are going to be done up and will incorporate homes, shops, bars etc...this is what should be happening in liverpool rather than making a carbon copy of some other city

2007-05-10T07:54:00.000-07:00

this is one of my favourite buildings in liverpool and its been this way for as long as i can remember....i passed it the other week (its very close to the new building stuff) and the facade is still there..horay

2007-05-09T03:24:00.000-07:00

something that ive found strange as ive got older about the buildings around liverpool that ive known is that once knocked down you can still see them/feel them/remember them...you can still imagine where people used to walk upstairs and sit etc....this must be very odd for much older people who mustnt recognise and awful lot..

2007-05-07T07:39:00.000-07:00

kay...i think the blogs now changing to just old liverpool buildings and architecture

2007-05-06T00:21:00.000-07:00

regarding the video links iv put on above... the only relevant one is the first one (black and white) as i couldnt work out how to get rid of the others!!! v frustrating!!
the video shows what im trying to say...the pulling down of old and mostly sound buildings to fit in with some architects plan for a corner of liverpool...i'd like to know who theyre doing this for personally and i feel like someone is getting very rich off the back of making the town centre bitty and bland..my brother disagrees and thinks that its good to change and develop but what theyre proposing for the waterfront.."a manhattan skyline" is just silly..it feels like someone is trying to make liverpool something its not..
i think that the money being spent on the high and shiny buildings that hardly any local people will be able to afford to live in (if they wanted to..) would be better spent on local communities, making existing housing better and filling in the big holes left by earlier "development" (scotland road..)
anyhoo, rant over for now....being fair loads of old buildings have been done up and we need to continue with this..

2007-05-05T08:13:00.000-07:00

as i've been going along and finding lots of pictures for my blog i've found artists who've worked with old buildings in different ways such as projecting images onto the actual building, shimon attie, working with the idea of the shape of the building once its been knocked down and stencilling directly onto the building. all work with absence be it people or buildings..

the point of this blog??

2007-05-04T02:01:00.000-07:00

i want to give an impression of the liverpool i see behind the fallingdowness of the buildings, i want to put across a positive view and my love of the old, worn out doorways, shopfronts, brickwork and chimneys...as i say liverpool is currently in the grip of pull down old and interesting and build as high, shiny and bland as possible so i'd like to make a stand and show the old, knackered and lovely bits......i'l try anyhow..

foties...

2007-05-04T01:48:00.000-07:00

there are some really good photo's by an american lady who spent time in liverpool during the eighties...nancyo23 on flickr...when i first came across them i obviously recognised the places, some now gone, but i didnt realise how tatty and run down liverpool was at the time....
but saying that there is an atmosphere of old things, buildings, ways of life disappearing for the better?? liverpool seems to be in a constant state of re-building..

project

2007-05-03T12:22:00.000-07:00

ok have decided that this blog intially will be about 1980's liverpool architecture and buildings as i was there and am interested in it as there are (were) some amazing buildings in liverpool..

thing for college..

2007-04-24T02:44:00.000-07:00

ive started this blog for college and i havent done this sort of thing before so not sure what to say yet??